And your "counter culture" clothing became a culture of its own.. hypocritical.. a guy in a suite, with a nice haircut and didn't smoke weed was against YOUR rules..
I bet you still shine with spirit and beauty. Good for you. I always said I was born 10 years too late (in 63)! What a period it was. Of course it wasn't all love and peace but this event remains so iconic.
I’m with you but I’m only 45 but I’ve always felt like I should have been born 25 years earlier so I could have lived through such an iconic era with great music and people striving for peace ✌️
I'm with you. Just moved to Tucson and discovered that marijuana products are legal and sold over the counter. I'm 72, retired and having a great time!
David Crosby was an atheist. He said repeatedly that he does not believe in God . On Twitter, he often criticized religion . He is not at rest. He is tormented now.
i am 67 and i fell that our generation had the best music ever hear !! very lucky! i listen now at this music and i still have enormous emotion! Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, CSNY, Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Byrds, Leonard Cohen, the Who, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, jefferson Airplane.... and sorry if I forgot someone,....maybe only Kurt Cobain gave me the same emotion!
@@greatmindsthinkalike1378 ...People had done that long before that. And this music came from blues, classical and rock and roll. Without that this music would not have existed either. And today neoliberalism fucks us and hardly anyone defends itself. It all turned out bad! No crying helps either!
Three nuns at the festival walking by smiling... the last one flashes a smile and a 2 fingered peace sign. Brings a tear. Times that will never be repeated.
My father stormed the beaches of Normandy France. He fought the Nazis in the hedge rows, he killed horses so the French could eat, he survived and created me. He never complained or spoke about his experience on Omaha beach. Me and my friends complained about the rain and mud in Bethel N.Y. I have been embarrassed for the last 50 or so years and never spoke about it.
Friend, you and he had that in common. Nobody likes the rain & mud. Bet he complained about it too. But, he had a good reason for being in the s**t- so did you. We thought we could find peace- he thought that too.
We can all learn from the lessons of peace and love from the Woodstock generation. I love the part of the video where the nun gives the peace sign. Great song! Great time and place. No social media or texting. If you wanted to communicate with someone you spoke to them in person or on the landline. RIP David Crosby, a profound and colorful human being and excellent musician.
Thats kind of a boomer put down on Millennials im a genXer so I grew up with just a land line and tv. That being said with out RU-vid the access to this great song wouldn't be almost free
Glen, you remember the '60s way different than I do....and Woodstork was unmitigated disaster.....and most hippies were not so loving more akin to today's homeless....Vietnam war,political unrest,riots and violent protests....sexual revolution😂....sounds more akin to current affairs than our selective memory wants to admit....not to mention all the union violence.... I struggle with much I see in the world today, a path that left unchecked will destroy this nation and many others...but youth today were raised by our generation and Gen X, so where is our culpability in this, hmmm?
@@terrymoorefield5918 We ALL do Terry. At least I hope I am speaking for the many of us in that time frame. I still remember one of my coworkers trying to get me to go to Woodstock (working in Syracuse at the time.) I declined because I had just bought my first new car at 17 years of age and had to make payments on it. I missed one of the greatest opportunities of anyone's lifetime!! Damn!!
@@myrnajay2785 The 60s and 70s were simpler times,I'm touching 70 now and dearly miss those times.I sincerely believe those years were better than now and I have such good memories of those days.
Digg your thinking man! I was born 14 years after woodstock in a different time. My dad was 18 in '69 but the music and the mindset of that time is so powerful you can still feel it today! You guys generation had something to say and it stick untill today. It may be 50 years ago but still actual today. You guys started something and we carry it on
Mitchell is a good song writer. That's mostly all it takes. When you have great lyrics you can make unlimited good covers. There is blues and folk songs people have been covering for 100 years because the lyrics and melody were just so good. This song's success says more about Mitchell than it does Stills.
I graduated from high school in 1968 . Starting the hippie era . Wonderful music - like this . Long hair , hippie clothes enc. bell bottoms - loved them . Relaxed , and fun times . Lots of new , special music , and bands! Remember it all well !
I graduated in the Netherlands 1969..being 19 years old . the most fantastic year of my life ..still living for the music of those decades... we know it all isnt it ..I think that one time in eternity!
Serious question, How did so much amazing music come from this era? was it a rebellion to everything due to the vietnam war or just a strange time in history!? Seriously, young people today are amazed by this era .. raw talented musicians and non-computerised music!
I've been asking myself the same question. Back then you had to be really good to sell your albums to the public and get put on the radio. Today's climate is different perhaps? I'm not sure what it is about today that makes the music not as good.
Youth from that Era could have only dreamed of the 2010s, our version of the 60s minutes the music. The last decade had everything a 60s revolutionary could want, world's music library at fingertips, legal weed, no vietnam. The music came from the struggles sure, but the pre covid generation would not have been as free as they were without the 60s middle finger to the 50s
It was a time of rapid change and all of the resulting societal upheaval that came with that change. We still had people alive that were born in a world without electricity, or cars or running water.. much less hot running water. Or mattresses or refrigerators or washing machines or private bedrooms or... Technology was just beginning it’s rapid progression. As a society we were still innocent. Still just human beings. Skinny healthy ones too! Uncorrupted.. also uninterrupted by advertising and market/tech driven pop culture. There was one phone at home that the whole family used, which was sufficient given the only people that wanted to talk on the phone were largely just teenage girls. No internet.. no computers! Lucky if your house had a color tv! But tv wasn’t important because we still had nature. Clear clean lakes and rivers with the sweetest water and full of fish, frogs and crawdads, lined with thick lush greenery. Floating docks and rope swings there for all to enjoy. And public pools and skating rinks and sports in the streets! Traffic was only a thing that happened in big cities. The population explosion is a big piece of the picture. In 1970 we were 203 million Americans, a huge jump from 181 million in 1960 152 million in 1950, less than half of today’s population and the rough birthdate of someone who was at Woodstock to see CSNY play. As a country we were still young and this country was still full of life and astounding natural beauty, wide open spaces and seemingly infinite opportunity.
I was born in '69 to a mother who had the long braids hanging below her rear, patches on her jeans, raising me on ALL the woodstock music... WHAT CULTURE!!! 👍🏻 And I can remember as a little girl, the Woodstock song blasting through our stereo system, and vibrating our trailer walls! It's no WONDER the music speaks to me😄 Well, besides the fact the artists are PURE GENIUS 🎊
thanks buddy---i popped out in 66, but my parents weren't very 60's at all--mom was a little more, and at least used to drive me to some of my band gigs in the early 80s, but they were generally very 50's and dad wasn't anti-establishment at all, and has never liked much other than bag pipes,so your pretty lucky there. it's rather amazing my bro and me were as anti-establishment as we are.
Funny...I was the same. I was born in '62. My mom was not musical at all and my dad was into the old twangy country music. But I remember in my early teens my brother got me into the Beatles. And from there I got into all the 60's music. And still love it!!! Nothing today can even come close to it. This past May (2022) finally got to make the pilgrimage to Woodstock to see the Who!! Peace and Love to all the hippies still out there!!
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Agreed. My mother gave piano lesson's for 41 years (she used the John Schaum books). My sister play's the piano for (I cannot say in a public chat). She is weird but goodness, can she play. Sadly as we all get older, we realize, not to focus on just one group, but many. Differing styles/types of music.
Neil's "4 dead at Ohio" was history...watched a documentary that interviewed the young girl standing beside the girl lying dead on the road ( famous Time photo) when she went home her dad greeted her at door & said she shlda been shot too for standing against America...what a sickness & it continues today with all the GB America bull sh..
It's not too late to bring back peace 🕊️ and love❣️ We need it more than ever now. We're the ones who are supposed to show this generation all the beautiful ways we were taught 🌺🌈❣️🕊️
Amen, brother. That's for damned sure. I like their music, but it is too damned bad that these libs didn't understand the importance of that then and now.
Thank God I had the incredible luck to live in those times. The world will never be that psychedelic, fun and free again. When I watch clips and hear music from the ''hippy era'' it hurts my heart to think its gone forever.
David Elliott. The world was freer then?! They drafted men to go to war then! Now women and men can choose to fight or not. Now we have pot more legalized! I heard on the news last nite talk about psychedelic drugs getting legalized soon! I feel now is much more free than then in ways. But not in other ways! Crazy!
@@andyrock6481 The last hippy goes extinct and elderly rappers say how special now was when they carried their cell phones everywhere, never spoke to each other except on the internet and all the other great things that are so wonderful now. And the beat goes on...
I recently visited Paris and I came back marveling at Montmartre and the Mouling Rooge. After that drive to Brussels, Strasbourg, Lucerne and Geneva in Switzerland. And I went back to Paris.
Yeah I read about that. But I heard they just didnt realize it was going to be such a big event! I remember robby krieger talking about how he regretted missing it. Cant remember exactly though...
I lived through this era… LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT… STILL TODAY THE BEST OF MUSIC EVER… CSN&Y the best.. Sion & Garfunkel… Sly & The Family Stone… Eagles, Peter Cetera, Chicago!!! On and on…❤
At a time when this country was divided by the Vietnam war at Woodstock we all enjoyed peace love and rock ‘n’ roll… May the memories of Woodstock live on!!!
I was 13 when the movie came out. I couldn't see it because I was too young. I was SO jealous of my older sisters. They said people were dancing in the aisles at the movie theater. I remember when the CSN&Y version of Woodstock was playing on the radio. I would be walking down the street with a little AM radio playing it and I thought the youth/hippy culture was so cool and ascendant and going places. You would look at somebody with long hair like you and just know you had something in common. When I finally saw the movie in 1976 at a rerun theater kind of place, I was just mesmerized, especially by Sly, Ten Years After, Santana, The Who and Hendrix. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
@bizkitgto The future is bleaker now than it has been since WWII or maybe ever. What can we do to save the planet and ourselves from the Republican`s fascist party? My son is a , millennial and my grandson is generation Z and I feel their pain and am pissed with them for damn good reasons!
I was born in July 30th 1969 my mother was 16 my dad was 19 only if they knew how awesome this era was I watch all the videos I love every song from the 1960s to the 70s 80s and of course when I was a teenager in the 80s but oh my goodness these are awesome songs my mother was a teenager she was only 16 Woodstock came out she had just given birth me and July 30th 1969 my dad was 19 like I said I just want to watch these I miss him so much because they both passed from cancer before they were 60
When I die, I will ask my lord if I can go to Woodstock right away. That will be my first trip in the after world. I will be driving my 1968 GTO all the way there!
Right on! I'll be there too! The three most beautiful days of the century took place there. The stars were aligned and it all fell into place. ...got to get ourselves back to the garden.
I'm 71 n in Aug 1969 I was in the military if I wasn't I would have been there Love this song n in Nov 1969 I saw Janis Joplin In Phil great show lots of memories
I was just a kid in high school in western Nebraska when we heard of a huge concert with our favorite bands performing.. We convinced one of our friends to take a group of us in his beat up VW van to Woodstock even though we didn’t have any money or even know for sure where Woodstock was. But we were too young and stupid and just thought we’d figure things out as we hit the road. So we skipped out of school, made up stories of spending weekend with friends for are parents and headed east. We didn’t make it 20 miles when the van broke down and crushed our Woodstock plans. Still love their music.
Brilliant version of a Joni Mitchell classic. "We are stardust. We are golden." I hope your trip back to the garden is golden David. Godspeed. Thanks for blessing the soundtrack of my life.
Joni could have made it to Woodstock, but settled for seeing it on the TV a few miles away instead of trying to find a helicopter ride over the crowd. Morale of the story: don't miss your moment, as it may not come again
@@j-5087 She had her first national television program on Monday after Woodstock. It was the Dick Cavett show. They were concerned that she might miss the show if she went to Woodstock so they decided to miss Woodstock thus ensuring her appearance on the Cavett show.
Not a care in the world . Everyone came together for a almost a week of Music and fun . No violence or shootings or cellphones . Only a few port a potties for all those people but oh well that looked like a very awesome place and time .
So thankful that people took the time and effort to photograph all of this - no camera phones and no go-pros but great documentation of what went into this piece of history!
Lovely to see kids at Woodstock parents bringing children how happy n content everyone seemed just to be there .. no phones no police no red tape .. a free time we have undoubtedly lost !
WOW I was only just born in 1970 but I really appreciate my parents exposure to this entire era of music. This generation is almost gone but never forgotten. Thank you David Crosby.
I was born in the wrong era, i have the heart and soul of a true hippie... It truly breaks my heart that I missed one of the greatest moments in history! Woodstock was a one time only thing. It will never and CAN NEVER be recreated!
I so feel your pain. I too was born too late. But I am a true Hippie and have been all my life. The 60s and 70s should go down as the generation that started moving this Country forward thinking. I missed Woodstock too. You are so right that it can NEVER be recreated. We have lost too many artists. 🥲
Same I've always said and truly felt that I was born in a wrong Era I was born 1977 my mom was too young to go to Woodstock but her sister was 18 and she went she said it was a true life experience and she was grateful to experience it she said it was a once in a life time deal that the vibe the love it was everywhere so majestic! I can't even imagine but to see videos of Woodstock it always perceive such peace and joy I can feel it sò deeply!!
An absolutely amazing but amazing time in my life and apparently in the lives of thousands of other folks as well!!!! Never ever to be forgotten Woodstock!!!!!! God bless and peace to all.
Look people , look how awesome life was before now . You might find some people and friends like this at slab city today . RIP David we are gonna miss ya
I’m 19 im happy to be apart of my generation even though my generation definitely has our flaws, but I would do anything to have been at Woodstock. These are almost all of the bands that I’ve loved all of my life, thanks to my parents, and I cannot imagine what it must’ve been like to see them all live all at once
I would do the nun with the glasses. She is so very hott that I don't know what to do with myself. Just saying. I wonder when I see this video, what became of these individuals.
Its too bad as a whole "musicians" these days cant play music. I think it was 2004 I wasnt 18 yet so it had to be, but I saw CSNY at white river amphiteater and they were amazing. I also got to meet David Crosby when they were taking a break a few hours into the show, there was a coat rack with VIP backstage lanyards just over a little fence, So I hopped the fence grabbed a lanyard and took off around a corner smack dab into the band coming off stage. Anyway David Crosby was really cool, I was so stunned to run into him I could barely get a sentence out, but he told me " calm down son, and just spit it out" with a big ole grin on his face. And he put up with me telling him how much of a fan I was and how much I loved his music and all that, he spent a good 5 minutes talking to me out of a 10-15 minute break after he had already played for a few hours. Thats class.
Not true there are some very talented artists out there. Just far few and between one in particular he can play every instrument there is and he mixes produces beats but he's a rapper so it's unfortunate but when I listen to his music any guitar riffs or anything he played it it's not Just a cut in or whatever its called lol but yea theres still some talented ppl just few I guess I dunno do a poll
You are one of a kind that still think like a peaceful lovely girl long live those beautiful times I salute you Baby you are from my beautiful generation 60s 70s little 80s
I was a wee lad after this awe inspiring event took place. Things were so different back then. My folks and neighbors didn't have to lock their doors at night and people were so much cooler and more friendly. We held and went to many a good party and clam bake (remember those) when we weren't on dad's speed boat. Once or twice a week we would have family and or friends over for cook outs and parties and everybody had a ball. As kids we played ball, built forts and tree houses, played with train sets that filled a huge board along with race tracks. Music was simply amazing with one awesome hit after another playing on but 3 or 4 available stations. Good times indeed!
THE WOODSTOCK 50TH ANNIVERSARY WAS FANTASTIC...8 MADE IT TO BETHEL WOODS FOR 2 NIGHTS OF CONCERTS... AND SHARED THE TIME AT HECTORS ...I HAD A GREAT TIME
Jeez, the music was just so f***ing honest then and probably the only time in humanity's history when we were trying to genuinely spread peace, love, harmony and goodwill. Didn't last long though, but that wasn't their fault. A child of the 70's, I'm glad I saw it. : ) Watching it again now, you could say that briefly a cultural assimilation took place, and from the unlikeliest source - India. And now, 4 decades on, India wants to be like us in terms of volume of cars, technology, mobile phones. I still hardly remember to wear a watch lol
I forgot about this part at the beginning of the Woodstock video I watched with some friends from work 30 years ago. Great footage, classic, seeing them set up the actual stage all these, by now, super star performers played together on. Absolutely awesome. Means even more now than it did then. I swear to God, I think I could watch this video a hundred times over and over again and not get sick of it. The sense of nostalgia is mind-blowing. Lots of marijuana and LSD going around. Everyone in a good, friendly mood. The ultimate party. It will never be matched. Overwhelming, bringing tears of joy to my eyes. These young, music and peace-loving beautiful people were so sweet and innocent and fun-loving. There will never be a generation with quite the same mindsets and attitudes. I was a 3 year old at the time, living in San Francisco. And yes, my heart, mind and soul are permeated with the ideals of the day, being procreated and conceived as one of the last of the "baby boomer" generation, in 1965.
It was a Saturday morning, Aug. 17, 1969 , Freddie, my older brother Tom and myself were hitch hiking on a north bound exit of the Garden State Parkway going to a name and place or thing we knew nothing about. The day before, friends told us there was a Woodstock camp out, others told us it was a Beatles concert, some told us it was Elvis , others said it was the Rolling Stones and another told us it was an Arlo Guthie or Easyrider free drive-in movie. We were 16 and17 year old teenagers. An older guy in a pickup truck on his way to Massachusetts picked us up and told us to ride in the back of his pickup truck. He asked us, ''where ya going''? and we said Woodstock and he said it was a small town in Massachucetts ,, I will get you to route 17. About three hours later we were stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the New York Threw Way and they were getting ready to close it down. The older guy told us ''you can stay on the back of the truck, but it might be hours and it looks like a rain storm is coming''. After a few hours and only about 50 miles of travel on the Threw Way, we jumped out of the back of the pickup,, thanked the guy , then crossed the medium and hitched hiked back home to Greenbrook New Jersey. Also, we came home soaked , it rained later that day. That's it ! My Woodstock story from about 50 years ago.
Since this year is 2019, this video seen here will commemorate Woodstock's 50th anniversary. It was made in 1971 with Crosby, Still and Nash singing the song about Woodstock (it is 48 years old in 2019). This video shows people heading to that Woodstock concert that took place on a farm in Bethel, New York in Sullivan County, located near the New York/Pennsylvania state border, where Delaware River is located at, on August 15th to the 18th, 1969. This video relives a time in 1969, which was 50 years ago, to what would have been like to go to that Woodstock concert.
