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    Image of Bristol Cities Bristol Cities
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    boy, that last picture of chowder-head says it all, no?
    also: NEVER TRUST A HIPPIE
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    BookishLookish promoted this comment Bristol Cities was starred Bristol Cities was unstarred
    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/12/09

    @I like Bristol Cities: I'm promoting you for two reasons: I never trust a hippie; I like tits, too.
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    Image of Bristol Cities Bristol Cities
    08/12/09

    @BookishLookish: ya got me ;)
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Now we have the Juggalo Family Picnic or whatever its called.

    (Yeah, yeah, I know everyone's seen infomercial I meant to insert one of the fan clips)
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    08/12/09

    @La Mareada: ICP and UFC at the same event? Give me the Woodstock hippies any day.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Viagra, of course, should sponsor:
    Viagra: Keeping the Wood in the Woodstock Generation
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Our own Mike Jahn has some brilliant stuff up on his blog:
    [mikejahn.moxietype.net]
    And as someone who was a tad too young to go but old enough to have devoured every bt of news, whether print, tv or radio, I'd say Mike's views are on the money.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/12/09

    @SarahHeartburn: If genius were financially rewarded, he'd be buying us all drinks 'round the clock with all the dough.
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    Image of moosesanddeers moosesanddeers
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Well, if I remember my "Kurt and Courtney" correctly, wasn't Love's dad like the manager for the Grateful Dead or maybe in Country Joe and the Fish or some some rather?
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    08/13/09

    @moosesanddeers: Hank Harrison, father of Courtney Love, was indeed the manager of the Warlocks for a very short time, and wrote an unauthorized book about the Dead that is absolutely horrible and full of misinformation. As far as I know, he has continued to milk his thin connections to celebrities since then.
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    Image of PoBoyNation PoBoyNation
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Screw Woodstock. You know what's worth remembering? Newport 1958.
    Also, John, "a seat-of-the-pants, commercial-free, crazy happening like the original Woodstock [wasn't] even possible in the '90s without the intervention and support of multinational corporations"? At all? Where does Burning Man fit in? I certainly see that commercial interests learned to capitalize on the pop success of happenings like Woodstock, but there were exceptions in the 90s and there still are.
    Spend a week in New Orleans and you'll see more seat-of-the-pants, commercial-free, crazy happenings than you can shake a beaded headdress at.
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    SarahHeartburn promoted this comment PoBoyNation was starred PoBoyNation was unstarred
    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    08/12/09

    @PoBoyNation: Newport 1958 for the win. Read Hettie Jones' autobiography for a start, and keep digging into Downbeat, for a start. Woodstock was an accident. A lucky one, but an accident.
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    Image of DavidWatts DavidWatts
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    So, uh, Chris from the Spin Doctors there. . . he . . . WHAT A GIANT PACKAGE!
    Ahem. Yes.
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    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    The only thing I remember of Woodstock 94' was a clip of a topless girl being played on live coverage on the TV guide channel, and Kennedy freaking out and stuttering an apology while she turned visibly pale under her TV makeup. Ah, rock and roll.
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    Image of botchick botchick
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    I can never say it enough: Down with Boomers.
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    08/12/09

    @botchick: totally. i hate baby boomer generational identity. but i hate any generational identity. anywho the boomers need to just die in the cheapest way possible at this point i'm sick of paying for lbj's war on poverty. "follow your bliss" to the grave motherfuckers.
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    08/12/09

    @botchick: Watch your mouth. An enormous number of us who were born in the so-called boomer generation did not get rich, work on wall street, start any wars, or even get our fucking teeth fixed. There are and were creepy selfish rich assholes in every generation. Have some imagination?
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    08/12/09

    @botchick: May I offer a hearty "Blow Me!" on behalf of my fellow Boomers.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/12/09

    @shostakobitch: Joni Mitchell did not play Woodstock, she was off somewhere else doing promo, I think on Dick Cavett. Many years later, she was one of the few musicians active in that scene who admitted that free love did not really work out and was really critical of the Woodstock "head" in general. Part of why I think she is totally boss.
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    08/12/09

    @botchick: I worked for a quintessential boomer - total asshat - his job "the game", his car "the machine", his start on "the street". Then the braces, rolex and cubans. What was his reality - sexless, friendless and witless.
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    08/12/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: I am always reminded of that Kids in the Hall sketch: He's hip, he's cool, he's 40!
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    08/12/09

    @onebadclam: I have no plans to "blow" anyone, but thanks for the offer. Nor will I "watch my mouth." As a Gen X-er who has suffered a lifetime of ceaseless Boomer chest-beating and self-congratulation, I've been done with the whole thing for a long time.
    I mean, all I said was "down with Boomers," not "death to" for "fuck the." "Down with." And look at the response. Proves my point.
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    08/13/09

    @BookishLookish: don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

    there are definitely exceptions like joni - i have a soft spot for a few no doubt. frank zappa was weird and un-listenable but he seemed funny.
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    Image of lefty lefty
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    A strip of 3 tickets cost $18. A one-day ticket - like anybody would've come for one day - was $6.
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    Image of Newyorkez Newyorkez
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Actually, there is a Woodstock '09, and it's right at the legendary spot, in Bethel:
    [bethelwoodscenter.org]
    Grab your lawn tickets, while still on, and see you there.
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    Image of lolababy lolababy
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    Woodstock retrospectives are getting to the point of being akin looking at ancient family photos of relatives that are not only long dead, but every family member they knew is also dead, and knowing that someday, someone will feel the same way about your pictures.
    Which is fucking depressing. Baby boomers, please get your zeitgeist off of VH1 and onto the History Channel.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    08/12/09

    In reply to A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives
    How did they make the crowd look that big back in 1969, before Photoshop?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/12/09

    @Niko Bellic: Can't you just smell that patchouli?
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    Image of eleusiswalks eleusiswalks
    08/09/09

    In reply to SoBro's Sonia Sotomayor's Swearing In Shows Suckas
    I like her but I am kind of faintly troubled by having six Catholics on the court, now. That's really not very representative.
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    VoxPopuli promoted this comment eleusiswalks was starred eleusiswalks was unstarred
    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    08/09/09

    @eleusiswalks: Yeah, that's way worse than having seven men or seven whites on the court. Whew. Good thing you're keeping track of the important stuff. This papist court is probably going to ban meat on Fridays or something.

    Oh, and if you were thinking of Roe v. Wade, I can't see Sotomayor opposing it, so who cares.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    08/09/09

    In reply to SoBro's Sonia Sotomayor's Swearing In Shows Suckas
    I'm deeply troubled by this.
    So now, we have to treat people from The Bronx as full American citizens? Why wasn't a Constitutional Convention held on this nation-splitting matter?
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