Country Joe McDonald, David Fricke and Greil Marcus discuss attending Woodstock — from how they got there to the music to protests JimmyDean 50thAnniversary
“Yes it was a concert — that was the principle reason everybody showed up — but the reason we remember it is because of the way people reacted to the circumstances the conditions and the obligations that they presented,” Fricke, who had just turned 17 when he attended, explains. “The music was the thing that inspired us to keep doing that.
”contributing editor, says. “It was a protest and it was an act of resistance. When the students gathered in Tiananmen Square in 1989, they said, ‘This is our Woodstock.’ They didn’t mean Santana, and the Who, and Hendrix; they meant coming together, taking a stand regardless of how young we might be. So in that sense this vacation turned into something else.”In This Article:
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