Discussion questions: which solo performance impressed you the most, the drum solo by mike shrieve (drummer for santana) on "soul sacrifice," or the solo guitar version of "the star-spangled banner" by jimi hendrix?
explain your reasons. which front man (lead singer) performance did you think was the most powerful, joe cocker on "with a little from my friends," or sly stone on "i want to take you higher"?
explain why. although the woodstock music festival took place almost 50 years ago, many of the performances and their implied messages are relevant to current trends in music and american culture today. which performances do you think are relevant? which aren't?
give reasons. overall, which performance did you find the most enjoyable/powerful/interesting? which was the least? tell us why.

Rhere are several possible answers ro this question.

Explanation:

First, I think Mike Shrieve's solo was more impressive than Hendrix's one, specially due to the amount and type of intruments that surrounded Shrieve's solo. I also liked his body language.

"With a little help from my friends", a cover from the original song by The Beatles is a strong song, Cocker plays with his voice even in the studio version and live, with his movements makes the scenario look fairly enough for him.

Even though Woodstock Festival took place 50 years ago, the whole thing is still very important to artistic expressiona today. There are many festivals around the world that follow the same pattern (a big arts festival away from cities). Besides that, Woodstock was important because it exposed different problems thst were important by that time, giving music another dimension -something similar to what many artists do nowadays.

I did not find any unrelevant performance. In one way or another, all of them were important to rhe festival. In addition to the headliners and their importance in the history of music, the festival should be understood as a whole, and not like many bands and singers getting together to perform.

I found Santana's performance more enjoyable due to the variety of instruments, giving his music a different place, perhaps because of the power of the performance.

Perhaps I did not find Country Joe McDonald's performance very attractive, but it was only because of the kind of music.

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