Nothing happened back and nothing is happening right now. Same old shit as ever. Humankind is just to greedy to really change. Greedy about material properties and of ideologies. Reason is gone.
@ufewl This is my favourite. I think Joni's got a beautiful voice and she sings it well, but I think there's something lacking from it. And I don't like the backing singers or that weird shit she does at the end. And I don't think Crosby Stills Nash & Young capture the feel of it. This is how it should be. Though, I notice, it ditches one of my favourite lines from the song "[we are] billion year old carbon". I just like the thought that we've been on this earth forever and that we're all one.
@ufewl I don't notice any similarity myself. I can't help but notice that Noel's been way past his prime for over a decade and to me, that song feels like everything he's ever released but updated (and made worse) just for the kids these days. Essentially, he's made it sound shit because people like to listen to shit these days.
@Saskatchewan00 well I definitely got the "hear this before" thought when listening to it but I cold not place the song (annoyingly) I was thinking maybe something like fleetwood mac, but then suddenly this song sprang into my mind (out of the thousands and thouasnd of songs I have heard), it's not like I am a fan of Joni mitchelle or Matthews either (not in a concious way anyway). It's the bit just before where I quoted where I get the heard it before thing. Anyway I'm out of space - lol
@ufewl Hey, you should try getting into Joni and Matthew's Southern Comfort - they're pretty great. But I try not to pay attention to anything Noel or Beady Eye are doing these days.
@Saskatchewan00 i don't really pay much attention to noel and none to beady eye theses days, I was just aware he had a new album out and checked it out, however after the first two albums they never really made much of an impact on me.Anyway I have probably hear most of Joni's decent songs already anyway.
IT was just noels song brought me here rightly or wrongly. It's just the 'What a li' (fe) bit which sounds just like the 'we are star' if you hum them (to me anyway!)
@ufewl I see what you're getting at now, actually. Also, pretty much all of Joni's songs are decent until the late 70s. Like 76 or 77. Music in general went quite shitty then. But there was still Funk!
"Iain Matthews is taking his Matthews Southern Comfort over to the UK in December 2011 for three live shows. The new line-up of the band brings to you soaring vocal harmonies that take you straight back to the seventies."
Please check Iain Matthews website for the gigdates.
@areyoureceivingme There are nice songs in every era. The present is the era of having Youtube to hear them all on at will without having to hunt around for old records.
@maurice Totally agree. I love spending an evening shut away in my room, just me, the vinyl and the turntable, but YouTube is great when I'm working at the Mac (designing record sleeves mainly!)
Lot of reasons it all fell apart. Some: Too many poseurs. There were less laws aginst personal freedom then. Could Ken Kesey and Furthur happen now? No way. You can't even sit in front of your apt to drink a beer after work! Plus the Gov actually started shooting people in the anti-war movement.Then grass and acid became rare, and cheap heroin, speed and coke flooded the country. Very suspicious. Anyway, the kids all know about Dr. Leary, Malcolm X etc, thanx to the Internets! Am hopeful.
With all due respect to my Canadian Countryman(woman) Joni Mitchell who wrote it, and the legendary CSN&Y, I have alway's loved this rendition the best. Thank you for the marvelous post!!!!!!!
If you like this, Why isn't THIS happening now. Were you there in '69 man? Hell, that time has always been now. When will you break free? We will the happening happen? It's just music. But it touches something deep inside you. You really want to be free. Freedom is hard to come by in a world of people. Alone in the woods on a quiet mountain, you can do anything YOU want to. Society only represses. A society of free individuals might set you free. The countdown is on. Where will it happen next?
That's it I AM GOING back to the garden. The world is worth crap! It's time for a new liberation movement, Join me. Next stop.... anywhere but the world of plastic peiople who pray to plastic god filled with emptiness or hate. The flowers must open. Living your life closed up is absolutely impotence. Live folks. This is my two cents towards the next human elation.
It is a beautiful vision Audiondi - but the bigger wheels of this world are already in a steady motion and the most that people like you...and I... could hope for is that just enough of the world share this vision to make some small change.
Then it is up to the next generation to do the same...and then the next generation...
Small steps and little victories on the road to a better future.
Evolution not revolution will change this world for good. Make beauty mainstream gradually.
@AudioIndi It's happening man. People all around the world are standing up and saying "we've had enough of your shit" to their leaders. The Arab Spring and even in Russia, not to mention the people occupying Wall Street and St Pauls Cathedral London.
Life complicates with age, a generation complicates the age, and at the age of complexes, another generation takes, repeats it over, and again,... until nobody agrees how many years a 'generation' still is, because 'the times, they are a changing too fast'. Their question:'What's the next profit business and for how long?' New definition of a generation 'Playstation X'. Who would have guessed back in 1970, shame on us...well, I am generation X, and now Y, Z.Still got the Greek alphabet.
People who don't understand the aspirations of the time, were either too old or too young to understand at the time, or were not even born. Some of you guys seem to myth the point!
Anything is great with LSD, thats why everyone says Woodstock rocked, because you were all high on LSD. I mean I could say staring at my wall for 8 hours was awesome because of I took LSD.
BrooklynEagle: “…an easygoing time (with its share of little problems... late-60's/early-70's…”
We were dazed from the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK. Girlfriend pregnant? Abortion? Illegal. Want to vote? Under 21? Illegal.
The Vietnam War raged. Unless you are a rich white boy you're cannon fodder. Draft resisters faced 5 yrs in prison. Protest against Nixon, the FBI is at your door . Have a little bag of weed? Prison. I love that era but it was a very intense time !
Decent song. And I don't think I've posted here since 2009 (the 40th). Yeah...I highly doubt we great Americans will ever see such an easygoing time (with its share of little problems here and there) as the late-60's/early-70's again. Mainly the corporations won't let it happen. But it won't come back again. I was really hoping for that concert (or concerts; apparently, one in B'klyn, one somewhere in europe) back in '09 for the 4-decade anniversary. But, no go. Had to settle with the VH1...
...documentaries instead. Which were awesome! But I think the young (myself included) would have appreciated a concert like that just off nostalgia alone. And I bet the turn out would've been huge. Would been a trip (HA!)... I am very certain we will not get a concert in 2019 (the 50th). But, maybe that's a good thing too. Seeing what those nuts--most concertgoers & the vendors--did to the '99 pow-wow. Sad shit what happened there. But Kurt Loder being petro will always be memorable to me. :D
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”.
Propper music todays music is corporate shit the music industry is run by Accountants Lawyers and men in grey suitsand Simon Cowell they are ruinning music
I like this version better than the CSN version. The sound of this song is more psychedelic and i think more appropriate for the time period it's describing.
Jamas exitira otro concierto como este en el tiempo, pues fue algo que todos los jovenes de aquel tiempo veiamos las cosas diferentes y hoy por hoy todo cambio ya no hay musicos como estos creanlo jovenes. y que cancion tan inspiradora.
lyrics is not the song but the music and melody. this song can be rearranged differently and it will not sound no where as good as this version because this is done perfectly in the music and melody arena.
En aquellos tiempos si se lo sabian montar bien. Amor libre, diversion a tope y buena musica y no tanta polla de drogas de diseño tanto techno. He dicho.
Things aren't always what they seem, and the good ole' days aren,t usually what they seem. It was an interesting time. My bitfreind went to woodstock without me because I was only 14. But it was pretty miserable for a lot of people, although they might romantasize it now.
This is the best version of this song. At least I like it the best! What memories, long hot summers, no cell phones, no computers, and life seemed magical and these songs set the tone. Stubby beer bottles and only 13 channels on TV with no remote control. Life seemed better than now.
Wow, I have been searching for this song forever. It was always my favorite version but I forgot the name of the artist. I remember this getting great airtime as a new release and I loved it and still do.
Oh my god, I looked for this song for soooo long... Was at a festival years ago and they played this! I could not remember the name of it for the live of it,. Tis a nice song :)
If you went to Woodstock (really) please indicate your age, sex, gender, occupation then and now and if you plan to return to the mecca soon. I am newly 60, male, manager, then I was a parts delivery guy, and i intend to visit the site this summer. i can't believe 41 years have zipped by, but I feel the same now and oddly enough my musical taste hasn't changed much.
wish I was around then. Looks like for one moment in time no-one was scared to hug one another and feel good. But somehow people all wanna be repressed and screwed up as a result. Why did we allow that to happen? Stuff convention - lets all be nice to one another again!! Peace
@squizza28 Plenty of people were still big-time repressed and screwed up. Remember that the people shown here were on the cutting edge--they were rebelling against the post-WWII culture of uptightness, and at the time of Woodstock they were reaching critical mass. Then came the 70's excesses, the Reagan backlash, and AIDS, all conspiring to put a damper on the love. More power to you if you can bring it back.
@squizza28 Look at Intercomsec's generationally egotistical and domineering non-answer. That's not being nice to each other again, is it? By it, and by it not answering my point's content, he has proved my point right. He has shown that the folks then were exactly as repressed and screwed up as ever. For a start, why didn't it last long? Because they were keener to repress and sneer at the folks who came after them (which is a convention) than to continue being nice.
@MrStablelad If it had been a very special time, the folks in it would not have committed the unpeaceful antagonistic egotripping HATE of feeling a generational conceit about the time and bigotry against the folks who came after it. If there had been anything genuine about the feeling of peace, you would have chosen to keep feeling and practising peace to later generations. 60s generational conceit ITSELF is what proves the entire 60s myth a lie.
@MrStablelad couldn't agree more....remember the way holiday were more apreciated....just geting out of the house was an adventure......music was way better (duuuh).......maybe i just made this all up....and maybe im just 17 but hey.........when i saw this video i cried when i realised how lifeless we are today!!
@ 0:05 the kid in the green t-shirt says please walk on the grass.......my fav of the whole film and I haven't the foggiest idea why,its just so funny to me i suppose.
najpierw osobiście, adasiu w dniu twoich imienin życzę ci, żeby to co już masz było na zawsze dla ciebie najważniejsze i żebyś miał z tego mnóóóóóóóstwo satysfakcji! a piosenki i teledysku, i okoliczności jej słuchania nie zapomnę nigdy! We were stardust, we were golden, każdy ma plecak pełen cegieł!
Haunting version of Joni Mitchell's work. The steel guitar in hear and the over sound reminds me of "It Doesn't Matter" by Stephen Stills and it came out about the same time.
@Donice09 Actually Doniceo9, Mr. Yasger only gave permission for the event to be held on his property. He later said that of the 500 thousand or more who showed up not one treated him with anything but respect. He had only good things to say about all the "hippies" he met!
another top track i was born in 66 and the music from then on was just the business .pink floyds dark side of the moon to name just one .i love stuff like this today when i turn on the radio i cringe what are the kids listening to today ..its crap .
i totally agree todays music if you can call it is that crap the kids of today should take a listen to this kind of music and realise what real music all about
I really want such a huge concert like that again. Isn't it possible to organize such a big event with people listening to real good music, celebrating peace & music for 3 days!?
this song gives me the feeling we are in a time that peace is something that is hard 2 find. It seems that everybody has been forgotten how to live with eachother in peace.
It would be great if we could bring back this great time ( 60' and 70' ) to celebrate LIFE!
Linda música! Registro de um breve tempo em que sonho e realidade se confundiram. Mesmo sem ter estado lá, a gente acompanhava tudo, lá das pedras do quebra-mar do bairro da Colônia, em Fortaleza. Unforgetable times! Good times!!!
I was 9 years old when I first heard this song. Hearing it again has brought back memories of a fantastic era and has brought a lump to my throat, it was a time before the music industry was not run by accountants.
I genuinely feel sorry for kids today who know no better than to listen to total crap.
@mranderson123987 Has it occured to you that generational hurtfulness is violence itself? What disproves all that generation's peace claims, is exactly that they are willing to do unpeaceful hurt and ribaldry to young folks, by saying, say yah boo our time better than yours and will never come back ha ha? This song is 70s itself, 60s bigots reject even the 70s, which means saying all the good stuff must have ended within a few months of Woodstock, in which case it wasn't lastingly good at all !
though i was born in the 80s, this will always be the best time for music, and well into the 70s, but then it died. I love this stuff and wish i could have lived it. Thanks for the video.
Too bad there is no Live Video of this great band playing this song live....they may have done this on BBC TV but the BBC wiped so much in the 60's and early 70's..GONE forever.
God I would have KILLED to bring you to Woodstock....no one would touched you (but me) and we would have had memories to last a lifetime.....see you in Heaven Beautiful
Best Festival Ever...damn that I was born in the 80s too late for it. But no Festival today can be compared with Woodstock, today only drunk people on Festivals who fight which each other or make some damages. No near contact with the Performers and too much Securitys.
@rettungskonstl Me too. I just missed it being born in 1971, the year this song hit the US Top 40. Nothing today compares to the music of the late '60s-mid 1970s. Some bands - Ramones, Clash, Nirvana, Motorhead in particular - are good but nothing like the bands of the golden age of rock.
Nuns giving peace signs: Back in the day when people were religious for the spirituality, rather than being full of self-righteousness, hatred, petty judgments of others, and the dictators of everyone else's morality.
41 years ago. I think we're regressing as a species.
@centuryrox I think it's a reaction to what we are told and what we see on our hand picked hit piece propaganda news channels teaching us to hate and fear everyone else, yes the world is a cruel place at times but deep down most people are friendly and just want to live life in peace like the rest of us. The movement was a threat to the establishment that's why the people fronting it were disappeared and marginalized. PEACE. But sadly Peace doesn't make profit FAKE WARS do. Iran next terrible
@centuryrox In the film, " Taking Woodstock" , it shows the makers of the "W oodstock" film asking the nuns to give a peace sign, I don't know how accurate that is, but...
@centuryrox There WERE a lot of "Christian" songs in the early 70s, weren't there? (And yes, it WAS before "Christians", or more likely VOCAL people who CALL themselves "Christians" made smug pronouncements like "people who don't believe EXACTLY what I believe are going to Hell.")
@shmuli9 Well alot of us "crossed over" it was certainly in the air in '69!....Barry maguire is an excellent example.....never made any of those"pronouncements" if I recall right
@ioriorioriorio Oh, yes, I forgot about him... I used to have several DVDs that had Barry MacGuire on them around the "Eve of Destruction" days... (In one, he sings a Roger Miller medley with Leslie Uggams, and in another, he sings a Beatles medley with Joanie Sommers and Barbara McNair.)
If only I could go back in time, oh, to be at Woodstock. I was born late 69. This is a great video, to a great song, well done. All these people featured are in their 60's and 70's now. Wow. Such memories for them
@MOSESCAT69 I was 15 years old in 1969. I remember a friend of mine telling me he was going with his brother to this big concert everyone was talking about. It was woodstock. His brother never came back. He got hooked up with a religeous cult that basically brainwashed him and carted him off to Texas. LOL....a classic hippy era story
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migled9 4 days ago
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migled9 4 days ago
I heard this yesterday for the first time in 40 years.
It takes me back to WSCB radio at Springfield College.
ShanghaiJill 4 days ago
BEAUTIFUL wonder what happened to the nun ?
lordcornwallis2 5 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
Go to the video on my channel or in the video responses and VOTE UP FOR WOODSTOCK 2012!!! Let's have a bit of fun and see how many voters we can get!
iduunoy 6 days ago
Deserves more views!
Kilyd14 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
i ask myself: what happpend to ,for example, the girl in the lake (2:42), is she still alive, how old is she? what kind of life did she lead...
it would be terrific if somebody who appears on these woodstock videos could tell about him or herself.
thecoffeeboy 1 week ago
Love this version of this song.
6828Lu 2 weeks ago
Remind me always of my first real girlfriend.
ONLY1TOTTENHAM 2 weeks ago
1:40.. epic :)
musicfordamasses 3 weeks ago
I love this video...
Sissyyyyyyyyyyyy 3 weeks ago
A very special song - a highlight of my teenage years!
MrHistorian123 3 weeks ago
Nothing happened back and nothing is happening right now. Same old shit as ever. Humankind is just to greedy to really change. Greedy about material properties and of ideologies. Reason is gone.
prankster1590 1 month ago
@shaun8195 .... you and me both ; )
goatgirl61 2 months ago
can anyone remember the b side to this single
leonasally 2 months ago
much better than Joni Mitchelle's tuneless effort.
There, I said it.
ufewl 3 months ago
@ufewl This is my favourite. I think Joni's got a beautiful voice and she sings it well, but I think there's something lacking from it. And I don't like the backing singers or that weird shit she does at the end. And I don't think Crosby Stills Nash & Young capture the feel of it. This is how it should be. Though, I notice, it ditches one of my favourite lines from the song "[we are] billion year old carbon". I just like the thought that we've been on this earth forever and that we're all one.
Saskatchewan00 2 months ago
@Saskatchewan00 not surprise they ditched that line, stardust, golden nice words, old carbon, not so nice.
Anyway I wonder what you think, the reason I came here was because of this song, notice any similarity?
eg "we are starduct we are golden" is similar to "what a liiiiife" v=lwHpLDgWonM
ufewl 2 months ago
@ufewl I don't notice any similarity myself. I can't help but notice that Noel's been way past his prime for over a decade and to me, that song feels like everything he's ever released but updated (and made worse) just for the kids these days. Essentially, he's made it sound shit because people like to listen to shit these days.
Saskatchewan00 2 months ago
@Saskatchewan00 well I definitely got the "hear this before" thought when listening to it but I cold not place the song (annoyingly) I was thinking maybe something like fleetwood mac, but then suddenly this song sprang into my mind (out of the thousands and thouasnd of songs I have heard), it's not like I am a fan of Joni mitchelle or Matthews either (not in a concious way anyway). It's the bit just before where I quoted where I get the heard it before thing. Anyway I'm out of space - lol
ufewl 2 months ago
@ufewl Hey, you should try getting into Joni and Matthew's Southern Comfort - they're pretty great. But I try not to pay attention to anything Noel or Beady Eye are doing these days.
Saskatchewan00 2 months ago
@Saskatchewan00 i don't really pay much attention to noel and none to beady eye theses days, I was just aware he had a new album out and checked it out, however after the first two albums they never really made much of an impact on me.Anyway I have probably hear most of Joni's decent songs already anyway.
IT was just noels song brought me here rightly or wrongly. It's just the 'What a li' (fe) bit which sounds just like the 'we are star' if you hum them (to me anyway!)
ufewl 2 months ago
@ufewl I see what you're getting at now, actually. Also, pretty much all of Joni's songs are decent until the late 70s. Like 76 or 77. Music in general went quite shitty then. But there was still Funk!
Saskatchewan00 2 months ago
**from Iain Matthews website**
"Iain Matthews is taking his Matthews Southern Comfort over to the UK in December 2011 for three live shows. The new line-up of the band brings to you soaring vocal harmonies that take you straight back to the seventies."
Please check Iain Matthews website for the gigdates.
Cheers,
Elly Kellner
ellykellner 3 months ago
i was 14 when woodstock happened
neptunesdesire2007 3 months ago
the 0:53 dude had cool sideburns.
Marcobelix 3 months ago
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comicguitar 4 months ago
skinny!
48snowbird 4 months ago in playlist 48snowbird's Favorited Videos
TheCutterofps The only version.
kq082682 4 months ago
One of the BEST versions of this song....video brings alot of memories back!!
TheCutterofps 4 months ago
The trashiness of that ad before this song... what a heap of junk the world seems to have become...
rjmachin 4 months ago 2
There's something so special about this version. Gets me every time. I'm another one that was too young. Some tunes are perfect forever...
areyoureceivingme 5 months ago
@areyoureceivingme There are nice songs in every era. The present is the era of having Youtube to hear them all on at will without having to hunt around for old records.
maurice 3 months ago
@maurice Totally agree. I love spending an evening shut away in my room, just me, the vinyl and the turntable, but YouTube is great when I'm working at the Mac (designing record sleeves mainly!)
areyoureceivingme 3 months ago
Lot of reasons it all fell apart. Some: Too many poseurs. There were less laws aginst personal freedom then. Could Ken Kesey and Furthur happen now? No way. You can't even sit in front of your apt to drink a beer after work! Plus the Gov actually started shooting people in the anti-war movement.Then grass and acid became rare, and cheap heroin, speed and coke flooded the country. Very suspicious. Anyway, the kids all know about Dr. Leary, Malcolm X etc, thanx to the Internets! Am hopeful.
j0eX 5 months ago
that cetainly was one hell of an event....
WELLBRAN 5 months ago
Good song.
thegeezerdan 5 months ago
i bet 1/4 of the people today were made here
Mrjablles69 5 months ago 2
With all due respect to my Canadian Countryman(woman) Joni Mitchell who wrote it, and the legendary CSN&Y, I have alway's loved this rendition the best. Thank you for the marvelous post!!!!!!!
CoreaKixx420 5 months ago 2
Ive said before il say it again........what a wonderful magical song listen to it many times over the years....captivating.
dunravenpaul 6 months ago 2
This song...this VERSION of the song epitomizes the time like no other.
Vid3oJo3 6 months ago 2
If you like this, Why isn't THIS happening now. Were you there in '69 man? Hell, that time has always been now. When will you break free? We will the happening happen? It's just music. But it touches something deep inside you. You really want to be free. Freedom is hard to come by in a world of people. Alone in the woods on a quiet mountain, you can do anything YOU want to. Society only represses. A society of free individuals might set you free. The countdown is on. Where will it happen next?
AudioIndi 6 months ago 2
@AudioIndi It'd gonna Happen. in fact, it's already happening.
routeoz02 6 months ago
@routeoz02 Right on man. We are stardust we are golden. Meet me at the garden.
AudioIndi 5 months ago 2
That's it I AM GOING back to the garden. The world is worth crap! It's time for a new liberation movement, Join me. Next stop.... anywhere but the world of plastic peiople who pray to plastic god filled with emptiness or hate. The flowers must open. Living your life closed up is absolutely impotence. Live folks. This is my two cents towards the next human elation.
AudioIndi 6 months ago 17
@AudioIndi
It is a beautiful vision Audiondi - but the bigger wheels of this world are already in a steady motion and the most that people like you...and I... could hope for is that just enough of the world share this vision to make some small change.
Then it is up to the next generation to do the same...and then the next generation...
Small steps and little victories on the road to a better future.
Evolution not revolution will change this world for good. Make beauty mainstream gradually.
earlydoorsjones 2 months ago
@AudioIndi
According to the Mayans the next bus leaves in 2012, I'll be abroad it
shaun8195 2 months ago
@AudioIndi It's happening man. People all around the world are standing up and saying "we've had enough of your shit" to their leaders. The Arab Spring and even in Russia, not to mention the people occupying Wall Street and St Pauls Cathedral London.
veda1954 1 month ago
@AudioIndi You are very right!Hopefully in the present future something will change.Keep up love and peace without becoming cynical.
KoxxMobilhome 1 week ago
I like this version better than Joni's version even
Rembez01 6 months ago
I remember loving this song as a child!!! It still sounds great after all of these years!!
Time to up load it to my ipod!!!
dkatz1964 6 months ago
Was not this the most wonderful tyme to live in..?
G
uviclad 6 months ago
Life complicates with age, a generation complicates the age, and at the age of complexes, another generation takes, repeats it over, and again,... until nobody agrees how many years a 'generation' still is, because 'the times, they are a changing too fast'. Their question:'What's the next profit business and for how long?' New definition of a generation 'Playstation X'. Who would have guessed back in 1970, shame on us...well, I am generation X, and now Y, Z.Still got the Greek alphabet.
Joke9972 6 months ago
Was only there in Spirit. I was watching Woodstock Then and Now on the history channel and found myself tearing up. Talk about "One of a KIND!!!
CactassDupree 6 months ago
People who don't understand the aspirations of the time, were either too old or too young to understand at the time, or were not even born. Some of you guys seem to myth the point!
intercomsec 6 months ago
Anything is great with LSD, thats why everyone says Woodstock rocked, because you were all high on LSD. I mean I could say staring at my wall for 8 hours was awesome because of I took LSD.
LastWeekBuzz420 7 months ago
BrooklynEagle: “…an easygoing time (with its share of little problems... late-60's/early-70's…”
We were dazed from the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK. Girlfriend pregnant? Abortion? Illegal. Want to vote? Under 21? Illegal.
The Vietnam War raged. Unless you are a rich white boy you're cannon fodder. Draft resisters faced 5 yrs in prison. Protest against Nixon, the FBI is at your door . Have a little bag of weed? Prison. I love that era but it was a very intense time !
TheWoodstockWarrior 7 months ago
i was just too young. old enough to know i wanted it but too young to be there :(
ivanovitch57 7 months ago
Decent song. And I don't think I've posted here since 2009 (the 40th). Yeah...I highly doubt we great Americans will ever see such an easygoing time (with its share of little problems here and there) as the late-60's/early-70's again. Mainly the corporations won't let it happen. But it won't come back again. I was really hoping for that concert (or concerts; apparently, one in B'klyn, one somewhere in europe) back in '09 for the 4-decade anniversary. But, no go. Had to settle with the VH1...
BrooklynEagle 7 months ago
...documentaries instead. Which were awesome! But I think the young (myself included) would have appreciated a concert like that just off nostalgia alone. And I bet the turn out would've been huge. Would been a trip (HA!)... I am very certain we will not get a concert in 2019 (the 50th). But, maybe that's a good thing too. Seeing what those nuts--most concertgoers & the vendors--did to the '99 pow-wow. Sad shit what happened there. But Kurt Loder being petro will always be memorable to me. :D
BrooklynEagle 7 months ago
My least favorite version of the song but the video is great.
kaldemvor 7 months ago
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”.
TheWoodstockWarrior 7 months ago 2
Peace&Love......
aqxyz666 7 months ago
необыкновенная вещь...
MrSibir73 7 months ago
nice...man....love it...!!
malcolmdrums 7 months ago
Propper music todays music is corporate shit the music industry is run by Accountants Lawyers and men in grey suitsand Simon Cowell they are ruinning music
BRU11ROAD 8 months ago
this was always my favorite version
evensout 8 months ago
I like this version better than the CSN version. The sound of this song is more psychedelic and i think more appropriate for the time period it's describing.
fantacist 8 months ago
Jamas exitira otro concierto como este en el tiempo, pues fue algo que todos los jovenes de aquel tiempo veiamos las cosas diferentes y hoy por hoy todo cambio ya no hay musicos como estos creanlo jovenes. y que cancion tan inspiradora.
MrGato532 9 months ago
cool vid thank you for sharing history.
1976GreenLight 9 months ago 7
GREAT!!! I LOVE This Song!!!
& Woodstock too!
ronenart2 9 months ago
this song is magic. it really makes me feel that I was born in the wrong decade.
DeJusAnn 9 months ago 4
I`m still stoned. ;D-
bugibbab0y 9 months ago
40 Years Ago, This Year
Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock
20000Armpits 10 months ago
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lyrics is not the song but the music and melody. this song can be rearranged differently and it will not sound no where as good as this version because this is done perfectly in the music and melody arena.
YOU2UUB 10 months ago
We should all just camp out on the land and get stoned...lifes too short not too!
ironcladvessel77 10 months ago
En aquellos tiempos si se lo sabian montar bien. Amor libre, diversion a tope y buena musica y no tanta polla de drogas de diseño tanto techno. He dicho.
rauldelasheras 10 months ago
top tune, ive just learnt it, but i,ve never learned to set my "soul" free ! peace and love ...
jaybeefrommanchester 10 months ago
Things aren't always what they seem, and the good ole' days aren,t usually what they seem. It was an interesting time. My bitfreind went to woodstock without me because I was only 14. But it was pretty miserable for a lot of people, although they might romantasize it now.
lind3420 10 months ago
@lind3420 Yep. I don't wanna hang out in a tent with people I've never met. Good ole' days are just that. Good OLD days.
mrREDBIRDFAN 10 months ago
"Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell."
yep, and she wasn't there.
puseye 10 months ago
i feel nostalgia for an era i wasnt evan born in, describes this best 4 me.
supersonic5660 11 months ago
Great creepy distorted early analog effects grait band awsoam fusion tripp-ee verszhun
BuyBenco 11 months ago
Long Live Love.
: ) xx
FreedomJunkie 11 months ago
This is the best version of this song. At least I like it the best! What memories, long hot summers, no cell phones, no computers, and life seemed magical and these songs set the tone. Stubby beer bottles and only 13 channels on TV with no remote control. Life seemed better than now.
avalanche344 11 months ago 4
@avalanche344 only 13 channels ! lol you were rich we had 2 !!
jsilence418 11 months ago
@avalanche344 ...yes! you're right! sometimes less is more...
Summon256 10 months ago
@Summon256 Absolutely, less is more when it comes to what seems to be important. I find that our memories are always pure to that spirit.
avalanche344 10 months ago
I wish I would have met girls at that time. Nowadays they are all kinda prudish. Or maybe I am wrong.
TheYogtzeConspiracy 11 months ago
i wish i was a teenager in them days ...it looks like one load of fun fun fun :) and life should have moments like this!
yourhavinagiggle 1 year ago
taking drugs and fucking around spreading disease. yeah, those were the times... you no-job lazy fucktards
pewpewlololo 1 year ago
@pewpewlololo Well, aren't you a ray of sunshine.
tkemp65 4 months ago
Why can't we do this again?
mccon59 1 year ago
Wow, I have been searching for this song forever. It was always my favorite version but I forgot the name of the artist. I remember this getting great airtime as a new release and I loved it and still do.
RHO1953 1 year ago
Oh my god, I looked for this song for soooo long... Was at a festival years ago and they played this! I could not remember the name of it for the live of it,. Tis a nice song :)
ritaszy 1 year ago
Listening to this song reminds me of my Mum's old vinyls...
inareverie17 1 year ago
Baeutyfull.. picks you up and puts you in peace mode. Try Joni Mitchells version... different!
smugmarty74 1 year ago
Fcking amazing so sad i missed this age borned 2 late damit :(
medieval1692 1 year ago
A poll:
If you went to Woodstock (really) please indicate your age, sex, gender, occupation then and now and if you plan to return to the mecca soon. I am newly 60, male, manager, then I was a parts delivery guy, and i intend to visit the site this summer. i can't believe 41 years have zipped by, but I feel the same now and oddly enough my musical taste hasn't changed much.
jfkjmk 1 year ago 2
by far the best version of this song
540allison 1 year ago 3
wish I was around then. Looks like for one moment in time no-one was scared to hug one another and feel good. But somehow people all wanna be repressed and screwed up as a result. Why did we allow that to happen? Stuff convention - lets all be nice to one another again!! Peace
squizza28 1 year ago 49
@squizza28 nice thoutght Jizza .... Maybe it's the time of year or maybe it's the time of men.....
smugmarty74 1 year ago
@squizza28 I grew up then,I still live by the same values,you can too.
inagod 11 months ago
i agree
bfscown55 10 months ago
@squizza28 Plenty of people were still big-time repressed and screwed up. Remember that the people shown here were on the cutting edge--they were rebelling against the post-WWII culture of uptightness, and at the time of Woodstock they were reaching critical mass. Then came the 70's excesses, the Reagan backlash, and AIDS, all conspiring to put a damper on the love. More power to you if you can bring it back.
Seasass 8 months ago 3
@squizza28 Look at Intercomsec's generationally egotistical and domineering non-answer. That's not being nice to each other again, is it? By it, and by it not answering my point's content, he has proved my point right. He has shown that the folks then were exactly as repressed and screwed up as ever. For a start, why didn't it last long? Because they were keener to repress and sneer at the folks who came after them (which is a convention) than to continue being nice.
maurice 6 months ago
To all of you saying ,, I was born to late.
Sorry my Friends but you are so Correct,
It was A very Special Time,
MrStablelad 1 year ago 31
@MrStablelad If it had been a very special time, the folks in it would not have committed the unpeaceful antagonistic egotripping HATE of feeling a generational conceit about the time and bigotry against the folks who came after it. If there had been anything genuine about the feeling of peace, you would have chosen to keep feeling and practising peace to later generations. 60s generational conceit ITSELF is what proves the entire 60s myth a lie.
maurice 7 months ago
@MrStablelad couldn't agree more....remember the way holiday were more apreciated....just geting out of the house was an adventure......music was way better (duuuh).......maybe i just made this all up....and maybe im just 17 but hey.........when i saw this video i cried when i realised how lifeless we are today!!
Mrjablles69 5 months ago
to justaman6972-you may want to look for and listen to 'Signs' by The Five Man Electrical Band. It fits perfectly with your comment
Cuppie4469 1 year ago
@ 0:05 the kid in the green t-shirt says please walk on the grass.......my fav of the whole film and I haven't the foggiest idea why,its just so funny to me i suppose.
justaman6972 1 year ago
@justaman6972 Rebelling'
BuyBenco 11 months ago
najpierw osobiście, adasiu w dniu twoich imienin życzę ci, żeby to co już masz było na zawsze dla ciebie najważniejsze i żebyś miał z tego mnóóóóóóóstwo satysfakcji! a piosenki i teledysku, i okoliczności jej słuchania nie zapomnę nigdy! We were stardust, we were golden, każdy ma plecak pełen cegieł!
PaziMine 1 year ago
Haunting version of Joni Mitchell's work. The steel guitar in hear and the over sound reminds me of "It Doesn't Matter" by Stephen Stills and it came out about the same time.
mddg1515 1 year ago
This is the original version that made Joni Mitchell very rich. And easy to play on the Guitar and sing along too as well.
telaugh 1 year ago
This is the original version that made Joni Mitchell very rich.
telaugh 1 year ago
Ian Mathews sounds alot like Jerry Rafferty singing this song.
yourdickis2limp 1 year ago
this was a real event a farmer one day held a rock and roll concert and over a million people turned up
Donice09 1 year ago
@Donice09 Actually Doniceo9, Mr. Yasger only gave permission for the event to be held on his property. He later said that of the 500 thousand or more who showed up not one treated him with anything but respect. He had only good things to say about all the "hippies" he met!
terrybeaton 1 year ago
Will this world ever see a gathering of such awesome and biblical scale? hundreds of thousands all in one place for music, peace and love.
Very heart wrenching to see all this wonderful footage.
misternylon 1 year ago
Oh man! I wish I'd been there, what an atmosphere there was, never to be seen again in our lifetimes I fear.
modernmusicstinks 1 year ago
This song puts me in a state of isolated limbo. Music, melody and harmony is what makes great songs.
YOU2UUB 1 year ago
I love this song. This is the best version of it too. Must have been good times.
zombiekill551 1 year ago 4
another top track i was born in 66 and the music from then on was just the business .pink floyds dark side of the moon to name just one .i love stuff like this today when i turn on the radio i cringe what are the kids listening to today ..its crap .
1999straker 1 year ago
@1999straker
i totally agree todays music if you can call it is that crap the kids of today should take a listen to this kind of music and realise what real music all about
rocky5554 1 year ago
I really want such a huge concert like that again. Isn't it possible to organize such a big event with people listening to real good music, celebrating peace & music for 3 days!?
wassamine59 1 year ago
this song gives me the feeling we are in a time that peace is something that is hard 2 find. It seems that everybody has been forgotten how to live with eachother in peace.
It would be great if we could bring back this great time ( 60' and 70' ) to celebrate LIFE!
svitax187 1 year ago 2
We are all Stardust... peace and love xx
XstaticState69 1 year ago
we are stardust*****
iamearthbornami 1 year ago
Linda música! Registro de um breve tempo em que sonho e realidade se confundiram. Mesmo sem ter estado lá, a gente acompanhava tudo, lá das pedras do quebra-mar do bairro da Colônia, em Fortaleza. Unforgetable times! Good times!!!
cacafarias2 1 year ago
...only in the stardust now of our memories....
48snowbird 1 year ago
i'm listening hip hop but this song is GREAT!!
Sedu77 1 year ago
Would love you to let me know what you think of my version of Woodstock...leave a comment if you get a chance! Anna Corcoran - Woodstock
AnnaC0212 1 year ago
I was 9 years old when I first heard this song. Hearing it again has brought back memories of a fantastic era and has brought a lump to my throat, it was a time before the music industry was not run by accountants.
I genuinely feel sorry for kids today who know no better than to listen to total crap.
thetaxmansucks 1 year ago 2
@thetaxmansucks You're so right.
I think I was born in the wrong generation haha. All of my friends listen to anything that is popular at the moment.
lnmissgreen 1 year ago
@lnmissgreen Used to make me wonder if eating feces was popular, if they'd do it.
JaysonX5 1 year ago
A time without violence...
This generation changed the world
mranderson123987 1 year ago
@mranderson123987 Has it occured to you that generational hurtfulness is violence itself? What disproves all that generation's peace claims, is exactly that they are willing to do unpeaceful hurt and ribaldry to young folks, by saying, say yah boo our time better than yours and will never come back ha ha? This song is 70s itself, 60s bigots reject even the 70s, which means saying all the good stuff must have ended within a few months of Woodstock, in which case it wasn't lastingly good at all !
maurice 1 year ago
Has Lawrence Krauss seen this?
ebutemetube 1 year ago
i think that was the good times
or not
brahian696 1 year ago
though i was born in the 80s, this will always be the best time for music, and well into the 70s, but then it died. I love this stuff and wish i could have lived it. Thanks for the video.
UtopiaMinor666 1 year ago
Ahhh wat a beautiful time :')
BJeldiabolo 1 year ago
I feel just like a cog in something turning....
satoop 1 year ago
to rocktomcat: i think the same thing. i have this dvd called woodstock the music i love it and my dear partner (sarcasm) rips me off for it.
MsAnna090 1 year ago
i can smell the drugs just from watching this video
cameron6697 1 year ago
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florinip 1 year ago
eye-maze-ing!
florinip 1 year ago
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florinip 1 year ago
We are star dust ...we are golden and we have got to get back to the garden ........ Thats so true ! God help us !
trickykid73 1 year ago
Too bad there is no Live Video of this great band playing this song live....they may have done this on BBC TV but the BBC wiped so much in the 60's and early 70's..GONE forever.
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
God I would have KILLED to bring you to Woodstock....no one would touched you (but me) and we would have had memories to last a lifetime.....see you in Heaven Beautiful
Your Bob
Forever
Greenhornet270 1 year ago
<3 JM, CSN&Y and MSC's versions.
SirHawkeyeWho 1 year ago
A great song!!! It just doesn't seem possible, Woodstock was 40 years ago! I was 19 and a No-show!
wedge4hire 1 year ago
Best Festival Ever...damn that I was born in the 80s too late for it. But no Festival today can be compared with Woodstock, today only drunk people on Festivals who fight which each other or make some damages. No near contact with the Performers and too much Securitys.
rettungskonstl 1 year ago
@rettungskonstl Me too. I just missed it being born in 1971, the year this song hit the US Top 40. Nothing today compares to the music of the late '60s-mid 1970s. Some bands - Ramones, Clash, Nirvana, Motorhead in particular - are good but nothing like the bands of the golden age of rock.
mdonnelly1971 1 year ago
@rettungskonstl THATS TRUE
surfsarahMuc 1 year ago
one of best song in best piriod generetion [obgective point of vew thruw ies of 10 years old]
gabi
1iad 1 year ago
Great video song. I heard it first when I was a child in the 80's
crisigl 1 year ago
this isn't worse, than any of the beatles songs...
Summon256 1 year ago
I dig it, man. Thanks for tossin' it at us.
takemeback2 1 year ago
So many familiar images from the movie brought a smile to my face!
kcolpaer 1 year ago
Nuns giving peace signs: Back in the day when people were religious for the spirituality, rather than being full of self-righteousness, hatred, petty judgments of others, and the dictators of everyone else's morality.
41 years ago. I think we're regressing as a species.
centuryrox 1 year ago 52
@centuryrox the only "peace" I got from the nuns when I was in Catholic schools in the early 60s was a "piece" of their hand smacking me in the head
inkey2 1 year ago
@centuryrox my heart bleeds when i hear this song and your comment articulates what feel
zimmy81 1 year ago
@centuryrox I think it's a reaction to what we are told and what we see on our hand picked hit piece propaganda news channels teaching us to hate and fear everyone else, yes the world is a cruel place at times but deep down most people are friendly and just want to live life in peace like the rest of us. The movement was a threat to the establishment that's why the people fronting it were disappeared and marginalized. PEACE. But sadly Peace doesn't make profit FAKE WARS do. Iran next terrible
outofthisswirled 1 year ago
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@centuryrox - You are quite correct Centruryfox; so much for our evolution.
HACSFHAC 1 year ago
@centuryrox I agree completely.
IvanaF82 1 year ago
@centuryrox In the film, " Taking Woodstock" , it shows the makers of the "W oodstock" film asking the nuns to give a peace sign, I don't know how accurate that is, but...
jsilence418 1 year ago
@centuryrox There WERE a lot of "Christian" songs in the early 70s, weren't there? (And yes, it WAS before "Christians", or more likely VOCAL people who CALL themselves "Christians" made smug pronouncements like "people who don't believe EXACTLY what I believe are going to Hell.")
shmuli9 1 year ago
@shmuli9 Well alot of us "crossed over" it was certainly in the air in '69!....Barry maguire is an excellent example.....never made any of those"pronouncements" if I recall right
ioriorioriorio 1 year ago
@ioriorioriorio Oh, yes, I forgot about him... I used to have several DVDs that had Barry MacGuire on them around the "Eve of Destruction" days... (In one, he sings a Roger Miller medley with Leslie Uggams, and in another, he sings a Beatles medley with Joanie Sommers and Barbara McNair.)
shmuli9 1 year ago
@centuryrox Truth, religion should be purely spiritual.
BuyBenco 11 months ago
who is the girl at 2:43 ???
thomasisok 1 year ago
@thomasisok Well, THIS we can certainly say: She's just a LOVELY one!
manoftheworld1000 1 year ago
If only I could go back in time, oh, to be at Woodstock. I was born late 69. This is a great video, to a great song, well done. All these people featured are in their 60's and 70's now. Wow. Such memories for them
MOSESCAT69 1 year ago
@MOSESCAT69 I was 15 years old in 1969. I remember a friend of mine telling me he was going with his brother to this big concert everyone was talking about. It was woodstock. His brother never came back. He got hooked up with a religeous cult that basically brainwashed him and carted him off to Texas. LOL....a classic hippy era story
inkey2 1 year ago
aahhh....freedom
vzo6658 1 year ago
Who can remember on woodstock wasn´t there !