The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock

Neapolitan · 08-15-2009, 05:06 PM

"Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music"

What do you think of Woodstock '69? How do you feel about the event, the bands & artists, and the music?

Who had the notable most performance?
Do you think the music was better then?

(the line-up taken form wiki)

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Friday, August 15
Richie Havens
Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival
Sweetwater
The Incredible String Band
Bert Sommer
Tim Hardin
Ravi Shankar
Melanie
Arlo Guthrie
Joan Baez

Saturday, August 16
Quill, forty minute set of four songs
Keef Hartley Band
Country Joe McDonald
John Sebastian
Santana
Canned Heat
Mountain
Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band
Sly & the Family Stone
The Who began at 4 AM, kicking off a 25-song set including Tommy
Jefferson Airplane

Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18
The Grease Band
Joe C*cker
Country Joe and the Fish
Ten Years After
The Band
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Johnny Winter featuring his brother, Edgar Winter
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Neil Young
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Sha-Na-Na
Jimi Hendrix

mr dave · 08-15-2009, 05:17 PM

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.

boo boo · 08-15-2009, 06:02 PM

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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.

Hell no, you're just being unfair.

The overall lineup was awesome, not just the big names, the little ones too, like Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and the opening act Richie Havens. It really was a great time for music.

If anyone is letting nostalgia cloud their judgement it's you, Woodstock 99 was clearly a piece of sh*t.

TheBig3 · 08-18-2009, 07:42 AM

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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.

I think Woodstock is idealized more for its cultural douchebaggery than it is for anything else.

Its hard to imagine why anyone would care about music that old and at this point, stale. No one immortalizes the first Boonaroo or lollapalooza.

Its fairly obvious to me it still gives people faith in some vague, shallow notion of peace and love and supposedly tells us what it can do for the world, but just as the assertion the music can "heal the world" is constantly proved wrong, what is similarly constant is that "peace and love" are just taglines to **** stoned blonde-women back in your tour bus.

I'm glad you like playing without your shoes, go nuts. But I paid $60 for this ticket you freeloading moron, now play me some music or I'm going to **** all over your youtube videos.

boo boo · 08-18-2009, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Its hard to imagine why anyone would care about music that old and at this point, stale.

Says the Tom Waits fan.

And as usual you make little to no sense, I'm defending Woodstock here and you're telling me I'm anti-american culture? That's gold.

TheBig3 · 08-18-2009, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Says the Tom Waits fan.

And as usual you make little to no sense, I'm defending Woodstock here and you're telling me I'm anti-american culture? That's gold.

Do you ever engage in a civil argument? This isn't even logical. Whats stale and old about Tom Waits? He released 7 albums in this decade.

And tell me how I called you unamerican?

boo boo · 08-18-2009, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Do you ever engage in a civil argument? This isn't even logical. Whats stale and old about Tom Waits? He released 7 albums in this decade.

And tell me how I called you unamerican?

Michael McDonald still puts albums out dude, let's be fair.

I'd like to know what's so old and stale about Hendrix, The Who or any other band for that matter. I would think you'd be able to appreciate the 60s since The White Stripes have based their whole career off of imitating it.

Or for that matter, you seem to be more into roots revivalism than anything else, I'm not saying Tom Waits or Elvis Costello aren't great musicians, but they were always about reviving that kinda music that a lot of people might consider "old and stale", and they're not doing anything terribly new nowadays, let's be honest.

Anyway when you said "You should view U.S. culture as your culture to." I thought it was directed at me, sorry about that.

Classof75 · 08-29-2009, 07:14 AM

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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.

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.

TheBig3 · 08-29-2009, 09:11 AM

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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.

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.

Classof75 · 08-29-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

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.