Woodstock

[John Bailey]

Was thinking about Woodstock this weekend as it's impossible around
here not to (a lot of coverage). Is this just a non-US thing?

Which leads to three questions, each broader than the last:

1. Beatles vs Stones - nothing to add, but I always thought the big
opposition was Beatles vs Elvis - you had to choose a side and stick
to it. Elvis was Americanism, Beatles were Internationalism. PLUS I
love all the stories about Elvis deciding he was a CIA agent, sending
letters to the CIA, trying to get the Beatles barred from the US by
appealing to the CIA.

Educate me.

2. Where's Woodstock in IV? Where are all the artists who played that
supposedly pivotal event (besides Country Joe...)? Was the IV playlist
really more typical of your average preterite stoner than those Name
Bands? And even Neil Young was based in Topanga up until the late 60s.

3. Where are all of those Popular Trademarked Sixties Nostalgic
Milestones? Woodstock, the Moon Landing, etc? Apart from the Manson
murders, IV pretty much seems to stick to surface streets, dropping
names that might have slipped off the grid, or require a bit of
memory-nudging or research to catch. It's not a nostalgic novel in the
sense that it just namechecks the usual suspects; although it might be
nostalgic towards a particular seam of 60s/70s America that isn't
captured by your usual commercial Today in History retrospective. Or
is it? I came in a decade or so late and half a world away.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Otto<ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Happy Anniversary
>
> tracklist of the new 6-CD-set:
>
> http://www.my-artist.net/woodstock40
>