Woodstock ~ August 1969 (Peace & Flowers)

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Music: Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo child

Woodstock was a rock music festival with all kinds of music styles. It was August 1969, in upstate New York. 3 days where half a million people came and were united in the belief that peace and flowers were better than guns and war.

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[tarzann7]

lets bring the hippies back

[aknowneemus]

@TheDjBlitzification good point, i'm all for it.

there is enough "negativity" in this world. Peace and love would be a welcome comeback.

[silversurfers7]

.....The time of 'carefree' when people did things slower and people met each other more, no people hiding away in their homes all day on the computer, (guilty as charged) people got outside more, people wore the famous 'flip-flop' and leather sandal shoe, there were no other around, Tie-dye T-shirts and tank tops, when you wanted to phone someone, you had to look for a phone on the street, I think the sun shone brighter in those days too! Those were the truly days, brings back smiles now :-)

[94fulLmp]

@tarzann7  lets do that

[horsenaround]

@amilee91 Yes, you are controlled by the establishment, which is what we fought against and won! We fought for our right of freedom of expression with our music. They wanted to censor our music!! We fought against our parents for our right to wear our hair the way we pleased, we fought for our right to dress the way we wanted in school, we fought against the war, we fought for control of our own lives and knowing we had a real cause brought us together in peace and unification!

[horsenaround]

@blackdude57 Yeah, believe it or not, the government wanted to censor our music! They said that our rock music was a bad influence on us. Most of the songs from Black Sabbath were not played on the radio cause it was censored because of the protest music against the war. Lets spend the night together by the Stones was censored because it was sexually suggestive! We made a stand and fought for our right to freedom of self expression with our music, hairstyles and clothing, just about everything!

[horsenaround]

@aknowneemus Yeah, MTV was great but what the hell happened to it now? Wheres the music? Its all freakin reality shows now! Whose idea was that? I used to love to watch that channel when they had good rock n roll bands from the 80s on it.

[horsenaround]

@TheDjBlitzification Your generation are already doing it! You have the Occupy movement! All you have to do is start writing some protest songs that include that movement and its ideas and add some music and have a huge occupy weekend on the lawn of the White House! Organize, express your thoughts, love each other, respect each other and develop your own clothing styles to show you are protesting the establishment. Use your freedom of speech to protest everything that is wrong but do it peaceful

[horsenaround]

Maybe we old farts should get together and have a Hippie reunion weekend and do it up like Woodstock? Get some good bands together and have them learn to play the songs of the 60s or even have the orginal bands play again. Some of them are reuniting and still playing for the arenas. We could have a real Flower Power weekend and show these kids a thing or two about great music and peace. We would only need one rule and that is no hip hop, no rap! Our generation could do it again without violence!

[horsenaround]

@thesummerone I believe it was the event of the PC coming on the scene that changed it all. The internet allows everyone to share their political views, their ideas, their thoughts. It is good in a way, but it also allows much more freedom of speech and because you can talk to someone who is faceless, it allows people to say mean things and express mean thoughts that they never could in the old days! This tends to bring hatred and ambivalence and politically divides the country.

[horsenaround]

@livamilAVA In order to have another Woodstock, we have to change the mindset of the youth in this country first. We would have to get rock and roll back in the mainstream and get the message out like we did before. You cant just set up a rock festival with everyone into a pop culture and have it work.

[horsenaround]

@MrFrankfig It was such a beautiful experience! Like nothing i can describe! We were all one big happy family and we were from all over the country, all races, all different, yet so much alike! We need a movement like this again to get things straightened out again! The estabishment has it all messed up and weve come full circle. First thing we have to do is to get back to some good music again! Get these kids off that pop rock crap and into some real rock with some meaning in it!