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Everybody assumes that mind and body are opposed. The trog vs. the cerebrite. How boring. But we still buy it, all of us. The Velvet Underground were the greatest band that ever existed because they began to suggest that such was not so.

Lester Bangs

(Ch. 6 of my diss is on Lester. I’m kinda excited and scared. He was an intense dude, man.)

(Source: musichistorian)

ixamxdecadence: deejaybird: Today is the 43rd anniversary of Woodstock….While barely dressed hippies were gathering for “three days of peace and love” and dropping acid to Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin on a dairy farm in upstate New York in August of 1969, Black folks were partying on the hot concrete streets of Harlem with a series of concerts called the Harlem Cultural Festival. It is referred to as Black Woodstock. It was a celebration of Black music, culture, and Black pride with an estimated 100,000 concert-goers. The concerts took place every sunday at 3PM in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park (renamed Marcus Garvey Park in 1973) from June 29th to August 24th.The concerts came on the heels of 2 of Malcolm X’s former aides being shot—one fatally, Charles Kenyatta and Clarence 13X Allah as well as 21 Black Panthers being arrested for conspiring to assassinate police officers and blow up buildings. The local NAACP chairman likened Harlem at the time to the vigilante Old West. So it came as little surprise when the NYPD refused to provide security for the festival. That wouldn’t stop anything because the Black Panther Party stepped in and provided security while the people enjoyed the sounds of Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, Staple Singers, David Ruffin,Nina Simone, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Mahalia Jackson and others. View high resolution

ixamxdecadence:

deejaybird:

Today is the 43rd anniversary of Woodstock….While barely dressed hippies were gathering for “three days of peace and love” and dropping acid to Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin on a dairy farm in upstate New York in August of 1969, Black folks were partying on the hot concrete streets of Harlem with a series of concerts called the Harlem Cultural Festival. It is referred to as Black Woodstock. It was a celebration of Black music, culture, and Black pride with an estimated 100,000 concert-goers. The concerts took place every sunday at 3PM in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park (renamed Marcus Garvey Park in 1973) from June 29th to August 24th.The concerts came on the heels of 2 of Malcolm X’s former aides being shot—one fatally, Charles Kenyatta and Clarence 13X Allah as well as 21 Black Panthers being arrested for conspiring to assassinate police officers and blow up buildings. The local NAACP chairman likened Harlem at the time to the vigilante Old West. So it came as little surprise when the NYPD refused to provide security for the festival. That wouldn’t stop anything because the Black Panther Party stepped in and provided security while the people enjoyed the sounds of Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, Staple Singers, David Ruffin,Nina Simone, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Mahalia Jackson and others.

(Reblogged from knowledgeequalsblackpower)

foreverneilyoung:

Neil Young during the taping of TV show Music Scene in 1969

Photos by Jeff Allen

(Reblogged from foreverneilyoung)
The Ballad of John and Yoko—The Beatles (1969): final UK #1; US #8

The Ballad of John and Yoko—The Beatles (1969): final UK #1; US #8

(Reblogged from whiteboytarantino)
Isle of Wight Festival, 1969. Dylan played here instead of Woodstock, even though the New York festival of “peace and love” was being staged practically in his backyard. He left for the English festival the day before the Woodstock started, shocking many who hoped and expected him to appear there. It’s not that surprising, though, that he’d want to avoid the hippie hoards descending on his already overrun home. **Between Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait. (Not a great time for him.)

Isle of Wight Festival, 1969. Dylan played here instead of Woodstock, even though the New York festival of “peace and love” was being staged practically in his backyard. He left for the English festival the day before the Woodstock started, shocking many who hoped and expected him to appear there. It’s not that surprising, though, that he’d want to avoid the hippie hoards descending on his already overrun home.

**Between Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait. (Not a great time for him.)