WOODSTOCK 2
Woodstock 2 (or woodstock two as on the cover) is the second live album released of the 1969 Woodstock Festival concert. The 2-LP set contains more material from many acts featured on the first Woodstock album with additional performances from Mountain and Melanie. Woodstock 2 was originally released in 1971 as a double LP set and was re-released as a double CD in 1994. Also in 1994, the songs from both albums, as well as numerous additional, previously unreleased performances from the festival, but not the stage announcements and crowd noises, were reissued on a 4-CD box set titled Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. An even more comprehensive 6-CD set, Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm, was issued by Rhino Records in 2009. (More from Wikipedia)
After Mountain, the solo album by Leslie West was released, the group then went on the road using the band name Mountain, bringing along Steve Knight on keyboards after Norman Landsberg and Ken Janick left to start the band Hammer. Their fourth concert as a working band was at the 1969 Woodstock festival; though they were not included on the first album or the concert film, their performances of "Blood of the Sun" (from the Leslie West solo album, Mountain) and "Theme for an Imaginary Western" (written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown) were included on the double album Woodstock 2 that came out in 1971.
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