Posted on 08/04/2019 12:08:51 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
They were OK until they went to India ... they returned as kooks and then proceeded to screw everything up ...
“I was 17 at the time and sorry I missed it.”
I had just turned 17 . My friend and I hitched rides from eastern CT to the festival . I lied to my parents telling them we had a ride . We’d ordered tickets but ended up not needing them as it has become an “ open festival “ before we arrived late Friday afternoon .
“New York State Thruway is closed, man!”
Please tell me that was Neil Young's hearse, Mort. :-)
Elvis??
“To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us isn’t too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it’s your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?”
Believe it or not , I neither dropped acid nor smoked pot the whole three days we were there . My buddy did drift off for about half a day and did some acid , though . How he ever found me again in the midst of 500,000 people remains one of the great mysteries of our times . I went for the music , and The Who were my main impetus .
No. Guy named Al. 52 Caddy. Never took the casket rollers out. Ow my back.
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.
Thank you for echoing my thoughts...Woodstock was a reaction to "'Nam fatigue" - hardly an apt target for what amounts to a religious screed.
My dad concurs with you!
Sorry to hear that my friend, thanks for sharing that, will pray for her if she is still alive. Jesus delivers!
Matt. 11:28-30
Good points, all were not little red commies, many became great capitalist and great Americans.
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