Posted on 08/18/2012 9:15:51 AM PDT by trailhkr1
On the 43rd anniversary of the legendary Woodstock music festival, held in Bethel, New York, a series of remarkable photographs taken at the time offer a window on the landmark event celebrating music and peace. Woodstock Music & Art Fair was staged at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskill mountains near the hamlet of White Lake from August 15 to August 18, 1969.
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“deserved their fame having participated in Woodstock. “
Point is, Woodstock is not something that should be celebrated at all.
It is akin to celebrating the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the huge mound of feces they left behind.
Read about the people who went there and their recollections. Most people were just middle class kids who went there for the music, partying and trying to get laid and most did not give a crap about anything else regarding "leftist fantasy"
“Most people were just middle class kids who went there for the music, partying and trying to get laid “
Sounds alot like some of the Occupy Wall Street events.
Manyparticipants didn’t give a rats backside about OWS, they were just there to slack off.
Will we celebrate OWS every years?
Being an early rock festival, I am sure they had not thought of having trash collection available.
Just why the hell does an Australian News Agency bring up this great moment in dumb-ass hippie history ! they sucked and needed a bath then they still need one now !
Wow, comparing OWS to Woodstock..what a stretch.
They hadn’t counted on a bunch of freeloading bums crashing the concert.
I am sick of hearing about how baby boomers suck.
You mean the generation that put a man on the moon?
That invented the PC? The internet?
Those lousy baby boomers?
No, not a stretch at all.
Same mentality behind it, takers versus producers, slackers littering everywhere, waves of dregs and scum looking for relevance and a chance to score..
All in all, pretty accurate.
I am pro military but they had a valid gripe about the draft.
Actually I am glad the draft is gone.
How could you trust a shipmate that did not volunteer?
Exceptions to the rule? You guys will be drowned out by these losers.
are u smoking Willie's Kush?
i understand hippie bashing...rich coming from gen x and y kids with their own warts for us to see daily but some of the Woodstock bands were the biggest around
I was not there...living in Jackson MS but in the 7th grade and keenly up to snuff on top 40 and progressive FM which had just taken off in the past few years
i attended some festivals later and enjoyed hell out of it...like Bonnaroo or Coachella would be today...most of us were there for the music and partying and even if politics did creep in there was no political correctness
it was not quite like folks think...and you sure didn't get that shit at Lynyrd Skynyrd or Tull or Sabbath a few years later
folks here generalize a lot from a point of ignorance..no offense...I know you are a decent guy but you simply must not have been around..and don't claim you were Nam to try to slam me...I had older buddies in Nam then and believe me they knew the music...they lived for it
some of Woodstock:
The Who, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash...and Young half the set, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat and Tears, Ten Years After, The Band, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, Mountain, Canned Heat...all those were big bands
granted some bands did not come...Beatles...breaking up...Led Zepplin..already booked...Jeff Beck...cancelled...The Byrds...scared...Moody Blues...booked elsewhere...Dylan...sick of hippies...Rolling Stones...not hippie enough and expensive
bashing hippies here is good sport...i agree though I was sorta a southern fried proudly politically incorrect deer hunting one in my day
but to claim the music was not there at Woodstock is erroneous
and yes when they finally released the movie and sountrack later it did cement a few acts like Arlo Guthrie and Country Joe...but the rest I mentioned were already on the rise
When people think of baby boomers, they instantly think of the hippie freaks and their idiotic behavior.
The majority is outweighed by the more visible minority in this case.
Also, it suits hippie nostalgia to keep pumping the flower children over the actual accomplishments of the era.
I didn’t say the music wasn’t there.
Neil Young played second set but I don’t think it made the movie or soundtrack
http://woodstock.wikia.com/wiki/Crosby,_Stills_%26_Nash_(and_Young)
see my post 34 too if bored
Not the point, the point was: the hippie culture had it’s backers in enemies of our country.
And the willing accomplices in the press did everything they could to vilify America back then, and continue to do so.
Yes, the draft was a bad thing.
But how does several days of hippie culture crime and filth balance that out?
Seriously, celebrating woodstock and the cesspit on society that it was and stood for is like celebrating OWS on the anniversary dates.
Woodstock presented all of rock who mattered, minus the Beatles and Stones. The conversation should be, what big stars were missing?
Why it is celebrated above other such gatherings: it was held in the NY area so national media was close by and it surprised everyone by the scale (including the organizers) due to the fact that music had not been considered as important to so many youth.
I crashed a Ritchie Blackmore concert when I was in the Navy.
Had to! it was sold out!
The fire door opened... I ran in.
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