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Article: WAITING AT woodstock ; Quincy native and Sha Na Na drummer John "Jocko" Marcellino spent much of the festival hoping to get onstage
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- August 15, 2009
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For most people at Woodstock, the big worries were rain, mud and
a shortage of food. But not for John "Jocko" Marcellino. The Quincy
native and Sha Na Na drummer and co-founder spent most of the famous
1969 rock festival wondering whether his Fifties revival band would
ever get to perform.
"We were supposed to go onstage on Saturday (the second day), but
the schedule went out the window early," Marcellino recalled in a
telephone interview. "By Sunday we weren't sure we would even get
on."
They finally did - just after daybreak on Monday, as the next to
last act before guitarist Jimi Hendrix closed the festival. Their
rave-up version of "At the Hop" turned out to be one of the
highlights of ...