Video Essay: 40 Years of Woodstock Memories

[Maidenfairy12]

grandpa visit where he got high lol hahah

[MrsClippit]

LOL@ "you payin' attention to this? this is history"

[blowndaddy11]

I'd give anything to live during that era.

[AnujForRock]

lets bring this back again

[amerthil]

i am the reincarnation of jim morrison and my girlfriend before we got in a fight was the reincarnation of janis joplin. we both have really strong energy healing powers and can mind control people with music and more THE PIPERS ARE BACK . I would like to see this happen again even though i know it would not be me up there. I can pretty much lie my way into any gig any size because of my "the doors" karma but i decided to go into math and science for the modesty.

[ieatzombiesEP]

@amerthil what did you smoke? haha. :PP

[beachwalker121]

I was there. Helped set up the place. Got there a week early and got a job there.

What a TRIP! Literally!

[altohospiciano]

En ese año yo tenía 7 años...recuerdo que la película llegó en Enero de 1970 y los cines estaban repletos llenos de hippies, mis hermanos me llevaron a ver...y todos no lo podíamos creer, era como otro planeta...no podíamos estar más atrasados en la música aca en Chile...pero desde ese momento empezó la transformación de los grupos musicales...desde ese momento hubo un antes y después de la música rock nacional en Chile...esos momentos no se me olvidaron nunca ver a Santana,TheWho,Ten years.....

[paintballin878]

i am you and you are me

[darkfheenix]

i really need this generation again.

i am feeling like its my reason to live to bring people like this together just like micheal lang did.

[erscout]

@darkfheenix

Just do it!

What's keeping you from doing it?

[LessReLent]

@darkfheenix do it man. bring the 60's back. fight the power

[alvask8z2000]

these people are sell outs and did nothing good for humanity .. the best thing about the 60's were brush cuts and hippy beatin' sticks that could be found at any red & white or kresge's. oh and big block dodge motors which could be used to run over a hippy (man)

[psychadelicinvasion]

@alvask8z2000 Not cool man, the 60's were about peace and love not hating on people who had different beliefs. This was a beautiful time, and no violence ever solves any problem. I hope that you take time to look into yourself and see that peace is best. Peace out brother.

[stonedgp]

Let me guess matman125....you watch FOX news on a regular basis. Bill O'Rielly is your hero....right? You my friend....are a douche and a buzz kill!

[wheresswaziland]

Omg i was there last month and i was talkin to dat duke devlin guy... what a legend=)

[acidinurmind]

this is pretty neat

[ayychihuahua]

The mear mention of "WOODSTOCK" just burns my ass.....tho, my mom was expecting her second child in 69....she attended the GreatEvent at Bethel Woods, only after leaving me with my gr.mother for the week-end....I Could've been a part of the History that millions boast about....Traumatized I'am....

[umahuma4]

three nakid people out of the water? i bet she was high!

[mediaphotographer]

do you remember mine then?

[dacop13]

The music of today compared to the 60's and early 70's isn't even debatable. The crap that comes out today is so polished, with meaningless lyrics and predictable structure.

And to the guy that "hates Hippies" and would bash them with a 2x4, there will never be another Woodstock type gathering because of people like you.

I was only 5 when Woodstock took place, I could only wish I was there.

[matman125]

Go back to bed, grandpa.

[dacop13]

ok...matman125, my guess, your a wrestler at 125. Another bone head for the pile.

[matman125]

Yeah, I think I met you in the ring back in Atlanta. You were "Mr. Plastic Fantastic", right?

[DSCKSR]

You guys traded weed for viagra

[Adelchi100]

when I was kid my granpa brought me to visit war places.

[guyjojay]

that kid is'nt very interrested

[vinylman4533]

Hendrix and Davis were in collaborations and had jammed together several times in private. An album was in the pipeline at the times of Hendrix's passing.

[vinylman4533]

Remember watching the movie on the 10th anniversary in '79 and thinking what a great era that was musically and culturally. 30 years on I am still of the same opinion.

[vinylman4533]

At least that generation stood up to the war and tried to live up to their ideals. Too bad it came unstuck in the 80's with the me generation and greed is good. At least the 60's generation showed the way things could be, we need these values now more than ever before.

[hippieinmississippi]

Woodstock: 3 Days 4 Peace And Music

too bad the peace ended...

no fighting on the Woodstock video man, there were no fights at Woodstock and you can't fight about Woodstock...

[matman125]

The Hippie motto: "Live freely, but fallow the rules!"

jesus... biggest hypocrites of all.

[vinylman4533]

That generation helped stop the war in the early 70's. That is some achievement. We needed that during the war on terror years.

[matman125]

Stopped the war? Surely you don't mean Vietnam, because that shit lasted till the mid 70s.

At any rate, I'm sure the vets that came back home as poor homeless men and died from lack of medical care were sure thankful for the that brave achievement the hippies did! Yep! I think there's a WALL in D.C. with a list of people that would like to thank them personally for their efforts!

[mediaphotographer]

fuck you matman125, we were cursed at, spat on, at my university, after nam, we the lowest of cow dung, we could not even get laid man .what a bummer. Yea, thanks to the great hippie movement we were Loved?

[matman125]

Apparently your brain took a hit too! REREAD the STATEMENTS to the corresponding replies and add a pinch of sarcasm, you dolt.

[mediaphotographer]

The antiwar movement Which i was a member ,the SDS was a communist /mao based group and like the weathermen very violent and a warped bunch of anarchist. whose purpose was to divide and conquer thru mayhem. Think we need that shit today.? its hear, its the liberals.

[boonitae]

5th

[kingviper12]

Woodstock: Peace and Music

Live on forever

[matman125]

Woodstock is one of the most overrated pieces of shit ever.

[mejesus]

I just read a something in Newsweek, "I Was At Woodstock. And I Hated It.".

[mejesus]

This goes as for you too matt. just shows how some people, like the one who wrote this article, could only see the material things involved with that festival which was exactly what it WASN'T about.

[mejesus]

Obviously this guy did not care about the togetherness, beautiful, soulful... music, and fact of money not being an important thing- which you'll probably never see again. Thanks for spoiling that. And this guy skulked out of there before Hendrix played? That's probably something you shouldn't be bragging about. He don't sound like much of a music fan. Stick to politics, leave the concert reviews to people with soul.

[matman125]

Don't make laugh. So, did Hendrix buy his electric guitar with hugs and kisses? Hell no. You can have "soul" and work hard for that money you get every two weeks.

Actually, you're the one that's should kick your own ass for not only NOT having these "ideals" BEFORE Woodstock, but for totally FAILING capturing this utopia your generation parade around and accomplished NOTHING. Congrats on being more useless than the "Me Generation".

Yuppies taking a philosophy class and suddenly they know shit..

[mejesus]

Go watch your mass media and subliminal messages in movies you sheep.

[matman125]

Haha, listen to yourself! You're the biggest sheep of them all.

Yeah, go stick your head in the sand and let people walk all over you while you do what you do best: NOTHING.

[integral]

oh stop whining

[integral]

Guess you were there.

Had a bad acid trip, man?

[vinylman4533]

rubbish. the music over the 90's and 2000's is mostly overated rubbish. Pop and Rock music reached a peak in the 60's and 70's and since then the music really hasn't developed in radical new directions, we just keep hearing same tired guitar grunge drones and manufactured hip hop and rap.

[matman125]

You obviously went deaf in those decades. Music today is more diverse than ever, actually bringing people together, but I wouldn't expect an ignorant hippie to know that.

While the 60s had original acts such as The Velvet Underground and Miles Davis, most were just poorly imitating others and went nowhere, then died with that silly culture.

[vinylman4533]

the actual diversity and splintering of music today has the opposite effect. endless genres, no real mass movements

[matman125]

Movements of what? The only thing music should move is your mood and culture. That seems to be doing just fine today.

[hippieinmississippi]

diverse... ha... you can listen to any thing now, rap metal or country, and its all the same... their talking about the same thing in every song since the early 90s... and if you think its a silly culture why are you watching something about woodstock, cause thats what that silly culture was all about man... peace music freedom and diversity... seriously man...

[matman125]

I'm subscribed to AP so I see their shitty videos (i.e. this one) and informative videos. Much like how I read intelligent comments and retarded ones (i.e. yours).

[hippieinmississippi]

i feel bad for you matman125... know why... cause you'll never know the free lives that this "silly culture" lived... and by the way, insulting something only shows that you are so closed minded and afraid of something that you must put it down to feel better about yourself... and if you think music in the 60s didn't move people, those 650,000 people that went to Woodstock easily prove you wrong... and what about the 2 billion people that watched Live Aid in 85... ps its "Make Love Not War"...

[koriepfrank]

Living life close minded will ultimately take you where you're gonna go. fool.

[LSDrumline08]

and drugs haha

[BPandTyler]

more diverse? thats bull