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Fortunately, those of us of Woodstock Days are still here to tell the story. We can hum or sing the old tunes for those who left this life not long after their rock concerts. Maybe Country Joe and the Fish are still with us? I'm not sure about Ricky Havens. I think he's still among us.
Well - according to Wikipedia - Richey Havens died in 2013 (the ultimate freedom) and Country Joe and the Fish only lasted for 2 years and by Woodstock had added a few guys to their original line up. So, no telling if any of them are still alive but the group isn't. I no longer wear flowers in my hair but I do believe that love is everywhere.
I wish I had been around for woodstock. I think I would have liked it.
Luv U 2 Paula
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
Love the avatar! Ahhhhhh - the iridescent eye shadow, flowers on our cars and in our hair, Nehru jackets, Mumus, sandals, that distinct odor of sandalwood and other things (grin), Boone's Farm, and Christmas tree lights keeping time to Sly and the Family Stones or Santana. Janis Joplin's "Trust in me, baby. Give me time. Give me tiiiiiimmme. Oooooooo, just a little more time." (Then she died of a drug overdose.) Where did it all go? Grin.
-- Edited by grateful2be on Thursday 25th of December 2014 09:11:55 PM
I bought myself Amazon Prime and just downloaded a playlist of some of the folk music from those days. I have found when I paint to some of that music, I don't control so much. Oh, yes, the Boones Farm...yuck.
Jimi Hendrix - not so much. Joe Cocker? Well, him I liked to hear but not watch. Same with Elvis. And I'm with you - RIP, Joe! I'm 4 years short - or will be shortly - of his death age. Sobering but then again - if there is a heaven - I might hear him again when I join those who have gone on to their various rooms in the heavens? I'm hoping I get to watch some of the actors I liked up close and personal, too.
I was a couple of years shy of being able to join you at Woodstock, but that didn't stop me from wearing cheesecloth and shunning shoes (for two years!). The smell of my afghan coat and the wearing of pure musk oil! Like you Paula, I am a freer spirit when I reside in my fifteen year old self. Cat Stevens is doing concerts again btw!
Peace and love to you, Paula! I am not a Woodstock fan nor do I really know who Cat Stevens is, except for the fact that I've heard mention of her on shows or parodies on SNL. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s so my music is Aerosmith, REM, U2, Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, among many others. FYI: just because I grew up listening to those artists, doesn't mean I listen to them today. I just downloaded some Tom Petty recently and some Hall and Oats, LOL! I never liked either one of them when I was younger so my tastes are changing, LOL!
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Coulda, woulda, shoulda gone to Woodstock - but was a pseudo hippie - my husband was in the service, so I couldn't be the real thing or would get him in trouble (so he said).
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopin, The Doors, Electric Flag, Country Joe & the Fish, the Stones, Beatles, Donovan, etc., etc. - too many good bands to mention. Still have many of the albums, which I am sure are worth something on eBay these days.
Good times.
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"All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
Row, Row, Row your boat, gently down the stream.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Life is but a Dream.
I remember Woodstock, but I would not have wanted to be there in the crowds and the filth. And I didn't like stoned people then any more than I do now.
But the MUSIC!!! So many good, good guitarists. Iron Butterfly, Doors, Stones, Beatles, Elvis, Tina Turner's low, smokey voice. And the girl bands. Aretha Franklin. I watched the Blues Brothers on the tv last night. I listen to the 60's music on satellite radio in the car. Michael Jackson in the 70's was the best. So talented.... but so troubled.
Oh, yes! The Doors! "I see a red door and I want it painted black." The Stones! Good ones! I wouldn't have wanted to be there either but the music did appeal to me. I was a pseudo hippy as well, but got kicked out of the only local hippy group I knew by the leader. He was worried because they did drugs and I didn't. He told me they deserved to be in jail if they got caught. I didn't. Please never come back here. Nothin' like getting thrown out of a hippy group, but I did. But I still remember what a good time they had even if they did act a little strange.
Yeah, you remember what a good time they had even if THEY don't remember. I had to laugh as I was reading about someone being thrown out of a hippie group. You couldn't even be the designated driver?!!!
They never wanted to go anywhere. Just hang out in their livingroom with black lights, Christmas tree lights wired to a stereo and Sly and the Family Stones playing over and over and over again. I was fascinated by how unusual they all seemed. Looking back, those plants I saw in a glass aquarium with a light over them were not baby ferns.
The doors and 3 Dog night were my favorites. Cruising down Whittier Blvd. in Ca and psychedelic images on the wall at parties playing Inagaddadvida by Iron Butterfly
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Three Dog Night!!!! Yes! And thank you for reminding us of what it was that the Iron Butterfly "made famous." Psychedelic images. Who could forget? Obviously, I did. How long did you live in California - and where in California? I don't know anything about Whittier Blvd.
Lived in the San Gabriel Valley ( Temple City, Rowland Heights ) most of my life and about 10 years in Long Beach. I moved to AZ in 91 when my employment moved here. I didn't want to come but now I'm glad I did. Move from Ohio when I was 4 years old.
Saturday nights cruising down Whittier Blvd. was big....between Beach Blvd and Santa Fe Springs Rd. I drove a 66 Candy Apple Red, fast back Mustang. Oh what a night!!
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Lord, put your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth
Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your silence.
Oooooooo, candy apple red, fast back Mustang. I remember. My first souped up car was a 1969 Pontiac Firebird, four on the floor, 350 engine, silver with midnight blue interior, custom built, $3000. Those were the days, my friend, I thought they'd never end...
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I had a blue mustang with a rusted out back floorboard and brakes that sometimes didn't work. I loved the smells of patchouli and sandalwood (still do).
Was it fast, too, Paula? I had to laugh when I read that the brakes didn't work sometimes. Giggle. Those scents were certainly different than the incense in church. Thanks for sharing those memories as well. What a grand thread.
Love the avatar! Ahhhhhh - the iridescent eye shadow, flowers on our cars and in our hair, Nehru jackets, Mumus, sandals, that distinct odor of sandalwood and other things (grin), Boone's Farm, and Christmas tree lights keeping time to Sly and the Family Stones or Santana. Janis Joplin's "Trust in me, baby. Give me time. Give me tiiiiiimmme. Oooooooo, just a little more time." (Then she died of a drug overdose.) Where did it all go? Grin.
-- Edited by grateful2be on Thursday 25th of December 2014 09:11:55 PM
OMG..me 2 on the nostalgia.....I was a hippy child.....nehru shirts and jackets...hated mumus, wore sandals, loved sandalwood and still do, oh yea, many a time "driving the porcelean bus" after a night on boone's farm and bali high.......omg.....loved sly and the family stone, janis joplin, santana, i loved her me and bobby mcgee.....so sad she died from overdose.........oh yea, i have been nostalgic of late as well.......i did smoke weed, too.....for me it was escaping.......i grew out of it and that was that.....i remember how the manson killings sorta ended american innocence of a sort....vietnam war protesting....oh yea.......then we had the 70's where people began to sort of do self discovery and when you went to a party it was "in" if you had a therapist....or a good astrologer ....valium was big in those days......
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The unfortunate deaths of two Kennedys, Martin Luther King, the rise of the feminist movement and equal pay for equal work - I forgot Bali High. And yeah - self discovery coming into being in the 70s, disco, Saturday Night Fever and John Travolta, the Bee Gees and Barbra Streisand, and lots and lots of love songs that weren't symbolic (or about drugs) like the 60s.
Funny, my first car was a 67 1/2 royal blue mustang, in 1971 ... was definitely a young adult in that intense Woodstock era (did not go though)... good music ... Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone and my favorite Joan Baez. {{HUGS}} and Peace!!
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Had a friend who did go to Kickapoo Creek. Rained the whole time and as he was lying underneath a tarp to protect himself from the pouring rain, a guy in a motorcycle ran him over. Fortunately, he wasn't driving a mustang! It appears most of us didn't go to Woodstock or Kickapoo Creek, but we loved the sports cars and the music and the message of love and peace.
! Wow! You had a generous father. I drove the family 3 bench seater station wagon when I lived at home.