When I’m “trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll”, trying to explain just how wise and sophisticated it can be, I often refer to ‘Younger Generation’, an expectant father’s apprehensions about the daunting task awaiting him.
One of the best songs to come out of the world of rock.
Woodstock
049: Chrysalis (J. Spider Barbour), ‘Summer in Your Savage Eyes’
The greatest band no one’s ever heard of.
Continue reading...050: The Rolling Stones, ‘Gimme Shelter’ (Kent State)
51 years ago, I walked onto my deserted campus and experienced a musical hallucination. That terrible time when American soldiers killed American citizens.
Continue reading...177: Joni Mitchell, ‘Woodstock’
50 years ago I was at the Woodstock festival, in the mud and the mire and the morass. Joni wasn’t, but she got it right in the song. True Woodstock is in the mind.
Continue reading...SoTW 14: The Woodstock Festival/הימים הטובים לפני ואחרי וודסטוק
50 years ago the Woodstock festival took place in upstate New York. I was there. I got wet and muddy and cranky and went back home after one night to listen to some of the same artists on my headphones.
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