Good Morning from Rockin Radio KTMN as we provide continuing coverage from White Lake, New York, and the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair: An Aquarian Exposition. It's 5 am and Sly and the Family Stone have just left the stage. Due to rain in the area, the event has seen a few delays and conditions can be best described as "muddy". Attendees, even with the challenging elements, have a good attitude as they enjoy a total of what we are told will be 32 bands that will perform sets that will last about an hour. Several invited acts, like The Byrds, Chicago, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, and others either had schedule conflicts or chose not to participate.
The sun is beginning to rise and break through the remaining clouds and our next band is about to take the stage. We'll be back with continuing coverage throughout the festival to ensure our listeners have the best listening experience. But for now, we'll leave you to listen to the British band that was formed in London in 1964. Up next is a band that we're told will put on quite a show. I'm sure they will sell millions of records. Here is bass guitarist, John Entwhistle, drummer, Keith Moon, vocals and lead guitarist Pete Townsend and lead vocalist Roger Daltry, you know them better as The Who...
The sun is beginning to rise and break through the remaining clouds and our next band is about to take the stage. We'll be back with continuing coverage throughout the festival to ensure our listeners have the best listening experience. But for now, we'll leave you to listen to the British band that was formed in London in 1964. Up next is a band that we're told will put on quite a show. I'm sure they will sell millions of records. Here is bass guitarist, John Entwhistle, drummer, Keith Moon, vocals and lead guitarist Pete Townsend and lead vocalist Roger Daltry, you know them better as The Who...
50 years seems like a long time. 2019 will see the 50th anniversary of several milestones in history as well as seminal musical points of interest. The first landing on the moon occurred on July 20th, 1969. We all had to find out the way to Sesame Street on November 10th, 1969. The Beatles performed a rooftop concert on January 30, 1969, and released Abbey Road on September 26th, 1969. (For a more comprehensive list click it: 50 Things Turning 50 in 2019, by Jennifer M Wood and Colin Ainsworth, January 9, 2019, mentalfloss.com)
But few events that year had a lasting impact as a music festival held on a muddy dairy farm from Friday, August 15th - Monday, August 18th. Simply known today as Woodstock, this counter-culture music and arts festival literally weathered the storm and produced some of the most iconic images and performances ever put to magnetic tape and celluloid. Culture and music would forever be changed as festival-goers experienced a myriad of opportunities to, shall we say nicely, "explore" in ways they had never imagined.
A 40th Anniversary music festival, overlooking the original site with several of the original performers, happened on August 15th, 2009. However, promoters for Woodstock 50, unfortunately, were not able to pull the event together. Some sources claim greed, while others did not want to repeat the turning away of thousands of people as happened during the first Aquarian Exposition.
You can relive the event through the documentary Woodstock and several soundtrack albums that have attempted to recreate the musical happenings of the weekend.
Folks who attended are now in their late '60s and '70s. They continue to reminisce about the event and as with the generation before them, they dream back to a day when things seemingly were simpler.
Woodstock was a sounding call to a generation. The term "Generation Gap" came from this time denoting the differences between the "Hippies" and "The Greatest Generation". It was a time of upheaval and demonstrations. It was a time of questioning long-held beliefs about culture and how humans were to exist in that culture.
In retrospect, it really wasn't all that different than the generation before them. The styles changed, but the message and desire to be different from your predecessors remained. There was no desire to be seen as "just like your parents" for they were the "squares" who didn't get the new vibe, they didn't dig what we all s-s-say.
Regardless of this seeming disrespect, this was a generation who knew the names of their grandparents and many of them knew the names of great-grandparents. This sense of belonging grounded many of them during the time of psychedelia and power to the people. It gave them a foundation on which to return when their time of youthful pursuits transitioned into the time of making a living.
Some of the hardest reading you will find in the Bible are the sections that are talkin' about the generations. It seems early on that God had the desire for folks to know from whence they came. Ancestry.com has made millions attempting to fill this insatiable desire to know where our background is. The first listing of generations is found in Genesis 10 - New American Standard Bible/The Message paraphrase of the Bible/ King James Version of the Bible parallel Here you have Moses talkin' about the generations that were Noah's descendants. Why is this important for us to know?
Today more than ever folks need the knowledge that they came from somewhere. The disposable demeanor of our world (razors, diapers, cell phones, and even life (abortion on demand)) provides a lack of belonging to anything permanent.
As always, this desire for immutability can be found by reading the Bible. Time and again the Bible lists "who begat who" and relates in detail who were a particular character's ancestors. One would surmise that if you did enough digging and the records existed, everyone would eventually be determined to be a descendant of Noah, who according to the genealogical record of Genesis 5 NASB/The Message/KJV was a descendant of Adam and Eve. 1 race, the human race. Everything else is melanin and culture.
Our innate desire to belong and our longing to have permanence can all be satisfied by studying the genealogies of the Bible. There is reassurance in the text that we all came from the same place and that we are all truly brothers and sisters. When folks realize this, it could cause a big s-s-sensation. This reality would resonate and reverberate for generations to come, if we'd only embrace it, and would certainly be a reason to be talkin' 'bout our generation
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving You,
randy
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