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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Interesting. I take it you went to that one? I went to the New Orleans Pop Festival at a racetrack near Gonzales, Louisiana that same weekend (Labor Day) in 1969. I see that some bands played all three festivals and in some cases bands that played the TIPF did not play LPF and vice-versa. I am envious that you got to see Led Zepellin in 1969. Pretty dog-done cool.
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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Agree, that is probably my favorite EJ song. The ‘each man lives a life of quiet desperation’ theme of the everyday working man.
My oldest brother was there. A sexaholic 17 year old at the time, but a Conservative now. Go figure.
I was there too
Lord at the open drug markets and naked women walking around
Good band lineup
They had better facilities than Woodstock but still gritty cause it was so oversold
I know folks who love Bonnaroo and it’s very very organized
And expensive
I went to plenty festivals
Fair number of hippies but mostly just kids getting high and the big bands
Very very few commies and the sites did get cleaned up by contractors like most big gatherings
What made Sedaliamhard was the fair was due in two weeks so they were under the gun
Folks here with their usual scold weren’t there
Max Yasgur was a kind man as were most folks around Bethel
It was just one of those moments in time
And keep blaming hippies
Very few boomers were hippies
America was destroyed by opening the doors to too many folks who were way beyond the founding stock of the nations first 300 years
The Fabians and collectivist mindset from Eastern Europe started it and the minority influx since 1965 sealed our fate
Now we will have to shed blood...
A lot of it...to keep it or we’ll just whimper and roll over
Blaming all that on hippies is just stupid
There may have been a half million actual hippies and even fewer college radical yippies in that era...
And I was there at the end of it
The bands did not like the yippies....most bands rejected that Marxist crap
They embraced rejecting the establishment and getting high not the Weathermen or SLA
See Pete Townsend smack Abbie Hoffman at Woodstock
Were bands left leaning
Of course just like today
But left leaning then didn’t include all the crap it does now like gun control and abortion and homosexual marriage and affirmative action and climate change and transgenderism or demonizing whites especially Christian and or southern
Then it was end the war in Vietnam which no one here thought was winnable baring more political will and civil rights which fights still lingered over from the Beats and folkies
Man I wish I could truly educate people here
Lots of well meaning ignorance
That’s not bad
You know what I learned about outdoor festivals the most
It rains
Which I guess explains why Burning Man is where it is.
Heck, I was a construction manager who was a Reserve Staff Sergeant and I got along at Sedalia just fine. The first evening after we had our camper set up, I went to the restroom / shower facilities and found out the showers had been turned into Co-ed. My wife said fine and just wore her two piece to the shower. She said that some fellow offered to help soap her up but she told him that she could manage.
Hard to believe that half of those people migrated to DC, so that they could run our lives according to ‘their version’ of Socialism.
The Sixties still suck.....
It was huge at the time but of course Woodstock by Joni Mitchell ups the attendance to “half a million strong”. The whole song was propaganda of course.
Not completely. My childhood was there and a good chunk of it was great. What leftists deem the sixties does though.
Politically, yes. Those "hippies" are now in power.
Musically, I respectfully part company with you. The 60's was my decade, and I love what it gave us.
Speaking of the 60's...
Chuck Schumer in 1967:
BTW: His High School lost...
Wow.
The stragglers at the end made a peace symbol out of some of the garbage.
And no, the clickbait article did not have any photos of the garbage left behind.
Anti-War Hippies Needed The Military
Hippies who attended the concert were very anti-war. Revolutionary literature was even sold there. However, if it wasn’t for the military the concert may not have been able to survive. The U.S. Air Force airlifted food, medical teams, and performers to the event. Organizers were lucky the Stewart Air Force Base was nearby and personnel were willing to help.
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Abbie Hoffman and members of the Black Panthers met with the festival organizers well in advance of the fest. They threatened all kinds of chaos and sabotage if they didn't get what they wanted. They got upwards of $25,000 extortion and booth space and printing presses on site. The article doesn't mention any of that. Peace and love was a lie. Abbie Hoffman still stormed the stage during the Who's concert set trying to take the mic to rant awhile.
A thoroughly awful version is the last song on side 2 of this 1969 QMS album. Listen for yourself.
No Violence
With close to a half million concert-goers, one would expect at least one fight or riot. However, no acts of violence were reported. Although, Governor Rockefeller did declare the area a disaster area, due to a lack of basic amenities. There was a documented 5,162 medical cases, including 797 instances of drug abuse. Despite the chaos, the attendees practiced what they preached, and remained calm and loving. Eventually, Time magazine called it ‘The greatest peaceful event in history.’
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Again,bullsh!t.
The commies burned down the burger guy's foodstand (shades of the 1999 Woodstock). It is referenced in the movie.
And again, the militant leftist groups on site tried to forcibly steal the film crew's rented camera gear (the cameras and film stock used to make the feature movie).
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