WMNF 88.5 Woodstock show, the Abbie Hoffman incident and Young Man Blues the Beauvilles as the WHO

[TerraceYouth]

Abbie Hoffman wouldn't have tried to defend himself. You see.... his Mommy taught him to never 'hit back'.

[PrideofWhitey]

Oh yeah, like Abbie Hoffman was a fat, bald fag wearing short pants that night. Epic fail.

[thewhochilipeppersU2]

the abbie hoffman actor had the lines wrong, plus Pete hit Hoffman with his guitar, this guy threw a cup of water at him.

[FenderPrestigionBass]

don't even try to compare the who with these guys, they ain't got no class at all. the who do.

[sharku22]

he should have worn the jumpsuit and played a red SG to finish it

and an even funkier bassist

[SMITHWAYNE100]

THE WHO's version much better, different class

[theBeauvilles]

@SMITHWAYNE100 Yep, and I bet the Who didn't learn this song right before they went on stage; they probably rehearsed it a couple of times as well... ;)

[IlluminateMary]

WOW THAT ROCKED!

[retroaficionado]

Wow. That looked painful.

[Mansharla]

The fish eye view really puts it into perspective. Great video, fantastic act and a superb piece of music.

[finylvinyl66]

I saw them last night at Skipper's. A three piece doing the Who is a stretch at best, but you have to give these guys credit for almost pulling off a song like this.

(Written by Mose Allison, not by Pete Townshend.) The band that tried to do Sly and the Family Stone were even further off. But kudos to the Ditchflowers

(CSN&Y,) Blue Dice (BS&T,) Jessica

Atkinson (J. Joplin,) Scott Elliot (J. Cocker,) Soul2Earth (J. Hendrix,) and

Big Wiggler with Marty Balin (J.

Airplane.)

[pantherhockey14]

I am too young to know this, but it wasn't before the who came on, it was in the middle of their set.  Audio of the incident can be found on youtube if you search Abbie Hoffman. Hillarious

[theBeauvilles]

Actually this happened during the last song of the bands set at this 88.5 FM event. Something like the original. I went to jail for this, by the way.

[mepperson]

seriously shawn? that is pretty tough shit man.

[allbassrocker]

haha holy shit

[Cervicconstruction]

To those of u to young to understand.Abbie Hoffman before the Who came on commanded a microphone to rail against an imprisoned brother and Pete Townsend hit him with his guitar.Not well know to most was that Abbie set up and ran the medical tents and was really heroic in that aspect during the concert.

[imfarfromfound]

blogged it - great clip brotha.