Posted on 08/13/2009 8:30:23 AM PDT by William Tell 2
Who could forget the sitar-like harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the "better living through chemistry" pulsations of Sly and the Family Stone, the chanting of Country Joe and the Fish, and the wonderfully wacky, Wavy Gravy? Woodstock--a place where half a million people gathered for peace, love, and music. The event represented a generation of youth.
Well not quite.
The boys (and girls) of Woodstock were not such an inclusive group. One of the myths about Woodstock is that it was some altruistic event.
Woodstock was all about money. John Roberts, the Ivy League heir to the Polident fortune,...
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I was born about 18 months later.
“The following generations will be hard pressed to put right all the destruction they’ve wrought on us.”
Partly because most of them will be the products of that generation, and have been taught their attitudes by osmosis.
It’s really lame how they include 20 years (’46-’64) in 1 “generation”. You could easily split it into 2.
It’s especially lame when you realize it’s named because of “Baby Boom” from all the male soldiers coming home and impregnating their women. Yeah, I’m sure that was still going on 15 years later c. 1960.
Yes it is! I am nothing like my older fellow Boomers and much more like Generation X. I like to call us Generation Jones because we are kind of invisible after the flower children.
I like to think of my generation as “Generation Reagan.”
Alvin Lee playing “I’m Goin’ Home” and The Who doing their whole show made it worth all of the cold, rain and mud.
I’d call them Hippie Gen and Disco Gen.
Hippies called Disco-types (’70s people) the “ME Generation”.
Never mind that was majorly the pot calling the kettle black.
And as expected, Hippies proceeded to call everyone not of their crowd the “ME Gen”. Boy is that rich. Because they’re so unselfish.
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