Episode 19: 1969 Part II
This episode is dedicated with love to the memory of our dear friend Dennis Gordon. Dennis was the big booming voice on our show “bumpers” that would begin and end each chapter of Rock N Roll Archaeology. Thank you Dennis, we miss you. May the Four Winds blow you safely home.
Welcome back to the second half of our big chapter telling the big story of a big year in Rock.
If you haven’t done so already, we highly recommend you listen to Episode 18 before you delve into this one!
We tell the story of 1969 by telling the story of four concerts: The Beatles on the Roof, The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park was the first part. Part Two will take us to the peak, to the apotheosis of Woodstock...and to the abyss at Altamont. And we’ll go to some other places in between too.
1969 is the year Rock N Roll goes global, and we’ll get into that a little, and set up later discussions of great topics like Rock behind the Iron Curtain and the growing influence of Reggae and World Beat.
Then we’ll take you to Woodstock, and call off the roster, with lots of great music and commentary.
The first mythical Rock tour--the Rolling Stones ‘69 tour of America, is up next. That will take us to the final show of the tour, on a dark December night in California, where everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and the consequences will be tragic.
We close out with some thoughts on the year and on the decade we’ve just completed, and on what comes next.
Songs
Richie Havens: “Handsome Johnny,”
Stephen Stills: “Johnny’s Garden”
The O’Jays: “For The Love of Money”
The Who: “Overture from Tommy”
Harry Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’”
Joan Baez: “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”
Thunderclap Newman: “Something in the Air”
Blood Sweat & Tears: “Spinning Wheel”
John Fogerty: “Rockin’ All Over The World”
The Beatles: “Back in the USSR”
Shocking Blue “Venus”
Toots and the Maytals “Funky Kingston”
Thanks to the good folks at Rhino Records, you can find all of our selected song clips from Woodstock RIGHT HERE: WOODSTOCK - BACK TO THE GARDEN: THE DEFINITIVE 50TH ANNIVERSARY ARCHIVE TRACKLIST
Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers: “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)”
Flying Burrito Brothers: “Sin City”
Rolling Stones: “Jumping Jack Flash”
Rolling Stones: “You Got The Silver”
Rolling Stones: “Monkey Man”
Rolling Stones: “Sympathy for the Devil”
Rolling Stones: “Midnight Rambler”
Flying Burrito Brothers: “Six Days on the Road”
Grateful Dead: “New Speedway Boogie”
Rolling Stones: “Under My Thumb”
Rolling Stones: “Street Fighting Man”
Rolling Stones: “Love in Vain”
Rolling Stones: “Let it Bleed”
Rolling Stones: “Gimme Shelter”
B.B. King: “The Thrill is Gone”
Three Dog Night: “Mama Told Me Not To Come”
Leon Russell: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Online Resources
Deeper Digs — Pantheon Podcasts
How Max Yasgur Hosted Woodstock, And Changed The World
John Sebastian at Woodstock: Peak hippie
Hendrix and Woodstock: 10 Little-Known Facts about the Performance That Defined the '60s
PAMELA DES BARRES: COMING OF AGE AT ALTAMONT
The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: What Happened?
Books
Saul Austerlitz: Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
Sam Cutler: You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates
Steven Davis: Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
Pamela Des Barres: I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Todd Gitlin: The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Rob Kirkpatrick: 1969: The Year Everything Changed
Joel Selvin: Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
Films and Documentaries
20 Feet From Stardom, Directed by Morgan Neville
Gimme Shelter, Directed by Albert and David Maysles
Rashomon, Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Woodstock, Directed by Michael Wadleigh
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation, Directed by Barak Goodman
Interviews
Sam Cutler, Phone Interview with Christian Swain and Richard Evans
Jorma Kaukonen, Phone Interview with Christian Swain and Richard Evans
Hugh “Wavy Gravy” Romney interview with Christian Swain on the “Deeper Digs” Podcast
Voice Actors
Jerry Danielsen
Heather Mack
Ted Silverman
Nate Wilcox
Bryan Reesman
Joe Wroblewski
Miss Pamela Des Barres, Saul Austerlitz and Sam Cutler were kind enough to lend their own voices to this chapter. Thank you!