10-06-2016, 11:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2019, 05:39 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
Re. one of the most powerful and iconic pieces of music of the late 20th century:
First public performance of "Woodstock" by the then-25-year-old Roberta Joan Mitchell (September 14, 1969, at the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival, held Sept. 14-15, 1969 on the grounds of Esalen at Big Sur, California, USA), a month after The Woodstock Music & Art Fair (August 15-17, 1969, at Bethel, New York, USA [more than forty miles from Woodstock, NY, incidentally]):
Moar from this event, which in a crucial way far out-hippied the Woodstock event from the positive stance of the inner heart of that generation's truly hip* manifestation of the New, spearheaded in a large way by various Wanderers whose speciality was musical art intelligently communicating the reality of loving unconditionedness at a visceral level: (brief taste) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2pceRSUMU ; extended sampling of music, sex, and violence (e.g., random streakers, Stephen Stills fighting with unruly audience member) all at this glorious event-- : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJdwZ5H...124DFBA82B The fact that such positivity was (inevitably) subsequently negatively commodified and weaponized in the service of malign conditioning does not nullify the validity of the real thing, which simply assumed further uncorrupted time/place/audience forms as the requisite expert Wanderers emerged in the music scene around the world.
*Fun Fakt: "Hip" is the 20th-century heroin-using culture's adaptation of a 19th-century opium-using culture's term for the act of smoking opium (one typically partook of the waking-dream-inducing stuff whilst laying comfortably on one's side-- one was "on the hip", in optimum ergonomic readiness for The Vision...)
Latest public performance of this piece by its creator, forty-four years later (on June 19, 2013, at a 70th Birthday Celebration held for her during the 7th Luminato Festival, June 14-23, 2013, in Massey Hall, Toronto, CAN):
Coals to Newcastle, or simply self-referentiality out the wazoo? A fairly unique event, musico-geoculturally speaking: "Woodstock" creator (who didn't make it to Woodstock first time around) singing "Woodstock" at memorial-quasi-Woodstock held on actual Woodstock site twenty-nine years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8o8CjNRJo
Two luminous covers of this iconic song (those of you who are musicians will perhaps know how forbidding a proposition it is to attempt to perform any Mitchell song credibly and creditably -- this of course doesn't stop these tunes being earnestly massacred left, right, and center by a slew of self-impressed but overreaching artistes, many of them professionals who should know better-- see, for instance, most of such efforts posted to YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_q...hell+cover
The late Eva Cassidy's dreamlike version is as far from a massacre as is imaginable:
The present Heather Maloney & Darlingside's saudade*-filled version, of which Graham Nash has commented: "Delicious, really excellent... I'm certain that Joni would enjoy this wonderfully heartfelt version of her classic song.":*Saudade: See http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid209311
Word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnyqVRijCNw
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/19...080416.htm
First public performance of "Woodstock" by the then-25-year-old Roberta Joan Mitchell (September 14, 1969, at the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival, held Sept. 14-15, 1969 on the grounds of Esalen at Big Sur, California, USA), a month after The Woodstock Music & Art Fair (August 15-17, 1969, at Bethel, New York, USA [more than forty miles from Woodstock, NY, incidentally]):
Moar from this event, which in a crucial way far out-hippied the Woodstock event from the positive stance of the inner heart of that generation's truly hip* manifestation of the New, spearheaded in a large way by various Wanderers whose speciality was musical art intelligently communicating the reality of loving unconditionedness at a visceral level: (brief taste) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2pceRSUMU ; extended sampling of music, sex, and violence (e.g., random streakers, Stephen Stills fighting with unruly audience member) all at this glorious event-- : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJdwZ5H...124DFBA82B The fact that such positivity was (inevitably) subsequently negatively commodified and weaponized in the service of malign conditioning does not nullify the validity of the real thing, which simply assumed further uncorrupted time/place/audience forms as the requisite expert Wanderers emerged in the music scene around the world.
*Fun Fakt: "Hip" is the 20th-century heroin-using culture's adaptation of a 19th-century opium-using culture's term for the act of smoking opium (one typically partook of the waking-dream-inducing stuff whilst laying comfortably on one's side-- one was "on the hip", in optimum ergonomic readiness for The Vision...)
Latest public performance of this piece by its creator, forty-four years later (on June 19, 2013, at a 70th Birthday Celebration held for her during the 7th Luminato Festival, June 14-23, 2013, in Massey Hall, Toronto, CAN):
Coals to Newcastle, or simply self-referentiality out the wazoo? A fairly unique event, musico-geoculturally speaking: "Woodstock" creator (who didn't make it to Woodstock first time around) singing "Woodstock" at memorial-quasi-Woodstock held on actual Woodstock site twenty-nine years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8o8CjNRJo
Two luminous covers of this iconic song (those of you who are musicians will perhaps know how forbidding a proposition it is to attempt to perform any Mitchell song credibly and creditably -- this of course doesn't stop these tunes being earnestly massacred left, right, and center by a slew of self-impressed but overreaching artistes, many of them professionals who should know better-- see, for instance, most of such efforts posted to YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_q...hell+cover
The late Eva Cassidy's dreamlike version is as far from a massacre as is imaginable:
The present Heather Maloney & Darlingside's saudade*-filled version, of which Graham Nash has commented: "Delicious, really excellent... I'm certain that Joni would enjoy this wonderfully heartfelt version of her classic song.":*Saudade: See http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid209311
Word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnyqVRijCNw
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/19...080416.htm