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.
Burning Man looks pretty tame compared to Woodstock.
Yes, but compared to the Fyre Festival...
[[I guess it depends on where you were and who you were - a performer vs an attendee.]]
Exactly- it didn’t matter that it was muddy, raining, cold, whatever- the people in the crowds likely enjoyed it even if the playing wasn’t perfect due to conditions- it was a massive party of their lifetime basically- and something that likely wasn’t going to be replicated ever due to the times- the ‘hippie times’ - it was a ‘unique’ period to say the least
Many Grateful Dead concerts weren’t much different than Woodstock really- when conditions got bad- people whacked out o n drugs- slogging in the mud- not a care in the world-
It was worse than bad.....we lived not far from there and knew a State Trooper who was assigned to the festival. He warned everyone how unsanitary it was and filth everywhere.
It was worse than bad.....we lived not far from there and knew a State Trooper who was assigned to the festival. He warned everyone how unsanitary it was and filth everywhere.