posted October 16, 2014 08:16 PM
While shared in a humorous tongue in cheek way there appears to be a lot of truth to this:
http://www.cracked.com/article/116_5-facts-about-woodstock-hippies-dont-want-you-to-k now/ #5. Woodstock Was Conceived as a Hippie-Exploiting Cash Grab
#4. The Promoters Lied to Make it Happen
#3. Woodstock's Performers Were ALL About the Benjamins
#2. The Logistics of Providing Health and Safety of 500,000 People Were Pretty Much Ignored
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But the problems were bigger than just the collective digestive waste of 500,000 people. The traffic started slowly piling up outside Bethel on Tuesday, five days before the concert was to start. Thousands of cars were abandoned for up to 20 miles from Yasgur's farm, as kids gave up on driving and decided to hoof it to the festival. Local residents were trapped. Performers had to be helicoptered in (often in military copters, LOL IRONY.)
quote:
By Friday, THE FIRST DAY OF THE ACTUAL FESTIVAL, Woodstock Ventures was out of food. Then they had the gall to ask their confined neighbors for sandwich donations. About 750,000, if they didn't mind. Some locals felt so sorry for the hungry kids that they did what they could to help. Members of the Monticello Jewish Community Center started making sandwiches with 200 loaves of bread, 40 pounds of meat and two gallons of pickles. Food was being airlifted from in from a nearby air force base. It must have been cool to have your communist free-for-all ideals materialize in the form of pickle sandwiches prepared by your square neighbors.
#1. People Died
I'd known about that one but hadn't made the connection to the new Woodstocks of the 90s, what some called "the Rage of Aquarius" for the violence and such. Conditions were similar save that it was more contained (which promoters no doubt did more to protect themselves from the lawsuits that the first one generated), food ran out and no one sent food in, yet appears that the injuries & deaths was actually less the 90s rather than more as typically depicted (btw, some who set fires in 1999 said they did it because they were tripping and the fire was pretty rather than to destroy).
The wiki article seems to pretty much agree with it. Some of those who didn't show up didn't because they didn't feel there was enough profit to it, though one made me laugh where a secretary had told the singer "some pig farmer wants you to play in his field" and they turned it down based on that alone. 
And some of what I've seen in documentaries and the like match up with it, though it doesn't always necessarily mean that there was willful deceit involved. Still, it does seem to say money makes the world go around more than love (tongue in cheek statement there, actually it's all connected, including money and love, a lot of people don't realize how connected everything is seeing it as separate components rather than as layers which would be more accurate).
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posted October 16, 2014 08:16 PM
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