Bob wrote: "I would be hard-pressed to categorize every one of the 75 or so Woodstock's I've heard, but I can honestly say that more imitate the MSC version than the CSNY version. Using that criteria, it could be argued that the MSC cover is more definitive than the CSNY cover..."
I have to confess I have no recollection of the MSC version of that song. I recall the name of the group, but can't remember any of their music. On a related Woodstock note: I dragged out my vinyl of LOTC (I don't have it on CD) and listened to the original version of Woodstock again -- I hadn't listened to the LOTC Joni rendition in a long time (years). And I was struck by the fact that the song is not performed as some sort of hippie anthem at all. (CSNY turned it into almost a march.) In fact, it has much of the same mood that she uses on Traveloque, though orchestrated differently -- and that spooky choir vocal at the end. Wow! So strange -- and hardly ends the song on an '....and-we-all-lived-happily-ever-after-once-we-got-back-to-the- garden' note. Bruce
