[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Woodstock 50 ultimately died after being moved from New York to the Meriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.

Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Bommer]

It would have sucked anyways. Katie Perry? Taylor Swift? Some half assed named rappers and general flash in the pan American Idol crap that the Disney channel calls music that would have resulted in 3 days of noise suck...all hosted by Ryan Seacreast. Can’t get more gay and worthless of a concert than that. Focus more on Fyre and Us concerts, to bring out the epitome of true suck!

[Texas Eagle]

Not enough handicap porta potties?

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[DoodleBob]

There was a lot of drug use and leftism in Bethel, NY those 3 days that lives on in colleges and other areas that we are still trying to quash. But compare the totality of those days with the carnage at Woodstock 99 and any contemporary gathering of 100,000+ leftists nowadays. Woodstock is not something that was pure deadweight loss.

In a weird sort of way, Woodstock probably says more about the positive morals of the hippies' parents than the mud pie crowd would prefer to acknowledge. Having a quarter of a million people without a lot of food and water etc and virtually no police presence, but yet there were no major crimes reported sounds more like kids remembered the Golden Rule vs sex and drugs and rock and roll. In turn, the fires and riots of Woodstock 99 probably says more about the morals of the GenXers parents (many of whom were Boomers...) than the kids themselves.

[ozarkgirl]

Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner at the last one, no one protested or took a knee. Wonder how that would go over in today’s political climate.

[RedMonqey]

"John Fogerty, from the rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival, described an early morning scene as “sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud.”

"Damned, Dirty Hippies”

[Impala64ssa]

The Bethel Woods arena is built on part of the site of the original Woodstock. It was the brainchild of Alan Gerry, an old hippie who sold the idea to investors as a way to help revitalize the economy of the Catskills. Turns out he's butt buddies of the Clintons, and incredibly still alive and kicking at 89, perhaps their oldest surviving "friend"? Some interesting controversy surrounding the securing funds for the building of this arena, according to Wikipedia "$1 million in federal funding earmarked for The Museum by the U.S. Senate in June 2007 was criticized after it was revealed the museum founder, Alan Gerry, then donated almost $30,000 to New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, who had helped to secure the funding.[7] Clinton did not speak during the debate on the project, but Schumer strongly defended the Bethel project as a boon for an economically struggling county." My lovely daughter and son in law saw the Doobie Bros and Lynyrd Skynyrd there a few yrs ago. A sign of the times, when Skynyrd did their finale playing Free Bird. Since kids today don't take up smoking like we did hardly any of them had lighters, so some genius created a Zippo lighter app. The lights were dimmed and 10's of thousands of Androids were being waved in the air running this app.

[aquila48]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

There was some great music performed at the original Woodstock: The Who’s rendition of ‘Sparks’, Jimi Hendrix’s performance of “The Star Spangled Banner”. But that was 50 years ago, there is no new Jimi Hendrix waiting to give a performance that will still be talked about in 2069, and Coachella is there to let people pay good money to stand in a field and watch the likes of Taylor Swift and Ariane Grande do their impressions of Rihanna.

[A strike]

The cultural decline began years earlier (earlier than “Summer of Love” even) and was well advanced by the time of Woodstock which only focused it.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why can't the Right just cut loose and have some fun?

So what if the original Woodstock had drugs, sex, and nudity. A lot of the people came out of it unscathed and still led productive lives.

This is precisely why the Right continues to get its ass kicked in the arts and culture. This stick-up-the-butt attitude. Even conservatives like Ann Coulter and Andrew Wilkow are metal fans and still head-bang at concerts.

Woodstock was badly needed. The 60s were such as turbulent decade. No wonder why everybody mellowed out in the 70s.

[bigbob]

A lack of talent, and brown acid is now considered racist.

[minnesota_bound]

The real reason was not enough cell phone charging stations and soy latte refreshment stands.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Stick with me here ...

Last week I had some awful bug for 12 days.

I SWEAR I had a temperature of at least 117 degrees. Chills, pain and the most wicked headache I’ve ever had.

I was rubbing Icy Hot, Vicks, the muscle rub that smells like Canada Mints on my head and standing under a cool shower to try relieving it.

I also had the most amazing and wonderful hallucinogenic dreams. THAT might have the result of 8 different drugs I was taking to try feeling better, BUT

My favorite hallucination, which I will treasure for ever, was Levon Helm sitting on my bed for a few hours telling me *I* “ought to plan Woodstock at his place, The Barn, in Bethel, because “You know to put on a festival”.

(I do, I really do).

[robel]

It ended up being a fitting tribute to the original.

[Scrambler Bob]

Santana was not ‘Star-Studded’ at the time.

[BobL]

The people there should have been left to rot - the country would be a MUCH BETTER place if that happened.

[ml/nj]

MY 50th anniversary of Woodstock will begin after work next Wednesday when I again drive up to Saratoga for Travers Weekend. 50 years ago when I did this, albeit from Hartford, I wondered why there could possibly so many hitchhikers I passed. That was my second Travers. Next week I will attend my 52nd. (I missed the 2010 renewal.)

ML/NJ

[GSWarrior]

What went wrong? Headliner Miley Cyrus, for starters.