The Who
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The Who were scheduled as the second to last act (before Jefferson Airplane) to play on Saturday, August 16th. When they actually started playing, it was already Sunday morning, around 5:00am and they played until sun rise.
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[edit] Musicians
- Roger Daltry - vocals
- John Entwistle - bass
- Keith Moon - drums
- Pete Townshend - guitar
[edit] Setlist
- Heaven and Hell
- I Can't Explain
- It's A Boy
- 1921
- Amazing Journey
- Sparks
- Eyesight To The Blind
- Christmas
- Tommy Can You Hear Me?
- Acid Queen
- Pinball Wizard
- Abbie Hoffman Incident
- Do You Think It's Alright?
- Fiddle About
- There's a Doctor
- Go To The Mirror
- Smash The Mirror
- I'm Free
- Tommy's Holiday Camp
- We're Not Gonna Take It
- See Me, Feel Me
- Summertime Blues
- Shakin' All Over
- My Generation
- Naked Eye
[edit] Details
The Who currently toured with their Rock Opera album Tommy. The Woodstock performance is not as long as others during this period but powerful and insane given the time The Who were performing. As the legend tells, the first rays of the new day hit the stage just as "See Me, Feel Me", the grande final of Tommy, was played.
[edit] Availability
Bootlegs of the complete The Who performance are available.
Official releases containing parts of The Who's performance include:
- Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music
- Woodstock 25th Anniversary Edition (movie)
- Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
- The Kids Are Alright
- Thirty Years of Maximum R&B
[edit] The Abbie Hoffman incident
(This section was originally copied from Wikipedia)
Abbie Hoffman interrupted The Who's performance during Woodstock 1969 to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, "I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison..." The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, cut Hoffman off in mid-sentence, saying, "Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending the interloper tumbling offstage, to the roaring approval of the crowd. Townshend later said he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, though he made the point that he would have knocked him offstage regardless of his message.
According to Hoffman, in his autobiography, the incident played out like this: "If you ever heard about me in connection with the festival it was not for playing Florence Nightingale to the flower children. What you heard was the following: 'Oh, him, yeah, didn't he grab the microphone, try to make a speech when Peter Townshend cracked him over the head with his guitar?' I've seen countless references to the incident, even a mammoth mural of the scene. What I've failed to find was a single photo of the incident. Why? Because it didn't really happen."
"I grabbed the microphone all right and made a little speech about John Sinclair, who had just been sentenced to ten years in the Michigan State Penitentiary for giving two joints of grass to two undercover cops, and how we should take the strength we had at Woodstock home to free our brothers and sisters in jail. Something like that. Townshend, who had been tuning up, turned around and bumped into me. A non-incident really. Hundreds of photos and miles of film exist depicting the events on that stage, but none of this much-talked about scene."
A fifteen-second sound bite of the incident can be heard on The Who compilation set entitled Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2, Track 20, "Abbie Hoffman Incident").
[edit] After Woodstock
- Keith Moon died in 1978
- John Entwistle died in 2002
