Posted on 06/18/2017 8:25:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
On August 15, 1969 more than 400,000 people flocked to a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for “3 days of music and peace.” Woodstock became a cultural icon representing the spirit of many of the young generation at the time. Check out some pictures from the event to see how crazy it actually was!
Woodstock was originally supposed to take place in Wallkill, Orange County, New York. However, the town board quickly passed a bill stating you must have permit in order to host any event over 5,000. A permit was applied for but was denied because the plan for the portable toilets were called inadequate. A dairy farmer in New York heard about the concert and its planning issues and offered up his farm for the event. Good thing, because the event saw a lot more than 5,000 people.
As stated before a dairy farmer in Sullivan County, New York, had heard about this concert and its issues. He offered his farm land as a space for the concert. His name was Max Yasgur and he was paid $75,000 for all 3 days. He is quoted as saying “If we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future…” When Yasgur died he received a full page obituary in Rolling Stone Magazine. 
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LOL! Yup! Guess you didn’t get to warm your hands over burning draft cards either.
Filthy hippies.
Destroyed our country.
On purpose with malice aforethought.
Actually, the PAC that is on site today, Bethel Woods is gorgeous. Although like most pacifistic hippie social experiments, capitalism has won out. The museum is $15 a head to learn about the “concert” and the place is full of hippie vendors who sell overpriced trinkets related to peace and love. Max Yasgur’s farm however, is almost completely unchanged today. Just a little nondescript mailbox off of Hurd Rd.
We missed Woodstock, but we did make it to Watkins Glen 4 years later. We rented a Uhaul 30 ft box truck and drove from Boston with about 20 people. It was pretty good...climbed a 30 ft fence to get the backstage of the Allman Bros. And yes, it rained as well, and that’s when the whole thing went to hell:)
But it was a huge event...over 600,000 people...at the time the largest rock concert ever...much larger than Woodstock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen
A lot of the folks who attended Woodstock never came back.
Oh, you know it smelled like money to him! Heh!
Still have mine
Like they say, "if you can remember Woodstock, ya weren’t really there"...
WHAT! You “borrowed” one from the military? LOL! I had to settle for a Mini-14. Guess I could have stepped up to the Ranch in 7.62/.308.
Woodstock was the year I started full time work. I was at Basic and AIT the next year. In ‘74 however, I had some friends that called and said they were going to the Ozark Music Festival. It was a three day event and they were taking their VW camper.
We went. 350,000 also went. Wow what an event. Couple next to us had a grass vending set up. Saw window pane acid sold by street hawkers. One birth - one death.
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Aerosmith
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Peter Sinfield
Blue Öyster Cult
Eagles
America
Marshall Tucker Band
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Boz Scaggs
Ted Nugent
David Bromberg
Leo Kottke
Cactus
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Electric Flag
Bruce Springsteen (did not perform)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
The Earl Scruggs Revue
Charlie Daniels Band
Joe Walsh and Barnstorm
The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Jimmie Spheeris
Triphammer
Bill Quateman
Jefferson Starship
Fresh Start
Babe Ruth
Locomotiv GT
The Sweet
Shawn Phillips
REO Speedwagon
Spirit
Banco
Elvin Bishop
Meaning what? They died there? They baked their brains beyond repair?
As with most human cultural movements it did not solve the problems of personal financial security, health, violence, mental disease, hunger, shelter from the elements, etc...although some concept of human needs and desires and possible solutions were displayed...it basically was a lesson in inebriated, cold, hungry tribal mob dynamics...and the final celebration of youthful carelessness ,joys and exuberance.
Woodstock was a disgusting event. The people who attended it were disgusting. It still is and they still are.
The societal earthquake happened between 1939 and 1969, where there is hardly one single thing in common between the generations. Compare a music festival in 1939 to Woodstock. Imagine the types of young people who would attend.
Republicans - who as a party still represent many of the views of 1939 youth - could never understand how a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama could be elected. Democrats - who as a party firmly represent the views of 1969 youth - cannot understand how Donald Trump got elected, and are trying very hard to pretend it is reversible.
But there are many Americans who don't identify with either previous generation, and therefore dislike the platforms of both parties. Trump managed to speak to them - but it seems neither party understands yet that their core platforms are out of date.
and the party started the weekend before with the race...
The same people who left that mess in the background are the same people who are hysterical about global warming if they're still alive.
For them, yeah. They pulled it together and climbed the ladder.
Then they quickly burnt the ladder down under them.
I always liked the song Roy Rogers by Elton John. Maybe it was an ironic tribute done a few years after Woodstock but I enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKt1ila0E4E
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