Posted on 12/30/2018 12:06:10 PM PST by Morgana
Soon it will be 50 years since Woodstock.
Not sure what surprises more: the fact that seminal cultural event is coming up on a half-century or that some of its featured acts are still touring. Wasn’t rock ‘n’ roll a youth movement? Didn’t The Who’s Pete Townshend write the immortal line “Hope I die before I get old?” and sing it at Woodstock?
Answers: Yes but not anymore. And yes Pete did, indeed, sing that line from “My Generation” on the third and last day of Woodstock on Aug. 17, 1969.
This week, The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts with Live Nation Concerts and INVNT announced a 50th anniversary edition of Woodstock for August 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
from the article’s 1994 discussion:
>>John Scher, 44, president of Polygram Diversified Entertainment, has little patience with the complaint that this festival can never be what the original was, coming as it does in the post-Nixon, post-Vietnam years.
“These kids are faced with things we were never faced with. Many, many more people have died of AIDS than ever died in the Vietnam War. These kids don’t have the opportunity to go to Canada or stay in college and go to graduate school. They’re faced with that plague right now. I think everybody ought to open up their eyes. Stop worrying about what the comparison was to ‘69. It was a magical time in ‘69. These kids are going to create their own magic.”
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Probably the only time anyone ever said that AIDS was a bigger threat to teenagers of an era than the Vietnam War.
More from the 1994 portion:
>>“We have a war on drugs and sexual diseases, and we’re afraid to walk outside our doors because we don’t know what’s going to happen. We live in a violent society. Twenty-five years ago, when Vietnam was going on, that was violent, but that wasn’t here. It was across the world. We’re living in our own war.”
civil unrest in the streets (riots), thousands of bombings, political assassinations, etc. “it wasn’t here”.
Yes. it. was.
“If I may ask (just out of curiosity), are you from “that generation” (generally speaking), or from a different generation? And, in that same vein, do you like any of the music from those years, or do you hate pretty much all of it? (Just curious.) “
No,I was the mother of 5 small kids when that crap was going on.
I LOVE the music,though.
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No offense
That’s Eric Clapton
Folks should ply their craft long as they want
Some still sound great
David Gilmour por ejemplo
Hollyweirdos today get home transfusions to “recover” from a night of abandon.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603242/questionable-young-blood-transfusions-offered-in-us-as-anti-aging-remedy/
Questionable “Young Blood” Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy
A startup called Ambrosia will fill your veins with the blood of young people and empty your pockets of $8,000.
by Amy Maxmen January 13, 2017
Just off a winding highway along the Pacific coast in Monterey, California, is a private clinic where people can pay $8,000 to have their veins pumped with blood plasma from teenagers and young adults.
Jesse Karmazin is the entrepreneur who made the practice possible, by launching a clinical trial on the potential of “young blood” through his startup Ambrosia. He says that within a month, most participants “see improvements” from the one-time infusion of a two-liter bagful of plasma, which is blood with the blood cells removed...
Will there be bad acid?
Oh, look at that, a similar event with bigger bands and less national fanfare...
“His moniker was given to him by B.B. King at the Texas International Pop Festival in 1969.”
BB King was there all 3 days and enjoyed the people. Full audio (and such comments) can be found on youtube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_International_Pop_Festival
The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30 to September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock.
Saturday, August 30
Canned Heat
Chicago Transit Authority
James Cotton Blues Band
Janis Joplin
B.B. King
Herbie Mann
Rotary Connection
Sam & Dave
Sunday, August 31
Chicago Transit Authority
James Cotton Blues Band
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
The Incredible String Band
B.B. King
Led Zeppelin (announced as “The Led Zeppelin”)[10]
Herbie Mann
Sam & Dave
Santana
Monday, September 1
Johnny Winter
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
B.B. King
Nazz
Sly and the Family Stone
Spirit
Sweetwater
Ten Years After
Tony Joe White
Yep, but probably not Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix, and I don't think CSNY are up to it.
Maybe it is this generation’s Isle of Wight or Glastonbery.
Burning Man has been an annual thing for DECADES. It certainly doesn’t “belong” to this generation.
It’s like the Rainbow gatherings.
Almost another ‘end of times’ story.
Linsey Buckingham, formerly of Fleetwood Mac :)
>>and ample bleachers and chairs so they don’t have to roll around in the mud..........
In 1999, the attendees broke the plumbing system so they could MAKE mud for their stupid photo ops.
I think they did that on the first day in 99.
>>This thing will fizzle out when all of the old Woodstockers take off their clothes.
The Isle of White?
>>Reanimating Woodstock fifty years after the fact would be like the 1965 Super Bowl featuring a half-time performance by the Cliquot Club Eskimos.
if there was a hologram performance by the Clinqot Club Eskimos as the only half time entertainers at the 2019 Superbowl, I MIGHT tune it.
You can’t “recreate” infamous events, just doesn’t happen that way.
The rain. The mud. The overdoses. If you weren’t close to the stage you could hear and see nothing
>>It is an indicator of the choke hold baby boomers have on the culture.
It was barely 11 years between Woodstock and the concerts that comprised Urgh! A Music War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgh!_A_Music_War
Urgh! A Music War is a 1982 British film featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980.
Urgh! A Music War consists of a series of performances, without narration or explanatory text. All performances are live, recorded around 1980, mainly in England and the USA. Clips were also taken from a concert in Fréjus, Var, France with The Police, XTC, Skafish and UB40 among others.
Opening credits
The Police – “Driven to Tears”
Wall of Voodoo – “Back in Flesh”
Toyah Willcox – “Danced”
John Cooper Clarke – “Health Fanatic”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Enola Gay”
Chelsea – “I’m on Fire”
Oingo Boingo – “Ain’t This the Life”
Echo & the Bunnymen – “The Puppet”
Jools Holland – “Foolish I Know”
XTC – “Respectable Street”
Klaus Nomi – “Total Eclipse”
Athletico Spizz 80 – “Clocks are Big; Machines are Heavy/Where’s Captain Kirk?”
The Go-Go’s – “We Got the Beat”
Dead Kennedys – “Bleed for Me”
Steel Pulse – “Ku Klux Klan”
Gary Numan – “Down in the Park”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – “Bad Reputation”
Magazine – “Model Worker”
Surf Punks – “My Beach”
The Members – “Offshore Banking Business”
Au Pairs – “Come Again”
The Cramps – “Tear It Up”
Invisible Sex – “Valium”
Pere Ubu – “Birdies”
Devo – “Uncontrollable Urge”
The Alley Cats – “Nothing Means Nothing Anymore”
John Otway – “Cheryl’s Going Home”
Gang of Four – “He’d Send in the Army”
999 – “Homicide”
The Fleshtones – “Shadowline”
X – “Beyond and Back”
Skafish – “Sign of the Cross”
Splodgenessabounds – “Two Little Boys”
UB40 – “Madame Medusa”
The Police – “Roxanne”
The Police – “So Lonely”
Klaus Nomi – “Aria” (”Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix” from Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson and Delilah) (End credits)
And nearly 40 years later that music is still “too outside” for radio and the so-called hall of fame even though it is the foundation of the rock music that came after 1980.
The Go-Gos? The Police?
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