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Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 7:40am
jadewahoo wrote: musik_knut wrote: Tell that to The Founders. . . many of whom lost fortunes, liberties, lives. . . The Founders. Hmmm. I don't remember that band. What songs did they play? Build Me Up Buttercup?

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Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 7:09am
I listened to a lot of Woodstock music and lore this weekend on radio. It really was a great lineup and many great performances. What struck me about the reminiscences of those who were there was that they never characterize it in the manner that we would for a concert. The music — as great as it must have been — had become secondary to the experience.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 8:52pm
musik_knut wrote: Tell that to The Founders...many of whom lost fortunes, liberties, lives... The Founders. Hmmm. I don't remember that band. What songs did they play?

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 8:42pm
manbirdexperiment wrote: I wanted to spike their water supply with narcan. But I was only 10 years old so I couldn't drive across country. Oh well. It is the thought that counts.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 8:01pm
dionysius wrote: First? Tell that to Woody Guthrie, John Reed, Joe Hill, Mother Jones, and many others from the heroic age, decades before. Tell that to The Founders...many of whom lost fortunes, liberties, lives...

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 7:40pm
I wanted to spike their water supply with narcan. But I was only 10 years old so I couldn't drive across country. Oh well.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 7:09pm
OlderThanDirt wrote: +8 even feels more righter.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 7:07pm
Coaxial wrote: Unless you are telling tales in your profile I think that should be Triskele + 12= JadeWahoo+ 8= OTD...But what the heck do I know. Only 16 and thousands of miles away...Went to August Jam in '74 with 250,000 other brave souls...Can't imagine double that amount for 3 days, must have been crazy. +8 even feels more righter.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 6:43pm
so it wasn't relevant? it wasn't the first time on national news? damn....and i thought us hippies invented that shit.....not trusting everything we're told or thinking outside the box. the dead and acid?

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 6:14pm
dionysius wrote: First? Tell that to Woody Guthrie, John Reed, Joe Hill, Mother Jones, and many others from the heroic age, decades before. FSM Bless The Wobblies!!

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 5:46pm

billyc wrote:

the relevance is that OURS was the generation that started questioning the gov't, the press, big corporate america, etc. and woodstock was the first time during that era that it came together on national news and now it's standard operating procedure to question authority.

First? Tell that to Woody Guthrie, John Reed, Joe Hill, Mother Jones, and many others from the heroic age, decades before.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 10:05am
the relevance is that OURS was the generation that started questioning the gov't, the press, big corporate america, etc. and woodstock was the first time during that era that it came together on national news and now it's standard operating procedure to question authority.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 9:59am
OlderThanDirt wrote: Triskele+12=jadewahoo+12=OTD. That's hours, right? Unless you are telling tales in your profile I think that should be Triskele + 12= JadeWahoo+ 8= OTD...But what the heck do I know. Only 16 and thousands of miles away...Went to August Jam in '74 with 250,000 other brave souls...Can't imagine double that amount for 3 days, must have been crazy.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 8:57am
The Parable of Hot Dog (scroll downward at the NPR site) is a pretty interesting read and, in relation to where we are today, seems to dovetail with what I posted a few days ago. (Something to think about when the person in the left lane on the freeway won't move over for nothin'.)

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Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 7:02am

My (HS) students could care less about Woodstock. They are sick hearing about it, do not relate to it (understandably so), and think we are a bunch of dorks caring about a single concert that happened 40 years ago. It has no relevancy to their lives, and they see no lasting positive consequences from the event. (Neither do I). As a brother of a Woodstock attendee, I see NO lasting effects of the event, other than the commercialism, and the fact that my brother has been high (an addict) ever since. Peace, love and happiness? Maybe for one weekend, but the more things change the more they stay the same. Just pick up today's news.

Now, back to watching the Woodstock movie and listening to the soundtracks for the rest of my miserable life.

{#Motor}

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Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 9:08pm
OlderThanDirt wrote: Triskele+12=jadewahoo+12=OTD. That's hours, right? Let me see if I can add that high... Keep on choogling, man!

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Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 9:06pm
triskele wrote: ${#Dancingbanana_2}$ you and my brother are sort of close in age....have a very happy birthday!!! Thanks P!

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Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 6:19pm
jadewahoo wrote: HazzeSwede wrote: Still a young one,,,,, Happy birthday to ya ! That's right! BTW, I see by your profile tht you were born Jun 12, 1902 . That makes you a damn sight older than me... or just about anyone else left alive on this planet! Triskele+12=jadewahoo+12=OTD. That's hours, right? edit jadewahoo +8.

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Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 6:15pm

jadewahoo wrote:

triskele wrote:

i was only 7 in 1969...and wasn't allowed to attend my first "rock concert" until i was 16——so i missed all of those famous fests! but have always wished i'd been there....especially woodstock.

So that makes you 47 right now. What a young woman you are!
Me, I hit 59 tomorrow.

${#Dancingbanana_2}$ {#High-five}

you and my brother are sort of close in age....have a very happy birthday!!! {#Heartkiss}

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Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 5:03pm
jadewahoo wrote: HazzeSwede wrote: Still a young one,,,,, Happy birthday to ya ! That's right! BTW, I see by your profile tht you were born Jun 12, 1902 . That makes you a damn sight older than me... or just about anyone else left alive on this planet! not really,most RPees are born 1901 !

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