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Woodstock 40 years

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August 15, 2009

40 years ago, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ATTENDING ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVENTS TO DECLARE YOUR LOVE OF NEIGHBOR AND HIS QUEST FOR EQUALITY

Woodstock, the cliché has stood the test of time in the worst way possible: as a reminder, almost a warning of fate and a generation's collective failure to substantiate its ideal pillars which today are so alien to us, naive and distant as the images of hippies "bearded and Galatians we usually associate with the most legendary of all music festivals. But today marks the fortieth anniversary of the crowded and chaotic meeting would be worthwhile to save all the good they left Woodstock, the "hippies" and, above all, the most emblematic artists of the musical event of the popular culture of a planet that never again embrace so conviction, as then, the uncertain ideals of peace and love drug that stimulated the most used songs in those years. was war in the atmosphere, but the smell of gunpowder, Agent Orange and the bomb could be camouflaged with other kinds of smells, other forms of living together in society, with other sounds, more friendly and durable, like those came from a distorted guitar that spits out an apocalyptic version of the anthem of the United States or imperfect but beautiful voice of a woman who would refuse to live beyond age 27. Woodstock is a cliché, that's clear. But one would be worth recovering.

Rales
a decade

THE MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL DE WOODSTOCK WAS THE LAST cry of the counterculture "hippies" of the Sixties: A MASS MEETING AND CHAOTIC THAT REPRESENTED THE TOP OF " FLOWER POWER "AND AT THE SAME TIME, his death certificate



By:
Raúl Cachay A



Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane All these names are part of the great history of an age almost foundational for pop music, and all of them, along with many others (good, bad and ugly), formed part of the Line Music and Arts Festival in Woodstock to round out the perfect snapshot of an unrepeatable moment. And, although there were notable absences, such as the then omnipotent huge Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan (not to mention Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Byrds and Joni Mitchell, who rejected the invitation to the festival for different reasons), the relevance of Woodstock also lies in the nature of the current transitional always musical and artistic works: the three days of peace, love and music were also the final gasp of a generation that sought to change everything, but ended giving face to face with a reality even more terrifying than today.
The circus peace that was felt between the mud and rock along those exhausting days (many do not have very pleasant memories of the festival, especially food shortages and hygiene of the place and, frankly, poor quality of LSD, which was immortalized in the appeals launched from the platform by a spontaneous speaker: "Do not consume the brown acid!"), came disillusionment and death: months later, the Altamont Festival also massive, with the Stones as a star act and the dreaded Angels Hell to the care of the safety of those attending (¡!), certainly ended with a tragic outcome (a bystander killed by Hell's Angels themselves and hundreds of thousands traumatized by the chaos and disorder that stigmatized that evening).
And then came the worst: the successive deaths of Joplin and Hendrix as a result of its irresponsible relationship with illicit substances.
UNIQUE MOMENT

As Gerardo Manuel writes an exceptional witness "on his blog Disco Club," Woodstock was not the first megafestival of rock history, but the most momentous of all " . Claro, was Monterrey, for example, another important festival for the quality of the artists who appeared in it and the power of his performances, but nothing could compare to what was experienced in Woodstock: there, the music was very important no doubt, but what was really essential to be there, participate in this sort of collective worship, a pagan celebration more than 400 thousand people trying to sublimate an exasperating reality clearly.

"For many who were at the festival, beyond what happened on stage, just sit back and join the huge crowd was a revelation. It was proof that we were not an insignificant minority, but members of a larger culture. Or, to use this term of endearment, a counterculture, "says Jon Pareles, music critic of The New York Times, the only way that sent a correspondent to cover the festival. EVERYTHING CHANGES



What remains, then, the so-called spirit Woodstock? For little or nothing.

remains the wonderful Oscar winning film for best documentary in 1970, which has just been edited and expanded to the delight of the children and grandchildren of baby boomers. " Is the memory of those who, in effect, made it to the town of Bethel New York before August 15, 1969, which more and more: In the U.S., all the "hippies" of yesteryear, such as gray hair today dust off your old vinyl and Joe Cocker Country Joe, claiming that they were at Woodstock, but not in a position to prove it. Ten years ago, referring to the thirtieth anniversary of the festival, some of the organizers the primal Woodstock decided to "recover" the essence of that meeting with a similar festival.
But everything went wrong: in the former air base in Rome, New York, peace was replaced by violence and looting, nudity in the mud turned into a bunch of drunken little girls showing their breasts to the camera television and, especially, the music was replaced by vacuous statements oligophrenic tantrums like Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit singer) and Kid Rock. There is no place for the spirit of Woodstock.

But that does not matter: we can always find a little help from our friends to be happy.
THE FACT

Woodstock in Lima


El Cartel Marambio, founded by the leader of Tierra Sur, Lima has organized a concert to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. The concert will take place on Friday 28 August in La Noche de Barranco, and announced the participation of several guest musicians. It starts at 11 pm Tickets will cost 25 soles. Missed.