if we tap it, they will come
Gathered that weekend in 1969 were liars and lovers, prophets and profiteers. They made love, they made money and they made a little history. Arnold Skolnick, the artist who designed Woodstock's dove-and-guitar symbol, described it this way: "Something was tapped, a nerve, in this country. And everybody just came."
EDIT: Woodstock happened August 15-18 1969. Neil Armstrong "walked on the moon" on July 20, 1969. Isn't that weird, I remember hearing so much about both when I was growing up in the 80s but it never struck me until recently that the two events representing the epitome for two so very different factions--the hippies and the straights alike. Everyone in America whipped up into a lather of excitement--not only does it strike me that it was a perfect way of distracting people from.... something, I would imagine that the seventies also suffered from starting with the very real hangover that such momentous experiences would have had when people realized that the parties were over and it was back to complaining about each other--that is, the people neatly divided before the war on Vietnam really got ugly. Depressed and divided, easily duped by the mass media mythologists. What ELSE was happening around that time I wonder? (I mean that, it's not rhetorical...)
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perfect "professional" performance by Grace/THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
how true about tapping the nerve. what made you think of this. Greao?
her ability to perform that moment with the volume of the JA amps, drums, on stage, and who knows what monitors, not to mention the intensity and import of the moment...man..
one of kate's fave, fave, fave bands..!!Â
Yeah, She took a min to get in the groove...
& nailed it there in the end. One of my favorite all time songs. It took on a whole new meaning after the realization that Alice's rabbit hole wasn't nearly as nightmarish as the ones we've been down.
BTW, thanks to whom for the Donovan vid. I'll repost it here for anyone who hasn't seen it. (sarcasm) LOL.
best error message in the whole truth movement i bet!
glad you liked white rabbit, kate and D... isn't she hot??? :) you know kate, it wasn't anything in particular, but i've started using pandora for music lately and the song played, reminding me how great it was and how profound the whole sixties woodstock thing was and how some of that mojo (not all of it of course) could rub off on the truth mo....
Yes, Jefferson Airplane,
It was their last album, but probably their best – “Volunteers†– If you have not heard it yet or haven’t heard it in a long time, definitely check it out.
“Look what’s happenin’ out in the streets. Got a revolution! Got to revolution! We are Volunteers for America, Volunteers for America!â€
Jack Cassidy, of the Airplane, is definitely one of my favorite all-time bass players. He is the guy who got me started playing bass. And hey, if you have a copy of the Woodstock movie, my girlfriend at the time, Valerie, is interviewed in the movie. Frizzy hair, buck teeth. You can’t miss her. The air was filled with the smoke of Lebanese red hash and patchouli oil. Far fuckin’ out, man. I wish I could go back. Oh well... Jethro Tull, The Doors, Hendrix, Beatles, Dylan, Zeppelin, etc. – that era had some might smokin’ music, fer shure.
kids don't try this at home
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what dr. toth means by "the smoke of Lebanese red hash and patchouli oil" is "the earthy scent of massed humanity". by "might smokin' music" dr. toth, a Canadian, means music popular in the hickory smoking houses of his home country.
lest there be any misunderstanding! :)
That’s right kidz, up heres in Kanadia,
we usually spend the winters occasionally checkin’ in on our hickory smoke houses, which are always conveniently located right next door to the old ice fishin’ shack where we wile away the hours catching fish sticks and spinning old Joni Mitchell vinyl LPs. If you play them backwards, you get weird, cryptic messages from Joey and Dee Dee Ramone. Go figure. And yes, the hash went well with fried eggs on a soggy, camping out kinda morning. Lebanese corned beef hash. ;-)
and that would be "mighty smokin' music" (spelling error)
done sung
this song many times at late night parties, and more recently performed a rocking arrangement of "Good Shepherd" with my last band, Quartermoon.
and yes, Greo, some of that patchouli and co mojo on the TM MO would be lovely....
mass psychology and the "defining events" of history
I imagine someone may have thought that shortly after 2000 "the millienium" as it was known to many that the nation and much of the world would suffer a certain of the same feelings of a let down after the big event passed, much as after the summer of 69 (which is numerolically significant for reasons obvious to worldly folk...)
When you think about it, the fact that 2001 A Space Oddyssey with its vision of Americans with an extensive base on the moon came out in 1968 is interesting as it would have been priming the people's minds for the events to come in the short term, giving them a dream--a fantasy better put--of what the future had in store--what their lives would end up being like.
Interesting that those who aren't old enough to remember "millenium fever" can't possibly understand just how much real apprehension many had over the coming of the year 2000. The Y2K bug was a previous generation's "al Qaeda suitcase nuke" that thankfully never went off. Beck then you had Alex Jones spreading fears of Y2K as Uncle Fetzer went about his usual business but back then it was the JFK Assassinationâ„¢ he was "helping" to investigate.
Anyone else notice a pattern?
This time I AM being rhetorical. :)
protection racket (noun)
A protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a powerful entity or individual coerces other less powerful entities or individuals to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase "protection" services against various external threats.
Those who do not buy into the protection plan are often targeted by criminals existing inside or outside of the organization. These crimes are typically thought to originate from the organization itself. When a business refuses to pay for protection, word is put out that they are outside of the local organization's protection (these organizations often exist in the absence of a trusted police force) and that the business in question is therefore free game for freelance criminals or the organization itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
The distant future... the year 2000
I think that has become my favorite Flight of the Conchords song, because it so accurately tweaks that anticipation of the year 2000 that many of us grew up with. I remember frequently thinking about that when I was a kidlet... omigod, the year 2000, when I will be 33 (read: ancient.)
Keep it real, ro-bros.
Minus "ro-bros" but much better than HBO version
awesome
was that ricki lake at the end?