Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock

We watched Jimmy Hendrix live at Woodstock, and it was amazing. He is such an amazing guitarist that it is unbelievable. Some of the things he did on guitar were crazy. The fact that he could sing and play the guitar, the way he did, is amazing. Just listening to an album doesn't do him justice because half of the show is seeing him play. A thing that was unfortunate for him, was that the majority of the crowd had left, because he showed up a day after. There may have been more people at his concert if there was a published schedule, but it still was really good, and I enjoyed seeing him play a lot.

Abbey Road

This week we listened to Abbey Road. I thought it was good, but I liked The White Album more. Abbey Road was good, because it was the last album when The Beatles truly wrote as a band and because it sounded like some of their older stuff. My favorite songs of the album were Carry That Weight, The End, and Her Majesty. I liked Carry That Weight because I thought the chorus was good. I liked The End because it was sounded good, Ringo had his only solo ever in it, and because it had an iconic line, "The love you take is equal to the love you make." Lastly, I liked Her Majesty because after the end it was tacked on and it gave a little bit of light-heartedness to the end of the album because it sounded happy.

Woodstock Festival

In the past class we watched the Woodstock festival. Woodstock was interesting cause it was overnight and cause there were so many people. The people who set up cleared fields and set up the stage, campsites, and places to bring food and water. There were only expected to be about 50,000 people a day, but they were terribly wrong. From the stage there were people as far as the camera could look, and there were bands playing all through the nights. The festival itself was both a failure and a success. It was a failure at first, because it lost 3 million dollars, and that was back in 1969. It was a success because it pleased the people, and later made money from the documentary and and album. The Woodstock festival was important to music history because it was one of the first times where bands played in front of massive crowds.