The Ecstatic Chaos of Woodstock

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“I thought the whole of America had gone mad,” said The Who’s Pete Townshend about performing at Woodstock in 1969

There was no Google Maps to help you find the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival on Aug. 15-18, 1969. In place of social media there was only word-of-mouth. But that was enough to draw more than 400,000 people to a rented 600-acre parcel of Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, 100 miles north of Manhattan in the White Lake area of Bethel, N.Y.

As Woodstock approaches its 50th anniversary, nostalgia runs as thick as the ankle-deep mud in Yasgur’s pasture. Today, schoolchildren tour The Museum at Bethel Woods to view the handwritten lyrics...

 

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Yea. And it's been that way ever since. In fact, it's gotten worse in the last few years

Bethel woods is a truly beautiful area

It was the start of a root cause of all the nuttiness that is in evidence today...

I think we’ve all gone mad now

Peter! You should have been here in 1968!

Hey it looks like all the homeless in LA,San Francisco and Baltimore!

I remember Woodstock well. I thought these guys calling themselves hippies goofballs . I was correct. The music was good .

Pete! TheWho

Although they hated playing it, Woodstock helped The Who & “Tommy” break through in the US.

He’s 50 years early. Everyone has gone mad in 2019.

Says the guy who destroyed dozens of beautiful expensive guitars.

How..? it was cancelled..

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