Punk Is Born-At Woodstock!

Most people know Woodstock as the premier countercultural event of the Sixties. But WI Iggy Pop and the Stooges (performing, say, "I Wanna Be Your Dog") and The MC5 ("Kick Out The Jams") had played there, as well? Could the greater exposure have created a "Punk backlash" against "Hippie music" in 1969-70, particularly after the Manson murders and Altamont?
 
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Most people know Woodstock as the premier countercultural event of the Sixties. But WI Iggy Pop and the Stooges (performing, say, "I Wanna Be Your Dog") and The MC5 ("Kick Out The Jams") had played there, as well? Could the greater exposure have created a "Punk backlash" against "Hippie music" in 1969-70, particularly after the Manson murders and Altamont?

I never thought of that. That is a good thing to think about. That might also have stopped or lessened what happened in 1970, when you had the start of softer rock with The Carpenters and Bread.
 
"Like, wow, man! These scratchy cats are harshing my groove!" :eek:

Honestly I can't see things going well. Acid + Angel Dust + Liquor + Hippies + Punks =/= Good Times for All. This could be as bad as the Hells Angels at the Stones concert.
 
I don't know if I could see a plausible setup for the Stooges playing at Woodstock. MC5 is a possibility, though. But I don't think an MC5 performance would cause a riot there. Their leftist politics would mesh well with everything else that went on at Woodstock. I think they'd just end up putting on a high energy show and perhaps standout well enough to be one of the highlights. Their harder rock sound will influence the people who bought the Woodstock album, and between that and the Hendrix performance, you have more people rocking harder than in OTL.
 
I don't know if I could see a plausible setup for the Stooges playing at Woodstock.

The Stooges performing "1969" at Woodstock would be very appropriate.

As for the WI itself, interesting. There won't be a riot, but the consequence of this would be more continuity between the two subculture. Pop culture historians will be saying that punk was an evolution of the 60s counterculture into the 70s rather than starting out of nowhere, and the term "hippie" won't be used as a blanket term for counterculture but just a segment of it that weren't as hard edged or confrontational. This has enough butterflies to completely change pop culture today.
 

Hendryk

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Couldn't one argue that punk made such a big impact on pop culture in OTL because it came after 1960s counterculture had exhausted its momentum, and there was a vacuum to be filled? In 1969, the dominant musical trends were acid rock and progressive rock, with folk somewhere behind. I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem to me that punk could have broken through in a big way in such a context. Punk would have sounded to the Woodstock audience like an attempt to imitate what The Who were doing five years earlier.

I could be wrong, of course.
 
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