Woodstock marked the time when the hippies established themselves as a force. Nobody cared about Country Joe or Jimi Hendrix before that. Woodstock was amazing because it wasn't planned to be huge while they were anticipating huge crowds at DEMF.
actually it was at the monterrey pop festival in 1967 where hendrix set his guitar on fire and then smashed it where he and many of the other emerging "Psychedelic" artists gained a wider audience, janis joplin, greatful dead etc...the oddball out at the monterrey pop fest and IMHO best performer, otis redding and booker t and the mg's.
Electronic music has already been exploited and torn apart by business around the world, but Woodstock still had a purity to it.
might be, but woodstock ushered in the era of huge outdoor festivals and arena rock and eventually prog-rock...music became big business in the 70's...in other words woodstock was the beginning and end of an era.
Also, electronic music still isn't the most popular form of music in the world unless you're going to try to include R&B and Hip Hop in electronic music.
R&B and Rap are the two biggest forms of music by sales volumes anyhow, at least in this country...sad.
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