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55 years post Woodstock

noonereal said:
Lol i am loving your posts now that i know better than to take them seriously.
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This is not a counter-argument. Go ahead and show how hopelessness was a significant component of the peace and love counterculture.
 
RF667799 said:
Woodstock was a gathering focused on music and nonviolent protest in the name of peace and love. Many of the artists and the spectators were there in protest of the ongoing Vietnam War. Several of the most famous Woodstock performances reflect this viewpoint. Woodstock was also widely celebrated and attended by hippies who were openly agaisnt the Vietnam War. Festival organizers advertised that anyone who purchased a ticket (before the event became free) was contributing to the protest of the Vietnam War. Several of the artists gave anti-war speeches as well.

https://nationalhistorydaywoodstock.weebly.com/the-protest.html
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Your link is complete bullshit.

Peace.
 
jpevans said:
One of my 1st antiwar protests was Vietnam Veterans against the War event. A couple friends were active in that group.
I don’t know who was a Vietnam Veteran among the players at Woodstock, I do know Jon Fogerty was a vet but not ‘nam. 🧨🔥🧽💣🪶⚡️💥
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Country Joe was a vet. Billy Cox, Larry Lee and the one and only Jimi Hendrix also served.
 
noonereal said:
It is 55 years today since Woodstock was taking place.

Watching the movie again, the contrast between kids today and kids back then was startlingly

I am very serious, where and why we go off tracks?
Life was not nearly as cushy as today and there was not way way more going on.

There was a very big divide between the boomers and the great generation but kids, the boomers respected the great generation.

Today, the word respect is lost post boomers. Maybe because they never had to go to war as the boomers did?

Honestly, what has gone wrong with our youth?
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The 60's was a great time to live. The current pathetic version of liberalism took over.
 
noonereal said:
Country Joe was a vet.
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The song's lyrics implicitly blame American politicians, high-level military officers, and industry corporations on starting the Vietnam War. McDonald composed "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" in the summer of 1965, just as the U.S.'s military involvement was increasing, and was intensively opposed by the young generation.[6] It expresses discontent towards the process of conscription, through the use of dark humor, and culminating in a reflection of casualties of the war, as hinted in the satirical invitation to "be the first one on your block, to have your boy come home in a box". In addition, the song features a signature chorus:

And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopie! We're all gonna die![7]
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The album version concludes with the uttering of several light machine guns firing and a final explosion, evoking the dropping of another atomic bomb.[8]
 
One of the scenes I remember watching about Woodstock was of a young woman using her family’s farm tractor to pull the vehicles out of the muck and mire from the rain that descended on the festival. I found out many years later that she was the daughter of the farmers I used to play with when we used to visit when I was a youngin. Their farm abutted Yasgurs farm.
 
Gimmesometruth said:
The song's lyrics implicitly blame American politicians, high-level military officers, and industry corporations on starting the Vietnam War. McDonald composed "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" in the summer of 1965, just as the U.S.'s military involvement was increasing, and was intensively opposed by the young generation.[6] It expresses discontent towards the process of conscription, through the use of dark humor, and culminating in a reflection of casualties of the war, as hinted in the satirical invitation to "be the first one on your block, to have your boy come home in a box". In addition, the song features a signature chorus:


The album version concludes with the uttering of several light machine guns firing and a final explosion, evoking the dropping of another atomic bomb.[8]
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Lol
I know these lyrics by heart.

Yeah, this is proof the concert was an antiwar event.

Funny thing is, everyone i know bought tickets for the music.
I don't know anyone that went as part of any war protester.

Maybe what the red necks in your neighborhood painted it as but it wasnt.

Like that ridiculous article that was posted here.
 
Dudes, I wasn't at Woodstock but if I could have been I would have been. It seems to me Woodstock was what it became for everyone who attended or wanted to but couldn't. Sure, some went intending to make a difference in the war while having fun at the same time. Some just went to hear music and have fun. Some went because it was exactly the kind of thing you could do back then. It was real. It was not at all over commercialized.

From what I know very few people headed out to Woodstock having any idea it would be what it became. It is a waste of time arguing over a once in forever event. As Buffalo Springfield sang, "Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.

I am fortunate to have lived in that time. Woodstock changed all of us. My regret is that we lost the promise that we learned. It is no surprise to me that Woodstock is celebrated every year.
 
noonereal said:
Yeah, this is proof the concert was an antiwar event.
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You still can't remember my argument. I said it was an anti-war concert.

Now, this response was to show what kind of a vet McDonald was. He was an anti-war vet, wrote anti-war songs and sang them at Woodstock. He was like many of the artists that made it an anti-war concert.
noonereal said:
Funny thing is, everyone i know bought tickets for the music.
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I can't help that you were isolated from the ideas at that show and of the late 60's US counterculture.
noonereal said:
I don't know anyone that went as part of any war protester.
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I get it, you did not not see any anti-war elements in the audience, the performers, the organizers...
noonereal said:
Maybe what the red necks in your neighborhood painted it as but it wasnt.
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I know, I didn't see any any anti-war activities at my home, in my family, on TV......and you know what I saw, heard, felt....

edit: To add, "rednecks" in Phx in the 60's hated the hippies, supported the war...

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noonereal said:
Like that ridiculous article that was posted here.
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Can you remember what it said?
 
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I guess that everyone who was there can have whatever memories you want. If you weren’t there, keep your opinions to yourself. 🎶🥁🪘
 
I had a chance to go on the back of a Harley chopper (extended forks). It was a last minute thing and my parents ( i was 15) would have locked me up till I was 18.
 
Woodstock quiz of the day:

Why did Sha Na Na perform at workstock?

They played 50s stuff, totally out of sync for the concert.
 
anatta said:
I had a chance to go on the back of a Harley chopper (extended forks). It was a last minute thing and my parents ( i was 15) would have locked me up till I was 18.
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Lol, was 15 too. My parents didn't care.
I went pretty much anywhere anytime.

It wasn't like today.
 
jpevans said:
Just guessing, they were available. 🤠☠️😉😳🙄🤡
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Nope, Hendrix had seen them and found them quirky and interesting. He got the humor of it all. Anyway, he insisted they be given the gig.
 
noonereal said:
Your link is complete bullshit.

Peace.
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I thank you for so reasonably and clearly expressing yourself. Now everyone can see exactly what is wrong with it.
 
noonereal said:
Nope, Hendrix had seen them and found them quirky and interesting. He got the humor of it all. Anyway, he insisted they be given the gig.
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No he didn't.
 
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