Re: I Was At Woodstock. And I Hated It.
George&Dick@Gitmo
"NOT A REPUBLICAN HIPPY"
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> Stop being nostalgic for the 40-year-old concert. It was wet, crowded, and
> overhyped.
>
> By Mark Hosenball | Newsweek Web Exclusive
> Aug 12, 2009
>
> If it's toxic to overdose on saccharine, then over the next few days, you
> should try to avoid the gathering deluge of reminiscence about Woodstock.
> It's the 40th anniversary of the upstate New York rock-and-roll
> extravaganza, and we in the media are already gorging ourselves on hazy
> recollections of the event-memories borne not so much from what actually
> happened, but from what hippie folklore says happened and from how popular
> imagination and wishful thinking transformed a chaotic mudfest into an
> epic pageant of peace and love. This wallow in artificially sweetened
> nostalgia is being supplemented by entertainment-industry efforts to
> exploit the occasion: according to The Associated Press, we'll soon be
> blessed with a remastered music CD of the festival, a new director's-cut
> DVD of the original film epic Woodstock, and a Woodstock comedy called
> Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee. Several anniversary concerts have
> also been scheduled at the site of Max Yasgur's farm, which now features a
> concert stage and a museum dedicated to the 1960s.
>
> As an authentic Woodstock attendee (or should I say victim?), I hate to
> rain on the procession of warm memories and good vibrations, but I will
> say this: wake up, folks. For some-maybe quite a few of us-who made the
> journey, Woodstock was, if not a nightmare, then a massive, teeming,
> squalid mess. If you like colossal traffic jams, torrential rain, reeking
> portable johns, barely edible food, and sprawling, disorganized crowds,
> then you would have found Woodstock a treat. For those of us who saw those
> things as a hassle, good music did not necessarily offset the discomfort.
> OK, for a lot of us who figured on buying tickets at the gate-and then
> arrived at the site to find that no box offices had been built-the fact
> that we got to hear top acts gratis was some compensation for the
> unpleasantness. And the spirit of the massive crowd, even if chemically
> mellowed by THC and other mood enhancers, was congenial, tolerant, and at
> times stoic. But in hindsight, what was Woodstock's bottom line? That
> 500,000 people jammed into in a mudhole didn't fight, riot, or annihilate
> each other? Is the fact that such a large crowd didn't become violent and
> start killing each other (albeit serenaded by sometimes brilliant musical
> performances) Woodstock's principal legacy? What's the big deal?
>
> http://www.newsweek.com/id/211496
I was in the County Jail for pot and if you remember Woodstock then you
weren't doing a thing right.
Jim Colegrove
<notarepub...@saynotophonywoodstockhippies.com> wrote:
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>Stop being nostalgic for the 40-year-old concert. It was wet, crowded, and
>overhyped.
>
>By Mark Hosenball | Newsweek Web Exclusive
>Aug 12, 2009
>
>If it's toxic to overdose on saccharine, then over the next few days, you
>should try to avoid the gathering deluge of reminiscence about Woodstock.
>It's the 40th anniversary of the upstate New York rock-and-roll
>extravaganza, and we in the media are already gorging ourselves on hazy
>recollections of the event�memories borne not so much from what actually
>happened, but from what hippie folklore says happened and from how popular
>imagination and wishful thinking transformed a chaotic mudfest into an epic
>pageant of peace and love. This wallow in artificially sweetened nostalgia
>is being supplemented by entertainment-industry efforts to exploit the
>occasion: according to The Associated Press, we'll soon be blessed with a
>remastered music CD of the festival, a new director's-cut DVD of the
>original film epic Woodstock, and a Woodstock comedy called Taking
>Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee. Several anniversary concerts have also been
>scheduled at the site of Max Yasgur's farm, which now features a concert
>stage and a museum dedicated to the 1960s.
>
>As an authentic Woodstock attendee (or should I say victim?), I hate to rain
>on the procession of warm memories and good vibrations, but I will say this:
>wake up, folks. For some�maybe quite a few of us�who made the journey,
>Woodstock was, if not a nightmare, then a massive, teeming, squalid mess. If
>you like colossal traffic jams, torrential rain, reeking portable johns,
>barely edible food, and sprawling, disorganized crowds, then you would have
>found Woodstock a treat. For those of us who saw those things as a hassle,
>good music did not necessarily offset the discomfort. OK, for a lot of us
>who figured on buying tickets at the gate�and then arrived at the site to
>find that no box offices had been built�the fact that we got to hear top
>acts gratis was some compensation for the unpleasantness. And the spirit of
>the massive crowd, even if chemically mellowed by THC and other mood
>enhancers, was congenial, tolerant, and at times stoic. But in hindsight,
>what was Woodstock's bottom line? That 500,000 people jammed into in a
>mudhole didn't fight, riot, or annihilate each other? Is the fact that such
>a large crowd didn't become violent and start killing each other (albeit
>serenaded by sometimes brilliant musical performances) Woodstock's principal
>legacy? What's the big deal?
>
>http://www.newsweek.com/id/211496
>
Must have been the brown acid.
Jim Colegrove
www.lostcountry.com
Geno4321
It was that Red Neck Bitch that wandered into Woodstock idiot.
"NOT A REPUBLICAN HIPPY"
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Mr. M
wrote:
>Another idiot that caught the Clap at Woodstock.
>It was that Red Neck Bitch that wandered into Woodstock idiot.
>
It's really dumb to criticize somebody for saying they had a bad time
at Woodstock - it's just his opinion - not everyone can be expected to
have had a good time there, some people had a rotten time - it's like
that with anything. It's not like he had a rotten time at the mosque
and told everybody that Allah sucks.
Mr. M