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. Wasnt rock n roll a youth movement? Didnt The Whos 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 ...
and it was the beginning of the downward slide that put us where we are today.
The hippy counterculture became the totalitarians we are dealing with today. Go figure.
Oh let them play. They’ll eat by 4 o’clock each day and be asleep by 9:30.
“And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for??!!!...?...??...uh...??”
Who is Country Joe and Fish anyway?
CSNY are still around.
Janis Joplin and Hendricks not so much.
Santana still rocks it when he zips the anti-Trump tirades.
Good list here: https://www.thoughtco.com/where-are-they-now-748355
And 1/2 of The Who.
"Where are you headed? Upstate New York. Some big concert"
I freaking LOVE that film.
Great music. The late ‘70s - early ‘80s were a renaissance for rock n roll and that film is the best documentation of it I’ve seen.
CSNY don’t have that “peace love and understanding” thing between bandmates. Nash says never again
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