Friday Funtime: Woodstock at 40

What does Woodstock mean to me, as someone who was not yet alive when it happened and who has never attended a music festival of remotely similar scope? Simple: Proof that such a gathering can be done. When we find ourselves isolated from our neighbors, our families, our cow orkers, we can remind ourselves that occasionally there are moments when more than a few - say, a hundred-thousand-plus - find themselves not isolated, not alone at all, for three days of peace and music.

It can happen.

PS: My gratitude to the kind people who made these clips available for us.

1. Richie Havens, "Freedom / Motherless Child"
2. Arlo Guthrie, "Coming Into Los Angeles"
3. Santana, "Soul Sacrifice"
4. Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze"
5. Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends"
6. Sly & the Family Stone, "I Want to Take You Higher"
7. Jefferson Airplane, "Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon"
8. Crosby, Stills & Nash, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
9. John Sebastian, "Darling Be Home Soon"
10. Country Joe and the Fish, "Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"