jadewahoo wrote: 
Build Me Up Buttercup?

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.       

 musik_knut wrote:The Founders. Hmmm. I don't remember that band. What songs did they play? 

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 

It is the thought that counts.

 dionysius wrote: 

Tell that to The Founders...many of whom lost fortunes, liberties, lives...

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. 

 OlderThanDirt wrote: 

 Coaxial wrote: 
  +8 even feels more righter. 

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?

 dionysius wrote: 
FSM Bless The Wobblies!! 

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

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.

 OlderThanDirt 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.

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'.)

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.

 OlderThanDirt wrote:Let me see if I can add that high...
Keep on choogling, man!

 triskele wrote: Thanks P!

 jadewahoo wrote: 
Triskele+12=jadewahoo+12=OTD.

That's hours, right?
*edit* jadewahoo +8. 

jadewahoo wrote:
you and my brother are sort of close in age....have a very happy birthday!!!

 jadewahoo wrote: 
not really,most RPees are born 1901 !