Enough With Woodstock Already!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of another annoying event: Woodstock. Supposedly it was a great thing for a bunch of hippies to take drugs and wallow naked in the mud. I suppose if you like mud (I don't). The original Woodstock was actually a bust that lost its investment. Woodstock was also the beginning of the end of the counterculture. Four months later the Altamont Free Concert degenerated into a nightmare of violence and the "good vibes" were gone.

Woodstock was turned into a quasi-myth, a kind of obsession. In the early eighties Steve Wozniak put on the Us festivals which only lasted for a couple of years--because they were money losers. The 1999 Woodstock festival turned more into a redo of Altamont. There was an attempt to do a Woodstock 50th anniversary but the whole thing fizzled. Maybe it's a sign to let the whole Woodstock myth go.