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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:07:21 +0000

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By: Michael Croy

Michael Croy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:09:13 +0000

muffler thinks this was a big deal. fair enough. I wasn’t at Woodstock, but I did attend a similar type of event at Steven’s Point Wisconsin. 3 days of music, lots of dope, Hell’s Angels screwing with people a la Altamont. The sound system ran about 20 hours a day. After about 48 hours I managed to fall asleep and some joker tipped over a soda bottle and fired a bottle rocket into my sleeping bag. It burned the flesh off my colarbone, which was already sunburned and was subsequently exposed to 90 degree sun directly on the burn as my tank top was the only shirt I had and there was no first aid readily available. Just watch the movie of Woodstock and see how “heavy” it was. People walking around without clothing (that’s a throwback of approx 3000 years easy), Arlo Guthrie announcing to the multitudes how he was “rapping to the Fuzz…dig it…far out..etc” I was right in there with them all and I cringe when I watch the footage. Hope I’ve learned something in the interim.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:11:19 +0000

muffler, that PS applied to you, I suspect.

It was a concert. Great. Glad you recognize that. But that is all it was, a concert. A big money-making opportunity for the promoters, with a little bit for the performers.

By: Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » Let me rain on your Woodstock parade

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:15:45 +0000

[...] Blue Crab and I are on the same wavelength, and he links to the funniest [put down your drink right now] illustrated translation (captioned for the clearheaded) of Joe Cocker’s rendition of “I’ll get by with a little help from my friends.” [...]

By: muffler

muffler — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:10:14 +0000

Now we have heard all the cliches and standard anti-everything. The only ones who can’t get over themselves are the ones who seem to have to keep saying how “bad” the people, the idea, the mud and the drugs were at woodstock.

Woodstock was an example of 400,000 people getting together and experiencing 3 days of their lives. It hurt no one and provided a time capsule of the era. I find it interesting that regardless of your age today you will get the same responses from people based on personalities and other factors.

The mud was one day and no different then if you were camping and it rained. The pot was what it was. It’s not like the kids were raiding homes in the Bethel area and terrorizing people.

To everyone who hates the concept of kids getting together (some who served in Vietnam and some on their way) to listen to music and defy their parents – get over it. You don’t hate woodstock… you hate what it represented and still represents. You always will.

By: Steve Burri

Steve Burri — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:23:45 +0000

Parkinson’s does terrible things to a man.

It sounded like an accurate translation.

By: Jules Crittenden » Woodstock, Celebrating 40 Years Of …

Jules Crittenden » Woodstock, Celebrating 40 Years Of … — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:17:31 +0000

[...] Blue Crab wonders at the mystery of it all: How did a lot of dopes on dope in a muddy field turn into a watershed moment in American history? [...]