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  • Joe Cocker Live at Woodstock 1969

    Joe Cocker et al. This video was done 38 years ago ! Monterey Festival - Joe Cocker - Cover of Ringo Starr's Help From My Friends.(The link says Woodstock, but Cocker was not dressed like this at Woodstock (as the Woodstock docu-movie will attest).. Actually, it looks like it was from... more

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  • Rated by bulbdude on Apr 22 2009, 7:03pm

    Unlike probably 40 million others, I WASN'T THERE. If ya know what I mean.

  • Rated by Sebaldus on Sep 06 2007, 10:11am

    I'm so sorry that I miss this concert :( This must have been somthing of the biggest who has happend, ever...

  • Rated by callsmith on Jun 24 2007, 11:37am

    Joe Cocker et al. This video was done 38 years ago ! Monterey Festival - Joe Cocker - Cover of Ringo Starr's Help From My Friends.(The link says Woodstock, but Cocker was not dressed like this at Woodstock (as the Woodstock docu-movie will attest).. Actually, it looks like it was from Monterey). There is nothing wrong with Joe Cocker in this video. This is not a song you sing in a suit and tie, gliding gracefully around the stage like the slow-motion style of a Tony Bennett or Andy Williams. No, Cocker's "choreography", irreverence, and air guitar, were 20 years ahead of the times.For trivia lovers, in this video, the fellow playing lead guitar and wearing the tall, blue hat, is the famous Leon Russell. It is likely that he created the musical arrangement for Cocker's cover of this song. At the time, Russell was a major studio musician, in high demand for his work on lead guitar, bass guitar, and piano. He soon evolved into a concert and recording star in his own right and still performs.In this video there are two drummers. The intense drummer, with the curly hair, usually seen crouched over his drum set, is the famous, and tragic, Jim Gordon. In the 60's and 70's Gordon was probably the most sought after studio drummer by American and British Rock stars. His talent showed up early. In 1963, when he was only 17, he was already drummer for the Everly brothers. He became the studio drummer of choice for many famous songs by many famous rock groups during that period. Gordon also composed several songs, his most famous being Layla, with Eric Clapton. The second half of that song is Gordon's work.In 1981, when he was 36 years old, Jim Gordon had to give up his music career because of severe mental illness. Three years later he killed his mother. He was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for second degree murder, and served all of his sentence at a psychiatric prison-hospital in California. As a final note to all this, Joe Cocker was named on Queen Elizabeth's Honours List, in June, 2007.

  • Rated by Largeone on Apr 27 2007, 1:45pm

    From a Scouser, to a Sheffield man, this is the best cover of a Beatles track ever, much respect Joe