What exactly was the Woodstock Music Festival and why was it so important?
July 17th, 2009
Debbie asked:
Im doing a decades project and for 1960s, some listed major events (like assassination of Dr.King and John F. Kennedy) but they also listed the Woodstock Music Festival. What was it and why was it so important, or big even?
Im doing a decades project and for 1960s, some listed major events (like assassination of Dr.King and John F. Kennedy) but they also listed the Woodstock Music Festival. What was it and why was it so important, or big even?
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Cindy there is no possible way to describe Woodstock; it was an event, a happening in the very real sense of the word; it was an exploration of the mind and freedom of the soul; in short it was three days of total mindless oblivion with the greatest music in the history of this country, bar none.
you should really read up on it. I would suggest
as a starting point and don’t go into any of the commercial stuff, just read about the concert; and contact any of the still living members of bands that were there; there aren’t too many left, but those who are can give you a totally different perspective …
good luck.
it was the largest rock and roll concert ever held with a list of the greatest preformers of rock history it also was one of the Major moments in time as the free love generation the was little violence there and even several children were born there
Watch the movie. It’s hilarious. (Aug. 1969)
The festival was designed to accomadate something like 50,000 people, but word of mouth publicity was so effective that about 500,000 people showed up. I had an offer to go with a friend, but at that time you still needed a ticket to get in, and I didn’t have the money for the ticket. Little did I realize people would knock down the chain link fence to get in! The state of NY was unprepared and shut down the interstate highways going to the site, something that had never happened before. The scene was complete anarchy with wall to wall people (and heaping doses of mud, thanks to thunderstorms), and yet there was very little violence of any kind – kind of miraculous, considering that people were short of everything, including drinking water.
The performers put on a show that has rarely been rivaled. Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner at sunup sliding his guitar up and down the mike stand – the effect was explosive and has to be seen to be believed.
Can hardly add to the brilliant replies thus far but should add that not only were children born during Woodstock many were conceived at Woodstock. Woodstock was a one of kind ‘happening,’ someone though ‘hey lets get as many great rock bands together as we can,’ and they did and it happened with no planning and little violence. It was an example of what people could collectively conceive. Unfortunately after Woodstock every other music event came pre-packaged & produced by some corporate power and many such events errupted in violence since promises had been made and broken.
WOODSTOCK was important in that it showed that Rock n’ Roll was now Main Stream, no longer a fringe thing but something the entire family could enjoy or at least those age thirty five and younger.
Peace
(and Love & Happiness)