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"Woodstock seemed like an almost heroic event, not because of the artists, but because it demonstrated just how big the counterculture had become. As Neil Young said, 'it showed just how many of us there were.' What would a similar statement about Live Aid mean? What would 'us' mean in 1985? The unity of the rock audience was long gone by the middle of the Reagan years."

Just how big the counterculture had become? I think everyone from the counterculture was at Woodstock. That would mean the other 195,500,000 citizens of the U.S. were not part of the "counterculture". Not very big, just really loud and annoying, kind of like they are now. As for the rock audience not having Unity in the Middle of the Reagan years, weren't their something on the number of 2 million at live aid? I would say that's a larger unity than Woodstock. And Simon and Garfunkel's concert in the Park drew over a million. Woodstock only defined how unhealthy and unstable the "counterculture" was by this quote: "don't take the brown acid." How sad.