Musicians' earnings at Woodstock 1969 revealed (1 Viewer)

[grateful zed]

1. Jimi Hendrix – $18,0002. Blood, Sweat and Tears – $15,000

3. Joan Baez – $10,000

4. Creedence Clearwater Revival – $10,000

5. The Band – $7,500

6. Janis Joplin – $7,500

7. Jefferson Airplane – $7,500

8. Sly and the Family Stone – $7,000

9. Canned Heat – $6,500

10. The Who – $6,250

11. Richie Havens – $6,000

12. Arlo Guthrie – $5,000

13. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – $5,000

14. Ravi Shankar – $4,500

15. Johnny Winter – $3,750

16. Ten Years After – $3,250

17. Country Joe and the Fish – $2,500

18. Grateful Dead – $2,500

19. The Incredible String Band – $2,250

20. Mountain – $2,000

21. Tim Hardin – $2,000

22. Joe Cocker – $1,375

23. Sweetwater – $1,250

24. John B. Sebastian – $1,000

25. Melanie – $750

26. Santana – $750

27. Sha Na Na – $700

28. Keef Hartley – $500

29. Quill – $375

http://www.gigwise.com/news/98710/woodstock-1969-artist-earnings-revealed

 

[AcerFC]

Santana had like 900 guys on that stage. They each got like $50. Canned Heat and Richie Havens getting more that CSN&Y surprises me.

 

[zamboni]

Thought this was out a long time ago.

18k for a festival performance in today's music industry is a pittance, but back then it wasn't too bad.

 

[zamboni]

Santana had like 900 guys on that stage. They each got like $50.

Michael Shrieve should have gotten most of it, outside of Carlos himself.

 

[Mister CIA]

Santana had like 900 guys on that stage. They each got like $50. Canned Heat and Richie Havens getting more that CSN&Y surprises me.

That's nothing. All I got was $2.

 

[AcerFC]

Santana had like 900 guys on that stage. They each got like $50.

Michael Shrieve should have gotten most of it, outside of Carlos himself.

drummer?

 

[tommyboy]

Santana highest VBD

 

[Flying V]

A sitar player made more than the Grateful Dead. :mindblown:

 

[jonessed]

Joan Baez made more than The Who.

 

[Mr. Retukes]

I think it was Pete Townshend who said "Everyone agreed to waive their fee except for Ravi Shankar."

 

[flapgreen]

Joe Cocker is one of the greats. $1375? Nuts

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Canned Heat got ####ed!

 

[Doctor Detroit]

27. Sha Na Na – $700

ool

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

27. Sha Na Na – $700

ool

Bowser took at least five hundred of that fee.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

27. Sha Na Na – $700

ool

Bowser took at least five hundred of that fee.

One of those Sha Na Na guys was some child killing fugitive.

 

[flapgreen]

Damn

 

[dickey moe]

10. The Who $6,250

22. Joe Cocker $1,375

26. Santana $750

http://www.gigwise.com/news/98710/woodstock-1969-artist-earnings-revealed

SODs

 

[timschochet]

Joe Cocker is one of the greats. $1375? Nuts

I think he only had one album out at that point (at the most 2).

 

[dickey moe]

I always knew Jimi was pimp.

 

[Mr. Retukes]

27. Sha Na Na – $700

ool

Bowser took at least five hundred of that fee.

One of those Sha Na Na guys was some child killing fugitive.

Uh, not quite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Edward_Solly

 

[timschochet]

Just for the sake of context- two years after Woodstock, Muhammad Ali had his first fight against Joe Frazier, billed as the biggest fight in 20 years and the "Fight of the Century." The fighters were paid 2.5 million each, the largest purse to that point in boxing history.

Mayweather-Pacquio is estimated to gross 400 million. The amount the fighters will be paid is undisclosed, (except that its 60-40) but it's likely to be about 50 times what Ali and Frazier earned, or more.

 

[zamboni]

Santana had like 900 guys on that stage. They each got like $50.

Michael Shrieve should have gotten most of it, outside of Carlos himself.

drummer?

yup

He was all of 20 years old then. Should have gotten a couple of extra bucks for harnessing the Kevin Bacon look way before all the degrees.