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LeftInTX

(30,016 posts)
Thu Aug 25, 2022, 01:26 AM Aug 2022

Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 on Netflix

OK...This is something to watch if you like dumpster fires..LOL
Or if you want mindless entertainment that lowers your IQ by 50 points

I keep expecting to see Trump on stage

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I didn't know beans about Woodstock 99

Heck, I still don't "get" all the hype about original...

I guess I'll watch: "FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" next...
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Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 on Netflix (Original Post) LeftInTX Aug 2022 OP
The hype --- Yes, the music was excellent.... top bands of the time. But the hype - 3Hotdogs Aug 2022 #1
I was going to go to the original Woodstock! bif Aug 2022 #2

3Hotdogs

(13,420 posts)
1. The hype --- Yes, the music was excellent.... top bands of the time. But the hype -
Thu Aug 25, 2022, 06:37 AM
Aug 2022

Woodstock followed years of assassinations, riots in the streets, including the Chicago police riot during the '68 political convention.

and Viet Nam. VIet NAm. VIET NAM.

Now comes three days of 100,000 people getting together. Young people and the conditions at the festival continued to deteriorate. Rain, mud, inadequate services and food.

And the kids got along.

I've made a few trips to Woodstock and Bethel over the years. The area is scenically wonderful, Woodstock is a bit hokey as merchants try to latch on to the nostalgia of '69. It isn't much of a tourist trap but still fun to drive to.

But in the back of my mind is a sadness of what our nation has come to..... Greed is good, followed by two Iraqs, one Afghanistan and whatever else we don't know about.

Woodstock was looked at as a promise.

Then came Nixon, followed by,....

bif

(24,031 posts)
2. I was going to go to the original Woodstock!
Thu Aug 25, 2022, 09:12 AM
Aug 2022

But my best friend and I chickened out at the last minute. We were 14 years old and would have had to hitchhike from Detroit. One of my only regrets in life is not going.

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