You may find yourself wondering exactly what Goodstock is. I was wondering about it when I first heard someone mention it, so I looked it up. Here is what I found:
GOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 19 – 20 – 21 2007
Goodevening Ranch, Summersville West Virginia
The Mind Garage returns with all the original members and dozens of 60’s and 70’s bands from New York to California. Experience the music, rock culture, peace and brotherhood of the era with the bands and fans from Boston to Berkeley who were there the first time. Goodstock 2007 is great time for families all ages. The event will begin with the opening of Goodstock Village, as a festival of the sixties with vendors of 60`s memorabilia, exhibits of the era clothing and band attire, a 60’s museum style exhibit, bands performing continually, plus the re-creation of a 60s San Francisco light show. Camp in the Village or stay in nearby hotels. The Village will accommodate bands and fans from nearly every state in the USA, and from any other country, that has declared an interest in a casual celebration. Meet contemporaries and recapture the spirit of the times past. Camping on the 1000 acre storybook ranch is included in the ticket price.
GOODSTOCK 2007
In 1968 Mind Garage, West Virginia’s experimental, psychedelic rock band was discovered in New York City’s Greenwich Village, signed to RCA, and dubbed “theo-rock” by the Village Voice while inventing Christian Rock, and at the same time rocking fans in nightclubs and arenas. In 1969 the band was asked to play at Woodstock but declined. In 1970 the Mind Garage simply disappeared without leaving a trace and without renewing their RCA contract. They were not heard from again until 2005 when the band reunited with all five original members and planned a Summer of Love 40th anniversary festival called Goodstock 2007. The idea caught on and soon there were thousands of friends, fans, bands, volunteers and professionals determined to see Goodstock come to life. The official Goodstock radio station www.rocket88.8m.com will begin to carry festival updates in the near future.
After nearly two years of planning,
Goodstock has a home in Summersville West Virginia, July 19-21
What is Goodstock?. You’ll think it’s 1969. Imagine the excitement of seeing the stars and legends of rock who played the Fillmore East, West and Woodstock, with the bands who opened for them, and the fans who were there, all in one place again. That’s what Goodstock will be like. In the 60s things were still on human terms. You could get close enough to bands to mingle, meet eye to eye, even hang out later, before big money promotions and fame put the great divide between bands and fans. At Goodstock that’s over. Come meet and talk with musicians and people who knew Janis, Jim and Jimi. Experience history first hand as you create some of your own.
Artie Kornfeld Creator of The Original Woodstock Festival 1969
Artie will be at Goodstock. With over 120 platinum records to his credit as a writer, performer and producer he was the youngest Vice President of Capitol Records when the Beatles were there. Artie’s first hit came when he teamed with Jan Berry (of Jan & Dean fame) to write “I Adore Him,” which became a Top-30 hit for The Angels in November 1963. Jan and Artie wrote a number of songs together for other artists, and scored a major Top 10 hit in 1964 with Jan & Dean’s “Dead Man’s Curve,” which Jan and Artie co-wrote with Brian Wilson and Roger Christian. Jan passed away in 2004. Among many other compositions, Artie also co-wrote “The Pied Piper,” a Top 5 smash for Crispian St. Peter in 1966, and “The Rain, The Park, and Other Things,” ( I love the flower girl) a chart-topping single for the Cowsills in 1967. Artie’s mark on the music world and all of us is indelible. To celebrate Jan Berry’s life, and his songwriting relationship with Artie Kornfeld, Goodstock will feature a Tribute to Jan Berry and Jan & Dean with a song by Woolly Bandits
Super Spectacular Psychedelic Light Show
The Ambassador of Light, Robert Morgan, presents the most extraordinary light show ever seen. Trip the Light Fantastic with Robert and Carol Morgan of Medulla Arts, and their favorite folks “Mind Garage” and a “Special Electrified Guest”,
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Goodstock is a cooperative effort with an army of grass roots and professional supporters in the USA, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia because they feel the Spirit of the Age rising. Goodstock is the real thing, a movement complete with blue and white collars, old, young, doctors, lawyers, Indians, hippies too, not something concocted for a profit. It’s a happening by the same generation that made Woodstock a historic event. A festival like this may never be possible again. Those who came to Woodstock, and their kids and grandkids, and those who missed it the first time around or weren’t born then, will have one last chance to see and experience first hand the 60’s and 70’s come to life for 3 days in July. For 75 million Americans, Goodstock is less than 8 hours drive and for another 75 million less than 12.
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