Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. All Right Now - Free
2. My Sunday Feeling - Jethro Tull
3. Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
4. Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix
5. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
6. Can't Keep from Cryin' - Ten Years After
7. Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson
8. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
9. Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
10. Blue Rondo a la Turk/Pictures at an Exhibition/Drum Solo - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Disc 2:

1. When the Music's Over - The Doors
2. Young Man Blues - The Who
3. Naked Eye - The Who
4. There'll Always Be an England - Tiny Tim
5. Sinner Boy - Taste
6. Let It Be - Taste
7. Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
8. Catch the Wind - Donovan
9. Weaver's Answer - Family
10. Red-Eye Express - John Sebastian
11. Call It Anything - Miles Davis
12. Amazing Grace - Great Awakening
13. Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222250 in Music
• Released on: 1996-10-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Live

Album Details
Limited Edition Double CD Set.

Customer Reviews

great glimpse into transition era in rock
OK, the sound quality of the recordings is about what you'd expect of an early era outdoor concert, but this collection is worth getting if only for the glimpse into a time of turbulent change in the rock&roll scene. The collection of artists & selections here shows the diversity of music widely enjoyed by rock fans before they had to decide if they were fans of rock, or heavy metal, or folk, or alternative, or adult alternative, or pop-rock, or some other category of interest primarily to the record company marketing staff. This was still (barely) the days of music for the fans, a fact sometimes too aggressively proclaimed by the infamously unruly crowds at this festival. The small club folkies haven't yet figured out how to hold a vast crowd with less-than-ideal acoustics, the power groups haven't yet become addicted to endless decades of self-congratulatory stadium tours for inflated prices, teh guitar players are still playing just to show you what new things they have learned that a guitar can do, and you can even get a glimpse into why there is such a split opinion over the ratings of such clearly talented people as Pete Townshend and Jim Morrison (the Darryl Strwberries of their genre, clearly talented, but not always able to channel those talents into a connection with their audience). If you want an eclectic music collection, you can get a good start with just this set. Obvious comparisons with the Woodstock discs beg, both sets include a great variety of styles and quality levels of performances and recordings, but I find the main difference to be in a perceptible change in the audience. At Woodstock we were still there to groove on the music and the scene and free love; the audience and the performers were equally as starry-eyed about the whole scene. Here we were starting to think everything ought to be free, and we were owed it, man, and those freakin' singers better deliver it. If Woodstock was a celebration of the hippie era, then Isle of Wight was a riot demanding it, audience and musicians on opposite sides, the start of a rapid growth of commercialism in rock & roll, a growing pain of a developing industry. Still, for anyone who likes music of the early 70's, there is a lot of wheat among the chaff here, and it always makes an interesting listen, even if there is a temptation to skip a track now & again. 3+ stars for the music (4 if you're a Hendrix or Alvin Lee fan), 4 for the experience.

Awesome Mix
This cd gives several brief looks into the great concert that took place back then. From excellent recordings of the Who, to Free's "All Right Now", this cd truly is a great mix of early 70s rock. For any Hendrix fans the two versions of "Foxey Lady" and "Voodoo Child" are awesome, and well worth it just for these two songs

Where's Mountain?
This is a great collection, but where is the great Mountain track
Stormy Monday, that is on the L.P.?? Check it out if you can find
a copy of the L.P., and still have something to play it on.