Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Woodstock Revisited Revisited
by Jeffrey JenaI was at a friend’s house a few nights ago for a little informal gathering. When we were chatting he had his iPod providing some background music. One of the songs that came on was from the “Woodstock” soundtrack. So there I was in a kitchen full of conservative upper middle class Midwesterners who were suddenly waxing poetic about how great Woodstock was.
What happened next was the kind of thing I do that keeps me off the party circuit. I said something to the effect that Woodstock was an unmitigated disaster and a perfect metaphor for the Obama administration. If it were technically possible this is the point where we would have heard a needle scratching across the album and dead silence while the folks stared at me in disbelief.
The whole Woodstock myth that has grown up over the years is like the memory of your old college girlfriend or boyfriend, as the case may be. You tend to remember the good and forget the bad. You remember the smoothness of her skin but forget the night of the Kappa party when she disappeared for three days and turned up in Vegas married to a soybean farmer from Indiana.
That’s Woodstock! We remember the music and forget the drugs, the OD’s and lives ruined. We remember the artwork and forget the acres of mud and filth. We forget that the State of New York footed the bill for untold millions for clean up. We thought it was cool when Arlo announced the New York State Thruway was closed but forget the cost to the State and the people. We forget the fact that people who couldn’t use the highway were inconvenienced and may have lost income.
What started out as a middle of the road business venture to open a recording studio ended up as a giant poorly planned disaster. Woodstock was Hurricane Katrina with music. This simple for- profit music festival lost money for its promoters due to rushed and poor planning. Any money made off of the success of their film was lost to lawyers and plaintiffs in lawsuits later.
Isn’t that how it seems to be going for the Obama folks? What was promised in the campaign to be a centrist and uniting administration in the space of a few months has deteriorated into a bitterly partisan and leftist power grab. A lot of folks who thought it was cool that we elected our first African-American president are now unhappy that they voted for a guy who is more Marxist divider than nonpartisan uniter.
A rush into trillion dollar programs and poorly thought out bailouts has created unrest. All President Obama needs to do to complete the metaphor is hire Wavy Gravy to replace Robert Gibbs and announce the new government “breakfast in bed for 500,000″ plan.
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I’ve had the same response Jeffrey, the proverbial fart in the space suit. When I was a kid I thought it was to cool, we used to crow about how The Woodstock Nation is borne, “just wait until we get control, things are gonna change man.” Rocket forward forty years and tra-la… we have hope and change we can believe in, …yuk! Carter cured me I “hope” Barry will cure the rest and maybe, just maybe we can finally get rid of the ‘60s, were all getting older soon it’ll be nothing but a memory.
An apt assessment of an overated and misrepresented event.
I thought I heard that within the last couple of years the organizers finally did turn a profit. But it took over 35 years to pay off the bills.
It's debatable if pop-culture and conventional wisdom are one in the same, if not, they are greatly affected by each other, and both forces are extremely powerful. Pop culture has ruled that Woodstock was a Utopia, and so every one remembers it that way. And nothing anyone can say will change it.
This was the high water mark of the 60s baby boomer malcontents screwing in the mud and getting stone while 109 American GIs were killed in Vietnam during that disgraceful weekend. We are all now reaping whirlwind of this useless generation.
yeah but, informed about what?
I'm afraid that I find most discussions of Woodstock rather boring. 40 years ago, the Baby Boomers had a wild party. They apparently enjoyed it a lot. They enjoyed it so much, in fact, that even after most of them have theoretically grown up, they can't stop talking about it. They seem to believe that all the generations that came after want to keep hearing this same story over and over again.
News flash: we don't care. If Woodstock had never happened, history would have continued exactly the same way that it did. Get over yourselves.
Amen!
It all seems so romantic, but when you take the time to watch the actual footage instead of the rapturous documentaries about it's historicity, you realize what a mess it was. A lot of innarticulate, dirty people who can't dance a lick. Blaring, haphazard performances. Save perhaps Crosby, Stills, and Nash, which I enjoyed. I'm a fan of the classic rock era, but they do not live up to themselves. I feel the same way about the Stones at Altamont. Don't play high, kids.
I remember the first time I saw CS&N on the live (Woodstock) movie I thought, wow, the in studio version is so much better. They kind of flubbed the harmonies in the Woodstock version.
I believe that, had I gone to Woodstock, I would have seen it as a pretty darn good party … for maybe a few hours. That's the way things are with hippies. They just don't understand the concept of closure or moving in. Hanging out with friends and hearing great bands play? Awesome. Rolling around in mud and vomit while frying on 'the red acid' and convincing yourself that being half-naked and dancing will 'change the world' and 'upset the system'? Idiotic.
I am always embarrassed for my generation when the subject of Woodstock comes up. I was listening to a young newscaster talking about the anniverary of the event, chuckling as he mentioned something about the "sweet smoke" circling the air. "Wink-wink" Why is drug abuse excused when it comes to Woodstock? I don't understand how people can get nostalgic about a shameful display of hedonism, self-absorption, and moral corruption some of the people in my generation displayed. Having sex in the mud in front of thousands of people is not high-minded. It is just plain nasty!
"Save perhaps Crosby, Stills, and Nash"
And Joe Cocker. But since he was always raspy, frumpled, dirty, and a bad dancer, I guess he was in his milieu.
"a standout at Woodstock was Joe Cocker singing With A Little Help from my Friends…"
As I said below, since Cocker was always raspy, frumpled, dirty, and a bad dancer, I guess he was in his milieu.
"I thought, wow, the in studio version is so much better. They kind of flubbed the harmonies in the Woodstock version."
Oh, yes, absolutely. That's true of most rock musicians. I realize they couldn't hear themselves, but have you seen Beatlemania performances? Awful.
I should have said I relatively enjoyed CSN. Compared to everyone else, they and Cocker were the best.
More Baby Boomer backslapping. My father, who while in college decided he hated hippies cut his hair short and started wearing only t-shirts and blue jeans, still has the temerity to talk about the "importance" of Woodstock. At times like that, I feel like acting out like Matthew Lillard's Stevo from "SLC Punk." Of course, this is why we have a constant stream of "documentaries" and specials on the History channel about the 60's and the students and the protests, etc., etc., etc. If I'm not mistaken, even at the end of the war, the majority of Americans still supported the fighting in Vietnam. It was only the obnoxiously vocal, spoiled crowd (though a sizable minority) that claims they "ended" the war (much to the chagrin of the 1-2 million Vietnamese we abandoned to slaughter, I'm sure).
Honestly, I think all of this self-congratulation is just the natural egocentrism of the Baby Boomers exploding in our faces. Of course, that would be a pot and kettle, wouldn't it? After all, what could one say about all of us post-Boomers constantly commenting on these things on the internet?
God forgive me!
the sinner,
Patrick
I hate to paint an entire generation. The selfless sacrafices of the few have been completely overshadowed by the narcassitic tendencies of the many. But, you're right.
Santana…so much talent, but nothing upstairs. Between his inability to make a new album without fluff pop stars and his Che Guevera t-shirts, I'll have to be satisfied with Abraxas and a few other songs here and there. I'm in awe and ashamed of him all at once…
I'm a Baby Boomer and Woodstock non-participant. I can only say that I couldn't agree with you more. We Boomers make fetishes of the oddest things and Woodstock seems to top the list. I suppose it's because it's all that we have. A large number of us funked out of Vietnam, developed sophmoric rationals to despire our families and embraced an adolescent hedonism that did incalculable damage to society. My dad and the fathers of my friends all lived through the Depression and then fought in World War II. Their youth was marked by endurance, courage and sacrifice. We have had to make monuments out of things like Woodstock because, without them, we don't have much to talk about.
A few good things that came from the '60's; Muscle Cars, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, Star Trek.
Woodstock, hippies, and the Beatles, however, are a stain on our history.
It very comforting to know that there are some young people out there that actually have not bought the load of anti-American and Markist crap that this generation has forced on America nor their great nostalgic blow out party in the woods. Yes, they have changed the world..make no mistake about it. The hedonism, self-absorption, anti-americanism, and moral corruption is now a corenerstone of our culture and has culminated in the election of a product of that generation..a self absorbed, anti-capitalistic, socialist government and President.. Please know clearly where much of this has originated. There are now avowed communist in federal positions and czar appointments! I firmly beleive that if this country is going to be saved form self destruction, it will be due to the unexpected rejection of baby boomer indulgences and misdirection from future young people who will steer a new course.
I'll add that in addition to being a stain on our history, hippies are also a stench.
The "Camelot" era has officially ended. The end of the Woodstock era can't be far behind. Woo hoo!!!
If this is what Nietzsche had in mind for the ecstacy of Dionysiac experience, count me out!
Dudes! The Who ROCKED Woodstock! Plus Pete Townsend put a whoopin' to Abby Hoffman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIG7nJ3w6qY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qhkFkoFEyU&fe...
I remember how on TV for the last couple of decades, every "cool" character just happened to have been at Woodstock….
Maybe they will cremate Teddy and dump the ashes off of the Chappaquiddick bridge as the final insult to the family and the memory of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Not to mention the epic version of Sparks. Keep your eyes and ears on Keith Moon… amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3kY-2sOTcU&fe...
Woodstock is much like the Camelot myth. I just wish people would let it go already. I accept it's a generational touchstone, but it is one that 75% or more only experienced in a movie theatre. Edited for widescreen, mixed down and with the bands no one remembers on the cutting room floor. I was born in December of '69 so I've gotten to deal with the 10th anniversary re-release, I think there was a 15th anniversary showing on Mtv or PBS, 20th anniversary retrospectives, the cluster_____ of two attempts at anniversary concerts/cashing in…and let's not forget the Boomer elite navel gazing when the movie came out on various formats for the first time in non-anniversary years. Here's hoping the 45th passes without much fanfare and enjoy the fact that when the 50th hits, the generation of MSM members that shove it down our throats every five years will have stepped to the side for the people who associate "Woodstock" with either Snoopy's buddy or the disasters that were the Clinton era concerts under that name.
What I don't get is what you people have against a little yellow bird.
a couple of things here…
Woodstockwas always a good music and interesting cultural phenomenon. However, it was, like the hippy movement from Haight-Ashbury ultimately fraudulent. Just ass the 'Summer of Love' was hyped non-existent nonsense, so was the great warm fuzzy commune of Max Yasgur's farm.
When George Harrison went to SanFran to check out the blissed out hippy scene he found, much to his horror, durg addicts and kids passed out in doorways and general squalor. He immediately and correctly labled it for what it was and retunrned to the UK and sought out spiritual guidance… smart man…
Same thing here. Just as the inexplicable poplarity of the Grateful Dead and the 'peace, love, dope' message they sold, Woodstaock has achieved undeserved myth status. No mention of the countless lives ruined because of the libertine messages espoused.
Joseph Campbell would even be confused by this particular mythos…
Woodstock was before my time but it appears overrated. Burning Man seems to be a lot more fun with better performances.
Cockers' band was aptly named The Grease Band and you're certainly right that Cocker was an unbelievably spastic dancer.
I recently watched a disgustingly self serving Woodstock anniversary special on the History Channel. The narcisism of the old hippies, even today, is nauseating. Aside from watching some great footage from my favorite music artists, especially the delightful recollections of Pete Townshend assaulting Abbie Hoffman with his Gibson SG, there was only one moment of enlightenment in the show:
The aftermath of Woodstock. After Hendrix closed the festival, there was nothing left but miles and miles of garbage. Once valuable farmland, was reduced to mud and strewn wreckage.
This was a brilliant metaphor – decidedly un-intentional of course. Here was the self indulgent hippie generation in their finest moment; they had just partied their brains out for three days, on someone else's property, entertained by someone else's labor, and in return they left a mountain of filth, and millions in damage.
Am I the only one who just loves the irony of it all?
While in Vietnam…… on that date…..
I HATE Woodstock, and all the idiots that attended. They've got to GET OVER IT! REALLY! It was everything I hated then, and now. A bunch of filthy, disgusting people, doing degrading and destructive things to themselves and others, then bragging about it – To bad music!
Yes, that's right, I said Bad Music! Get over that, too. The only reason most of that music is considered good, is because it's been played to death, and you get your head bitten off, if you dis the music. Go ahead, get someone with equal talent to put out that drivel now, and see how fast they'd get booted off the stage. The only reason it was ever considered good was because all the idiots there were stoned. Hmmm, that's a well known path to good decision making, isn't it? Ever seen a movie from that time? Total crap. I won't even watch a movie made during the hippie/druggie years.
I too have seen some PBS specials on that whole time, and agree totally with the others who posted. As someone who lived through it, I can tell you it's quite the whitewash job they're putting out there – Total Baloney!
as was my Father-in-Law. Three tours to be exact.
Yes, sweet delicious irony!
Now just imagine the outcry from the media if every NASCAR rally ended that way….
good thing none of you people went. You just would have ruined everyone else's good time.
Funny the topic of "whitewashing" should come up today….what with the massive job the media needs to do to rehabilitate the image of Ted Kennedy.
But that's what our beloved media does, eh? Whitewash their friends on the Left, and villify us on the Right.
Whenever I hear a woodstockophile reminisce on what a grand moment it was, I get visions of Al Bundy, standing in the shoe store and waxing nostalgic about his 4 touchdowns during that most fateful homecomming game at ol' Polk High.
Nostalgia – always trying to remember things as they never were.
I'm cool
I was at Woodstock : )
I am Wavy Davey
My generation's idea of music
No wonder I now like hanging out with extremist mobs.
they still are. The Rothbury music festival here in West Michigan had it's second running this summer and attracts them like ticks on a dog. A very close friend of mine works at one of the gas station/convenience store on the route away from that town and was subjected to crowds of the most rude, obnixious and most foul smelling hippies filling up her store all day long. She told me it took her three showers late that night to feel clean again.
they still are. The Rothbury music festival here in West Michigan had it's second running this summer and attracts them like ticks on a dog. A very close friend of mine works at one of the gas station/convenience stores on the route away from that town and was subjected to crowds of the most rude, obnixious and most foul smelling hippies filling up her store all day long. She told me it took her three showers late that night to feel clean again.
It's cause he's always pickin on that poor puttytat!
Amen and prayers to those who now stand at God's side.
And today, they are doing the same thing to the entire country.
you need a mob name. Mine's Richie Two-Blades.
that's debatable. Dylan could write, no doubt. But sing?
And what were those American GIs dying for? A political class that knew the war was both unwinnable and useless, but chose to keep murdering American youths for their own career advancement. But it was the hippies who were a disgrace.
How did the suffering of soldiers in Vietnam have anything to do with other people partying? What, was the North Vietnamese army going to invade upstate New York if Johnson and Nixon stopped sending young men to be killed over there?
Yes, and let us also remember the names of those who sent them to die for no reason, and of those who fought to end this useless, obscene war.
“All these hippies wandering about thinking the world was going to be different from that day on. As a cynical English arsehole, I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them, trying to make them realize that nothing had changed and nothing was going to change. Not only that, what they thought was an alternative society was basically a field full of six-foot-deep mud laced with LSD. If that was the world they wanted to live in, then fuck the lot of them.”
Pete Townshend
LOL. Maybe I should clarify: "at least he can play the guitar."
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Think there were any vietnam vets at Woodstock. I bet there were plenty. Should they have had a good time?
That point I will concede with no hesitancy. I will reserve judgement on his harmonica playing though until I hear him play without that stupid neckbrace holder thing. Either play the strings (which he knew how to do quite well) or blow the harp, but not both at the same time. You cant get a proper sound out of a harmonica that way.
I saw a Dick Cavett tv show on cable about Woodstock that had as guests Crosby,Stills, Joni Mitchell – a bunch of hippies who still had mud on them from the event.
They said they had just come from Woodstock. Cavett tried to build up this event but all I saw were hippies who dressed up funny
I imagine they smelled real bad too
Dick Cavett – Woodstock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLEVWR1jJk
LOL! Thanks for the comic relief! (Just in case you're wondering if we got the joke.)
I'll 2nd the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean…Jan Berry might be one the of the most underrated musical talents of all time.
Let me add one to your list: Motown.
Sean…just use "charlie foxtrot" in place of cluster ____ and you'll say the same thing.
And the 2nd attempt was worse than first. When will people realize you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice? And sure, you can argue that the "original" Woodstock wasn't lightning in a bottle, but trying to recreate it was nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.
I was about 1 year old when Woodstock happened. I've grown up my entire life hearing and believing that myth of how wonderful, life changing and WORLD changing it was.
It's only nowadays that I am learning it wasn't so.
These days, nobody gives Brian Wilson enough credit anymore.
And been damned proud to do it.
When you think about all the dreams that the hippies threw away for their own mirage of peace, love and dope, Woodstock becomes even more of an abomination.
First we’d walk upon the Moon,
Then we’d land on Mars,
The asteroids, the planets,
And finally the Stars.
That beautiful Tomorrow,
Waiting on today…
Screwing in the mud at Woodstock
We threw it all away.
We preferred to gorge on slogans
And masturbate with angst;
Instead of firing rockets
We wound up shooting blanks;
We scorned the triumphs of science
And raised superstition high —
To screw in the mud at Woodstock
We sacrificed the sky.
What's the use of spaceflight
To end poverty or strife?
And what's the point of science
If it won't extend MY life?
We reject the claims of history,
With its tears and sweat and blood:
We think Mankind's finest hour
Was an orgy in the mud.
We abandoned our ambitions
For short-term pleasure schemes
And arrested our development
With counterfeited dreams;
We demanded dope and circuses,
Enough for you and me —
We screwed in the mud at Woodstock,
Then went home and watched TV.
– HeadlessUnicornGuy and JakeWasHere
For all the hippie and "counterculture" haters out there, I recomment We're Only In It For the Money, Frank Zappa's best album IMHO. The Album cover is a mockery of Sgt. Peppers and the music just makes fun of how the hippie movement became fake and commercial.
???
Wrong yellow bird, methinks…
"a perfect metaphor for the Obama administration."
I'm sure there's a comment to be made about the announcements at Woodstock warning of bad acid, as they compare to the Obamacare protests..
But I'll let someone else make it, since I was only 4 years old when Woodstock was held.
It's a well known fact that the North Vietnamese were about to surrender until they heard of how the war was being covered in the United States. The liberal media mis-reported the war. You want to talk about blood, what about the thousands of South Vietnamese that were slaughtered after the United States pulled out?
The hippie hedonists are responsible for their deaths. Their blood is on your hands.
"Camelot" Era hasn't officially ended. Chris "tickle up my leg" Matthews has informed us that President Obama is now the last Kennedy brother.
It's almost like reading fanfiction written by the left. Now Obama is black, genetically related to the Kennedy family, demi-God, and embodiment of all goodness.
And we thought Mary Sues were bad…
The myth of Woodstock must continue in order to justify the liberalism within the media. They cannot look at the lives destroyed, or else they would have to re-evaluate or even justify their political agenda. That would require accountability and responsibility. Hippies don't know the meaning of those words.
Remember the thousands of South Vietnamese who died after the Americans pulled out.
Yup, with volumes of bad acid I would have handed out.
I was thinking the same thing….Our inheritance being destroyed by our father's hedonism.
"brown acid" dickweed. Get your facts straight! Sorry if your mother was on the red acid when you were concieved:)
Perhaps they shouldn't have had a good time. Perhaps they had a moral obligation to prepare themselves to be citizens. This includes education, and preparations for the work force. We can't afford to have a massive wave of hedonists destroying their bodies with drugs.
it's "brown acid" dumbass. Get your facts straight before you comment. Perhaps your mother was on "red acid" during conception?
Hmm.
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/ne...
The quote "don't take the red acid" is a pretty famous quote from Woodstock.
But thank you for the chance to ask: what the heck IS a 'dickweed'?
Hmm.
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/ne...
The line "don't take the red acid" is a pretty famous quote from Woodstock.
But thank you for the chance to ask: what the heck IS a 'dickweed'?
I've been reading a lot about Woodstock lately. I find it pretty interesting. I am curious what the author of this article means by lives ruined. I also didn't know that the State of NY funded the cleanup.
It is BROWN ACID dipstick. Dont lure me to dead links either! Take a breath, get a clue, you are probably unemployed, bitter & listening to talk radio too much.
Ouch! Man that is exactly right.
it is preaching to their choir- and to themselves. they have much invested in this particular view of mankind, and only stark reality will disabuse them of that notion. And that stark reality lies just around the corner…
And both gave no thought as to where everyone would take a piss or shit (isn't that always the case with slap dash put togethers?). As a result the attendees eventually end(ed) up rolling around in the mud, drugged out of their mind and screwing some pig they would later eat for dinner along with some underdone brown rice.
Yeah, good times.
You must have a pretty spectacular wife Jeffery.
How much dope do you really think was there? Enough to get 400,000 people high? Enough acid for everyone to trip? Probably the vast majority stayed sober. It was one weekend. I bet the vast majority of those kids went on to jobs, kids, mortgages etc. You people are blowing this all out of proportion. Lighten up. Everybody on this site is always so furious. Is it just that you're all still sore because Obama won?
My parents had jobs, so they couldn't make it to this oh so historic event. Not like they would have been let in. Dad was a Vietnam vet who didn't hate his country.
In my 20s, I kind of wished they were cooler, but I've grown up. I really need to tell my parents more often how much I appreciate they weren't (and aren't) hippies.
Interesting parallel between the starry-eyed portrayal of Woodstock and the messianic Obamanut fascination.
My parents had jobs, so they couldn't make it to this oh so historic event. Not like they would have been let in. Dad was a Vietnam vet who didn't hate his country.
In my 20s, I kind of wished they were cooler, but I've grown up. I really need to tell my parents more often how much I appreciate they weren't (and aren't) hippies.
Interesting parallel you point out between the starry-eyed portrayal of Woodstock and the messianic Obamanut fascination.
I just can’t get into the commemoration of 500,000 people cavorting at a place called Woodstock. At that time in 1969, I and 500,000 other Americans were fighting a war in another place called Vietnam. We were crushing a Communist offensive that was called the Ho Chi Minh Emulation Campaign. Talk of Woodstock just leaves me cold.
The "entitlement" philosophy embodied, lives on.
Thank you for your service, John. (I was only 11 years old in 1969; however, I can now appreciate all that you and the other Vietnam vets sacrificed.)_
Obama has been a uniter albeit not in the way he and his minions thought. He has, in less than a year, united and expanded the conservative base beyond what he could have ever imagined. By the way, a standout at Woodstock was Joe Cocker singing With A Little Help from my Friends and we conservatives at Tea Parties and Town Halls across America are feeling the love with a little help from our friends!
Woodstock. What a perfect metaphor for everything that is wrong with the boomers, also. Some suffered, (Nam vets) so that others could party endlessly. The absolute truth of the unintended consequences of the counter culture ridiculously unaware while expanding the collective consciousness. Intentionally for profit economic disaster. Running round in a state of Eco-Love then trashing the place so that, "the man", read: Conservative minded squares, could clean up after them. Sounds real familiar, right now. Good article, Jeffery, right on the money or, if you're a Woodstock organizer, lack thereof.
"I saw a Dick Cavett tv show on cable about Woodstock that had as guests Crosby,Stills, Joni Mitchell – a bunch of hippies who still had mud on them from the event."
Actually, I don't think Mitchell was there, and I only know this because she wrote the song "Woodstock"–which was a rockin' little number when CSN did it, but a whiny piece of crap with her singing–in lament of having missed her generation's version of Heaven Gate's First Contact (without the suicide, but you get my point; the "transendental" moment)
And so, you can see from the tendency to repeat oneself incessantly, and the very vulgar and limited language skills, exactly why you should never use that 'brown acid' leftover from Woodstock.
"I am curious what the author of this article means by lives ruined"
Paired as it was with ODs, I might assume it was a reference to those who didn't live long past Woodstock, famously Hendrix and Joplin, and also certainly regular people. Maybe it refers to the people who didn't go so far as to die, but didn't emerge unscathed either.
I believe that, had I gone to Woodstock, I would have seen it as a pretty darn good party … for maybe a few hours. That's the way things are with hippies. They just don't understand the concept of closure or moving on. Hanging out with friends and hearing great bands play? Awesome. Rolling around in mud and vomit while frying on 'the red acid' and convincing yourself that being half-naked and dancing will 'change the world' and 'upset the system'? Idiotic. Refusing to let it go and continuing to romanticize if for 40 years?
Pathetic.
Oh, come on, the Beatles? They played some damn good music!
liberal? yeah…but is that so shocking?
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