[Craic] Where’s Rob? Woodstock at 53

[Rob Anderson]

Subject: Where’s Rob?


Is that you 406th from the left ?

C


No, that’s Waldo. 

That’s me, 3 rows behind Waldo and standing next to Joe Zolff. Unforgettable.
I am grooving on Joe Cocker tunes and then came the deluge.  Chants of “Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day” accompanied by the rhythmic clanking of Coke cans failed to appease the Weather Gods.  The aftermath featured mud bespattered stardust trudging their weary exit along wavering lines that more resembled an evacuation from a war zone than a celebration in a paradisal garden.

Still, a generational turning point.  We couldn’t wait to read the papers the next day.

Joe Cocker
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring (without Joe Cocker)
40,000 Headmen (without Joe Cocker)
Dear Landlord
Something’s Coming On
Do I Still Figure in Your Life
Feelin’ Alright
Just Like a Woman
Let’s Go Get Stoned
I Don’t Need No Doctor
I Shall Be Released
Hitchcock Railway
Something to Say
With a Little Help from My Friends
Joe Cocker was the first officially scheduled act on Sunday. He went on stage at about 2.00 pm. Though Cocker was in the music business for quite a while he was hardly known. But after his triumphal success at Woodstock the man with the soulful voice became famous everywhere. Especially well received was the Beatles’ cover song “With a Little Help from My Friends” which was already the second performance after Richie Havens’ version on the first day. Cocker’s backing band at that time was the superb Grease Band – a formation that lasted only two years.
Shortly after Cocker’s gig a heavy thunderstorm washed over the festival and everything was brought to stop for several hours.

Sent from my iPad
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