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Post by stoney on May 1, 2011 17:06:29 GMT -5
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Post by stoney on May 4, 2011 8:48:44 GMT -5
Good thing Flea has a big bass....  |
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Post by yankee on May 6, 2011 12:06:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember MTV recounting the weekend as being, "The World's Largest Dumpster Fire". Evidently somebody on the crew had been around Rome for more than a few days.
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Post by Disgusted-Daily on May 6, 2011 12:27:01 GMT -5
What did they really expect would happen.  |
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Post by stoney on May 6, 2011 12:40:38 GMT -5
Who cares? The purpose of the whole thing was to bring some great music to the fest. That was accomplished!! I have tons of tapes of the 3-day event that I will always cherish (until they disintegrate from age, which is why they'll be transferred to DVDs before then.. .) Hell, the 1st Woodstock in '69 had their own problems. |
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Post by dgriffin on May 6, 2011 14:35:33 GMT -5
So did the second Woodstock in '94, which I could walk to through the woods behind me. For the most part, the organizers created their own problems, but Woodstock '94 was sort of mild, probably because it rained most of the time and was as sea of mud. And the State Police stayed outside, handling traffic and incidents that took place only outside.
I ran a free taxi service (the back of my truck) outside the gates so people could get to their cars or buses. We'd just say "Where ya goin? Hop on." Many tried to pay us, but we told them we were having just as much fun as them. We normally started in the afternoon by driving by the employee tent, because if we could get someone with an employee badge in the back of the truck, they would wave it to the Troopers who would then let us go closer to the gates. Mrs. Dave and I met folks from around the world. We even served as a dolly for an Argentinean News crew, slowly trucking along the roads and stopping while the News woman interviewed people coming in and very wet and muddy ones leaving.
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Post by stoney on May 6, 2011 15:15:30 GMT -5
That was so nice of you guys to do that! Did you enjoy the music as well??
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Post by dgriffin on May 6, 2011 20:41:33 GMT -5
Yes, and on one evening we were at friends' who paid for the cable program. I was looking for the old acts, however, like Santana, but enjoyed a couple of the new bands.
You would have done the same, helping out. Imagine arriving fresh and clean and well rested on a sunny morning and walking upwards of five miles from your car to the site. (Did you park on the Base for Woodstock 3? We have nothing but a village and country roads around here.) Then 2 or 3 days later, wet, muddy, no sleep in 48 hours, probably hung over, cold and hungry (food tents ran out or closed up) and having to walk five miles in the rain and dark back to your car. In the first place you wouldn't even remember how to get back to Mt. Marion or Church Road, etc. Some people, even younger ones, were staggering along the side of the road. One young couple walked along and when I stopped and I could see they were crying. "Where did you park?" I asked them. "Queens," came the answer.
They meant they had joined another couple and left their car in Queens for the trip up to Saugerties. That other couple had left the day before. We took them to the Lost Tent, where buses left regularly for the Trailways terminal about 15 miles away in Kingston.
When you multiply that times over 300,000 people, I'm still amazed there was only one death (heart attack, I think) and not very many injuries.
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