Thank you. Grew up with all these beautiful tunes and wish I was at Woodstock. I'm 70 years old and thank youtube for sharing the wonderful music that I grew up with. Damn wish to go back in time,
It is meaningful (as all versions are including Joni Mitchel's haunting and amazing original) but also strangely addictive - especially that riff ... I know nothing about music but the way it kind of rolls up and down (especially as the song reaches the end) is just cosmic
That song came out in 70s who played so different from Joni Crosby still Nash they play it's so nice it's got a different it's got a different tune I can't believe how old that song is every time I hear it I was in high school
I am 70 years old now I was almost 18 years old back then ! I surely miss those days! Great music great time to live in the 60’s and 70’s with the tremendous songs then! Never will be another time like that!! Fantastic song here!
Hallo bin 71 das war damals mein Song mit ihm konnte ich mich in eine schöne Zeit bei Woodstock vorstellen habe ihn auf meiner Playliste höre ihn wenn ich in unserer schönen Rhön wandern gehe die Zeiten früher waren sehr schön heute habe ich einen Enkel der die 60 ziger Oldies sehr gerne hört
I was 10 in 1970, and saved my pocket money to buy this from our local shop. That's long gone now, and the years have gone by in the blink of an eye. But I still absolutely love this song.
@@theculturedthug6609 The record shops are there in our memories. I've passed those memories on to my son and grandson. The 3 of us go together to vintage vinyl shops. Music weaves its magic through our generations, and I initially nourished my love of music in those record stores. (I think the memories of the record stores are feeding the resurgence of vinyl. Can new record shops be far behind?)
Babies, try being 72 and 73 in May. Fantastic version of a great song. One of my all time favourites right from the first time I heard it. The only thing the religions have got right dust to dust and ashes to ashes.
Me too John.Life was so nice then.Maybe its because we were just kids and life was just the same as it is now.It didn't seem like that though.I prefer the 70s,lol.
The other versions of "Woodstock" were great. Matthews Southern Comfort took it to another level. A song for the ages. Hauntingly beautiful and dripping with passion from the 60's. I feel so sorry for those who were not privileged to be a teen during those magical years. Peace and love!
Amen, Frank! There will never be any time like that one again...I was privileged to be a teenager during the late 60s and early 70s...LOVED this song the best!
Dear Victoria, 60's teenager same as me. And agreed. We didn't reach perfection like this song achieved, but we recognised a sense of humanity tried to get there. Goodness knows we could use a dose of it today.
I was born in 1994 and I've just in this year started to be interestes in music like this. It nice that I can listen to this music without any problem, but it makes cry bcs I realized that 2000's is not my time... Where are real hippies today? :C
Takes me back, I was 6 in 1970 and had an older brother and sister so grew up listening to music like this. It is so tangible, I can touch the 1970s when I hear this. No words really.
I was 12 in 1970 and a gree with you. I also had an older sister and brother, so I grew up with 60s and 70's became my time. Music is not what it was back then. Proud to be 64 and have all the music of that time❤️
I was 6 too. Been listening to gold fm for a few years now and hear this song quite often, and as a pretty crap guitarist, I went online today and played this and kind of sang to it, and loved it, others might not, but I did, what a mesmerick song that took me right back.
The lead singer appears angelic throughout the tune. The tune is as well, totally angelic. Wonderful memories, but at 75 I miss so many who were there, singers as well as friends!!
I'm 64 now. But was 12 when this was no.1 in 1970. Such memories of childhood. It was a lovely decade for music, so many big songs came out of the 1970s. I miss those times, now back 50 years.
This is indeed the best version Iain has brought. Gordon Huntley's ethereal steel and the other guitars work perfectly with the voice. Melodic dreamy and atmospheric. Unsurpassed!
Happy Birthday Iain Matthews born on June 16, 1946. He is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He was an original member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort, which had a UK number one in 1970 with a cover version of Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock". In 1979 his cover of Terence Boylan's "Shake It" reached No. 13 on the US charts. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews
I remember when I first heard this song on the radio in 1970. I loved it so much I went to the record store and bought the LP. I wore it out from playing so much. I still love it to this day. It's one of those songs that never dies.
I was 12 when this came out. This song 🎵 just bought me back to the best times... the 70s. This songs reminds me of my friends and I listening to this in the gym to records. So many of them are gone 💔 so young. This one I will dedicate to Nick D. we danced to this. R.I.P. Nick I will never forget you...
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
This is definitely the best version of the song 👍🏻 the dreamy mystical atmosphere that they create, definitely takes us now old hippies back to the garden 🤘🏼💐🥰😎👍🏻
"We are stardust, we are golden, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden" - one of the best refrains ever... And I also prefer this one to Joni Mitchell's version.
so do i, this is actually the one i used to hear at college, my friend had a spool tape with this on it and played it endlessly. i didn't know who sang it though.
@@alekwlodarz: It's the same with KC and the Sunshine Band: Harry Casey wrote a song (Rock Your Baby) for George McCrae, and as much as I love Harry (KC) I prefer George McCrae's recorded version.
Me, too! And there is the added plus (for me anyhow) of getting to see all the cute guys in the band, all with long hair! I really miss guys having long hair! Also, I think this version captures the feel of the event/happening really well. Hey so you remember "happenings"?
This song, and others like it, are the reason I became a guitar player. I wanted to be a part of this. I didn't want my life to exist without the ability to make music.
@@iagoribeiro4940 You don't need to play an instrument to love music. You still may do it one day. Who knows, you may wake up one day and say....Today's the day!!!
If there's an iconic song of the 70s, this is definitely it. I love the ethereal quality of it and it transports me back to a completely different time.
I can not believe that I never heard this version of this fabulous song and I was there from the beginning. I was not at Woodstock but the Tuesday before Woodstock I was on my way to work and I seen a kid a few years younger than me hitchhiking on Rt 130 in NJ and he had a guitar with him. I stopped and picked him up and ask him where he was going and he said Woodstock and I said where is that. He explained to me about the rock concert coming up and I had not heard about it even though I was an FM guy and people of my generation will know what I mean by that ..A Few days later every one in the nation knew what Woodstock was.
No computers, no mobile phones, no immigrants and full employment. It seems like a dream time now. You really do not know what you have got until it is gone.
I had the honor and pleasure of meeting Ian yesterday evening at his performance at the Sellersville Theater. He was an absolute gentleman and it as if I was meeting with an old friend. His music truly has been like an old friend to me for over 40 years. I also bought his latest album "The Art of Obscurity" and it is beautiful. May he continue on for many years to come.
I was seventy this June gone. I can remember exactly what I was doing upon first hearing this song, two thirds through a six year apprenticeship in engineering. I was blessed in two ways, learning my craft, and just living through that era! Music then was more than just about a series of notes strung together, it was a lifestyle. How priveleged was I??
During an August night in 2021 I was sorting through my collection of 45 RPM records when I came across two copies of this song. I wanted to play the record, but didn’t have a readily available player. So, I looked to UA-cam and was pleasantly surprised to find a video of the band performing the song. ‘Woodstock’ as performed by Matthews Southern Comfort truly captures the essence of peace, love and understanding. Call it the ‘Age of Aquarius’ if you will, that turbulent time in America of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. However, it was also an era of great pop music. Not ALL the music was about taking drugs. So, if you are 65 or older, find (or make) a tie-dyed shirt, throw on some love beads or heavy medallion, and burn some incense. Listen now to this song once again and rediscover the song’s message of peace, love and understanding-something we could use a bit more of today in this crazy world.
Supreme beauty in music, I am 60 years old and recall those wonderful times, and this has always been a favorite iconic rendition of a true golden classic.
+Alton Crane:- I am also 60 years old, but I still feel young, there's no aches or pains, also I have never smoked in my life. I have always liked this song.
+Alton Crane So very true. Fortunate are those of us who can treasure and savor this music now, as much as when it was the soundtrack of our younger days. We can look ahead and wonder what may yet come...... And we can look back and see that past for what it was -- Equal measures of love, laughter and loss. Each important in its own right.
I was 15 in 1970 and loved this song. I never saw who ever sang this--until today. They look exactly as I thought they would. Such great music from a time long ago.
In case you aren't aware, this group is not the only one to do this song. It was written and performed by Joni Mitchell (who didn't even attend Woodstock) and was famously covered by Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
@@katfer7743 Thank you I was and am well aware of the origins of this song .It is this tune that was all over the radio while I was a teenager and in my opinion is the best version of it.
So true, I'm 20 years younger, but this was on my tapes at 15, later on cd's, mp3's and now always on my phone as one a the songs always accompanying me in life;)... Together with a whole bunch of other epic songs of corse!
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By far the best version. Amazing how English public can rescue a song out of oblivion and put it on the top of the charts, think voodoo chile, that Elvis song, mungo jerry
Your right Keith, it's a great song written by a great song writer Joni Mitchell but an English band make it wonderful , what a hauntingly beautiful song and that steel guitar just makes me come in my pants . Nuff respects to em. This'll probably be my ringtone forever .-bud the painter-
Oblivion? Crosby, Stills & Nash & Young had a huge hit with this song in 1970 (in the US at least), and their version came out even before Joni Mitchell’s version, and she wrote it. I think she was dating one of them at the time. This version is great as well, though, and it came out later the same year. So this song wasn’t languishing in oblivion for long…
@@lcozzarelliShe was dating Graham Nash. She missed the concert because her manager told her her career would get a boost by appearing on the Dick Cavett show the next day. Bet she regrets missing Woodstock!
I can't see how anyone thinks this is the better version. It's boring and sleepy. CSNY captured the spirit of Woodstock in their version much better. Imo
The slide guitar of Gordon Huntley and Iain’s voice are just a sublime combination. I remember when this first came out and was mesmerised watching on TOTP. Listening to it today it really doesn’t date but transcends time. Can think of any songs today that do this or will do so in 50 years time.
Did they appear on top of the pops? I can only remember some film clip starting in a railway station, and all these hippies walking through a field somewhere.
Indeed! But I believe that in a strange inexplicable way, this song embraces but also expresses best the whole spirit of the Woodstock festival, but also the mentality of that era... I lived in another country, when Woodstock took part, but sometimes when I watch the film, I feel like I was there, I feel like I was one of them, though I was significantly younger than the teenagers of '69... A better time to live for sure....
Magical and their version is the definitive one. I met Ian Matthews 7 years ago at a small concert and he did this song and it melted me. He gave me big hugs too. It was a time when I was not let down by a respected musician and I had a few great experiences. "Back to the Garden" that line says it all the way he sings it. Simply a dreamy, beautiful, atmospheric sexy transformation. Wondrous.
My freshman year in 1971,, running cross country for Haddon Heights High in South Jersey, on training runs thru the fallen leaves-covered streets of Haddonfield, Haddon Heights and Cherry Hill with the best group of guys I have ever known...afterwards, getting cheesesteaks and listening to this on the jukebox...
SanFrancisco & California Dreaming yes - But Reflections of my Life & Good Morning Starshine ? Come On. They might have been "hippy era" but so were some releases by Andy Williams & Ken Dodd; they were never "hippy" songs though.
60’s/70’s such magical music, we were taught to love each other through this sort of music. We were all so doped out in our early schooldays you didn’t need drink.. A great track from another group of English musicians....
I'm 75yoa, I was 22yoa and just married in 1970, this song reminds me of those wonderful years, I'm really grateful that I was a teenager in Liverpool in the 60s❤❤❤
What profound feeling, emotion and delivery Lain Matthews has. He got fully into the song and put it where it belongs, a virtual masterpiece by Joni as interpreted for Lain. Even his accompanying musicians were into it and a peaceful steel guitar solo.
I loved his music and his voice. This song brings back so many pleasant memories I wasn’t at Woodstock , I was in Holland at Kralingen. I remember waking up very early and I saw people taking a dive in the Lake, a hazysmokey over the water. I was in my faerie world.
Same here. The balls out hard rock version by CSNY is all wrong. Joni's version is sublime with the between-verse spoken vocalizations (billion year old carbon). But this is the one I think of as the definitive version.
This guy has an excellent voice, it suits the song. It is rare that another's version gets anywhere near Joni's original, but this is such a well arranged & sung version.
Such a soothing chorus melody, it brings back memories of my childhood summers. Back when there weren’t so many distractions like the internet, social media or video games. Sure there were times when we felt bored on our summer school breaks but there was time to reflect on and absorb our surroundings. I have the most nostalgic memories of my childhood summers simply because of that basic fact. And because the radio was a large part of that experience music had a deeper meaning and left a much larger emotional impression than it does today when so much of it seems disposable.
TorToro good comment. This is the music most associated with summers of our childhood long ago, we were the lucky ones for having so few distractions other than those we could conjure up ourselves, or from great songs like this. Also evocative of those glorious summers include Hole in My Shoe, Something in the Air, Fool on the Hill, but even so, this arrangement of Woodstock stands apart..
I was 17 years old and a Senior in high school when this song came out. It reminds me of my girlfriend at the time and all the night rides on my motorcycle that we took. What a blast. !!!
If you remember this song, you are not old. You are high quality vintage.
Youth is not only for the young.
Harley gal you are quite kìnd😇😅
Wow, Harleygal420, take a bow for this sublime comment, my Angel!
I am old high quality vintage!
Thank you. Grew up with all these beautiful tunes and wish I was at Woodstock. I'm 70 years old and thank youtube for sharing the wonderful music that I grew up with. Damn wish to go back in time,
Note to future generation: Please don't let this song die
I’m on it
Just found it in my grandparents old collection
Young generation: skrr skrr esketit fire
Some of younger generation of today don't know what gender they are!
You got it 👍
This is by far my favorite version, and not just because it was the first version I heard. It's gorgeous, almost ethereal.
Totally Agree!
100% agree...the perfect description Lady Moonstone. ♥
I agree with you. Grew up with this time of peace and love.Such wonderful times..
I agree this was the best version of the song. I remember this song being played on the radio. Wonder what became of this band afterwards.
It is meaningful (as all versions are including Joni Mitchel's haunting and amazing original) but also strangely addictive - especially that riff ... I know nothing about music but the way it kind of rolls up and down (especially as the song reaches the end) is just cosmic
The sound of that steel guitar never gets old. Still listening in 2023!
I've been listening to this classic for 53yrs and still going strong 😊
That song came out in 70s who played so different from Joni Crosby still Nash they play it's so nice it's got a different it's got a different tune I can't believe how old that song is every time I hear it I was in high school
You're right it sounds so good it sounds just like
2024
me too at 2024
I am 70 years old now I was almost 18 years old back then ! I surely miss those days! Great music great time to live in the 60’s and 70’s with the tremendous songs then! Never will be another time like that!! Fantastic song here!
Hallo bin 71 das war damals mein Song mit ihm konnte ich mich in eine schöne Zeit bei Woodstock vorstellen habe ihn auf meiner Playliste höre ihn wenn ich in unserer schönen Rhön wandern gehe die Zeiten früher waren sehr schön heute habe ich einen Enkel der die 60 ziger Oldies sehr gerne hört
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden
I'm also 70! Great time to be around listening to music. I get emotional hearing this song.
Good on u all
Great times❤
This was always my favourite version of Woodstock
Mine also
Totally agree. Sums up the whole spirit of the time.
And mine....
Mine aswell,lots of memories 😊
Nice, but I prefer Joni's by herself, at the piano. What a poet she is.
I was 10 in 1970, and saved my pocket money to buy this from our local shop. That's long gone now, and the years have gone by in the blink of an eye. But I still absolutely love this song.
I know what you mean about the shop being gone. Same for me. The record shops I used to work in are gone as well. :(
@@BenjWarrant Like they were never there.... Ghosts.
@@theculturedthug6609 Friends, I feel your pain. Remember the words of George Harrison, 'all things must pass'.
@@theculturedthug6609 The record shops are there in our memories. I've passed those memories on to my son and grandson. The 3 of us go together to vintage vinyl shops. Music weaves its magic through our generations, and I initially nourished my love of music in those record stores. (I think the memories of the record stores are feeding the resurgence of vinyl. Can new record shops be far behind?)
Me too
By far the best version of Joni Michells song. Brings you back to a better time. Doesn’t it
I am 64 years old, and how I wish for the simpler times again.
OH HOW I WISH.
62 here and I agree!
Babies, try being 72 and 73 in May. Fantastic version of a great song. One of my all time favourites right from the first time I heard it. The only thing the religions have got right dust to dust and ashes to ashes.
Me too John.Life was so nice then.Maybe its because we were just kids and life was just the same as it is now.It didn't seem like that though.I prefer the 70s,lol.
I Agree 100%
Such a beautiful song . Brings tears remembering happier times.
well said....
Don't worry, get high, and be happy.
Hope there are a lot more for you to come!!! ;)
This was the first and best version of Woodstock that I heard in my early teens. Love it.
Thank you Joni Mitchell for writing such an amazing song, a true song writer in every sense of the word ❤️
Better than today's so called music.
60,s and 70,s The best ever decades and will never be replicated, I count myself blessed to have lived through them. May the magic never die.
right on!!
Spot on ..the two greatest decades n pop history ..60’s and 70’s never be replicated
70's was the best
Best years of my life. ❤
I can never get tired of this version. ❤
This definitely has to be one of the best songs ever.
The other versions of "Woodstock" were great. Matthews Southern Comfort took it to another level. A song for the ages. Hauntingly beautiful and dripping with passion from the 60's. I feel so sorry for those who were not privileged to be a teen during those magical years. Peace and love!
Very well expressed Frank!
Amen, Frank! There will never be any time like that one again...I was privileged to be a teenager during the late 60s and early 70s...LOVED this song the best!
Dear Victoria, 60's teenager same as me. And agreed. We didn't reach perfection like this song achieved, but we recognised a sense of humanity tried to get there. Goodness knows we could use a dose of it today.
+Mountain Leopard Other than the race riots I would agree.
I was born in 1994 and I've just in this year started to be interestes in music like this. It nice that I can listen to this music without any problem, but it makes cry bcs I realized that 2000's is not my time... Where are real hippies today? :C
This IS the best version. I remember it as a child... it transports you to another place
I have to agree!
@@michaelmcnaughton1535 Absolutely.
It does bro and i am an old man.
@@mrlodwick I'm not young! 😊
too bad, then you won´t be able to hear the song......
Takes me back, I was 6 in 1970 and had an older brother and sister so grew up listening to music like this. It is so tangible, I can touch the 1970s when I hear this. No words really.
Me too, brings tears to my eyes
I was 12 in 1970 and a gree with you. I also had an older sister and brother, so I grew up with 60s and 70's became my time. Music is not what it was back then. Proud to be 64 and have all the music of that time❤️
I was 6 too and had a 16 year old brother. I know exactly how you feel. I close my eyes and I can see and feel those days, and then the tears arrive.
I was only 3 years old, so i obviously dont remember the song then, but in the years since, ive grown to love this iconic tune.❤
I was 6 too. Been listening to gold fm for a few years now and hear this song quite often, and as a pretty crap guitarist, I went online today and played this and kind of sang to it, and loved it, others might not, but I did, what a mesmerick song that took me right back.
The lead singer appears angelic throughout the tune. The tune is as well, totally angelic. Wonderful memories, but at 75 I miss so many who were there, singers as well as friends!!
Wish I could go back life is a bitch as is growing old 😢😢
Were you actually at Woodstock?
I'm 70...I hear you
i am from 60 and my parents took me on a big festival up north....:-)
The angelic singer is also 75 (as of this writing). It seems to happen to everyone lucky enough.
Almost 63 years old and and stil love this song so much. It lifts you up to another dimension
Got to agree- from the same era myself!
Yes..this song is forever...Just magical
Ditto! The late 60s and early 70s were a great time to be alive
70 now. This song makes me shed tears as it takes me back to the Woodstock days.
ja, he?
This song is a reminder of how wonderful life and music was back in 1970 we can’t we live like this again
pure form of folk rock, the missing music of today....it was always the most sensitive, mystical, poignant .....
Yes folk rock is needed in this new age!
There is still plenty where this came from !
I'm 64 now. But was 12 when this was no.1 in 1970. Such memories of childhood. It was a lovely decade for music, so many big songs came out of the 1970s. I miss those times, now back 50 years.
I'm 64, too. You just said it for me. Thank you. 💖
@@mscommerce will you still meet me, will you still greet me?
I was in 9th grade. The hits just kept on coming back in those days.
This is indeed the best version Iain has brought. Gordon Huntley's ethereal steel and the other guitars work perfectly with the voice. Melodic dreamy and atmospheric. Unsurpassed!
Happy Birthday Iain Matthews born on June 16, 1946. He is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He was an original member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort, which had a UK number one in 1970 with a cover version of Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock". In 1979 his cover of Terence Boylan's "Shake It" reached No. 13 on the US charts. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Matthews
Thanks for sharing!
I remember when I first heard this song on the radio in 1970. I loved it so much I went to the record store and bought the LP. I wore it out from playing so much. I still love it to this day. It's one of those songs that never dies.
A gorgeous version with those hauntingly sweet vocals and that pedal steel!❤🎶🕊
I was 12 when this came out. This song 🎵 just bought me back to the best times... the 70s. This songs reminds me of my friends and I listening to this in the gym to records. So many of them are gone 💔 so young. This one I will dedicate to Nick D. we danced to this. R.I.P. Nick I will never forget you...
Matthews Southern Comfort. Woodstock . 50 years later. Still Brilliant !!!!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
PAST BECOMES PRESENT...PRESENT BECOMES FUTURE...FUTURE BECOMES PAST.
Life is a total mystery we might never know the answer 😢😢
You can never hold on to the fleeting moment because the next one is waiting in line ah the wonder of it all
There is a God, and I do Know that ...Once yu know that, life has meaning and not a mystery
WOODSTOCK was never done better than “ Matthews Southern Comforts”
Crosby stills Nash and young
Ciaran Parker ain’t no way in hell! I loveCSNY but Woodstock was not good by them. Sorry
Yes Sir!!!
Yes. Yes. Yes!!!
I agree 100℅ Sandy
No offense to the other versions, but this is so beautiful!
Those beautiful harmonics!
Not really sounds nostalgig like 10cc sounds like white room from cream but l still liket
Its the best version.
Closer to Joni Mitchell's original than CSNY's iconic version, I would hate to have to choose. It's almost like they're 3 different songs.
This is definitely the best version of the song 👍🏻 the dreamy mystical atmosphere that they create, definitely takes us now old hippies back to the garden 🤘🏼💐🥰😎👍🏻
"We are stardust, we are golden, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden" - one of the best refrains ever... And I also prefer this one to Joni Mitchell's version.
come on, Joni wrote and recorded the song first
And MSC improved it.......
so do i, this is actually the one i used to hear at college, my friend had a spool tape with this on it and played it endlessly. i didn't know who sang it though.
Totally agree, best version ,gives me chills
@@alekwlodarz: It's the same with KC and the Sunshine Band: Harry Casey wrote a song (Rock Your Baby) for George McCrae, and as much as I love Harry (KC) I prefer George McCrae's recorded version.
Gonna get myself a time machine and go back there..anybody want to join me ?
15 again, OMG yessss
Yes when do we leave.
You bet ya. 14 again.
Me too
I am there already and will let you in
If ever there was a better song that encapsulates this period in time....I’ve never heard it ?
I always liked this version the best, it's so dreamy.
Dreamy is the word! I remember playing this on the local juke box after school!
Yeah, very liquid I always thought
Me, too! And there is the added plus (for me anyhow) of getting to see all the cute guys in the band, all with long hair! I really miss guys having long hair! Also, I think this version captures the feel of the event/happening really well. Hey so you remember "happenings"?
I am so baked and this is like a lava lamp
Well, I have to agree with your name...jesusnotallright! There is something wrong with you for sure! Why can't you just enjoy the music?
I don't think any version of this song catches the dreamy mood of this time better.
One of the best covers of all time. Transcendent.
This song, and others like it, are the reason I became a guitar player. I wanted to be a part of this. I didn't want my life to exist without the ability to make music.
such a meaningful comment
@@iagoribeiro4940 Thank you so much. You're very kind to say that.
@@scottsteel4230 Your comment touched me because everyday I feel like learning an instrumment but Im just too lazy to do it
@@iagoribeiro4940 You don't need to play an instrument to love music. You still may do it one day. Who knows, you may wake up one day and say....Today's the day!!!
If there's an iconic song of the 70s, this is definitely it. I love the ethereal quality of it and it transports me back to a completely different time.
I can not believe that I never heard this version of this fabulous song and I was there from the beginning. I was not at Woodstock but the Tuesday before Woodstock I was on my way to work and I seen a kid a few years younger than me hitchhiking on Rt 130 in NJ and he had a guitar with him. I stopped and picked him up and ask him where he was going and he said Woodstock and I said where is that. He explained to me about the rock concert coming up and I had not heard about it even though I was an FM guy and people of my generation will know what I mean by that ..A Few days later every one in the nation knew what Woodstock was.
Featuring the late great Gordon Huntley on the pedal steel, a great version of this classic ❤️
Thank you.
This is the first single I bought, I still have two copies, I used to get lost in its waves, best song
This song transports me back to a simpler more wonderful time.
No computers, no mobile phones, no immigrants and full employment. It seems like a dream time now. You really do not know what you have got until it is gone.
Wouldn't it be nice to go back?
I wondered which idiots voted for Ukip. Thanks.
Me to
Back when they stepped upon the necks of the protesters just the same, the rose tinted glasses shattered.
I had the honor and pleasure of meeting Ian yesterday evening at his performance at the Sellersville Theater. He was an absolute gentleman and it as if I was meeting with an old friend. His music truly has been like an old friend to me for over 40 years. I also bought his latest album "The Art of Obscurity" and it is beautiful. May he continue on for many years to come.
I'm 61 and in 70/71 this was a hit on CHUM AM in Toronto. And yes this is the best version.
I love how he is feeling every word with his eyes closed ❤ still magical after all these years
Loved this song. It always had a dreamy quality to it. Reminds me of my old hippie days. Oh, if I could only go back, even for a weekend!
Some days I wish I could go back in life . Not to change anything but to feel a few things twice . Cheers from South Australia 🇭🇲
I was seventy this June gone. I can remember exactly what I was doing upon first hearing this song, two thirds through a six year apprenticeship in engineering. I was blessed in two ways, learning my craft, and just living through that era! Music then was more than just about a series of notes strung together, it was a lifestyle. How priveleged was I??
My favorite version of Woodstock ❤
During an August night in 2021 I was sorting through my collection of 45 RPM records when I came across two copies of this song. I wanted to play the record, but didn’t have a readily available player. So, I looked to UA-cam and was pleasantly surprised to find a video of the band performing the song. ‘Woodstock’ as performed by Matthews Southern Comfort truly captures the essence of peace, love and understanding. Call it the ‘Age of Aquarius’ if you will, that turbulent time in America of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. However, it was also an era of great pop music. Not ALL the music was about taking drugs. So, if you are 65 or older, find (or make) a tie-dyed shirt, throw on some love beads or heavy medallion, and burn some incense. Listen now to this song once again and rediscover the song’s message of peace, love and understanding-something we could use a bit more of today in this crazy world.
Right on, my brother. ☮️ and 💖 to us all. 🙂
Drop acid not bombs. Just as important today as it was fifty two years ago.
NFA
Supreme beauty in music, I am 60 years old and recall those wonderful times, and this has always been a favorite iconic rendition of a true golden classic.
+Alton Crane:- I am also 60 years old, but I still feel young, there's no aches or pains, also I have never smoked in my life. I have always liked this song.
+Alton Crane we are so very lucky to have been of an age to enjoy those beautiful days whilst we were still carefree , 'love and peace man' :)
+Alton Crane So very true.
Fortunate are those of us who can treasure and savor this music now, as much as when it was the soundtrack of our younger days.
We can look ahead and wonder what may yet come......
And we can look back and see that past for what it was -- Equal measures of love, laughter and loss. Each important in its own right.
Wish I could have been there to see those times, I've always felt I was born in the wrong era (70's)
any age just enjoy this beautiful song !
This song always struck a chord in my soul❤
I liked this version best 1st. It's an excellent arrangement. Great vibe.
Awesome song
I was 15 in 1970 and loved this song. I never saw who ever sang this--until today. They look exactly as I thought they would. Such great music from a time long ago.
Me too
Snap.
March 14th '55.
Always thought it was an American band.
Went to Woodstock 2 in '94, got drenched!
I also was 15 in 1970. Remember this masterpiece from those days I truly miss.
In case you aren't aware, this group is not the only one to do this song. It was written and performed by Joni Mitchell (who didn't even attend Woodstock) and was famously covered by Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
@@katfer7743 Thank you I was and am well aware of the origins of this song .It is this tune that was all over the radio while I was a teenager and in my opinion is the best version of it.
this song is so good ,I'm 58 and I still think this song would be hit today, it stands the test of time and still has protest.
So true, I'm 20 years younger, but this was on my tapes at 15, later on cd's, mp3's and now always on my phone as one a the songs always accompanying me in life;)... Together with a whole bunch of other epic songs of corse!
I'm 62 and vividly remember seeing this on Top of The Pops on UK TV. Brilliantly played and timeless.
LLena vangend :"Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit." If 'you're' that stupid that you don't know the difference and can't even spell "werewolves" correctly,then don't you think that instead of trying and failing to insult someone leaving a polite comment,'your' time would be better spent online trying to educate yourself and not trolling with misspelt and grammatically incorrect tripe.Seriously embarrassed for you.
musicfan56708 well said Sir, very eloquent, you certainly told that guy, what he is,just made my day.
musicfan56708 Thanks musicfan56708!
By far the best version. Amazing how English public can rescue a song out of oblivion and put it on the top of the charts, think voodoo chile, that Elvis song, mungo jerry
Your right Keith, it's a great song written by a great song writer Joni Mitchell but an English band make it wonderful , what a hauntingly beautiful song and that steel guitar just makes me come in my pants . Nuff respects to em. This'll probably be my ringtone forever .-bud the painter-
Oblivion? Crosby, Stills & Nash & Young had a huge hit with this song in 1970 (in the US at least), and their version came out even before Joni Mitchell’s version, and she wrote it. I think she was dating one of them at the time. This version is great as well, though, and it came out later the same year. So this song wasn’t languishing in oblivion for long…
@@lcozzarelliShe was dating Graham Nash.
She missed the concert because her manager told her her career would get a boost by appearing on the Dick Cavett show the next day.
Bet she regrets missing Woodstock!
I can't see how anyone thinks this is the better version. It's boring and sleepy. CSNY captured the spirit of Woodstock in their version much better. Imo
Sounds just as fresh as the day it was recorded!!!
Love NEVER gets stale.
The slide guitar of Gordon Huntley and Iain’s voice are just a sublime combination. I remember when this first came out and was mesmerised watching on TOTP. Listening to it today it really doesn’t date but transcends time. Can think of any songs today that do this or will do so in 50 years time.
Did they appear on top of the pops? I can only remember some film clip starting in a railway station, and all these hippies walking through a field somewhere.
It's the slide guitar that I loved as a kid and still do.
No.
Indeed! But I believe that in a strange inexplicable way, this song embraces but also expresses best the whole spirit of the Woodstock festival, but also the mentality of that era... I lived in another country, when Woodstock took part, but sometimes when I watch the film, I feel like I was there, I feel like I was one of them, though I was significantly younger than the teenagers of '69... A better time to live for sure....
Yes, its so beautiful. It brings back halcyon days when beauty transcended every day
SO BEAUTIFUL.
That was the LSD. 😂
This is my favourite version of this song. Absolutely mystical and legendary!
I'm 72 & remember Ian Matthew's singing with Sandy Denney, Fairport Convention in Plymouth late 60s they were just incredible together
im 74 no and this still makes me cry.
1970
Magical and their version is the definitive one. I met Ian Matthews 7 years ago at a small concert and he did this song and it melted me. He gave me big hugs too. It was a time when I was not let down by a respected musician and I had a few great experiences. "Back to the Garden" that line says it all the way he sings it. Simply a dreamy, beautiful, atmospheric sexy transformation. Wondrous.
Besides the music being excellent back then, I love that we can see and remember what these musicians looked like back then 👍🏻👏🏻🌟🎤🥰‼️
God I adore the way this group sings “Woodstock “ nobody but nobody dose it better❤❤❤❤❤❤
It really captured the whole Woodstock experience and wonderful sense of freedom , which many of us never recovered from, or wanted to.
Love all three versions (Joni Mitchell and CSNY's as well). What wonderful poetics. This was the age when real musicians could stand and deliver!
Almost 50 years since this was a U.K. hit .I was16 at the time &I still think it is a good song.
Incredibly beautiful song. My brother had the record and it brings back my childhood when I was still in the garden.
Anyone still here in 2024?
Yes! I remember this song which came out when I was nine!
This song takes my breath away every time I hear it one master piece of all time .
Still listening at 74. Hippy era 👍🙏🦋🦋🇿🇦
This is the very best version
My freshman year in 1971,, running cross country for Haddon Heights High in South Jersey, on training runs thru the fallen leaves-covered streets of Haddonfield, Haddon Heights and Cherry Hill with the best group of guys I have ever known...afterwards, getting cheesesteaks and listening to this on the jukebox...
This and San Francisco are the best two hippie era songs ever.
Bob Radford Don't forget "California Dreamin"
Michael Peters Don't forget "Reflections of my life" by Marmalade.
+Bob Radford What about Oliver and "Good Morning Starshine" ?
SanFrancisco & California Dreaming yes - But Reflections of my Life & Good Morning Starshine ? Come On.
They might have been "hippy era" but so were some releases by Andy Williams & Ken Dodd; they were never "hippy" songs though.
+Kinuklon " Good Morning Starshine was from the musical "Hair" - so don't dismiss it.
60’s/70’s such magical music, we were taught to love each other through this sort of music. We were all so doped out in our early schooldays you didn’t need drink.. A great track from another group of English musicians....
And for one, brief, beautiful, moment, we loved one another.....Peace.
I'm 75yoa, I was 22yoa and just married in 1970, this song reminds me of those wonderful years, I'm really grateful that I was a teenager in Liverpool in the 60s❤❤❤
Music from this time era is just plain magic.
What profound feeling, emotion and delivery Lain Matthews has. He got fully into the song and put it where it belongs, a virtual masterpiece by Joni as interpreted for Lain. Even his accompanying musicians were into it and a peaceful steel guitar solo.
I love coming to the comments and reading peoples memories of songs like this
Superb. After all these years, theirs is still my favorite version of this song.
I was born in 1972 and my generation has seen the shift from 70s to 89s 90s 2000s. Mostly for the worse
This is such a gorgeous version of this song 💕🎈🕯️
Guys voice really is lovely.... And of course another British band.
When I first heard this in 1970 It Blew Me Away ! Today in 2016 it is as good as it was then!
Same with me Nicholsa..I loved it in the 70s,,,and still do in 2018.everything about the song I love. its, my favourite version.
@@bradmount-earle1428 I love the guitar riffs It is wonderful. At the time The World was full of hope and the Future looked oh so bright!
I was 12 when this came out. Before life became complicated.
Pure talent, pure song, pure UA-cam moment.
I loved his music and his voice. This song brings back so many pleasant memories I wasn’t at Woodstock , I was in Holland at Kralingen. I remember waking up very early and I saw people taking a dive in the Lake, a hazysmokey over the water. I was in my faerie world.
This is THE version as far as I'm concerned. I remember sitting cross legged with my friend singing this way back in the 70's......
shulamite1 all though CSN & Y's version was the bigger hit, this is more moving and intelligible.
don't know if I was crossed legged ,but sure do like it,16 when I first heard this.
yep brings back memories ...this was the first version I listened to back in the uh um 60's or 70's?
1971 I am certain. Check Discogs.
Same here. The balls out hard rock version by CSNY is all wrong. Joni's version is sublime with the between-verse spoken vocalizations (billion year old carbon). But this is the one I think of as the definitive version.
June 30 2020 at 11:00 pm and getting comfortable with Matthews Southern Comfort.
AS an I!!!
1969 was the year that everyone will always remember ‘Woodstock’ and was a year that was!.
This guy has an excellent voice, it suits the song. It is rare that another's version gets anywhere near Joni's original, but this is such a well arranged & sung version.
Such a soothing chorus melody, it brings back memories of my childhood summers. Back when there weren’t so many distractions like the internet, social media or video games. Sure there were times when we felt bored on our summer school breaks but there was time to reflect on and absorb our surroundings. I have the most nostalgic memories of my childhood summers simply because of that basic fact. And because the radio was a large part of that experience music had a deeper meaning and left a much larger emotional impression than it does today when so much of it seems disposable.
TorToro good comment. This is the music most associated with summers of our childhood long ago, we were the lucky ones for having so few distractions other than those we could conjure up ourselves, or from great songs like this. Also evocative of those glorious summers include Hole in My Shoe, Something in the Air, Fool on the Hill, but even so, this arrangement of Woodstock stands apart..
Innocence.
I love this song reminds me of my youth
I was 17 years old and a Senior in high school when this song came out. It reminds me of my girlfriend at the time and all the night rides on my motorcycle that we took. What a blast. !!!
This is an absolutely beautiful version of Joni Mitchell's brilliant song.
The best version of song 🎶
beautiful / golden
This song will never die never , never