Woodstock

[swanny]

"Woodstock"
02-23-05, 07:30 pm (PDT)
Wow.....
Wow.....
Wow.....
I'm just watching the Woodstock DVD....
Amazing....
How Real....
How Impressive....
This is the real mckoy....
It has Alvin Lee of Ten Years ....
startin with some smokin lead and such
Playin at night....
Ah the memories ....
It brings back the beads and insense
and the times of dye tied Indian shirts
It certainly stands out to a testament
of something not sure what
Wow and then when Santana preforms
amazing....
the groove the beat
and who is that drummer
what chops....
and Country Joe too....
No wonder they called it the Summer of Love
They even have shots of the US Army choppers
flying in Medi vac troops to supply first aid

well just thought I share it...
watch it if you can

Great Great

[swanny]

I suppose what bring "this" on is Jimi Hendrix's treatment, interpretation and performance of the American Anthem Song in the middle of his set. Now perhaps the first impression is that this is a kind of perversion of the "anthem", but on closer examination it is a truer rendition of the "reality" of the
American way and dream at that moment in history. You take a very simple rather "tradition" tune and reflect through the lense say of the Kenndy assasination and the vietnam war and then even the landing on the moon.... all of these events seem reflected in the interpretation showing the depth, heigth and breadth of the American reality of the times. In it you also see reflections of injustice and discrimination told in the rendition and freedom but the pain of growth and assertion
and the assasination of perhaps Martin Luther King as well. The tradegy and pathos. I sat back and viewed this "story" because it is more of a "story of song" than just a mere song. The "wild" passions reflected then give a sense of the "apriori" of the day. Most amazing and yet where is Hendrix in this story but seemingly a rather intuitive and sensitive "storyteller" who perhaps succumbs to his own sensitivity perhaps feeling to much the depths of the human condition and only able to "release" it in his music.
Hmmm didn't really want this to be a deconstruction or anaylsis but there perhaps it is.

[swanny]

Now you have to remember
though that stuff seems pretty tame and old
hat for now ,but that this was cutting and leading edge
in that day. To get a modern perspective or example
It is like that scene in the first "Back to the Future"
show where Michael J Fox performs "Johnny Be Good" true
but more so when he goes into his little "rant" lead
thingy and goes ballistic on stage and blows the crowd
away. This though is the true real story. Jimi "blew" that
Woodstock crowd away in the flesh with his American Anthem
Rant. And nobody knew it was
his form of civil rebellion or civil disobiedance. They thought it was just art or music but this marks something
of sorts.

[swanny]

"Declaration of "Truce""
02-25-05, 04:29 am (PDT)
In response to message #0

A Declaration of Truce

Is this the legacy of Woodstock. The gathering of the tribes and the forging of a comprimise a truce a testament.
A testament of teenage and baby boom angst told before the whole world and acted on a stage before one of the largest crowds ever assembled. As I watched the performances it was interesting to see them on that stage. The seemed to be transformed somehow as though "that" stage had some sort of inate power that totally robbed one of all ego and manifested something transcendent. As they performed I was struck at the egolessness of the performances. Im sure today some could bend that power to a different intent but upon that stage some mysterious will was being acted out through the performers and it held an "impecable" quality. Now some might say I'm hallucinating, hee hee, could be flashing back perhaps but what spirit there walks? and sings and plays with an intensity and magnimony. Is that JFK and Martin Luther King etc etc performing, giving there last stand. Giving their "true" message in the best form known how. yes perhaps. If you imagine it , their spirits there on that stage, expressing their truths, their passion, The intensity of the performance, suggest an non earthly presence of some sort found and finding form and expression in the innocence of youth. Forging this truce as it were with an old and tired mindset that had lost or forgotten it self. Here we are reminded then again of what it is that is important in life in humanity no not so much the money but there is a quasi sellout occuring, the deference to the dollar but also the dollars deference to the spirit.
Interesting lack of leadership occurs as well. Who is the leader? It seems to be a shared vision doing the leading a shared dream or stigmergy or autopoeisis. People being led by the shared convictions of what is in there hearts. Minding the money but minding the heart, love and spirit too!

Ah I wax perhaps to sentimental here
A sentimental fool yet this is what I see
Tell me what you see and how you interpret this testament.

[gwuMACaddict]

Tell me what you see and how you interpret this testament.

mostly that you're still just as nutty and incomprehensible as ever :D

[swanny]

But wait ....there is something more.
here then is the essence I believe
For in the legacy of Woodstock
We can find some purpose for living.
A purpose revealed in the spontinaety of
the event.
To me then it suggests our purpose is..this.

"TO SERVE PERHAPS, OUR SMALL CORNER
OF THE BIOSPHERE, OUR LOCAL BIO OR ECO-
COMMUNITY OR VILLAGE" In song, in dance, in
love, celebration and sharing and in
harmony with nature and one and
other. Flaky maybe but it was the reality.
It was and stands as the fact.
Can we sustain or resustain it and
the question stands too as to how
else do we serve?
How are other constructive ways to serve
our Eco-community?
Do we somehow look to the testament
legacy and the record of Woodstock for
answers, hope and solidarity?

Yes I think we can and will.

[Mike Teezie]

I suppose what bring "this" on is Jimi Hendrix's treatment, interpretation and performance of the American Anthem Song in the middle of his set. Now perhaps the first impression is that this is a kind of perversion of the "anthem", but on closer examination it is a truer rendition of the "reality" of the
American way and dream at that moment in history. You take a very simple rather "tradition" tune and reflect through the lense say of the Kenndy assasination and the vietnam war and then even the landing on the moon.... all of these events seem reflected in the interpretation showing the depth, heigth and breadth of the American reality of the times. In it you also see reflections of injustice and discrimination told in the rendition and freedom but the pain of growth and assertion
and the assasination of perhaps Martin Luther King as well. The tradegy and pathos. I sat back and viewed this "story" because it is more of a "story of song" than just a mere song. The "wild" passions reflected then give a sense of the "apriori" of the day. Most amazing and yet where is Hendrix in this story but seemingly a rather intuitive and sensitive "storyteller" who perhaps succumbs to his own sensitivity perhaps feeling to much the depths of the human condition and only able to "release" it in his music.
Hmmm didn't really want this to be a deconstruction or anaylsis but there perhaps it is.

I agree completely. It's funny. When I was in my early teens, I always hated Jimi's rendition of the Anthem.

Now, I'm 22, and that recording literally will give me chills. I think it's because like you said, it was a snapshot of where the youth of this country was at the time. My beliefs now are very much aligned with that generation's hippies.

[Doctor Q]

Woodstock, the movie:

The music was great... The event was great... The legacy was great...

The movie's split-screen method was groundbreaking...

The film won Best Documentary Feature in 1970, and was nominated for Best Sound and Best Editing (losing both to Patton)...

But who besides me thinks that the best part of the Woodstock movie was the interview with the guy tending the portable toilets?

[swanny]

Woodstock, the movie:

The music was great... The event was great... The legacy was great...

The movie's split-screen method was groundbreaking...

The film won Best Documentary Feature in 1970, and was nominated for Best Sound and Best Editing (losing both to Patton)...

But who besides me thinks that the best part of the Woodstock movie was the interview with the guy tending the portable toilets?

Hey thanks for the posts...
The best part...
well hey theres reality for you aye....

Most shows we see never mention that nitty gritty reality
I think it is endearing because it is reality

For those of you who can't manage
to watch the Directors cut DVD
Heres a good summation of the tale.

Woodstock Link = http://www.calebrossiter.com/chapter1b.html

youre welcome

[vollspacken]

I stumbled into the Woodstock Movie Director's Cut on german TV a couple'o weeks ago and watched all four hours of it... awesome

the extended interviews were really cool and added much more depth :)

and Santana just kicked a**!!! WOW (the drummer is Michael Shrive BTW)

vSpacken