The 1969 Woodstock festival holds a rose-colored place in American cultural memory. By now we know all the stories, seen the epic Scorsese-edited concert film, and heard Jimi Hendrix’s apocalyptic version of the Star Spangled Banner. The concert had accrued such a patina of utopian ideals and nostalgia that thirty years later it seemed like a good idea to try it again.
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