{"id":2447053,"date":"2019-08-01T09:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=866139"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:58:56","slug":"remembering-woodstock-why-the-1969-festival-still-resonates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/remembering-woodstock-why-the-1969-festival-still-resonates\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Woodstock: Why the 1969 Festival Still Resonates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/woodstock-remembered-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The legacy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/woodstock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_woodstock\" data-tag=\"woodstock\">Woodstock<\/a> Festival \u2014 which took place in Bethel, New York, from Friday, August 15th, 1969, through the morning of Monday, August 18th \u2014 rests on the fact that a half-million hippies turned a muddy, gridlocked area into a site that symbolized peace and love. The event also confirmed that rock &amp; roll had entered the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>The event has shaped culture to this day. <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> caught up with Woodstock \u201969 vets Country Joe McDonald, David Fricke, and Greil Marcus to ask why the inadvertently free music event continues to resonate in popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always say that Woodstock was like a family picnic; it was fun,\u201d says songwriter McDonald, who played with his psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish. They performed a solo set that closed with the iconic tandem of \u201cThe \u2018Fish\u2019 Cheer\u201d and the darkly comic Vietnam War protest song \u201cI-Feel-Like-I\u2019m-Fixin\u2019-to-Die Rag.\u201d \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t underestimate that you were having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s the legendary performance of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cStar-Spangled Banner\u201d or the fabled dove-and-guitar logo that flew over the trampled fields of Yasgur\u2019s Farm, people continue to be fascinated by this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/woodstock-documentary-theaters-one-night-only-861324\/\">cultural milestone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes it was a concert \u2014 that was the principle reason everybody showed up \u2014 but the reason we remember it is because of the way people reacted to the circumstances the conditions and the obligations that they presented,\u201d Fricke, who had just turned 17 when he attended, explains. \u201cThe music was the thing that inspired us to keep doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor three days, everybody had a good time together and changed the world,\u201d Marcus, a <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> contributing editor, says. \u201cIt was a protest and it was an act of resistance. When the students gathered in Tiananmen Square in 1989, they said, \u2018This is our Woodstock.\u2019 They didn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch \u201cRemembering Woodstock\u201d to hear more about why this event continues to inspire generations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/woodstock-remembered-video-country-joe-david-fricke-greil-marcus-866139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy of the Woodstock Festival \u2014 which took place in Bethel, New York, from Friday, August 15th, 1969, through the morning of Monday, August 18th \u2014 rests on the fact that a half-million hippies turned a muddy, gridlocked area into a site that symbolized peace and love. The event also confirmed that rock &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 14:41:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}