The Youngbloods
1970-08-21
Fillmore East
New York, NY
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
1970-08-21
Fillmore East
New York, NY
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
01. Faster All The Time
02. Darkness, Darkness
03. Rain Song
04. Sunlight
05. On Beautiful Lake Spenard
06. My Sweet Little Child
07. Sugar Babe
08. Interlude
09. High On A Ridgetop
10. Hippie From Olema
11. Donna
12. Misty Roses
13. On Sir Francis Drake
14. Baby What You Want Me To Do
15. Fiddler A Dram
16. Get Together
As a crowd a half a million strong converged on Woodstock, a song that embodied festival's message of the peace and love was climbing the charts in the US. Get Togther, recorded by the The Youngbloods, which was originally released in 1967 to little fanfare, found new life in the summer of 1969. The tune's chorus, "Come on people now, Smile on your brother, Everybody get together, Try to love one another, Right now" seemed to have been written specifically to announce the message of the Woodstock generation. Ironically, The Younbloods missed the festival, as their invitation arrived late as they were based in a small town north of San Francisco and hard to get in touch with. Their hit tune, however, made an appearance at Woodtsock, as it was the 2nd song played by Richie Havens, who opened the festival. This soundboard recording captures The Youngbloods a year after Woodstock, at the Fillmore East in New York, on August 21, 1970, 54 years ago today.
4 comments:
Thank you.
Sppedy,
I don't know how to say thank you enough for this one. The Youngbloods were one of my favorite groups of the late 60's/early 70's and have remained so to this day. I saw them at the Fillmore East just 3 months after this show, when they opened for the Jefferson Airplane! And I saw them several other times in college gyms. But recordings of them during this golden era are very rare and this is one from the very peak, just after Elephant Mountain was issued. Darkness, Darkness is the basis for the Grateful Dead's "Darkness Jam", played only a handful of times in 1970, such as 9-19-70, Fillmore East. So as you can tell I'm pretty excited by this post (which I am listening to as I write) and I thank you so very much for it!
@Alan R - glad this one brought back great memories. Enjoy my friend! And FYI - some 1971 Youngbloods coming in December (FM Broacast) and a reunion tour show from 1985 coming in January 2025 (SBD)
Thanks a lot for this!
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