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Lowendtech said:
IMO it was one of the best performances at Woodstock. One of my favourites anyway. Worth more than $750 comparatively speaking.
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Yeah they killed it at Woodstock, but before that performance they were just another band trying to get their music to the people. and don't forget 750.00 in 1969 wasn't bad money $750 in 1969 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $5,798.01 today
 
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rtslinger said:
Yeah they killed it at Woodstock, but before that performance they were just another band trying to get their music to the people. and don't forget 750.00 in 1969 wasn't bad money $750 in 1969 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $5,798.01 today
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$750 well spent and well earned then.
 
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Lowendtech said:
Truth. $750 for that Santana performance is a crime.
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Not really, at that very moment they were nobodies, their first album hadn't been released, and they were probably there only due to Bill Graham's patronage. Word of the performance bolstered sales of the album, and when the movie came out the following spring, plus the "Evil Ways" single, that pushed it over the top.
It's not unlike when in early 1969 Vanilla Fudge took a then-new British band on tour as an opener, the guitar player used to be in the Yardbirds, nobody had heard of them. Once they got their album out, things changed overnight.
 
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LeMaartien said:
Some definite injustice in that list. Shesh.
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How so? For that time period, the pecking order is more or less in line with popularity, or at least what juice the managers/booking agents could squeeze out of their acts. A year before, The Who would have been way down the list as a B or C level band, but "Tommy" was finally making things happen. The Dead certainly had their following, but they weren't that big of a deal(they had opened for Iron Butterfly not long before the festival). CSNY hadn't proven themselves, so on and so on. Joan Baez was a legacy act, the closest to the Dylan mystique they could get. The people who put the show on came from, and were beholden to, the early 60's folk scene that existed before the Beatles came along, and placed as much value on that as anything that came after 1964.
 
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