Boomer DU'ers: Sha Na Na : Why

[Taverner]

Just....why?????

[Squeech]

1. Good question

I assume somebody figured Woodstock needed a nostalgia act.

This was back when the Fairness Doctrine was enforced. After Hendrix, Sha Na Na was a responsible spokesman for an opposing point of view. Or something.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Because 'Grease' wasn't around yet to make fun of the '50s youth

culture.

[HughBeaumont]

3. My first concert, that's why.

1979. Ohio State Fair.

When you're 10, you think that's the coolest shit on earth.

Then someone gives you The Wall. The end.

Personally, I wish someone would start a post-rock sludgecore band with everyone dressed as Bowser.

I think of it as this way - some of Generation Y's biggest scenesters love Michael Jackson's Bad, despite it's arguably watered-down music and his frightening appearance. Why? It's what they grew up with as kids. Just like I have a weird affair with 70s AM pop because it reminds me of a better place in my life even though everyone around me stereotypically considers it the worst music mankind has ever made; Boomers probably grew up with Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Fabian, Elvis, Dion and the Belmonts, etc. Sha-Na-Na, ever the ersatz tribute, did it well enough to remind those caught up in the politics and turmoil of Vietnam/Nixon 60s/70s to go back to that better Leave It To Beaver place in their lives if only for a moment.

[Cannikin]

4. Because we all love Bowser.

[xchrom]

5. why not?

[sasquatch]

6. Or better yet. Boomers: WHY!?!?!?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. WHY did Sha Na Na open for Hendrix at Woodstock?

Day Four lineup:

Paul Butterfield Blues Band
-Everything's Gonna Be Alright
-Driftin'
-Born Under A Bad Sign
-All My Love Comin' Through To You
-Love March

Sha-Na-Na
-Sha Na Na Theme
-Yakety Jak
-Teen Angel
-Jailhouse Rock
-Wipe Out
-Who Wrote The Book Of Love
-Duke Of Earl
-At The Hop
-Na Na Theme

Jimi Hendrix
-Message To Love
-Getting My Heart Back Together Again
-Spanish Castle Magic
-Red House
-Master Mind
-Here Comes Your Lover Man
-Foxy Lady
-Beginning
-Izabella
-Gypsy Woman
-Fire
-Voodoo Child (slight return)/Stepping Stone
-Star Spangled Banner
-Purple Haze
-Woodstock Improvisation
-Villanova Junction
-Hey Joe

http://www.geocities.com/~music-festival/wsonglist.htm

[libnnc]

8. I don't know but I watched it...

All. The. Time.

:banghead: :hide:

[DBoon]

9. There was a brief 50's revival in the mid 70's

for those of us to young to remember the real thing, and also because most rock really sucked at that time.

[Beaverhausen]

10. Bowzer is a good and active Democrat!

I met him at a few meet-ups in 2004. Very nice guy.

His nephew, Eric Bauman, is a big wig in the Los Angeles Democratic party.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. It was retro in the 70's

now it's just kind of lame.