The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock

Astronomer · 08-16-2009, 10:25 PM

^ Agreed.

And I also agree with Flower Child in that all the modern imitations of it/ hollywood renditions ruin the original concept and footage that was captured.

Woodstock makes me wish I grew up in the '60s.

NumberNineDream · 08-16-2009, 11:09 PM

^Everything in the 60's makes me wish i lived then.

there's two of my favorites separated for the 3 nights ...

Friday:
Joan Baez
Ravi Shankar

Saturday:
Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane

Sunday:
Jimi Hendrix [I'm gonna count that one double]

really hard to choose

Rickenbacker · 08-17-2009, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

^Everything in the 60's makes me wish i lived then.

Yeah man, Vietnam was kickass.

NumberNineDream · 08-17-2009, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker

Yeah man, Vietnam was kickass.

the US is not the center of the world.

Astronomer · 08-17-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

the US is not the center of the world.

Most people from the US think otherwise.

mr dave · 08-18-2009, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

the US is not the center of the world.

so... how about filling people in on the rest of the non-US based elements of the 60s that were so amazing? the whole hippie movement directly started in san francisco after all (which indirectly spawned psychedelic music).

so unless there's another major cultural element to the 60s i'm overlooking, in this case the US actually IS the center of the matter.

boo boo · 08-18-2009, 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

so... how about filling people in on the rest of the non-US based elements of the 60s that were so amazing? the whole hippie movement directly started in san francisco after all (which indirectly spawned psychedelic music).

so unless there's another major cultural element to the 60s i'm overlooking, in this case the US actually IS the center of the matter.

Uh? British f*cking invasion?

NumberNineDream · 08-18-2009, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

so... how about filling people in on the rest of the non-US based elements of the 60s that were so amazing? the whole hippie movement directly started in san francisco after all (which indirectly spawned psychedelic music).

so unless there's another major cultural element to the 60s i'm overlooking, in this case the US actually IS the center of the matter.

i meant the 60's isn't only the war between the US and Vietnam ... it was a major thing, but not the only thing.
and personally i'd want to live in Britain or France in the 60's and definitely not in the US.

and being the #1 power in the world doesn't make the US the only country or culture in the world ... i assure you we weren't thinking about the hippies, the flower power or the vietnam in the middle east ... still even here, the 60's were the best years in the last millennium [musically and culturally, overall] , and not only in the past century.

crash_override · 08-17-2009, 10:04 AM

VH1 Classic had the woodstock movie on last night. I watched a bit of it. Ritchie Havens' opening performance is unreal. What a way to kick it off.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-17-2009, 12:09 PM

Sly & The Family Stone & The Who pretty much nailed it.

I don't know why people think Hendrix was so great, he was awful that night.
It was his first ever live show with the Band Of Gypsys & they were woefully under-rehearsed & it shows in their set. Compare that to his sets at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 or the Isle Of Wight festival in 1970 where he smoked out the entire bill and you'll see just how lackluster his Woodstock set actually was.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Sly & The Family Stone & The Who pretty much nailed it. I don't know why people think Hendrix was so great, he was awful that night. It was his first ever live show with the Band Of Gypsys & they were woefully under-rehearsed & it shows in their set. Compare that to his sets at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 or the Isle Of Wight festival in 1970 where he smoked out the entire bill and you'll see just how lackluster his Woodstock set actually was. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.