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Sounds like a few of my prissy friends who wouldn't survive an hour at Bonnaroo or the mudfest that was APW. I have fun in those conditions and people like that should just stay away so we don't have to put up with their whining.

what's this woodstock thing? Just sounds like Bonnaroo light.

what about the nine inch nails and green day mud fights? the awesome cranberries set? les claypool telling the audience they had small genitals? woodstock is a national treasure!

Sounds like someone got old.

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wow, it's the grandfather of BV commenters.

thanks debbie downer

you tell em grandpa!

Hahaa, Mark Hosenball is a tool. He had no business heading up there in the first place.

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He's cranky cause he didn't get laid there.

Just because you're a wuss and peaced out early doesn't mean Woodstock sucked.

"Sounds like a few of my prissy friends who wouldn't survive an hour at Bonnaroo or the mudfest that was APW"

Go spend a week in Iraq or Palestine Asshole!!!

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I'm sure you have, doooooosh!

This is why I avoid most multi-day outdoor concerts; however, I try not to rain on the parade of someone who enjoys these types of things.

I gotta say the rain- and mud-fest that was APW this year was tremendous fun and totally worthwhile to play and mess around in once we were there. Good music & a silly, dancey, fun vibe. It was a totally different story immediately prior to going back out for days 2 and 3, when it was sorta dreadful to gear up again and again for the messy conditions, so I get it if the idea of going into a mud-pit to listen to music doesn't appeal. On the other hand, if your going to these three day festivals, shouldn't you already be aware (or at least assume) some degree of clusterfvckedness, messiness or discomfort of some kind?

And I'm sorry, anyone who thinks Jimi or Janis or the Who at Woodstock wasn't worth the rain and mud and gustatory unpleasantness needs their head checked. Name a more singular or iconic American music festival in 40 years. You were there, dude. Appreciate that.

coke bottle showers at bonnaroo i will always remember. you guys who stay away from these things have no sense of fun. if i was around in 1969 and missed woodstock id probably regret it every day of my life.

if you were at woodstock and can remember it, you were NOT actually there.

all of those woodstock bands played nyc in the year leading up to the festival. so all of you too cool for fucking school kids who think grandpa is being a jerk with his comment just remember if you really were too cool for school in 1969 you would have been, "i'm not going to some big assed mud pit to camp with these trust fund hippie kids to see a bunch of bands i caught on sullivan street last year. the movements over man!!!"

5:17 fucking wins

hilarious

I don't care if you call me a pussy. You couldn't even pay me to sit out in the sun/rain or mud being crammed with filthy people try to surivive on overpriced food/beer at most festivals.

BV bunch of wimpy NYC hipster. Go to a few festivals in Europe and we will talk

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Sounds just like Williamsburg!

squalid mess (union pool?)
colossal traffic jams (streets clogged with fixies)
torrential rain (summer '09)
reeking portable johns (choose your own)
barely edible food (Anna Maria's, etc.)
sprawling, disorganized crowds (yeah, it can get ugly waiting for your fro-yo at Tasty D)

NEEERRRRD!

"crammed with filthy people try to survive on overpriced food/beer"

Welcome to New York.

"Woodstock was, if not a nightmare, then a massive, teeming, squalid mess."

Woodstock called and said "precisely, i hated you back first" oooh! cold dissed.

Woodstock was a different animal than all these other festivals like bonaroo. Bonaroo has 80-100,000 people. Woodstock had half a million with no amenities like good food or clean portapoties. It sounds uterly miserable.

The second day of the festival coincided with my eleventh birthday. I was forty-two miles away in Goshen, NY.

I have always regretted not being there. Now, I am not so sure.

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Funny. The mess is what attracted some. Initially, the concert was advertised with a list of bands in the local papers. Most everybody was saying "yeah, ok...a half decent concert". When word was out the interstate closed and crowds were backed up people started to flock there. Everybody and anybody loaded their vans with friends and headed out, prepared to walk the distance. I doubt the quality of bands/singers will ever assemble like that again. The best of the best were there. Not something to be duplicated. And I don't know anyone who resented going. The turnout was definitely not anticipated.

You can't blame the promoters for 500,000 people showing up. That was clearly out of their control. Years ago we suffered a severe ice storm. The electricity went out for a week. several relatives and friends gathered to ride out the hardship. Some bitched and complained and were completely miserable, while the majority had the time of our lives. I suggest that many people when given lemons make lemonade while you sir just make a face and cry about how bitter the lemons are.