OMG--I Don't Believe It...It Was THAT Long Ago?

Woodstock Poster - image of the Woodstock poster
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
August 14, 2009 3:14am CST
Just watching something on the news that forty years ago one of the greatest music festival occurred-----WOODSTOCK and I'm thinking...crap was it THAT long ago--talk about feeling like an old fartI was only thirteen years old when Woodstock happened and way to young to have been there in person, but have seen the Woodstock movie (both versions...theatrical and extended) For those of you too young...the Woodstock Festival took place August 15th to August 18th 1969 and was coined the festival of three days of peace, love and music as it was the largest ever get together of people recorded for a music festival. Originally only 5,000 people were expected at that now famous Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm.....instead over half a million people showed up. Considering the number of people that were there, it really WAS a peaceable celebration...no fights, no murders, everyone was mellow--oh course maybe since most people were stoned out of their minds.... Woodstock epitomized that whole hippie, peace and love movement I was to grow up in For more particulars of Woodstock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival The list of performers is legendary and too numerous to list Grateful Dead, Crosby,Stills & Nash, Richie Havens, Ten Years After, Country Joe & the Fish, Jefferson Airplane,Santana, The Who, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix..and on and on..one can see a full list at that link I give Can you ever imagine so many people getting together now without a scuffle, fist fight, murder? For those old enough..did you go? Do you think a Woodstock could ever be re-created again with that same mood?
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sid556
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
14 Aug 09
Hi Pye, I was too young to go to Woodstock but old enough to wish I could. I have seen some of the footage. There was another attempt at Woodstock a few years ago and I was told that it just was not the same at all. I think it would be nearly impossible to create that same atmosphere after all these years. I also heard that their were deaths in the first one due to some bad acid being passed around. I don't know how much truth there is to that. It was a cool time in our history...so many changes going on in the country at that time.
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pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Aug 09
I remember there was a 25th anniversary Woodstock event in 1994 I think, and even back then I thought..gee, it's been 25 years?? Forget who the performers were that participated but sure wouldn't have been the same anyway
sid556
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
15 Aug 09
Ya...that sounds about right. I have a good friend that went and he said it was not anything the same. The first one just happened and was not expected to turn out the way it did. You can't recreate that.
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nova1945
@nova1945 (1612)
• United States
14 Aug 09
Wouldn't that be nice? Nowadays you can't get a soccer game organized without a fight, let alone a concert with that many people. Sad that everything is about money now and disputes can only be resolved with violence and stupidity.
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pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Aug 09
LOL--yes I've often heard how rowdy people can get at soccer games..think they take the sport just a tad too seriously
Kashmeresmycat
@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
15 Aug 09
Wow! I can't believe its been that long Pye, and I feel like an old fart too. I was old enough to go but didn't. Too busy with my own life back then to care about it. I thought they tried to do this again but it didn't work, maybe I'm wrong. Oh well, too much Grunge and Rap today for these younger one's to be interested I guess.
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pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Aug 09
Yes they did a 25th Anniversary show in 1994---and no probably wasn't the same as the music had changed so much by then