Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 13: Spin Doctors

The thirteenth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set my the band Spin Doctors.

Spin Doctors was formed in 1989, and they released their debut album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite,” in 1991. At first, sales were very slow. But they picked up a 1992 and continue to grow in 1993. Eventually, it sold 5 million copies in the U.S. 

Their second album, “Turn It Upside Down,” was released in June 1994, not long before this festival. It sold one million copies in the U.S., which was nothing to sneeze at, but still disappointment compared to the debut album. There are subsequent albums sold even less than that, but the band is still in existence as I write this in 2024.

As you would expect, the band played songs from their first and second albums, but they finished with a cover of the Joni Mitchell classic “Woodstock,” for obvious reasons.

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long.

01 talk (Spin Doctors)
02 Jimmy Olsen's Blues (Spin Doctors)
03 talk (Spin Doctors)
04 You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast (Spin Doctors)
05 talk (Spin Doctors)
06 Big Fat Funky Booty (Spin Doctors)
07 talk (Spin Doctors)
08 Cleopatra's Cat (Spin Doctors)
09 talk (Spin Doctors)
10 What Time Is It (Spin Doctors)
11 Off My Line (Spin Doctors)
12 talk (Spin Doctors)
13 How Could You Want Him [When You Could Have Me] (Spin Doctors)
14 Refridgerator Car (Spin Doctors)
15 talk (Spin Doctors)
16 Mary Jane (Spin Doctors)
17 talk (Spin Doctors)
18 Little Miss Can't Be Wrong (Spin Doctors)
19 Beasts in the Woods (Spin Doctors)
20 talk (Spin Doctors)
21 Indifference (Spin Doctors)
22 Two Princes (Spin Doctors)
23 talk (Spin Doctors)
24 Woodstock (Spin Doctors)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770753/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_13SpnDctrs_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eZLQHS9c

The cover photo of lead vocalist Chris Barron is from this exact concert.

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 12: Traffic

The twelfth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set by the British band Traffic, led by lead singer Steve Winwood.

Traffic existed from 1967 to 1974. Traffic then reunited in 1994, but the reunion was short lived, only long enough for a studio album named “Far from Home,” and a supporting tour. What made it a Traffic reunion was the fact that Winwood was reunited with Jim Capaldi, who was an original member of the band and most of the songs with Winwood. No other band members from the bands, original era took part in the reunion. 

This festival just happened to take place during the reunion tour. Otherwise it probably wouldn’t have been a Winwood solo concert. Because it was a Traffic reunion though, all the songs were from the bands 1960s and 1970s heyday instead of Winwood solo hits. The one exception was the song “Mozambique,” an instrumental from the band’s reunion album.

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.

01 talk (Traffic)
02 Pearly Queen (Traffic)
03 Medicated Goo (Traffic)
04 talk (Traffic)
05 Rock and Roll Stew (Traffic)
06 Mozambique [Instrumental] (Traffic)
07 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Traffic)
08 Glad - Freedom Rider (Traffic)
09 Empty Pages (Traffic)
10 talk (Traffic)
11 Light Up or Leave Me Alone (Traffic)
12 talk (Traffic)
13 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Traffic)
14 Gimme Some Lovin' (Traffic)
15 talk (Traffic)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770738/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_12Trffc_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/agdajC9Z

The cover photo of lead singer Steve Winwood is from this exact concert.

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 11: The Allman Brothers Band

The 11th album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set by the Allman Brothers Band.

This band went through a lot of highs and lows in their long career. 1994 was a good year. The band released the studio album “Where It All Begins,” a few months before this concert. It was the third studio they did in the early 1990s. Lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist was also still a key part of the band. He would part with the band at the end of the decade.

I don’t remember why I put “[Edit]” in the name of “Statesboro Blues.” But it probably was due to a glitch part of the way through the song, which I fixed.

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long.

01 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
02 Statesboro Blues [Edit] (Allman Brothers Band)
03 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
04 Blue Sky (Allman Brothers Band)
05 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
06 The Same Thing (Allman Brothers Band)
07 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
08 Soulshine (Allman Brothers Band)
09 Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers Band)
10 Jessica [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
11 No One to Run With (Allman Brothers Band)
12 Back Where It All Begins (Allman Brothers Band)
13 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
14 One Way Out (Allman Brothers Band)
15 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
16 Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770750/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_11AllmnBrthrsBd_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xyRAY8kf

I couldn't find a good photo of most or all of the band members, since they were spread out on stage. So I went with a photo of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Dickey Betts. The photo is from this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 10: Arrested Development

The tenth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘Z94 Festival is a set by the band Arrested Development.

The band made a big splash with their 1992 debut album, entitled “Three Years, Five Months and Two Days in the Life Of…” It spawned a few hits and sold four million copies in the US alone. Unfortunately for them, their second studio album, “Zingalamaduni,” released a couple of months before this festival, had no hits and sold well less than a million copies in the US. The band seemed to have trouble with their direction, because they broke up after the tour to support that album. They would reunite in 2000 and stay together after that, but they never came close to the success of their first album.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 talk (Arrested Development)
02 Shell (Arrested Development)
03 Ease My Mind (Arrested Development)
04 Mr. Wendal (Arrested Development)
05 Fishin' 4 Religion (Arrested Development)
06 In the Sunshine (Arrested Development)
07 talk (Arrested Development)
08 Tennessee (Arrested Development)
09 People Everyday (Arrested Development)
10 talk (Arrested Development)
11 United Front (Arrested Development)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770746/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_10ArrstdDvelpmnt_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vvrTxQZV

The cover photo of Aerle Taree, one of the singers in the band, is from this exact concert. The quality is a bit rough because I took a screenshot from a YouTube video.

Friday, July 19, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 9: Jimmy Cliff

The ninth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival was a set by Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff. 

Technically, this was billed as “Jimmy Cliff’s All Star Reggae Jam featuring Rita Marley, Eek-a-Mouse, and Shabba Ranks.” However, I listened to the set, and I watched most of the video of it on YouTube, and I didn’t see any sign of Marley or Ranks. Wow, since Marley was the wife of reggae, legend Bob Marley, I’m sure she would have been introduced at some point, but she was not. Eek-a-Mouse sang lead vocals on one song, “Love Me,” and participated in another song, the Bob Marley classic “One Love.” Furthermore, relatively unknown female vocalist at the time, Diane King, sand on two songs, “One Love” again, and also another Bob Marley classic, “Stir It Up.”

Other than that, it was a fairly long set, one of the longest of the entire festival, and Cliff sang most of it.

At the time, new albums weren’t getting much attention or sales. However, he had a big hit in 1992 with a cover of “I Can See Clearly Now,” which was one of the first reggae hits in the US back in 1972. Not surprisingly, he performed that near the end of this set.

This album is an hour and 42 minutes long.

01 You Can Get It If You Really Want (Jimmy Cliff)
02 Treat the Youths Right (Jimmy Cliff)
03 You Are My Rub-A-Dub - Bend Down Low - Reggae Down Babylon (Jimmy Cliff)
04 Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff)
05 We Are All One (Jimmy Cliff)
06 Save Our Planet Earth (Jimmy Cliff)
07 All for Love (Jimmy Cliff)
08 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
09 Samba Reggae (Jimmy Cliff)
10 Jam [Instrumental] (Jimmy Cliff)
11 Ashe Music [Higher and Higher] (Jimmy Cliff)
12 Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Jimmy Cliff)
13 The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff)
14 Love Me (Jimmy Cliff & Eek a Mouse)
15 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
16 Stir It Up (Jimmy Cliff & Diana King)
17 One Love (Jimmy Cliff, Diana King & Eek a Mouse)
18 Vietnam (Jimmy Cliff)
19 I Can See Clearly Now (Jimmy Cliff)
20 Higher and Deeper Love - Bongo Man - Rivers of Babylon (Jimmy Cliff)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 8: Santana

The eighth act from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set by the band Santana.

Lead guitarist, Carlos Santana did his usual Latin rock thing for decades to about the same level of critical and commercial success, until he had a big surge in record sales in the late 1990s. The band’s most recent album prior to this festival was “Milagro,” released in 1992. That album just missed reaching the top 100 in the US album charts. But that didn’t matter much because the band mostly relied on songs from their deep music catalog, including songs from recent albums.

This album is an hour and 50 minutes long. I believe this was the longest set of the entire festival.

01 talk (Santana)
02 Soul Sacrifice - A Love Supreme (Santana)
03 Peace on Earth ... Mother Earth ... Third Stone from the Sun (Santana)
04 Luz, Amor Y Vida [Instrumental] (Santana)
05 Angels All Around Us [Instrumental] (Santana)
06 talk (Santana)
07 Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (Santana)
08 talk (Santana)
09 Somewhere in Heaven - Savor (Santana)
10 talk (Santana)
11 Raul Rico Percussion Solo [Instrumental] (Santana)
12 Percussion Solo [Instrumental] (Santana)
13 Instrumental with Janie Hendrix Talk (Santana)
14 talk (Santana)
15 Make Somebody Happy - Get It in Your Soul (Santana)
16 talk (Santana)
17 Wings of Grace [Instrumental] (Santana)
18 Black Magic Woman - Gypsy Queen (Santana)
19 Oye Como Va (Santana)
20 talk (Santana)
21 Toussaint L'Overture [Instrumental] (Santana)
22 talk (Santana)
23 Bacalao Con Pan (Santana)
24 Europa [Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile] [Instrumental] (Santana)
25 Jingo (Santana)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Monday, July 15, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 7: The Neville Brothers

The next album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set by the Neville Brothers.

(Note that I just realized I posted the last two albums out of order. Green Day came before Paul Rodgers, not after.)

The Neville Brothers were a soul and funk group in existence from 1976 until 2015. However, the five brothers that made up the core of the group, had their own solo careers and careers with other bands, so the intensity of this band’s activity went up and down a lot. They were especially active in the early 1990s, which was their commercial and critical peak. Prior to this festival, their most recent album was a live album, “Live on Planet Earth,” released in April 1994.

This album is an hour and nine minutes long.

01 Hey Pocky Way - Walk on Gilded Splinters (Neville Brothers)
02 Yellow Moon (Neville Brothers)
03 Voodoo (Neville Brothers)
04 Fever (Neville Brothers)
05 Don't Take Away My Heaven (Neville Brothers)
06 Wildflower Song (Neville Brothers)
07 Brother John - Aiko Aiko - Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Neville Brothers)
08 Sands of Time (Neville Brothers)
09 Ayiti (Neville Brothers)
10 talk (Neville Brothers)
11 Come Together (Neville Brothers)
12 talk (Neville Brothers)
13 Let My People Go (Neville Brothers)
14 Amazing Grace (Neville Brothers)
15 One Love (Neville Brothers)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770756/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_07NvillBrthrs_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/B2CVaFJQ

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 5: Green Day

The fifth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival was a set by the band Green Day. 

An important thing to keep in mind is that Green Day Was only moderately popular at the time of this concert. They would become much more popular later. So I presume that’s why they had spot relatively early in the day.

I am still on vacation and it’s hard for me to type much on my cell phone. So I am going to paste in a big chunk of text from Wikipedia to explain more more about what happened during this set:

[The festival’s problems with mud] culminated with Green Day's performance, during which guitarist and lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong started a mudfight with the crowd during their song "Paper Lanterns". In the documentary VH1 Behind the Music: Green Day, bassist Mike Dirnt was mistaken for one of the fans jumping on stage and was spear-tackled by a security guard, knocking out one of his teeth. It was this incident that caused Dirnt to need emergency orthodontia. A gag order was put in place regarding this incident. Due to the now-infamous mudfight and Dirnt's injury, Woodstock quickly propelled Green Day's then recently released album Dookie into success.”

On a different note, I believe this set is the only one from the festival that has been officially released in fall. It was later added to a deluxe version of the “Dookie” album. I am including it here in order to present as much of the festivals as possible.

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 Welcome to Paradise (Green Day)
02 talk (Green Day)
03 One of My Lies (Green Day)
04 talk (Green Day)
05 Chump (Green Day)
06 Longview (Green Day)
07 Basket Case (Green Day)
08 talk (Green Day)
09 When I Come Around (Green Day)
10 Burnout (Green Day)
11 talk (Green Day)
12 F.O.D. (Green Day)
13 Paper Lanterns (Green Day)
14 Shit Show (Green Day)

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The cover photo of lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is from this exact concert.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 6: Paul Rodgers

The fifth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set by Paul Rodgers, the former lead singer of the bands Free, Bad Company, and the Firm.

Rodgers got some help from some famous musical associates. Most prominently, he was joined for three of the last four songs in the set by Slash, The lead guitarist for the band Guns N’ Roses. That band is originally formed, was near its death throes. So while they were invited to play, they didn’t play.

He was also supported for the entire set by Neal Schon, The former lead guitarist for Santana and Journey. He also was supported by bassist Andy Fraser, Who was a key band mate in the band Free. Finally, the drummer was Jason Bonham, who is most famous for being the son of drummer John Bonham, of Led Zeppelin.

In 1993, Rodgers put out an EP of cover versions of Jimi Hendrix songs. He also put out an entire album that mostly consisted of covers of Muddy Waters songs. So in addition to performing songs made famous by Free and Bad Company, he performed songs here by Hendrix and Muddy Waters.

This album is an hour and nine minutes long.

01 talk (Paul Rodgers)
02 Rock and Roll Fantasy (Paul Rodgers)
03 Can't Get Enough (Paul Rodgers)
04 talk (Paul Rodgers)
05 Feel like Makin' Love (Paul Rodgers)
06 talk (Paul Rodgers)
07 Wishing Well (Paul Rodgers)
08 talk (Paul Rodgers)
09 Fire and Water (Paul Rodgers)
10 talk (Paul Rodgers)
11 Little Bit of Love (Paul Rodgers)
12 talk (Paul Rodgers)
13 Muddy Water Blues (Paul Rodgers)
14 talk (Paul Rodgers)
15 Rollin' Stone (Paul Rodgers)
16 talk (Paul Rodgers)
17 Standin' Round Cryin' (Paul Rodgers)
18 talk (Paul Rodgers)
19 I Don't Live Today (Paul Rodgers with Slash)
20 talk (Paul Rodgers with Slash)
21 The Hunter (Paul Rodgers with Slash)
22 talk (Paul Rodgers with Slash)
23 Bad Company (Paul Rodgers with Slash)
24 All Right Now (Paul Rodgers)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770754/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_06PulRdgrs_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/A5k5PYjE

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 4: Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar

The fourth album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is Hassan Hakmoun and Zahar.

The star here was Hakmoun, who is from Morocco. Zahar is the name of his backing band. He was one of four acts from the WOMAD section of the festival, which had a focus on world music acts. 

Hakmoun had a lot of musical connections with Peter Gabriel. So perhaps it’s not too surprising that he was introduced by Gabriel and Gabriel also joined in singing on the final song of this set. Also, an interesting fact is that he married Paula Cole, who was a backing singer on a Gabriel tour when they met. But unfortunately the marriage only lasted a few years.

This album is 33 minutes long.

01 talk by Peter Gabriel (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
02 Baniyi [My Son] (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
03 talk (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
04 Live (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
05 Syada Ana (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
06 Boudarbalayi [Saint] (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
07 talk (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar)
08 Challaban My Love (Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar with Peter Gabriel)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16761006/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_04HssanHkmunZahr_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fs4xcdwA

The cover photo of Hassan Hakmoun is from this exact concert. All I could find was a screenshot from a YouTube video, so the picture quality is rather low.

Friday, July 5, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 3: Geoffrey Oryema

The third act presented here for Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival was Geoffrey Oryema. He was a musician from Uganda. He died of cancer in 2018 at the age of 65.

If you have never heard of him, don’t feel bad because he is one of the lesser known acts from this festival. He was included as part of a commendable effort to have more world music acts. He was part of a four act sequence called WOMAD. This was and still is a continuing series of tours started by Peter Gabriel designed to bring more world music to Western audiences. 

Out of the four WOMAD acts, I have only included two: this one, and the one I will be posting next. The two I didn’t include, Xalam and the Jeffrey Trio, are even less well known, their sets were shorter, and I just didn’t like them that much. I did like the two I included though. So if you want to try some new world music, give this one a shot. Be warned though that the songs are generally not in English.

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 Nomad (Geoffrey Oryema)
02 The River (Geoffrey Oryema)
03 Lapowony (Geoffrey Oryema)
04 Piri Wango Iya (Geoffrey Oryema)
05 talk (Geoffrey Oryema)
06 Ye Ye Ye (Geoffrey Oryema)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16761000/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_03GeffryOryma_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oicEMxH4

The cover is from this exact concert. Unfortunately, it's from a YouTube video, and the resolution is rather low.  

Monday, July 1, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 2: Gil Scott-Heron

The second album from Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival is a set by Gil Scott-Heron.

Note that I once tried to post an album by this artist and it got taken down due to copyright issues. So this one may not last here for long. But I’m trying to post it anyway in order to hopefully present the entire festival. Get it while you can.

Personally, I really like the music of this artist. He helped start rap music back in the early 1970s. His political and social commentary is very insightful. However, he was always more of a critical success than a commercial success. So that’s probably why he only had a relatively short set that also was early early on Day Three.

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 There's a War Going On (Gil Scott-Heron)
02 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
03 Is That Jazz (Gil Scott-Heron)
04 The Bottle (Gil Scott-Heron)
05 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770730/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_02GlScttHron_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iJP3Qyh4

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot from a YouTube video, so the resolution is rather low.

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 1: John Sebastian

The first act of Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival was John Sebastian. He was one of the stars of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. My guess is that he was invited to this festival to help provide a link to the original festival. In terms of his musical career, he didn’t have much success after having a number one song in 1976 with “Welcome Back,” the theme from the “Welcome Back Kotter” TV show. He often went many years between albums, which came out on minor record labels. He had many hits in the 1960s as the leader of the band the Lovin’ Spoonful. However, he chose to only play one well-known song by that band, “Daydream.”

This album is 15 minutes long.

01 Harmonica Solo [Instrumental] (John Sebastian)
02 Mornin' Blues (John Sebastian)
03 Mobile Line [Gonna Carry Me Away from the Bull Frog Blues] (John Sebastian)
04 I Want My Roots (John Sebastian)
05 Daydream (John Sebastian)
06 talk (John Sebastian)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16761002/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_01JhnSbastin_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/foufziA6

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Monday, June 24, 2024

Limitations

 Note that I can’t seem to log in to Google to post replies to comments, even though I can still make new posts. So please be patient until I return from my vacation when I will be able to apply to some comments. Also, I noticed that two more albums have been removed in recent days due to copyright issues. One of them is a joint concert between the Allman Brothers Band and Eric Clapton, and the other is an acoustic version of All Things Must Pass by George Harrison. A Kirsty MacColl stray tracks album also suffered the same fate just before I left. I will try to fix those, as well as any dead links, but that also will have to wait until I get back home.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 14: Aerosmith

The final album from Day Two of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival features a set by the band Aerosmith. It was the final set of Day Two.

Aerosmith was one of the biggest acts of the festival. Not only had they been a popular rock since the early 1970s, but their most recent album “Get a Grip ,” sold 20 million copies worldwide.

This album is an hour and 56 minutes long.

01 Eat the Rich (Aerosmith)
02 talk (Aerosmith)
03 Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith)
04 talk (Aerosmith)
05 Fever (Aerosmith)
06 talk (Aerosmith)
07 Draw the Line (Aerosmith)
08 Rag Doll (Aerosmith)
09 talk (Aerosmith)
10 Cryin' (Aerosmith)
11 Crazy (Aerosmith)
12 talk (Aerosmith)
13 Monkey on My Back (Aerosmith)
14 Mama Kin (Aerosmith)
15 Boogie Man (Aerosmith)
16 Shut Up and Dance (Aerosmith)
17 talk (Aerosmith)
18 Stop Messin' Around (Aerosmith)
19 Walk on Down (Aerosmith)
20 talk (Aerosmith)
21 Janie's Got a Gun (Aerosmith)
22 talk (Aerosmith)
23 Love in an Elevator (Aerosmith)
24 Dude [Looks like a Lady] (Aerosmith)
25 talk (Aerosmith)
26 Sweet Emotion - Dazed and Confused - Peter Gunn Theme (Aerosmith)
27 Come Together (Aerosmith)
28 Dream On (Aerosmith)
29 Livin' on the Edge (Aerosmith)
30 talk (Aerosmith)
31 Mother Popcorn - Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
32 talk (Aerosmith)

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The cover photo of lead singer Steven Tyler is from this exact concert.

Friday, June 21, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 13: Metallica

I’m writing this at the airport so I hope this works. I also am likely to keep my write-ups short while I am on vacation.

Metallica was one of the headliners for Day Two of the festival, going on stage late in the evening, ending their set near midnight.

In 1991, the band released an album simply titled “Metallica.” It was still heavy metal, but it had a more accessible sound. It went on to be one of the best selling albums of all time, selling 30 million copies worldwide and 17 million just in the US. They would not release another studio album until 1996. The album was so big that they were still touring to support it at the time of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival. It was reported that the audience responded positively to their set, even though they were one of the few heavy metal acts at the festival.

There was one musical act to come after Metallica. Then it is on to the third and last day of the festival.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long.

01 Breadfan (Metallica)
02 Master of Puppets (Metallica)
03 Wherever I May Roam (Metallica)
04 talk (Metallica)
05 Harvester of Sorrow (Metallica)
06 Fade to Black (Metallica)
07 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)
08 talk (Metallica)
09 Seek and Destroy (Metallica)
10 Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
11 Creeping Death (Metallica)
12 talk (Metallica)
13 Whiplash (Metallica)
14 Sad but True (Metallica)
15 One (Metallica)
16 Enter Sandman (Metallica)
17 So What (Metallica)

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The cover photo of James Hetfield is from this exact concert.

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Announcement: Vacation Plans and More Woodstock '94

With summer rolling in, I'm taking a big vacation, as I usually do around this time of year. I'm going to Europe, specifically northern Italy, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. (If anyone lives in those places and wants to meet up, let me know. I like meeting people as I travel.) I won't be back until late July.

I still have a lot of the massive Woodstock '94 Festival to post. But that turns out to be a good thing, because I'm hoping I can still post that while I'm on my travels. I have all of the 20 or so remaining albums uploaded with the album covers and set lists and so forth. The only thing I don't have, which takes so time, is the write-ups. So my goal is to write those up here and there as I have down time during my travels. But if I suddenly disappear, I probably lost my phone or got logged out here and can't log back in or something like that.

There's a fair chance that at least some of these albums I still have to post from the festival could run into copyright violation issues. Or I could simply make mistakes. So to cut down on the potential problems, I'm going to include pixeldrain.com links too. That's a really excellent download service, so I may be converting to that by and by anyway.

I probably won't be able to comment much, and I won't have the ability to fix broken links and the like until I get back. Until then, please be patient, and I hope you're having a nice summer.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 12: Nine Inch Nails

The twelfth album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival was set by Nine Inch Nails. (Note there are two more Day Two sets after this, and Day Three has 17 in total!)

Nine Inch Nails sounded drastically different than the folkie vibes of the act on stage right before them, Crosby, Stills and Nash. Their sound is abrasive, with Wikipedia calling it "industrial rock" or even "industrial metal."

Nine Inch Nails released their second album, "The Downward Spiral," in March 1994. It was a critical and commercial success, going on to sell four million copies in the U.S. Most of the songs in this set are from that album.

A pre-show incident between band mates Trent Reznor and Danny Lohner left Nine Inch Nails covered with mud for their entire performance. Reznor later explained in an interview, "On the way to the stage, there was a little accident. It turned into kind of a mud wrestling thing that escalated into a full-scale mud riot. I accidentally tripped Danny and pushed his face into the mud. And then he retaliated by body-slamming me."

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

01 talk (Nine Inch Nails)
02 Pinion [Instrumental] (Nine Inch Nails)
03 Terrible Lie (Nine Inch Nails)
04 Sin (Nine Inch Nails)
05 March of the Pigs (Nine Inch Nails)
06 Something I Can Never Have (Nine Inch Nails)
07 Closer (Nine Inch Nails)
08 Reptile (Nine Inch Nails)
09 Wish (Nine Inch Nails)
10 Suck (Nine Inch Nails)
11 Burn (Nine Inch Nails)
12 The Only Time (Nine Inch Nails)
13 Down in It (Nine Inch Nails)
14 talk (Nine Inch Nails)
15 Dead Souls (Nine Inch Nails)
16 Help Me I Am in Hell (Nine Inch Nails)
17 Happiness in Slavery (Nine Inch Nails)
18 Head like a Hole (Nine Inch Nails)

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pBt3w9UK

The cover shows lead singer Trent Reznor in this exact performance.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 11: Crosby, Stills & Nash


The eleventh album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN).

CSN were one of the stars of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, playing then with Neil Young as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. It was reported that the promoters of this festival offered Young a large amount of money to reunite with CSN and play this festival. CSNY had last played a concert together in 1991, and wouldn't do so again until 2000. However, Young objected to the commercialization of the festival, for instance there were corporate sponsorships by the likes of Pepsi and Apple. He also felt it besmirched the reputation of the original Woodstock. So he refused to participate.

CSN was promoting their 1994 album "After the Storm," which by coincidence was released on August 16th, just a couple of days after this concert. That album was not well received. In my opinion, it was too slick and overproduced. They played five songs from that album (tracks 8, 12, 14, 16, and 20). In my opinion, the songs sound a lot better here, where the overproduction was largely avoided.

John Sebastian, the main singer-songwriter from the 1960s band Lovin' Spoonful, introduced CSN. He also played harmonica on the song "Deja Vu," just as he did on the original recording. He would have his own set at the festival a day later. An interesting fact is that Sebastian was strongly considered as a potential addition to CSN in 1969, but ultimately Neil Young was chosen instead.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk by John Sebastian (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Military Madness (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Deja Vu (Crosby, Stills & Nash with John Sebastian)
08 Only Waiting for You (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 It Won't Go Away (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Unequal Love (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
16 In My Life (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20 Street to Lean On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 For What It's Worth (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
22 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
23 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
24 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
25 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
26 Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
27 Woodstock (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16760985/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_11CrsbyStllsNsh_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows Crosby, Nash, and Stills, from left to right. I moved Stills closer to the other two in Photoshop.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 9: Blind Melon

The ninth album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Blind Melon.

For some, Blind Melon is a one-hit wonder time of band, due to their one big hit, 1992's "No Rain." But their debut album, simply titled "Blind Melon," sold over four million copies, showing fans wanted to hear much more than just that one song.

At the time of this festival, that was still the only album that band put out. They would release a second one, "Soup," in 1995. But later in 1995, the band's charismatic lead singer Shannon Hoon would die of a drug overdose, causing the band to disband.

Hoon's behavior during the concert was controversial for some. Before going on stage, he took acid, put a barrette in his hair, and smeared on mascara. Then, as the band's lead guitarist Rogers Stevens later recalled, "As we’re going up [to the stage], I turned around and Shannon was completely fuckin' naked in the crowd. He told his girlfriend to take off her dress and give it to him. She did, and he put it on. He looked so fuckin' cool."

But despite the LSD and everything, the band put on a solid performance.

As with nearly all the albums I'm posting from this festival, the sound quality is excellent despite this being unreleased. But I had some issues with the source material for this set. I found two sources, and there were flaws in each, like incomplete songs, short gaps of silence between tracks, and so forth. But because I had two sources, I was able to use one when the other had trouble, and vice versa. So this is likely better than any other version you're likely to come across.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

01 talk (Blind Melon)
02 2 X 4 (Blind Melon)
03 talk (Blind Melon)
04 Tones of Home (Blind Melon)
05 talk (Blind Melon)
06 Soup (Blind Melon)
07 talk (Blind Melon)
08 Wilt (Blind Melon)
09 talk (Blind Melon)
10 No Rain (Blind Melon)
11 Time (Blind Melon)
12 talk (Blind Melon)
13 I Wonder (Blind Melon)
14 Working Class Hero (Blind Melon)
15 St. Andrew's Hall (Blind Melon)
16 Paper Scratcher (Blind Melon)
17 Change (Blind Melon)
18 Deserted (Blind Melon)
19 talk (Blind Melon)
20 Soak the Sin (Blind Melon)
21 talk (Blind Melon)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16751005/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_09BlndMlon_atse.zip.html

 The cover photo of Shannon Hoon is from this exact performance.