CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG : WOODSTOCK '69

  1. Suite Judy Blue Eyes
  2. Blackbird
  3. Helplessly Hoping
  4. Guinnevere
  5. Marrakesh Express
  6. 4 + 20
  7. Mr. Soul
  8. I'm Wonderin'
  9. You Don't Have To Cry
  10. Pre-Road Downs
  11. Long Time Gone
  12. Bluebird Revisited
  13. Sea Of Madness
  14. Wooden Ships
  15. Find The Cost Of Freedom
  16. 49 Bye-Byes

Label : Unicorn Records

Venue : Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, USA

Date : August 17, 1969

Release Date : 2020

Length : 72:28

Quality : Soundboard Recordings (A+)

Review (Amazon) : Over the the past 51 years more and more material has leaked out from that great festival, some official some not . One of the great set's from that iconic festival is now available and even though it's an unofficial release , it sounds quite superb. I took a punt on this album , you can never be sure with bootlegs . On this occasion I was very pleasantly surprised . The full set , everything, the chat in between the songs , the acoustic and electric set as it was on the Monday morning at 3.am . Liner notes maintain it was a FM broadcast '...!! ? There were never any FM transmissions from the festival , all the sound was recorded by Michael Wadleigh who with his crew filmed the whole festival . The sound engineer was Eddie Kramer and no music was ever heard publically until the film was released in 1970. The sound was recorded on film stock , hence the quality of this recording ... So apart from that minor bit of misinformation I will congratulate whomever has put this together and made one of the great gigs available . Buy it , play it and take yourself back to a time when the world was on the cusp of change , when the 60's was ready to expire and enter a new dawn ... Some say the end of the hippie dream ,...some say the start of our decline , the start of the computer age and the loss of innocence, who knows. It was certainly quite an amazing time to be a young teen like myself . I am nearly 70 now and can look back with a 'real time memory' ...I'm grateful for that , grateful to have grown up with these bands as my soundtrack ... Something about it being a bootleg ' is quite fitting seeing as it's Woodstock ...