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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/B2CVaFJQ

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 7: Primus

The seventh album of music from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Primus.

One reason why I was pleased by a commenter's suggestion to post the entire Woodstock '94 Festival is because it gives me reason to post music from musical acts that I probably otherwise would never get around to posting. Primus is a case in point. I'd only known a couple of their songs prior to this.

It's hard to describe the musical style of this band. Wikipedia labels them as "funk metal," "alt metal," and "alt rock." But I'd add that it's unusually bass heavy, since the leader of the band, Les Claypool, sings and plays bass. Here's their Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Primus (band) - Wikipedia

The band's most recent album release prior to this concert was "Pork Soda," released in 1993. It contained the song "My Name is Mud," which turned out to be one of the band's biggest hits. It's actually about murder, but it had special resonance for Woodstock '94, because it rained off and on, and parts of the outdoor area containing the crowd of several hundred thousand people got very muddy.

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia entry about the song "My Name Is Mud":

During Primus's Woodstock '94 performance of "My Name Is Mud", the band was pelted with mud, which band drummer Tim Alexander noted was done "not in a mean way, but kind of a rock and roll way." About a minute into the song, the band stopped playing and [singer] Les Claypool told the crowd, "Well, I opened a big-ass can of worms with that one, didn't I? The song is called 'My Name Is Mud' but keep the mud to yourselves, you son-of-a-bitch." He also told them that throwing mud was a "sign of small and insignificant genitalia." At that point, "we got them to stop," Claypool explained in a 2014 interview, "and we were able to continue and do our show." In the same interview, Claypool joked that he "still [has] mud in those speaker cabinets."

The band Alice in Chains were on the festival's initial bill. However, they pulled out at the last minute due to lead singer Layne Staley's drug problems. The band's lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell still wanted to take part somehow. So he joined Primus for the band's long song, "Harold of the Rocks."

Since I'm on the subject of musical acts that almost performed at the festival but didn't, there are a few others worth mentioning. Guns N' Roses were asked to appear, but the band was slowly breaking up at the time and couldn't pull together. The promoters really wanted Nirvana to appear, but then lead singer Kurt Cobain died in April 1994. Johnny Cash was supposed to perform, but pulled out when he found out he was only invited to play on a second stage, not the main one.

This album is exactly an hour long.

01 To Defy the Laws of Tradition (Primus)
02 Here Come the Bastards (Primus)
03 Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweakers (Primus)
04 Bob (Primus)
05 My Name Is Mud (Primus)
06 Jerry Was a Race Car Driver (Primus)
07 talk (Primus)
08 The Air Is Getting Slippery (Primus)
09 Nature Boy (Primus)
10 Harold of the Rocks (Primus with Jerry Cantrell)
11 Master of Puppets [Instrumental Version] (Primus)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16751004/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_07Prms_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows band leader Les Claypool. This is a screenshot from a YouTube video of this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 5: The Band

The next act at the Woodstock '94 Festival is the Band.

The Band were one of the few acts that played both at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969 and at this 25th anniversary one. However, their popularity diminished somewhat in the intervening years because they lost two out of the five original members. Robbie Robertson, the band's main songwriter, left in the later 1970s. Singer Richard Manuel died in the 1980s. That left just singers Rick Danko and Levon Helm plus keyboardist Garth Hudson of the original five. Three new band members were replacements.

This is kind of a strange set because in my opinion it seems like a spot to put various acts from the original Woodstock era but weren't popular enough to have their own sets. Roger McGuinn joined in at least one song and sang lead vocals on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Hot Tuna then took over and performed the famous acoustic instrumental "Embryonic Journey" by themselves. (They first did it when they were a part of Jefferson Airplane.) Then they collaborated on the song "Java Blues" with the Band. Later on, Bruce Hornsby joined for at least two songs, "The Weight" and "Willie and the Hand Jive." Note that it's very possible that these guest artists stayed to take part in more songs. But I was too lazy to watch the YouTube video of this set to check. Perhaps someone else can tell me.

Then, from what I can tell, the Band left the stage and were replaced by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, along with bassist Rob Wasserman. But as far as I could tell, this was essentially a separate set led by Weir with the Band no longer there until the final song, even though it wasn't billed as such. So I've made that portion into a separate album. 

This portion works as a complete concert without the Weir and Wasserman part. In fact, at nearly two hours, it was one of the longest sets of the festival. I believe only the Santana and Aerosmith sets were longer.

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long.

01 talk (Band)
02 Caldonia (Band)
03 talk (Band)
04 Remedy (Band)
05 Blind Willie McTell (Band)
06 It Makes No Difference (Band)
07 Atlantic City (Band)
08 Rag Mama Rag (Band)
09 Caledonia Mission (Band)
10 Crazy Mama (Band)
11 Baby Don't You Do It [Don't Do It] (Band)
12 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Band & Roger McGuinn)
13 talk (Band)
14 Embryonic Journey [Instrumental] (Hot Tuna)
15 talk (Band)
16 Java Blues (Band & Hot Tuna)
17 talk (Band)
18 The Weight (Band with Bruce Hornsby)
19 Mystery Train (Band)
20 talk (Band)
21 Stuff You Gotta Watch (Band)
22 Stage Fright (Band)
23 Ophelia (Band)
24 Life Is a Carnival (Band)
25 talk (Band)
26 Willie and the Hand Jive (Band with Bruce Hornsby)
27 The Shape I'm In (Band)
28 The Genetic Method [Instrumental] (Band)
29 Chest Fever (Band)
30 talk (Band)
31 [I Don't Want To] Hang Up My Rock 'n' Roll Shoes (Band)

https://www.imagenetz.de/iviN3

I don't know all the people in the cover photo, but that's Roger McGuinn in glasses on the left, and Rick Danko of the Band on the right. It's from this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 4: Youssou N'Dour

Next up on Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is Senegalese singer-songwriter Youssou N'Dour.

N'Dour is one of very few Third World musicians to become a star in the U.S. and Europe. That's all the more remarkable because he usually does not sing in English. That's the case for this concert.

In June 1994, just before this concert, he had the biggest hit of his career, "7 Seconds," a trilingual duet with Neneh Cherry. It was the Number One single in France for a record breaking 16 weeks. Surprisingly though, he didn't play that song at this concert. However, it's very possible that he didn't and I don't have his full set. (If this is the full set, it's a rather short one.) But if he didn't, it could be because he didn't have Cherry to sing it with.

N'Dour has collaborated with Peter Gabriel on multiple occasions, including on the songs "In Your Eyes" and "Shaking the Tree." During Gabriel's set on Day Three of this festival, N'Dour participated on those two songs.

Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Youssou N'Dour - Wikipedia

This album is 26 minutes long.

01 New Africa (Youssou N'Dour)
02 Undecided [Japoulo] (Youssou N'Dour)
03 Maybe Tonight (Youssou N'Dour)
04 Generations [Diamono] (Youssou N'Dour)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750994/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_04YossurNDur_atse.zip.html

For the cover photos for this festival, I was able to find ones from this exact concert in nearly every case. But the sole exception to that is N'Dour, I think. I tried using a screenshot from a YouTube video of this concert, but I found the resolution too poor. So instead I went with this concert photo from this general time period.

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

The next album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival features a set from the Italian singer Zucchero.

I must say I'm rather surprised Zucchero was included in this festival. He's a massively famous musician in his native country of Italy, as well as many other European countries. He's sold over 60 million records worldwide. He's also greatly respected by other musicians. He's collaborated with many famous musicians, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian May, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, B. B. King, Sting, Buddy Guy, Bono, Bryan Adams, Dolores O'Riordan, Paul Young, and Peter Gabriel! However, despite all that, he remains virtually unknown in the U.S. None of his singles or albums have ever many any U.S. charts. 

A key problem for him is that while he performs an accessible Western style of music, mixing soul, rock, blues, and other genres, he sings most of his songs in Italian. U.S. audiences haven't been very interested in music sung in languages other than English, as a general rule. And that's the case here. There's some English singing, as well as banter in English, but it's mostly Italian.

Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to learn more about him:

Zucchero Fornaciari - Wikipedia

From here through the rest of the festival, everything has excellent sound quality, despite virtually all of it coming from bootlegs. If there are exceptions, I'll point them out. This set certainly has solid sound quality.

When I heard the first song here, "L'urlo," I thought, "Hey, that sounds like 'Everybody's Everything' by Santana, only sung in Italian. I looked it up, and it turns out "Everybody's Everything" is actually an adaptation of 1967 soul hit by the group the Emperors. "L'urlo" does sound to be mostly based on "Everybody's Everything" but with Italian lyrics, so I put that in as a subtitle.

 This album is 48 minutes long.

01 L'urlo [Everybody's Everything] (Zucchero)
02 I Go Crazy (Zucchero)
03 Dunes of Mercy (Zucchero)
04 Senza Una Donna (Zucchero)
05 Overdose [D'Amore] (Zucchero)
06 Con le Mani (Zucchero)
07 talk (Zucchero)
08 Diamonte (Zucchero)
09 Diavolo in Me (Zucchero)
10 Mama [Madre Dolcissima] (Zucchero)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750836/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_03Zcchro_atse.zip.html

Here's an alternate download link I'm experimenting with:  

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CZwKwFnW

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

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

The first full set I can offer from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is the Cranberries.

I was able to find virtually all of the full sets from Days Two and Three of this festival in excellent sound quality, but the Cranberries are a curious exception. Like the Sheryl Crow set, I had to cobble this together from several different sources. "Dreams" comes from the official Woodstock '94 double album, so that sounds excellent. Most of the rest are from various YouTube videos, with varying sound quality. I did some audio editing on some of the rougher ones.

The band released their debut album in 1993, "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" It included two hits, "Linger" and "Dreams." However, the band would have even bigger success with their second album "No Need to Argue" in 1994, which would go on to sell an astonishing 17 million copies worldwide. Much of that success was due to the song "Zombie," which is probably the band's signature song. However, "Zombie" wasn't released as a single until September, and the album didn't come out until October. But happily, "Zombie" was included in this set.

This album is 27 minutes long.

01 Sunday (Cranberries)
02 Pretty (Cranberries)
03 talk (Cranberries)
04 Wanted (Cranberries)
05 talk (Cranberries)
06 Linger (Cranberries)
07 Zombie (Cranberries)
08 talk (Cranberries)
09 Dreams (Cranberries)
10 [They Long to Be] Close to You (Cranberries)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750835/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_02Crnbrres_atse.zip.html

Here's an alternate download link I'm experimenting with:  

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mejYNhnF

The cover art shows the band's lead singer Dolores O'Riordan. It's from this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 1: Cyprus Hill, Salt-N-Pepa, & the Sisters of Glory

The last album I posted from the Woodstock '94 Festival was a kind of leftovers album of all the musical acts from Day One where I only had a small number of songs. That's the case here as well, but for Days Two and Three combined. (I call this "Day 2, Part 1" in the title for organizational reasons.)

In the case of that Day One leftovers album, that was pretty much everything I could find that had worthy sound quality. But for this album, I have to admit I found the full sets for three of the four acts here, but I just don't like them that much, so this is all I included. I'm not really into rap or hip hop, and that's the style for the first two acts here, Cypress Hill and Salt-N-Pepa. Both of them performed on Day Two. I only included their best known songs. Cyprus Hill played a 47 minute long set. I included seven minutes. Salt-N-Pepa did a 44 minute long set, and I included 23 minutes. 

It's a bit different with the third act here, Country Joe McDonald. He was one of the stars of the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. I'm sure that's why he was invited to play Woodstock '94. But he was given only a short slot, as the first act on the morning of the third day. I think he played three songs, but I could only find the audio for one of them.

The fourth and final act here, the Sisters of Glory, were kind of a Traveling Wilburys of female gospel singers. Meaning a bunch of famous musicians got together and put out a studio album, but they didn't stay together long after that. The group was made up of Thelma Houston, CeCe Peniston, Phoebe Snow, Mavis Staples, and Lois Walden. All of them except for Lois Walden had big secular hits, and if they would have performed that kind of music, I would have happily included their full set. But instead they did almost entirely gospel songs. As a non-religious person, I can only handle that in very limited doses. So while they did a hour and five minute long set, I've only included 17 minutes. I picked the songs that I liked best, which also happen to be well known beyond the gospel genre. It so happened that most of these were sung by Mavis Staples of the Staples Singers, including the one secular song, "I'll Take You There," a number one hit in 1972. So I put Mavis Staples in the artist name, since she's pretty much the star here.

The Sisters of Glory came together for a short tour in April 1994. They only planned to stay together for that long. But they got together just for this concert, plus a concert for the Pope later in the year. Then they released a studio album called "Good News in Hard Times" in 1995 that was most of the same songs from their Woodstock set list. They really did disband after that.

Other than these, I've included all of the full sets from Days Two and Three of the festival, with six exceptions. One is that a Croatian musician named Nened Bach was the opening act for Day Three, but I haven't found any recordings of that set. Bach is not a well-known musical act compared to the others on Days Two and Three, so I'm guessing this set probably wasn't included in the pay-per-view broadcast. The second is a jazz percussionist and singer named Vinx. Similarly, I couldn't find any recordings of that set, probably for the same reason.

The third exception is that I did find the full set for the Rollins Band on Day Two. But I disliked it so much that I couldn't stand to even include one song from it. The Rollins Band, led by Henry Rollins, is described as "hard rock" by Wikipedia. I like a lot of hard rock, but this just seemed like angry screaming to me. I make these albums mainly for myself, and I couldn't stand to have any of that set in my music collection, sorry.

The fourth exception is Todd Rundgren. He did something very strange for this festival. Instead of giving a set on one of the two big stages like everyone else, he did no less than five sets a day every day of the festival! But he did it in a special section of the festival called the Philips Multimedia Village, and his performances were "multimedia" somehow. A couple of these sets have shown up on YouTube, but the sound quality is so poor I couldn't include them. If anyone has any of Rundgren's performances with good sound quality, please let me know. 

The fifth and sixth exceptions are the Justin Trio and Xalam from the WOMAD (world music) portion of the festival. I only found portions of their sets, and they are pretty obscure musical acts. I wasn't that impressed, so I left them out. (I did include two other WOMAD acts though.)

This album is a really weird mixture of rap, hip hop, folk, and gospel. It doesn't exactly flow well, but at least it's available here.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 How I Could Just Kill a Man (Cypress Hill)
02 Insane in the Membrane (Cypress Hill)
03 Push It (Salt-N-Pepa)
04 Whatta Man (Salt-N-Pepa)
05 Let's Talk about Sex (Salt-N-Pepa)
06 Shoop (Salt-N-Pepa)
07 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
08 Save the Whales (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)
10 Glory, Glory (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)
11 I'll Take You There (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)
12 Oh Happy Day (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750837/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_01CyprsHillSltNPpathSstrsofGlry_atse.zip.html

Here's an alternate download link I'm experimenting with:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4ojTzz2T

The cover photo is of Salt-N-Pepa. It's from this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 1, Part 4: James, King's X, Violent Femmes, Etc...

This next installment of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a rather unusual one. As I mentioned previously, I couldn't find much from Day 1 of the festival. I did find the full sets of Blues Traveler, Live, and Sheryl Crow, but other than that, it was mostly scraps. That's because the festival was really planned to be a two day event, what became the second and third days, and the first day was a kind of bonus day for lesser known musical acts who wanted to play for a large crowd for little to no money. So the first day wasn't broadcast on pay-per-view cable TV like the rest, and there aren't many musical recordings. Thus, this album consists of all the other "scraps" I was able to find from the first day.

Here's a list I found at Wikipedia of all the acts that performed on the first day, in order of appearance:

Roguish Armament with Rekk
Master of None
3
Futu Futu
Abba Rage
Lunchmeat
The Paul Luke Band
Peacebomb
The Goats
Huffamoose
Orleans
Blues Traveler
Jackyl
Del Amitri
Live
James
King's X
Sheryl Crow
Collective Soul
Candlebox
Violent Femmes 

Note that this doesn't include "Ravestock," which was a techno oriented rave that took place overnight, and featured acts like Aphex Twin, Deee-Lite, the Orb, and Orbital.

Anyway, regarding the list above, I'd never even heard of the first names on the list until Orleans, but I knew all of them after that. Still, for 1994, these were not major stars. The only other full set I was able to find was Collective Soul, but it's an audience bootleg that isn't worthy of inclusion.

Pretty much everything I did find for this album came from the official Woodstock '94 double album, or from YouTube videos that probably come from the pay-per-view recordings. While the first day wasn't part of the pay-per-view, I suspect that some highlights from the first day were shown later. One of the James songs was sent to me by a commenter who recorded it off the BBC at the time.

I was particularly disappointed to not find the full sets to James and the Violent Femmes, since those are my favorite musical acts out of the "leftovers" included here. However, if the set lists at setlist.fm are accurate, I didn't miss much. I have four songs from James here, and only missed one for sure ("Honest Joe"). And I have three songs from the Violent Femmes, and only missed one. However, I found a mention at a James fan site that the set list is believed to be incomplete, so that likely would have been the case for the Violent Femmes as well, since they were one of the best known acts of the day.

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 Headed for Destruction (Jackyl)
02 Just like a Man (Del Amitri)
03 Crashing Down (Del Amitri)
04 Johnny Yen (James)
05 talk (James)
06 Sometimes [Lester Piggott] (James)
07 Laid (James)
08 Sit Down (James)
09 Black Flag (King's X)
10 Manic Depression (King's X)
11 Shine (Collective Soul)
12 Arrow (Candlebox)
13 Far Behind - Voodoo Child [Slight Return] (Candlebox)
14 talk (Violent Femmes)
15 Dance, M.F., Dance  - Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)
16 Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16758611/VA-WODSTCK94_8-12-1994_04JamsKngsXVilntFmmsEtc_atse.zip.html

Here's an alternate download link I'm experimenting with:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/enhgebgw

The cover art depicts Tim Booth, lead singer of James. It's from this exact concert.

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

The third full set from the first day of the Woodstock '94 Festival features Sheryl Crow.

The situation with Sheryl Crow is very similar to that of the first two acts from the festival that I've posted, Blues Traveler and Live. All three of them were right on the cusp of stardom, but not quite there yet, which is why they were relegated to the middle of the first day of the festival. Crow's debut album "Tuesday Night Music Club" was released in 1993. However, it took a while to catch on. According to Wikipedia, it wasn't until July 1994 when "All I Wanna Do" was released as the fourth single. But it didn't soar up the charts until October 1994, after this festival. 

However, for Blues Traveler and Live, massive success wouldn't be sustained past one really big hit album. Whereas for Crow, "Tuesday Night Music Club" would eventually sell close to five million copies in the U.S. alone, but she'd keep going and going, eventually selling over 50 million albums worldwide.

Given all the success she'd had, I had a surprisingly difficult time putting her set together. One song, "Run, Baby, Run," appeared on the official double album for the festival, so that's here in excellent sound quality. A couple of the others were taken from videos of the pay-per-view, so they also sound excellent. But the rest comes from an audience bootleg. However, I ran that through two different audio editing programs to make different fixes (UVR5 and MVSEP), so at least those sound better than before, in my opinion, though still not as good as the others. But unfortunately I couldn't find the first song she played, "Can't Cry Anymore," in any condition, so that one isn't here.

This album is 35 minutes long.

01 All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow)
02 talk (Sheryl Crow)
03 Love Is a Good Thing (Sheryl Crow)
04 talk (Sheryl Crow)
05 Run, Baby, Run (Sheryl Crow)
06 Leaving Las Vegas (Sheryl Crow)
07 The Na-Na Song - I've Got a Feeling (Sheryl Crow)
08 talk (Sheryl Crow)
09 I Shall Believe (Sheryl Crow)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16754146/VA-WODSTCK94_8-12-1994_03ShrylCrw_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 1, Part 2: Live

The second full set I was able to find from the Woodstock '94 Festival is a performance from the band Live.

In my opinion, this band has an unfortunate name, because it's easily confused with either common meaning of the word "live," as in "live and let live" or "live performance." Here's the band's Wikipedia page if you want to know more:

Live (band) - Wikipedia

Bad name or not, they had great success in the 1990s. Their biggest year was 1994, due to the release of their album "Throwing Copper" in April. It went on to sell eight million copies in the U.S. 

Due to the massive success of that album, I was surprised their set took place in the middle of the first day, which is where lesser known acts were getting placed. Even though their "Throwing Copper" album was released in April and this concert wasn't until August, I surmised that most of the album's success must have come after this concert. I believe I'm correct, because the band's biggest hit, "Lightning Crashes," wasn't released as a single until one month after this festival. That said, "Lighting Crashes" and other hits from that album, such as "I Alone," were performed in this concert.

As I mentioned previously, I didn't find much music from the first day of the festival. The Live set is the only one from that day that I was able to find as a bootleg with excellent sound quality. That's probably due to the band having much more success than most of the other acts from the festival's first day.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Iris (Live)
02 Top (Live)
03 talk (Live)
04 The Beauty of Gray (Live)
05 Selling the Drama (Live)
06 talk (Live)
07 Shit Towne (Live)
08 talk (Live)
09 Lightning Crashes (Live)
10 I Alone (Live)
11 Operation Spirit (Live)
12 talk (Live)
13 White, Discussion (Live)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750826/VA-WODSTCK94_8-12-1994_02Lve_atse.zip.html

The cover photo of the band's lead singer Ed Kowalczyk is from this exact concert. It's a bit low res because it's a screenshot from a video.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 1, Part 1: Blues Traveler

I haven't been posting much here in the past couple of weeks, but that certainly isn't due to a lack of blog related activity on my part. A commenter here suggested I should post the 1994 Woodstock festival, which was simply called "Woodstock '94." I thought that was an excellent suggestion. So here it is!

This has to be the biggest music festival I've posted here in terms of the amount of music, bigger even than the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. I've found 36 hours of music from this festival that's worthy of posting, divided into 35 albums! I think this festival has been generally overlooked. I certainly overlooked it. I didn't realize how many great musical acts took part. There were two really big Woodstock anniversary festivals. This one took place in 1994, on the 25th anniversary of the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival. Another big one took place in 1999. The 1999 one was a fiasco, with violence and mayhem. I think this one tends to get confused with that one. That happened with me before I started gathering together the music for this festival.

I think another reason this festival gets overlooked is that there hasn't been much in the way of official releases for it. The original Woodstock was quickly made into a hit album and movie. More albums from it followed, as compilations and by individual musical acts. Eventually, the entire festival was released in a massive box set. 

By contrast, very little has been released from Woodstock '94. A double album was released later in 1994. But not only was that a tiny release for such a massive festival, but it wasn't well done, with the songs seemingly chosen at random. A film about the festival was released, but only direct-to-video on VHS and Laserdisc. It's never come out on DVD, Blue-Ray, or any digital format. In recent years, Green Day officially released their entire Woodstock '94 set as part of a deluxe edition of their 1994 album "Dookie." But that's the only full set to be released so far. 

Luckily for us, the vast majority of the festival is available on bootleg today, with excellent sound quality. This is mainly because most of it was broadcast on a pay-per-view format on cable TV at the time. However, much of this seems to have fallen into a memory hole. It took me hours of searching to find what I found. I hope by posting what I have from the festival, I'll play at least a small role in bringing the music from the festival to a larger audience.

Woodstock '94 was originally planned to be just a two day long festival. I'll write more about the festival in general in a later post. If you want to know more ASAP, Wikipedia has a good entry about it:

Woodstock '94 - Wikipedia

It turned out so many bands were eager to play at the festival that the organizers added a third date, which came before the other two. But the musical acts slotted for the first day were generally much less famous, and that day wasn't included as part of the pay-per-view. So while I was able to find virtually all the sets from the other two days, I only found a few full sets from the first day.

I'm posting the albums from the festival in the chronological order they were performed (with a couple of exceptions of partial sets I've bundled together). The first musical act to have a surviving full set is Blues Traveler. Here's their Wikipedia page:

Blues Traveler - Wikipedia

They put out their first album in 1990, and they're still in existence today. But their clear popular peak was in 1994, the same year as this festival. However, that happened after this festival. In late 1990, they released the album "four," which contained the two hits "Run-Around" and "Hook." It sold six million copies. Because that album hadn't been released yet, the band wasn't well known at the time of this festival. That's why it only got a slot on the first day of the festival and relatively early in the day to boot.

I only found this music as a video on YouTube. As I often do, I converted the video to mp3s. I deemed the sound quality worthy of inclusion. However, the lead vocals were relatively low in the mix, so I fixed that with the UVR5 audio editing program.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Crash Burn (Blues Traveler)
02 talk (Blues Traveler)
03 Support Your Local Emperor (Blues Traveler)
04 But Anyway (Blues Traveler)
05 talk (Blues Traveler)
06 Low Rider - Go Outside and Drive (Blues Traveler)
07 The Star-Spangled Banner [Instrumental] (Blues Traveler)
08 Optimistic Thought (Blues Traveler)
09 talk (Blues Traveler)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750818/VA-WODSTCK94_8-12-1994_01BlusTrvelr_atse.zip.html

The cover shows John Popper, the lead singer and expert harmonica player in the band. It's from this exact concert.

By the way, the text and related artwork at the top and bottom of the cover is based on the promotional artwork from the festival. For instance, the guitar neck with two birds sitting on it was the festival logo. (It was similar to the logo from the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which only had one bird.) The font type, font colors, and red background all come from the promotional artwork too.

Sara Bareilles - What's Not Inside - Songs from the Musical Waitress (2015-2019) (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

Here's a special album posting, courtesy of guest poster Mike Solof. A few weeks ago, we posted an album of cover versions by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles. That was just a warm-up, to get newbies to appreciate the fact that she has a great singing voice. Here's the album that Mike was most interested in sharing.

Bareilles is best known for her hits "Love Song" and "Gravity" in 2007 and "Brave" in 2013. In 2015, she released an album of songs meant for a musical version of the 2007 Hollywood movie "Waitress." It was called "What's Inside: Songs from Waitress." This post does not include that album, but it includes all the important music related to her involvement in that musical. 

Probably the central focus here is a concert. She never toured in a way that matched the "Waitress" musical. But in 2015, she did exactly one concert like that. It was held at the New York City Center in New York City, on November 5, 2015. That concert is included here. This first song list is from that concert. It remains unreleased, but it was broadcast on the Internet at the time and bootlegged, so the sound quality is excellent.

But that's not all. Bareilles is very talkative, and there is a ton of between-song banter from that concert. So Mike made a "Music Only" version of the concert without any of the banter.

But wait, there's more. He also included an exact version of the concert, but as one huge mp3 for people who would prefer that. 

And there's still more. He included an .mp4 track of video footage of the entire concert. That's the first time this blog has included any video.

But wait, there's even more than that! In 2019, Bareilles released an album of songs related to the musical that didn't make the album, called "What's Not Inside - The Lost Songs from Waitress (Outtakes and Demos)." Since that's very obscure to find these days, Mike included that too.

On top of all that, Mike made a PDF file with lots more information and plenty of nice photos. So be sure to check that out.

Everything is included in one zip file. It's the largest file ever posted here, mostly due to the video of the concert. The total size is over 1 GB.

The full concert is an hour and 33 minutes long. The "music only" version of the concert is one hour long exactly. The 2019 EP is 22 minutes long.

Here's the track list to the full 2015 concert discussed above:

Songs from the Waitress Concert, New York City Center, New York City, 11-5-2015

01 What's Inside (Sara Bareilles)
02 Opening Up (Sara Bareilles)
03 talk (Sara Bareilles)
04 Door Number Three (Sara Bareilles)
05 talk (Sara Bareilles)
06 When He Sees Me [Dawn's Song] (Sara Bareilles)
07 talk (Sara Bareilles)
08 I Didn't Plan It [Becky's Song] (Sara Bareilles)
09 talk (Sara Bareilles)
10 Soft Place to Land (Sara Bareilles)
11 talk (Sara Bareilles)
12 Never Ever Getting Rid of Me (Sara Bareilles)
13 talk (Sara Bareilles)
14 Bad Idea (Sara Bareilles with Drew Gehling)
15 talk (Sara Bareilles)
16 You Matter to Me (Sara Bareilles with Drew Gehling)
17 talk (Sara Bareilles)
18 She Used to Be Mine (Sara Bareilles)
19 talk (Sara Bareilles)
20 Everything Changes (Sara Bareilles)
21 talk (Sara Bareilles)
22 King of Anything (Sara Bareilles)
23 Love Song (Sara Bareilles)
24 talk (Sara Bareilles)
25 Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay (Sara Bareilles)
26 talk (Sara Bareilles)
27 Brave (Sara Bareilles)
28 talk (Sara Bareilles)
29 Gravity [Acappella Version] (Sara Bareilles)
30 talk (Sara Bareilles)

Here's the track list from the "music only" version of that same concert:

01 What's Inside (Sara Bareilles)
02 Opening Up (Sara Bareilles)
03 Door Number Three (Sara Bareilles)
04 When He Sees Me [Dawn's Song] (Sara Bareilles)
05 I Didn't Plan It [Becky's Song] (Sara Bareilles)
06 Soft Place to Land (Sara Bareilles)
07 Never Ever Getting Rid of Me (Sara Bareilles)
08 Bad Idea (Sara Bareilles with Drew Gehling)
09 You Matter to Me (Sara Bareilles with Drew Gehling)
10 She Used to Be Mine (Sara Bareilles)
11 Everything Changes (Sara Bareilles)
12 King of Anything (Sara Bareilles)
13 Love Song (Sara Bareilles)
14 Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay (Sara Bareilles)
15 Brave (Sara Bareilles)
16 Gravity [Acappella Version] (Sara Bareilles)
17 talk (Sara Bareilles)

Finally, here's the song list from the EP "What's Not Inside - The Lost Songs from Waitress (Outtakes and Demos)," released in 2019.

01 Happy Enough (Sara Bareilles)
02 Door Number Three (Sara Bareilles)
03 Knocked Up You (Sara Bareilles)
04 Without a Believer (Sara Bareilles)
05 I Can't Wait (Sara Bareilles)
06 Falling in Love Pie (Sara Bareilles)
07 She Used to Be Mine (Sara Bareilles)

https://www.imagenetz.de/kZwNW

The cover art is taken from promotional material related to the 2015 "Waitress" musical. That's Bareilles holding the pie. The text and artwork at the top and bottom of the image is mostly based on a playbill for that musical.