3 Days of Peace and Music

Man, if only I could have been alive and in my 20s for the most epic three day music festival in America's history. I'm talking about the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, NY 1969. Three days of peace, music, and free love. And have you seen the line up they had for it? Ridiculous.

• Richie Havens
• Sweetwater
• Bert Sommer
• Tim Hardin
• Ravi Shankar
• Melanie Safka
• Arlo Guthrie
• Joan Baez
• Quill
• Country Joe McDonald
• John Sebastian
• Keef Hartley Band
• Santana
• The Incredible String Band
• Canned Heat
• Mountain
• Grateful Dead
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band
• Sly & the Family Stone
• The Who
• Jefferson Airplane
• Joe Cocker
• Country Joe and the Fish
• Ten Years After
• The Band
• Johnny Winter
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Sha-Na-Na
• Jimi Hendrix

Jefferson Airplane- "Volunteers"

Over half a million people gathered in upstate New York to celebrate music and love and peace in spite of all the turmoil the nation was going through. People in America were divided in their opposing opinions on the Vietnam war, and at the same time, searching for the type of culture America would transcend into. In the film Taking Woodstock, the concept of perspective is chastised by saying that "perspective shuts out the universe, it keeps the love out". The people that went to Woodstock weren't all seperate people, they became one. One sea of people alive with music in their soul. The counterculure ignited the spark of revolution in American life in those three days, but above all, they kept the love in. The music told the story of a generation and the stories and memories of Woodstock will live on forever.