ShaNaNa talks Woodstock hallucinogens & 50 years of rocking
"The golden age of rock n' roll that everyone knows and loves" has been good for Sha Na Na -- to the tune of 50 years, a surprise booking at the first Woodstock festival, a hit TV show and an appearance in theThe group is celebrating in style this year, including a return to the Woodstock site in Bethel, N.Y.
Marcellino tells Billboard that "it was all campy" when Sha Na Na formed at Columbia University during 1969, with guitarist Henry Gross, who went on to solo success, and Elliot "Gino" Cahn, who managed Green Day early in their career. But at some point the singer and drummer says the group became more than a schticky curiosity. "People started realizing how great these songs were," Marcellino notes.
Sha Na Na wound up going on just after dawn on Aug. 18 and just before Hendrix closed the festival. "There's footage of grooving on the side, watching our act as his team was getting ready," Marcellino says. "We were almost edited out but we were getting standing ovations at previews in New York and L.A., so they left it in. We were a little different from everyone else that was in , and I think people liked that.
Marcellino and most of his bandmates spent the entire weekend at Woodstock, and besides the usual memories of mud and chaos he particularly recalls a Saturday night experience while walking around the site with Bruce "Bruno" Clarke. "I was enjoying a hallucinogen of some kind and I decided I wanted to be alone -- but of course I was in the midst of half a million people.
The current incarnation of Sha Na Na does about 25 shows a year, according to Marcellino, who now lives in La Jolla, Calif. "Not too many, but enough to keep it going," he says. "It's pretty extraordinary; It's something that started as college fun 50 years ago, and it's remarkable that it still has legs. And we still rock."
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