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‘Woodstock’

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We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe it’s the time of man was not yet illegal, it was only I don’t know who I am criminaliz­ed in 1982.

The entire movie house was enveloped in a hazy bluish almost purple smoke as everyone was either smoking a joint or sharing one. You don’t need to bring one or light up as you could just literally inhale the “purple haze” and you’ll get “stoned” or “high” whichever you want to describe it.

was a high school senior when “Woodstock” was shown in

Moi Iloilo City and already a “turned on” hippie before watching the film, my girlfriend at that time wanted to smoke a couple of joints which we did. So by the time we watched the film we were already “high”. we watched the entire four hours then

But you know life is for learning

By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebratio­n And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflie­s

Joni Mitchell Above our nation… watched it again that by the time - was so “stoned” we couldn’t find our way home. woke up lying moi on my girlfriend’s lap on a beach

Moi somewhere in Oton.

Whether we still have our clothes on or not is for you to wonder and for

to smile about. Before the uninitiate­d gets lost moi in translatio­n, from that free online encycloped­ia: “The  — informally, the  Woodstock Music & Art or simply  — Fair Woodstock was a music festival attracting an Festival  Woodstock audience of over 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm in  New York  from Aug. 15 to 17, 1969, but ultimately ran four days long, ending Aug. 18, 1969.

“Billed as ‘An  Aquarian  Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music’, it was held at  Max Yasgur’s 600-acre (240  ha; 0.94  sq  mi) dairy farm in  the Catskills  near the  hamlet  of  White Lake  in the  town  of  Bethel  Bethel, in  Sullivan County, 43 miles (69  km) southwest of the town of  Woodstock, New York, in adjoining  Ulster County.

“During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of more than 400,000 people. is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger  countercul­ture  generation.

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