Woodstock Festival 1969 Then and Now (1969 - 2022) How Have They Changed 53 Years Later?

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The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, better known by the simpler Woodstock Festival, was an event that took place in Bethel, a small rural town in upstate New York, United States of America, from August 15 to 18 of 1969, at the height of the spread of hippie culture. It is often referred to with the expression 3 Days of Peace & Rock Music, "three days of peace and rock music". 400,000 to 500,000 spectators were estimated.
The name originates from the city of Woodstock, in Ulster county, known for its artistic activities (art festivals are organized there) and was the last major manifestation of the movement which since then has spread more and more outside the USA, where he was born, even without the cohesion and originality that had allowed events such as the Monterey Pop festival, the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the Woodstock festival itself in the sixties.
Woodstock was conceived as a provincial festival (and as "An Aquarian Exposition", the name, with a modest tone, with which it was advertised) but unexpectedly welcomed more than 400,000 young people (according to uncertain sources, even a million people) . Thirty-two of the best-known musicians and groups of the time took turns on stage and the event ended a day later than expected (it had been scheduled until the 17th), all with the consumption of enormous quantities of Cannabis and LSD, including famous "Orange Sunshine". The festival had a great symbolic charge whose notoriety continues today and was a great event in the history of rock and costume.
An eponymous festival has been revived every ten years since the original and, in 1994, to celebrate twenty-five years since; each time new artists, absent in the previous editions, are hosted together with musicians who have already performed on that stage: thus these events, cyclically, give an idea of the transformation of society (especially in the United States) from the first hippie inspiration to the most recent editions , which also saw episodes of violence and a commercial nuance far from the cheerful and utopian atmosphere of the "hippies".
La Fiera della Musica e delle Arti di Woodstock, meglio conosciuto con il più semplice festival di Woodstock, fu una manifestazione che si svolse a Bethel, una piccola città rurale nello stato di New York, Stati Uniti d'America, dal 15 al 18 agosto del 1969, all'apice della diffusione della cultura hippie. Vi si riferisce spesso con l'espressione 3 Days of Peace & Rock Music, "tre giorni di pace e musica rock". Furono stimati dai 400.000 ai 500.000 spettatori.
Il nome ha origine dalla città di Woodstock, nella contea di Ulster, conosciuta per le sue attività artistiche (vi si organizzano festival d'arte) e fu l'ultima grande manifestazione del movimento che da allora si diffuse peraltro sempre più fuori dagli USA, dove era nato, pur senza la coesione e l'originalità che avevano permesso negli anni sessanta eventi come il Monterey Pop festival, la Summer of Love a San Francisco e lo stesso festival di Woodstock.
Woodstock era stato ideato come un festival di provincia (e come "An Aquarian Exposition", il nome, dal tono modesto, con cui era pubblicizzato) ma accolse inaspettatamente più di 400 000 giovani (secondo fonti non certe, addirittura un milione di persone). Sul palco si alternarono trentadue tra musicisti e gruppi tra i più noti dell'epoca e la manifestazione terminò un giorno oltre al previsto (era stata programmata sino al 17), il tutto con il consumo di quantità enormi di Cannabis e LSD, tra cui il celebre "Orange Sunshine". Il festival ebbe una grande carica simbolica la cui notorietà continua ancora oggi e fu un grande evento della storia del rock e del costume.
Un festival omonimo è stato riproposto ogni dieci anni dopo l'originale e, nel 1994, per celebrare i venticinque anni da allora; ogni volta vengono ospitati nuovi artisti, assenti nelle edizioni precedenti, insieme a musicisti già esibitisi su quel palco: così questi eventi, ciclicamente, danno un'idea della trasformazione della società (in particolare negli Stati Uniti) dalla prima ispirazione hippie alle edizioni più recenti, che hanno visto anche episodi di violenza e una sfumatura commerciale ben lontani dall'atmosfera allegra e utopistica dei "figli dei fiori".

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@bugeanuflorin1531 5 ай бұрын

Fabulous ,thank you for posting. Good time for you

@manoftheworld1000 Жыл бұрын

I couldn't think of any worse music to be played in this video!

@richierugs6544 5 ай бұрын

chopin's funeral march?

@haraldssongs264 Жыл бұрын

wunder , wunder , wunderbar diese Legenden der Glückseeligkeit ! Vielen Dank !

@richierugs6544 5 ай бұрын

Sly was one of the highlights, got the most audience response, he had us in the palm of his hands

@MaryNovak-lk1bv 13 күн бұрын

You should've used the song Woodstock by joni Mitchell and the cover version by C.S.N.&Y and the modern version instead of the 1812 overture

@PaoloColombo-u8w 9 ай бұрын

Bellissime immagini...woodstok sempre nel mio cuore

@richierugs6544 5 ай бұрын

still have my tickets

@paulocezar795 Жыл бұрын

Festival maravilhoso , músicos sem igual serão lembrados com muito amor para sempre.

@Amysmann Жыл бұрын

Yes, we are now the 'seniors'. Some of us continue to celebrate this anniversary every year. This is a peculiar bit of music for 'Woodstock'. Peace

@fredajohnson3963 Жыл бұрын

The best 4 days if my life.!! Just to see JIMI....Was so Groovy....and so many amazing artists....some we have list, others are still with us !! Thanks to MAX for loaning his dairy farm field for the million of GROOVY PEOPLE of all ages to share for the 4 days.....and RIGHT ON TO ALL THOSE WHO WERE THERE......MEMORIES.....and No I didn't take the brown or green acid.... CAN YOU DIG IT MAN...!!!

@fredajohnson3963 Жыл бұрын

Well, I can't spell....

@hollywoodjoe123 Жыл бұрын

HELLO FROM HOLLYWOOD JOE

@bobbrown5951 Жыл бұрын

Loved the video. I was there in '69 but didn't see every band as you had to sleep at some point. Two errors here that I know of. The updated photo for Robbie Robertson isn't Robbie. That's a photo of Ronnie Hawkins whom Robbie played with previously. And the singer with BS&T at Woodstock was David Clayton Thomas, not Al Kooper who previously sang with the band. Also David Crosby died today. RIP. Loved his voice.

@CliveAdlam-yn8uz Жыл бұрын

Good Lord bless you .Peace and Love, hippie days .It was far more spiritual then .Respect.

@bobbrown5951 Жыл бұрын

@@CliveAdlam-yn8uz thank you and blessings to you and yours as well. I feel blessed to have been part of this and to meet so many kind and spiritual people.

@marvinchase4899 3 ай бұрын

It's int'resting to me that Blood Sweat and Tears never appeared in the Woodstock '69 movie (seems strange)

@jgrau5089 Жыл бұрын

What a line up!! Since you only showed Carlos Santana, the rest of the band is alive with the exemption of David Brown, bass player.

@Creek54 Жыл бұрын

Where's Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Hugh Romney, Chip Monke and Max Yasgur?

@dubuqueblues69 Жыл бұрын

Yes.....the guys that helped make it all happen!! Michael Lang passed away last year sadly. Max Yasgur died in 73 but as far as I know Artie, Chip and Hugh are still around. Also John Roberts, who mostly financed it, passed away very young in the early 2000s. RIP Michael and John and all involved as well as so many performers like Keef Hartley who performed and wasn't mentioned here.

@Lisa-t1n7l 6 ай бұрын

We've changed but not for the better.

@douggreen639 5 ай бұрын

The pics of Incredible String Band, Christina “Licorice” McKechnie went missing in the 80’s and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. The pic from 2022 is not her.

@thetangleedgelegacysoffici3348 Жыл бұрын

Sam Andrew was fired fbefore Woodstock and John Till was the Kozmic Blues Band`s guitar player at Woodstock. Mark Kapner was the Fish`s keyboard player at Woodstock, not David Cohen, and Doug Metzner was the bass player, not Bruce Barthol and finally Greg Dewey was the drummer, not Chicken Hirsh. Founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, Al Kooper had left by August 1969 and was replaced by David Clayton-Thomas, and Lew Soloff was the trumpet player, not Jerry Weiss, who together with Randy Brecker preceeded him. Elvin Bishop had left The Paul Butterfield Blues Band long before Woodstock, and Buzzy Feiten plays the guitar there, and Rod Hicks plays the bass, not original bassist Jerome Arnold, and on the drums is Phillip Wilson, not original drummer Sam Lay.

@MaryNovak-lk1bv 13 күн бұрын

Maybe they couldn't find any pictures, of the aforementioned to add to this video..perhaps?