Today is the 4oth Anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival. Something deep down tells me that in my previous life, I was one of the love soldiers of 1969 who attended the historical event: celebrating love, peace, and music.
Woodstock 1969 is to this day, the most historic music festival in history. It marked the height of a peaceful counterculture revolution. Woodstock sent a message to the world just before the intense wave of dissent washed back to sea. Embodied in this music festival is an entire set of ideals which are just as prevalent in today's society as they were in forty years ago.
Woodstock marked the peak for hippie counterculture. The ideals of peace, love, and expansion resonated throughout the country, and the world had little choice but to pay attention when 500,000 supports of these ideals met in the 600-acre farm where Woodstock was held. The long list of musicians, which would shape the history of the art, is unparalleled.
The Woodstock festival which manifested by a splatter painting of random events and freak occurrences, will forever be solidified as one of the most important events in the cultural history of America. The wide-legged, tie-dyed, glazy-eyed spectacle that was Woodstock changed the history of rock and roll and exemplified an entire era.
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