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Originally Posted by mr dave
i think woodstock '69 is the high water mark of the hippie(crosy) movement. do you really expect people to not remember the ultra awesome woodstock '99 whenever this comes up?
the event itself was interesting, especially from a cultural perspective. the music was alright. i think a lot of people look back at that music and think it's somehow 'better' because they're associating it with the idealistic innocence that everyone was wrapping themselves in at the time. they're applying their memories of the time when they first heard that music as a reflection of the music as opposed to just being a reminder of being young. whatever.
hendrix owned that show.
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By 1969 the "hippie movement" had already been commercialised. The real movement went off the rails by 1967. Interesting that Hendrix played Monterey Pop (1967) and blew everyone away, and then at Woodstock he "owned that show". Hendrix said in interviews that he did not enjoy the Woodstock "experience". Other bands that also played fantastic sets were Canned Heat, Johnny Winter and C.C.R. (they did not make the original Movie/soundtrack, but can be seen/heard on the 40th Ann. edition(s) that are out now). I'm sure everybody that was around back then had a different opinion of what was going on. With the war, changes in the status quo and popular culture going on then, probably not many people could "see it all" like we can sit back now and look at. The tensions created great art (music). That is tangible evidence of those times.