Classic Lunch: Who Else Didn’t Get To Play After Being Invited To Woodstock?
Weirdly, nobody used a fake sick day excuse...
More Artists That Said "No, Thank You!" To Performing At Woodstock!: "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" - The Beatles [Did John insist Yoko gets on stage, too? Or was he "stuck" in Canada, trying to avoid the wrath of then-President Richard Nixon?] / "Never Comes The Day" - The Moody Blues [They opted to play in Paris!] / "You Can't Always Get What You Want" - The Rolling Stones [Mick was in Australia filming the dreadful "Ned Kelly" movie.] / "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" - Procol Harum [The band had just finished a long tour and guitarist Robin Trower wanted to be home for the birth of his baby child!] / "Crimson And Clover" - Tommy James & The Shondells [When his manager offered him the deal to play on a pig farm in upstate New York, Tommy James opted to stay in Hawaii where he was on vacation!] / "Presence Of The Lord" - Blind Faith [Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood decided to remain in England and work on their new music.] / "I Ain't Superstitious" - The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart [Supposedly they had broken up, but in fact Jeff Beck did not want to go on after Sly & The Family Stone!] / "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - Iron Butterfly [They wanted a helicopter! Organizers politely said they couldn't have one.]
"But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds and thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget." - Edgar Winter
Tomorrow (Thurs.,8/15), Friday (8/16) and Saturday (8/17), it's nothing but the real Woodstock Experience as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of one of the 20th Century's most game changing and iconic cultural events!
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