16-08-2009, 09:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-08-2009, 02:56 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Am I the only one here who was there? For me it was only 10% the music - the rest was a new view of how society could be!
Overview here, but not capturing the 'mood' and how it differed from the society I had before that been imbedded in - and was separate from afterwards. It changed me - and it was not the music.....which was just background to the event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival
I saw/felt it as a transformative and very political event. State Troopers in the middle of the mob I saw handed joints or naked swimmers were within their sight, etc. Few smoked the joints, but they also didn't dare make any arrest. The People were in power - not the 'authorities' nor their laws.
I'm also one of the few who didn't get wet in the heavy rains. I was invited to be in a tent in the forest to the right side of the stage and was in it during the rains. When I emerged, however, the mud was knee deep in places and everyone else was soaked-through. I even have a few seconds of fame in the movie. [just after the rainfall scene and the drummers drumming about the return of the sun]
After Woodstock I took a new look at my entire life and principals [which were VERY political and socially-aware before]...and altered them further. After I travellled to S.F. to see what was going on and then returned in Fall to my University - the year of the 'terror' by the FBI and other agents provocateurs....
Overview here, but not capturing the 'mood' and how it differed from the society I had before that been imbedded in - and was separate from afterwards. It changed me - and it was not the music.....which was just background to the event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_festival
I saw/felt it as a transformative and very political event. State Troopers in the middle of the mob I saw handed joints or naked swimmers were within their sight, etc. Few smoked the joints, but they also didn't dare make any arrest. The People were in power - not the 'authorities' nor their laws.
I'm also one of the few who didn't get wet in the heavy rains. I was invited to be in a tent in the forest to the right side of the stage and was in it during the rains. When I emerged, however, the mud was knee deep in places and everyone else was soaked-through. I even have a few seconds of fame in the movie. [just after the rainfall scene and the drummers drumming about the return of the sun]
After Woodstock I took a new look at my entire life and principals [which were VERY political and socially-aware before]...and altered them further. After I travellled to S.F. to see what was going on and then returned in Fall to my University - the year of the 'terror' by the FBI and other agents provocateurs....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass