I am SO sick of Woodstock.

I will be SO happy when the 'Woodstock remembrance frenzy' is OVAR.

In reply to Jensenman:

No E36 M3. My F-I-L has been reminiscing for the last month about how he almost was there but then his buddies decided not to go and he was without a ride.

Last summer he went to the tourist shop (I mean "Town") of Woodstock and paid $6 for a magnet of the event poster that was obviously a low-res photo printed with a tired inkjet.

Drink some of the "electric" soda. Drop a purple microdot or half an orange barrel. Then watch the video..

You'll be fine.

It has become another one of those stories that pops up again and again generating some more viewers to sell more some toilet paper and pharmaceuticals. Oh yeah, and beer. It is a stale story in terms of watching the same old rehash of events again and again and again.

Nice farmer, amateur promoters, naked people, drugs, mud, ROCK!!, summer of love, cut paste and repeat.

But it was one hell of a concert!! The movie rocks!!! I will happily keep it in my head on my own terms.

so how long did it take for people to decide that the contents of a microdot might be harmful to the human mind?

So, any hippies that bumped uglies and got pregnant while there... Those babies are 9 monthes away from being over the hill!

Joey

Taiden wrote: so how long did it take for people to decide that the contents of a microdot might be harmful to the human mind?

Wait... so people used to eat these things?

Taiden wrote: so how long did it take for people to decide that the contents of a microdot might be harmful to the human mind?

I rather bizarrely know several muti millionaires. They have ALL done and do heaps of acid and e and shrooms and weed while swilling vodka and wine whatever the hell else they could and can get their hands on. Mind you they all got rich selling totally useless software and websites during the .com frenzy in san francisco during the mid to late 90's. But still. And of course now that they all have E36 M3loads of money they keep making multiples more. And they still swill drugs on weekends like fish drink. San Francisco is a very stoned and very capitalistic city, and many many many of the supposedly brilliant people at google and wherever down on the peninsula happily make the commute in order to live in "The City" so they can get baked often and thoroughly in a parade of vibrant humanity that is difficult to explain, particularly if you have lived there. Lets call it technicolor squared.

Jensenman wrote: I will be SO happy when the 'Woodstock remembrance frenzy' is OVAR.

You want Michael Jackson?

NYG95GA wrote: Drink some of the "electric" soda. Drop a purple microdot or half an orange barrel. Then watch the video.. You'll be fine.

Just stay away from the brown acid, man.

Jensenman wrote: I will be SO happy when the 'Woodstock remembrance frenzy' is OVAR.

Amen to you Mr Jensenman. That little berkeleying bird has been stealing Snoopy's limelight for years.

VH1 Classic has some good stuff on about Woodstock, which I really enjoyed.

I dunno--I liked the retrospectives. At least it was something positive...

Have you noticed the people that were at Woodstock have become the people they hated? You know, ...the man?

This last celebration was anything but free. And of course we now have a museum paid for with tax dollars...that I doubt is free to enter. I could be wrong.

Woodstock was a moment in time that has passed. You can't go home again.

spitfirebill wrote: Have you noticed the people that were at Woodstock have become the people they hated? You know, ...the man?

Funny thing about defining your culture as "youth" - you're inevitably going to define yourself right out of it. Abbie Hoffman grew up to become a stockbroker.

walterj wrote:

Jensenman wrote: I will be SO happy when the 'Woodstock remembrance frenzy' is OVAR.

Amen to you Mr Jensenman. That little berkeleying bird has been stealing Snoopy's limelight for years.

And don't even get me started on Conrad.

spitfirebill wrote: ...Woodstock was a moment in time that has passed. You can't go home again.

Oh, I don't know......I still have a '67 Sprite that I bought in '69. It still transforms me when I get in it.

Also, as a guy well into his fifth decade on this rock, I think I'm quite different than older folks (the man? ) who were around during the late '60s. I think my attitudes about society, race, religion, war, politics and so forth are much different. I'm a centrist, but even my conservative friends are much more liberal than those folks used to be.

Of course it wasn't just Woodstock......lots of other causes made the '60s interesting too.

Anyway, I love hearing the music from those times. PBS just did a thing last weekend with Hendrix, Joe Cocker, The Who, etc. It was amazing.

By the way, one thing I'm getting tired of hearing is:

"in these troubled times"

We're being oppressed by the sheer number of baby boomers. We all know everything they did was sooo much cooler than what any other generation did.

Don't worry, Xceler8x. The new "healthcare reform" is designed to kill off the baby boomers instead of providing them with the same level of care their parents receive. Next up will be "cap and trade," something that will continue to blast through congress after "healthcare reform" and before the end of the year, according to my senator on his townhall call. Next will come "fixing" Social Security, which we can translate as "we're gonna screw the baby boomers out of it and call it even." Been paying into the system for the last 50 years? Oh well. Joke's on you.

If you were born between 1946 and 1961, get ready for the screwing.

I haven't paid any attention to the Woodstock stuff. I think he's a cute little bird, but not near as cool as Snoopy.

Tim Baxter wrote:

walterj wrote:

Jensenman wrote: I will be SO happy when the 'Woodstock remembrance frenzy' is OVAR.

Amen to you Mr Jensenman. That little berkeleying bird has been stealing Snoopy's limelight for years.

And don't even get me started on Conrad.

Conrad was always my favorite, likely because that's my first name.

Whenever someone waxes poetic about Woodstock, I remind them of THIS.

Yes, Sha Na Na played Woodstock.

slantvaliant wrote: Whenever someone waxes poetic about Woodstock, I remind them of THIS. Yes, Sha Na Na played Woodstock.

Haha! Thanks, that was Great!

~Here's My Favourite~

Just think if M. Jackson had been there. Yeah I know. And it didn't even take place in Woodstock.

iceracer wrote: . And it didn't even take place in Woodstock.

The next largest event at the time, the Atlanta Pop Festival, was held in Byron (at a racetrack!), about 100 miles from Atlanta. Would've loved to have gone, but I was 15 at the time, had no car or license, and had to work at the Burger Chef that weekend.

Jensenman wrote: I will be SO happy when the 'Woodstock remembrance frenzy' is OVAR.

Ah, I liked the music. I have the old vinyl LP around, and I've seen the film a couple of times.

But in August 1969, I was a 7yr old kid living on the Gulf Coast, and worried about this:

http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecamille.htm

I still remember my dad almost dancing when the storm track moved east..and being hunkered down through some terrible stuff, even though the center of the storm passed 200mi away from us..

Let me preface this by saying that I'm 27.

Why is it that the same people who turned that field in to a barf-covered trash heap are looking down their collective nose at me from behind the wheel of a supposedly 'green' Prius? "Save the world...man!" Sheesh, I went to Mid-Ohio and got drunk on all three days and cleaned up every bit of trash I made that weekend.