Posted on 06/18/2017 8:25:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
LOL! Yup! Guess you didn’t get to warm your hands over burning draft cards either.
Filthy hippies.
Destroyed our country.
On purpose with malice aforethought.
Actually, the PAC that is on site today, Bethel Woods is gorgeous. Although like most pacifistic hippie social experiments, capitalism has won out. The museum is $15 a head to learn about the “concert” and the place is full of hippie vendors who sell overpriced trinkets related to peace and love. Max Yasgur’s farm however, is almost completely unchanged today. Just a little nondescript mailbox off of Hurd Rd.
We missed Woodstock, but we did make it to Watkins Glen 4 years later. We rented a Uhaul 30 ft box truck and drove from Boston with about 20 people. It was pretty good...climbed a 30 ft fence to get the backstage of the Allman Bros. And yes, it rained as well, and that’s when the whole thing went to hell:)
But it was a huge event...over 600,000 people...at the time the largest rock concert ever...much larger than Woodstock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen
A lot of the folks who attended Woodstock never came back.
Oh, you know it smelled like money to him! Heh!
Still have mine
Like they say, "if you can remember Woodstock, ya werent really there"...
WHAT! You “borrowed” one from the military? LOL! I had to settle for a Mini-14. Guess I could have stepped up to the Ranch in 7.62/.308.
Woodstock was the year I started full time work. I was at Basic and AIT the next year. In ‘74 however, I had some friends that called and said they were going to the Ozark Music Festival. It was a three day event and they were taking their VW camper.
We went. 350,000 also went. Wow what an event. Couple next to us had a grass vending set up. Saw window pane acid sold by street hawkers. One birth - one death.
BachmanTurner Overdrive
Aerosmith
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Peter Sinfield
Blue Öyster Cult
Eagles
America
Marshall Tucker Band
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Boz Scaggs
Ted Nugent
David Bromberg
Leo Kottke
Cactus
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Electric Flag
Bruce Springsteen (did not perform)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
The Earl Scruggs Revue
Charlie Daniels Band
Joe Walsh and Barnstorm
The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Jimmie Spheeris
Triphammer
Bill Quateman
Jefferson Starship
Fresh Start
Babe Ruth
Locomotiv GT
The Sweet
Shawn Phillips
REO Speedwagon
Spirit
Banco
Elvin Bishop
Meaning what? They died there? They baked their brains beyond repair?
As with most human cultural movements it did not solve the problems of personal financial security, health, violence, mental disease, hunger, shelter from the elements, etc...although some concept of human needs and desires and possible solutions were displayed...it basically was a lesson in inebriated, cold, hungry tribal mob dynamics...and the final celebration of youthful carelessness ,joys and exuberance.
Woodstock was a disgusting event. The people who attended it were disgusting. It still is and they still are.
The societal earthquake happened between 1939 and 1969, where there is hardly one single thing in common between the generations. Compare a music festival in 1939 to Woodstock. Imagine the types of young people who would attend.
Republicans - who as a party still represent many of the views of 1939 youth - could never understand how a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama could be elected. Democrats - who as a party firmly represent the views of 1969 youth - cannot understand how Donald Trump got elected, and are trying very hard to pretend it is reversible.
But there are many Americans who don't identify with either previous generation, and therefore dislike the platforms of both parties. Trump managed to speak to them - but it seems neither party understands yet that their core platforms are out of date.
The same people who left that mess in the background are the same people who are hysterical about global warming if they're still alive.
For them, yeah. They pulled it together and climbed the ladder.
Then they quickly burnt the ladder down under them.
I always liked the song Roy Rogers by Elton John. Maybe it was an ironic tribute done a few years after Woodstock but I enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKt1ila0E4E
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