Summary: Woodstock organizers, artists and audience members recall the 1969 music festival that rocked the world in more ways than one. Music and memories from the historic event. (2 hour special)
What can I say. You already know "you missed it". Can't blame you for feeling jealous. Judging anything of the past by current standards is folly. The violence of the past resulted in your enjoying the peace of the present. Don't take it for granted. It could be taken from you at any moment -- especially if all you can do is sit back and judge those who have paved the way for you. Life is about struggling. Get used to the idea..
Very well done!
Each song brought back good memories of living in that exciting time of political upheavel and dramatic changes in the country so well documented in the music of the time.
It’s hard to believe that 40 years ago this summer hordes of young Sixties music lovers got together on a farmer’s field in Bethel, N.Y. for the most iconic countercultural event of the mid-20th century. Next week Woodstock’s organizer-in-chief’s memoir, the wunderkind Michael Lang’s “The Road to Woodstock” will be released by the Ecco Press. Why not beg, borrow or steal a copy of Lang’s book and leaf through it while you listen to Paul Ingles’s two-hour recap of the event?
From Joni Mitchell’s haunting opening song recorded here to Jimi Hendrix’s final rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” this earful of history will echo in your mind. Plus, you’ll get to learn, if you don’t already know them, the incredibly tangled events that led to the concert. It was stuffed with so many gatecrashers who had upped and left their cars on the New York State Thruway that the highway was closed. Concertgoers hiked, and singers had to be helicoptered in.
By now many listeners in Public Radio Land may be unfamiliar with the three days in August 1969 that shook this nation. What better time than now, during the Obama administration, to go “Back to the Garden” that was Woodstock and sing along with Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and all those children of light?
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Hugh Johnson
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM | Permalink
You definitely had to be there
What can I say. You already know "you missed it". Can't blame you for feeling jealous. Judging anything of the past by current standards is folly. The violence of the past resulted in your enjoying the peace of the present. Don't take it for granted. It could be taken from you at any moment -- especially if all you can do is sit back and judge those who have paved the way for you. Life is about struggling. Get used to the idea..
Joanne Lithgow
Posted on August 12, 2009 at 02:46 PM | Permalink
Great Memories!
Very well done!
Each song brought back good memories of living in that exciting time of political upheavel and dramatic changes in the country so well documented in the music of the time.
David Srebnik
Posted on July 02, 2009 at 07:01 PM | Permalink
Back to the Garden Takes You There
Please see the recommendation on the "Music Stations Picks for July" Page: http://www.prx.org/playlists/82892
James Reiss
Posted on June 23, 2009 at 10:08 PM | Permalink
Children of Light
It’s hard to believe that 40 years ago this summer hordes of young Sixties music lovers got together on a farmer’s field in Bethel, N.Y. for the most iconic countercultural event of the mid-20th century. Next week Woodstock’s organizer-in-chief’s memoir, the wunderkind Michael Lang’s “The Road to Woodstock” will be released by the Ecco Press. Why not beg, borrow or steal a copy of Lang’s book and leaf through it while you listen to Paul Ingles’s two-hour recap of the event?
From Joni Mitchell’s haunting opening song recorded here to Jimi Hendrix’s final rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” this earful of history will echo in your mind. Plus, you’ll get to learn, if you don’t already know them, the incredibly tangled events that led to the concert. It was stuffed with so many gatecrashers who had upped and left their cars on the New York State Thruway that the highway was closed. Concertgoers hiked, and singers had to be helicoptered in.
By now many listeners in Public Radio Land may be unfamiliar with the three days in August 1969 that shook this nation. What better time than now, during the Obama administration, to go “Back to the Garden” that was Woodstock and sing along with Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and all those children of light?