What Did Woodstock Pay?

[toobfreak]

Were you at Woodstock? Here is a list of what the bands were and what each band made for appearing.

If you want to convert the figures into modern dollars, just multiply by 8.7. In other words: Hendrix, the top-paid performer there, was paid about $156,000 in today's dollars, while Santana only made about $6,500.

 

[Rambunctious]

Wow... Hendrix tops the list...

 

[bluzman61]

Wow, thanks for the informative list, tb!

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Santana was under paid.

 

[Rambunctious]

I liked Canned Heat a lot as a kid... my older sister played their record over and over again...

 

[Mashmont]

Were you at Woodstock? Here is a list of what the bands were and what each band made for appearing.

If you want to convert the figures into modern dollars, just multiply by 8.7. In other words: Hendrix, the top-paid performer there, was paid about $156,000 in today's dollars, while Santana only made about $6,500.


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I have never understood the Hendrix thing. But then again, I never saw the appeal of Woodstock. Just anti-American rich kids of leftwing northeastern parents. Woodstock was not a great or seminal event, but it was glamorized by leftists in influential media positions. In reality, Woodstock was the signature end of the failed 1960s movement of immorality, drug use, selfishness, and debauchery coupled with the Manson murders.. An utter failure.

 

[toobfreak]

Santana was under paid.

He was ripped off IMO.

 

[Rambunctious]

Less than $2300 for the grateful dead... I guess they just needed pot money...

 

[toobfreak]

I have never understood the Hendrix thing.

The Hendrix thing? Well, most every musician got it. When Jimi played various night clubs in London, guess who was in the front row? The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and many others like them. They were all there wondering HTF he was doing what he did and looking for any sounds and things they might steal for themselves.

To this day, there are still many people who cannot figure out how he did what he did.

Hendrix was a freak of nature. Even his grip of the frets to play chords was unique. He had a way of bending his thumb to cover certain strings while his fingers played the other frets.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Santana was under paid.

 

[toobfreak]

Less than $2300 for the grateful dead... I guess they just needed pot money...

Well, it still amounted to about $20,000 in today's dollar. That'll buy you a lot of pot.

 

[toobfreak]

Carlos was a true seeker. At least for about 10 years.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Those bands had true talent.
They blow away today's music.

 

[toobfreak]

Those bands had true talent.
They blow away today's music.

The period from about 1965 to about 1975 was the seismic center for hard rock. It was the triumvirate of three unholy forces all coming together at the same time in a perfect storm:

1. The British invasion of talented musicians with the newly discovered merseybeat.
2. The culmination of peacetime, economic property and social expansion of the West after the settlement of WWII.
3. The introduction of LSD and other drugs of the counterculture seeking new directions in free living, free thinking and ideologies promoting consciousnerss expansion to include new things (to them) like meditation, martial arts, and eastern philosophy leading to a total reexamination of the world, values, and how it was run.

 

[Blaster]

My dad attended the Woodstock Festival.

 

[toobfreak]

My dad attended the Woodstock Festival.

That give me an idea I should have included in this thread...