| Woodstock!
Posted: 9/6/2009 8:12:59 AM | OK this is late but this past Aug was the 40 anniversary of Woodstock! Maybe I should have had a Woodstock party. Most people around here get excited about a new CD release of The Moron Tabernacle Choir.
Now were any other fishies there? It really was a fun weekend and no I didn't take any of the Bad Acid eap I was there and came home to my Draft Notice! One day a long hair Surfer/ Hippy then the next a bald headed privet in OD green. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 8:28:50 AM | Ohhhh yesssss.. I was there in full flower mode! 
Warm enough summer temps, so the rain was no hassle to me.. nothing was any sort of hassle to me..
I have it all filed under "what a FANTASTIC trip".
I'm with you, wouldn't be anyone around here that I know of to invite to a "remember Woodstock party".  | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 8:35:44 AM | --Nope, not at Woodstock, but who, in our age group, doesn't remember the era?
I lived in Kent Ohio during that time....a year later the shootings on campus...Marshall Law overtook the town...sweetheart off to Vietnam...............powerful time of transitions. Whew. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 8:51:59 AM | Never did the music scene .. or drugs .. so I missed it.
However, I remember the times. 2 older ssters were Berkley protestors. I was protesting 'within the system' Engaged to a guy I had join the marines to break the apron strings his mommy had on him. grins. Luckily he came home alive or I am not sure how bad I would feel for having had him join.
We were doing our own love-ins out here on the West Coast.... sensitivity training. Ahhhhhhhh... shudder... the memories. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 8:56:03 AM | robin williams says that if you remember woodstock you weren't there.
actually, that weekend i was at travis afb awaiting my flight to vietnam. at least we had better weather it sounds like. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 9:10:36 AM | ..., I do remember Woodstock. And at the time I was a young Canadian teenage girl whose only concern was boys, clothes and make-up....in that order. Hey, things haven't changed much over the years.
But seriously I do remember following it on the news, seems like a million years ago.
...maeflowers | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 12:02:17 PM | I do not remember Woodstock. Was not into the rock music and not at all counterculture until I started college....then I threw myself into it wholeheartedly. But didn't know anything about Woodstock until after. It really hasn't much meaning for me as my musical tastes did not stay very long with hard rock. But, Jimi was from Seattle (my region of the world), and my first serious relationship, was with a guy who looked very, very like him..... funny reason to fall for someone, but I was only 19...and we ended up being together 3 years, so it couldn't have been totally superficial... | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 12:21:04 PM | Did you see the movie Taking Woodstock? It was amazing.
gives an appreciation of what an absolute miracle it was to have even happened... | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 1:10:00 PM | That week I was off camping with a bunch of my girlfriends...... had our own fun! Geeez, that was a good time!!
As soon as we returned, my friends and I went to a mini Woodstock, that was being held in East Lansing (home of Michigan State Univ.)....it was the best we could do without being in the large scale madness.
If there was a "peace sign" icon......it would be here....... | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 1:20:52 PM |
robin williams says that if you remember woodstock you weren't there.  He's partially right, funny guy! It would be more like if you remember woodstock you weren't smokin' much pot or dropping much acid.
I would never be able to tell you many 'facts' about my 5 days there.. in other words, I don't remember exactly what I did on this day and what I did on that day, or what music was playing half the time, that's for darn sure, lol.
It was just all goooooooooooood sounds.
I just remember the wonder and togetherness of it all.
Wandering back in the woods where the hog farm was set up... yeah, I remember that.
The guy I went with, I sure remember him.
I think I remember only sleeping twice, but I don't remember where we laid down.
I remember sitting with a group of people and sharing food.
I remember the relief that we brought our own acid, when I heard the warnings go around.
I remember mostly walking around in a daze of "wow wow wow". | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 1:29:35 PM | "Never did the music scene .. or drugs .. so I missed it. "
Me too. Not anything I wanted to be involved in. I have often thought that the drug culture of that time turned into todays drug culture. So much adiction, so many lives that could have been more productive if they didn't follow the pack.
"Was not into the rock music and not at all counterculture "
Seemed to me too much like wanting to change the world, but only managing create more problems. If the drugs had been left out, more of those changes might have had a better outcome. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 2:01:39 PM | I was in Seattle at the time, so I missed it. But ever since then, I've preferred Richie Havens' version of Here Comes the Sun to the Beatles.
And to whoever said something about the drug counterculture leading to today's addictions, phooey. It was rebellion, pure and simple. More likely, today's addicts got more from their parents/grandparents who should have starred in Days of Wine and Roses. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 2:14:10 PM | | --^^^oh me TOO!!--always the Richie Havens version! And Joe****r looked just like my "sweetheart" --love his music, he just gets better! Crosby, Stills, Nash...Joan Baez.....ah...singin' in my head now.................... | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 2:21:42 PM | I wasn't there except in spirit. My beloved had just left for Viet Nam and I was off to college in Oregon.
Shivers, waves of emotion flooding me now. And the music . . . was here ever any time like that for sheer unadulterated PAIN and PLEASURE?
^^^^^Morningsong, I'm so sorry you were in Kent when it all came down. That day I couldn't stop crying. Every time I see that picture, you know the one, it all comes back.
Good thing we were STONED because if we hadn't been we'd be crazier now than we are!
Callothewild | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 2:32:45 PM | I was too young to be at woodstock and way too far to have snuck up there, but I was sure following it.
I have always sort of collected info about it and talk a lot about it to anyone I ever meet that was there.
So why the fascination? I don't know. I have always been quite spiritual and I feel strong moves of the spirit. I think that is it. Something special clearly happened there, outside of the whole drug scene. There was a certain change in the world that coincided with the event. It was almost like the cosmos allowed one big party, drawn by spirit (even if inhabited by drugs), lead by music, the real spiritual communicator, before the big and final loss of innocence in the world.
I have never seen the movie mentioned above, but want to. No one around me seemed at all interested in the 40th anniversary. I started a thread in one of these forums, but it must have been considered chat because it disappeared. I guess the biggest thing to impress me is that a few years later I found that so many of the artist that moved me and changed me were at Woodstock.
Breath~I read your profile. It made me laugh and cry. You are truly a unique and very cool woman. Much love and peace to you.  | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 3:12:37 PM | I attended 3 pop festivals, but I missed Woodstock. I wasn't into any heavy drugs. We just smoked pot and drank Boone's Farm wine. I do remember the great music. Too bad I never got to see Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin or Jim Morrison in person. What great artists.
Woodstock was such a defining cultural moment, I think even for the baby boomers who missed it, we are all somehow influenced by the cultural phenomenon.
And if you do remember Woodstock, 40 years ago we baby boomers were described as a lost and hopeless culture of druggies all going straight to hell. Funny now how, in retrospect, we were seen as such a peace loving culture, and a culture who fiercely fought against war and violence. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 4:05:51 PM | | When I was just a kid I heard about Woodstock . I thought it was Woodstock Minn which is a very small town in SW Minn. I told my brother lets go down there it was about 15 miles sw of us. he said it was the wrong Woodstock and we laugh about it to this day. hey give me a break only 10 years old . | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 4:16:03 PM | You know..... whenever I feel the need to celebrate and relive the sound of loud music accompanied by the smell of urine wafting in the air from no toilet facilities.......I make it a point to simply put on my Ipod, crank up Santana and head to the nearest El station in downtown Chicago............. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 5:03:06 PM |
And to whoever said something about the drug counterculture leading to today's addictions, phooey. It was rebellion, pure and simple. More likely, today's addicts got more from their parents/grandparents who should have starred in Days of Wine and Roses.
I agree. I had my share and then some of the sixties counterculture, then grew up and moved on. No excuses for those who didn't, and more's the pity for those who couldn't.
I often wonder when as a generation we stopped using our voice to disapprove of the government and it's covert activities. In the sixties the voices against Bush, Cheney and their war would have been louder. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2009 11:41:05 PM | I was too young and in another country, so I've got good excuses..
But bought the album and it got played at many a party..
And we had our own music festivals after that, particularly one at Sunbury. I wasn't allowed to go..but I would have loved it.
Woodstock would have been UNREAL. I'm soooo jealous of you, Breath. It would have been amazing to see all those legendary musicians live and at their finest. How did you get there? Did you hitch? Do you remember ANY of the bands?
Nowadays, concerts are so different. Those free-and-easy days...ahhh... | |
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Posted: 9/7/2009 3:23:49 AM | when woodstock was on i was hitchhiking the eastern coast of australia with my future husband. when we'd travelled a 1000 miles north we met up with some other people from melbourne.
we then had our own "woodstock"....on memory our whole life was a "woodstock." many happy memories.....and lots of times i can't remember.....
.....it was all good.
i do remember catching the train back to melbourne from brisbane. all we had to eat was a bag of oranges.
ah.....those were the days.....
people don't hitchhike these days....it's against the law now.....mainly because of a notorious serial murderer who buried all his victims in a state forest not far from a main highway. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2009 4:11:58 AM | not at all counterculture until I started college. Someone quoted me, but incompletely. I was a very nice, good girl throughout high school. I graduated in 1969 (wasn't that the 'Summer of Love'?) and started college that fall. Until I started college, I was not into the counter culture, hard rock, or drugs. I was not aware of Woodstock. I remember vaguely later on, one or two years later, listening to the album, as we all sat around smoking pot and drinking cheap wine, listing to Jimi Hendricks, Janice Joplin, Richie Havens, etc. But at the time it was happening, I had no awareness of Woodstock.
I do think that "...the drug counterculture [has lead]" to today's problems with drugs. The seventies was the era when drug taking really took off among the teenagers...became so prevalent and common...high school kids getting stoned as a normal occurrence. The 60's lead to the 70's and drugs became more deeply embedded into the fabric of modern culture in the 70's and 80's because of the acceptance they gained in the 60's counterculture. And the problem has just grown. I'm not saying the use of drugs today would not have happened if we hadn't opened the door in the 60's; maybe it would have come about in another way, but I do believe that the 'sex, drugs, and rock n roll' theme of the 60's opened the door for drug use and lead, directly, to the drug problem we have today. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2009 5:23:40 AM | You know..... whenever I feel the need to celebrate and relive the sound of loud music accompanied by the smell of urine wafting in the air from no toilet facilities.......I make it a point to simply put on my Ipod, crank up Santana and head to the nearest El station in downtown Chicago
you just can't catch the same grove if you ain't gots the rose colored shades and some green acid.... | |
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Posted: 9/7/2009 7:29:05 AM | I wasnt there but I just watched a multi disc documentary about it last month. What I found interesting was that it was so massively popular but after a few hours the gates were overwhelmed and hardly anyone actually paid to get in. The guy who organized it actually lost money on the whole thing even though it was the most famous and largest concert event ever.
Another thing that stood out was the chief of police saying that "if more kids were like the ones at that came for this, the world would be a better place." He was really impressed, although a lot of the locals didnt look nearly so impressed with the hundreds walking through their yards. But there was no violence or any major incidents - that probably had to do with a lot of people being stoned lol.
Last thing I noticed was how much stuff was left behind when it was over. After all the rain and slogging stuff around that got absolutely filthy, a lot of people just dumped their belongings and left. This might have been a peaceful and happy crowd but they obviously didnt give a rip about their environmental impact. It was pretty gross. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2009 7:40:55 AM | I was only ten at the time and living in rural OK. Breath, how fortunate you were to be there!
Kent State was such a horrific event as was the whole Vietnam war. In my hometown in OK, we have a memorial to our Vietnam vets. Very few of them came home and the ones who did, did not come home without serious injury to live with for a lifetime. I can still remember being in 4th grade and my teacher finding out that her son was killed. My friend's brother was killed the same week.
I saw "Taking Back Woodstock" this weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. I just wish there had been more music in it. | |
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