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Woodstock iconline Is hrae and THosenos are one month Into the ftve-£ monUi-Vmg'lioi Summer n(:. V Low celebration. Dopending if* on your attitude abiMii the ,+r phenomenon you may hire enjoyed a months woeth of (merest-ing events Including ‘Summer of lore 10 VWxdilocL’ with pboteg raphec lisa Uk Summer of loir Library Serif* and * My Dinner »1lh Abble* by filmmaker and WurllDcr Foundation resident Nancy Cohiss Onrhcnihra hand, if you're been fading a bll cynical 2l.m11 the affair, id 1 may lake If a little scrutiny to tintin' ft the tpecdr ftsi tures of the cimt thal I void sow meaning la you.KTAO 11019 FM) and us Sohr Center coocrettom to#rente hosted wine cttlie most nceplional musicians of the HtSOs eta Mhen it prcsmled Hot Tuna 1 couple weeks agu This wrek KTAO b fuitlier riding the pulse of the period in presenting Country Joe McDonald.Saturday dune 61.Most impoftant 10 nocc here is tin I McDonald. like nma Kaukonen and kick Cassidy of I lul Tuna, arc no! re Its who have been dredged up from the |MM in otder to pve some superfcnl credibility to an entertaining retire!that risks border ing on patody r y I McDonald Be (bemembers erfHoi Ttaia. has bten McDonald ctsiseles* in ireit-KKT y«(stir, f Sint Reltto dO-pta.HMMisiN.sli »«•*fcnr.SM*rlt;fik- Ifyouweteon tintiUinnr (he sidelines uf12 tor tbf 1960s cullural■ Hftmibos: IPS) revolution ce vrerrftl-SIM bom after the crg-inal summer ti line 119671. the name Country Joe McDonald may be |usi that a name «®icly associated with an era. If. hnweret you wrap luted into the times ynu likely rranranbtt Country and tic H*h (the name of the full band) as the moral consrlcnrc or ‘Greek chorus of the day.Finally, if the name holds no association for you. you may hare some awareness of Kcnelhmg knimn as The Fk Cheer. The cheer Iwhlrh ysxi an leirn moic about 1; »» coutry]oexoinl coupled wilh Vtr|V.n-ald's anti Vietnam tsar song. ‘I IteeJ like I'm lixin’ to Die Hag.' hreune a symbol for the disillusionment md discontent amxig much nf the youth of the era.bum in Washington. UC. In I M2, and rarsed in a subui b of Los Angeles. McDonald, to the dismay nf his raifcal leftist patents, misled in ihc military upon compl ttco of high sihcd.*1 got out uf school, didnt know “hat to du and thought I 'd look secy In a uniform to llie girts, so I deeded toCountry toe McDonald at WDotbtodL l%9|0in.‘ b» add. klttghiog I think 1 lot of putties me shocked by twir itddrens wanting to join the miliary, bl I think that basing se« and timeSng 31 huge motireiion for people wmting 10 )oln.1 woukkll recommend il because il CM 1)01 seiy entangling cxoir.irt... whew you can gel soil hick c«r and oret. It* not a good deal bin I Oeil fed ashamed of my miktiry venire.I sorvtd three years, learned some things and came bade. I was Indy*Folbuing his military smlot Me Donato settled in BcAftey Calif. wWi the intention of going 10 school, but quickly found himself consumed by the folk music revival oreuningin die San Francisco Biy Aiw. In IS65 Counlrytoe and the IKh was burned and tbr‘Fiun to DM R«‘ was win-ten. Four years later thf sorgwas per-formed at Vtetodnotk.Mdtomld eommwntd on the Ireig-lem rffpcrscf the ftetmft music, ‘Because of VMaoAaock 1 new genreattm of mudcton* prr-w up tint gate birth to all the genres of musicthat we’re sem emerge over the pisi JU years, ’ be said. ‘It changed ihr f«-mat and mrmdntod the world to dr elrairlc ccJccilc soutd that weTeso (unitor with today. And brought with *. ol couisft Amwican altitudes due ate reiy different and very rodlnl 10 mosl of the rest of Hie world... MtoOd-Stock pul the power tack into repdu people's hands of music and how you could express yourself and therefore vilidatr your fcchnp; and your lifotyle tnrough your mustSpeaking about *lhe cheer.” be sad. *1 dunk when combined with a song are: wvr and wtut il meant to nu: gMMNdOD It upretwd a foiling of nge, discomfort and confusion. U still to tlito day is very conlruverwil dcq»tc the Del that obscenities are evety-wliere in our lives today That, to mr. is boih peculiar and humorous. TTitte me still laws aptlnst this word And in all the serious commfntaiy itout Vtondstock and the pnfamancc* there you wuni find hardly MyTEMPO toAGAZINE/THE I A 0 S NEWSJUNE 4-10,
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