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Seminole Casino brings Woodstock to Coconut Creek
August 13, 2010
By Veda Jo Jenkins
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Bargain guitarist Aaron Howard strikes the familiar Pete Townshend pose during The Who tribute band's show at Seminole Creek Coconut Casino. (Veda Jo Jenkins / sflimages.com)
As I walked up to the Seminole Casino at Coconut Creek echoes of "Who are You" reverberated from the Pavilion tent. The question in my mind was "Who are you?" I swear it was The Who.
Close, but not exactly. Tribute group Bargain was replicating the exact Woodstock playlist from The Who.
Bargain, a band from New Jersey, was in Florida as part of the Seminole Casino's Woodstock Weekend, performing in the Pavilion. They opened up the show with "Can't Explain" and played crowd favorites "Summertime Blues", "Baba O'Riley", "Pinball Wizard", "My Generation" and "Love, Reign O'er Me".
Even if you were too young to be at Woodstock, which most of the crowd was, people still loved Bargain's versions. For me, The Who was one of the first concerts I ever attended and I wasn't at Woodstock. This band sounded exactly the same. Bargain closed up the set with "Won't Get Fooled Again", getting a standing ovation.
This weekend, the revival of Woodstock continues. Saturday night's main event is The Family Stone (as in "Sly and the" without Sly Stone) along with Janis Joplin's original band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, at 7 p.m. They will be performing at the Pavilion Center Stage and tickets are $25 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com.
There will be other free shows in the Nectar lounge with The Hendrix Experience Friday at 7:15 p.m, Blue Moon Swamp (Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute) Saturday at 5:30 and a tribute to the Grateful Dead by Earth Bombs Mars, Sunday at 6:15.
If that wasn't enough, at approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, the first ever hand of blackjack at the casino will be dealt. To make the deal a little sweeter, David Cassidy - as in Keith Partridge, that David Cassidy - will perform one song before the shuffle.
