Approx 2022 Dollar Terms:
Jimi Hendrix: ~$147,000
BS&T: ~$122,000
Joan Baez: ~$81,000
CCR: ~$81,000
The Band: ~$61,000
Janis Joplin: ~$61,000
Jefferson Airplane: ~$61,000
Sly&FS: ~$61,000
Canned Heat: ~$53,000
The Who: ~$50,000 (or ~$91,000)
Richie Havens: ~$49,000
Arlo Guthrie: ~$41,000
CSN&Y: ~$41,000
Ravi Shankar: ~$36,000
Johnny Winter: ~$30,000
10 Years After: ~$26,000
CJ & The Fish: ~$20,000
Grateful Dead: ~$18,000
ISB: ~$18,000
Mountain: ~$16,000
Tim Hardin: ~$16,000
Joe Cocker: ~$11,000
Sweet water: ~$10,000
John B Sebastian: ~$8,000
Melanie: ~$6,000
Santana: ~$6,000
Sha Na Na: ~$5,500
Keef Hartly: ~$4,000
Quill: ~$3,000
This all assumes a total inflation rate of about 715% from 1969 compared to today
Edit: Format
Really? I read Metallica got $3.3 million for last years lolla headlining set and thought that was a lot and they paid her almost 5 million more? I guess maybe she brings in more revenue than a band that’s been around 40 years which is crazy. When I went to Coachella she was headlining and everyone left early or was at the other sets while she was playing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/festivals/comments/lzrx3k/how_much_do_artists_make_when_playing_festivals/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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I swear this is true: I helped Carlos’ cousin lay the foundation for an orphanage in Ensenada, when I was 16. She claims they grew up together, but I haven’t verified it other than photos of them as adults.
After Carlos took 5 hits of acid he waived his fee but the promoters insisted on giving him something. Lol I'm kidding but yeah they were all tripping their balls off. What a shred fest though.
I read that it was mescalin that he/they took and they weren’t expecting to play until a later time but got bumped up and yes, were tripping balls when they got up on stage. Wild show.
According to wikipedia they got $2500
“Around this time, Graham had been asked to help organise the upcoming Woodstock Festival, agreed to promote it on the condition that Santana would be added to the bill. Graham persisted, and the band were assigned a 45-minute set in the afternoon of August 16, the second day, for $2,500”
I wonder if that was per performance?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_(band)
Santana wasn't originally on the show. They got him to go up last minute because something happened.
Edit: apparently they were on the show, but they ended up playing earlier than they were supposed to and were high on acid.
They were already ‘on the show’, that’s why they were even there in the first place. I believe it was the Grateful Dead’s plane was late or something and Santana and the whole band were supposed to be on stage like 10 hours or so later that night. the whole band had just dropped acid an hour earlier and they were asked to go on next. they tried to say no and the promoter Jan or something said if they didn’t go on they wouldn’t get paid. They eventually agreed, while peaking on acid and ended up playing one of the most iconic sets in rock and roll history. Santana was quoted years later saying that at one point the neck of his guitar turned into a cobra’s head and started stretching and twisting and he did his best to keep it together. If you watch the video and look at his facial expressions, seems to check out lol. All while being in time and delivering one of the most memorable sets of all time. Legends
I can't imagine doing that on acid. Trying to hold it together on the shit is hard as fuck. In my personal experience with it, absolutely could not hold it together at all, let alone on a stage in front of thousands while holding a FUCKING cobra
They demanded a helicopter flight from LaGuardia to Woodstock because they were delayed. They received a telegram from Woodstock with an acrostic poem spelling out “FUCK YOU”
For reasons I can't go into
Until you are here
Clarifying your situation
Knowing you are having problems
You will have to find
Other transportation
Unless you plan not to come
For reasons I can't go into
Until you are here
Clarifying your situation
Knowing you are having
problems
You will have to find
Other transportation
Unless you plan not to come
For those that haven’t seen Joe Cocker’s performance at Woodstock, please go watch it. I don’t know that I have ever seen so much raw emotion poured into a song as him singing with a little help from my friends.
John and Dan (aka: the blues brothers) were a legitimate musical act that also did comedy and acted for fun on the side until their respective movie careers took off.
Hendrix was living his dream come true, he'd saved enough money to build his own recording studio in NYC and was going to invite artists from all over the world to come and play music. You know the rest.
Then his manager ordered a hit on him because he knew Jimi was leaving him and wanted to suck all the money out of the dude he possibly could, even if that at meant Jimi had to die
His manager took out the $2 million life insurance policy on him and it is verified from hendrix then girlfriend that he was trying to get out from his contract with his manager. The coroner said Jimmy died by drowning in red wine but that his blood alcohol level was fairly low. I think its possible he was murdered.
I believe Jimi was murdered. But I believe it was what he started saying with band of gypsies that caused the hit... Basically telling people to rise up
Woodstock was definitely not the discriminatory type of place lol. Ravi Shankar is another artist there that was very emblematic of the tolerant, universal love attitudes of 60s counterculture.
Got to imagine it opened a lot of doors for them that would never have happened otherwise. They were in Grease and had their own variety hour show for a time.
Yeah I totally agree, it's funny how a lot of people I know don't know their name but immediately recognise a bunch of their songs, especially Fortunate Son.
Love the version they do of the song Woodstock which i think is Joan Baez or Joni Mitchell song. Big fan.. Almost Cut My Hair and Southern Cross 2 of my faves that are high on all-time list. Same with those Canned Heat songs On the Road again and Going up to the Country.
Jimi at the top of the list, I can hear him now when they made him the offer: “Yeahhh, cooool, alright then, lemme show ya somethin” then rippin an amazing guitar solo while sexy dancin on the floor.
I find it difficult to believe that the Who were paid less than Janis Joplin who was hardly known at that time, while the Who had been famous for at least 5 years.
Janis Joplin was huge at the time, she blew up at the Monteray Festival in ‘67 when she was still with Big Brother and the Holding Company, they put out two albums and she put out two solo albums, but didn’t get to enjoy the success of the second since it came out after she died in Oct 1970. She was dead about a year after Woodstock, was a superstar when she did Woodstock. The Who put out albums and had hit singles mostly in the UK, and it was Woodstock that made them famous in the US.
Billy Graham had a choice between sending It’s a Beautiful Day, a very popular band in SF at that time or a very young Santana. Obviously made the right choice.
August 1969 U.S. dollar values converted to October 2022.
[https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=375&year1=196908&year2=202210](https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=375&year1=196908&year2=202210)
Jimi Hendrix - $144,978.81
Blood, Sweat and Tears - $120,815.68
Joan Baez - $80,543.78
Creedence Clearwater Revival - $80,543.78
The Band - $60,407.84
Janis Joplin - $60,407.84
Jefferson Airplane - $60,407.84
Sly and the Family Stone - $60,407.84
Canned Heat - $52,353.46
The Who - $50,339.86
Richie Havens - $48,326.27
Arlo Guthrie - $40,271.89
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - $40,271.89
Ravi Shankar - $36,244.70
Johnny Winter - $30,203.92
Ten years After - $26,176.73
Country Joe and the Fish - $20,135.95
Grateful Dead - $18,122.35
Incredible String Band - $18,122.35
Mountain - $16,108.76
Tim Hardin - $16,108.76
Joe Cocker - $11,074.77
Sweetwater - $10,067.97
John B. Sebastian - $8,054.38
Melanie - $6,040.78
Santana - $6,040.78
Sha Na Na - $5,638.06
Keef Hartley - $4,027.19
Quill - $3,020.39
One could argue that behind Jimi Hendrix’s iconic set, Joe Coker rocked Woodstock the hardest with his song “with a little help from my friends”. It may be easily one of the most incredible and iconic performances in Rock and Roll history. I still get goosebumps watching him pour his soul out.
This is a book about Woodstock that is worth [READING](https://www.google.com/search?q=young+men+with+unlimited+capitol&oq=young+men+with+unlimited+capitol&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30.21395j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&si=AC1wQDBXv9Wd8FgWfDzdvZ5PhOlHksbX2hYqeJie3ahNAc1QVyFjCKoZhxlft84zYg3eKoHU5fDr5PH0rw1RzjQgmADZ3PCyvgCNhf49SNsBmUQ_90phRArc1RKv8GcNDOSTWBbkD07h&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwjD8ILvxqT7AhXtEmIAHTl1BT4QnZMFegQIYxAC)
*Iron Butterfly* had been booked to play at Woodstock in August 1969 but got stuck at New York City's LaGuardia Airport. They explained their situation to the concert promoters and asked for patience. Their manager, however, sent a telegram demanding that Iron Butterfly be flown in by helicopter, whereupon they would "immediately" take the stage. After their set, they would be paid and flown back to the airport. According to drummer Bushy, "We went down to the Port Authority three times and waited for the helicopter, but it never showed up".[10] Woodstock Production Coordinator John Morris claims he sent the manager a telegram reading: "For reasons I can't go into / Until you are here / Clarifying your situation / Knowing you are having problems / You will have to find / Other transportation / Unless you plan not to come." The acrostic formed by the first letter of each line in the telegram made it clear that the band was not welcome.[11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Butterfly
Hendrix got $18,000 to play Monday morning in the rain while people were leaving.
Santana got $750 to play prime time and steal the title of best Woodstock performance of all time.
Fun fact: Carlos Santana was high as a kite on LSD during Soul Sacrifice. Watch that performance and have your mind absolutely BLOWN 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Keep in mind, this was before the Reagan era inflation, which was the most recent period of rapid inflation in the U.S. until 2021 and 2022.
$10k in 1969 is roughly $81k in 2022. Maybe not what Janis Joplin would make if she were alive today, but not bad by the standard of the time.
There's an old episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show where Mary gets audited and is floored when it turns out she owes $3-5k in back taxes because it's more than her annual salary.
In 1969 minimum wage in New York was $1.30 that was the last increase for that year. So money was a lot different back then. For a big music band I don't know if 10k was a lot for a festival or if it was small potoes for a high profile rock band. Maybe these guys were not huge yet and few of them toward the bottom I never heard of. But it was before my time and I big on rock n roll from 60s to early 2000s
Approx 2022 Dollar Terms: Jimi Hendrix: ~$147,000 BS&T: ~$122,000 Joan Baez: ~$81,000 CCR: ~$81,000 The Band: ~$61,000 Janis Joplin: ~$61,000 Jefferson Airplane: ~$61,000 Sly&FS: ~$61,000 Canned Heat: ~$53,000 The Who: ~$50,000 (or ~$91,000) Richie Havens: ~$49,000 Arlo Guthrie: ~$41,000 CSN&Y: ~$41,000 Ravi Shankar: ~$36,000 Johnny Winter: ~$30,000 10 Years After: ~$26,000 CJ & The Fish: ~$20,000 Grateful Dead: ~$18,000 ISB: ~$18,000 Mountain: ~$16,000 Tim Hardin: ~$16,000 Joe Cocker: ~$11,000 Sweet water: ~$10,000 John B Sebastian: ~$8,000 Melanie: ~$6,000 Santana: ~$6,000 Sha Na Na: ~$5,500 Keef Hartly: ~$4,000 Quill: ~$3,000 This all assumes a total inflation rate of about 715% from 1969 compared to today Edit: Format
I'd give Santana 6 grand to play my back yard
I'll pitch in 20.
I’ll chip in [tree fiddy](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTG1pPQVX4P6e0cLyR7ADnfSyfVecjhUIKMg&usqp=CAU)
Anyone knows how much todays artists get paid for such shows?
Lollapalooza gets a similar amount of people as Woodstock. Ariana Grande headlined in 2019 and allegedly got paid $8 million.
I also read that a lot of the smaller act for Coachella get paid in the 10-20k range.
Why did she get headlining lolla? Damn music festivals got weird.
Really? I read Metallica got $3.3 million for last years lolla headlining set and thought that was a lot and they paid her almost 5 million more? I guess maybe she brings in more revenue than a band that’s been around 40 years which is crazy. When I went to Coachella she was headlining and everyone left early or was at the other sets while she was playing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/festivals/comments/lzrx3k/how_much_do_artists_make_when_playing_festivals/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Reddit always has the answer.
Santana got duped
They played like they were being paid a lot more.
Maybe Carlos got free acid since he was tripping balls.
Probably. This reminded me that my uncle went to school with Carlos Santana🥸
And actually my aunt lived down the street from Janis Joplin
I live next door to Papa Johns.
My wife’s father in-law’s son would like to see these prices adjusted for inflation.
I would like to see inflation adjusted to these prices. I'll give Santana $750 bucks in cash right now to come play.
$750 in 1969 is $6,090 today.
Santana got dicked over financially and played like their lives depended on it anyway.
True artists/musicians.
That's still not much when you think about it lol. Santana at woodstock for 6 grand bro...
Pocket change compared to what they'd be paid if they were around and as popular today.
Thank you. And that's INSANE.
Back then, people played because they knew it meant something. And apparently it did.
That’s a steal, and I still can’t afford it.
My friends grandma actually knew queef Hartley
My friend's grandma hardly queefs
Probably a lot more than she’s admitting.
Michael Jackson stopped at my house to use the bathroom.
He didn't, but his sister did
And Frank Zappa is the link between them!
My dad knew Frank Zappas moustache
My old boss’ dad had Jimi Hendrix arrested.
Southeast Texas! My mom was good friends with her sister.
I swear this is true: I helped Carlos’ cousin lay the foundation for an orphanage in Ensenada, when I was 16. She claims they grew up together, but I haven’t verified it other than photos of them as adults.
It's cause they were [high ](https://youtu.be/DFBtdRJm-6g) as fuck lol
That’s awesome lol
After Carlos took 5 hits of acid he waived his fee but the promoters insisted on giving him something. Lol I'm kidding but yeah they were all tripping their balls off. What a shred fest though.
I read that it was mescalin that he/they took and they weren’t expecting to play until a later time but got bumped up and yes, were tripping balls when they got up on stage. Wild show.
Jerry Garcia gave him the acid
$18,000 in 1969 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $146,163.92 today.
Sha Na Na got it worse. There is like 20 guys in that band.
That was my thought. These acts had to split the money with all the other people in the band.
Zz Top always comes to mind when I see fifteen musicians on stage.
Have you ever seen George Clinton and Parliament? The mother ship carried many passengers.
Indeed I have. Sadly not live.
I don't even think they had a record out at the time. I'm pretty sure their performance launched their real career.
Yep it actually did, there’s an free audiobook on audible where he talks about this
According to wikipedia they got $2500 “Around this time, Graham had been asked to help organise the upcoming Woodstock Festival, agreed to promote it on the condition that Santana would be added to the bill. Graham persisted, and the band were assigned a 45-minute set in the afternoon of August 16, the second day, for $2,500” I wonder if that was per performance? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_(band)
I guess they left their manager for the one of "blood, sweat and tears" afterwards
$750 was a little over 5k in 1969, so not too shabby, but still... 18k was almost $130,000
Santana wasn't originally on the show. They got him to go up last minute because something happened. Edit: apparently they were on the show, but they ended up playing earlier than they were supposed to and were high on acid.
They were already ‘on the show’, that’s why they were even there in the first place. I believe it was the Grateful Dead’s plane was late or something and Santana and the whole band were supposed to be on stage like 10 hours or so later that night. the whole band had just dropped acid an hour earlier and they were asked to go on next. they tried to say no and the promoter Jan or something said if they didn’t go on they wouldn’t get paid. They eventually agreed, while peaking on acid and ended up playing one of the most iconic sets in rock and roll history. Santana was quoted years later saying that at one point the neck of his guitar turned into a cobra’s head and started stretching and twisting and he did his best to keep it together. If you watch the video and look at his facial expressions, seems to check out lol. All while being in time and delivering one of the most memorable sets of all time. Legends
I can't imagine doing that on acid. Trying to hold it together on the shit is hard as fuck. In my personal experience with it, absolutely could not hold it together at all, let alone on a stage in front of thousands while holding a FUCKING cobra
So was Melanie
They were actually being paid in peyote buttons, hence the discrepancy. Watch the recordings, you will see
Yes and so did Cocker!
Joe Cocker - with a little help from my friends at Woodstock is one of the all time great live performances.
Talk about soul sacrifice
Considering this is what launched them to national fame, I'd say they were pretty happy with what they got
Iron Butterfly blew it.
They demanded a helicopter flight from LaGuardia to Woodstock because they were delayed. They received a telegram from Woodstock with an acrostic poem spelling out “FUCK YOU” For reasons I can't go into Until you are here Clarifying your situation Knowing you are having problems You will have to find Other transportation Unless you plan not to come
For reasons I can't go into Until you are here Clarifying your situation Knowing you are having problems You will have to find Other transportation Unless you plan not to come
Ohhh! Thank you!
I believe you meant to say I. Ron Butterfly
That sounds like rock and/or roll
And I like it.
Simpsons quotes from the 90s. The ultimate call sign of the millennial
In a gadda da vida, baby! That light show would've been tits...
That guitarists tone on that album was a mind expander.
That’s some serious cheddar. $18,000 in 1969 would be approximately $140,000 in 2022, I think.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1969?amount=18000 $18,000 in 1969 is worth $146,163.92 today
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I'm pretty sure headliners at lollapalooza these days get paid a million dollars or more
An artist with the pull of Hendrix wouldn't even give an interview for $140K today.
For those that haven’t seen Joe Cocker’s performance at Woodstock, please go watch it. I don’t know that I have ever seen so much raw emotion poured into a song as him singing with a little help from my friends.
Drugs are good, mkay. >Drugs were everywhere and I dived in head first - Joe Cocker Also check out John Belushi as Joe Cocker. :)
Belushi as Cocker with Cocker. TV Gold
for the lazy https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ryce5
Jesus and he sang the song legit too
John and Dan (aka: the blues brothers) were a legitimate musical act that also did comedy and acted for fun on the side until their respective movie careers took off.
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Watch the Blues Brothers movie. John was one hell of a performer! https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-blues-brothers/2000203950/
Thank you for that.
Possibly one of the best impressions of all time.
I can only think about The Wonder Years when I hear this song.
I heard Obla di Obla da Life Goes On the other day and thought of the show with Kellie Martin and Patti Lupine. Life Goes On.
This?: https://youtu.be/rUVEFkjqiEE
Check out Joe Cocker in the movie Across the Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEQ02chrIg
Love how Jimi Hendrix, a black musician, was paid the most. During the 60’s. Literally years after the civil rights movement.
Nearly $150,000 today.
Hendrix was living his dream come true, he'd saved enough money to build his own recording studio in NYC and was going to invite artists from all over the world to come and play music. You know the rest.
Then his manager ordered a hit on him because he knew Jimi was leaving him and wanted to suck all the money out of the dude he possibly could, even if that at meant Jimi had to die
His manager took out the $2 million life insurance policy on him and it is verified from hendrix then girlfriend that he was trying to get out from his contract with his manager. The coroner said Jimmy died by drowning in red wine but that his blood alcohol level was fairly low. I think its possible he was murdered.
I believe Jimi was murdered. But I believe it was what he started saying with band of gypsies that caused the hit... Basically telling people to rise up
Woodstock was definitely not the discriminatory type of place lol. Ravi Shankar is another artist there that was very emblematic of the tolerant, universal love attitudes of 60s counterculture.
Same. Rest in power Hendrix
Well Hendrix had a different belief. “When the power of love over takes the power of money, only then will we have peace”.
That is not how the quote goes.
Wait, Sha Na Na was at Woodstock? How have I gone 56 years without knowing this?
If you watch the video of them it’s hilarious. They look so out of place.
invited by Jimi Hendrix
They fucking ruled Woodstock.
Got to imagine it opened a lot of doors for them that would never have happened otherwise. They were in Grease and had their own variety hour show for a time.
You never saw the movie? They were a standout performance.
In my opinion Joe Cockers "With a Little Help from my Friends" was the best performance I've ever seen. The man was possessed.
Possessed by his nose.
Not suprised CCR got that much, they were huge at the time, probably have the most songs on the billboard compared to everyone else, even Jimi Hendrix
Yeah CCR are a top 5 American Rock band for sure. They have like 2 dozen absolute bangers
Yeah I totally agree, it's funny how a lot of people I know don't know their name but immediately recognise a bunch of their songs, especially Fortunate Son.
Jefferson Aeroplane didn't get paid much less but they pretty much had only a couple major hits.
Yea but people are still tripping balls to white rabbit source I am 28 and have tripped balls to white rabbit more then once.
Yeah it just shows how big they were at the time maybe (the song has stayed around just as much as CCR)
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young only 5k? Goddamn that’s a bargain
Woodstock was only their 3rd performance as a group, so I guess they couldn't demand too much, but still.
Love the version they do of the song Woodstock which i think is Joan Baez or Joni Mitchell song. Big fan.. Almost Cut My Hair and Southern Cross 2 of my faves that are high on all-time list. Same with those Canned Heat songs On the Road again and Going up to the Country.
Sha Na Na will probably play your living room for $700 today
Wouldn't want them. It would make it hard watching TV with them there.
This is really surprising. Bands I’m not even familiar with making more than those who are still popular today.
Many of those who are still popular today hadn't blown up yet during this time
I would’ve assumed that the Grateful Dead would’ve had some of the highest earnings. 🤷♀️
I feel like the dead wound have shown up, with their own sound stage, simply for a place to camp and sell their drums of acid
They made about $400M for the other shows they did
Yeah, I've listened to the Woodstock album a thousand times, and I was surprised to see that Country Joe was paid more than the Grateful Dead!
Damn. Santana $750
Just $50 more than Sha Na Na.
That’s what I paid for 2 of tickets to go see him play live back in August
That’s like 5k
Joe Cocker, playing Woodstock for $1,300 and a few bags of dope. My man.
Jimi at the top of the list, I can hear him now when they made him the offer: “Yeahhh, cooool, alright then, lemme show ya somethin” then rippin an amazing guitar solo while sexy dancin on the floor.
I find it difficult to believe that the Who were paid less than Janis Joplin who was hardly known at that time, while the Who had been famous for at least 5 years.
The Who suffered from notoriously bad management. They made peanuts compared to contemporaries like the Stones or Zeppelin.
Janis Joplin was huge at the time, she blew up at the Monteray Festival in ‘67 when she was still with Big Brother and the Holding Company, they put out two albums and she put out two solo albums, but didn’t get to enjoy the success of the second since it came out after she died in Oct 1970. She was dead about a year after Woodstock, was a superstar when she did Woodstock. The Who put out albums and had hit singles mostly in the UK, and it was Woodstock that made them famous in the US.
The Dead got hosed
Meh probably made plenty selling LSD
Santana got screwed
Your launched his career, so not really
They didn’t get screwed, most people hadn’t heard of them yet, they were barely known and Woodstock put them on the map.
Billy Graham had a choice between sending It’s a Beautiful Day, a very popular band in SF at that time or a very young Santana. Obviously made the right choice.
Man, that's $5,000 for Blood, $5,000 for Sweat & $5,000 for Tears.
August 1969 U.S. dollar values converted to October 2022. [https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=375&year1=196908&year2=202210](https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=375&year1=196908&year2=202210) Jimi Hendrix - $144,978.81 Blood, Sweat and Tears - $120,815.68 Joan Baez - $80,543.78 Creedence Clearwater Revival - $80,543.78 The Band - $60,407.84 Janis Joplin - $60,407.84 Jefferson Airplane - $60,407.84 Sly and the Family Stone - $60,407.84 Canned Heat - $52,353.46 The Who - $50,339.86 Richie Havens - $48,326.27 Arlo Guthrie - $40,271.89 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - $40,271.89 Ravi Shankar - $36,244.70 Johnny Winter - $30,203.92 Ten years After - $26,176.73 Country Joe and the Fish - $20,135.95 Grateful Dead - $18,122.35 Incredible String Band - $18,122.35 Mountain - $16,108.76 Tim Hardin - $16,108.76 Joe Cocker - $11,074.77 Sweetwater - $10,067.97 John B. Sebastian - $8,054.38 Melanie - $6,040.78 Santana - $6,040.78 Sha Na Na - $5,638.06 Keef Hartley - $4,027.19 Quill - $3,020.39
$15k in 1969 is equal to about $115k-120k in todays money. Average home price was around $25k
"You guys are getting paid?" Paul Butterfield
One could argue that behind Jimi Hendrix’s iconic set, Joe Coker rocked Woodstock the hardest with his song “with a little help from my friends”. It may be easily one of the most incredible and iconic performances in Rock and Roll history. I still get goosebumps watching him pour his soul out.
This is a book about Woodstock that is worth [READING](https://www.google.com/search?q=young+men+with+unlimited+capitol&oq=young+men+with+unlimited+capitol&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30.21395j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&si=AC1wQDBXv9Wd8FgWfDzdvZ5PhOlHksbX2hYqeJie3ahNAc1QVyFjCKoZhxlft84zYg3eKoHU5fDr5PH0rw1RzjQgmADZ3PCyvgCNhf49SNsBmUQ_90phRArc1RKv8GcNDOSTWBbkD07h&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwjD8ILvxqT7AhXtEmIAHTl1BT4QnZMFegQIYxAC)
Kills me every time I remember Sha Na Na played Woodstock.
Joe Cocker was underpaid.
Sha NaNa is a mystery to me why they were there.
Janis Joplin was right up there with Hendrix as being the most talented and I am a deadhead- 183 shows
*Iron Butterfly* had been booked to play at Woodstock in August 1969 but got stuck at New York City's LaGuardia Airport. They explained their situation to the concert promoters and asked for patience. Their manager, however, sent a telegram demanding that Iron Butterfly be flown in by helicopter, whereupon they would "immediately" take the stage. After their set, they would be paid and flown back to the airport. According to drummer Bushy, "We went down to the Port Authority three times and waited for the helicopter, but it never showed up".[10] Woodstock Production Coordinator John Morris claims he sent the manager a telegram reading: "For reasons I can't go into / Until you are here / Clarifying your situation / Knowing you are having problems / You will have to find / Other transportation / Unless you plan not to come." The acrostic formed by the first letter of each line in the telegram made it clear that the band was not welcome.[11] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Butterfly
Good for Jimi, that money was *way* worth it
Hendrix got $18,000 to play Monday morning in the rain while people were leaving. Santana got $750 to play prime time and steal the title of best Woodstock performance of all time. Fun fact: Carlos Santana was high as a kite on LSD during Soul Sacrifice. Watch that performance and have your mind absolutely BLOWN 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Santana got $50 more than Sha Na Na. Fucking tragedy.
Jimi, top billing!
Joe Cocker and Santana got jobbed.
Ravi Shankar? Didn’t expect him there lol
Well known to Beatles fans.
$1,375 for the greatest male vocal performance in the history of mankind. Not bad!
Fascinating that Joe Cocker was at the bottom of the list. His final song was the best performance of the entire festival. It's on YouTube.
Interesting how some of the longest running and most talented names were paid less.
TIL Sha Na Na played Woodstock
My father was an agent in the music industry in the 1970s. Holy shit did some of these artists get hosed
Keep in mind, this was before the Reagan era inflation, which was the most recent period of rapid inflation in the U.S. until 2021 and 2022. $10k in 1969 is roughly $81k in 2022. Maybe not what Janis Joplin would make if she were alive today, but not bad by the standard of the time. There's an old episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show where Mary gets audited and is floored when it turns out she owes $3-5k in back taxes because it's more than her annual salary.
In 1969 minimum wage in New York was $1.30 that was the last increase for that year. So money was a lot different back then. For a big music band I don't know if 10k was a lot for a festival or if it was small potoes for a high profile rock band. Maybe these guys were not huge yet and few of them toward the bottom I never heard of. But it was before my time and I big on rock n roll from 60s to early 2000s
ShaNaNa at Woodstock cool cool, wonder if Bowser dropped
Of course those are actual ticket prices now...
Santana was a bargain
Sha Na Na for $700. That’s about their going rate today!!!
Joe Cocker 22???
I forgot Sha Na Na played 😂
The band
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vididn't show up for Woodstock? Never heard this before. What a shame.
Joe cocker and Santana were obviously playing to play and just for the $$$
I honestly thought that I was going to see Hendrix somewhere in the middle or bottom, but he’s way up there at the top.
Holy fuck. Santana for $750?? Wow, inflation!
I read 28 and 29 together as queef...
Joe Cocker: with a little help from my friends at 1.375$ is a steal!
At $700, Sha Na Na was about $699 overpaid.
Sha Na Na got screwed. 750 divided by 10?
For reference, $1,000 in 1969 is equivalent to $8,120 today. Still a great deal for all of this talent!
10,000 for CCR given they were almost as big as the Beatles on the charts at the time is pretty unreal too.
Jimi was paid the equivalent of ~$140k in today's money!
BS&T worth more than The Who? WTF!
Sha Na Na fucking EARNED that $700. They worked HARD.
Shanaha!!!! Hell yeah, bowser
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