woodstock

The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was a landmark rock festival held on Max Yasgur's rural upstate New York farm in 1969. Originally conceived as the mother of all rock festivals, its original promoters probably had no idea at the time of the cultural and historical milestone it would eventually become.

As things turned out, the three day event drew upwards of half a million people to watch the top rock bands of the day ranging from Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, to the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. As chaotic as the event was seen at the time, over the years it has since come to symbolize one of the defining events of the sixties generation.

As rock festivals go, Woodstock remains the standard by which all others — from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo — are measured to this day.

Woodstock, on its way to making the careers of rock bands like Santana and Sly And The Family Stone — before making history as a groundbreaking event in it's own right — went on to become the source of an Academy Award winning documentary film, as well as several attempts to recreate the original magic with subsequent events to varying degrees of success.

For bloggers looking to rekindle their Woodstock memories or otherwise, probably the best current source to do so is Woodstock.com.

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• VA – GENERATION WOODSTOCK SONGS FROM THE 60S & 70S (2009)

  
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  VA - Generation Woodstock Songs From The 60s & 70s (2009) MP3 VBR kbit/s | Rock | 187:21 min | 3CD | 260.49 MB
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• VA – GENERATION WOODSTOCK SONGS FROM THE 60S & 70S (2009)

  
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  VA - Generation Woodstock Songs From The 60s & 70s (2009) MP3 VBR kbit/s | Rock | 187:21 min | 3CD | 260.49 MB
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• Couple Seeking Couple

  
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  Suzanne Woodstock’s last blog post reminds me of the two characters, Marshall and Lily, from How I Met Your Mother. I bet the meet-up groups would be a great way to find another couple to do things with.
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• Sanju not happy with Vashu

  
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  Sanjay Dutt has walked out of Vashu Bhagnani’s film, Faltu , which is supposed to be the latter’s son, Jackky’s re-launch. This is because Vashu broke his promise of re-launching Sanjay’s good friend, Dharam Oberoi’s daughter, Neha, who was last seen in Woodstock Villa opposite Sikandar Kher. Sanjay ...
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• It’s Time for Snoopy Christmas Costumes!

  
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  Charles Schultz left a legacy that will not be forgotten any time soon. His creature of the “Little Round Headed Boy,” and his dog pal have warmed hearts for several generations. Each year ABC brings back Charlie Brown and his pals in the various holiday animated cartoons, which were created. Last month ...
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• A modern classic for a Saturday evening…

  
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  Amazing. ur a shotgun – bang! what’s up w/ that thang??
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• Good Quality "Its A Beautiful Day" Music - Woodstock 40th Anniversary

  
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  I put some videos on here right after the event, but this is one that I did myself that I am finally transferring to this computer. Enjoy!! Its timeless and needed now more than ever. Its very easy to make...
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• INTERVIEW: Rock & Roll, Cybernetics, and Literature: Bruno Clarke’s Intersecting, Interconnecting World

  
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  How did a musician who saw Jimi Hendrix blow “the rooftop off” an empty club in Washington, DC, find similar resonance in the field of “second order cybernetics?” For Dr. Bruce “Bruno” Clarke, professor of literature and science at Texas Tech University, Woodstock performer and survivor, (his band, ...
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• Why Choose Woodstock Percussion Wind Chimes?

  
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  I heard my first Woodstock Percussion wind chime on the back porch of my friend’s lake cabin. As a former musician, I was immediately struck (no pun intended) by the purity of the sound and the clarity of the musical intervals produced by this elegantly designed wind chime. For technical reasons that I won’t go ...
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• bob dylan and friends...

  
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  all along the watchtower....this pic of a painting that sold in 2006 is posted for my new follower lille diane-- who is a woodstock hippy. ah, too bad it doesnt show up better than this. sorry the painting was created from one of the images found in this video - it had dylan, mcclure and ginsberg together. enjoy.
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• Summer of 69

  
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  I promised my sis ( Pseudo ) that I would do this, oh, more than a week ago. As you can probably surmise from the more-than-erratic non-postings on this site, Ive been a mite busy. The funny thing is, the day she called to verify that she had the dates/time confluence of the surreal happenings of the family ...
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• Thousands Attend Pelosi-Care Protest: Ten Arrested at Capitol Hill Sit-In

  
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  Special to Big Government from Helen Rittelmeyer, The Daily Caller : Capitol Police arrested ten people on the second floor of the Cannon House Office Building at a sit-in this afternoon.  The demonstrators had crowded into the office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a print-out of the health care bill, intending ...
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• DINOSAUR JR.: I’M REALLY TIRED OF ELECTRICITY

  
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  Rather than interview J Mascis ourselves, we thought it would be more fun to continue our tradition of getting famous people to interview famous people for nothing more than the thrill of taking work off our hands. This interview was conducted by director Allison Anders, who cast Mascis in films such as Grace of My ...
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• ARTIE KORNFELD BEFORE AND AFTER WOODSTOCK!

  
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  When my longtime friend and sometime collaborator, Artie Kornfeld the Father Of Woodstock, invited me to the festival in 1969, I thought it was going to be a great picnic, I wasn’t expecting a life changing experience! Back in 1967 my wife Sheilah was working at Mercury records as a secretary to the ...
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• Murali Coryell: A guitar legend’s legacy finds a new generation

  
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  Murali Coryell spent years shunning his legacy. With an affinity for languages, he toyed with the idea of becoming a translator or an academic. Anything, he thought, but to become a musician and toil in the shadow of his father’s greatness. Because Larry Coryell is a veritable legend, a founder of jazz-fusion ...
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• iTunes Store gains Music Movies section

  
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  Apple has introduced a new Music Movies section to the iTunes Store, further segregating its video. See original here: iTunes Store gains Music Movies section
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• Kennesaw,Acworth, And Woodstock Contribute To Atlanta Real Estate

  
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  Atlanta Real Estate has done considerably well even though we are in the midst of a nationwide housing slump. After looking at the recent numbers, it seems North Atlanta has been holding it’s own over the last year. An abundance of new home inventory has been a problem, but the resale market has improved over 2009. ...
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• Kennesaw,Acworth, And Woodstock Contribute To Atlanta Real Estate

  
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  Many areas of the Atlanta real estate markets have done well this year, even with the historic national housing slump. After looking at the numbers, the market is not that far off from previous years. New home inventory, as with most of the country, is still a nagging problem. When comparing that issue to the national ...
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• Discuss: Which Trailers Are You Sick Of?

  
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  Im grateful for this Friday, because thats the day that The Men Who Stare at Goats comes out and I can stop seeing its trailer relentlessly attached to anything and everything I see (and given that I try to see most anything and everything out there, its really only a me problem, I suppose). One night, I had ...
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• Smart Ways to Avoid Stress

  
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  Life can be hard. Life is full of turbulence and ups and downs that can have an impact on the well being of our body; something that we all know as stress. It can come from different sources, such as from the daily routine we go through, our family or our workplace. Stress begins to [...]
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