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Jefferson Starship

Average rating:

4.1

36 of 40(90%)customers would recommend this to a friend.

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4 / 5

GR8, GOOD CAUSE

Baton Rouge River Center Theater @

- Baton Rouge @

,LA @

- Sat, Sep 26, 2009 @

Favorite moment: RICHIE HAVENS, RICHIE HAVENS, RICHIE HAVENS @

Setlist: OVERALL, GR8 @

Opening act(s): THEY WERE ALL OPENING ACTS @

Posted 09/28/2009

by ORKSTER

Location: LOUISIANA

RICHIE HAVENS, WHAT CAN ONE SAY, HE'S THE ULTIMATE, CONSUMMATE PERSON, HOW COULD HIS PERFORMANCE BE ANYTHING BUT THE SAME.

BIG BRO. AND THE HOLDING CO., ROCKIN'.

DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THE PIC FOR JEFFERSON AIRPLANE IS VERY MISLEADING ONCE PERFORMERS WERE ONSTAGE, STILL, THE PRESENT LINEUP ROCKED THE ROOM, CATHY WAS REALLY RIVETING!

Baton Rouge River Center Theater @

- Baton Rouge @

,LA @

- Sat, Sep 26, 2009 @

Favorite moment: RICHIE HAVENS, RICHIE HAVENS, RICHIE HAVENS @

Setlist: OVERALL, GR8 @

Opening act(s): THEY WERE ALL OPENING ACTS @

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Review 2 for Jefferson Starship

2 / 5

A Mixed Bag

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Country Joe's appearances. @

Posted 08/20/2009

by smokingjoe

Location: New Hampshire

Big Brother and the Holding Co. was excellent, as was 10 Years After. They both evoked the feel of the originals. Theirs were the most energetic of the acts. Canned Heat was good. They sounded tight and Barry Levinson was as enjoyable as ever. Jefferson Starship was very disappointing. Their sound was muddy and the stage presence was totally forgettable. Too bad as they were the ones I wanted to see the most. Paul and the bass player were fair that's about all. Country Joe sounded a little lackluster however he performed well and was thoroughly enjoyable. He even did the request I shouted out, "Here I Go Again". Not to mention "Donovon's Reef"!

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Country Joe's appearances. @

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Review 3 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

canned heat rocks

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: I thought katie was great with the Starship and the woman sing with Big Brother was just total off the wall GREAT. @

Opening act(s): Canned Heat started the place rocking @

Posted 08/19/2009

by eimmas

Thought the show was great. Country Joe did a awsome job at hosting.We even did the F*** song had us all singing along. You will not be sorry if you go to this show.

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: I thought katie was great with the Starship and the woman sing with Big Brother was just total off the wall GREAT. @

Opening act(s): Canned Heat started the place rocking @

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Review 4 for Jefferson Starship

4 / 5

Great music..Good time... And Tears

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Posted 08/18/2009

by ladyn

Location: Boston

The music and the musicians were amazing. I should say, STILL amazing! The original members from the acts I saw sounded as they did forty years ago. Hope the performers had as much fun as I did despite the audience size. Buy a VIP ticket; it's worth the extra $$. I got to meet members of the bands I had only hoped to meet in the 70s.

The lead singer for Big Brother was incredible. She did a tremendous job singing Janis but not "being" Janis- which is probably quite a difficult balance.

Canned Heat brought the house down and TYA's performance was superb. Athough, I do have to say I was personally devastated and surprised when Alvin Lee did not perform with Ten Years After since the photo on the website includes Alvin. I have had a crush on Alvin Lee for 40 years and thought I would finally get to meet him so I literally was in tears when he didn't appear. (ok I may be 53, but my mind is still 17).
Go to the show, walk down memory lane... it's worth it.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

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Review 5 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

Heroes of woodstock rock

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Ten Years After @

Setlist: I'd love to change the world...... @

Posted 08/17/2009

by 150Me

Location: Lowell

This was a great show. Hot beach-going Weather probably caused the poor showing. This show brought back memories. Ten Years After Rocked. They even gave personal autographs. Glad I was there....Thanks Country Joe Mc Donald for the great hosting you did.Give me an F............You rock!

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Ten Years After @

Setlist: I'd love to change the world...... @

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Review 6 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

Heroes Indeed

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- Lowell @

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- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Posted 08/17/2009

by WileyCoyote

Location: NH

Having been to several "Hippie Fest concerts over the past few years, I was already an eager participant in this type of 'retro' extravaganza.

Overall the show was fantastic. The bands were talented, enthusiastic, and, for the most part, played their hearts out.

It was a bit daunting imagining how ANYONE could replace or even simulate Janis Joplin, Grace Slick or Alvin Lee, in addition to the several other, missing, original members of the bands on this marquee.

If I say the bands seemed like the 'real thing', when I closed my eyes, I'm not exaggerating at all, and I've been a professional in the music biz for over 40 years.

Janis, Alvin, and all the others who have been separated from these iconic musical legend bands, were all smiling gratefully from wherever they are now, because they were lovingly and professionally represented by some quite amazing performers.

There were a few small problems. Set changovers were lengthy and some additional patter or storytelling by Joe McDonald might have passed the time a bit easier.

Sophia Ramos was spectacular, but her attempts to engage the audience in some sing-a-longs were lost because few knew the words to the songs she asked us to join in on. The logical sing-a-long song, that everyone would have known and remembered, was Mercedes Benz, and that song sadly, was absent.

A few songs into the Starship set, after a mind-blowing version of Eskimo Blue Day, some 'friends of the band' joined and Paul sat out. Suddenly the entire mystique of the Airplane energy was vacated to be replaced by some good, but not in the same genre blues. Absolutely an Airplane buzz-killer.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

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Review 7 for Jefferson Starship

3 / 5

Hero's of Woodstock

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Quicksilver @

Posted 08/17/2009

by CountrySquire88

Canned Heat got the crowd going and was better than I thought they were going to be. They were followed by Big Brother & the Holding Company doing Janis Joplin songs which were pretty good but I thought that the female vocalist altho good tried to hard to be Janis.Next up was Quicksilver Messenger Service witch were very good and probably the best part of the night. The Jefferson Starship did a good job with there songs and there female vocalist did a great job without trying to be Grace Slick.
Country Joe did a great job of MCing the whole night as sets were changed for the different groups.
Overall I enjoyed the concert but I thought the music drowned out the vocals on some songs and if I didn't know the words I might not have known what they were. Of course maybe it's just my hearing that's getting old.

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Quicksilver @

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Review 8 for Jefferson Starship

3 / 5

Woodstock 40th Reunion Tour Plays Lowelll, Mass.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Dancing with my wife to the Starship's "The Other Side of This Life", closing my eyes to imagine the mid-60's San Francisco ballroom scene @

Posted 08/17/2009

by Bostonsax

Only four years old when the original Woodstock festival was staged, I was too young to have any connection with it or with the culture of its times. However the music of that generation and that event in particular affected a strong impact on me when I began listening to rock music some ten years later. A chance to see some of the surviving Woodstock bands play the reunion tour circuit was not an opportunity to be missed. And so my wife and I took in the show on its 40th anniversary weekend at Lowell's Tsongas Arena in Massachusetts. The headliner - Jefferson Starship, playing the music of its Airplane predecessor did not disappoint, still rocking hard after four decades with their signature harmonies and lively stage show including a bandmember's tooth broken on a microphone, and the female lead briefly singing unplugged, into an empty mic stand. Openers Big Brother & the Holding Company rocked the Tsongas arena hard with the standout tune Summertime appropos for a sweltering August night in Lowell. The good-timey Canned Heat Blues Band got the sparsely attended event crowd up out of the balcony aisles and down onto the arena floor for spontaneous dancing, complete with some guitar heroics and several references in homage to original member Blind Owl Wilson. It was probably not a wise programming choice to follow one blues band with yet another - Ten Years After (sans Alvin Lee), so when we learned that there would be a prolonged intermission between bands, my wife and I took in a quick dinner at a local steakhouse and returned in time for the Starship's set, missing the British group altogether. Event opener and emcee Country Joe McDonald had his moments and sang clear-voiced between sets, solo with guitar accompanyment and at times with other musicians. Despite the Lowell Sun pre-concert review stating that McDonald would not recite the "fish cheer" this show, he did, its impact and immediacy diminshed over the decades to a culture in which nothing today remains sacred, except perhaps the memory of those three days in August 1969 in the minds and hearts of a few hundred thousand hippies who keep the music alive and the bands who perform it working.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Dancing with my wife to the Starship's "The Other Side of This Life", closing my eyes to imagine the mid-60's San Francisco ballroom scene @

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Review 9 for Jefferson Starship

4 / 5

Give me an "F"!

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: TYA: "Goin' Home" @

Posted 08/17/2009

by Runrgrl

Concert was very good. I was impressed with Big Brother's female singer. If you closed your eyes it could have been Janis singing. Canned Heat and Ten Years After were impressive. "Goin' Home" rocked! Starship was good but we hoping for "Volunteers" to be sung.

Sad to say the crowd was small. I think the event could have been better advertised.

Great show.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: TYA: "Goin' Home" @

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Review 10 for Jefferson Starship

4 / 5

Heroes of Woodstock

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Ten Years after Coming Home and Canned Heat's On the Road Again and Going up the Country, as well as Country JHoe and the "nam song. @

Posted 08/17/2009

by Genessa

This show was absoutley fantastic. I never thought that I would see part of the concert of the century in my lifetime! Country Joe was a perfect host as well as entertainer, but Canned Heat and Ten Years After stole the show - they totally ROCKED. Jefferson Starship was a drag, but Big Brother held its own. I was disappointed seeing so few in attendance and in talking to a security guard, he said that you only sold about 700 tickets. I would never have known about this show had I not heard part of an advertisement on the radio, and even then it was only a couple of times. I found it nowhere in newpapers or circulars. It seems that he marketing and sales were not as they should be to advertise. Even so, the bands played their hearts out. There was not much to buy for memorabilia, cd's, dvd's etc... and I think there should have been signs to direct patrons. If Ten Years After hadn't mentioned it, most people had no idea it was in an obsure area. It was wicked cool to meet them, shake hands and have them sign, too. I wish they had also sold the other artists' cd's, poster, hats, etc... and had them meet the fans, too.
We thoroughly enjoyed the show.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Ten Years after Coming Home and Canned Heat's On the Road Again and Going up the Country, as well as Country JHoe and the "nam song. @

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Review 11 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

awesome concert

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: songs Bobby McGee and White Rabbit @

Posted 08/17/2009

by jalex1

Location: westford mass

After going to the Heroes of Woodstock in Lowell last night I would like to comment on the empty seats at the Tsongas arena. The concert was absolutely amazing and I was so disappointed to see so many empty seats. Almost noone that I told about the concert had even heard about it so I think poor advertising is probably why it didn't sell out. Alright, the concert. UNBELIEVABLE! Ten Years After blew us away with Gouch (?) their guitarist. The whole band was just awesome. Big brother and the Holding company took me back to a place that when I closed my eyes I swore I was listening to Janis Joplin for sure. The final song of the night, Grace Slick's White rabbit was so appropriate and I just loved it. Again, another great singer who sounded like the original. Having been a little too young to attend Woodstock in 1969, I completely enjoyed just this tiny bit of live music from that time. Great show, had fun dancing, and only wish more people had known about it. The promoters also should have been prepared with more merch since we were disappointed there were no T shirts available from this concert. They said they sold out at Bethel the day before. We hope we can purchase one somewhere online.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: songs Bobby McGee and White Rabbit @

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Review 12 for Jefferson Starship

4 / 5

Heroes of Woodstock

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Big Brother and the Holding Company's performance. @

Setlist: I Only Want To Save The World (TYA), Bobby Magee (BBHC), Take Another Piece of My Heart (BBHC). Going Up The Country (Canned Heat). The only ones I remember. @

Opening act(s): Country Joe MacDonald @

Posted 08/17/2009

by NEGDWG

Location: Concord, MA

The show was good. I enjoyed "Big Brother and the Holding Company" most. "Country Joe" was a good host and kept audience entertained. I would have liked "Jefferson Starship" to do some of their more familiar songs. I only knew one song "Ten Years After" did. I did like Canned Heat, but again, I only knew a few of their songs.

The show was very long - close to 5 hours which caused a lot of the audience to disappear when "JA" came on to play. Perhaps it was because the venue was an ice arena and absolutely FREEZING inside, or that it was a Sunday night.

It was a great show that didn't cost an arm & leg!

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Big Brother and the Holding Company's performance. @

Setlist: I Only Want To Save The World (TYA), Bobby Magee (BBHC), Take Another Piece of My Heart (BBHC). Going Up The Country (Canned Heat). The only ones I remember. @

Opening act(s): Country Joe MacDonald @

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Review 13 for Jefferson Starship

4 / 5

Highly recommended

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: The first note of Starship's "Don't You Want Somebody to Love". Hard hitting and tight. @

Posted 08/17/2009

by SteveTracy

Starship was excellent, great lead singer. Ten Years after, excellent. Canned Heat was the real crowd pleaser and sounded better than ever. Really conveyed a good time atmosphere. Joe McDonald was entertaining. Big Brother's lead singer was excellent as was the young guitar player. Go to see the show ! These acts are still in top form and have a lot to offer !!! The crowd size in Lowell was small but that was because of the start time, 6PM on a Sunday. Went to about 1030PM.

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: The first note of Starship's "Don't You Want Somebody to Love". Hard hitting and tight. @

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Review 14 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

Big Brother was far out!

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Big Brother and the Holding Company!!! @

Posted 08/17/2009

by Orangeman1690

Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

All groups were fantastic! All played great sets and getting to meet and greet all of the performers afterwards made for a great four hour event!!!

Tsongas Arena @

- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Favorite moment: Big Brother and the Holding Company!!! @

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Review 15 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

They just don't rock like that anymore

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- Lowell @

,MA @

- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

Posted 08/17/2009

by NumANum

Location: Tsongas Arena Lowell Massachusetts

What a wonderful show. The bands were FANTASTIC. Time flew by and left you wanting more. Don't miss this once in a lifetime show

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- Sun, Aug 16, 2009 @

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Review 16 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

1969 all over again--I don't want to get old--

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: photos with everyone one I once knew. @

Setlist: White Rabbit-------------Summertime @

Opening act(s): Can Heat was great @

Posted 08/05/2009

by sinners

Location: wis.

I wish the movie that was on the back screen was up higher. We could not see it. And it would be have been nice to see.

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: photos with everyone one I once knew. @

Setlist: White Rabbit-------------Summertime @

Opening act(s): Can Heat was great @

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Review 17 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIC

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Posted 08/05/2009

by nolajo

Location: Waukegan, Illinois

isn’t descriptive enough for everyone involved...Country Joe as the performer/emcee between acts, which were Canned Heat (Great); Big Brother & the Holding Company (who included an amazing Janis Joplin-impressionist whose last song still, literally, makes my throat hurt); AND there aren’t words-aren't-enough Jefferson Starship, who incredibly performed the Woodstock set of Jefferson Airplane with their singer, Cathy Richardson, who was simply outstanding. It was an unforgettable night...

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- Waukegan @

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- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

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Review 18 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

the whole event was totally grand

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- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Posted 08/04/2009

by ramblinman

Location: Ingleside Illinois

All of the bands were amazing ,especially the lead singer for Big Brother. she had the audience on their feet halfway through her set. And Kathy the female vocals for Jefferson Starship is an amazing artist,

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Review 19 for Jefferson Starship

1 / 5

Woodstock in a Theater?

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- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: The pizza I ate at Quonset before the show @

Opening act(s): Canned Heat was the best, they should have ended the show. @

Posted 08/03/2009

by mstang94

Location: Waukegan, IL

Not what I was expecting. I really wanted to see Quicksilver messenger Service. They only sang 1 of their songs, Fresh Air. There was "new" songs..... Who wants to hear NEW songs... We wanted to trip back to 1969!

This was the first concert I went to that EVERY BAND (except Country Joe) opened with thier biggest hit (Aren't they supposed to save that for the Encore?)

Sitting in a theater is not the way to appreciate the music of the 60's. I wanted to dance, but the old people around me did not appreciate it, they just sat staring at the stage.

Needless to say, we left before Jefferson Starship was over.

I hope the show they put on at Galt Airport is better, at least you get to dance in a field and drink beer, a little more like the real thing.

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: The pizza I ate at Quonset before the show @

Opening act(s): Canned Heat was the best, they should have ended the show. @

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Review 20 for Jefferson Starship

5 / 5

"Truth lives all around us..."

Genesee Theatre @

- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: When Country Joe sang the song "Janis" that he wrote about his relationship with the late Janis Joplin. @

Setlist: Canned Heat did Goin' Up To The Country; On The Road Again, and Let's Get Together. Big Brother and the Holding Company did Down On Me, Combination of the Two, Piece of My Heart, and Ball'n'Chain. Quicksilver Messenger Service did Fresh Air, Pride of Man, and Mona. The Jefferson Starship did Somebody to Love, D.C.B.A, and Eskimo Blue Day. Country Joe did Janis and Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine. And members of all the bands jammed on The Grateful Dead's Let Your Love Light Shine. @

Opening act(s): All the bands were headliners. @

Posted 08/03/2009

by Andycat

Location: Chicago area

Look...there's nostalgia that's revisionist and nostalgia that conjures up relevance and reflective recollections. Of course, that's mostly up to who you were, who you are, and what you have become. My wife and I spent a fine four hours last Friday at the Genesee Theater dipping into our past and finding it still sweet both to the senses and the intellect.

Since I'm over 60 now I don't care very much what anyone thinks of the things in my life that have sustained my spirit over the years. We read books that were written hundreds of years ago, see plays that have been performed throughout the centuries, view paintings and sculptures from antiquity. Why would it be so strange that the song-poems of our own youth may hold truths and inspiration that are alive and of value to this day?

None of the bands, Canned Heat, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Jefferson Airplane (the "Starship" moniker is for legal purposes only in my book), or my beloved Country Joe McDonald have all their original parts. But the music, the art, is not totally about the specific individuals, but about their spirit and legacy and what slight vision of truth we may obtain. At times we strain in our culture to honor the brave, the innovators. But this night was indeed a night of honor for the entities that are continued in these bands.

I'm probably an odd one, but the Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album and "Electric Music For the Mind and Body" and "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" from Country Joe and the Fish were among the first entries on my IPOD. I listen to them all the time as I have for 40 + years. So this night was not a journey to a forgotten, cobwebbed past, but a chance to hear live the music that still touches my soul.

It was pretty obvious that most of the older members of all the bands have known each other for years and still look to each other for those bonds that have only grown stronger despite the sure pace of time. And there was no pity or regret about the members of the bands who have already left us; they were honored by the love that showed forth in the performances.

So what was especially good, memorable? Well...depending on one's age and the point in life where this music entered one's existence, there could be as many choices as there were songs and banter. Canned Heat boogied without Big Bear Bob Hite, but no one sat still for a single moment. I was incredibly impressed by Sam Andrew of Big Brother who was so obviously still entranced in the rapture of their songs as he spun the licks as if it were decades ago today. The young lady, Sara Ramos, I believe, who stood in for Janis, had not just the pipes, but also the respect that no doubt brought her to play w/Andrew, Ablin, and Getz, honoring Janis and that special, too short time past. David Freiberg, as only he can do, took Quicksilver's "Fresh Air" and "Pride of Man" and served them up to us all with energy and gusto as Gary Duncan played as only he can. Paul Kanter's choice of "Eskimo Blue Day" was stunning as Kathy Richardson gave us the strident tones needed in the polemic.

But, as always, if there are any "heroes" of the Woodstock experience it is Country Joe McDonald who stands out. If there is a true patriot among us from that time, it is he. I remember when I was overseas in the Army how we listened to he and the Fish and all but prayed for an end to the war and that we were grateful that he and others stood up for the soldiers and sailors who we were at that time. How many people know how much work he has done, and continues to do, for veterans of all our foolish wars? I met him at the opening of a club in Chicago several years ago. I said to him, "Joe, I hope you have had a good life. We listened to your music in the service and it helped sustain us. You are a true patriot." And humble as is his wont, and slightly embarrassed, he said, "Well...I tried to do what I could." And in between sets, he made the a statement that reflected what was really happening at the time of Woodstock. He read the names of all the young men and women from the county in New York state where Yasgur's farm sat who were killed in the Vietnam War. I guess I had forgotten how young we once were; the far majority of the ages of the dead were 19 or 20.

But I wasn't sad and didn't leave with regret. I left with the tunes running through my head, looking forward to hearing the songs again and again and again until it's my turn.

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- Waukegan @

,IL @

- Fri, Jul 31, 2009 @

Favorite moment: When Country Joe sang the song "Janis" that he wrote about his relationship with the late Janis Joplin. @

Opening act(s): All the bands were headliners. @

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