THIS is one of my all time TOP TEN favorite songs ever:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKeXkhxiq6I"]YouTube- Scott McKenzie - San Francisco[/ame]
I was quite young, but hittin' a very early adolescence, and sucking up things I saw in magazines and on the news regarding the Viet Nam War and this "peace movement".
Through the music is thus my dearest involvement. (I'm guessing I was around 11 or 12 years old during Woodstock, but we then had the album then at home right after via my brother.)
*The ONLY thing close to relating to this directly was the earliest Mich. Fest years then of the womyns music festival movement - that too was a "happening" of course. And the early queer marches in D.C.
Which reminds me of Selenay playing that American Pie song several pages back... politics through music back then. First womyn's music! How lucky was I to have experienced that? I feel very grateful and fortunate.
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Also, Selenay why I liked that one song you recently posted... (the Dawn Landes "Straight Lines" video... that has been running through my brain all night), I have a real "jones" for the glockenspiel sound in music (or bells and chimes too), as is in this Scott McKenzie song.
My percussion background, I'm sure!
Well, that Straight Lines song made me feel quite emotional too for having just spent Christmas Eve and morning with my parents, and wondering if it would/could be my last... they are UP there in age! And thinking of the early days, yes. (I figured that out the next day after listening to it! Therapeutic music is too, eh?)
PEACE OUT!
