tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post2013874985524549017..comments2023-12-27T22:26:20.552-05:00Comments on synch-ro-ni-zing: Not getting to WoodstockRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-69657919763574506592009-08-25T05:16:23.215-04:002009-08-25T05:16:23.215-04:00Linda, as you said at your post, the magic bus bro...<b>Linda</b>, as you said at your post, the magic bus broke down.<br /><br />I love that what was true at the time has remained true, the music defined it, expressed it and keeps on reminding us of it. There must be other historical periods when music defined a generation, but I wonder if there are any so much so as this one.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-6012412063377833632009-08-25T05:03:33.879-04:002009-08-25T05:03:33.879-04:00Oliag, in your brief comment you rescued me from f...<b>Oliag</b>, in your brief comment you rescued me from further regret over my protected life. Thank you. And I've just rented the two-disc film version of Woodstock. I will likely fast forward through some of it, but since I've never seen it, I look forward to seeing all the bands and get a fresh look at the times. You are right that it is the music of that time that represented the cultural phenomenon.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-82819498841047273942009-08-25T04:53:01.019-04:002009-08-25T04:53:01.019-04:00Babs, bleh. Yes.<b>Babs</b>, bleh. Yes.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-85438510588101545832009-08-18T22:12:45.605-04:002009-08-18T22:12:45.605-04:00I'm enough older than many of your readers for...I'm enough older than many of your readers for Woodstock to have been a defining event in my life.<br /><br />Yes, I had the beads, and the gold octagonal granny glasses, and long dresses worn with sandals. Yes, I wore tie dye and had mandalas on the wall. Fixing-to-Die-Rag was my anthem, and Tom Paxton a saint. <br /><br />It was the music that appealed more than the drugs - I discovered early on that pot gave me a ripping headache, and that was the end of that. But Country Joe and the Fish? Strawberry Alarm Clock? Grace Slick? Janis Joplin? Jimi Hendrix and the Doors? The Grateful Dead? Yep.<br /><br />I missed getting to Woodstock, but made it to the Haight and loved the Fillmore. I saw Joni Mitchell in Golden Gate Park, and Mimi Farina, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger at the Bread and Roses concerts. Music was the soundtrack of our rebellion, and then of the terrible Vietnam years.<br /><br />As the saying goes... you had to have been there. Today, I see it very differently than I did then. I've a new poem about Woodstock I posted just today. Forty years is a long time to live with one event.shoreacreshttp://shoreacres.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-75655234525753462352009-08-17T23:55:06.148-04:002009-08-17T23:55:06.148-04:00August 1969...I had just finished my freshman year...August 1969...I had just finished my freshman year at college...the first time I had ever been away from home...the first time I had the freedom to make poor decisions...it really was a difficult time for someone as naive as myself...I really wanted what I thought was the excitement of a hip, drugged life....but fortunately was too scared to enter it too deeply... friends of mine did go to <br />Woodstock and I have always been glad I didn't go after hearing their stories...The Woodstock soundtrack is what plays in my memories of that year though...All I can say about Joni Mitchell is that I would have loved to be her at that time!GailOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556665956317683667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-13082239029064578632009-08-17T10:58:40.637-04:002009-08-17T10:58:40.637-04:00You're right about kids being too protected. ...You're right about kids being too protected. They wrap them up in cotton wool now days, and turn them into wimps who can't cope out in the real world ;)Babs-beetlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10309239308633895951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-55890796202270533402009-08-15T18:09:09.873-04:002009-08-15T18:09:09.873-04:00Letty, you are younger than me I think. It's h...<b>Letty</b>, you are younger than me I think. It's hard to understand it from the outside. Something in me wishes I were there, but I wonder if I'd have liked it after all.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-21840952736855680752009-08-15T18:07:21.814-04:002009-08-15T18:07:21.814-04:00João, wild things run fast.
It is true that with...<b>João</b>, wild things run fast. <br /><br />It is true that with all the complaints over our devastating country, people do want to come. Hope still blossoms out of the brownfields.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-34800112171089720032009-08-15T18:05:36.789-04:002009-08-15T18:05:36.789-04:00Pamela, I've felt a sort of tremor come back t...<b>Pamela</b>, I've felt a sort of tremor come back this week, thinking back on these days. Those who lived it hard seemed oblivious to the danger. We who looked in either wanted it or didn't, but we can still enjoy the music. <br /><br />I agree with you that Joni is honest. A rock and a flower at the same time.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-60567585471306182692009-08-15T18:00:38.332-04:002009-08-15T18:00:38.332-04:00Dutchbaby, San Francisco and northern California a...<b>Dutchbaby</b>, San Francisco and northern California are a dream to me. Most of the free concerts? Amazing. I bet you saw some hot tickets for free. <br /><br />See, the music that came out of the peace movement is inspired!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-65929314940251161342009-08-15T17:56:49.226-04:002009-08-15T17:56:49.226-04:00Heh, B & B, sour grapes?Heh, <b>B & B</b>, sour grapes?Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-51334548950627809282009-08-15T17:50:33.484-04:002009-08-15T17:50:33.484-04:00Cathy, I have friends and relatives who do that st...<b>Cathy</b>, I have friends and relatives who do that staring thing. I know it took its toll, living large in those days. I am grateful now for the protection, and what would adolescence be without angst? We have to long for something, and we have to find out what in the longing is worth keeping.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-15729992619868719692009-08-15T17:46:06.122-04:002009-08-15T17:46:06.122-04:00CottageGirl, I've been feeling mixed emotions ...<b>CottageGirl</b>, I've been feeling mixed emotions too this week, reminiscing. We watched the news every evening, heard the death count in Vietnam. Young people were very angry, and I had nothing to be angry about. I wasn't quite old enough to understand the war, and the politics of it. It was a momentous time that shaped the decades that followed. The music alone - could there be any better music?Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-66071828608122131142009-08-15T17:40:31.204-04:002009-08-15T17:40:31.204-04:00Bug, that's good, you were not depressed after...<b>Bug</b>, that's good, you were not depressed after you got married. :) And you get it, about writing.<br /><br />I hope the recovery goes quickly.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-44557413360233533132009-08-15T17:36:35.973-04:002009-08-15T17:36:35.973-04:00DS, it's painful to think back to adolescence,...<b>DS</b>, it's painful to think back to adolescence, and how it was spent figuring out who was cool and who wasn't, and which category I fit into. Actually I have had uneasiness remembering this time this week. <br /><br />Joni's voice has faded, but I still enjoy her new albums. But yes, the strength, honesty and clarity of it in her youth - glorious!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-62050762177421008382009-08-15T16:45:15.539-04:002009-08-15T16:45:15.539-04:00I feel very hostile towards "Woodstock"....I feel very hostile towards "Woodstock".<br />I dunno why.<br />I just do.freefallinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08863000229609701796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-27233951723984867422009-08-15T15:49:20.569-04:002009-08-15T15:49:20.569-04:00Jeanie, you must have been a vibrant actress in hi...<b>Jeanie</b>, you must have been a vibrant actress in high school. Have you done any community theater? I've seen you on TV many times in the WKAR fund raisers, so that is another kind of performance!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-92180542122596702602009-08-15T15:03:38.041-04:002009-08-15T15:03:38.041-04:00Arti, I have just read your post and the article P...<b>Arti</b>, I have just read your post and the article Pearls Before Breakfast about Joshua Bell's incognito performance in a metro station. I am stunned.<br /><br />What I didn't know at the age of 13 is that there was a lot to be thankful for. When you want only what you do not have, what you are surrounded with is hollow. Even agnostic and atheist friends over the years have helped me see and understand the richness of my heritage. I'm very grateful for that.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-23174409346698495242009-08-15T14:20:17.941-04:002009-08-15T14:20:17.941-04:00Hi, Caroldine, I liked reading your thoughts about...Hi, <b>Caroldine</b>, I liked reading your thoughts about Joni at your post too.<br /><br />I don't know if anyone will ever understand the angst I had to be free as a bird - free from constraints. Maybe I'll find a book about someone like me, or maybe I should write a book about it. I probably never will.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-1004231995912248372009-08-15T14:13:41.571-04:002009-08-15T14:13:41.571-04:00Heh, Babs, you're the cutest.
Parents now pro...Heh, <b>Babs</b>, you're the cutest.<br /><br />Parents now protect kids in different ways, and I don't like it much. They take too active an interest in every little thing and make decisions for them. They need to just boot them out the door and let them learn a few things for themselves. If I get a call in the next couple weeks from parents about what classes their kids have in college, I think I'll give them a piece of my mind. <br /><br />:)Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-84685097264784983802009-08-15T14:10:28.078-04:002009-08-15T14:10:28.078-04:00Marion, at first when I worked on this post, I fel...<b>Marion</b>, at first when I worked on this post, I felt joy - from the music I think. In these couple of days since the post, I feel a sort of horror too, coming back, that was always under the surface.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-62830478361089875602009-08-15T14:04:45.863-04:002009-08-15T14:04:45.863-04:00Boots, you were a beautiful bride, in your long fl...<b>Boots</b>, you were a beautiful bride, in your long flowing strawberry blonde hair. I remember thinking how you looked a little hippie-ish later when I saw the pictures (since I couldn't be there standing with you, so sick was I). You were glowing (in the heat I suppose) and there was something that radiated from you I haven never thought of until now. Your last words triggered it: ". . . have never sensed that I missed it at all."Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-64196445399677039212009-08-15T13:07:36.141-04:002009-08-15T13:07:36.141-04:00Ruth, perhaps like your brother Bennett I like to ...Ruth, perhaps like your brother Bennett I like to think of America as the place where dreams come true and justice prevails.<br />People go there from everywhere in the world to make this happen.<br />This is also the very opposite of ameriKa...<br /><br />Wild things run fast*joaop1960@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05632147700787201831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-78549536838200422432009-08-15T11:25:19.015-04:002009-08-15T11:25:19.015-04:00Dear Jean, I'm sorry about the impact of Vietn...Dear <b>Jean</b>, I'm sorry about the impact of Vietnam on your family. It must have been terrible for your brother, for one thing. Thanks to Joni, and Neil, and the other musicians who help us remember the time through music. Thanks to you for your beautiful flowers and getting ourselves back to the garden.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21312708.post-88821945682438494062009-08-15T11:07:29.325-04:002009-08-15T11:07:29.325-04:00Ellen, I can imagine a Woodstock in 2010 for those...<b>Ellen</b>, I can imagine a Woodstock in 2010 for those of us who wish we'd been at the one in 1969. Maybe there have been Woodstock Revisited's, I haven't been paying attention, but it seems there have been. But it would be cool to have one where no one could go who went to the first one. But then, how would you police that? And policing would be rather antithetical, heh.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.com