16-08-2009, 03:58 PM
Didn't make it to Woodstock but I was at the Isle of Wight do here in the UK a couple of weeks later.
Apart from similar overall atmospherics, the thing that sticks in my mind was the reception given to Bob Dylan. He was boo'd and it pissed me off big-time because I really rated the guy then as now.
There was a ridiculous 'debate' (if you can grace it with the description) leading up to it between po-faced, so called folk-purists and anyone who disagreed with them. It concerned Dylan's recent embrace of electric guitar and rock idioms with the recently released 'Highway 61 Revisited'. We may have been 'the Peace Generation' but it certainly didn't cure us of certain authoritarian cultural policeman type attitudes among a sizeable proportion. Seems ridiculous looking back on it but maybe there's a lesson lurking somewhere.
Apart from similar overall atmospherics, the thing that sticks in my mind was the reception given to Bob Dylan. He was boo'd and it pissed me off big-time because I really rated the guy then as now.
There was a ridiculous 'debate' (if you can grace it with the description) leading up to it between po-faced, so called folk-purists and anyone who disagreed with them. It concerned Dylan's recent embrace of electric guitar and rock idioms with the recently released 'Highway 61 Revisited'. We may have been 'the Peace Generation' but it certainly didn't cure us of certain authoritarian cultural policeman type attitudes among a sizeable proportion. Seems ridiculous looking back on it but maybe there's a lesson lurking somewhere.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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