Word: woodstock
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...Woodstock West. Inside, raked muck mixes with mischief. A high school student describes S.D.S. arm twisting. Freelance Writer Hunter Thompson portrays French Ski Champion Jean-Claude Killy as a Chevy promoter (and describes Playboy magazine, which rejected the piece, as "a conspiracy of anemic masturbators"). There is a thoughtful history of Biafra, a long biography of Gangster Mickey Cohen by the late Ben Hecht, even a serialized comic strip. "The first number was supposed to be 80 pages," says Zion, "but we went up to 136 because we just didn't want to kill the stuff...
Reviewing Jefferson Airplane's new album Volunteers (Columbia deleted the words of Amerika ), for example, Phil Primack discussed the Airplane's relation to the traditional politics of rock, attacking those who ooh'ed and aah'ed over Woodstock as "the start of the revolution...
...freaks there are tapes of Janis Joplin singing with Big Brother and the Stones, rather Mick Jagger, singing "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which will make you hate yourself for not being in the front row of the Boston Garden last Thanksgiving. And the tapes of Woodstock may so infect you with the spirit of that great historio-cultural event as to talk with the person on the cushion next to yours...
...WOULD be hard to deny that rock 'n' roll is not on the way back. In Russia, the teenagers are now listening to versions of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll," recorded in 1954 by Bill Haley and the Comets. Sha Na Na has thrilled audiences at Woodstock, the Electric Circus, and at places as aloof as Yale. The time is ripe for revolution, time to make true Danny and the Juniors' statement in song that "rock 'n' roll is here to stay; it will never...
Somewhat distrustfully, the members of The Band have acquired a few of the trappings of big success. Their new Woodstock houses, perched on hills outside the village. A new recording studio. Levon's zippy gold Corvette. Garth's stately black Mercedes. Before tasting that success themselves, they faced?vicariously through Bob Dylan?the kind of assault on time, privacy and spontaneity that fame and personal success can make on pop musicians...