Dain.. why don’t you ask New Yorkers what those fuzzy wonderful hippies did while in New York?
Why don’t you ask about the crime rate that went up because of those scumbags, the trash everywhere?
When Woodstock was originally held, NONE of the musical lineup were famous or known bands.
And if the press hadn’t played up non-event, none of them would have been known or famous afterwards either.
It was akin to several highschool garage bands getting together.
The only reason we keep hearing about “woodstock” is because of leftist nostalgia for ‘glory days’ that never in actuality existed.
Jefferson Airplane, The Who, CCR , Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were not well known?? Are we thinking the same Woodstock here?
The worst part? Seeing as how the Greatest Gen is leaving us in droves now, the bloody baby boomers are going to saturate us in endless documentaries about the flower children and Woodstock and how “they” were important too.
No. Hendrix was a big deal having become more widely known earlier after Monterey in '67. The Who was of course was well known coming in...
And if the press hadn’t played up non-event, none of them would have been known or famous afterwards either.
CSNY and Santana certainly deserved their fame having participated in Woodstock.
are u smoking Willie's Kush?
i understand hippie bashing...rich coming from gen x and y kids with their own warts for us to see daily but some of the Woodstock bands were the biggest around
I was not there...living in Jackson MS but in the 7th grade and keenly up to snuff on top 40 and progressive FM which had just taken off in the past few years
i attended some festivals later and enjoyed hell out of it...like Bonnaroo or Coachella would be today...most of us were there for the music and partying and even if politics did creep in there was no political correctness
it was not quite like folks think...and you sure didn't get that shit at Lynyrd Skynyrd or Tull or Sabbath a few years later
folks here generalize a lot from a point of ignorance..no offense...I know you are a decent guy but you simply must not have been around..and don't claim you were Nam to try to slam me...I had older buddies in Nam then and believe me they knew the music...they lived for it
some of Woodstock:
The Who, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash...and Young half the set, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat and Tears, Ten Years After, The Band, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, Mountain, Canned Heat...all those were big bands
granted some bands did not come...Beatles...breaking up...Led Zepplin..already booked...Jeff Beck...cancelled...The Byrds...scared...Moody Blues...booked elsewhere...Dylan...sick of hippies...Rolling Stones...not hippie enough and expensive
bashing hippies here is good sport...i agree though I was sorta a southern fried proudly politically incorrect deer hunting one in my day
but to claim the music was not there at Woodstock is erroneous
and yes when they finally released the movie and sountrack later it did cement a few acts like Arlo Guthrie and Country Joe...but the rest I mentioned were already on the rise
It was 43 years ago and I’m sorry I missed it. You really need to lighten up, man. Maybe seek professional help.