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Originally Posted by Classof75
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.
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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.