last week i bought the 40th anniversary woodstock boxed set.. and yesterday had my first chance to sit down and re-watch the 4 hours of the movie.

i was a little disappointed that the bert sommer performance wasn’t included. easily the best tune played at woodstock. i can only assume it was RIAA executive feepers that had some problem with the rights. goobye RIAA (you DO know that you’re on your way out right?) none of us will be sorry to see you go.

after watching the who do “summertime blues” again, i can definitely say they’re version sucks dead bunnies…loud. sorry pete it doesn’t need electric guitars and wrong notes. or the stupid voice of boris the snorter (in joke for you who fans), or even pete’s reedy vocals. T.REX still does the best version of the song.

and my favorite gripe about woodstock? jimi “pretentious wanker” hendrix. i read some where that he would only appear at woodstock if he played last. pretentious wankers are like that. so what does he do, goes out there and plays with his teeth. you take his guitar pedals out of the picture and half the uploads on youtube sound better than he does. if you ask me the funtwo kid can play circles around jimi hendrix. how old was that kid when he made that? if you don’t buy that,then at least yngwie malmsteen, stevie ray vaughan or steve vai can.

AND….AND my favorite part? he didn’t play for half a million people (or whatever the final number turned out to be) he played to about 165. ok i didn’t actually count the number of heads, but if you take a look at that scene in film, you an see it’s not too many more than a thousand people. they’re all crowded to the front of the stage with a wasteland behind them.

looks good on you, you poser. pretentious wanker. how he got to be in the guitar hero category is beyond me.

anyway, the real tragedy of the movie is definitely the missing bert sommer tune, then it’s jimi hendrix.

here’s some guitarists that play better than hendrix: ritchie blackmore, rik emmett, eddie van halen (another wanker, but he can play guitar, oh, and eddie, you didn’t have to turn your back during solo’s, turns out you didn’t invent the hammer ons or pull offs), jonny lang, kenny wayne shephard, steve lukather, paul gilbert, trevor rabin, lawson rollins, dave murray, adrian smith, alan shacklock, or this guy. don’t know who he is, but he plays better than jimi hendrix.

at least the piano/keybaord slots are safe, your choices are keith emerson, rick wakeman, ken hensely, or jon lord. my vote’s for rick wakeman, this is why. and so is this.

anyway rant over. i’ve been thinking about doing a podcast about music. only two real hurdles in the way, can’t play any music without writing cheques to the RIAA. and my audience. anybody NOT musically informed. that would be pretty much anybody who didn’t know the connection between babe ruth (the band), fleetwood mac, and whitesnake. or never heard of those groups to start with. or ever heard of slik, hawkwind, blodwyn pig, or RDM (yes, that’s a ‘D’).

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