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If someone were to speak ill about Joni Mitchell or her music, I might have to decapitate that man. You see, I am a fan. Even more than Joan Baez, Mitchell seemed the true believer, the real deal, bound to be disappointed by everyone and everything around her.

At the 50-second mark of this video footage from 1969’s Big Sur Folk Festival, she sings a breathtaking version of “Get Together” with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and John Sebastian performing backing vocals. It’s a song of peace and brotherhood, and it will sound beautiful to your disrespectful head as it rolls down Fifth Avenue.

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Even though Joni Mitchell wrote the most famous song about Woodstock, she had to skip the festival because her managers were afraid she might get stuck in traffic and not make it back to Manhattan in time for her scheduled performance the next day on the Dick Cavett Show. This is that performance.

At the 6:00 mark:

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Joni Mitchell performing “California,” 1970.

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Jerry Rubin was a charter member of the Yippies and could ably pull off the headband look.

With the aid of the very fun book, New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis by Jeffrey A. Kroessler, I present to you the ten most amazing historical moments in NYC in 1967:

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