Woodstock remains iconic symbol of '60s

Magic, left, holds his son Jacob Magic Pharis as the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival approaches August 14, 2009 in Bethel, New York.

[uncle_vito]

None of these bands were famous when the festival started. Woodstock became famous years afterward.

You cannot plan that.

You guys are also missing the love ins we used to have. I attended one in Griffith park.

The hippies were freaks and druggies and were totally useless. They are all Wall Street bankers now. They all joined the establishment except those that died from drug overdoses.

Manson was a hippy

Vito

[Uncle_vito]

O lie to pretend to know things. I wish I was an ex-hippy banker rather than underemployed loser.

Vito

[LDT]

I was born in 1966 and in all honesty I'd take Live Aid over Woodstock any day ... I've seen the movie and know people that love to tell all about the warm fuzzy feeling of love,peace and oneness ... Sorry but mud,raw sewage,acid and the swapping of body fluids with oddly named strangers holds very little appeal ... YUCK!

[They still stink]

"WoodStink", those bunch of smelly hippies smelled back then and they still smell now; even in their graves. Woodstock a 1/2 million smelly people entertained by the most over rated wanna be musicians of all time. F-Joan Baez and the rest of them. They are the generation that ruined the USA.

[Greg Thomas]

For the record, at the original concert, the fences were not torn down, they just stopped putting them up. As you approached, you walked by new fencing, then as you turned into concert area, you could see the newly installed posts continue for many feet and the rolls of fencing still laying in piles. Once they decided to make it a free concert, they stopped putting up the rest of the fence that would have closed it in.

[Patches]

Sha na na!!!!!

[JJM546576]

Woodstock, Live Aid, whatever. The thing that made them so unforgettable is the era. Things were different. Most people didn't know too much about things. Everyone these days is a critic and know-it-all. Music in particular had a message and represented the people, and didn't appear as corporatized. Now, the music is a business directly motivated by politics. It has no meaning and is garabage these days. That is why Live 8 was mediocre. The only thing that made it worth something was the great acts from the 80s coming out to play. The 80s was fun, music was positive and exciting, and we all enjoyed worshipping our pop idols and their unique creations. These things do not exist anymore. So, a Live Aid 2 would be a disaster at the present. Woodstock was a different brand of the same thing. They tried a Woodstock 2 and it sucked. There's nothing to fight for anymore. If we threw away technology, the world would be a better place for such things.