MusicSteven Tyler’s curious memories of the Woodstock festivalVocalist was able to be at the 1969 event due to the cancellation of a show he would do with his old band at the timetoday at 08:00

MusicSteven Tyler’s curious memories of the Woodstock festivalVocalist was able to be at the 1969 event due to the cancellation of a show he would do with his old band at the timetoday at 08:00

Vocalist was able to be at the 1969 event due to the cancellation of a show he would do with his old band at the time

Witnesses of the legendary festival of Woodstockin 1969, are there to remind us of the importance — and madness — of the event. One of them is Steve Tylerwho would become lead singer of Aerosmith in the future. The artist was able to witness the story due to the cancellation of a show that his band at the time would do.

Tyler talked to the Classic Rock to remember the occasion in 1994, the year in which the Aerosmith played in the first attempt to revive the festival. At the time of the original event, the singer was 21 years old and attended with a friend. He even met his future bandmate there Joey Kramerdrummer, but both were no longer sober.

Steve told:

I remember it was a great place to get high. People were walking around with water guns filled with acid (LSD), splashing them in your face. You traveled in a matter of minutes. See, it was another generation. Drugs were really the thing… there were 450,000 people just floating through the air, running around naked, laughing and screaming.”

And there was the music, of course. Steve Tyler He also remembered some shows he saw at the festival:

I remember Country Joe & the Fish, Janis Joplin, Santana, The Who… music was salvation.”

Tyler and his friend still camped for another day and a half after the last attraction of the event. The reason? Due to torrential rain, the gas tank of the car they were using filled with water. While the two were looking for a solution, they were able to see the entire process of dismantling and cleaning the site.

The Woodstock festival

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair — the official name of the event — took place between August 15 and 18, 1969, on a farm in the city of Bethel, New York, not far from the city of Woodstock itself.

In total, 32 artists performed. The festival was marked not only by the names present, but by the general chaos of the place, which did not have adequate infrastructure.

Considered a definitive moment in the counterculture of the 1960s, the party featured names such as Ravi Shankar, Joan Baez, Santana, mountain, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, The Band, Johnny Winter, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Jimi Hendrixwhich closed the work. The estimated attendance varies between 450 and 500 thousand people throughout the days.

Some attempts have been made to recreate the festival over the years, in different locations, but with less success. The most notable editions were those of 1994, which featured precisely the Aerosmith in addition to other attractions, and 1999, marked by chaos: issues of security, infrastructure and planning led to several problems, with three deaths in riots.

Collaborated: André Luiz Fernandes.

Source: Rollingstone

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