Anyone went to Woodstock 1969? I could use your help!

[OldGuy43]

I remember the 60's.

It was the 70's and the 80's I'm foggy with.

There were 70's AND 80's?

 

[RHRanch]

There were 70's AND 80's?

And the 90's.

 

[thaiturkey]

I'm glad that I can remember much of the '60's.

I began to earn a living and, through that, gained the freedom to make more choices of my own. I could follow clothes fashions of my own rather than the outmoded ones of my parents, for example. Music styles were liberated. Attitudes to society changed. Young people began to challenge the propaganda of the establishment. We had great parties, great dances. The girls could buy hand tailored dresses from small boutiques. We spent vacations on the Mediterranean coast instead of in some wet and windy English resort.

We did all of that without Twitterface or, indeed, any internet. A big step forward in technology was the invention of the cassette music tape. There were no VHSs or DVDs. Gosh, Carruthers, how did we manage such social changes without computers, cell 'phones or pocket calculators?

My general memory of the sixties is that we, the baby boomers, were able to enjoy freedoms unheard of until then. Life changes somewhat once you take on parental responsibilities but I hope that most boomers still have some of the social rebel in them.

What a pity that younger generations don't have the memories and attitudes to life that we have. Boy, today's kids really do need a '60's social revolution.

 

[SillyChicken]

I think Silly was suggesting fried brains rather than senile ones.

LOL, yes!!

 

[GardenerGal]

You forgot one major point: The Brits got their revenge for the American Revolution, shipping over the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, The Who, etc. etc. Bye bye, Miss American Pie. lol

I'm glad that I can remember much of the '60's.

I began to earn a living and, through that, gained the freedom to make more choices of my own. I could follow clothes fashions of my own rather than the outmoded ones of my parents, for example. Music styles were liberated. Attitudes to society changed. Young people began to challenge the propaganda of the establishment. We had great parties, great dances. The girls could buy hand tailored dresses from small boutiques. We spent vacations on the Mediterranean coast instead of in some wet and windy English resort.

We did all of that without Twitterface or, indeed, any internet. A big step forward in technology was the invention of the cassette music tape. There were no VHSs or DVDs. Gosh, Carruthers, how did we manage such social changes without computers, cell 'phones or pocket calculators?

My general memory of the sixties is that we, the baby boomers, were able to enjoy freedoms unheard of until then. Life changes somewhat once you take on parental responsibilities but I hope that most boomers still have some of the social rebel in them.

What a pity that younger generations don't have the memories and attitudes to life that we have. Boy, today's kids really do need a '60's social revolution.

 

[thaiturkey]

You forgot one major point: The Brits got their revenge for the American Revolution, shipping over the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, The Who, etc. etc. Bye bye, Miss American Pie. lol

I don't think that the Brits (you mean Britons) saw it like that. We have no lingering interest in the Revolution, having moved on more that a few decades since then. Revenge for assaulting us with Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, perhaps!

The British and US music of the time was a wonderful blend of several different genre that had bounced too and fro' across the Atlantic. You enjoyed our music and we enjoyed yours.

 

[EweSheep]

The Flower children and the bra burners, those I do remember hearing LOL!

 

[redhen]

Bra burners...yeah...what the heck was that all about? Freeing women or something?..

 

[hemet dennis]

Bra burners...yeah...what the heck was that all about? Freeing women or something?..

It was your guys idea and we didn't fight it

 

[fuzziebutt]

And Woodstock was just the first of many. Anyone ever go to one of Willie Nelson's 4th of July Drunks at the Cotton Bowl? They threw it out of the Cotton Bowl, and he started having it at his ranch.