Woodstock: 35 years later

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Has there ever been a greater concert?

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--woodstockannivers0812aug12,0,2045730.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

BETHEL, N.Y. (Aug. 13) - Families in SUVs drive up to the grassy hill all summer. Dads snap pictures at the memorial plaque. Young couples look at the lush expanse and try to imagine the chaotic scene.

This is not some old battlefield, but the former hay field where the Woodstock concert helped define a generation 35 years ago, Aug. 15-17, 1969.

The steady dribble of nostalgic baby boomers and curious Gen-Xers visiting this remote field shows how Woodstock still reverberates in the popular imagination. Even as the hippies of Woodstock become eligible for AARP cards, the concert remains a symbol to many of the transcendent power of music. From Live-Aid to Lollapalooza, no concert has mustered the same cultural cachet.

"What happened here will never happen again," said Jakub Muller, a Czech who visited the site last week during an extended stateside stay. Muller was born four years after the concert and an ocean away, but he made a point of standing on the exact spot of the Woodstock stage.

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1. I was there. One of the dirty naked hippie kids. I was 7.

:hippie:

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2. I was in England and heard more about the Tate/LaBianca murders

that occurred the same month

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3. I was there.

There's nothing like sitting on a blanket surrounded by half a million people and then having the rain come down in buckets...

I was 16, and I bought tickets and went because the Incredible String Band was playing.