Monday, March 9, 2015

Woodstock Artist Compensation List Released


Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock the past 46 years knows about Woodstock, the most famous and well attended rock festival of all time. Over the course of 3 days in mid-August of 1969 32 of the most well known artists performed for 400,000 people; the most amount of people ever gathered together in one place. Some recently unearthed documents show what each artist was compensated with for their performance at the festival.

It's no surprise that Jimi Hendrix tops this list; though in this day and age it is astounding to see how little even he got paid by today's standards. Making only $18,000, Hendrix would not have even been able to buy a much in the way of a new car. Naturally if you adjust for inflation of course (especially considering money went a lot further back then), these artists ended up profiting a lot more than today's generation might have thought they did.

1. Jimi Hendrix – $18,000
2. Blood, Sweat and Tears – $15,000
3. Joan Baez – $10,000
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - $10,000
5. The Band - $7,500
6. Janis Joplin - $7,500
7. Jefferson Airplane – $7,500
8. Sly and the Family Stone – $7,000
9. Canned Heat – $6,500
10. The Who – $6,250
11. Richie Havens – $6,000
12. Arlo Guthrie - $5,000
13. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – $5,000
14. Ravi Shankar – $4,500
15. Johnny Winter – $3,750
16. Ten Years After – $3,250
17. Country Joe and the Fish – $2,500
18. Grateful Dead - $2,500
19. The Incredible String Band - $2,250
20. Mountain - $2,000
21. Tim Hardin - $2,000
22. Joe Cocker - $1,375
23. Sweetwater - $1,250
24. John B. Sebastian - $1,000
25. Melanie - $750
26. Santana - $750
27. Sha Na Na - $700
28. Keef Hartley - $500
29. Quill - $375

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