Thanks for the post.
FORTY YEARS ago this OCTOBER the Weather Underground was formed (so much for the myth that they were a 1960s radical organization, the bulk of their terrorist activies were firmly rooted in the 1970s, although they were caught robbing a bank in the 1980s).
IIRC, McPain once said, he wasn’t at Woodstock.
“He was tied up at the time.”
Sure there were others “Tied Up” at the time.
Will someone please explain to me the significance of a crowd of dirty, smelly, hairy maggot-infested hippies rolling around in the mud, smoking dope and listening to a bunch of music by many long forgotten bands? Ok, some of the music was good, but it now belongs in the vintage pile along with Al Jolson and Ishkibble. Why is this so culturally important? (BTW, I would much rather listen to Jolie than Jimi.)
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.....I was in the Army at Ft.Gordon...when we got off duty some of us went to the club to get a beer...Woodstock was on the evening news on the TV over the bar...we didn’t think much of it...it was more a minor curiosity than the so called “event of our generation”...what made Woodstock into what we know as Woodstock was the movie and album.
Thanks; we needed the reminder.
It would be good to know the Bio’s on those that “Rocked while our GI’s died” I’m sure that, like the ones I have known, have died horrific deaths deaths (or have had horrific lives)
Woodstock Wasn't the Only Thing Happening 40 Years AgoThere was that thriller of a National League East race that ended with a) the Chicago Cubs (carrying three future Hall of Famers: Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins) burned out of the race by a heavy-and-ham-handed manager; and, b) the ultimate winner going 1) 24-8 from 1 September until the end of the regular season; 2) on to sweep the Atlanta Braves (which included two future Hall of Famers, Hank Aaron and Phil Niekro) in the National League Championship Series; and, 3) following a Game One loss, sweep the mighty Baltimore Orioles (who, on paper, anyway, should have demolished them in a blink, and with three future Hall of Famers in tow: Brooks and Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer . . .)
Perhaps you've heard of them. (They had two future Hall of Famers aboard, by the way: Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, though nobody at the time was predicting the Hall of Fame for the Express-in-waiting . . . )
Oh, every now and then I do a little miracle just to keep My hand in. My last miracle was the 1969 Mets.---George Burns as God, Oh, God!
The only Woodstock I knew in 1969 was on my M-14.
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