saptech
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Another Woodstock alumni has died. I guess I'm really getting old. RIP Richie.
Richie Havens, Woodstock Festival
Richie Havens, Woodstock Festival
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Richie Havens, Opening Act at Woodstock Died
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septembergurl
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This is so, so sad. My mother and her friends were at the Miami Pop Festival (late 60's I think) and they met Richie Havens. He hung out with them for quite a while, flirted with my mother. :,(
Bob Maxey
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Yes, but you and your mother now have a chance to see Justin Bieber and all of those wonderous multi-talented rappers. Certainly, that Bieber feller is way cooler than those losers that appeared at some pop festival or even Woodstock.
not the first one, it was filled with beginners that never went anywhere. I mean the second one which was the greatest and most bestest one, dag nabbit.
You can't tell me that Santana, Canned Heat, Mountain, the Grateful Dead and the Who are as good as the bright star that is Justin Bieber. and he is so dreamy, too.
I'll take Bieber over Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones any day, by gum.
I hope he covers the Stones, the Who and the Beatles on a three disk set. that would be triple platinum bound.
Yes, I jest. Music died many years ago and thank the gods above for the web. Sometimes in 1990, music went away.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Not perhaps old, but older, perhaps. It is something you cannot escape.
Sadly, I have likely watched more of the greats die than many here. And I am not bragging; I wish they could live and perform forever and I dearly miss most of them. Breaks my heart.
Ticks me off as well. So many lost to 'the needle and the damage done.'
What is sooooo very sad is just how great these people were and how many people these days ignore them, when they should study them and be more like them. Musicians that is.
I wonder how many people seeing reruns of Hee-Haw, for example (and many stars gone, some murdered like Stringbean. they might think they are watching a bunch of hicks acting stupid on TV, yet they do not understand just how amazing the stars and guests are/were?
Give a watch to reruns of the Hee-Haw as well as others like The Glen Cambell Goodtime Hour or the Johnny Cash Show.
Take Roy Clark as just one of many examples. You will need to look long and hard to find a better multi-istrumentalist than RC. Banjo, guitar, fiddle . . . he rules them all with an exceptionally rare talent. I'll put RC up against Clapton any day. AND I love Eric C.
Even more sad is what is trying to replace them. Ain't never gonna happen.
RIP, Ritchie Havens; I still listen to Electric Havens.
Fortunately, we have The Electric Amish:
The Electric Amish - Barnyard Blitz - YouTube