Complete Set Lists For Every Act at the Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 (Originally Published on August 17, 2014)

As many of you probably already know,  this is the anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival of 1969. And also, as quite a few of you probably already know (and if you were not aware of this before, surely you are aware of it now), I have a fascination with Woodstock.

I wrote a blog entry in honor of Woodstock last year, and republished it yesterday, on the anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival opening exactly forty-five years ago yesterday.

But as I was driving and listening to the radio earlier this evening, they were talking about the concert on the classic rock station that I happened to be listening to at the time (actually, I had just switched, and happened on it), and it struck me, just how incredible and memorable a concert that was, and how it actually transcended just some bigger than normal rock concert. After all, it is the summer of 2014 now, and people are still talking about it, all these years later! 

Stop and think about that for a moment: through all of the events that have taken place since then - it took place in the aftermath of the civil rights movement and significant political assassinations that shook the country, and indeed the world, to the core, and the cultural aftershocks of a predominately conformist society being challenged from all angles, from the Vietnam War that itself helped to define the meaning of Woodstock (and on some level, I would say that Woodstock and the whole counterculture helped to frame the Vietnam War, at least through American eyes, as well), to the political turbulence of the seventies, to the new conformity and the "Me Decade" that was the eighties, Gulf War I in the early nineties, the Clinton years, the George W. Bush years and Gulf War II, the economic collapse, and now the Obama years. From the height of hippie culture being the popular cultural phenomenon, to the seventies hard rock with all of those long guitar riffs, and disco, of course, to the synthesizer heavy eighties, and all of those one hit wonders, to the emergence of grunge in the nineties, and now to the techno dance music that seems to have (unfortunately) come to dominate popular music since. 

Yet, people still remember Woodstock! People are still talking about it, and many share my fascination with it! So much time has passed, yet Woodstock still casts a shadow over much of popular music, even today!

And frankly, I actually like to reflect on the concert. I did so last year when my brother and I went to see Colin Haye at Bethel, back in October, which presented me not only with the opportunity to visit the grounds of where the Woodstock Music Festival actually took place, but to do so more thoroughly than the first time, and also to do so with a camera, which allowed me to not only share my thoughts about it (and the concert that I attended on that evening as well), but to post pictures, too!

Then, earlier this year, when I attended a couple of concerts featuring some acts that had actually taken the stage at Woodstock, four and a half decades ago! Again, this time, I had the benefit of a camera, and so I was able to snap yet more pictures, and share these, and my thoughts, here on "The Charbor Chronicles".

Here I am, once again, dedicating a post about Woodstock. It still remains a fascinating subject (at least to me), and so, I thought it would be good to do more than simply republish last year's thoughts this year, but to delve a little deeper.

So, the first order of business, thought I, would be to actually get the entire set lists for every single act that performed on that day, as well as the conditions that the concert took place under for each day. 

And I was able to do all of that by relying on one site (see the link below), which simplified matters quite a bit!

Now, in this day and age, I am wondering just how long it is going to take, before a brand new box set with a mix of newly discovered audio and video clips emerges that allows more music to be released from this famous concert than ever before. That seems to be the flavor these days, with countless old bands suddenly finding old audio tapes, and releasing "new" material in this manner.

Of course, it is to generate more money. And Woodstock releases will be about that, too. Only the actual Woodstock Festival transcended that -  at least for three days. It did not start off as a free concert, but it certainly wound up as such! 

I have said this before, but I will say it again: Woodstock transcended pretty much everything. The counterculture which greatly helped to produce it, which now has come to extinction, and is largely viewed in an almost comical manner these days. But most musicians that I know of still speak of Woodstock with some measure of reverence, and I have known some people - including one extreme right wing guy, who were absolutely fascinated and in love with Woodstock, even though he hated the "hippies" and blamed them for the decline of the Army football program at West Point (he was a big fan, and attended every home game). 

Woodstock came to represent the best possibilities for at least trying to help build a new world. No, that new world was never completed, obviously. Yet, with Woodstock, we did catch a glimpse of what that new world might have looked like, what direction it may have gone in, and it was beautiful. Certainly, it was incredibly creative, colorful, and artistic. 

And I think, at least in large part, that is why Woodstock lives on today, while so much of hippie culture has mostly otherwise faded away. Because it was here, at this concert on a farm in upstate New York, that we began to collectively drop some of our doubts about the legitimacy and sincerity of this vision, and began to pay attention to something that opened our eyes to other possibilities than this troubled world that we collectively both inherited and.helped to create and define.

That, I suspect, is the main reason that Woodstock is still remembered today, and remains far, far more than just a rock concert.

But there is the music, and that allows us to take a step back, in a way, back into 1969, and to hear what was going on. 

So, I thought it would be a good idea to review exactly who performed, how many songs they performed and what songs they decided to play during their setlist, and what the day was like when they performed.

Here it is:

Day One - - Friday, August 15

The festival started at about 5 pm. There was some rain in the evening.

Richie Havens

1. From the Prison
2. Get Together
3. From the Prison (Reprise)
4. The Minstrel from Gault
5. I'm a Stranger Here
6. High Flying Bird
7. I Can't Make It Anymore
8. With a Little Help from My Friends
9. Handsome Johnny
10. Strawberry Fields Forever > Hey Jude
11. Freedom (Motherless Child)

Sweetwater

1. Motherless Child
2. Look Out
3. For Pete's Sake
4. Day Song
5. What's Wrong
6. Crystal Spider
7. Two Worlds
8. Why Oh Why
9. Let the Sunshine In
10. Oh Happy Day

Bert Sommer

1. Jennifer
2. The Road to Travel
3. I Wondered Where You Be
4. She's Gone
5. Things Are Going My Way
6. And When It's Over
7. Jeanette
8. America
9. A Note That Read
10. Smile

Tim Hardin

1. (How Can We) Hang on to a Dream
2. Susan
3. If I Were a Carpenter
4. Reason to Believe
5. You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
6. Speak Like a Child
7. Snow White Lady
8. Blues on My Ceiling
9. Simple Song of Freedom
10. Misty Roses

Ravi Shankar

1. Rāga Puriya-Dhanashri (Gat In Sawarital)
2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal
3. Rāga Manj Kmahaj

Melanie Safka

1. Close to It All
2. Momma Momma
3. Beautiful People
4. Animal Crackers
5. Mr. Tambourine Man
6. Tuning My Guitar
7. Birthday of the Sun

Arlo Guthrie

1. Coming into Los Angeles
2. Wheel of Fortune
3. Walking Down the Line
4. Arlo Speech: Exodus
5. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
6. Every Hand in the Land
7. Amazing Grace

Joan Baez

1. Oh Happy Day
2. The Last Thing On My Mind
3. I Shall Be Released
4. Story about how the Federal Marshalls came to take David Harris into custody
5. No Expectations
6. Joe Hill
7. Sweet Sir Galahad
8. Hickory Wind
9. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
10. I Live One Day at a Time
11. Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South
12. Let Me Wrap You in My Warm and Tender Love
13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
14. We Shall Overcome

Day Two - Saturday, August 16

The day opened at 12:15 pm, and featured some of the event's biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners.

Quill

1. They Live the Life
2. That's How I Eat
3. Driftin'
4. Waitin' for You

Country Joe McDonald

1. Janis
2. Donovan's Reef
3. Heartaches by the Number
4. Ring of Fire
5. Tennessee Stud
6. Rockin' Round the World
7. Flying High
8. Seen a Rocket
9. "Fish" Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

Santana

1. Waiting
2. Evil Ways
3. You Just Don't Care
4. Savor
5. Jingo
6. Persuasion
7. Soul Sacrifice
8. Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries

John B. Sebastian

1. How Have You Been
2. Rainbows Over Your Blues
3. I Had A Dream
4. Darlin' Be Home Soon
5. Younger Generation

Keef Hartley Band

1. Spanish Fly
2. She's Gone
3. Too Much Thinkin'
4. Believe In You
5. Rock Me Baby
6. Medley: Sinnin' For You (Intro) > Leaving Trunk > Just to Cry > Sinnin' for You

The Incredible String Band

1. Invocation (Spoken Word)
2. The Letter
3. Gather 'Round
4. This Moment
5. Come with Me
6. When You Find Out Who You Are

Canned Heat

1. I'm Her Man
2. Going Up the Country
3. A Change Is Gonna Come / Leaving This Town
4. Too Many Drivers at the Wheel
5. I Know My Baby
6. Woodstock Boogie
7. On the Road Again

Mountain

1. Blood of the Sun
2. Stormy Monday
3. Theme for an Imaginary Western
4. Long Red
5. For Yasgur's Farm
6. Beside the Sea
7. Waiting to Take You Away
8. Dreams of Milk and Honey > Guitar Solo
9. Blind Man (???)
10. Dirty Shoes Blues (???)
11. Southbound Train

The Grateful Dead

1. St. Stephen
2. Mama Tried
3. Dark Star
4. High Time
5. Turn On Your Lovelight

Creedence Clearwater Revival

1. Born on the Bayou
2. Green River
3. Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)
4. Commotion
5. Bootleg
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Proud Mary
8. I Put a Spell on You
9. The Night Time Is the Right Time
10. Keep on Chooglin'
11. Suzy Q

Janis Joplin

1. Raise Your Hand
2. As Good as You've Been to This World
3. To Love Somebody
4. Summertime
5. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
6. Kozmic Blues
7. Can't Turn You Loose
8. Work Me, Lord
9. Piece of My Heart
10. Ball and Chain

Sly & The Family Stone

1. M’Lady
2. Sing A Simple Song
3. You Can Make It If You Try
4. Everyday People
5. Dance To The Music
6. Music Lover
7. I Want To Take You Higher
8. Love City
9. Stand!

The Who

1. Heaven and Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. It's a Boy
4. 1921
5. Amazing Journey
6. Sparks
7. Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)
8. Christmas
9. Acid Queen
10. Pinball Wizard
11. The Abbie Hoffman Incident
12. Do You Think It's Alright?
13. Fiddle About
14. There's a Doctor
15. Go to the Mirror
16. Smash the Mirror
17. I'm Free
18. Tommy's Holiday Camp
19. We're Not Gonna Take It
20. See Me, Feel Me
21. Summertime Blues
22. Shakin' All Over
23. My Generation
24. Naked Eye

Jefferson Airplane

1. The Other Side of This Life
2. Somebody to Love
3. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
4. Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon
5. Eskimo Blue Day
6. Plastic Fantastic Lover
7. Wooden Ships
8. Uncle Sam Blues
9. Volunteers
10. The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil
11. Come Back Baby
12. White Rabbit
13. The House at Pooneil Corners

Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18

Sunday started at about 2 pm. This was the day with the heavy thunderstorm the Woodstock crowd had to endure. The shows were delayed and the bands played in the middle of the night or even next day in the morning. The headliner of the last day (and of the festival in general), Jimi Hendrix, stepped on stage at 9 am on Monday morning.

Joe Cocker

1. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring (without Joe Cocker)
2. 40,000 Headmen (without Joe Cocker)
3. Dear Landlord
4. Something's Coming On
5. Do I Still Figure in Your Life
6. Feelin' Alright
7. Just Like a Woman
8. Let's Go Get Stoned
9. I Don't Need No Doctor
10. I Shall Be Released
11. Hitchcock Railway
12. Something to Say
13. With a Little Help from My Friends

Country Joe & The Fish

1. Rock & Soul Music
2. (Thing Called) Love
3. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
4. Sing, Sing, Sing
5. Summer Dresses
6. Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife
7. Silver and Gold
8. Maria
9. The Love Machine
10. Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I'm a Nut)
11. Short Jam (instrumental)
12. Crystal Blues
13. Rock & Soul Music (Reprise)
14. "Fish" Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

Ten Years After

1. Spoonful
2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
3. Hobbit
4. I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes
5. Help Me
6. I'm Going Home

The Band

1. Chest Fever
2. Don't Do It
3. Tears of Rage
4. We Can Talk
5. Long Black Veil
6. Don't You Tell Henry
7. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos
8. This Wheel's on Fire
9. I Shall Be Released
10. The Weight
11. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever

Johnny Winter

1. Mama, Talk to Your Daughter
2. Leland Mississippi Blues
3. Mean Town Blues
4. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now > Mean Mistreater
5. I Can't Stand It (with Edgar Winter)
6. Tobacco Road (with Edgar Winter)
7. Tell the Truth (with Edgar Winter)
8. Johnny B. Goode

Blood, Sweat & Tears

1. More and More
2. Just One Smile
3. Something's Coming on
4. More Than You'll Ever Know
5. Spinning Wheel
6. Sometimes in Winter
7. Smiling Phases
8. God Bless the Child
9. And When I Die
10. You've Made Me So Very Happy

Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

Acoustic Set

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
2. Blackbird
3. Helplessly Hoping
4. Guinnevere
5. Marrakesh Express
6. 4 + 20
7. Mr. Soul
8. I'm Wonderin'
9. You Don't Have to Cry

Electric Set

1. Pre-Road Downs
2. Long Time Gone
3. Bluebird Revisited
4. Sea of Madness
5. Wooden Ships

Acoustic Encores

1. Find the Cost of Freedom
2. 49 Bye-Byes

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

1. Born Under a Bad Sign
2. No Amount of Loving
3. Driftin' and Driftin'
4. Morning Sunrise
5. All in a Day
6. Love March
7. Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Sha Na Na

1. Get A Job
2. Come Go With Me
3. Silhuettes
4. Teen Angel
5. Jailhouse Rock (???)
6. Wipe Out
7. Blue Moon
8. (Who Wrote) The Book of Love
9. Little Darling
10. At The Hop
11. Duke Of Earl
12. Get A Job (Reprise)

Jimi Hendrix

1. Introduction
2. Message to Love
3. Getting My Heart Back Together Again > Hear My Train a-Comin'
4. Spanish Castle Magic
5. Red House
6. Mastermind
7. Lover Man
8. Foxy Lady
9. Beginning > Jam Back at the House
10. Izabella
11. Gypsy Woman
12. Fire
13. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
14. Stepping Stone
15. Star Spangled Banner
16. Purple Haze
17. Woodstock Improvisation
18. Villanova Junction
19. Hey Joe

All of this information was taken from the following source (according to the website, it is entirely accurate, and it did seem like the best that I found, nevertheless):

http://woodstock.wikia.com/wiki/Setlist