would you want to be alive in the '60s?
every time i watch something like this i envy the people there. wish i could have been around in the 60s and 70s.
shareI grew up in that time. I went to college a couple days after Woodstock. The times are just like now. You don't realize what's happening around you, but can see it from the perspective of times past. It wasn't all peace and love, believe me. Most people didn't even know Woodstock was even happening. The hippie era was just as stupid as the hip-hop culture is today.
Billy the Kid
I think I could've put up with the hippie era a lot easier than this hip-hop crap.
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maybe that just depends on where you grew up. according to my parents (who are from 2 different worlds which lead to their divorce), that was THE time to grow up. both of them speak of woodstock as this big deal and just generally how the overall attitude was so much different.
shareIt was the best time to be young in history. Except for the Viet Nam War of course. I knew about Woodstock and tried to get my friends to go (we lived in the Midwest) but they thought it would be too much of a hassle.....as I have said it was great to grow up then because we all had so many shared experiences....the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, Walter Cronkite, Kennedy's assasination, MLK's assasination, we were all like one big family who had gone through the good times and bad times together. Now the kids have experiences in too many different ways, internet, Facebook, Satellite radio, it goes on and on....one of my friends used to say "These are the good old days" in the 60's and he was right!
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Oh I totally disagree with you. I was at Woodstock and went all the way there from Dallas Texas. Everyone knew of Woodstock. Not sure what rock you were living under or what your family life was like. Maybe you werent allowed to watch tv or listen to the radio but Woodstock was around everywhere. I just want people to know that and your perspective of that is all wrong and apparently you were living in some town like Footloose.
shareGee, Barber. Can't anyone else have a memory? No, not "everyone knew of Woodstock". I said I didn't, and I'm certainly part of "everyone". I didn't grow up under a rock. Just a normal life in Trenton, NJ; a two-hour ride from Bethel. And my perspective is not wrong you nitwit. It's my perspective and it's absolutely correct.
Billy the Kid
Gee, Barber. Can't anyone else have a memory? No, not "everyone knew of Woodstock". I said I didn't, and I'm certainly part of "everyone". I didn't grow up under a rock. Just a normal life in Trenton, NJ; a two-hour ride from Bethel. And my perspective is not wrong you nitwit. It's my perspective and it's absolutely correct.
Agreed bmodica. I was 16, at the time, and I didn't hear of Woodstock until I saw reports about it on the evening news. My Woodstock memory is my dad pounding the table at dinnertime and going on about "those long-hair, drug using Communists up in New York."
6 years late in responding. However, I was a little upset by your remark. In as much as how could you compare the hippy movement with hip hop? They're so utterly different. The latter glorifies violence, guns, sex(not love) and is completely nihilistic. The former produced some of the greatest talents ever. And promoted sharing, caring and a love of nature. PK, there were some idiots in the hippy movement and some bad people. All sorts of people came to infect the original ideal, which was 'Peace'.
Watch Santana on YouTube, live at Woodstock, or Richie Havens. Or Country Joe McDonnald, Hendrix, The Who etc etc. There's some great musicianship going on there. 500,000 people descended on a bit of rural land, and had virtually no sanitation, food or water, and yet this city of people had no fighting, no pushing and shoving and no violence. Go to any gathering today under such circumstances and there would be big problems.
500,000 people descended on a bit of rural land, and had virtually no sanitation, food or water, and yet this city of people had no fighting, no pushing and shoving and no violence. Go to any gathering today under such circumstances and there would be big problems.
From what I understand/what I've heard, things weren't all hunky-dory at the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. There were problems, there was a fair amount of violence, a lot of bad drug trips, and several people died at that Woodstock festival:
A) One kid was run over by a tractor-trailer while sleeping in his sleeping bag, in order to get out of the rain
B) One kid died due to falling off of a scaffold.
C) One man died of a heroin overdose.
D) Another kid died from a ruptured appendix.
When Woodstock was made into a movie, all of the violence, bad trips, and the deaths were delilberately cut out, in order to make it look as if the 1969 Woodstock festival was all peace, love and kindness despite the lack of food, sanitation and water. The media, all too often, sensationalizes things, and Woodstock, from what I understand and from what I've heard, was no exception. share
I, too grew up during that time. I was a teenager during the 1960's, and while I agree that it was kind of a nice time to be a teenager, and that the 1960's were very exuberant times, there was a lot of bad stuff that happened, as well. There was also quite a bit of meanness and dishonesty, and, as you put it, not all peace and love, either. I liked much of the music and a lot of the movies of that day, however.
I also might add that cars that were made back then weren't nearly as safe as they are nowadays. I'm glad they're now making better, safer cars.