The word Woodstock says enough on it's own but would anyone like to give a comment on the celebration?
The 25th and 30th anniversary was a failed attempt to recapture a lost time in american history Now Roswell 97 was an entirely different thing altogether :leaving: Hotwater
myricals are not replicable. the pretense of attempting to is a marketing ploy which bennifits nothing but the circular illogic of little green pieces of paper. even if a place becomes sacred, well massive numbers of people going to that place expecting it to give them that sacredness because they've showed up there in mass again, well it just don't work that way. there will be other magical times and places, but these cannot be premeditatedly brought about and certainly not by attempting to replicate the most superficial of external circumstances to them. the magic of woodstock one was the conditions and the response to them it represented, the combination of all the different things the people who showed up there were feeling at the time that they did. this just isn't something that is replicable, for many reasons, one of which being its simplicity of complexity. psuedosimplicity of surface, real and finely tuned complexity of substance. tuned by circumstance. you've got to understand these were mostly young people who were under the stress of a national military draft for a war they felt was immoral, many, perhaps most, living lives of living martyrdom as a protest of conscounse against it, and this big release of finding themselves not alone and not isolated and that there was this huge number of other people to share their tears and laughter with and musicians playing to that experience and in tune with it. this SORT of thing can and probably will happen again, somewhere, sometime, but it cannot be forced any more then you can give someone else the experiences of what you've felt. and it certainly isn't automaticly replicated by name or geography =^^= .../\...
Woodstock 69 was fabulous!! (I have it on VHS,record and cassette) Woodstock 94 was ok (I have it on VHS (Some of it (Metallicas whole set and 90% of Nine inch Nails set and some other parts also)) Woodstock 99 was garbage and all newer ones since........
They were there? No wonder people wanted to burn the place to the ground. I had the Woodstock 99 cd and I don't recall them on it.
Woodstock was like one of those crazy mad saturday nights with the lads ! you try to recreate it but you never can !
I was at Woodstock '89, the 20th anniversary illegal one. There was a lunar eclipse also. It was impromptu and held at the original site. It started with one folk singer and blossomed into a three free day event. There weren't many big names but Wavey Gravey was there, Jimi Hendrix's father, Melanie, and Savoy Brown as well as anyone who wanted to take the stage. About 150,000 people showed up. There was virtually no commercialization.
Woodstock '89 took place on the original site of Woodstock '69. It was mostly unplanned. There was another 20th reunion planned down the road called "Remember Woodstock” at Swan Lake somewhere down the road but nobody went to it, they just showed up at the original site. Everything was donated including the stage. There was no selling of food or drinks. Here's an article...it's hard to find anything about this concert.....
in 69 it was showing strength in numbers to oppose war. nostelgia is nostelgia and that's not the same thing at all. in 69 it was mostly young people, being free and opposing the hatred of logic. it was also, you see, looking forward, which is totally different from looking backward toward it. its not that that kind of thing can't happen again, its that looking back at it is just not the same thing as doing it forward. things do come around, but the second time it does, you're the over 30s. that's just the way it goes. sanatra and his bunch were a kid band once, they were the has beens by the time of woodstock. time passes. i don't think we loose the capacity for the spirit, but a bunch of insurance salesmen can never be the same as a bunch of engineering students. (and no matter what kind or how much of mind altering substances you consume either) (i do agree we're long over due for what it was really about. reunions are fine, but they ain't it)
we do have high school and college kids today recognizing what needs to be done. they don't have the sheer weight of demographics behind them we did in 69, but lest support them. also, i just heard "the war at home" as been re-released in an upgraded version. and as mentioned, world war one was as far in the past in 69, as 69 is in ours now. and there was a movement to end that one too. today we face indifference to our dependence on having an environment, blinded by corporate greed, we even have politicians who seem again to want wars, not over anything in particular, as if they ever really were, but just so they can suspend their nation's constitutions. people sacraficed themselves in the 60s to make the 70s possible, then threw it out with the bath water in the 80s. threw it away for our computers, which i'm glad we have, but throwing away the trains to worship the automobile was a big mistake for the environment, rights, culture and everything. and in 2000 we almost had world peace, but some people couldn't stand not having war profits and stratagy games that killed real people, so we had that 9-11 thing to prevent it. woodstock wasn't just a thing about music, or fassion or celebrity, and that was the mistake with those subsiquent ones. peace and civil rights is what the birth of 'hippy', of which the summer of love was a culmination of, was all about. and its that spirit we need, (and goaded by a tyrannical mobster wannabe in the oval office) and are seeing again, not in 89 nor 99, but now, with that little girl who stood up at the climate summit, for example. to have rights you need to exist, to exist you need an environment. music can rally people, but lets not forget, its not just a fashion show.
