Dishwalla, Joan Osborne, Marcy Playground, Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, The Flys

"The Garden" field, Bethel, NY.....

The show was billed as "A Day in the Garden," and while it took place at the site of the legendary Woodstock concert the day I went was all current alt-rock acts. 

The event took place Friday, August 14th through this day (Sunday the 16th). On Friday, they had Ziggy Marley, Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, and Woodstock vets Ten Years After. On Saturday, they had Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell (who was advised by her manager not to play the 1969 festival to instead make an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show), Donovan, and Woodstock vets Pete Townshend, Melanie, and Richie Havens. I didn't go to those days, just Sunday.

I was there with my girlfriend, and it was very interesting to see live music at what was formerly Max Yasgur's farm. We didn't stick around for much of Third Eye Blind, the day's final act. I had just seen them a few weeks before and I was full up on my 3EB consumption. I think we missed part of Dishwalla (the day's opener). Everyone else was enjoyable. All in all, a good day.

 

Joan Osborne setlist:

  • Platform Shoes
  • Spider Web
  • St. Teresa
  • Libertine
  • Sensitive
  • Baby Love
  • One of Us
  • Strange Thing
  • Dracula Moon
  • Ladder  

Marcy Playground setlist:

  • Poppies
  • Opium
  • It's Saturday
  • Saint Joe on the School Bus
  • Sex and Candy
  • Wave Motion Gun
  • Black Eyed Sue
  • Blood in Alphabet Soup
  • The Ballad of Aslan
  • All the Lights Went Out

 Goo Goo Dolls setlist:

  • Fallin' Down
  • Burnin' Up
  • Stop the World
  • Lazy Eye
  • Slide
  • Name
  • Dizzy
  • Full Forever
  • Naked
  • Broadway
  • Flat Top
  • Iris

 

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