[DUMBGRUNT]

A coworker, spoke of it all the time, I always thought it was a running joke?

After he recently passed, a friend said he was in fact there and it was the high point of his entire life!!!

And all the years I thought he was joking.

[Rummyfan]

Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick succinctly described Woodstock as “a bunch of stupid slobs in the mud.”

When you've lost Grace Slick...

[Rummyfan]

There were only 600 toilets on site, meaning there were as few as one for every 833 attendees.

Ugh...

[Howie66]

Frankly, I didn’t give that two thoughts at the time that it happened. Fifty years later, it still isn’t worth my time.

[Rummyfan]

Townshend’s assessment was, if anything, more devastating: “All these hippies wandering about thinking the world was going to be different from that day on. As a cynical English –ssh-le, I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them, trying to make them realize that nothing had changed and nothing was going to change. Not only that, what they thought was an alternative society was basically a field full of six-foot-deep mud laced with LSD. If that was the world they wanted to live in, then f— the lot of them.”

[TexasGator]

“Pete Townshend “

ho cares what a bisexual communist pedophile says.

[Boogieman]

“As their supplies ran out, they naturally increased prices...”

Who said that hippies didn’t understand capitalism?

[jmacusa]

The sound man for The Grateful Dead insisted on changing the entire sound system already in place for different one.

[MplsSteve]

Great article. Thank you for posting it.

It’s kinda amazing how there are such two disparate views of Woodstock - one that it was obnoxious wastepit and the other that it was the greatest thing ever. I guess it depends on where you were and who you were - a performer vs an attendee.

I don’t know anyone who was there - but by all accounts, it sounded like a giant mess, literally and figuratively. The heat, the mud, over-used bathrooms, the garbage, no food, lack of water, bad drugs, etc.

Burning Man looks pretty tame compared to Woodstock.

[buckalfa]

The event as it unfolded sucked. Yet the idea or theme behind the event, aided by the media, morphed into being an undeserved iconic symbol of the 1960’s. Yet those of us who have lost our youth, nostalgia, real or imagined, becomes something to hang on to ease the reality of growing old.

[NFHale]

“..Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick succinctly described Woodstock as “a bunch of stupid slobs in the mud.”...”

Lol!!!

Perfect!

[A strike]

Regardless of all,
Jimi Hendrix performance was beyond millennial awesome.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I hate to tell Warren Henry that whole era was a bad trip for boomers as the govt was in the process of getting 50,000 people our age killed in a useless war in a tiny country in Asia. Woodstock was a one week distraction where we took our minds off the horror.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Jimi Hendrix was the last performer at the festival but that wasn’t the original plan. Original set up wanted Roy Rogers;

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/woodstock-producer-roy-rogers-not-hendrix-could-have-closed

Almost never mentioned in the history of Woodstock is who brought in the food. A group of nuns are credited as supplying some, but a large amount of it was brought in courtesy of the New York Army National Guard.

[Phlap]

I was 14 years old that weekend. Life was good.

[Mr. Mojo]

<< drummer Mickey Hart claimed it was “the worst we ever played.” >>

I think I’ve only heard Dark Star from the Dead’s Woodstock set, and it wasn’t bad. Curious about the rest of the set now, cuz the competition for the worst they ever played is pretty stiff.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Woodstock was the conception of what has evolved to be the snowflake generation - the promoters couldn’t get their fence up fast enough to make it a pay-for event, and everybody ended up getting in for free - they subsisted on free food donated by nearby businesses and farms, and took advantage of free medical care provide by the state when authorities saw the numbers of bad trips rising - the kids felt that finally they were in a safe place where everybody thought the same way they did and wouldn’t criticize or judge them, and many saw attending as a way of defying their parents - because they managed to survive three days of freebies in an atmosphere where everybody felt and thought the same, they believed they had found the way to a peaceful and joyful future and could and would change the world - it was the beginning of a long arc of self-righteousness, self-adulation, and self-importance among the lefties.......

[justa-hairyape]

Great read. Was too young for the Stockades. Lol. But I did watch that Woodstock redo live in the 90’s. Just stared dumbfounded at the tube as the announcers shouted something about it even getting unsafe for them now. Then no more announcers. Pullback shot and done.

[cuban leaf]

I used to tell people, if you want to hold one thing in your hand that could chronicle the lunacy of the whole 60’s thing and just how stupid it was, it would be a VHS copy of Woodstock.

Now I say “a Blueray”. :)

Still, I’m enjoying listening to it in real time right now. Santana is up at 2:00. Michael Shrieve on drums was amazing.