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It is an indicator of the choke hold baby boomers have on the culture. Reanimating Woodstock fifty years after the fact would be like the 1965 Super Bowl featuring a half-time performance by the Cliquot Club Eskimos.
>>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.
>>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.