Joni Mitchell's Woodstock
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00:00 Intro
01:05 Title Card
01:13 From a Hotel Room
02:30 Pilgrim’s Song
04:05 Next Verses
05:07 Cosmic Origins
06:32 Another Version
07:41 Conclusion - เพลง
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Albums turning 50 this year: (A video on any of those would be great!)
Abbey Road ,Trout Mask Replica, Blind Faith, In The Court Of The Crimson King, Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II , Tommy, Let It Bleed, The Band, Green River, Bayou Country, Willy And The Poor Boys, The Stooges, Nashville Skyline, Santana, The Velvet Underground, Hot Rats, In A Silent Way, Dusty In Memphis, Monster Movie etc etc...
For the umpteenth he does *NOT* do requests!
@@sebastianelytron8450 not a request, more a suggestion. All these albums are great and if he sees this comment(that I am sure of since it is the top one by far), he will surely consider it.
My personal faves are King Crimson and Beefheart out of these, that I would have seen as a request. It was a great year for rock music, maybe the best one, it should have it's own video
Damn that’s a lot of great music
And Trout Mask Replica
hell yeah CAN
Yes
The hippies wanted everlasting peace and love but really they were looking for Skillshare.
You win the internet today!
OH MY GOD 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm a hippie and I have never heard of skillshare.
🙆🤦😂
In essence that's what a commune does, share (barters) their skills for wares.
I am convinced this channel isn't real and is just an algorithm that pumps out videos based on whatever music I've been recently listening to
Right??? Like, I just got into CSNY like a week ago
Let's be honest, a ton, and I mean a TON of Joni's songs can be analyzed to this extent. Pure poetry. So blessed to have had such great poets and musicians to have graced us with their art.
I get chills every time I even think about the possibility of being at Woodstock. It must have been so special.
Accept in you had to go the bathroom.
Woodstock would have been the concert to go too.✌
The most telling part of the Woodstock movie was Hippies leaving ignoring the plea from the loud speakers to clean up after themselves. That moment was the late sixties/early seventies summed up.
The concert footage of Santana performing "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock might be the best concert footage of all time. Be sure and find the version that has the full drum solo.
I see that and raise you Ten Years After playing "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock.
Amazingly I believe it was Santana’s first concert they had only played little club gigs until Woodstock. Also I’m partial to Canned Heats performance but Alvin Lee is also up there.
Yes, yes and yes. There, I’ve covered the questions about Santana, TYA and Canned Heat. ✌️
Let's not forget Sly and the Family Stone's performance of "I Wanna Take You Higher".
Agreed.
Joni is a true genius. I recently read Reckless Daughter, which is a biography of her life and career. I’ve been listening to her music for my entire life, and I would never have been a songwriter if it weren’t for her. Love this video! Thank you for creating this!
Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words by Malka Macrom is a must read for any Joni fan.
The 60s & 70s was the best decades of music ever. It seemed every week a group had a new album coming out and I couldn't wait to hear it. I miss the 70s. It was a good time to grow up.
By the time I got to the comments section
It was half a million strong
some moving on from the song
to a condemnation
a big yellow taxi took away your old nan
😂
I wanna Polyphonic segment about why 1970s funk bands always focused on outer space and ancient aliens: Earth, Wind & Fire; Parliament; The Commodores; Booties Collins! They were all about aliens and stuff.
Booties?
@@buppie2000 Dude. Don't judge...
@@cqtaylor It's BOOTSY, baby.
Booties, lol
@@buppie2000 LOL, I'm sorry! I type fast! Ha!
Yes, that would make an interesting video! I've always wondered that myself.
I never knew Joni Mitchell dated Graham Nash! In the UK we try to keep the spirit of Woodstock alive at Glastonbury (CND, flower power, pacifism, environmentalism etc), which started just a few years afterwards (and Michael Eavis, the organiser, said he'd been directly influenced by Woodstock). I guess it did, for many years, before the inevitable commercialisation and explosion of other festivals in the last 15-20 years. There is still a heavy new age and hippy feel to it though.
If u follow them on Instagram, it’s mentioned by them both.
They lived together at her home in LA home in Laurel Canyon.
Original Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
Woodstock '99: Break Stuff
Woodstock 50:
Woodstock 50: It's All About the Economy
Cancelled
@james c There was, until there isn't.
www.cbc.ca/music/woodstock-50-is-officially-cancelled-here-s-everything-that-went-wrong-1.5190762
What about 1994
Arthritis and old age
Ladies of the canyon is a masterpiece album. Love Joni. Circle game , morning Morgantown ... basically every song is perfect
I've just discovered her this week... it is definitely destiny that this came out around the same time. We are star dust.
Keenan Meyer Joni is simply amazing. Enjoy exploring her work.
Just start at her beginning and work your way forward. Or, start with "Blue," "For The Roses" and "Ladies Of The Canyon" and work your way outwards. She's incredible.
@@chrisdelisle3954 Good advice. I started with Blue and then got back to her first album to work my way through her discography. I wish it could go on forever, she's incredible.
Now that you've talked about Woodstock, you have to talk about Altamont and how it killed Flower Power
Yeah, also the death of 21 y/o Meredith Hunter, and how the Hell's Angels got away with cold-blooded murder!
The Hell's Angels is the reason why we can't have nice things?! 😑
@@Zeldarw104 And those poor hippies stoned out stumbling into danger unaware of what's going on due to their brains being shut out from reality due to LSD
@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 The Hell's Angels as security, being paid in beer, that was the first mistake. I've seen the footage it was a deadly, disaster, waiting to happen, poor, hippie kids, just having fun then the devil rears it's ugly head, I'm sure it was a major buzz-kill. I would imagine someone getting killed, and beat up right in front of you, sobers you pretty quickly! I'm not going to assume they were all off LSD or whatever, it was about the music after all.😑 So, sad that folks we're beat up and one guy was murderd. Smh.
@Zelda Williams This concert also pretty much killed the Psychedelic Rock genre. After that, most hippie musicians went Soft-Rock (Janis Joplin, Ealges, Grateful Dead, Lynrd Skynrd, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, and Neil Young just to name a few)
while others changed direction (Jimi Hendrix was considering abandoning his rock roots and start experimenting with funk music and The Doors were becoming a Progressive Rock band). The Psychedelic Rock genre pretty much had a temporary revival in the early 70s with bands like Funkadelic and Hawkwind though
I was just going to say that.
Amazing timing - ashamed to say that only in the past week or two I've finally started digging into Joni's music. What a beautiful ocean this is.
Better late than never. Her music is amazing. She explored a lot of different themes and sounds throughout her career so you're in for a treat.
I'll reiterate what I said in another reply: you can either just start at her beginning and work your way forward. Or, start with "Blue," "For The Roses" and "Ladies Of The Canyon" and work your way outwards. An incredible songwriter.
i love when polyphonic uploads a new video. and what great timing! got my 12 string and my strat out with my first beer, just sat down and seen the notification. beautiful.
I've been listening to Joni these past few weeks. A nice coincidence you drop a video about one of her songs!
Thank you so much for making and sharing this. One of my favorites so far, and at a perfect time, too. 💜
Now talk about Woodstock 99's spiritual anthem: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff.
Yeah dude. That will be an awesome troll funny video. Someone should do it and frame it as the song that summarized a generation hahahahah
how about woodstock '94s spiritual anthem: primus - my name is mud...
You are quite remarkable Mr. Polyphonic. I love what you do, what you make me think about and appreciate more than in the past. Thank you for your work and the soul you put into it.
Joni Mitchell's song captured the feel of the time. We are golden, caught in the devils bargain. At that moment in time. Everybody helping each other to stay peaceful and happy. What a concept, what a thought, what a gesture, beautiful, man. David Crosby nailed it with his song "Long time gone" It was a "long time" comin', it's gonna will be a "long time" gone before anything close to that will happen again. There are many documentaries about Woodstock, educate and enlighten yourself at what did happen, it's history! Joni's LP "Court and Spark" Is one of my "alone on a desert island" must haves. IMHO Her best by far.
The best moment came on Sunday morning when almost everyone had packed up and left. It was a kind of sly nod to the "this concludes our broadcasting day" when TV channels played the national anthem. Only no one had heard it this way before.
Glad you're doing more videos on Joni, she was truly an amazing artist
I can’t imagine the amount of people and the feelings driving to their movement. It is such a huge number, and the amount of power and feeling in songs like this give me emotions I do not feel very often. Love this video.
Polyphonic, thank you so much for your videos.
I kid you not, "Rainy Night House" was just randomly stuck in my head for the past half hour...then I open up TH-cam and this is what I see. Ladies of the Canyon is a beautiful record. Wonderful video!
Such a beautiful song and record. I really love "The Priest" and "Willy" as well, but truly, every song on this album is a gem.
YOU sir are a MASTER in bringing LIFE to the music that once was. I love this video and I love you for creating it. Thank you.
Another brilliantly done video. Great story, narration, and graphics and visualisieren, well edited as well.
Love this song, CSNY did my favorite version though!
A great writer wrote about a great event. Joni Mitchell has to be the most talented artist since Woodstock. Her career and discography is beautiful and massive. I was 13 when Woodstock happened. I wasn't the there but i definitely remember the aftershock. It was huge.
I literally was JUST listening to this song and then u post about! Crazy!
Joni's my favorite songwriter of all time , so I really appreciate you making a video about her. I hope one day you could make one about Kate Bush.
I see what you did there with Yates. Well played! Well spoken an thoughtful interpretation! Thank you for sharing!
I would love to hear what Joni wrote about woodstock '99.
"We are hungry, we are angry
we are swimming in our urine
and we've got to buy ourselves 4 dollar wa-ter."
Right on man! The '99 event does not even deserve to be called Woodstock at all. Maybe Cesspool instead because it was filthy, uncomfortable on a airplane runway where no campsites or tents could be set up. A real disgraceful place that didn't compare to Bethel in' 69!
i was always puzzled by the differences in joni's and c,s,n&y's versions, but the way you explain it all makes so much sense. both versions together capture the feeling of woodstock so much better than only one version could.
50 years today! Amazing
Thank you so much for sharing this I'm a friend of the Great Lake Richie Havens 4 over 30 years
Yes, the song uses Woodstock as a metaphor for a spiritual quest, and follows Laura Nyro's Stoned Soul Picnic (1968), who was an influence on Joni and she references some of Nyro's lyric's, gold, dust.
What I love best about Joni’s version of the song is the tension between the lyrics & the music. The lyrics implore us to admit our interconnectedness and return to a state of innocence. But the music knows this can’t happen and so is somber & elegiac. Brilliant songwriting!
Once upon a time in hollywood, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, this video-I'm loving all the 60s content
Absolutely love your videos keep up the good work 🥰🥰
I was recently sick at home with covid when I first heard this song and I absolutely bawled my eyes out when hearing this song. To me it felt so beautiful to hear, on the line "we were half a million strong" I felt like I was there. It was especially brought on considering I have a piece of the stage from the Woodstock festival. ☮️
Joni has been...and is a wonderful, cosmic stardust gift to us all. I am so grateful to bear witness....and Thank You, Joni!
you just made my day aaaahhhh
do a video on Jeff Buckley he’s a genius
Excellent. ... just a perfect take. Thank you.
I love to see a 500000 subscriber channel talk about crosby, still, nash and young :)
Awesome video! You should cover The Band!
Zachary Eckstein THIS! With a proper emphasis on Richard Manuel.
One of your best.
Damn, your videos are amazing.
Joni is a modern day Saint and Woodstock is a prayer for the Earth
I've been addicted to Joni for a year or so, she's a legend.
I’ve always loved this song and i’m glad it’s getting the attention is deserves 👍
I thought Young wasn't there.
Edit: Nevermind. I just googled it and found Young was there, but he's edited out of the footage. They even edited his name out of the intro, because he was so pissed at the camera guys! Now _that_ would be an interesting Polyphonic video.
He did not want to be involved in any film that would come out. That wasn’t Neil at the time. He simply wasn’t interested (it does sound like something Stills wanted)
Thank you.
thank you, man!
6:00 holy cheekbones Robin!
Great video I love this channel
Both songs are great, but I'm more drawn to Mitchell's, and the point that she didn't go to Woodstock is absolutely critical here. Her version is an ideal, a dream, and a passionate yearning that reality with it's gravity and necessity for urinals and plumbing and all the practical humdrum cannot match. LSD and marijuana were a huge component here as well for bringing people's consciousness outside of the confines of consensual, workaday reality. In the end Joni Mitchell's song is not a yearning for something that never evolved, but rather is the realization and manifestation of a subjective vision of another reality. The song is its own reality. The external world can hardly be expected to match it, as garbage and waste are never going to be attractive or seamless parts of a beautiful whole. The yearling is also for a spiritual transformation, for life to have more beauty and meaning -- you can't change the physical world, but you can change the person who sees in, and in so doing the physical world changes -- which, ultimately, is possible. Her song is concrete evidence.
I agree. Much as I like the CSNY version, I could never connect with it like I do with Joni's version.
This song above all others is stuck in my head
i heard this song before i knew mitchell had written it, but as soon as i did know it was so obvious. the realization was almost a physical sensation and remains one of the strangest musical experiences i've ever had. to this day i don't understand why i didn't hear it before knowing it because i can't unhear it now.
My grandmother went to Woodstock and happened to bring a camera. She stole her mother’s car and with a friend drove from Boston to New York. Got a peace sign tattoo on her foot and pictures with musicians and strangers. If I could go back in time, it would solely to go to Woodstock.
I usually play this song (or its cover) at least once a day. Matthews southern comfort blends the two songs you mention as a party and spirituality.
I wonder how many more people would have been at Woodstock if they could have found a way to get there. Amazing event for everyone who was involved, including the farm owner, Yasgur.
"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back"-Hunter S Thompson.
I love that scene in the movie.
@@Blinki18284 It's a shame Hunter Didn't write more about the vietnam war. Apperantly he was stationed at Saigon towards the end but seemed to get writer's block on it, Or knowing Hunter he could have just lost interest. Appearently Hunter was quite distracted by prostitutes throughout the trips so that probaly factored in lol.
Joni is really smart and has a very interesting life/career. Her life style is very influential to others and impact many lives. Enjoyed the video!
Joni Mitchell. Is life. So was Max Yasgur.
Perhaps a video on the other side of that coin... Gimme Shelter.
Great stuff here!
I think he might’ve covered that one on his Music of Vietnam series
@@TortoiseMaximus Oh, didn't know. I'll check it out.
I just started loving this song
This is a very well-thought out and delivered analysis of the song, and the time during which it was written -- interesting to hear Joni Mitchell's take on it years later, where she talks in an interview about how the idealism of the hippie movement couldn't sustain itself; but I still feel that Woodstock marks a moment where cooperation & tolerance held sway for a brief moment in time --
I got your W.B Yeats reference, "Slouching towards Bethel to be Reborn", nice
That was a brilliant touch, wasn't it?
Another great Joni song, as well
The visuals and animations in this video are awesome. I was wondering how long it takes for you to produce something like this?
Every time I hear this song I can’t help but cry (Joni version only, CSNY cover makes me groove too hard)
"And I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies above our nation"
Wonderful image. Joni is amazing.
Thanks for the Yeats jam :D
i really like your series that focuses on particular artists and also on particular songs. could i suggest an episode on the amazing Joan Armatrading and in particular the songs "Body to Dust" and "Show Some Emotion".
A song writing titan. A goddess.
Don't underestimate the influence that festival had on the course of culture.
Personally I think Matthews Southern Comfort was the definitive take on the song
I agree.
Listen to the version performed by dear Eva Cassidy - wonderful!
Going to see Ringo tomorrow at Bethel as my first concert!
Peanut Spring 3, really your first? I saw him with a similar All Star Lineup a few years ago. He is kind, funny and has very cool friends. It should be a blast. Enjoy the concert
@@ceejay1794 Thank you! I'm sure I will. I've waited so long to see a concert, because I always wanted my first one to be a Green Day concert, as they are the ones who got me into music. But when you have the chance to see a Beatle, and you don't know how long they have left, they always will be a great alternative. But yeah, cant wait for the good times to roll :D!
Peanut Spring 3 and on top of it. He’s at Bethel. Great area for music. Drink it all in. Witnesssing history through a revered drummer of the 60’s.
Not a bad start. You're probably there now!
@@erestube Yo it was so great! The opening bands were awesome, and while I was on the lawn, I was close enough to see him well. It was just great!
50 years today!
The only good thing about being old enough to remember the late sixties is to know better than to have nostalgia about them.
I have watched entire video
I would love a video on Echoes by Pink Floyd
I'd like a video on Pink Floyd period. ( Although Echoes is definitely in my top 5 Pink Floyd songs. )
Loving this video:) what kind of editing software do you use by the way?:)
When he talked so much about Woodstock 1969 like he did, when he talked about CSN&Y playing very early on Monday morning (August 19) but he forgot talking about the highlight of this festival on this very Monday around 9 o´clock then from my point of view he missed an important point.
Talking about Woodstock without mentioning Jimi Hendrix?! Hard to accept.
Isn´t there something between Joni´s bombers turning into butterflies and Jimi´s guitar imitating machine guns in Star Spangeld Banner?
Sorry but I had to add this here. I saw Jimi one year later at the Isle of Wight Festival. Three weeks later he was dead.
Best song of all time
I have watched the entire video
This is a great video! As a budding video creator I can appreciate all the work that went into its creation. Nerd Alert.
Nice video featuring a great song and possibly the greatest female singer of the twentieth century. Having said that, I also love the old jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, so that's a big compliment to Joni.
Joni is a genius. Irrefutably. My hero.
We must have been exceptionally good in 1943 because on Nov 7th of that year Joni Mitchell was placed upon the earth and we all, eventually, rejoiced.
It doesnt matter anymore what Woodstock was in Reality, all that matters is what it is to you today personally.
No matter if you been there or not.
Honestly if I was an artist it would be a huge honour to be analysed by polyphonic
Something about Joni Mitchell you could take away the music and the lyrics are pure poetry. Both sides now is the most compelling balled I’ve ever heard one of the greatest lyricists of all time .
i was so young the first time i heard this song i had no idea what woodstock was...at the time i did think it was a song about some ancient journey
Make sure I was able to do something spectacular which is capturing anger and negativity into a song that was portrayed happiness and love. She stated very clearly how all we were doing was for love and happiness and how we should go back to that.
“ We’ve got to get ourselves back to the Garden “ was a criticism of the hippie movement.Joni was never at Woodstock. She also thought the hippie movement was a moral failure before Woodstock . That’s one more reason to like her . She’s know one’s political fool , left or right.