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I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, “Where are you going?”
And this he told me:
“I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm;
I’m gonna join in a rock ‘n’ roll band...”
Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock”
“It’s incredible! I heard the New York Freeway’s closed. [...] Isn’t that far out?” Arlo Guthrie
Though the New York State Thruway wasn’t actually closed, the roads surrounding Bethel, New York became gridlocked for almost 20 miles in mid-August 1969 as people arrived for the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair. The festival, which began on Friday, August 15, drew an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 attendees—vastly more than the crowd of 50,000 that the organizers had anticipated. Many of them simply left their vehicles on the clogged rural roads and walked the rest of the way.
#woodstock#woodstock 1969#woodstock festival#festival#we are stardust; we are golden#down to yasgur's farm#god bless max yasgur#✌️
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Joni Mitchell “A Day In The Garden”—Bethel, New York, August 15, 1998 © Sue Tierney.
#Joni Mitchell#A Day In The Garden#Yasgur's Farm#Bethel#New York#NY#1998#1990s#Sue Tierney#VG 8 Roland#Style
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Taking Woodstock (2009) Ang Lee
#going down to yasgur's farm.....#taking woodstock#ang lee#a pretty enjoyable and inconsequential film
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Ten Years After - I’m Going Home / Medley (Live | 1969)
Alvin Lee / Traditional/Big Joe Williams / Carl Perkins /
Claude Demetrius / Dave "Curlee" Williams / John Lee Hooker
from:
"Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More"
(Disc 2 | Side 4)
Blues Rock | Rock and Roll
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YouTube:
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Personnel:
Alvin Lee: Vocals / Guitar
Chick Churchill: Keyboards
Leo Lyons: Bass
Ric Lee: Drums
Album Compiled and Produced by Eric Blackstead
Recorded Live:
@ Max Yasgur’s Farm
in Bethel, New York USA
on August 8, 1969
Album Released:
on May 11, 1970
Cotillion Records
Medley Includes:
Baby Please Don't Go
Blue Suede Shoes
Mean Woman Blues
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Boom Boom
#Alvin Lee#Ten Years After#WoodStock#1960's#I’m Going Home#Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack
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Soloing Secrets - Leslie West
This lesson takes a look at a number of licks and phrases pulled from three Leslie West-related albums, including his 1969 debut solo album entitled 'Mountain,' along with two albums from his group, which was also called Mountain.
The examples shared here include sections from songs such as 'Silver Paper,' 'For Yasgur's Farm,' 'Blind Man,' and 'Don't Look Around,' to name a few.
Needless to say, if you're a Leslie West/Mountain fan, a fan of 1960s/1970s rock and blues-rock music, a guitarist looking for some tasty soloing ideas to add to their bag of tricks, or maybe you're just curious what all the fuss is about - this lesson is totally for you!
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august 15, 1969
It's Day 1 of the Woodstock festival on Max Yasgur's 60-acre farm in Bethel, New York (the festival was originally going to be in Woodstock, New York, so they kept the name). Day 1 doesn't have the biggest names, but massive crowds make it clear that something's happening here. Artists to appear this day include Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Tim Hardin and Arlo Guthrie.
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Said I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm, gonna join in a rock 'n roll band ✌️
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This date in rock music history…
August 17th
2009 - Pink Floyd
A thief in New Zealand took the unusual step of leaving his contact details at the site of his crime. The man reserved a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall at a record shop in Christchurch, leaving his name and phone number, before robbing the till. He was a regular customer at the shop and already had several records on order.
2008 - Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne was suing US Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his songs without permission. Browne claimed the use of his song Running on Empty in an advert was an infringement of copyright and would lead people to conclude he endorses McCain. Browne was seeking more than $75,000 (£40,000) in damages.
1999 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin topped a chart of Britain's most bootlegged musicians, compiled by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), after identifying 384 bootleg titles featuring Led Zeppelin performances. The bootleg chart was complied from the BPI's archive of some 10,000 recordings seized over the past 25 years. The Beatles came in second with 320 entries, other acts listed included The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd.
1979 - Anita Pallenberg
The New York Post reported that Anita Pallenberg (the wife of Keith Richards) was linked to a witches coven in South Salem, New York where Richards owned a house. A policeman claimed he was attacked by a flock of black-hooded, caped people and a local youth claimed he had been invited by Pallenburg to take part in ‘pot smoking sex orgies’. Locals also claimed they found ‘ritualistic stakes’ and small animals that had been ‘sacrificed’ near the house.
1974 - Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 461 Ocean Boulevard, a No.3 hit in the UK. The house featured on the album cover is 461 Ocean Boulevard in the town of Golden Beach, Florida (near Miami) where Clapton lived while making the album.
1973 - Paul Williams
Former Temptations singer Paul Williams was found dead in his car, after shooting himself. He owed $80000 in taxes and his celebrity boutique business had failed.
1969 - Woodstock Festival
The final day of the 3 day Woodstock Festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over 186,000 tickets had been sold but on the first day, the flimsy fences and ticket barriers had come down. Organizers announced the concert would be a free event, prompting thousands more to head for the concert.
1968 - Doors
The Doors started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Waiting For The Sun. The group's third album spawned their second US No.1 single, 'Hello, I Love You'.
1968 - Young Rascals
The Rascals (formerly the Young Rascals), started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'People Got To Be Free'. The group had thirteen US top 40 hits.
1965 - The Byrds
The Byrds were forced to cancel a concert during their UK tour at The Guildhall, Portsmouth when only 250 of the 4,000 tickets had been sold.
1964 - The Beatles
Glasgow council in Scotland announced that all boys and men with Beatle styled haircuts would have to wear bathing caps after a committee was told that hair from 'Beatle-cuts' was clogging the pools filters.
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The Winchesters: Back to the Garden?
Is this, SPNWin 1x02 Teach the Children Well.
really heading for this? SPN 4x03 In the Beginning
The tone and colour palette of The Winchesters, which is Scooby-Doo in golden sepia is, thus far, significantly removed from the dark palette and profound horror of early Supernatural.
This is partly because the CW wants its programmes to be advertising friendly for its youth demographic and it has ideas about what that looks like. We know that Supernatural was an anomaly, and that the network told SPN to move away from its early (gorgeous) darker cinematography,.
But, the story-telling horror remained. And that horror was driven significantly by the struggle with fate.
If we are in Universe One (the SPN universe) then we already know John and Mary’s fates.
As Lucifer said in 5x04 The End: “Whatever you do, you will always end up... here. No matter what choices you make, whatever details you alter, *we* will always end up... here.”
But that would be hopeless, right? To simply be heading to SPN 4x03 In the Beginning, when Cas takes Dean back in time, but Dean is unable to prevent the events that lead to Mary, desperate on the road at night, kissing her own father Samuel on the mouth (possessed by Azazel), to seal the demon deal that damns Sam to become Lucifer’s vessel, while John Winchester’s lifeless body lies between them...
This story, The Winchesters, doesn’t feel like a dark-character-arc story, a fall-from-grace story, about how Mary ended up dead and John ended up neglecting their kids.
Robbie Thompson wrote SPN 10x11 There’s No Place Like Home and the colour palette of Oz (an Alternative Universe) really reminds me of The Winchesters:
I’m guessing many SPN fans are missing the traumatic text of SPN.
I’m missing it too, and The Winchesters feels... confusing.... for that reason.
Trauma can be addictive, after all.
Is The Winchesters intended to be a redemptive text, a healing text, by contrast?
I mean, like Sam and Dean, The Winchesters Scoobies are carrying trauma. John is suffering from Vietnam War PTSD, given he saw his friend Murph get blown up. Mary has been traumatised by her childhood as a hunter, and the death of her beloved cousin Maggie on a hunt. Lata is estranged from her family and has lied to her friends that her parents are dead. Carlos’ family (parents and brother) were killed by a ghoul, which is how he got into hunting. Ada has already been traumatised by demon possession and seems to be going a bit dark with her bonsai tree as demon trap.
But somehow, they’re... reaching out to each other, supporting each other, talking about their feelings?!?!?!
Particularly given the 60s and 70s soundtrack, I’m really hearing Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock:
“I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him where are you going
And this he told me
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm *
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden”
Some kind of return to Paradise (but not the fakery of Heaven) guided by Holy Ghost narrator Dean?
To a place where “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt”? (Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut).
I can sense that the SPN fandom is a bit muted about The Winchesters and there’s some not-great news about its survival coming out of the CW already:
https://deadline.com/2022/11/the-winchesters-amp-walker-independence-no-back-orders-cw-cutbacks-season-2-canceled-renewed-1235159619/
A shame, because there’s something really intriguing about a redemptive after-vision for Supernatatural from Robbie, Jensen and Daneel, with a Vonnegut twist - the promise of healing for the traumatised and I’d like to find out where the story is going.
#Supernatural#The Winchesters#SPNWin 1x02#The Winchesters meta#Meta#SPN meta#Robbie Thompson#Vonnegut#Everthing was beautiful and nothing hurt#Joni Mitchell#Woodstock
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Weyes Blood and CJ Vanston perform “Woodstock” for Joni Mitchell.
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Woodstock
Songwriter: Joni Mitchell
Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, "Tell me, where are you going?"
And this he told me
Said, "I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm
Gonna join in a rock 'n' roll band
Got to get back to the land
Set my soul free"
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Well, then can I walk beside you?
I have come to lose the smog
And I feel myself a cog
In somethin' turning
And maybe it's the time of year
Yes, and maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But life is for learning
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song
And a celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
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Woodstock music festival begins 53 years ago today August 15, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York #woofstockfestival #musicproduction #woodstock1969 #anniversary #bethelnewyork #musicfestival (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChlY3F_L3LeK56dsef-1kWGamPTlpwq1IpQ5Kg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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This song makes me think of a 70s coming of age movie where the main character runs from their home town, has a tough time getting to where they want in life and when they finally get there this song plays as the character is looking around and taking it all in.
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Who Am I But You and the Sun (For Yasgur's Farm) (Live at Woodstock, Bethel, NY - August 1969) · Mountain
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Rewind: Joe Cocker - Live at Woodstock (2009)
Perhaps nothing captures the 1960s ethos better than 500,000 freaks watching and listening to a writhing, bug-eyed and tie-dye-clad Joe Cocker plowing his gravel voice through “Let’s Go Get Stoned” on the Woodstock stage.
For the half-million or so who were there - and didn’t take the brown acid - it must be indelible. For those who were not - and/or were born too late - there’s 2009’s Live at Woodstock, which captures Cocker and the Grease Band’s Sunday-afternoon, Aug. 17, 1969, set in its entirety and renders it with a clarity that belies recording in the midst of what was essentially a disaster area.
Yet, there it is. Seventy-five minutes of Cocker power bookended by Bob Dylan’s “Dear Landlord” - one of a handful of the Bard’s compositions Cocker sung that day; this one dedicated affectionately to that “that farming guy … nice little bloke” Max Yasgur - and the definitive remake of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends,” which made a rock ‘n’ roll hero of the raspy hippie with the spasmodic stage presence when the “Woodstock” film was released.
The band, gritty as Cocker’s throat, has a sound much like Big Brother and the Holding Company and/or Jefferson Airplane, with organ instead of piano (which adds a unique twist to “Feelin’ Alright”) and comically bad background vocals.
And they serve the music well, giving Cocker the freedom to toggle between his version of crooning and throat-shredding screeching in a set highlighted by such tracks as the 12-minute “I Don’t Need No Doctor,” which allows the players to stretch out; the languid “I Shall be Released;” the syncopated “Hitchcock Railway;” and the raucous “Something’s Coming On,” which Blood, Sweat & Tears also played on the same stage on the same day.
Only their balladic rendering of Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman” falters; it would’ve provided a good opportunity to go get stoned - again.
Grade card: Joe Cocker - Live at Woodstock - B+
2/25/24
#joe cocker#live at woodstock#bob dylan#the band#max yasgur#blood sweat and tears#traffic#big brother and the holding company#jefferson airplane
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A Farmer in Bethel, New York, Sued Fellow Farmer Max Yasgur, who Rented Out His Farm for the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, for $35,000 for Damage to Their Properties Caused by the 500,000 Hippies Who Attended the Festival. January 7, 1970.
Image: Opening ceremony at Woodstock. Swami Satchidananda giving the opening speech. (Public Domain)
On this date in history, January 7, 1970, a farmer in Bethel, New York, sued fellow farmer Max Yasgur, who rented out his farm for the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, for $35,000 for damage to their properties caused by the 500,000 hippies who attended the festival.
Woodstock’s organizers were…
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