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Woodstock was a high water mark for the counterculture and the release of the documentary was the beginning of the end of the the counterculture. Starting at around 1965, an alternative culture emerged, it included music, art, fashion, political ideology, an alternative lifestyle, all of it influenced by a psychoactive agency. Regardless of how you feel about drugs today, back then, a mythology was formed around them. Call it naïve or stupid or ignorant if you want but the zeitgeist was different and looking at it through the lens of today's milieu is a mistake. David Crosby once said, "we were right about the war, we were right about Nixon but we were wrong about drugs", he wasn't entirely on the mark with that statement. If you look at the music, art, fashion, the awareness about the environment and the freedom to be different, all of it was influenced by psychoactive substances. White powder drugs were not a part of any positive changes, their inclusion in the culture was a mistake. There certainly was some naïveté involved, cocaine was thought to be harmless but the eruption of creativity during that time couldn't have happened without a psychotropic medium to influence it. Prior to the release of the Woodstock documentary, most young people were unaware of the reality of what was going on within the counterculture. They believed what their parents, teachers, local news reports, etc. told them, which was mostly negative information about the "hippies". After the documentary came out, they realized that all of their authority figures were lying to them. What they saw was a large gathering of kids having fun, listening to great music and getting along in harsh conditions. After that, they started growing their hair, smoking pot and they started listening to music which, heretofore, they were unaware of. The problem with that was, it was superficial, they were unaware of the reasons for the social change, the counterculture was absorbed into something new, a fashion. Woodstock can never be repeated, efforts to replicate it were doomed to failure because the counterculture was an organic manifestation, an outgrowth of what came before it. The reason for its very existence as something *_counter_* to the mainstream had become lost and the gathering of all those who were part of the original event, bore little resemblance to those who were just following a fashion.

I wish people would ask Michael questions about his time with Santana from Caravansaai through to when he left after the Borboletta album and the players he was on stage with during the Lotus era.

New 2024 Interview with Michael Shrieve about his new album "Drums of Compassion" th-cam.com/video/bEtk_PauPkM/w-d-xo.html

I interviewed Michael Shrieve about his new album Drums of Compassion in case anyone is interested: th-cam.com/video/bEtk_PauPkM/w-d-xo.html

Sounds putrid

He’s completely right: you can never recreate a magical moment. When you try to do that, you’re automatically thinking. Thinking is the enemy of flow. Flow is the very thing that created the magic in the first place.

Chuck Berry was a great rocker 'n' roller but when he arrived (1955) to the rock scene Bill Haley recorded rock 'n' roll since 1951 and Elvis Presley since 1954...

To me this looks like 1973 on that era Neal start wearing a mustache

I'm still can't find a video of Neal playing Fender Stratocaster on that era on Google i found a pic of him with a white Stratocaster 1968 or 1970 with Rosewood fretboard and the big headstock .

Another person who thinks they are the ONLY ONE at the concert with NO REGARD for ppl sitting BEHIND her ! Hopefully she lost few pounds !!!

Santana Blues Band....

Hey there, good job!

Niiiiiiiice!

Wheres miles schon? I heard his kid play a bunch in Marin County about 15 years ago. Wonder where he ended up.

Love Chuck Berry, and i love Jimmy Reed ! Great combo of music . Love the blues. . Roy b Cape town, south africa 🇿🇦

1971 ....?????...

Taste and technique are what its all about on any instrument and Shrieve has both to the extreme. More than what you know, how it comes across, how it affects the listener is everything in music. I would call him a happy technician. ... chops forever! Saw him close up at a Louisiana festival and I'm having fun remembering how spellbinding he was. The Iron Butterfly drummer did a similar solo too but Santana featured the other percussionists and the Latin thing is big around New Orleans.

Mister Humble knew he was a great guitarist without bragging about it.

me too

A real icon.. wonderful story .thank you. All the best to Michael.. thanks for making a difference!!!

My favorite drummer of all time! Mesmerizing performance!! You never cease to amaze!!

Don’t care about the game. TOP!

I don't care if this 'dates me' but Michael, when I was a mere child, we both were. I as I walked into a place called the 'Music Odessey' on Wilshire Blvd in WLA looking for anything/something to buy to pique my penchant yearnings for rhythm and rock/Latin music, I heard Santana's first album and I heard you drumming on the Soul Sacrifice track, and I never looked back. I've tried and I've cried to replicate your drum solo to that epic song. Thanks for changing my life, and my musical excitements!

And if he didn't walk into the studio that night, who knows.

Best drummer ever,small kit huge talent ❤

✌️🤍🍓😍💙🇹🇷…+1.~

Hey mate did you have the recording of the dead Kennedys performance of pull my strings? The song was only performed this one time and there is no known footage of it anywhere, people have been searching for it for years!

Good music with Chuck and he plays well on this one. He almost ever are most dedicated when he plays blues. The band is good especially the bassplayer .

His "B" sides of those 50's CHESS records are gold... one side was a song geared to the record buying public, but the flips were incredible where Phil and Leonard let Chuck put whatever he wanted on the flip. My favorite is "Havana Moon"

My favorite drummer ever.

Boring interview..... GEEEZUSSS.....

One of the best live Chuck moment on TH-cam. really fun and loose. Great pick up band ( not always true with Chuck) I Love a great drummer with a great feel but who doesn't really knows the tunes ! Hilarious. Pulled it off That's a keeper

Chuck & Jerry Lee were pedo’s before the word was even known by most 😮 fact

Where's Carlos

I wonder how the made video recordings at all back in the day, obviously not having s srt phones & al.

for a tribute with Michael on drums this how Jingo should be played. Hell of lot better than how Santana deviated from. Jingo should be played with thunder as the original cut.

How Johnny go go go Johnny be good ..! He, Johnny be good..!

What' s a soul blues Music like Chuck play..O love Sain t Louis to New Orleans..sweet sixteenth like a while blues..!

A prodigious player of S/G..Chuck Berry..!

I got a rare blues..! Be sweet sixteenth.To Saint Louis to New Orleans..

Bravo l'Artiste..ca swingue ....Just back to one by one to have just this one by one !

Sincerely you are great, Michael and honest..!

Yes, Woodstock ," un moment de grâce " musical for the youth and for the Story..

Yes, a amazing great drummer, sacred Michael...!

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"... anyway, what was your question?" Not sure if it was the green micro dot or the window pane, maybe the alcohol; but I ask that a lot, too. 😁☮

I'm a guitar player/ teacher. Michael's drumming is every bit as inspiring as any guitar stuff I've seen. To the extent I took up drums as well (still wrestling with them) and changed all the cymbals to Istanbul- because that's what Michael uses

La buena 🎵 se disfruta en cualquier momento ☺️ es una de las mejores bandas que he tenido el privilegio de escuchar felicidades ㊗️ gracias Paquito secre soy de México

I actually didn't know Chuck was such a good guitar player. I thought he just always played Johnny B Good- type rock guitar. Great sound.

Nice Jimmy Reed Cover by Mr.Chuck Berry Himself.. May Both of Them R.I.P. 🎙️🎤😍