Creedence Clearwater Revival "Proud Mary" (Live at Woodstock)
I Want to Take You Higher - Sly & The Family Stone - Live - Woodstock
Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (1969)
The Temptations "I Can't Get Next To You" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (Live at Woodstock '69)
The best decade of music, ever.
Before Carter, before ‘read my lips’ before jihad, before ‘my body my choice’ before ‘trans rights’ before ‘no person is illegal on stolen land’ etc.
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Thank you for the Temptations link. Great vocal talent.
I wonder if the business and music executives of the time would be able to earn their corporate positions today, or if they would be seen as old fat white men too unhip to know music.
RE: Yasgur said, “If we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future.” The 60s’ dream of building a better world seemed as though it was finally going to become a reality.
So music is related closely to the spiritual.
A portion of the opening statement to the crowd (said to be a version of a benediction) from Swami Satchidananda.
My Beloved Brothers and Sisters:
I am overwhelmed with joy to see the entire youth of America gathered here in the name of the fine art of music. In fact, through the music, we can work wonders. Music is a celestial sound and it is the sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in this world. And, one thing I would very much wish you all to remember is that with sound, we can make—and at the same time, break.
It was a youth boom not exactly a dream
The leaders of the upheaval from civil rights to yippies and free love never a real majority were actually pre boomers
Nobody ever says that inconvenient truth
The music however was great
Still is
The writer thinks the world revolved around good rock n roll music events. He forgot that mind bending drugs, lack of food and financial success, hedonism, loss of the concept of right and wrong, and general dishonesty were greater influences on the culture. Those factors helped destroy the hopeful, but naive notions of the youthful 60’s more than the popularized or signature events of the rock n roll world.
Still reelin’ in the years....
IMHO
What’s sad is many are still enslaved.
Willie Nelson’s brand is basically owned by Sony. Sad.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Allman Bros. recently. Great stuff.
““What died at Altamont was the notion of spontaneity, of the sense that things could happen on their own and that benevolent spirits would prevail.”
Likening the events of Altamont to The Lord Of The Flies, he concluded, “What emerges accursed is the very idea of nature, of the idea that, left to their own inclinations and stripped of the trappings of the wider social order, the young people of the new generation will somehow spontaneously create a higher, gentler, more loving grassroots order”
Defund the police & replace them with social workers.
I’m old and out of step, so my opinion on the state of the culture is probably not worth two cents. However, I am struck by the regularity of “new” things in rock in those decades past. Elvis took the world by storm, then the Beatles, and the folk music that led into Dylan, then the psychedelics, and the blues rock of the Stones and Zeppelin, hard rock in the 70s, heavy metal, then Punk, then 80s synth pop, then Grunge ...
I suppose a few other little genres could be added to that list. But somewhere along the way, it seems to me it all died out — at least as far as popular radio tunes and big records sales. Taylor Swift is huge — and is anyone going to care about her in 20 years? I think not. Everything now seems bland and boring and nothing seems new. We had 40 or 50 years of sparkling invention. Now it’s corporate slop and it’s auto-tuned and tweaked on machines. It all seems like crap to me. Somebody is making money, but I’m not sure these people are making music.
Kind of funny, I turned 19 the Summer of 1969 and didn’t hear about Woodstock until the movie came out a couple of years later. Not that I would have gone, none of my friends had heard about it either.
Well, the music was undeniably good….
:Everybody screams:
Best Camaro.
I enjoy listening to the Boss Radio soundchecks from that time, it’s the closest thing to a time machine. All kinds of great music, that everyone knew by heart. Now everything is so segmented.
Chuck Girard just died Aug. 11th. “Who in the world is he?” you ask. He was the founding member (I think) of the group Love Song that contributed to the Jesus movement and the start of contemporary Christian music movement. His songs were very popular but the radio stations refused to play them. Too bad. He had quite a testimony - his dad died when he was 5, I think, of a drug overdose, raised by abusive grand parents, he left home at age 16. He went from drugs and eastern religions to finding faith and answers in Christianity. Perhaps if we had listened to the message of Love Song our nation would be in better shape today. One of his daughters gave a very moving eulogy that’s on Youtube. I saw him a long, long time ago when he was just touring by himself. There’s supposed to be a 3 part special on Amazon Prime videos this Sept. regarding his life.
Probably appropriate for this thread.
The Beatles - The End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12R4FzIhdoQ
Yeah, so? Eras change, the Rock Generation is dying off. Just the way it is.
Just remember, Rock replaced something before it, and before that, something else was replaced. Even rap (or whatever the current trend is) will be replaced by something else one day.
Boomers, you’re not special. (And neither are Gen Xers, my generation).