Posted on 08/16/2004 1:17:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What property damage?
I visited the site a few years ago. Our church's camp is just a few miles away, so while there one night a dozen or so of us went to the Woodstock site. There's a memorial there, and it was covered with offerings of hippie paraphanalia. While we were gawking at that, some guy (alone) drove into the field and parked, unaware of us; things turned surreal for him when a bunch of strangers (us) appeared out of the darkness, surrounded his car, and started singing Christmas carols in August.
Anyway... It's still a farm. Aside from a couple buildings and a barn, there is nothing there. As the author mentions, $75000 ($300K in today's bucks) was a very good deal for renting some otherwise unused land. So what if a half-million hippies stomp on it for 3 days - just plow it afterwards and all is back to normal.
What many don't realize is the nearby town of Bethel NY is a resort/vacation town for hardcore Orthodox Jews - musta been a shock to the locals when a half-million ideological opposites suddenly showed up.
Major LOL! My son just looks at me and shakes his head when I recount tales of my former life as a hippie. I still get thumps on my head for having my own copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Thank God I met his dad, a Viet Nam vet, to bring me back to reality.
My husband did have a gold peace symbol on his tooth for a while when he came back to the world. Since I didn't know him then, I give him a pass. He probably had to do it because of the Kerry folks giving him a hard time for being a baby killer. Yeah, the same 'baby killer' who could never bring himself to spank his own kid. (my job)
RIP, Dale.
I'll confess that there is some rap that I think is catchy and clever. But not much. The problem with it is the perpetuation of the inner city hip-hop lifestyle and the culture of illiteracy and abject ignorance that it certainly seems to celebrate.
BUT -- Having gone to Provine High School in Jackson, MS for two years - and having been VERY much a white minority - I have a very intimate knowledge of what many black men like to see in their women. So I think Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" is HILARIOUS. One example.
Actually, CSN were horrible at Woodstock.
I'm glad you liked one of my comments today. :)
"...The hallmark of the sixties was not Woodstock, but..."
Hollywood thinks the 60s began in 1968.
Of course were almost over by then.
They began with Eisenhower in the White House.
The 'hallmark' of the 60's might be the Cuban Missle Crisis or the murder of Kennedy.
Always was about the bucks
Seems to me, no one knows anything about their music
I know about their music.
D*mn. Another myth busted.
Well, one thing that Woodstock did make clear was how incredibly sappy drugs and moral platitudes can make a large mob of people. What better symbol of the utter futility if an entire generation of idealists than the truly idiotic chant "no more rain!" as the heavens opened up unheeding?
I was there too. My husband is shocked and saddened by this.
I was 18 and had just graduated from High School.
I voted Democrat the first time I voted. Believe it was for McGovern. Soon thereafter I was thinking about it and realized I was not a Democrat, I was a Republican. Have voted that way ever since. We were kids then, many from my School were in Nam including my cousins in the Marines. We thought it was an adventure to go to Woodstock. I just remember being dirty.
There is some rap that's pretty good, I admit.
But, I can not tell you what a pleasure it's
been to spend so much time with an almost 13
year old who is enamored with it.
Yep...a real dang pleasure.
Tnank goodness his parents don't like it one bit.
That's solved a WHOLE lotta problems. ;o)
Yeah -- I remember hearing a recording of either that performance or another one from around the same time. It was typical of a number of bands that were polished on record, but unable to duplicate their "sound" onstage. Never cared much for CSN, (or CSN&Y)personally.
Yeah, but there were naked girls, so don't bother me with all those other facts.
I used to listen a lot to Phish (starting in the early 90s). I went to a concert in 1995, and was astounded that they had a Dead-like hippie following. I had never made the association. I was turned off by the drug use there. But the crowd was peaceful, if a little smelly. I saw them again in 1997 and 1999, and saw Trey Anastasio in concert in 2001.
This was one of the "US" festivals in California. A three-day music concert put on by Steve Wozniak, I believe, the co-founder of Apple.
It was your basic hippy-dippy self-indulgent festivals meant to "recapture" the magic of Woodstock. They had some pretty good performers lined up too. David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Van Halen, U2, and about a dozen other well-known acts of the time. I think it was around 1983.
Anyway, it was a miserable experience. Unless you like spending three days lying in mud and filth. It took a month of hot showers before I felt clean again.
"Thinking" is the key word there. It will lead you to being a pubbie anytime! LOL
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