They weren’t called abbey Road studios at the time. They were the EMI Studios. They only got referred to as the Abbey Road Studio after the Album came out.
Random guess - One of them owned Yasgur's farm before Yasgur did - or were cotton pickers in the neighbourhood (although I doubt there ever have been cotton fields in NY State . Haven't a clue - you do the googling to enlighten me ? Maybe there's a vague connection with Woodstock, Oxon - Churchill's neck of the woods ? A brief lull in the Liverpool game.
The original intention of the bloke who planned Woodstock was for Roy Rogers to close the whole thing with that song. But Rogers turned him down. Some bloke called Hendrix closed it instead in front of a vastly decreased crowd as it was at 8.30 in the morning.
Ah, interesting. I watched a few documentaries about Woodstock quite recently and I don't recall hearing that story. The onset of memory loss, or pissed again ! Ta
Hadn't come across it myself until I read an article about the 50th anniversary last week. Looked it up and this confirmed it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Interesting to see who turned it down and why, originally Janis Joplin originally was going to be the highest paid act (quite rightly in my unbiased opinion). She gave a great performance considering she had downed her usual copious amounts of Southern Comfort and then got pissed off with Grateful Dead overrunning with one of their self indulgent jams and gone off and got stoned out of her head and didn’t go on until about 3 in the morning. Someone else who was stoned was one of my favourites, .John Sebastian, who wasn’t on the bill but they asked him to do an acoustic set when there was a problem with the equipment. So stoned he forgot some of the words. Quite a lot had a low opinion of the whole experience, especially John Fogerty of Credence Clearwater Revival.
Good article that. A seismic event in music history. Just missed being a part of it As I mentioned in an earlier post ,4 of us from Leeds (Mining/Mineral Engineering students) were working at a Mining Company in Ontario (Sudbury) that summer & somehow got wind of the concert. We booked a few days off work & planned to drive down to the event & take our chances of getting in.(no tickets). The other 3 had clubbed together and bought an ancient used Volvo ( circa '55 vintage or thereabouts) for about$150 to get us there. I offered to pay my share of the gas for the trip - game on. Can't remember what it was, but a couple of days before the planned trip something seized up on the Volvo - game off. Disappointment indeed. My best-man-to-be drove the old banger down to NY a few weeks later to catch his return flight home (with the other 2 lads), after approx 2 weeks of "touring" around several states. Dumped it somewhere in NYC. I'll have to ask him why they didn't look for a scrap dealer to get a bit of cash for it - he's coming round in a few hours to listen to the City-Reading game. Happy days.
I would rather have been at Monterey. Janis Joplin unleashed on an unsuspecting world and musical perfection, Otis Redding with Booker T and the MGs and the Memphis Horns doing a storming set. Would have used the Ravi Shankar set to have a wash and grab something to eat.
