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Posted on 08/13/2009 8:30:23 AM PDT by William Tell 2
Who could forget the sitar-like harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the "better living through chemistry" pulsations of Sly and the Family Stone, the chanting of Country Joe and the Fish, and the wonderfully wacky, Wavy Gravy? Woodstock--a place where half a million people gathered for peace, love, and music. The event represented a generation of youth.
Well not quite.
The boys (and girls) of Woodstock were not such an inclusive group. One of the myths about Woodstock is that it was some altruistic event.
Woodstock was all about money. John Roberts, the Ivy League heir to the Polident fortune,...
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A rock concert happened 40 years ago and they can't let it go. So sad.
And I’m obligated to attend a “remembering Woodstock” party this weekend. Heh. Meh. Do I just go along with the tie-dye happy warm fuzzies, or show up in fatigues handing out copies of this blog?
If I could come, I’d help you print the copies... :-P
I live right outside Philadelphia and the Oldies station there is promoting a 40th Anniversary of Woodstock concert. When they first started talking about the concert they were calling it “The Heroes of Woodstock” concert. I can’t tell you how much that title ticked me off. I must not be the only one because they are now calling it the Woodstock 40th Anniversary Concert. They have has beens like Country Joe, Jefferson Starship, Ten Years After and other people nobody gives a damn about. How these puffed up nobodies had the gall to ever think of themselves as “heroes” is just beyond my comprehension.
It only took the third post to make this a boomer bashing thread. I am a boomer but had nothing to do with the waste and filth that was at Woodstock. Not all boomers are the same.
The following generations will be hard pressed to put right all the destruction they’ve wrought on us.
Woodstock is only important to the folks who can’t get over themselves.
Woodstock is only important to the folks who can’t get over themselves.
If anyone mentions Woodstock I mention Sha Na Na.
After all, they played there alongside the other bands.
The filmmakers left Country ******* Joe in and cut Creedence out?!?!?!
Tells you all you need to know.
Pretty lame criticism of Woodstock. The promoters, musicians and land owner made money on it? BFD. As for the “myth that (it) was opened up for free by the promoters;” I never heard that. It was known at the time that the crowds simply pushed their way in.
the author of this article is obviously a liberal fascist making you feel guilty for something that happened a long time ago.
I’d like to slap this pos right in the face- him and all the rest of these fascist creeps who complain it ain’t fair, the unjustness,etc... whine, whine, beotch, beotch,4 mos to save the earth, i can feel global warming when i fly creeps, tree hugging veggie heads
You’re obviously clueless about the Woodstock myth.
Pretty lame criticism yourself.
Row 3,422, you're the 2954th person from the left, wearing a bandana, sunglasses, and a tie dyed T shirt. I got this information direct from Registered.
There might be a myth that Woodstock was free from the start, but that’s just proof of how stupid people are. The “conversion” of the show to free because the people had pushed their way through the fence is in the movie. And the 40th anniversary box set of the movie comes with replica tickets that have the price, which is not $0, clearly printed. So anybody that’s ever propagated the myth that it was a deliberately free show from the start is really just telling people they never even bothered to watch the movie.
Ha! I was 12 years then, very naive.
My parents and all those they knew were busy living life, getting married, having children, and *working*.
I’m a younger boomer and Woodstck means nothing to me. I was 8yo when it took place.
I was born about 18 months later.
“The following generations will be hard pressed to put right all the destruction they’ve wrought on us.”
Partly because most of them will be the products of that generation, and have been taught their attitudes by osmosis.
It’s really lame how they include 20 years (’46-’64) in 1 “generation”. You could easily split it into 2.
It’s especially lame when you realize it’s named because of “Baby Boom” from all the male soldiers coming home and impregnating their women. Yeah, I’m sure that was still going on 15 years later c. 1960.
Yes it is! I am nothing like my older fellow Boomers and much more like Generation X. I like to call us Generation Jones because we are kind of invisible after the flower children.
I like to think of my generation as “Generation Reagan.”
Alvin Lee playing “I’m Goin’ Home” and The Who doing their whole show made it worth all of the cold, rain and mud.
I’d call them Hippie Gen and Disco Gen.
Hippies called Disco-types (’70s people) the “ME Generation”.
Never mind that was majorly the pot calling the kettle black.
And as expected, Hippies proceeded to call everyone not of their crowd the “ME Gen”. Boy is that rich. Because they’re so unselfish.
I would like to tell all on this thread - having read the piece - that if you have not read STOLEN VALOR you have not read one of THE most important and stunning books of the decade on this subject.
http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Valor-Vietnam-Generation-History/dp/096670360X
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