A video to help out Mom

[xiphias]

My mother was at Woodstock, but I'm pretty sure that she did many fewer drugs than most people while she was there. See, Mom -- almost all of your stories about Woodstock actually have some congruence with objective reality.

So -- given that you were at Woodstock, but probably significantly less baked out of your gourd than most people, it's possible that you were insufficiently stoned to actually understand what exactly Joe Cocker was signing when he performed "With a Little Help from my Friends."

Fortunately, though -- a helpful person transcribed it and put his transcription up on YouTube. I don't think I've posted this before -- I saw it a while back, but forgot about it until someone recently posted it on my f-list.

I hope you find this useful, Mom.

Comments

[florafloraflora.livejournal.com]

What I saw was hilarious, but I only got about halfway through. The flailing around made me seasick.

[dhole.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much awesome.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

LMAO! And I was only watching it with the sound off. Have to go back later for the full experience. But oh, the pictures make it.

Side note: Damn, but I do love Joe Cocker, though.

Typos are golden.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

what exactly Joe Cocker was signing

And so I was expecting a translation of his frantic twitching into ASL.

I was 16 that year...

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I was too young, too poor, too sober, and too sane to go. A friend's older brother went, though, and did some bad acid. He was never quite the same.

Don't give me the "if you were sober in the 60s you weren't there" line, either. I remember a whole lot of parts of it better than some of my age cohort.

I appreciate the captioning, though. Those are terrific lyrics!

Re: I was 16 that year...

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

My mother was one of, reportedly, about two hundred people who BOUGHT a ticket. The other several thousand just came and walked in.

When Mom realized that she, basically, wasted the money, since everyone ELSE was getting in without a ticket, she threw her ticket away.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

WOw. Just wow.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

ROFL to the max!

Re: Typos are golden.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Me too!

Re: I was 16 that year...

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Yeah - and my mother threw away my original Barbie doll. Now... where did those original rubber Micky Mouse ears go?

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, son - very educational. I didn't hear those words at all! I did, however, see the invisible guitars.

[gingicat]

My parents considered going, but Mom was pregnant with me and didn't want to do a long drive (from Hanover NH) in order to be in a crowd. (And then it turned out to be an even MORE enormous crowd...)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

sad - "i went to woodstock before i was *born*" would've been a superb one-up line :)