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Paranoid Android Rocks Off Regular Offline The Rocks Off Ladies Rule You Bastards!! Posts: 6,342 Chapel Hill, NC Gender:	Woodstock Opener, Richie Havens Dies Apr 22^nd, 2013 at 10:35pm http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/arts/music/richie-havens-guitarist-and-singer-...
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: Woodstock Opener, Richie Havens Dies Reply #1 - Apr 22^nd, 2013 at 11:00pm Come on!! Are we too old that all of our contemporaries are passing? RIP Richie, btw, the other day I was watching my 4-DVD set of Woodstock and later I Heard Richie playing covers of Dylan and Beatles, and a guest with Steve Hackett
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Re: Woodstock Opener, Richie Havens Dies
Reply #2 - Apr 23^rd, 2013 at 7:43am

RIP Richie . . .

I find the following trivia about his epic Woodstock performance of Freedom to be quite interesting.

Havens' reputation as a live performer earned him widespread notice. His Woodstock appearance proved to be a major turning point in his career.[2] As the festival's first performer, he held the crowd for nearly three hours (in part because he was told to perform a lengthy set because many artists were delayed in reaching the festival location), and he was called back for several encores. Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual "Motherless Child" that became "Freedom". The subsequent Woodstock movie release helped Havens reach a worldwide audience. He also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in late August 1969.

In essence, he winged it in front of 400,000 people! Perverted Charlie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Havens

Only a crowd can make you feel so alone.

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Re: Woodstock Opener, Richie Havens Dies
Reply #3 - Apr 26^th, 2013 at 3:57am

Fabulous performance, thankfully captured for all eternity. RIP. And RIP Bert Sommer, who got screwed by Warner Brothers. You can see him performing "Jennifer" on youtube. It's for Jennifer Warren. And her reaction is in the clip. Later, it was edited as to make us believe she was reacting to Santana.

Damn, i wish i had a time machine.

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