Performance Videos

We love watching videos of the bands perform — seeing their expressions and hearing them play live — and since we haven’t found video from the Festival, we searched out videos that were recorded around the same time period so you can get a feel for the acts that played that weekend. Enjoy!

Pacific Gas & Electric

This video cannot be embedded on this website, however, it’s a great video of PG&E, so click/tap here to view it on YouTube.

Are You Ready? An appropriate one to start with. From a German TV show.

Led Zeppelin

They had just formed barely six months earlier.

Blind Faith

From their first performance; Midwest Rock Festival was their fourth stop of the tour.

Joe Cocker

This video cannot be embedded on this website, however, it’s a great video of Joe Cocker, so click/tap here to view it on YouTube.

At Woodstock, just three weeks after the Midwest Rock festival.

John Mayall

The Godfather of British Blues. Packed Shank Hall in Milwaukee July, 2019… at 85.

Taste

Hendrix and Clapton had nothing on the legendary Rory Gallagher from Ireland.

The First Edition

Kenny Rogers’ psychedelic hit, before he became one of the top selling musicians of all time.

Johnny Winter

A Woodstock clip playing blues like no other… on a 12 string.

The Bob Seger System

His first big hit. He played in Milwaukee in January 2019 on his farewell tour.

Zephyr

The legendary Tommy Bolin at 18 before James Gang and Deep Purple.

Sweetwater

Shortly after this Bing Crosby show they were the first band to play at Woodstock.

Delaney & Bonnie

Friends of Clapton, they sang with Blind Faith at the end of the Milwaukee show.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The only Native American Oscar winner; performs her song later covered by Elvis Presley.

MC5

Kick Out the Jams! The term they originated.

SRC

Sadly, the only surviving footage. Scott Richardson’s vocals and Gary Quackenbush’s leads still shine through.