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 ...
What accounts for the difference in ticket designs?
I recall an ad in Rolling Stoned magazine even still selling the unused “art” tickets into the late 70s/early 80s ($25 I think).
Are the stained tickets on top the legit tickets?
>>Woodstock was meant to turn a profit, but of course the “Music Should Be Free, Man!” crowd took over. Typical Liberals.
I think Michael Lang sabotaged it from within. I’ve read 3 books (including the filmmakers’, the financers, and Michael’s). It wasn’t his money.
His Miami fest before Woodstock was a disaster and he was part of Altamont as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lang_(producer)
>>Lang was not among the producers of the December 6, 1969, Altamont Free Concert which some had billed as a “Woodstock West”, but was asked by the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead to assist with the last-moment re-location, from Sears Point Raceway to the Altamont Speedway, near Tracy, CA... The concert was subsequently moved to Sears Point Raceway. However, a dispute over film rights led to its cancellation. Lang and Grateful Dead manager Rock Scully were then offered the Altamont Speedway – a rival to Sears Point Raceway – by owner Dick Carter. After the venue was set for the concert, Lang appeared, with his experience in moving the much larger Woodstock festival.[8] The venue was moved on December 4 to the racetrack with the concert starting December 6. The venue change created major technical problems, including a stage built too low and close to the fans.
A few revised names for the 50th anniversary:
Turn up the Heat
Chicago Paratransit Authority
James Cotton Blues Band (not allowed-cotton is white)
Janis Floplin
B.B. HOA
Herbie Old Mann
Delaney & Bonnie & Senior Citizens
The Inedible String Band
Led Zeppelin (not allowed-led is toxic)
Sam & His Husband Dave
Santana (not allowed-Christian reference)
Johnny Florida Winter
Nazz (not allowed-Christian reference)
Sly and the Family Headstone
Ghost
Pluto-water (an old time laxative, for the youngsters here)
Fifty Years After
Tony Joe White Hair
People who went to the original Woodstock are elderly now. Let it go. Very few people care anymore.
Eric Clapton says his hands are giving out on him and is probably retiring at some point.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/eric-clapton-talks-health-issues-going-deaf-2218171
Eric Clapton opens up about health issues and going deaf
Jan 11, 2018
Eric Clapton has revealed that he’s “going deaf” while speaking about ongoing health problems in a new interview.
The legendary singer/guitarist is the subject of new documentary Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars. Clapton was promoting the film when he opened up about his health during a BBC Radio 2 interview.
Confirming that he still plans to perform live, Clapton added: “The only thing I’m concerned with now is being in my seventies and being able to be proficient. I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work.”
“I’m hoping that people will come along and see me just because, or maybe more than because I’m a curiosity,” he continued. “I know that is part of it, because it’s amazing to myself I’m still here.”
“I have to get on the bottom of the ladder every time I play guitar, just to tune it,” Clapton explained. “Then I have to go through the whole threshold of getting calluses [on the fingers] back, coordination.”
Clapton has been open about health issues in recent years. Speaking to Classic Rock Magazine recently, he said: “I’ve had quite a lot of pain over the last year. It started with lower back pain, and turned into what they call peripheral neuropathy – which is where you feel like you have electric shocks going down your leg… I’ve had to figure out how to deal with some other things from getting old.”
Clapton has had a fine career
He more than anyone bridges delta blues with electric rock music
No question
Although I prefer other virtuosos to him, it’s just a matter of taste
He’s really incedible
David Gilmour just sat in with The Pretty Things at their farewell concert (after over 50 years) in London earlier this month.
The Pretty Things & David Gilmour She Says Good Morning Indigo Dec 13 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT0_oVNvEN0
The Pretty Things recorded the original at Abbey Road in 1967 while the Beatles were there recording Sgt. Pepper and The Pink Floyd (pre-Gilmour) recorded Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
Old Man Going (starting at 6:00 mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBiJ4cRWTRM
Van Morrison was there joining in as well
The Pretty Things & Van Morrison Baby Please Don’t Go Indigo Dec 13 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYiRHIfpjwE
The modern kings and queens (of industry).
Wasn't there a queen who bathed in the blood of young virgins to "remain young"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Hungarian: Báthory Erzsébet, Slovak: Alžbeta Bátoriová ; 7 August 1560 – 21
August 1614)[2] was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the noble family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary, Slovakia and Romania). She has been labeled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer,[3] though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1609.[4] The highest number of victims cited during Báthory's trial was 650. However, this number comes from the claim by a serving girl named Susannah that Jakab Szilvássy, Countess Báthory's court official, had seen the figure in one of Báthory's private books. The book was never revealed, and Szilvássy never mentioned it in his testimony.[5] Despite the evidence against Elizabeth, her family's influence kept her from facing trial. She was imprisoned in December 1610 within Čachtice Castle, in Upper Hungary (now Slovakia), and held in solitary confinement in a windowless room until her death four years later.[6]
The stories of her serial murders and brutality are verified by the testimony of more than 300 witnesses and survivors as well as physical evidence and the presence of horribly mutilated dead, dying and imprisoned girls found at the time of her arrest.[7] Stories describing her vampire-like tendencies (most famously the tale that she bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth) were generally recorded years after her death, and are considered unreliable. Her story quickly became part of national folklore, and her infamy persists to this day.[8] She is often compared to Vlad the Impaler of Wallachia (on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based); some insist she inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897),[9] though there is no evidence to support this theory.[10] Nicknames and literary epithets attributed to her include The Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.
Is that Hairy Garcia?
The police were included in the film because of nepotism and they won’t be getting in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Is there a station your town that still plays them on the air?
Go Gos and Police cannot be heard on radio in Houston.
Unleded Zeppelin
Yeah, that’s better!
Most of the hippies cut their hair and went into government.
They are free wheel’n it in their $150k RV. Living on a decent pension.
“The man” isn’t bringing them down to much these days.
I'm not sure what we're arguing about, but popular music is a generational thing.
You didn't hear Al Jolson or Glenn Miller on rock or pop stations in the 1960s or 1970s, so it's not surprising if a lot of stations don't play the Rolling Stones or the Police today.
I can still find Aerosmith and Santana on the radio. Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd too. And Nirvana and 25 year old Pearl Jam and Gin Blossoms and Spin Doctors.
Plenty of “old and older” music on the dial. But not from the time in between.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSzL2leaFM
“Looks like Clapton.” — It is.
Check out this song of his ..... it used to put my boxer dogs to sleep when there was an electric storm.
—Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight (Official Live Video)
An incredible guitarist, but his music is not my cup of tea.
And other medicines the help with things that dried up and things that leak.
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