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31 Pictures That Show Just How Crazy Woodstock Really Was
Posted: March 18, 2016 by Kimberly Weiss in Other Music NewsTags: Pictures, Woodstock
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What Jimi Hendrix and (almost) every performer at Woodstock was paid | Dangerous Minds
Posted: March 13, 2015 by Kimberly Weiss in Non-Local Bands, Other Music NewsTags: Arlo Guthrie, Artist Payments, Blood Sweat and Tears, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Dangerous Minds, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, Richie Havens, Santana, Sha Na Na, Sly and the Family Stone, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, The Band, The Who, Ultimate Guitar, Woodstock
Most rock fans know which bands distinguished themselves at the Woodstock festival, properly styled the âWoodstock Music & Art Fair,â in August 1969âJimi Hendrix, The Who, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, CSNYâbut less well known are the various fees that producers John Roberts and Joel Rosenman paid to each individual artist. By that reckoning, Santana was a bargain and Blood, Sweat & Tears might have been just a touch overpaid, no offense to that fine combo.
UltimateGuitar.com found this great chartâit lists the fees for every act with the exception of Bert Sommer and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band: (more…)