07
Aug
Forty years ago this month, for three epochal days a farm in upstate New York became the center of the musical and cultural universe, hosting a seminal music event for the generation of youth who came of age during the 1960’s -- no, the seminal event -- Woodstock. The summer of love in San Francisco, the philosophy of the so-called hippie generation, the rise of recreational drug use, the escalation of The Vietnam War, and the change from the simple music of The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons and many of the British Invasion artists to that of Jimi…