40 Years After Woodstock - The Woodstock Festival and Its Devastating Wake

The Ignorant Fishermen Blog ^ | 8/17/09 | DJP I.F.

[The Ignorant Fisherman]

The Baby Boomers and those of the post sixties generation are joyfully celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival which took place in 1969. Since then, the event has been glorified, glamorized, sensationalized and etched into the very fabric of our American consciousness and youth culture. This festival was the defining point against “the Establishment” and America’s core Judean/ Christian values. This festival was the brown acid of the radical Left’s agenda, whose goons in the reprobate (godless) music industry have steadily pushed the boundaries of morality over the past 40 years. In the wake of Woodstock and the Moral and Political philosophy of Crowley and Nietzsche, the destructive shock waves from this era have been felt in every facet of American society and culture.

[Seruzawa]

I was piloting a gunboat in Nam when Woodstock happened. Later I had my Navy work jacket with patches of every country I visited stolen by a hippie. Hippies can KMA.

Oh, by the way, Country Joe, all you f***ers signing didn’t stop the war. Nixon did.

[sushiman]

Sly didn’t come on until 1:30 a.m. Woke ME up that’s for sure ! Funky ! The Who followed at 3-3:30 !

[Mr. Bird]

If I understand correctly, Richie Havens was a big freedom fan...did he say any other word?

[hellbender]

“Country Joe” was an affectionate nickname for Stalin among American commies, which is what Country Joe McDonald’s parents were. So his opposition to the Vietnam War was ideological.

[dfwgator]

Richie was there for "Old Aid"

We are the old, we've got arthritis
Our gums are weak (so weak), from gingivitis

We are the old, we've got arthritis
We are the ones who wear bifocals, and have bursitis

There are people younger, but we heed another call
We really need the money, our accountants took it all
We sing to you, those who have money
Once we was cool, but now we just dress funny
We need your help, so please please dig deep
Don't call after ten, 'cause we'll be asleep
We have medicare, and anti-gas pills
But without your help, we can't pay our alimony bills

We are the old, [they are the old]
We have arthritis [they have arthritis]
Once we were gods, now golf excites us [golf excites 'em]
So write a check (a really big one), for our December
There's one more verse, but we can't remember...

[Col Freeper]

The Baby Boomers and those of the post sixties generation are joyfully celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival which took place in 1969.

I fully understand the key thrust of your posting, but I completely disagree with your first line.

I am a "Baby Boomer", and I am not celebrating Woodstock now, nor did I celebrate it then.

I suspect you didn't intend to generalize this much, but it is a common problem by authors writing about Woodstock, and sends (IMHO) the wrong message to younger readers, i.e., that all Baby Boomers were weirded out hippies and druggies dying (literally) to go to Woodstock.

BTW, I'm very glad to hear that God lead you away from that dark place. May he continue to Bless you.

[sushiman]

I was 17 . Arrived at the site when Havens was finishing his set . Friday - with the exception of Arlo Guthrie - was a drag musically for me as I was no folkie .

[ThreeYearLurker]

If you were there right now in Bethel, NY, you would see Ten Years After, still performing their pointless solo “Going Home”.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Many of us were associated with America’s finest....so sad that you missed that calling by being a part of that sewer experience.. Our sewer was a two-holler that we shitte into on top of JP4 (jet fuel...a derivative of diesel). Trust me you would have been better off with us....

[dfwgator]

LOL, I was also thinking of Grand Funk’s “Closer to Home”, after the first 20-something refrains of “I’m Getting Closer to my home...” I’m thinking, “Would you just get home already, geez!”

[sushiman]

I repeat - I was 17 and the music was my impetus for going . I was not a hippie then nor did I ever become one , although there were a few things with which I sympathized , at the time anyway .

[Mr. Bird]

That’s comedy! I note Peter Noone in the upper right, or as a college buddy put it, Peter No One.

[dog breath]

I was a few years younger then my oldest sister the die hard democrat and now aging hippie. I thought everything she did was pretty cool back then. I watched Mod Squad, read her radical books and went to see the movie Billy Jack at least four times. I then ended up getting to see what a flood of drugs and free sex did to the younger siblings of the flower children. I saw so many things going horribly wrong. It is hard to say when growing up I realized it was all just a illusion that the flower generation believed in, but those spoiled children have no legacy. Reality is a bear.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It may be deeper than Woodstock.
Robert Johnson Highway 61/49 Crossroads Curse

And things did get creepy after that Sax episode on Arsenio.

Nixon is forced out of office after shaking hands with Elvis in the White House
(Elvis dies during spooked Jimmy Carter presidency).

Carter confers with adviser Greg Allman.
Runaway inflation and soaring interest rates run Carter out of office.

Bush, Sr. jams with GOP soul man Lee Atwater.
Breaks promise on raising taxes, leads to Perot candidacy and loss to Bill Clinton.

Clinton confers with Jacko in Jan. '93, as Stevie Nicks looks on.
Enough said.

Obama confers with policy adviser Bono.
By August '09 polls plummeting.
Messiah racket implodes.

[dfwgator]

And what was up with Robby Krieger and the pink hat?

[Madame Dufarge]

At its heart (and boy, will the left hate my saying this), Woodstock was the hippie-left's equivalent of a kick ass frat party. They just had more attendees.

Exactly. Why, back in the day, two "friends" came roaring into Woodstock, New Hampshire on their motorcycles looking for the big party. They were so high, they couldn't even get the location right - LOL!

If they'd managed to get there, they would have fit right in.

[radioone]

Couldn’t make it. Had just gotten by draft notice.

[The Ignorant Fisherman]

it was..

[Revolting cat!]

I thought the Woodstick movie was garbage, just as I thought Martini Scorcese’s recent Rolling Stones movie was garbage as well. Just gimme the stupid 50s rock and roll movies with Bill Haley and Fats Domino, dude!

[The Ignorant Fisherman]

Free expression with responsibility. not free expression of anarchy.

The Vietnam vets got burn by the Gov politician's who micro managed the war. My hearts goes out to them and have the greatest respect for them. We will never let what happen to to the Vietnam vets happen again They may have served but were quite vocal against the war, America and the soldiers much like Kerry was.