I don't know for this for a fact, but it might have had something to do with Jim Morrison's legal problems. He was living in exile at his death the following year.
there will always be people who will make their cultures and way of life outside of the masses. they can call themselves anything they want- or believe in anything -and they often think they live in a more natural way. just like there are those that live these same beliefs in the midst of any town, mainstream and suburban areas in USA. it's what's in your heart that matters.
The world does need a new movement founded love and personal freedom. It can't be related to the destructive practices of the old (heroin, cocaine, indiscriminate sex). Thank you Joni! Many of my spiritual beliefs can be traced back to this song.
These days Joni probably wouldn't be able to get a record contract. I can just hear the execs.... "Sorry kid, nobody wants to think that much these days..... come back when you've got something we can sell I-phones with"
Did you really have nothing better to do than to go to every single page and comment on every single video? Theres nothing more simple minded than that.
Did you really have nothing better to do than go to every single page and comment on every single last video? Theres nothing more simple minded than that
I would really have to like living has this time if I could go back up the time I would make him with big pleasure(j'aurais vraiment aimer vivre a cette epoque si je pouvais remonter le temps je le ferais avec grand plaisir
Joni's version is so hauntingly beautiful. I love the organ especially. It feels wrong that these people were (and still are) labeled as "freaks" and "weirdos" and such. Look at society today. Too many of us are too busy watching our backs to see what's in front of us: a remarkable and beautiful world full of God's children. This world needs another hippie movement, and damn soon.
(lol) I guess. My screenname is just a mix of Suicidal Tendencies/Judas Priest titles, and I came up with it years ago. Doesn't really mean anything...
@moorong: Your comment made me smile. Love the irony!
Another hippie movement did happen, for a while there in 88-89 in the UK at least. Diverse people from across a nation came together through music in a shared spirit of positivity and love.
It burned bright but fleeting. Very real and lifechanging for many who were there however.
I wasn't around during the actual hippie movement (born in 72) but I do draw parallels with the 'second summer of love' in the UK at the end of the 80s.
It's not an organ, it's a Wurlitzer 200A electric piano--and one of the lovliest examples of this instrument being used on a popular recording. Supertramp also makes nice use of this piano in their song: Bloody Well Right.
There IS a new hippie movement, fronted by Devendra Banhart and his lovely family of artists. People just don't see beautiful hippie-things everywhere in our life. I think the freak-folk movement is part of a hippie renessanse that's coming fast.
I would go back in time, just to experience it all. I believe it was one of those times of unity, when everyone just comes together. I wish I could have seen it all.
I am one of the "children" of that time... and now, more than ever... the spirit of this song... not an event. It needed for each individual to stop following and blaming leaders but to take personal responsibility, (bloom where you're planted) and make life peaceful and wonderful today for the people around you. Peace out y'all.
I was 12 in 1969. Just getting into "rock & roll"! What a trip. A good friend of mine's older brother ran away from home and made it to Woodstock. He was a Mormon kid about 16 or 17. Came back about two weeks later in a new Chevy Nova he stole in NY and drove all the way back to California in. He did some time in Juvenile Hall but said that it "was worth it"! I don't know why I still think of that story when I think of Woodstock. It was SO long ago, a lifetime actually...
i so wanted to live in this time and attend woodstock , im so enthralled by the 60s, i was a child of the 70s, and the 80s, and listen to joni, and be naked, and just enjoy.
Sometimes I listen 2 this song & feel so very wonderful 2 have lived & able 2 see at least a paer of it, because we were really stardust & we were all oh-so golden.
But then somewhere along the way, we lost out way to the garden ........ :(
Actually, JM got this from Graham Nash, I believe or some of it. I do know that Joni missed going to Woodstock to appear on Dick Cavett show, but she played this song first, at Esalen Institute, in Big Sur Ca. They made a movie out of it, Celebration at Big Sur, which if I remember right, was a month after Woodstock. I know quite a few people in the movie, but missed it myself. :(
You're right, Joni did not attend Woodstock since she was told it would be better for her to appear on The Dick Cavett Show at that same time by a manager. She wrote the song from what she had heard about it from her boyfriend at the time, Graham Nash. It's said that she wrote this song crying at home watching the show on television.
I saw a documentary on JM and it is true. She missed going to Woodstock to appear on Dick Cavett show because she felt it would be important for her career, not realizing the significance of the event. She wrote this song about it
Gosh solush. I'm sorry I don't remember exactly what it was called. It may have been on Life and Times (a canadian Bio show) or it may have been on the Biography Channel. Prob if you went to the Bio channel and searched you could find the name. I remember the scene of her sitting with Dick Cavett and Crosby as they were describing the scene and she looked so remorseful at not being there. Great topic for your poetry seminar though.
My generation must bring it back for the thriving of not only the human race but all our brothers and sisters in creation. Friends, lets get back to the Garden :) We have so much to stand for yet we keep our soul firmly down, I see high vibes this era :) Love Light and Peace :)
Absolutely true. I, too, prefer Joni's version so much more. The one on the "Best of CSNY" is good but those raspy guitars do become distracting for a song like this.
...then did you know that it was Essra Mohawk's description of Woodstock that inspired Joni to write this song? Essra is a singer/songwriter/artisit who released the classic LP in 1970 called PRIMORDIAL LOVERS. Essra missed the event due to a wrong turn on the road. ...Essra also wrote Cyndi Lauper's "Change of Heart" & Tina Turner's "Stronger Than The Wind," to name a few.
sorry i hit the thumbs down by mistake,i was going say me 2. there was something else in europe going on these days i cant rember the festeval but they trying recreate woodstock spirit,think in was in germany,btw sorry i meant to give johnny smooth a thumbs up one day,2nd time i boobed
Many thanks to you for posting this song by Joni Mitchell this song is the anthem of Woodstock and also for the era it represets the 60's LOVE a special time in America's history I listen to this song often it's so beautiful!
yo i commented a while ago with the account 035214 (or something like that) and i just wanted to say that i don't mean to bash what the hippie movement was. I would have loved to live then and experience that. but the fact is that the whole basis was an over-idealistic fantasy.
When you use the word, "fact" as you do, and describe what you never experienced, what are you talking about? Of course there was an ideology that characterized the time. For anyone who was remotely aware, people were very disenchanted by a political system that had engulfed America (as well as south-east Asia) in war. People hope for a better way to engage the global community (is this what you referred to an "an over-idealistic fantasy"?). Try going to school....
This type of forum and medium is not the most conducive to expressing opinions on topics that can be extremely volitile. I am not a hippy, but I am using the "idealistic fantasy", as a way of comparing it to the mess of Iraq, and the US adminstration's insane foreign policy. If peace-loving is such an ideal, then please more of the same fantasy would be a welcome change. That is the point, hippy or otherwise, we should be aspiring to better ways.
Often fantasy is better than reality.... I am of that generation.... I did conform somewhat to societies expectations but I still retain the memories of a time where people actually tried to make a difference.... It was a great social experiment that I would not have missed for anything......
she actually never went to Woodstock! Joni was scheduled to perform at Woodstock on Sunday of that weekend of love, but when the traffic jams were seen by all of America on TV that Friday, her manager advised her not to go
Its been transformed into the new state of consciousness which is arising in the world It began with the Hippy movement back then.I was part of it in the UK,wonderful time.See Eckhart Tolle,Gangaji,Papaji and others on YT.
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Yeah, the music is fucking awesome but, seriously, the hippie movement was a fucking joke. I can't believe you old fucks still follow that naive shit. Grow up.
I posted this comment for 0362548, Kevin, who someday wants to be an XMan, whatever this means. I would never allow myself to give a comment about a decade that was twenty years before my own birth. A "naive shit movement" had never stopped an inhuman war. The music than was not only entertainment, like today's music, it was human,political and social consciousness education worldwide. A thing that´s missing nowadays . Rainy
wow. u know what, woodstock was great, the hippies were great and u dont have any fucking right to judge you fat piece of fuck. i bet your 300 pounds of shit, just sitting on your fucking computer, talk about a wasted life. for god sakes a=im a kid and i know the woral of woodtock. your probably some fat ass liar who doesnt give. ur an ass hole and youll always be one.
srry. that message was for 0362548. ass, please dont ciritcize woodstock. you werent there and you dont know any of them, so y give man. respect the people who went to this event, spent those three days in there own paradise and joined together and became woodstock.
it's interesting to think that there were some moments in human history when music was indeed larger than life and could make ppl transcend their time and nation.But then again,music is music,musicians,including us are all just pawns of circumstances unable to turn the wheel of history.But the important thing is music makes us realize that there's something good that all human beings long for.
I'm another one who wasn't even born when Woodstock started...to bad :( I'm 16.
But this music, with all other great ones, like Dylan, CCR, Simon and Garfunkel, Beatles, Gene Raskin, Hendrix, Joan Baez, Doors, Country Joe & Fish,...and many others that I can't recall right now...that is MUSIC, but not only music, the axis of hippie movement actually.
I was there at Bethel! I am an old f-ck now...but oh those memories! We all belonged to something so great. The world was ours, and we were going to make it better. They were the best of times..they were the worst of times. I hate my AARP card and wish it were 1969 all over again.
I was there too, Saunders! Hey, we ain't dead yet! I made it into the movie, youtube search hippies and DMT & i'm right in the beginning with the yellow top & headband on. Peace on...
To all you 13-year olds: Thank you for having good taste in music. Spread the news to your peers and reject them majority of the crap we have today. I was once that 13 year-old too.
WE are stardust. WE are golden. Notice the WE. No way possible to take anyone out of WE - no matter what religion or belief or non-belief you have. All we are saying, is give peace a chance. Thanks for sharing Dave!
Beautiful song with truth throughout. "We've got to get ourselves back to the garden"... in this day and age, I think that rings true no matter what your religion.
"Religion and spirituality are universal threads in the fabric of human experience" (Piedmont, 1999, p. 988).
I find it so typical that people who talk so much about peace and love, refuse to believe or even give a thought to that there might really be a God. Someone who realy cares about us, who loves us so much they died instead of us. Jesus is the king of LOVE and the prince of peace..amen..
I really ought not to have expected anything better from a fanatic should I?
Well, as reason and logic seem to bounce off you, let's try putting it on a platform you might relate to: I've prayed to the tooth fairy, and she's consulted the toilet duck, and they both say it would be very nice if you would post somewhere else because - incomprehensible tho it may be to you - you're actually annoying people who can think for themselves.
religion has caused many wars and the biggest war is the one between God and Satan its been raging since God made the world... only through Jesus will we find true and everlasting peace..
But if you do this he will come into your life, make you a brand new person and fill you with his Holy Spirit. You will be born again and you can have a personal relationship with both God,Jesus and the Holy Spirit.. you can begin to have a truley awsome life
God dos'nt help those who do not believe in him. Not only that but you will never know him unless you confess that jesus is lord of your life and he was punished and killed for your mistakes and that god has rasied him from the dead.
god is omnipotent , hence when he created us he knew what mistakes we would make , hence there his mistakes. Ps this is all hypothetical as there is no such thing as god , devil , heaven or hell.
Friend god really does exist i know him personally. he speaks to me when i pray.. So many people have been fooled by the Devil. he has done such a good job of making people believe what you believe..From his own words.. THE GREATIST TRICK THE EVER DEVIL PLAYED WAS CONVINCING THE WORLD THAT HE DOES'NT EXIST..
Jesus said I am the truth , the light, the life and the way only through me will your come to know your hevenly father(God). Religion including The old Christian church have built a wall between us and god..
There is a brand new church now and the walls have been torn down. God is there and you can really truley know him now... tears of joy filled my eyes when he replied to my prayer of salvation and touched my heart.
You will be placed in authority over the devil. Friend i have seen wonderfull miricles in the last year since i gave my life to Jesus. God has truley blessed me and my family. I uses to be a hippy and take drugs for many years.. but it never came closed to the buzz i get from god..
Well buddy ive never done drugs , so no clouded mind here. have walked the holyland , been to the birthplace , etc etc and never seen 1 miracle, just the wonder of diverse cultures and peoples. Mind you thought they would all have led more happier and peaceful lives if people hadnt invented relgieon.
Srange as it may sound i believe religion is a work of the devil. you maybe thinking err that souds crazy but its true.. Jesus was hated by the relgious leaders of the time they called him a blasfimer had him crusified. Satan has inveted many relions and beliefs ..Buddism, Hindoism, Islam,etc.. They are all there to cover and hide the truth from people.
so basicly he was a jew, from which christiany came , from which islam came, so u all belive in the same god, but want to kill each other.Great relgion you all have.
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no friend, Islam is a total lie.. see for yourself if your had read you would know that there are many warnings about the false prophit and the antichrist, true Christanity is about love.. loveing one another, loving our enemys. A fiend of mine who is a christian has been completly healed of multiple sclerosis, she was in a weel chair and and dying and God healed her. That is a miricle. The doctors were amazed..
You detract from peoples' enjoyment of a beautiful bit of music with your unfounded and unwonted superstitious ramblings. God may be real for you. I knew a guy with scizophrenia -- for him the voices were real too. You find reality too difficult to deal with? I sympathise .... But its no mandate to intrude on others. Go and reinforce your dellusions with others of your ilk if you must. Better still get a proper education and learn to differentiate the real from the wishful.
Not sure what happened, but they turned the sound back on this video... YES...I'm happy about that :)
Been off for over a year!
coloradream 2 years ago
Ich lebe in der falschen Zeit ... <'3
maiskinners 3 years ago
Can someone tell me what was the real reason because The Doors did not go to Woodstock?
x0050027 3 years ago
I don't know for this for a fact, but it might have had something to do with Jim Morrison's legal problems. He was living in exile at his death the following year.
Bumpski222 3 years ago
any way the doors were crap by then.....ah now come on theay were.....by then.
Mick342 3 years ago
there will always be people who will make their cultures and way of life outside of the masses. they can call themselves anything they want- or believe in anything -and they often think they live in a more natural way. just like there are those that live these same beliefs in the midst of any town, mainstream and suburban areas in USA. it's what's in your heart that matters.
Wacokid48 3 years ago
The world does need a new movement founded love and personal freedom. It can't be related to the destructive practices of the old (heroin, cocaine, indiscriminate sex). Thank you Joni! Many of my spiritual beliefs can be traced back to this song.
craaazy4cows 3 years ago
quanto avrei voluto vivere quegli anni
n00b159 3 years ago
These days Joni probably wouldn't be able to get a record contract. I can just hear the execs.... "Sorry kid, nobody wants to think that much these days..... come back when you've got something we can sell I-phones with"
dogterd 3 years ago
sadly,too true!
brianckelly 3 years ago
This is the best version of the song.
ThorSpirit 3 years ago 3
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Simple music for simple minded people.
LOL. LONG LIVE IGNORANT SHEEP...
ruleoforder 3 years ago
Did you really have nothing better to do than to go to every single page and comment on every single video? Theres nothing more simple minded than that.
justjoshinbyj 3 years ago
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justjoshinbyj 3 years ago
i love this song ....
one of the bst i ever heard
partyteufel123 3 years ago
You did great with this video, I like it very much. Tnx
jungle75it 3 years ago 3
A great slideshow, a wonderful song, and a stellar vocal performance from a lady who is beautiful to her very soul.
This is a wonderful upload. Thank you.
ShoeiBoy 3 years ago 2
right on friend
siy01 3 years ago
Unique Voice GR8 Footage + Share TY Vicki
What An Era
DieHardBeatlesFan 3 years ago
You have some really cool images going on here..just loved this vid!
Thanks MCSH!!
DejaVuSu 3 years ago
Sometimes I don't understand how it was possible?? Who were those people?
bucurdragos 3 years ago 2
yeah good question
yoncloud9 3 years ago
I think they were our mom's and dad's when they were young living in a special time.
I would have loved to live back then, it looked like love was in stile and they knew it.
Thanks for the great pics and song of that time.
Jennifer
jenniferTex15 3 years ago 2
boy can she sing excelent she should have married bob seagar
cullinane8888 3 years ago 2
I would really have to like living has this time if I could go back up the time I would make him with big pleasure(j'aurais vraiment aimer vivre a cette epoque si je pouvais remonter le temps je le ferais avec grand plaisir
snoopyhyppie 3 years ago
Joni's version is so hauntingly beautiful. I love the organ especially. It feels wrong that these people were (and still are) labeled as "freaks" and "weirdos" and such. Look at society today. Too many of us are too busy watching our backs to see what's in front of us: a remarkable and beautiful world full of God's children. This world needs another hippie movement, and damn soon.
CycoKiller 3 years ago 3
Hey, Joni actually wrote this song.
rociotanante 3 years ago
Well you could start by changing your name cycokiller
moorong 3 years ago
(lol) I guess. My screenname is just a mix of Suicidal Tendencies/Judas Priest titles, and I came up with it years ago. Doesn't really mean anything...
CycoKiller 3 years ago
@moorong: Your comment made me smile. Love the irony!
Another hippie movement did happen, for a while there in 88-89 in the UK at least. Diverse people from across a nation came together through music in a shared spirit of positivity and love.
It burned bright but fleeting. Very real and lifechanging for many who were there however.
I wasn't around during the actual hippie movement (born in 72) but I do draw parallels with the 'second summer of love' in the UK at the end of the 80s.
ShoeiBoy 3 years ago 2
It's not an organ, it's a Wurlitzer 200A electric piano--and one of the lovliest examples of this instrument being used on a popular recording. Supertramp also makes nice use of this piano in their song: Bloody Well Right.
aarfeld 3 years ago 2
There IS a new hippie movement, fronted by Devendra Banhart and his lovely family of artists. People just don't see beautiful hippie-things everywhere in our life. I think the freak-folk movement is part of a hippie renessanse that's coming fast.
chrismail 3 years ago
beautiful !
tomka13300 3 years ago
Incredible, inspiring, beautiful
siy01 3 years ago
I was born in upstate New York, adopted 9 months after Woodstock. Hmm, I wonder... Driving a "71 suberbeetle. Do ya' think???
bluesuperbug 3 years ago
(smile) what a great story...
hey ~ if so, what a magical place to begin the journey here!
coloradream 3 years ago
I would go back in time, just to experience it all. I believe it was one of those times of unity, when everyone just comes together. I wish I could have seen it all.
sheburns12 3 years ago 2
Shivers down my arms. Nuff said
AidanParle 3 years ago 2
I'm 18. I'm in Berlin. And I'm crying.
12546523 3 years ago 3
I am one of the "children" of that time... and now, more than ever... the spirit of this song... not an event. It needed for each individual to stop following and blaming leaders but to take personal responsibility, (bloom where you're planted) and make life peaceful and wonderful today for the people around you. Peace out y'all.
denniseggers 3 years ago 12
Watching this was like being on a wonderful vacation. Thank you! Peace, Bugs
buggiedingdong 3 years ago 5
Peace and love
Jasminestarling 3 years ago 2
Too many people miss the true nature of the event and its importance in changing the hearts and political tone of an entire generation.
Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Is With Us All,
Cal-el
CalJennings 3 years ago 3
I was 12 in 1969. Just getting into "rock & roll"! What a trip. A good friend of mine's older brother ran away from home and made it to Woodstock. He was a Mormon kid about 16 or 17. Came back about two weeks later in a new Chevy Nova he stole in NY and drove all the way back to California in. He did some time in Juvenile Hall but said that it "was worth it"! I don't know why I still think of that story when I think of Woodstock. It was SO long ago, a lifetime actually...
randy109 3 years ago 10
I wish I could have experienced that time...
netvana 3 years ago 7
i so wanted to live in this time and attend woodstock , im so enthralled by the 60s, i was a child of the 70s, and the 80s, and listen to joni, and be naked, and just enjoy.
licklolly35 3 years ago 2
Sometimes I listen 2 this song & feel so very wonderful 2 have lived & able 2 see at least a paer of it, because we were really stardust & we were all oh-so golden.
But then somewhere along the way, we lost out way to the garden ........ :(
bigsurbill 3 years ago
its an old problem - trying to get back to the garden, ask adam and eve
66KAJA66 3 years ago
Actually, JM got this from Graham Nash, I believe or some of it. I do know that Joni missed going to Woodstock to appear on Dick Cavett show, but she played this song first, at Esalen Institute, in Big Sur Ca. They made a movie out of it, Celebration at Big Sur, which if I remember right, was a month after Woodstock. I know quite a few people in the movie, but missed it myself. :(
bigsurbill 3 years ago
You're right, Joni did not attend Woodstock since she was told it would be better for her to appear on The Dick Cavett Show at that same time by a manager. She wrote the song from what she had heard about it from her boyfriend at the time, Graham Nash. It's said that she wrote this song crying at home watching the show on television.
coloradream 3 years ago
I saw a documentary on JM and it is true. She missed going to Woodstock to appear on Dick Cavett show because she felt it would be important for her career, not realizing the significance of the event. She wrote this song about it
Rendezvous80 3 years ago
what documentary would this be? i'm doing a poetry seminar on this song and it'd be awesome to use that as a source.
solush 3 years ago
Gosh solush. I'm sorry I don't remember exactly what it was called. It may have been on Life and Times (a canadian Bio show) or it may have been on the Biography Channel. Prob if you went to the Bio channel and searched you could find the name. I remember the scene of her sitting with Dick Cavett and Crosby as they were describing the scene and she looked so remorseful at not being there. Great topic for your poetry seminar though.
Rendezvous80 3 years ago
thanks! it was the Life and Times. i love my topic, i'm actually excited to present. i think i may be doing a cover for this song as well.
solush 3 years ago
Great!!! I'm glad you found it. I'm sure you will knock'em dead with your presentation. Good luck and let me know how it turns out.
Rendezvous80 3 years ago
These were better days.....
I am so glad I lived it.went to Woodstock...
a long journey of my life.but worth the trip
I still remain true to my ideals to this day...
Peace and love to all my brothers and siters
shaman1945 3 years ago 4
Thank you for walking your truth, always x
spiritdancers1 3 years ago
spiritdancers1
your welcome
love lives inside of "you"
The "great Mother Eath" created the garden for all of us..seek it out.....there you find peace and contentment....
Namaste.(I bow to you)
shaman1945 3 years ago
Peace,love,hope and happiness to all.
AncilWayneSmith 3 years ago 3
this is the first time i hear this song, pretty damn great.
lachapislupita 3 years ago
this is what i call a true art performance.....art by a godly genius in music....
shikhar0099 3 years ago 3
My generation must bring it back for the thriving of not only the human race but all our brothers and sisters in creation. Friends, lets get back to the Garden :) We have so much to stand for yet we keep our soul firmly down, I see high vibes this era :) Love Light and Peace :)
IzzyTrash 3 years ago 5
where did all the peace and love went?
where are all the young people? we still have to change something...
ZwischenDenZeilen 3 years ago 2
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... that'll be my socks.
Farweasel 3 years ago
I think her version is a lot deeper b/c the music is deeper, plus her very folkish/soulful voice.
lewchootrain 3 years ago
Absolutely true. I, too, prefer Joni's version so much more. The one on the "Best of CSNY" is good but those raspy guitars do become distracting for a song like this.
sandinyourshoes 3 years ago
i prefer the crosby stills nash and young version i think the song is really good i love it this version is good but i just prefer the other one
peace and love to u all
maca405 3 years ago
My God, how I love this song...
CheckedAvailability 3 years ago
...then did you know that it was Essra Mohawk's description of Woodstock that inspired Joni to write this song? Essra is a singer/songwriter/artisit who released the classic LP in 1970 called PRIMORDIAL LOVERS. Essra missed the event due to a wrong turn on the road. ...Essra also wrote Cyndi Lauper's "Change of Heart" & Tina Turner's "Stronger Than The Wind," to name a few.
fecinny 3 years ago
TI AMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
parfumedtree 3 years ago
Come on guys, we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
WelchMx 3 years ago 4
C'Mon.....
best11228 3 years ago
seriously man
her ass was fine!
mo4form 3 years ago
Wish all so called politicans can listen to tracks like this and look at life from a different perspective...maybe no more war and killing...
Maybe
SEL500 3 years ago 2
Very well put together. Very touching.
SmileyWhiplash 3 years ago
Beautiful and pure...
maja697 3 years ago 2
A giant song of our time - sung by a giant woman of our time . . .
Toyboy789 3 years ago 5
Are you calling Joni Mitchell FAT?!
LOL
Kidding.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I totally agree with your comment though.
mikaboy13 3 years ago 3
i have woodstock on dvd its fantastic and werid at same time ! still great music though alot of peace !
whirlyfan 3 years ago
Nice depiction of Woodstock, includes many interesting images, brings you right back to the feeling of energy that was there.
best11228 3 years ago
I wish I was there...
Thanx for the video... I love this song!
Sofiontas 3 years ago 3
sorry i hit the thumbs down by mistake,i was going say me 2. there was something else in europe going on these days i cant rember the festeval but they trying recreate woodstock spirit,think in was in germany,btw sorry i meant to give johnny smooth a thumbs up one day,2nd time i boobed
danbit5 3 years ago
Sooo Beautiful...on this special weekend!! thank you Vicki for the fun of today..U Rock..my beautiful girlfriend...ly~~S
DejaVuSu 3 years ago
such a fine lady
deepesttime 3 years ago
so beautiful. and hippies are wonderful. this reminds me of my grandmother. lenny atwood. R.I.P.
LilaBbycakes 3 years ago
Classic Joni ... talented and timely
californiadon 3 years ago
The Version:
Matthew Southern Comfort - Woodstock 69
Is in my opinion rather better, sounds smoother!
But this version is in it's case good too!
DaftPunk19 3 years ago
Many thanks to you for posting this song by Joni Mitchell this song is the anthem of Woodstock and also for the era it represets the 60's LOVE a special time in America's history I listen to this song often it's so beautiful!
cosmicgirl5 3 years ago
yo i commented a while ago with the account 035214 (or something like that) and i just wanted to say that i don't mean to bash what the hippie movement was. I would have loved to live then and experience that. but the fact is that the whole basis was an over-idealistic fantasy.
bucsfan528 3 years ago
Dear "bucsfan528",
When you use the word, "fact" as you do, and describe what you never experienced, what are you talking about? Of course there was an ideology that characterized the time. For anyone who was remotely aware, people were very disenchanted by a political system that had engulfed America (as well as south-east Asia) in war. People hope for a better way to engage the global community (is this what you referred to an "an over-idealistic fantasy"?). Try going to school....
ospreylookout 3 years ago 5
O bravo, very good response
BacInTexas 3 years ago 4
Dear Bucsfan528,
This type of forum and medium is not the most conducive to expressing opinions on topics that can be extremely volitile. I am not a hippy, but I am using the "idealistic fantasy", as a way of comparing it to the mess of Iraq, and the US adminstration's insane foreign policy. If peace-loving is such an ideal, then please more of the same fantasy would be a welcome change. That is the point, hippy or otherwise, we should be aspiring to better ways.
ospreylookout 3 years ago 4
Often fantasy is better than reality.... I am of that generation.... I did conform somewhat to societies expectations but I still retain the memories of a time where people actually tried to make a difference.... It was a great social experiment that I would not have missed for anything......
Mikesmistake 3 years ago
...beautiful...
kicsimoe 3 years ago
she actually never went to Woodstock! Joni was scheduled to perform at Woodstock on Sunday of that weekend of love, but when the traffic jams were seen by all of America on TV that Friday, her manager advised her not to go
agontry 3 years ago
I wanna go back to this time.
tambam89 3 years ago
yay for hippies
darkphilli 3 years ago 3
i wonder why it doesnt exist nowadays ?
it would be the solution to many wars and people would think for themselfes again instead of following the mainstream ideals !
be hippie be happy :)
greyonednb 3 years ago
Its been transformed into the new state of consciousness which is arising in the world It began with the Hippy movement back then.I was part of it in the UK,wonderful time.See Eckhart Tolle,Gangaji,Papaji and others on YT.
eaglerock999 3 years ago
what a truly amazing song ...so very powerful in every sense....everyone should at least listen to it once ....
LilMissDia 3 years ago 2
That first little lick on the organ gets me every time.
guitarman63mm 3 years ago
not trying to be a smartass, but it's a wurlitzer. It's an electromechanical piano, just thought it might be good to know, if interested in that era.
32BIT 3 years ago
Haha, point taken. I honestly hadn't heard of wurlitzer except in jukes. But you're right, I looked it up on wikipedia and it was right there.
guitarman63mm 3 years ago
Ok Mr Trigger Happy. Sorry you can't last too long ;)
whackamolechamp 3 years ago
This is my faviorate version of this song...
eroticpearl 3 years ago
Do you mean of Joni's performances of this song? This isn't a version, it's the original, she wrote it.
fem399 3 years ago 2
CSNY pretty much owns this song with their highly successful cover, but Joni's version haunts me.
gryzynx 3 years ago
WU TANG IS FOR THE CHILDREN!
bergertrue 3 years ago
jajaja ! Wu-tang clan bitches! RIP ODB!
jonxmoke69 3 years ago
I love you all.
scryermountain 3 years ago
Thanks for postin this Coloradream. Damian
DamianNixon 3 years ago
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Yeah, the music is fucking awesome but, seriously, the hippie movement was a fucking joke. I can't believe you old fucks still follow that naive shit. Grow up.
0362548 3 years ago
Oscar Wilde once said:
Blessed are the people
who have nothing to say
but nevertheless
they are quiet.
raindropser 3 years ago 7
raindropser 3 years ago 6
wow. u know what, woodstock was great, the hippies were great and u dont have any fucking right to judge you fat piece of fuck. i bet your 300 pounds of shit, just sitting on your fucking computer, talk about a wasted life. for god sakes a=im a kid and i know the woral of woodtock. your probably some fat ass liar who doesnt give. ur an ass hole and youll always be one.
clashdudes 3 years ago
srry. that message was for 0362548. ass, please dont ciritcize woodstock. you werent there and you dont know any of them, so y give man. respect the people who went to this event, spent those three days in there own paradise and joined together and became woodstock.
clashdudes 3 years ago
Im only 13 and im a hippy.
If that makes me wrong, I don't wanna be right.
HatchetGirl103 3 years ago 5
it's interesting to think that there were some moments in human history when music was indeed larger than life and could make ppl transcend their time and nation.But then again,music is music,musicians,including us are all just pawns of circumstances unable to turn the wheel of history.But the important thing is music makes us realize that there's something good that all human beings long for.
avvalon666 3 years ago
unfortunately i am too young to have gone to Woodstock, but this song blows me away, that keyboard is gorgeous, i need to get one of those...
Theguy1360 3 years ago
I'm another one who wasn't even born when Woodstock started...to bad :( I'm 16.
But this music, with all other great ones, like Dylan, CCR, Simon and Garfunkel, Beatles, Gene Raskin, Hendrix, Joan Baez, Doors, Country Joe & Fish,...and many others that I can't recall right now...that is MUSIC, but not only music, the axis of hippie movement actually.
Thank you.
Croatian1991 3 years ago
I was there at Bethel! I am an old f-ck now...but oh those memories! We all belonged to something so great. The world was ours, and we were going to make it better. They were the best of times..they were the worst of times. I hate my AARP card and wish it were 1969 all over again.
saunders49 3 years ago
I was there too, Saunders! Hey, we ain't dead yet! I made it into the movie, youtube search hippies and DMT & i'm right in the beginning with the yellow top & headband on. Peace on...
shastasladybear 3 years ago
You guys are so lucky!
I'm 17 and I would have LOVED to have been there! I'm not sure an event that powerful and real will ever come along again :(
4thesakeofit 3 years ago 5
Dont worry the garden will soon come back!!
jstrachan08 3 years ago
It's great to be in the garden with folks like you! Welcome to the garden, my friend:)
Jbear9 3 years ago
Musicjunkie, I'm a little older than 13. I didn't get to go to Woodstock, either; I was there in spirit, though! :D Enjoy your time.
This song is a timeless anthem.
Jbear9 3 years ago
To all you 13-year olds: Thank you for having good taste in music. Spread the news to your peers and reject them majority of the crap we have today. I was once that 13 year-old too.
TuneInTurnOnDropOut 3 years ago 7
man, im only thirteen, but i wish so bad that i could have been there... or at least around at that time.
Great song.
musicjunkie174 3 years ago
Nice song...!!! Elizabeth
79797979797979797969 3 years ago
WE are stardust. WE are golden. Notice the WE. No way possible to take anyone out of WE - no matter what religion or belief or non-belief you have. All we are saying, is give peace a chance. Thanks for sharing Dave!
beggarsgame 3 years ago
We are all God...you sillies
mysticpluck8 3 years ago
The anthem for a generation... where have you all gone?
bluensunshine 3 years ago
Beautiful song with truth throughout. "We've got to get ourselves back to the garden"... in this day and age, I think that rings true no matter what your religion.
"Religion and spirituality are universal threads in the fabric of human experience" (Piedmont, 1999, p. 988).
mcampbell085 3 years ago
would you all stfu and enjoy Joni's amazing music?
Dominicano1197 3 years ago 2
Wonderful...
Girasolillo 3 years ago
We need this spirit back ... all is soon lost.
upwards07 3 years ago
But they're both excellent.....
kevinherbert 3 years ago
Right on!
ImagogamI 3 years ago
Sounds like Bad COmpany stole this lick.
ImagogamI 3 years ago
You're right
kevinherbert 3 years ago
sure i believe in God & Jesus too but that doesnt mean that we can't hope for peace and love in the world
vicsmiles 3 years ago
Rhodes....
Memphislex 4 years ago
could somebody please tell me which keyboard is used to make this dreamy sound, is it a piano or organ, i could listen to that all day.
tuggers1 4 years ago
piano, with a sustenuto pedal constantly depressed.
pervadingdark 4 years ago
It`s a Wurlitzer piano (An electric piano).. Check it out, it is a great instrument!
orjano59 4 years ago
I find it so typical that people who talk so much about peace and love, refuse to believe or even give a thought to that there might really be a God. Someone who realy cares about us, who loves us so much they died instead of us. Jesus is the king of LOVE and the prince of peace..amen..
missen33 4 years ago
I really ought not to have expected anything better from a fanatic should I?
Well, as reason and logic seem to bounce off you, let's try putting it on a platform you might relate to: I've prayed to the tooth fairy, and she's consulted the toilet duck, and they both say it would be very nice if you would post somewhere else because - incomprehensible tho it may be to you - you're actually annoying people who can think for themselves.
Farweasel 4 years ago
People who talk about peace, know that relgions have caused most wars and been resposible for some of the greatest slaughters of people.
topgungaz 3 years ago
religion has caused many wars and the biggest war is the one between God and Satan its been raging since God made the world... only through Jesus will we find true and everlasting peace..
missen33 3 years ago
But if you do this he will come into your life, make you a brand new person and fill you with his Holy Spirit. You will be born again and you can have a personal relationship with both God,Jesus and the Holy Spirit.. you can begin to have a truley awsome life
missen33 3 years ago
If god created everything, then god created war and the devil, so if god exists then not a nice thing is he.
topgungaz 3 years ago
God dos'nt help those who do not believe in him. Not only that but you will never know him unless you confess that jesus is lord of your life and he was punished and killed for your mistakes and that god has rasied him from the dead.
missen33 3 years ago
god is omnipotent , hence when he created us he knew what mistakes we would make , hence there his mistakes. Ps this is all hypothetical as there is no such thing as god , devil , heaven or hell.
topgungaz 3 years ago
Friend god really does exist i know him personally. he speaks to me when i pray.. So many people have been fooled by the Devil. he has done such a good job of making people believe what you believe..From his own words.. THE GREATIST TRICK THE EVER DEVIL PLAYED WAS CONVINCING THE WORLD THAT HE DOES'NT EXIST..
missen33 3 years ago
Jesus said I am the truth , the light, the life and the way only through me will your come to know your hevenly father(God). Religion including The old Christian church have built a wall between us and god..
There is a brand new church now and the walls have been torn down. God is there and you can really truley know him now... tears of joy filled my eyes when he replied to my prayer of salvation and touched my heart.
missen33 3 years ago
You will be placed in authority over the devil. Friend i have seen wonderfull miricles in the last year since i gave my life to Jesus. God has truley blessed me and my family. I uses to be a hippy and take drugs for many years.. but it never came closed to the buzz i get from god..
missen33 3 years ago
Well buddy ive never done drugs , so no clouded mind here. have walked the holyland , been to the birthplace , etc etc and never seen 1 miracle, just the wonder of diverse cultures and peoples. Mind you thought they would all have led more happier and peaceful lives if people hadnt invented relgieon.
topgungaz 3 years ago
Srange as it may sound i believe religion is a work of the devil. you maybe thinking err that souds crazy but its true.. Jesus was hated by the relgious leaders of the time they called him a blasfimer had him crusified. Satan has inveted many relions and beliefs ..Buddism, Hindoism, Islam,etc.. They are all there to cover and hide the truth from people.
missen33 3 years ago
er out of intrest what relgieon do you belive jesus to have been?
topgungaz 3 years ago
He was a son of David and was sent by the God of Abraham the one true God..I have now descoverd that what is written in the bible is the truth..
missen33 3 years ago
so basicly he was a jew, from which christiany came , from which islam came, so u all belive in the same god, but want to kill each other.Great relgion you all have.
topgungaz 3 years ago
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no friend, Islam is a total lie.. see for yourself if your had read you would know that there are many warnings about the false prophit and the antichrist, true Christanity is about love.. loveing one another, loving our enemys. A fiend of mine who is a christian has been completly healed of multiple sclerosis, she was in a weel chair and and dying and God healed her. That is a miricle. The doctors were amazed..
missen33 3 years ago
Is there some sort of censorship loop on this vid? (Ironic given the context).
But two comments I've posted.
Both have failed to appear.
If this one makes it through..... Would the religious loons please **** off and get an education ;-)
Farweasel 4 years ago
AHMEN xD
seagullx18 3 years ago
have you seen the passion of the christ.. that was slaughter..JESUS IS THE KING OF KINGS..and his kingdom shall last a lot longer than an lsd trip..
missen33 4 years ago
well its either heaven or hell you decide... either way God Rules...
missen33 4 years ago
You detract from peoples' enjoyment of a beautiful bit of music with your unfounded and unwonted superstitious ramblings. God may be real for you. I knew a guy with scizophrenia -- for him the voices were real too. You find reality too difficult to deal with? I sympathise .... But its no mandate to intrude on others. Go and reinforce your dellusions with others of your ilk if you must. Better still get a proper education and learn to differentiate the real from the wishful.
Farweasel 4 years ago 2
Jesus loves you!!! whats wrong with that..
missen33 4 years ago
What, other than his presence being a figment of a disturbed imagination you mean Missen33?
Or did you have in mind the almost constant litany of slaughter that's been perpetuated in his name for the best part of two millenia?
Farweasel 4 years ago
zeppelin did a cover of this its pretty good you cant understand a thing plant (the singer) says untill he says back to garden
mana244 4 years ago