The Sunday performances began at 2 PM with Joe Cocker and the Grease Band.
The Grease Band was a British rock band that originally formed as Cocker's
backing group. Their keyboard player was Chris Stainton, who went on to
tour extensively with Eric Clapton. Bassist Alan Spenner and rhythm guitarist
Neil Hubbard went on to play in the UK blue-eyed soul band Kokomo; following
this, the pair worked in support of the late 1970s/early 1980s incarnation of
Roxy Music. Drummer Bruce Rowland later joined Fairport Convention. Henry
McCullough was the Grease Band's lead guitarist, a role he later occupied
in Paul McCartney's Wings. Rowland, Spenner, Hubbard and McCullough
all played on the original 1970 recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Their performance would last until 3:25 PM and contained 11 songs. As the
group’s fifth song of their set, they played an arrangement of Bob Dylan's
“Just Like a Woman” from Dylan's 1966 studio album, Blonde on Blonde.
After Cocker's set, a thunderstorm disrupted the events for several hours.
Live at Woodstock is a live album documenting Joe Cocker's performance with
The Grease Band at Woodstock Festival on August 17, 1969. It was released
officially for the first time in 2009 by A&M/Universal and replicates the
band's entire performance from the Woodstock music festival, which
took place on August 15–17, 1969, in Bethel, New York.
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