The Overnight Sensation
Saturday August 26th, 2017 with Jesse Proulx
Episode 18: Cool Ottawa Music/Declined Invitations to Woodstock '69
For this weeks show, playing brand new Ottawa music and playing a mishmash of a bunch of Ottawa Artists. At the half way point, this week checking out the artists that couldn't be at the famous Woodstock '69 festival.
| Petrichor Bearings - Nothing Here Is Permanent 
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| California Golden Age Dylan Lalonde - California Golden Age / Hardwood Spotlight
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| Hardwood Spotlight Dylan Lalonde - California Golden Age / Hardwood Spotlight
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| Riverside Area Resident - Delano
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| Lanark Double Soaker Area Resident - Delano
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| Pray For Wendell Area Resident - Delano
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| Dreaming of the Blackfish Graven - Hometown Bringdown
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| Le Maire Moonfruits - Ste-Quequepart
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| Talking Awaste Nighttime In Kansas - Solstice
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| Doyla PINE - Pillow Talk
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| Running in Circles Missioner - Missioner EP
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| I Wanna Get High Lees Avenue - Locker Room Talk
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| Black Hearted Lover Sons of Pluto - The Age I’m In
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| It's Over The Andy Kaufmans - Maggie
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| Be Well The Love Machine - Be Well: It's All Behind Me Now
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| Your Nothing The Superlative - In Love & Debt
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| Never Coming Back The Woundup - The Goods EP
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| Leave Me Happy Almost Kennedy - Leave Me Happy EP
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| Last Days Big Dick - Disappointment
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| The Glimmer Shot Double Experience - Unsaved Progress
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| Flavour Zombie Expanda Fuzz - Blurets
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| Consider Yourself Half Moon Run - Dark Eyes
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| Easy Money Kennedy Cult - Single
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| Flyin' High Milk Jive - Single
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| Better Off Mosely - Mosely
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| Money Money The Balconies - Rhonda
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| Sewer Blues Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution
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| Behind the Lies The Valveenus - Catalyst
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| San Francisco The Riot Police - Single
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| Wasting Time Tribe Royal - Colours of the Sun
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| Wonder Wild Love - Wild Love
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| Haymaker The Honest Heart Collective - Liar's Club
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| Jesus Juice The Heavy Medicine Band - Mountain // Jesus Juice
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| In the Drought Slack Bridges - Joy of Joys
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| Attitude The Split - Can't Get Enough
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| American Girl Silver The Young - Single
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| Kill the Engine Weird With Cats - Single
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| Cicada Monobrow - Big Sky, Black Horse
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| Dance With the Devil New Swears - And the Magic of Horses
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| Bob Dylan: Whose "backyard" the festival was held, was never in serious negotiation. Instead, Dylan signed in mid-July to play the Isle of Wight Festival of Music, on August 31. Dylan set sail for England on Queen Elizabeth 2 on August 15, the day the Woodstock Festival started. His son was injured by a cabin door and the family disembarked. Dylan, with his wife Sara, flew to England the following week. Dylan had been unhappy about the number of hippies piling up outside his house in the nearby town of Woodstock. |
| Mr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - Columbia Records |
| All Along the Watchtower Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding - Columbia Records |
| Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde - Columbia Records |
| The Jeff Beck Group: Jeff Beck disbanded the group prior to Woodstock. "I deliberately broke the group up before Woodstock", Beck said. "I didn't want it to be preserved." Interestingly, it was to have been the first time that Beck would perform with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice. Also, Beck's piano player Nicky Hopkins performed with Jefferson Airplane. |
| I Ain't Superstitious The Jeff Beck Group - Truth - Epic Records |
| Jailhouse Rock The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola - Epic Records |
| You Shook Me The Jeff Beck Group - Truth - Epic Records |
| The Doors: The band was considering Woodstock as a potential performing band but cancelled at the last moment. According to guitarist Robby Krieger, they turned it down because they thought it would be a "second class repeat of Monterey Pop Festival" and later regretted that decision. |
| Break On Through (To the Other Side) The Doors - The Doors - Elektra Records |
| Light My FIre The Doors - The Doors - Elektra Records |
| When the Music's Over The Doors - Strange Days - Elektra Records |
| Led Zeppelin: Zeppelin were asked to perform, their manager Peter Grant stated: "We were asked to do Woodstock and Atlantic were very keen, and so was our U.S. promoter, Frank Barsalona. I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill." However, the group did play the first Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 5, as one of 22 bands at the two-day event. Woodstock weekend, Zeppelin performed south of the festival at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey. Their only time out taken was to attend Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, on August 12. |
| Good Times Bad Times Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - Atlantic Records |
| Dazed and Confused Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - Atlantic Records |
| Communication Breakdown Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - Atlantic Records |
| The Byrds: The Byrds were invited, but chose not to participate, figuring Woodstock to be no different from any of the other music festivals that summer. There were also concerns about money. As bassist John York remembers: "We were flying to a gig and Roger [McGuinn] came up to us and said that a guy was putting on a festival in upstate New York. But at that point they weren't paying all of the bands. He asked us if we wanted to do it and we said, 'No'. We had no idea what it was going to be. We were burned out and tired of the festival scene. [...] So all of us said, 'No, we want a rest' and missed the best festival of all." |
| Feel A Whole Lot Better The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man - Columbia Records |
| Ballad of Easy Rider The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider - Columbia Records |
| Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man - Columbia Records |
| Chicago: Still known at the time as Chicago Transit Authority, the band had initially been signed on to play at Woodstock. However, they had a contract with concert promoter Bill Graham, which allowed him to move Chicago's concerts at the Fillmore West. He rescheduled some of their dates to August 17, thus forcing the band to back out of the concert. Graham did so to ensure that Santana, which he managed at the time, would take their slot at the festival. According to singer and bassist Peter Cetera, "We were sort of peeved at him for pulling that one." |
| Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority - Columbia Records |
| I'm A Man Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority - Columbia Records |
| Beginnings Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority - Columbia Records |
| Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: According to the Class of the 20th Century U.S. television special, is quoted as saying "A lot of mud at Woodstock ... We were invited to play there, we turned it down.' |
| Peaches en Regalia Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - Warner Reprise Records |
| Who Are the Brain Police? The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! - Verve Records |
| Let's Make the Water Turn Black The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money - Verve Records |
| Free: Free was asked to perform and declined. They did however play at the Isle of Wight Festival, a week later. |
| Fire and Water Free - Fire and Water - Island Records |
| The Hunter Free - Tons of Sobs - Island Records |
| All Right Now Free - Fire and Water - Island Records |
| Joni Mitchell: Joni was originally slated to perform, but canceled at the urging of her manager (David Geffen) to avoid missing a scheduled appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. |
| Woodstock Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon - Warner Reprise Records |
| Both Sides, Now Joni Mitchell - Clouds - Warner Reprise Records |
| Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon - Warner Reprise Records |
| The Beatles: The Beatles promoters contacted John Lennon to discuss a Beatles performance at Woodstock. Lennon said that the Beatles would not play unless there was also a spot at the festival for Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band. He was turned down. A more likely story came out when Artie Kornfeld met John Lennon. Lennon expressed that he wanted to play Woodstock, but was in Canada and having a hard time getting back in the country at the hands of Richard Nixon. |
| Come Together The Beatles - Abbey Road - Apple Records |
| I Want You (She's So Heavy) The Beatles - Abbey Road - Apple Records |
| Oh Darling The Beatles - Abbey Road - Apple Records |
| The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones declined because Mick Jagger was in Australia that summer, filming a movie called ‘Ned Kelly.’ Also, Keith Richards‘ girlfriend Anita Pallenburg had just given birth to son Marlon that week in London. |
| Sympathy for the Devil The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet - London Records |
| Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - London Records |
| Other Artists that did not perform
- Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation. Lead singer Tommy James stated later: "We could have just kicked ourselves. We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me. So we passed, and we realized what we'd missed a couple of days later." - The Moody Blues were included on the original Wallkill poster as performers, but decided to back out after being booked in Paris the same weekend. - Arthur Lee and Love declined the invitation, but Mojo Magazine later described inner turmoil within the band which caused their absence at the Woodstock festival. - Spirit also declined an invitation to play, as they already had shows planned and wanted to play those instead, not knowing how big Woodstock would be. - Lighthouse declined to perform at Woodstock. - Roy Rogers was asked by Lang to close the festival with Happy Trails but he declined.[55] - Procol Harum was invited but refused because Woodstock fell at the end of a long tour and also coincided with the due date of guitarist Robin Trower's baby. - Jethro Tull also declined. According to frontman Ian Anderson, he knew it would be a big event but he did not want to go because he did not like hippies and other concerns including inappropriate nudity, heavy drinking and drug use. - Iron Butterfly was booked to appear, and is listed on the Woodstock poster for a Sunday performance, but could not perform because they were stuck at LaGuardia Airport. - Simon and Garfunkel - This is a group I wish performed at Woodstock. At this time the group was working on a film called Catch-22. Taking a break from music. |
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