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...likes of C.C. Rider and Pine Top Boogie. You may not be able to play the tunes when the videotape's over -- it takes a pretty advanced pianist even to follow the Doc's fingering -- but you will have got a graduate course in soul. (Homespun Tapes, Box 694, Woodstock...
...next day. After that, performers strained to put their personal stamp on the anthem: Lou Rawls (languorous jazz), Aretha Franklin (Motown), Al Hirt (Dixieland) and Frank Sinatra (moody lounge lizard). The prize for the most ear-bending version goes to Jimi Hendrix's screeching finale at Woodstock...
...Beattie first became celebrated 15 years ago as the young chronicler of what has been called the Woodstock generation, the Aquarius generation and even the Beattie generation. Vaguely disaffected and disconnected people drifted in and out of other people's cars and beds, looking for something but not sure what, then finding something else but not sure why. And all this was reported in a coolly detached and often witty style, which made bizarre events seem perfectly natural...
Which brings us to our "epitaph." After reading an article that assumes that Romanticism died somewhere in between Woodstock and the Reagan years, and in which my generation is an MBA-armed phalanx of investment banker wanna-bees, and in which the analytical core consists of William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats, I hope the poet-legislators of the world remain unacknowledged; my epitaph is not their concern. J.D. Connor...
...what should the Woodstock alumni association tell its offspring? Conversations with friends, especially those raising teenagers, suggest that adults with colorful pharmacological histories face unique problems in following the President's exhortation to "talk to your children about drugs." For such parents, family-style drug education often comes down to awkward choices like lying about their own past, feigning a remorse that they do not feel, or piously ordering their children to read lips rather than re- enact deeds. More subtle messages can get lost in the adolescent fog. One 17-year-old I know well seems to misinterpret...