I WAS ONE OF 80 ITALIANS DURING WOODSTOCK AND I STILL ALIVE IN MILANO...BUT I CANT FORGET FOR ALL MY LIFE THE SUBLIME EXPERIENCE... HUGS AND GREATINGS FROM MILANO ..ITALY.. GINO
I was at Ft Rucker training to be a Huey crewchief in 1969, we were marching to class one morning without any drill seargents and someone started singing this, quickly we had 3 or 400 trainees marching and singing this. This was seen by the post commander, we spent that night GIing our barracks and never marched again without seargents. This was the first time i heard this song, 4 months later I was there myself with my 3 older brothers.
i was 12 and i was away at summer camp. One of councelors went to woodstock and made it back on time!!! this song as the beginning of the concert and the triple album that came out soon afterwards... ;P
Joe was a counterculture giant, he wrote a lot of really good songs. Sadly, not too many people today know about him, his songs rarely, if ever, get played, even on Classic Rock radio stations. The counterculture and everything it meant is largely forgotten, reduced to clichés and caricatures. Woodstock was a seminal event but after the documentary was released, what was countercultural became mainstream and the reasons for its development were lost, it had become fashion.
It was already starting to become mainstream in ‘68 actually with the “death of the hippie” mock funeral occurring in October ‘67 as Haight Ashbury had been run over with kids just looking to be part of the scene with none of the values and Hells Angels drug dealers. George Harrison noted this too, and Hunter S. Thompson said once Owsley Stanley was busted in Dec. 1967 the scene disappeared and by the next winter San Francisco had become a cesspool of speed, heroin, and violence. But that was mainly just the San Francisco scene, the counterculture really didn’t disappear or become mainstream until 1970-1971 with the Woodstock movie and commercialism etc.
Saw Country Joe Live, 1970...Middletown Campus....Miami University ..this is what i thought of my Army experience.....100% PTSD....my left leg nearly burned off....I respect Country Joe, as he was a Vietnam Veteran!
Zum Glück habt ihr in Amerika, jetzt Donald Trump als Präsident und nicht Richard Nixon. Trump wird so eine Scheisse, wie Nixon es getan hat nicht tun.
What a moment,what it must have felt like to be there.I’m 44 years old and I wasn’t even born yet but when I first heard this song it was so powerful .
I'm 48. I grew up listening to a lot of Country Joe, Arlo Guthrie, Shel Silverstein, etc. There's no way I was going to grow up to be anything other than an angry liberal.
By importing drugs too Manson murders covered up for Nixon drug importations and dealers connected to Nixon and Hollywood!! Moma Cass all that Hollywood scene and meant to blame Tate on Panthers to start race war! Charlie Manson " you don't want to know what I know"!! Why " cause the people that govern you arnt good"!!!
I was there ! ….September, 2021. 52 years late. 1969? I graduated from HS and found out about Woodstock after it was over. I spent that week at the beach.
And Tom Moreley my lifelong best friend cried for two days after as he walked the point and a 14 year old Vietcong met eyes with him and as Tom told me " I was just a little faster than him " Hit him eleven times from m-16 !!
I felt that way too That for just a little while. . . a couple of years, we might have had an awakening. It would never have lasted. It was a nice dream though.
Couldnt agree more. My father was a career military, man was over their in 1968 as a 32 year old, father of 5 surrounded by a bunch of frightened 18 and 19 year olds. thank God he came home.
The moment you watch this film, Woodstock, in today’s times, you can see how times were fun, groovy, cool, and such, but sometimes rough (because of the war in Vietnam), back then. And it plays a whole lot differently to what we see at Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Spring Awakening, etc.
I couldn't go to Woodstock, because I was training for a tour in Vietnam. I was 20 years old and had no idea what I was getting into. On the chartered flight to DaNang, we sang this song over and over. The lyrics were so true. The military industrial complex is who wanted this war. It had nothing to do with preserving freedom in the U.S.
@@jennmck I am sympathetic to anyone forced to go to an unnecessary and illegal war. To thank them is to suggest that that war was good. I do not thank those American soldiers.
@@Mr.Patrick_Hung Our soldiers in the US weren’t thanked for their service at the time. And it was a horrible situation. Did you serve. I don’t wish war on anyone.
This was the most intense moment in the whole concert. No one captured the audience like Country Joe, no one, no one. Watch the film. At that time he was more important than anyone else there. All the rest were just footnotes.
@@missayawk I've always said that if rap was around waaay back, even people like Johnny Cash would've been a rapper. lol. Listen to his "Luther played the boogie" and "Rock Island Line". That's just 2 of his wicked fast songs out of countless others.
Breaks my heart... How many of those young fresh-faced boys there actually did "come home in a box." More heartbreaking is the collective coda after war is over, where we all ask, "What was it all for?" Happens every single time in history.
@nicmart I had to explain the war to a young Vietnamese who knew nothing about it, except he thought the US invaded his country. This song's lyrics helped provide him with a "balanced view"!
@@mikeu5380 What do Americans know about the war? Mostly damned little. Even fewer care about the devastation the US brought to the Vietnamese, not to mention those in Laos and Cambodia. I just finished a book about My Lai, which left me disgusted. The vast majority of Americans didn't want anyone prosecuted for mass murder. As the author notes, rape of Vietnamese women by American soldiers was far from rare, and tacitly accepted by military brass.
@@mikeu5380 From the Spanish-American war on, the US has left a trail of war crimes. Since states became secular, slaughter by the US has only been exceeded by the communists and national socialists. It will not end well. (I mentioned Laos and Cambodia in my other post before I read your second response.)
well, though i'm hippie at heart as any, I hung around with a punk rocker in the early 80s. I later discovered most of them didn't like neo-hippies because they never did anything to get rid of tyrannical governments. this covid bs is the new 911--this is a psychological war on the masses. heard of David Icke? he was banned from his You Tube channel three months ago just for having an opinion about covid, and isn't even aloud into London now though he's a British subject. people have been sucked in by the mainstream media again, however, everyone was calling Icke a clown 30 years ago, and his podcast a few weeks ago had about three million tune in. so, there are more people now willing to get rid of the mega-rich Bill Gates cult now.
I was 20 years-old and serving in Vietnam with the U.S. Army when 'Woodstock' was happening. I got to 'Nam in July of 1969, (Woodstock took place in August of '69) and I found out 'what I was fightin' for'...my life. I don't think most of us soldiers in Vietnam knew about Woodstock until we got back to the States.
My dad was a Vietnam veteran. His father enlisted him when he dropped out of college. He was proud of his service, but he used to play this song allllll the time when we were little! Great song.
My brother, cousin and lots of friends were over in Viet Nam when this song came out. My Brother was shot down in a chopper June 3rd 1969. All on board died. My cousin came back a luntic, running the streets thinking he was still in Viet Nam.He eventually got a lobodomy to "cure " him. My son's father and a friend of mine died from the long term effects of agent orange. I don't know anyone from my generation who didn't have their life affected by that useless war with over 200,000 US casualties and over 2 million vietnamese killed. When I hear that song I still want to cry.
I wish there was a way to Capture in a Bottle this precious moment in time of our Cultural History. 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, and we ALL know it's a moment in time, our Cultural History that will stand still. This awesome three day gathering of over One Half Million People gathered, no Violence, No Hate, just the love of Music that united us for three days!
This clip perfectly captured a historical moment. I'm pretty sure in next decades people will come here to discover 60's spirit through this video. I wonder whether any of these young people in the crowd realised they'll be immortal, caught in a time capsule, being part of a history. I wish I was there but at least I have this video.
In 1969-70's my mom worked in the records and radios department of the May Company here in SoCalif... She played then entire Woodstock album when it came out. She was stuck behind the cash register, helping customers when this song came on.. a complete surprise to her and everyone in the area... My mom raced to that turn table to pull it off, but it was too late...
Yup, that opening was a big shocker to a lot of folks and the lyrics to the song as well. I was in jr.high and a kid brought his guitar to school almost every day and serenaded a bunch of us at lunch time with songs that were in the hit parade. He was expelled for singing this song after a teacher heard him and reported him to the principal. Heck, he didn't even sing the "gimme an f...gimme a u..." part.
This song was a great favorite when I was in Special Forces Training Group at Ft Bragg in 1968. We all wanted to go to Nam, see "The bear", and have an adventure. Got to go, survived, and returned having fought honorably and been wounded, a much older and wiser man. I am still proud that served and honor those who didn't make it home.
I used to despise this song. Because I served in two wars. Looks like he knows what he’s talking about and considering my wars were about oil and opium making the rich richer and the poor shepherds farmers and my fellow middle and impoverished classes dead. I have changed my mind about this song. What I originally thought of as liberal snyde was in fact the disdain that can only come from first hand experience.
Thank you Michael. It is better to wake up late than never. You know the government is still lying to us and still sending death and destruction worldwide to the profit of bankers, weapons manufacturers and other corporate crooks and murderers.
@@michaelthemadsoldiertist It is intelligent of you to ask. No, we don't get monitored so closely or at all. There are some differences to when I was in the US. One's online access is registered to a real name and id card number. Hotels must take id and keep records and so on. There is more monitoring, but not by that much. There are more than a billion people; it's impossible to monitor everything. (Any more questions?)
Michael McLoughlin I heard this song from a distance< I had started heading into town (Bethel). for some supplies We sat on someone's porch & listened. I can remember it so clearly 55 yrs. later' I was a big Country Joe fan, i had 4 of their albums.
Trivia point - the melody is basically that of a much older tune called “The Muskrat Ramble” - check it out. The very memorable lyrics Joe put to it are perfect, made it a classic statement for the times, and serve as a cautionary reminder to all of us.
Summer of 1970 I was just a little boy in day camp...and our councilors taught my group this song for the camp sing along! We all learned the chorus and then pulled out kazoos for our solo!
Don't get me wrong, a great performance, but I have mixed feelings about this song. One month after Woodstock, Sept 15th 1969 my 18 year old younger brother was killed in Viet Nam. So when in comes to the part about being the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box, I just get a tear in my eye and wonder what might have been.
I understand what he was singing about, but it was crass. Lots of boys had to go over there and they didn’t choose to. The rest of the song is fitting. Especially the part about Wall Street. Still applicable today. They’re still doing it.
Here we are, this weekend is the 50th anniversary of Woodstock! Don't know whether to laugh and enjoy the memories or cry at what we have become. Today....1000 riot police to 'keep the peace' between 200 people in Portland....come on now... 500,000 people the largest peaceful protest in history. ✌
we only have ourselves to blame for how it is now--people have continued to give their power away to a beyond mega-rich psychotic cult that is running the world. Geaorge Sorus owns Black Lives Matter, and he deliberately set off the recent protest to, as usual, pit social groups against one another while they work their agenda (Agenda 21). Bill Gates owns World Health Org, and just tells them to tell the public whatever lies he wants. this covid bs is their latest scam--the masks are to further dehumanize us. if you don't believe me, they banned David Icke from his You Tube channel three months ago just for having an opinion about covid, and he isn't even aloud in London right now. it is all this technology that people have been sucked in by; mostly cell phones. many people that were at Woodstock have fallen victim to this agenda in progress. there are more people now listening to Icke than ever though.
Kathy you were there too I didn’t see you laugh out loud there aren’t many of us left honey I agree with you 1000 riot police to keep the ✌️ did you ever go through the magic forest over to where the hot farmers were in the free stage? Where were you sitting in relation to the stage
so deep holy cow at 22 today i feel this hard. timeless. FUCK! if theres ever another draft, we gotta do what our elders did! band together, they cant draft us all!
My father wasn’t into music like most people so I cherished any song he’d sing me when I was a kid. This was one of the very few songs he knew and sing to me (& a few Beatles songs) lol
Yesterday in a Marina in Lisbon a guy heard my Woodstock music on the boat and he freaked out. He asked for listening a moment and I suggested him to surf in RUclips for Woodstock. He asked me from where was that band and I explained it was one of the first open-air concerts and instead of looking the videos of ticktock, to search for Woodstock. Hilarious that somebody doesn¿t knows what Woodstock was. Don't they teach that in school?
This was one of the most important performances at the festival. It was a song that everybody knew as a kind of jokey, sing a long, but suddenly Joes performance and aggression weaponised it and made it the perfect engine of sedition. He had the perfect song, He knew how to put it across and He knew the consequences. Such a great man!!!
This song taught me to spell my first word at 4. I wrote it in my brother’s school book (in black crayon) thinking his teacher would think he was smart. My mother got called into the school over it. They were mad because he was blaming me and they thought he was lying but he wasn’t. lol
My mother told me that my father was never the same after his 4 years as a marine. He was sad and angry all my life, I never knew the person she spoke of before he went.
It is a pleasure to have so many famous and pivotal musical artists perform, and hundreds of thousands of groovy people come together to celebrate the weekend of my very birth.....Thursday, 4:20 AM on 8/14/69. Cant make this shit up...
R.I.P., Michael. Thank you for that wonderful song. "And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for.? Dont' ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam...."!
class of 1973 here. wished i was there, i may be one of the 70s people who still has all her brain cells together cuz i never dropped acid. i was too scared of that stuff.
no they believed that drafting innocent civillians off to a war they had no partake or reason to partake in was a shitty move and were very angry at their country so they decided to have a small moment of peace during the chaos, what else?
I was 16 in 1969, living in Northern VA. Me & my buddies heard about the upcoming concert in upstate NY but decided to go to Ocean City, MD instead (bummer). In October, we went to a protest at the Washington Monument in D.C., looking for sex & drugs, didn’t give a shit about anything else. In November, I lied about my age & joined the Army. Got on a bus at 4:30 in the AM bound for induction in Richmond then on to Fort Benning for Basic. Yeah, those were strange times. Loved this song then & still do today. Surprisingly, my son loves this song too.
My teacher just showed this to me today. i didn't realize how bad it was until she got into depth about it, unfortunately the boys in my class were making fun of it but this was serious and peoples lives children and women, brothers and fathers sister and so on lost to a war that the us had no reason to participate in
I listen to this song in 2024, and think of my high school friends who went to Vietnam - they all came back, but some were in those boxes that Country Joe sang about. Even those that came back alive, were broken inside - unable to adjust to civilian life, eventually taking their own lives to escape the pain and memories.
![Arlo Guthrie- Coming Into Los Angeles [Live Woodstock 1969]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KYE4-_Yzj60/mqdefault.jpg)
I WAS ONE OF 80 ITALIANS DURING WOODSTOCK AND I STILL ALIVE IN MILANO...BUT I CANT FORGET FOR ALL MY LIFE THE SUBLIME EXPERIENCE... HUGS AND GREATINGS FROM MILANO ..ITALY.. GINO
we love you Gino
@@linkd9553 hugs
It’s So awesome you experienced greatness. God bless
Grande Gino!! Un saluto da Brescia
I was 19 when I went over in 68. Back March 69 and this song is right on it. A favorite.
Thank you!
I was a teen. Loved it
Thank God you didn't come back in a box. God bless from another vet.
thank you for your support 🙏
We protested against the war to this back in the day.
This is the ultimate protest song, still relevant today.
this version yes 100% don't think the original recorded version would have anywhere near the same impact
I’ll say!
💯💯💯
Not quite
Eve of Destruction. is number one. this is a novelty song.
It's marvellous
I was at Ft Rucker training to be a Huey crewchief in 1969, we were marching to class one morning without any drill seargents and someone started singing this, quickly we had 3 or 400 trainees marching and singing this. This was seen by the post commander, we spent that night GIing our barracks and never marched again without seargents. This was the first time i heard this song, 4 months later I was there myself with my 3 older brothers.
What is Gling?
@@kenbrownfield6584G I ing cleaning it spick N span ( I think )
Thanks for your service ❤
Thank you for your service.
I was 14 yrs old in 1969. No one would take me! I still listen to the concert to this day!
i was 12 and i was away at summer camp. One of councelors went to woodstock and made it back on time!!! this song as the beginning of the concert and the triple album that came out soon afterwards... ;P
Same here ❤❤
War needs to end. I wish we could all come together. There was a minute in the 60's when we thought it was possible. A fleeting moment...
😂
Joe was a counterculture giant, he wrote a lot of really good songs. Sadly, not too many people today know about him, his songs rarely, if ever, get played, even on Classic Rock radio stations. The counterculture and everything it meant is largely forgotten, reduced to clichés and caricatures. Woodstock was a seminal event but after the documentary was released, what was countercultural became mainstream and the reasons for its development were lost, it had become fashion.
You got it.
It was already starting to become mainstream in ‘68 actually with the “death of the hippie” mock funeral occurring in October ‘67 as Haight Ashbury had been run over with kids just looking to be part of the scene with none of the values and Hells Angels drug dealers. George Harrison noted this too, and Hunter S. Thompson said once Owsley Stanley was busted in Dec. 1967 the scene disappeared and by the next winter San Francisco had become a cesspool of speed, heroin, and violence. But that was mainly just the San Francisco scene, the counterculture really didn’t disappear or become mainstream until 1970-1971 with the Woodstock movie and commercialism etc.
What matters that we know, and let our children listen, when they are grown enough to understand.
QUESTION
What's The Exact Name Of This Song??
Name of the song please
I can't find this song on Spotify.
It wasn't social engineering by cultural Marxist globalists then?
This is the whole focal point of the hippie movement in one song/clip/moment. And Woodstock had plenty of epic moments.
25 years later it died off, dont look into this singer or woodstock 94 as a whole
So many need to see the whole video of this event...
True dat
you today. Everyone everyday.
So many criticise the hippie movement for an assortment of reasons. I was 16 when this festival and in the UK. But I've always felt part of it.
I'm a Viet vet and I love this song. It is part of my DNA now until I die.
Saw Country Joe Live, 1970...Middletown Campus....Miami University ..this is what i thought of my Army experience.....100% PTSD....my left leg nearly burned off....I respect Country Joe, as he was a Vietnam Veteran!
Nope. He was in Japan, never saw combat in Vietnam
There t9o
Zum Glück habt ihr in Amerika, jetzt Donald Trump als Präsident und nicht Richard Nixon. Trump wird so eine Scheisse, wie Nixon es getan hat nicht tun.
What a moment,what it must have felt like to be there.I’m 44 years old and I wasn’t even born yet but when I first heard this song it was so powerful .
I'm 48. I grew up listening to a lot of Country Joe, Arlo Guthrie, Shel Silverstein, etc. There's no way I was going to grow up to be anything other than an angry liberal.
I was just 14 when that song was sang. We lost 3 boys 😔😪from our small town. For a war that only help to make same people rich.
By importing drugs too Manson murders covered up for Nixon drug importations and dealers connected to Nixon and Hollywood!! Moma Cass all that Hollywood scene and meant to blame Tate on Panthers to start race war! Charlie Manson " you don't want to know what I know"!! Why " cause the people that govern you arnt good"!!!
😢
Bunch of zionist arms traders that is
I was there ! ….September, 2021. 52 years late. 1969? I graduated from HS and found out about Woodstock after it was over. I spent that week at the beach.
And for just a second, half a million people stood for a man and his guitar united in the spirit of peace.
And Tom Moreley my lifelong best friend cried for two days after as he walked the point and a 14 year old Vietcong met eyes with him and as Tom told me " I was just a little faster than him " Hit him eleven times from m-16 !!
Magnifique
For 3 minutes actually
I felt that way too
That for just a little while. . . a couple of years, we might have had an awakening. It would never have lasted. It was a nice dream though.
still something to cry over, in 2024...
Damn.... this song give me chills all over my body. The message is pretty deep with its catchy chorus.
Two of my brother's friends died in Nam. My best friend is a combat vet from Nam. This war was such a fucking waste of human lives.
@@CoolBreezeAnthony It was a waste of human life on both sides!
@@Mr.Patrick_Hung I fully agree with you on that.
MOST wars are a waste, my friend. We are *all* brothers and sisters.
American population control
Couldnt agree more. My father was a career military, man was over their in 1968 as a 32 year old, father of 5 surrounded by a bunch of frightened 18 and 19 year olds. thank God he came home.
The moment you watch this film, Woodstock, in today’s times, you can see how times were fun, groovy, cool, and such, but sometimes rough (because of the war in Vietnam), back then.
And it plays a whole lot differently to what we see at Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Spring Awakening, etc.
these arent the only festivals around tho.
Born in '76....and still listening to this one.
I was born in 05 and listening to this today. I wish I could've experienced woodstock 69, such a powerful song
Born in 51 and hit the lottery my numbers were so high I had no chance of being drawn but many of my friends did
We had woodstock lp home and this song and Judy Blue Eyes where really on lot of play. At the moment the lp is at my sister's collection.
if I had one wish it wouldn't even be close. I'd wish to have the chance to experience the original woodstock.
I couldn't go to Woodstock, because I was training for a tour in Vietnam. I was 20 years old and had no idea what I was getting into. On the chartered flight to DaNang, we sang this song over and over. The lyrics were so true. The military industrial complex is who wanted this war. It had nothing to do with preserving freedom in the U.S.
I was already there.
I respect you for seeing the truth, even if it was the hard way.
Thank you all for your service.
@@jennmck I am sympathetic to anyone forced to go to an unnecessary and illegal war. To thank them is to suggest that that war was good. I do not thank those American soldiers.
@@Mr.Patrick_Hung Our soldiers in the US weren’t thanked for their service at the time. And it was a horrible situation. Did you serve. I don’t wish war on anyone.
🗣 When a quality text and a suitable melody are put together, a great song is obtained . Such songs will certainly last *Forever*
This was the most intense moment in the whole concert. No one captured the audience like Country Joe, no one, no one. Watch the film. At that time he was more important than anyone else there. All the rest were just footnotes.
I Agrégées!
I can't stop watching his performance and singing this song. If rap was out back then he would've had a number one hit.
@@missayawk I've always said that if rap was around waaay back, even people like Johnny Cash would've been a rapper. lol. Listen to his "Luther played the boogie" and "Rock Island Line". That's just 2 of his wicked fast songs out of countless others.
Breaks my heart... How many of those young fresh-faced boys there actually did "come home in a box." More heartbreaking is the collective coda after war is over, where we all ask, "What was it all for?" Happens every single time in history.
How about 2 million Vietnamese in their own country.
@@nicmart Yes indeed. A 20th-century tragedy. And Cambodians and Laotians.
@nicmart I had to explain the war to a young Vietnamese who knew nothing about it, except he thought the US invaded his country. This song's lyrics helped provide him with a "balanced view"!
@@mikeu5380 What do Americans know about the war? Mostly damned little. Even fewer care about the devastation the US brought to the Vietnamese, not to mention those in Laos and Cambodia. I just finished a book about My Lai, which left me disgusted. The vast majority of Americans didn't want anyone prosecuted for mass murder. As the author notes, rape of Vietnamese women by American soldiers was far from rare, and tacitly accepted by military brass.
@@mikeu5380 From the Spanish-American war on, the US has left a trail of war crimes. Since states became secular, slaughter by the US has only been exceeded by the communists and national socialists. It will not end well. (I mentioned Laos and Cambodia in my other post before I read your second response.)
One man with conviction, a message and a guitar . ... and 300,000 people. What more do you need?
More to the point, 51 years on what's changed?
well, though i'm hippie at heart as any, I hung around with a punk rocker in the early 80s. I later discovered most of them didn't like neo-hippies because they never did anything to get rid of tyrannical governments. this covid bs is the new 911--this is a psychological war on the masses. heard of David Icke? he was banned from his You Tube channel three months ago just for having an opinion about covid, and isn't even aloud into London now though he's a British subject. people have been sucked in by the mainstream media again, however, everyone was calling Icke a clown 30 years ago, and his podcast a few weeks ago had about three million tune in. so, there are more people now willing to get rid of the mega-rich Bill Gates cult now.
Next stop might be Iran.
@@bobm6894 China Bob, or another oriental country...
No draft.
@@bobm6894 Ukraine in the meantime......
I was 20 years-old and serving in Vietnam with the U.S. Army when 'Woodstock' was happening. I got to 'Nam in July of 1969, (Woodstock took place in August of '69) and I found out 'what I was fightin' for'...my life. I don't think most of us soldiers in Vietnam knew about Woodstock until we got back to the States.
My dad was a Vietnam veteran. His father enlisted him when he dropped out of college. He was proud of his service, but he used to play this song allllll the time when we were little! Great song.
us hippies will never die
yes☮✌
Yep... Long live the hippies
I mean, you will. But after that, you'll be replaced by more hippies!
still rockin' my dawg
TOO BAD
Thank you country joe one of the best performance ever
He’d been asked to go out there and wake the crowds UP. And? He did. Brilliant profane riff on war-a-gogo.
My brother, cousin and lots of friends were over in Viet Nam when this song came out. My Brother was shot down in a chopper June 3rd 1969. All on board died. My cousin came back a luntic, running the streets thinking he was still in Viet Nam.He eventually got a lobodomy to "cure " him. My son's father and a friend of mine died from the long term effects of agent orange. I don't know anyone from my generation who didn't have their life affected by that useless war with over 200,000 US casualties and over 2 million vietnamese killed. When I hear that song I still want to cry.
I thought the Henry Winklers portrayal of a returning vet was spot on: "Heros". It gave me the chills!
always gives me chills, great song
I finally got to meet Country Joe when I was going to college at UC Berkeley. He lived in the town & a friend of a friend knew him.
I wish there was a way to Capture in a Bottle this precious moment in time of our Cultural History. 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, and we ALL know it's a moment in time, our Cultural History that will stand still. This awesome three day gathering of over One Half Million People gathered, no Violence, No Hate, just the love of Music that united us for three days!
ME, TOO
This clip perfectly captured a historical moment. I'm pretty sure in next decades people will come here to discover 60's spirit through this video. I wonder whether any of these young people in the crowd realised they'll be immortal, caught in a time capsule, being part of a history. I wish I was there but at least I have this video.
I had two friends killed in Vietnam in '68, both would love to have heard this song.
Rest in Peace and thank you for your service. Semper-Fi!
@@BrainrotEntertainment You obviously didn't get the message. That's not the response called for. Which is- end US imperialist wars.
@@vestibulate never held a gun huh?
@@BrainrotEntertainment No, I never did. Did you? And if so, why?
@ I am more comfortable around guns than I am people. Born in 2004 and live with no parents paying my own rent with a full time job.
My dad was in Vietnam during woodstock.. I wish I was alive to see this
In 1969-70's my mom worked in the records and radios department of the May Company here in SoCalif... She played then entire Woodstock album when it came out. She was stuck behind the cash register, helping customers when this song came on.. a complete surprise to her and everyone in the area... My mom raced to that turn table to pull it off, but it was too late...
Yup, that opening was a big shocker to a lot of folks and the lyrics to the song as well. I was in jr.high and a kid brought his guitar to school almost every day and serenaded a bunch of us at lunch time with songs that were in the hit parade. He was expelled for singing this song after a teacher heard him and reported him to the principal. Heck, he didn't even sing the "gimme an f...gimme a u..." part.
This song is about to get realllllll popular again.
2:16 is my favorite shot in the entire movie hands down.
This song was a great favorite when I was in Special Forces Training Group at Ft Bragg in 1968. We all wanted to go to Nam, see "The bear", and have an adventure. Got to go, survived, and returned having fought honorably and been wounded, a much older and wiser man. I am still proud that served and honor those who didn't make it home.
The camera shooting to the audience as they all stand up singing in unison to protest the war is moving beyond words.
CIAO BRANDON
i can't live without woodstock experience..
Ciao from MILANO
by far the best song ever recorded at the best time of forever
You have a lot of people argue Joe Cocker took the cake
I used to despise this song. Because I served in two wars. Looks like he knows what he’s talking about and considering my wars were about oil and opium making the rich richer and the poor shepherds farmers and my fellow middle and impoverished classes dead. I have changed my mind about this song. What I originally thought of as liberal snyde was in fact the disdain that can only come from first hand experience.
2024 anyone?
A big thank you to my parents for raising us with this music & open eyes.
Thank you Michael. It is better to wake up late than never. You know the government is still lying to us and still sending death and destruction worldwide to the profit of bankers, weapons manufacturers and other corporate crooks and murderers.
I can respect a person who can change their mind based on experience. I am glad that you survived it. Hello from China.
@@Mr.Patrick_Hung hello. Not to nitpick but don’t you guys get monitored about every single thing you do and say? Or is that state propaganda?
@@michaelthemadsoldiertist It is intelligent of you to ask. No, we don't get monitored so closely or at all. There are some differences to when I was in the US. One's online access is registered to a real name and id card number. Hotels must take id and keep records and so on. There is more monitoring, but not by that much. There are more than a billion people; it's impossible to monitor everything. (Any more questions?)
I m still living and nothing has changed, but I do think that was the best ara !
born in 50's never seen this (kudos you tube!) and its mind boggling. More please, before i die!
Witness to events!
Michael McLoughlin
I heard this song from a distance< I had started heading into town (Bethel).
for some supplies We sat on someone's porch & listened. I can remember it so clearly 55 yrs. later'
I was a big Country Joe fan, i had 4 of their albums.
Trivia point - the melody is basically that of a much older tune called “The Muskrat Ramble” - check it out. The very memorable lyrics Joe put to it are perfect, made it a classic statement for the times, and serve as a cautionary reminder to all of us.
Same story in 2023. Sing it Joe
Summer of 1970 I was just a little boy in day camp...and our councilors taught my group this song for the camp sing along! We all learned the chorus and then pulled out kazoos for our solo!
Don't get me wrong, a great performance, but I have mixed feelings about this song. One month after Woodstock, Sept 15th 1969 my 18 year old younger brother was killed in Viet Nam. So when in comes to the part about being the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box, I just get a tear in my eye and wonder what might have been.
I hear you
Feel so sad, man.
so sorry to hear.
So sorry for loss DC.
I understand what he was singing about, but it was crass. Lots of boys had to go over there and they didn’t choose to.
The rest of the song is fitting. Especially the part about Wall Street. Still applicable today. They’re still doing it.
That moment when the crowd stand up to sing... Waow...
Oh and I need to travel back in time to talk to my new crush 0:46
JeremyLeMajestueux Yeah
This song is relevant again.
we need the music again!
Thank you I haven’t seen this version yet and I really thank you for this clearer version of it
Here we are, this weekend is the 50th anniversary of Woodstock! Don't know whether to laugh and enjoy the memories or cry at what we have become.
Today....1000 riot police to 'keep the peace' between 200 people in Portland....come on now...
500,000 people the largest peaceful protest in history.
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we only have ourselves to blame for how it is now--people have continued to give their power away to a beyond mega-rich psychotic cult that is running the world. Geaorge Sorus owns Black Lives Matter, and he deliberately set off the recent protest to, as usual, pit social groups against one another while they work their agenda (Agenda 21). Bill Gates owns World Health Org, and just tells them to tell the public whatever lies he wants. this covid bs is their latest scam--the masks are to further dehumanize us. if you don't believe me, they banned David Icke from his You Tube channel three months ago just for having an opinion about covid, and he isn't even aloud in London right now. it is all this technology that people have been sucked in by; mostly cell phones. many people that were at Woodstock have fallen victim to this agenda in progress. there are more people now listening to Icke than ever though.
Kathy you were there too I didn’t see you laugh out loud there aren’t many of us left honey I agree with you 1000 riot police to keep the ✌️ did you ever go through the magic forest over to where the hot farmers were in the free stage? Where were you sitting in relation to the stage
I think it's cry. Our country especially the last few years has become mostly hate, distrust, lack of what a family is!!!
Woodstock kids didn't destroy a city
Or were violent as opposed to the dickheads in ANTIFA
NEW refrain -- off to the Ukraine !!!!!!!!!! $$$arms£££$$$£££dealers££$$$are$$$cccumming$$$$$$$ahhhhh$$$$$$
Who's listening in December 2023? ✌🏻
Canada's listening 🎶 👌
Sharing it may 7
Here in June '24
got it right ; very unfortunately
Augusta 18, 2024 ... 55th anniversary
the greatest rock concert of all time, a different time, almost a different universe. so special. 💚💚💚
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I was there when he sang this. Peace...😊😊😊❤❤❤
so was i, what time did he sing it?
It was on Saturday afternoon. LATER, ON SATURDAY NIGHT, I SAW THE GRATEFUL DEAD...
i remember i got "The letter" and off i went.
glad you made it back homie
so deep holy cow at 22 today i feel this hard. timeless. FUCK! if theres ever another draft, we gotta do what our elders did! band together, they cant draft us all!
An unbelievable time. Unlike any other.
My mother hated this song. Maybe because her own son was in the Marines and she hated the verse about your boy coming home in a box.
USMC1961-1971
And did he come home in a box, or in a wheelchair? Even if he walked in the door I’m sure he had plenty of hidden injuries.
Actually there's still plenty of us old hippies out here, who are keepers of the flame.
I still have my Vietnam POW bracelet. My POW came home in a box about 20 years after the war ended. 😢
My father wasn’t into music like most people so I cherished any song he’d sing me when I was a kid. This was one of the very few songs he knew and sing to me (& a few Beatles songs) lol
Imagine how much people in this video are already grandparents or even dead. That's hard to believe.
Some could even be great-grandparents.
22 in 68, 78 in 24.
@@ronbelanger4113this was in ‘69
I was in the service but couldn't get up to Woodstock but we all related to this song.
I was a Vietnam veteran before it became popular.
Iron Triangle, 1969
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Yesterday in a Marina in Lisbon a guy heard my Woodstock music on the boat and he freaked out. He asked for listening a moment and I suggested him to surf in RUclips for Woodstock. He asked me from where was that band and I explained it was one of the first open-air concerts and instead of looking the videos of ticktock, to search for Woodstock. Hilarious that somebody doesn¿t knows what Woodstock was. Don't they teach that in school?
Never heard this song before yet I know the lyrics word by word . That’s some trippy shit .
Maybe You like war? Trippy shit!
This week this song became relevant again.
So sad, but so true...
No way. Were at war with Vietnam? Again?
@@Swizzenator No. Earlier than that. N Korea.
This year too
I was 6 years old when this song came out my mother used to have pow sticker back in 1969 he came back home alive
Me too
Love this song! A lot of lives lost 🙏🏽🌹
This was one of the most important performances at the festival. It was a song that everybody knew as a kind of jokey, sing a long, but suddenly Joes performance and aggression weaponised it and made it the perfect engine of sedition. He had the perfect song, He knew how to put it across and He knew the consequences. Such a great man!!!
remember hearing that song right before i got non the plane to vietnam
The best part of the festival and was completely unrehearsed
Still makes my heart race.
I LOVE this SONG
legend alert -- Happy 80th Country Joe!!!
I used to put my stereo speakers in the window and crank that song all the way up :)
This song taught me to spell my first word at 4. I wrote it in my brother’s school book (in black crayon) thinking his teacher would think he was smart. My mother got called into the school over it. They were mad because he was blaming me and they thought he was lying but he wasn’t. lol
God bless every soul who fit in Vietnam for our country. That was a bad war and they are honorable soldiers who fit for the believed in and each other
Not to mention the draft. Many didn't willingly go, but they fought nonetheless. Whether for survival or country is irrelevant.
Those of us that were there would never be the same again we try to fit in but it just doesn’t work
How could we???
I'm trying myself to fit in myself and I wasn't there I was born in 1994 !
We waking ev1 up now❤️
I’d love to hear your story about your time at Woodstock. This movement is very interesting to a 25 year old who loves history
My mother told me that my father was never the same after his 4 years as a marine. He was sad and angry all my life, I never knew the person she spoke of before he went.
It is a pleasure to have so many famous and pivotal musical artists perform, and hundreds of thousands of groovy people come together to celebrate the weekend of my very birth.....Thursday, 4:20 AM on 8/14/69. Cant make this shit up...
R.I.P., Michael. Thank you for that wonderful song. "And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for.? Dont' ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam...."!
ça restera un des événements le plus fort de l histoire de l humanité ! La révolte de toute une jeunesse contre la guerre !
Yes. Get out there and throw rotten tomatoes at vets returning from vietnam as fast as you maggots can.
Amazing ..
I was very young at this point .. In Umeå, up north, Sweden.
Just to see how many people was out there!? 😳😳😳
Flabbergasting!
Just love❣️
Love this song♥️
class of 1973 here. wished i was there, i may be one of the 70s people who still has all her brain cells together cuz i never dropped acid. i was too scared of that stuff.
I did my tour in SEA..got back in 1970..Somewhere during 1969, I lost a country..the USA.
Did people back then really think they could end the war through hippie culture? That never ceases to amaze me.
no they believed that drafting innocent civillians off to a war they had no partake or reason to partake in was a shitty move and were very angry at their country so they decided to have a small moment of peace during the chaos, what else?
I was 16 in 1969, living in Northern VA. Me & my buddies heard about the upcoming concert in upstate NY but decided to go to Ocean City, MD instead (bummer). In October, we went to a protest at the Washington Monument in D.C., looking for sex & drugs, didn’t give a shit about anything else. In November, I lied about my age & joined the Army. Got on a bus at 4:30 in the AM bound for induction in Richmond then on to Fort Benning for Basic. Yeah, those were strange times. Loved this song then & still do today. Surprisingly, my son loves this song too.
My grandmother kept the water running from her garden hose just over the hill .She was a outstanding woman and her name was Viola.
My teacher just showed this to me today. i didn't realize how bad it was until she got into depth about it, unfortunately the boys in my class were making fun of it but this was serious and peoples lives children and women, brothers and fathers sister and so on lost to a war that the us had no reason to participate in
Was , is and will always be a poinget song !
I listen to this song in 2024, and think of my high school friends who went to Vietnam - they all came back, but some were in those boxes that Country Joe sang about. Even those that came back alive, were broken inside - unable to adjust to civilian life, eventually taking their own lives to escape the pain and memories.
Blessings to all Vietnam veterans.
always loved this
This was the song of my generation