[Harp-L] Re: Woodstock/harp

["Patrick Lines" <plines@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have the Amazon edition because I wanted the added Canned Heat songs. I 
haven't watched the main feature yet, but on the added material the only 
other harp content I can find is John Fogarty on " Keep on Chooglin".
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Patrick Lines" <plines@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Harp L Harp L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:49 AM
Subject: Woodstock/harp


> What edition do you have? I was very interested in this after reading your 
> post Patrick. But it appears that Amazon, Target and maybe others have 
> their *own* special collectors ultimate blah editions with different songs 
> on them. what a mess and pita this is.
>
> and to top it off, they re-recorded and overdubbed some of the 
> performances with new stuff!! some say this is "fixing problems" but I say 
> it's "BS" because now i'm listening to some music that was played in 2008, 
> not 1969 and being heard over a visual of musicians supposedly playing 
> that music. wth is up with that, unbelievable. and this was done by the 
> original audio engineer who was there that day (michael kramer)!
>
> but still, anyone who can fill us in on the harp content of various 
> editions would be great. aside from canned heat, any other harp that's in 
> the new editions, such as any in CCR's set or others?
>
> Thanks, Bill
>
> Patrick Lines wrote:
> > Okay, well I bought the ultimate collector's edition of  Woodstock 
> > because I was interested in the additional footage that hadn't been 
> > available before. In particular Canned Heat, Butterfield and Creedance. I 
> > was not disappointed.
> > Canned Heat does, " I'm her man" and Alan Wilson is phenomenal. At first 
> > I thought he was playing a chromatic, but it's a red comb Hohner 
> > something? My big question is about his microphone. It looks like it 
> > might be a 545 stick but he has a large control taped to it. At first I 
> > thought it was a volume control but when he fiddles with it, it sounds 
> > like there is a tone change backup by the fact that at one point it seems 
> > like there are multiple cables coming out the end. Anybody have a clue?