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Attention, boomers. The forefathers of Woodstock Nation are dead. In the past 10 years, we've bid happy trails to Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Rubin, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary. Of psychedelia's heavy hitters, only a tiny fragment of Ken Kesey remains...
This new countercultural trend doesn't have any media-approved philosophical leaders. And while it seems to be mostly inchoate, there's a segment of it that's far more sophisticated and authentically nonconformist than Woodstock Nation ever...
...matter. Mitchell is in a good mood and in good voice, and she delivers a jazzy, ebullient set, floating through a few songs from her latest CD, Taming the Tiger. Then, alone with her guitar, she offers up a spare, resonant reading of her gently anthemic song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even...
Joni Mitchell keeps her own time. Twenty-nine years after Woodstock, 29 years after she turned back en route to playing the original, generation-defining concert because she had heard about the mud, heard about the traffic, heard that it was all a disaster anyway, 29 years later, she is at "A Day at the Garden," a memorial concert held in August at the site of the original festival in Bethel, N.Y. "Took 30 years to get here," she cracks as she takes the stage. The crowd at that first Woodstock was half a million strong; at this sequel...
...many poets, I was suspicious of the concept. How could you judge poetry? Why would you want to? But when L.A.'s first team went to Portland, Ore., in 1996, I tagged along with some friends. While not everything I heard fit my definition of poetry, it was a Woodstock of words, images and rhythms that stayed with me for weeks. I got hooked. Now I am defending my title as 1997 Head-to-Head Haiku champ...