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if we tap it, they will come

Submitted by gretavo on Sat, 2008-02-23 01:18.


Gathered that weekend in 1969 were liars and lovers, prophets and profiteers. They made love, they made money and they made a little history. Arnold Skolnick, the artist who designed Woodstock's dove-and-guitar symbol, described it this way: "Something was tapped, a nerve, in this country. And everybody just came."

EDIT: Woodstock happened August 15-18 1969. Neil Armstrong "walked on the moon" on July 20, 1969. Isn't that weird, I remember hearing so much about both when I was growing up in the 80s but it never struck me until recently that the two events representing the epitome for two so very different factions--the hippies and the straights alike. Everyone in America whipped up into a lather of excitement--not only does it strike me that it was a perfect way of distracting people from.... something, I would imagine that the seventies also suffered from starting with the very real hangover that such momentous experiences would have had when people realized that the parties were over and it was back to complaining about each other--that is, the people neatly divided before the war on Vietnam really got ugly. Depressed and divided, easily duped by the mass media mythologists. What ELSE was happening around that time I wonder? (I mean that, it's not rhetorical...)

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