Dad Rock Minute: Time trippin' to Woodstock
Forty-seven years later, the magical days of Aug. 15-18, 1969, continue to cast a spell over music and culture. What was supposed to be a moderate gathering ended up being a massive throng of more than 400,000 people converging on a farm in upstate New York. It was billed as the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, but is now known simply as Woodstock.
As both a last gasp for the peace and love movement — the harrowing Altamont Festival would bring the '60s to a shocking close a few months later — and a harbinger of the era of massive music festivals, those "three days of peace and love" have become legendary.
On this week's Dad Rock Minute video (see above), Jim Lenahan and Patrick Foster, hosts of USA TODAY's Dad Rock podcast, celebrate this week's Woodstock anniversary by casting themselves back — literally — to Max Yasgur's farm to ponder the everlasting legend.
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