Woodstock Ultimate Collectors Edition DVD Set-Not A Bad Deal!
40 years ago this weekend, Sullivan County New York was invaded by enough people match the current metropolitan population of Seattle. Yeah, it was Woodstock.
I find it strange that not that many people are making a buzz about it this weekend. Sure, some people thought it was nothing more than a sea of mud soaked drug users trying to hide from “the man.” Others, like myself, see it as an event that symbolized a very disconnected and dis-enfranchised generation that was taking a hit from both their elders and the government. If you were 19 years old this month in 69′, you likely were getting heat from your parents for wanting to be different; for wanting to not be “your parent’s generation.” You were also getting heat from the government, especially if you were a young man because you were likely one year/one month/or one week away from getting notice that you were going off to fight a war in the jungle that no one wanted to be part of (except for Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger).
I bought the Woodstock 40th AnniversaryEdition Ultimate DVD set and even though it set me back 40 bills, I think it’s worth the price. There is lots more film footage and performances that were not included in the original film and two music album’s released in the 1970′s.
Some of the material I found myself skipping over, such as the scene where a yoga class is being taught to a bunch of naked teenagers. I am not into yoga and I don’t like looking at naked teenagers.
But some of the performances and miscellaneous scenes are still timeless. Just watching scenes of people lining up at rows of pay telephones to call home made me laugh. There were no cell phones, no faxes, no Internet. Just pay phones! I got a lot of laughs from the interviews with the locals who where going insane beause of the pot smoking teenagers sleeping in the woods. My father; from the same generation as the “old geezers” of the time, grew up in a city not far from Bethel, New York and I could swear they all reminded me of my dad! Some of the old men even looked like him.
If you’ve been pondering adding some Woodstock memorabilia to your bookshelf, I think this deal from Amazon.com is worth the price. There is some neat little tidbits in the box too that are fun to look at.
Woodstock attendees left the weekend and went back into society with the knowledge that American government (like it or not) could not be “blindly” trusted anymore. How ironic. Americans are currently rising up in massive numbers because they don’t trust Obama’s government health care reform.
Woodstock was obviously not just a place to go get stoned and listen to music. It was a lesson. And it appears the lesson has not been forgotten.
Get the DVD set and take a trip back in time. It’s fun and you don’t have to worry about the brown acid.
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