Posted on 08/04/2019 12:08:51 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
Lots of CAPS there dude.
I tried to watch the director’s cut of the Woodstock movie not long ago. It was really bad. I wanted to watch it for the music, but it got boring quickly.
In a weird sort of way, Woodstock probably says more about the positive morals of the hippies' parents than the mud pie crowd would prefer to acknowledge. Having a quarter of a million people without a lot of food and water etc and virtually no police presence, but yet there were no major crimes reported sounds more like kids remembered the Golden Rule vs sex and drugs and rock and roll. In turn, the fires and riots of Woodstock 99 probably says more about the morals of the GenXers parents (many of whom were Boomers...) than the kids themselves.
Caps rule my brother... This was the most hyped event in history
(2016) Couple on iconic Woodstock album cover still rocking decades later: ‘It’s us. That’s who we are. Still’ -— https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still
I find this interesting. It is nice they are still married as of this article.
Seeing the words “woodstock” and “Biblical” in one sentence is just plain weird.
Got there Friday night. Left Monday morning. Missed Hendrix. Everyone thought it was over. Had to walk five miles to get back to my car. Music was great. Some better some worse. Some the music was great but the show was mediocre. Others the opposite. The best ‘Performance ‘ was a group I’d never think I’d like... ‘Sly And The Family Stone’ put on quite a performance. The Who both had great music and a good on stage presence. I remember the Grateful Dead’s performance was sub par (from drugs? I’ve seen them before and after. They were much better other times). The Band was good but I had seen them in a much more intimate venue and they were better then. Janice Joplin was better when I saw her with big brother. All in all I spend a long time being wet and sitting on a muddy hillside. Slept in a friend’s hearse Friday night and in my own tent Saturday/Sunday.
That being said I’m surprised I remember that much.
Yes. You are correct. Many good people were there. I was 20 and missed 3 days of my job. Boss was not happy
It was a concert with bad plumbing.
Nothing more.
It was a bunch of college aged kids, from the largest generation in US history. This was a generation, mostly pampered by middle class parents, who had money for transportation, admission, and drugs.
For some reason, this same generation looks down on their children who were more pampered, more entitled, and more wealthy than their parents.
The whole thing was a selfish mess.
Would have loved to watch Pete Townshend kick Abbie Hoffman off the stage.
The Beatles screwed everything up.
The Who - Abbie Hoffman incident - Woodstock 1969 (pummeling of a hippie)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3672625/posts
With pictures
Too much is made of Woodstock. It was a disorganized mess of filth. Compare it to the better organized Atlanta Pop Festivals held in 1969 and 1970, yet you hear little about them in comparison.
Yup. You just reminded me. EXCELLENT
My sister, the eldest, begged to go. My father forbade her. She rebelled anyway.
She went from Straight-A to Straight-F in one year. She did a few months of drugs, followed by decades of paranoid schizophrenia.
That poster overreacted in the negative. You overreacted in the positive.
Woodstock was a thoroughly hedonsitic, pagan event that set up far worse, such as Altamont.
I grew up in Palo Alto at the time. I saw up close what events like that did to people.
I tend to agree. They recorded some good pop/rock music, but had an enormously disproportionate influence, mostly negative, on the American culture.
I was a math nerd, not really into music then. I marveled at the insanity of my sister, and other females, who literally became hysterical over The Beatles.
My sister once made me crawl behind the sofa on hands and knees, to listen to their lyrics from the speakers, so that I could write them down for her.
I thought they were overrated then, and think they are overrated now. No one is that good, setting aside the decadent effect of their image and influence.
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