Posted on 08/17/2009 3:07:40 PM PDT by 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.
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Thanks my friend for your service!!! You were laying it all down while these reprobates expressed and saught to destroy our country. The Military are the true hero’s. Look what these hippie reprobates have done to our country!
God save America!
thanks for your service!!!
Thank you for your service to our country.
“Rock n’ roll’s been goin’ downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.”
Col. Sir,
Right you are... there are a few who did not drink the Woodstock Kool aid. I will fix that asap..
God Bless!
I’m only 41.. I was not at Woodstock... but was in the sewer of the music industry. Sorry if I gave that impression that I was there. Woodstock though was the mother of the music revolution as we were taught by all in the late 70’s and 80’s till now.
What you said. I'd bet most attendees were just looking for a good time i.e. lots of sex, drugs, and music. Kind of like todays generation. Most probably approved of Townshend bashing Hoffman over the head with his guitar. I certainly liked it, and I was a confirmed Dem at the time. But I wasn't at Woodstock. The film was enough.
That endless solo was absolutely the most boring part of the movie.
Understand. It was intended to be a music concert, and initially had paying customers, as I understand it.
Stereotyping all attendees as drug-crazed hippies was not my intent.
I just wanted to point out to the author that he was making the same mistake many do, i.e., giving the impression that Baby Boomers could all be fitted into one spot on the social and political spectrum.
Have a good week sushiman.
Thanks . And my friend and I were two of the 25,000 paying customers who ended up paying for 475,000 people’s free ride . : (
Look for the London Rock & Roll Show (1973), shot by Peter Whitehead and others. Performers include Screaming Lord Sutch, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry. Mick Jagger says he’s surprised that anyone would wanna come to see these bands in 1972, he figured that had all passed by 1962! And he remarks that they “HAVE” to play the hits because that is what the crowd expects even if they are tired of them; I’m sure Mick knows these truths very well himself these days.
Martin Scorcese tried directing the camera crew at Woodstock but their headphones kept shocking their ears so they ditched them early in the gig. I think Martin dropped out after that (George Lucas was a camera man on Gimme Shelter...).
Hey now, baby boomers didn’t have Napster back in their day. They had to steal their music by bumrushing the gates at concerts.
Business suits saw how much money there was to be made and submitted to the mighty dollar.
The Baby Boom generation was becoming “adult” and were the largest demographic to serve.
Woodstock the movie set a record for “documentary” (over $100million, something Michael Moore had to sidestep in claiming HIS was the biggest grossing documentary of all time... that wasn’t a concert film).
It wasn’t until the movie and the album that the tide turned.
The people who revolted AGAINST the establishment are the Politically Correct establishment of today.
Abbie Hoffman made it political months earlier when he and the Black Panthers extorted $10,000 out of the financers and demanded booth space at the event. He said they would have to give him money and space or he would disrupt the event and send of word in the underground. He did it anyway.
Country Joe Fish made it political too. And other “performers”. The Who came to rock, and that they did.
Don't fool yourself that the Woodstock generation wanted to end the draft. They wanted to avoid service was all.
Today the Woodstock Democrats want to BRING BACK the draft to end public support for US military efforts.
Seems as good a place as any to include a link to Pete Townsend’s recollections on Woodstock.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2282591/posts
“The Road to Woodstock”: The Stories Behind Rock History (excerpt, the Who)
Rolling Stone ^ | Jun 25, 2009 8:30 AM | Michael Lang
Elsewhere I’ve seen him say that he wasn’t down with the hippie thing.
Al Bundy endorsed Obama in 2008. Nuff said.
So what’d you do? Did you go with a number of friends? Did you walk the grounds? Did you bring food?
Best music moment recollection?
Best non-music moment?
Scorsese edited the Woodstock film.
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