Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be remembered as an emblematic, identifying moment of the decade: a demented American psychopomp in a tropical cult house, doling out cyanide with Kool-Aid. Jonestown is the Altamont of the '70s cult movement. Just as Altamont began the destruction of the sweet, vacuous aspirations of Woodstock, Jonestown has decisively contaminated the various vagabond zealotries that have grown up, nourished and sometimes turned sinister...
Young's act, on the other hand, runs more smoothly and looks more elaborate, takes a strong shot at bridging the cultural tides that have flowed through his decade of writing. Crowd noises and p.a. bulletins from Woodstock are the chosen souvenirs of the high '60s; roadies dressed as the Jawas from Star Wars, complete with monks' cowls and eyes flashing like Evereadys, take matters up to the minute. Young sings several of his unreleased songs. Two of them-a rock-'n'-roll anthem called Out of the Blue and into the Black ("The king...
...Woodstock Mountain Revue--Jonathan Swift...
...Oregon (where you turn east into the Umpqa National Forest to get to White Horse Meadow, my destination) I began to look forward to food, a good sleep, some music and comfort. Roseburg was crawling with hitchhikers, all heading where I was, to this great Sixties type rock concert. Woodstock, here I come. A VW van slowed down, picked me up, and then took another hitcher, and another, and we headed off. By their conversation I was able to deduce something was amiss. It turns out this rock concert was the Rainbow Gathering Healing Festival, a collection of people...
...superficial interview sections, which probably should have been dispensed with altogether. The only other defect of the movie is the final sequence, which at tempts in vain to turn The Last Waltz into a statement about the end of the rock era. More crudely made concert movies, such as Woodstock and Gimme Shelter, needed sociological ballast to carry them, but this movie does not. In The Last Waltz, the music does...