Our generation's Woodstock
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The company downstairs from our office is a commercial fencing company. The guy who owns it is the guy who was hired in 1969, at the age of 21, to install the fencing around Woodstock for the event.
The local paper did an interview with him because of this whole Woodstock anniversary thing, from which I will excerpt because I think it sums up the Woodstock generation very well:
“People were doing a lot of acid back then,” Socci said. “Everyone went down to the lake and started taking their clothes off. That lake had thousands of naked people in it. It just got a little bit crazier day after day. I was in shock.”
Socci and his friend were given free passes to the concert, which they promptly sold and “made a lot of money.” Then an even better deal came along; all-access passes to not only the concert, but to the stage and the tents where the stars drank, drugged and slept.
But what became of the fence after the concert?
“They destroyed it,” Socci said. “It was a garbage fence..."
http://www.westfaironline.com/we…
There is the woodstock hippies in a nutshell. They were all in it for the drugs, the first opportunity to sell out, they did. And then, they took further advantage of the situation. And what they made back then was all pretty shitty anyway. Like the fence. Which was destroyed by all of the attendees because they were selfish dicks high on drugs.
That, my friends, in a nutshell is exactly what the Hippie generation has done for the last forty odd years.
I'm glad we didn't have a Woodstock.
*The only good things about Woodstock were Hendrix and Richie Havens, who were 1/2 generation older than the Hippes anyway.