Bassist Bob Arkin has never achieved the fame of his actor brother Alan Arkin, but “has spent his life eking out a living with his bass, playing modest gigs mostly in New York,” according to a 2014 interview in The New York Times. He recently completed a family legacy tour in which he performed alone on stage for the first time since 1965. Arlo Guthrie - Coming into Los Angeles [Woodstock] - YouTube The hour-long program included story telling and musical performances and was filmed in … "Amazing Grace" is available on a film outtake. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural organization that inspires, educates, and empowers individuals through the arts and humanities. ". Inspiring, educating and empowering through the arts and humanities. Gathering all sources from official releases, as well as audience tapes and film outtakes, completes Arlo's Woodstock set. The other musicians who played alongside Arlo Guthrie at Woodstock did not come from the folk tradition as had Arlo and John. Guthrie admitted that he felt a bit lost in the studio after his friend died. By the time Arlo Guthrie was booked to play Woodstock, his star was rising and everyone knew him and his music. His second studio release, Running Down the Road, was released in 1969 and features a roster of musicians that included Ry Cooder, Gene Parsons, Chris Ethridge, and Jim Gordon, in addition to Guthrie’s usual band. His voice improving, Guthrie followed with another song from the current album, “Wheel of Fortune,” and a Bob Dylan song, “Walking Down the Line,” during which he attempted to get the audience to sing along. Guthrie was never hailed as a pop star, “Alice’s Restaurant ” was too long for radio play, and his most memorable song “Coming into Los Angeles” which was performed at Woodstock was banned from the radio. If you or someone you know attended Woodstock. From his father, Guthrie developed a storytelling style and personal songwriting that embraced protest and took a stand for social justice. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.”. Guthrie’s Woodstock performance of “Coming Into Los Angeles,” complete with the flat, barely-in-time vocal, is seen and heard in the Woodstock movie, but the soundtrack album used a more polished version recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. What followed next was an almost ten-minute monologue that may have seemed like a total non sequitur—a comedic tale of Moses and the Israelites in the land of the Pharaoh, complete with “can you dig it,” “man,” and pot brownies.

It was still raining, parts of the stage were wet. You don’t need to convince a lot of people, just enough people. They opened their set with “Coming into Los Angeles” from his then-current album Running Down the Road.

It was Thanksgiving Day 1965, the public dump was closed for the holiday, and he discarded the trash on private property where others had been dumping trash. It wasn’t even a whole lot of people. In a 2015 Daily Beastinterview Guthrie explained, “You have to understand that what changed in the ’60s was not the result of most people doing anything. The album received favorable reviews when it was released, and his version of “Stealin’,” a folk song from the 1920s, was included on the album and later used in the 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop. Later that year, on Thanksgiving break from college, the 18-year-old Arlo Guthrie was arrested for illegally dumping some garbage from the home of his friends Ray and Alice Brock. I think of my parents as a single unit, and it’s interesting because they shared so much and they were totally opposite. Neither statement was true—the total attendance was more like 450,000, and only selected off-ramps on the Thruway were actually closed. After Woodstock, Guthrie established his own style of popularity by being revered as one of the great folk singers in history with his “talking blues” style of music which is used by such folk artists as Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.