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Old 08-29-2009, 10:11 AM   #51 (permalink)
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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.
I'd agree with that. I just hate when people try to then parlay that into some greater cosmic meaning, like how music can do "x", where "x" is solve problems, or heal people.

If they'd left it where it was, it would be fine. No one at woodstock saw things more accurately than anyone else. In fact given the drug intake, I'd suspect they had less of an awareness.
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Old 08-29-2009, 01:33 PM   #52 (permalink)
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I'd agree with that. I just hate when people try to then parlay that into some greater cosmic meaning, like how music can do "x", where "x" is solve problems, or heal people.

If they'd left it where it was, it would be fine. No one at woodstock saw things more accurately than anyone else. In fact given the drug intake, I'd suspect they had less of an awareness.
No doubt. Many that were there don't really remember it. Having spoken to a few people that were adults in the '60s, I get the impression that they were just watching all these things happen. The whole era seems to have taken on a meaning that it did not have while it was going on. It just was. The music is still here.
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I think the music then was great and much better than the music around today. Country Joe's performance I think was best. Especially during the Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag when the crowd all stood up and started singing along. I saw that in the movie, I'm only 14 so sadly I never went to Woodstock.
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I think the music then was great and much better than the music around today. Country Joe's performance I think was best. Especially during the Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag when the crowd all stood up and started singing along. I saw that in the movie, I'm only 14 so sadly I never went to Woodstock.
I'm 52, and missed Woodstock, so don't feel too bad. Lot's of great music from those days. Probably because there was so much "change" happening, the music has alot of that feeling. You are lucky to be 14 at a time that technology gives you the freedom to hear so much music, and join in discussions about it. The 60's may be history, but the Spirit lives on through the Music. Rock on.
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The Woodstock festival was an ill-prepared, unhygienic mess. The hippies under the bare sky got all messed up with mud mixed with human excrements.

Nothing to wax romantic about, in my opinion.
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