Foreword: / Martin Scorsese
Woodstock obviously emerged from its historical moment.
Everyone was waiting for a big, defining event that would counteract all the awful things that had happened.
There was the music. There was the idea of rejecting the rest of the world and living in a natural state.
There was the drug culture. There was the political stance against the government.
‘The Woodstock Nation ” -people wanted to be separate, to have their own community.
When i look back at the second half of the sixties, I realize it is the only time i have ever heard people talk about love in serious term, as a force to combat greed,hate and violence.
Something entirely new can happen again, in a way that we can’t predict.
Introduction / Dale Bell
There is no way to ignore these infectious minds, this sense of camaraderie, this philosophical dichotomy, this sluice of energy which coursed up and down Manhattan.
We might have thought we were exempt from normal society–‘ The Untouchable’. Maybe we had to believe we were, in order to succeed at our craft. But it was an illusion which would haunt some of us the rest of our lives.
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