Woodstock -- Matthews' Southern Comfort (in HD)

[toobmeister1]

Vastly superior to the CSNY version. Sounds as great today as it did in 1970.

[70bluestar]

If a song ever captured the essence of a moment this is it. Thank you Ian and Joannie

[mancmuso1]

"Turn on, tune in, drop out" ;D

[TheMarkster1957]

I like this version better than CS&N.

[RitaMayish]

@TheMarkster1957 Joni wrote it CNSY version is brilliant to dance to. This is the first I heard and is haunting, special.....fits the sentiment.

[MusicMadGuy2010]

A GREAT SONG, MUSIC THAT DEFINES A GENERATION, PEACE, LOVE AND FREE SPIRITED, A LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTON ERA IN HISTORY.

Patrick...Ireland.

[Peace0Rock]

Amazinggg song!!

[flaxonx3]

From 1970, captures the post sixties spirit perfectly, I turned 7 in 1970 and don't remember much of the sixties vividly but remember the dawn of the seventies having a powerful energy passed on from the sixties.

[Mrjablles69]

whoever posts a damn tab vid to this song i'll make a webcam porn vid for him......im kidding of course (you sick dirty bastards) ......but seriously i've been searching the nets for decent tablatures and yet there is none to be found!!!!!!!!

[MusicMadGuy2010]

Superb songwriting by Joni Mitchell, This is no doub't the dinvinitive version of her song, sung with excellence by Matthews Southern Comfort..Stunning :)

[snaebjorn53]

Thanks rock, a fantastic tune with “fab” photos. Takes me back to Hippydom.

Peace and Love is the answer.

[MrSibir73]

the best of that time.

[MrKayaker69]

totally far out and cosmic

[mrmojorisin291278]

We have Glastonbury in the UK, is on as i write this and it is a sham compared to Woodstock 69, i would give all my limbs to have one day there in 1969.

[philfriel001]

Joni Mitchell may have wrote the song, but this was by far the best of the three versions that I've heard (the other two were Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash). I was only 9 years old when it was No.1 in the UK charts, and I knew NOTHING of the Woodstock festival until years later, but this haunting version of the tune has stuck in my mind all these years. Classic.

[SweetTee1959]

@philfriel001 Re: the version of this song I totally agree. This rendition really seems to better set the tone for the times. So smooth. So..... yeah.

[TheOldschoolfool]

cool vid.some cool looking dudes there.top song too!!

[TheOldschoolfool]

@TheOldschoolfool no,make that a fucking great vid



[TheWoodstockWarrior]

In my opinion this is the best version of this song. It takes me back to that long lost week-end. If I close my eyes I can almost see the “Orange Sunshine”.

[TheOldschoolfool]

@TheWoodstockWarrior

haha.good times then??!!

[tdbsnr]

Beautiful...

[fuwmg]

I personally think the promotion of gimmicky music, bands promoted for looks or bad images, instead of quality of composition, songwriting and art are the reason our society has taken many steps backwards.

The mainstream music sends messages that are negative instead of positive.

Rap/Hip Hop, Kids singing about sex and rebellion, depression and killing. But the bands that are still making music for the pure art and emotion are blacklisted and deemed "unpopular" What a shame :(

[70bluestar]

August 1969. It was almost over.

[pondultimatum]

Hey man I'm 15 and My father turned up this song in his car

and I was like "Shit man!! this song is f*cking great"

the part at 3:12 - 3:39 is purely eargasm

[TheOldschoolfool]

@pondultimatum dude,your 15 and got good taste my man.sweet!!

[krazikiwi01]

The greatest concert of all time. There has nothing to date that has beaten such an event.

[Whateruwatchin]

Written by Joni Mitchell

[WHERESTHEF40]

when I hear the crap that the young ones listen to nowadays (and believe me, they will not be listening to it in a couple of years)... I am glad to be old... tee hee... yikes it is 9pm, i am off to bed....

[Bionic3333]

@WHERESTHEF40 Lucky, I'm 19 and I mostly listen to songs from the 60s era. :) I wish had a time-machine...

[rijamor]

What a wonderful song and what a great era the 60's was. There was a feeling of real change, old making way for the young and that anything was possible. Trouble is, we all grew up. But they were the best times ever.

[rockwithstone]

@rijamor Yeah, it sucks getting old, isn't it? ;)

[oppressednation]

@rijamor No you allowed yourself to be twisted and conformed to the power's that be.You people had it you was going the right with all this.You was stamped out purposely ,too dangerous for the power's that be, they couldn't have this way of life catching on.It would have left them powerless.Pity

[1953oma]

@rijamor ...well ,rijamor , ..'my saying' is :if we talk about the music ...there are ..TWO ..'MAIN THINGS' :

this one ... "Woodstock' .. and .. everything and anything .. from the group ... so called - "OSIBISA" ...!!

An African group ... they 'used to practice' some special 'kind of music' ... "AFRO ROCK" . You can find them on youtube ..!! Please .. pay attention on their LP - '"Woyaya" and song - 'Survival'. Hear it 'a few times' , you'll 'fall in love' ..I guarantee ..

[videotimesss1]

Now days some idiot would probably set off a bomb in the crowd!

[rockwithstone]

@videotimesss1 Sad, but think you might have a point there.

[vikkihottie55]

Awesome post!!..Brings back so many interesting and memorable memories that will last till the day I die..I was a young teenager and a bunch of us went to what we thought was just a huge concert..We weren't considered hippies back in the day, but when we got there we found out..Everyone was so nice and everything was so peaceful..The most wonderful people you could ever meet..Where are all these good people now in todays world?..Thanks for the letting me relive the best time of my life!!

[rockwithstone]

@vikkihottie55 Thank you. This video actually is my own interpretation of the wonderful event because I was never there. I picked Mathew's version out of all the different covers because I think his version personifies the "feeling" of the event, as I see it. I am glad you like the video, and envious of you for being there.

[Freakears]

@vikkihottie55 A lot of them unfortunately drifted rightward in their politics and rejoined the corporate mainstream.

[rockwithstone]

@Freakears Is it because "if you are 20 and not a Democrat you don't have a heart. If you are 30 and not a Republican, you don't have a brain"? :)

[mabhekaphansi]

Great vid! Thanks for the work, and thanks for the memories!

[rockwithstone]

@mabhekaphansi Thank you. Glad you enjoy it!

[mufcat]

Well done rockwithstone, quality production dude!!!

Thank you.

[rockwithstone]

@mufcat Thank you, mufcat. Glad you enjoy it.

[thisiswright]

Nicely done. Also, Ian Matthews and the band give us a different take on Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash's versions of the song. I don't know when I last heard Matthews' Southern Comfort on radio. Pity !

[rockwithstone]

@thisiswright Agree.  In my opinion, this is the version that personifies the event. Thanks for liking the video!

[clich432]

Vegetable rights and peace!

[rockwithstone]

@clich432 Is this the other Woodstock slogan I didn't know about?

[mojo60s]

@clich432 Like it :-)....Can't imagine many people would "get it" either......Boomshanka dude!

[MusicJunky3]

Peace, man !

[rockwithstone]

@MusicJunky3 Thanks, man!