"By the time we got to Woodstock,,,,,

[lastlib]

...we were half a million strong"...

(By my estimate, that's about four million in 2019 people...........)

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[Zoonart]

1. ...and everywhere was a song and a celebration.

Lightning in a bottle. What a moment in time.

[rampartc]

2. wouldn't fit at a trump rally in 2019 crowds.

[gratuitous]

3. The Lounge was discussing this song a couple of months ago

I was a mite surprised (I'm old) that while most people are conversant with the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover as well as Joni Mitchell's original, many DUers didn't know about this interesting and evocative cover from 1970 by a one-hit wonder band Matthews Southern Comfort:

[lastlib]

6. This is my favorite version!!

I love this cover! Thanks for posting it!

[llmart]

11. Love that version!

We had the best music ever. No doubt about it.

[Brainstormy]

4. I was doing diapers

and I'm STILL mad I didn't get to go.

[kentuck]

5. Goin' up the Country

[Brother Buzz]

30. Henry Thomas - Bulldoze Blues (1928) - Quills, Baby!

[kentuck]

31. Thanks for that!

I had never heard that one!

[dumbcat]

7. I was there

I drove there from my home on my '62 Triumph Bonneville. My fraternity house had rented a truck, filled it with ice tubs, beer kegs and mattresses and drove down as our base to stay overnight. Wet and muddy, but a significant event in my young life. A year later I was an Army officer.

[kentuck]

8. Comin' into Los Angeles..

[nolabear]

9. There's a documentary on Netflix that had me in tears.

That thing was so out of hand. Ten times the expected crowd, logistics failed, but somehow they managed to have half a million kids and a bunch of wonderful townspeople who’d never seen the like create something peaceful and astounding.

The town impressed me the most. They donated incredible amounts of food. Old guys just shrugging and saying “They’re hungry! We can’t have that.”

It was something else. I was fourteen, and watching from way, way south with deep envy.

[uponit7771]

10. Sound like a great time

[appalachiablue]

22. See #17

[cwydro]

14. What's the name of the documentary? I'd love to see that.

I was much too young to be there, but old enough to be jealous lol.

[nolabear]

15. Just called Woodstock. I've been looking for the movie.

I’m shocked it’s not playing all over but it’s not. Probably behind some paywall. Because, you know, free...🙄

[cwydro]

16. Thanks, I'll look. I did find something called 1969. Pretty good. Covers a lot.

Woodstock, moon landing, Manson, etc.

[appalachiablue]

18. See #17

[appalachiablue]

17. Post in V&MM, 'Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation' (2019)

TRAILER. Now airing on PBS TV Channels,

or *WATCH Online (90 mins.): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/woodstock/#part01

WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION (2019) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, 2019 and opened in select theaters on May 24, 2019. Click here to find a screening near you.

In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.

Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights and the Vietnam War. A sense of an America in transition—a handoff of the country between generations with far different values and ideals—was tangibly present at what promoters billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music.

Woodstock turns the lens back at the audience, at the swarming, impromptu city that grew up overnight on a few acres of farmland. What took place in that teeming mass of humanity — the rain-soaked, starving, tripping, half-a-million strong throng of young people — was nothing less than a miracle of teamwork, a manifestation of the “peace and love” the festival had touted and a validation of the counter-culture’s promise to the world. Who were these kids? What experiences and stories did they carry with them to Bethel, New York that weekend, and how were they changed by three days in the muck and mire of Yasgur’s farm?

MORE, https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017550071

[nolabear]

19. Thanks!

[cwydro]

23. Thanks!

[IcyPeas]

24. thanks!

truly a historical event.

[samnsara]

12. and not one gunshot!

[kentuck]

13. Santana - Soul Sacrifice

[lastlib]

20. THIS!!

Thanks for adding this!

Such. GOOOOD. MUSIC!!! --- --- ---

I don't think Woodstock '69 could even happen today...

[kentuck]

21. With A Little Help From My Friends

[Beaverhausen]

25. XPN.org is playing the concert live as it happened 50 years ago

https://www.xpn.org/

Santana's set just ended. They tore it up!

[kentuck]

26. Jimi Hendrix - National Anthem U.S.A

[flying_wahini]

27. I remember some wildish friends were going to Woodstock but my Mom wouldn't let me go.

I wasn’t quite 16, lived in Texas and had a ride and $20.
And it was a good thing she did say no. I probably would have never come back.

[kozar]

28. How I wish I was just a few years older and could have experienced this!! n/t

[kentuck]

29. Freedom

[SeattleVet]

32. Yesterday a friend forwarded a link to WXPN's Woodstock rebroadcast.

https://www.xpn.org/xpn-programs/the-50th-anniversary-broadcast-of-woodstock?fbclid=IwAR22aVw-6unlf7HiEYabgmtsfpG6YYNVKcGCPwUGQ-bVCNOxPONCXhBkFes

They are doing every performance of every band, in 50-year-later 'real-time'. Caught the full Santana set this morning - they could have made an entire album of just that one performance.

Joan Baez "We Shall Overcome" last night was amazing.

There was a LOT of amazing music that never made it into any of the albums or movies.

[uncle ray]

33. the announcements between sets are a hoot.

"the acid isn't poisoned...it's just BAD man!"

"Bob Jones, the hitch hikers you picked up need the pills from your car"

"there is now insulin and other necessary medical supplies in the medical tent, courtesy of the Army".

lots of people missing their "medicine".

[kentuck]

34. That's cool !

Thanks!