Did you go to woodstock?
2007-12-16 06:07:55 · 5 answers · asked by jemark 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I didn't go to Woodstock. I went to Altamont, though! I wouldn't say I was a hippie, but we were all a little bit hippie back then.
Kids in my generation were all much more politically aware than kids today. When we were in high school we had Viet Nam hanging over our head (well, boys at least). There was a draft in those days, so by the time we were seniors in high school we all knew whether we wanted to go or not. Most not. Before we graduated we knew how to avoid the draft, if we didn't want to go. We all went to huge protest rallies. We'd be having them again today if we had a draft.
The hippie 'movement' started some very big cultural trends, in fashion, music, art, and our attitude about drugs. 8^) You didn't have to be a hippie to wear love beads or grannie glasses, or to smoke pot, lots of people did.
2007-12-16 06:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't go because I had to work that week-end, but we did sell tickets to Woodstock at my record store. It turned out the tickets were worthless because they broke down the fences on Friday night and people went in for free. While Janis Joplin was in town to do Woodstock she also performed at Electric Lady Land which was a combination night club and recording studio on 8th Street in NY, owned by Jimi Hendrix. I went to that. It was a great time to be young and a student.
2007-12-16 14:28:06 · answer #2 · answered by hfrankmann 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I also didn't go to Woodstock, it was 3,000 miles away, but Monterey Jazz Festival and Altamont, the concerts that started the music-hippie movement, and the one that essentially ended it.
Please remember, the true hippies with long hair, tye-dye, music, drugs, etc. made up only about .1% of the population. They were massively influential, but they weren't all that numerous.
2007-12-16 14:28:45 · answer #3 · answered by John B 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That little naked kid on the cover of the Woodstock album was me. Later I died in 'Nam.
2007-12-16 14:20:01 · answer #4 · answered by Hera Sent Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like hippies, breaking down fences to get in - what a sense of entitlement. They also peed and pooped on the ground, and broke down farmers' PRIVATE fences for firewood. They all felt that if they wanted something, they were entitled to take it.
Nasty selfish people, a nasty selfish time. I'm SOOO glad I am not part of that generation. Yuck.
Love, Jack
2007-12-16 15:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋