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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Modern Banjos are like a starship Enterprise compared to the period instruments in question.
Banjos are easier to build than guitars. Some of the early instruments were very crude.
Woodstock was the climax of the hippie movement. Have you seen the documentary? The audience were hippies and the musicians were most certainly too. Some more than others for sure, but lets be real...400,000 hippies had a peaceful three days of music that will be remembered for all-time.
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I've always considered most of the crowd at Woodstock to be week-end hippies and I never liked being thrown in with that crowd. Kind of insulting for us real dropouts to tell the truth, but it did end up being a great show and as you say the climax. It was also the end of the love generation as lowlifes had already moved in to take advantage of the trusting hippies. What happened in Altamont just put the final nail in the coffin of what had been going on for over a year.