Word: woodstocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anniversary of Woodstock arrived and waned, much like the first time around. It was mostly a convenience for the media, a way to get a handle on an upstart pop phenomenon. For music, a fan remembered, all the festival symbolized was a washout. Lysergic mud and bad amplification. The rest was a fairy tale...
...course, the audience has had a summer of softening up. The Who, who had played at Woodstock, had already come back, getting a jump on things when they were meant to be gone for good. Keith Moon, their great drummer, had taken some of the band's careening keenness with him when he died in 1978. Pete Townshend, their great songwriter and guitar player, his hearing shredded by more than two decades of high decibels, could not even re-create all his lead parts. Still they soldiered on, three bowed veterans suffering the onset of shell shock from a barrage...
Here's an example of how the authors say the entire generation reacted after news of John Lennon's death: "The Woodstock generation was dumbfounded, got up, walked across the room and called itself on the phone...
...book ends with a passage from Hoffman's writing. "No, sir, Flower Power ain't dead at all, brother, all we gotta do is get our shit together...and grow some thorns...Power to the People! Power to the Woodstock Nation...
Admittedly, an engaging passage. But Abbie wrote it the afternoon after Woodstock--20 years ago tomorrow. The world has irreversibly changed since then. The '60s are gone, and they are not coming back. It's about time "The Woodstock Generation"--and authors Casale and Lerman--realized...