 Happy Anniversary Max Yasgur
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It was 38 years ago, today.... I was there...well, for Day in the Garden '98. 
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Loquacious
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what a party!!! i am sure we will never see the likes of again 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Great. Another obscure reference.
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Should be Riding
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Woodstock. "Going down to Yasgur's farm..."
Benny
Black & Silver '02
Too many mods to list
Not enough miles ridden
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Should be Riding
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Had to look that one up. 35th anniversary of Woodstock. Max Yasgur was the guy that owned the property.
Soren
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Yeah. I have access to Google. 
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Worn Saddle
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Ah, fond but fading memories of my misspent youth...ol' Max was pretty unhappy about the mess but what a musical revolution it birthed!
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Loquacious
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Had to look that one up. 35th anniversary of Woodstock. Max Yasgur was the guy that owned the property.
Thank you Soren. I had no idea what they were all talking about.
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
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Fe Butt
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Yep! And at last count there were now 4 1/2 million folks there at Yasgur's farm that summer. (but I was smart enough to turn down Hendrix's kind offer of some of his blue acid BEFORE that announcement!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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And at last count there were now 4 1/2 million folks there at Yasgur's farm that summer
4 1/2 million...really.....and who was doing the counting. The same people who dropped the Jimmys Blue Acid.
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
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4 1/2 million...really.....and who was doing the counting. The same people who dropped the Jimmys Blue Acid.
Dude, it's Jimi...all you yutes need to rent the documentary DVD if for no other reason than to watch The Who's mesmerizing performance.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Fe Butt
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Nah, Mark! A lot o' those people are now hangin' around freeway offramps holdin' up signs sayin' somethin' about workin' for food!(if they're still around, that is)
The "official" estimate was "about 1/2 a million strong"(sorry, couldn't resist that one). But, the "joke" is that if you ask any 10 Boomers where they were in the summer of '69, at least 1 of 'em will tell ya that they were there "groovin' to the sounds".
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dude, it's Jimi...
I beg your pardon sir. Shame on me. I will write Jimi one thousand times on the white board. For you old timers, the white board is todays version of your old black board. 
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
Seller of fine automobiles.
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423-424-4000
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Worn Saddle
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yeah, yeah, and a dry erase marker is your version of chalk, I got it...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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yeah, yeah, and a dry erase marker is your version of chalk, I got it...
Modern technology. What can i say. You know what else we have.
Instead of kickstarters on our motorcycles...................we have electric starter buttons 
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
Seller of fine automobiles.
Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche of Chattanooga
423-424-4000
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All of the threads are starting to blur: internet, Luddites, kickstarts, electric starts, Woodstock, Elton, Al, Jimmy, Jimi...aaaahhhh, flashback! 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Hey Mark! Maybe you're in luck afterall!!! Seems Ed here just might have been one of those Boomers who actually WERE there droppin' in(err...maybe that should be "droppin' out") there at Yasgur's farm some 38 summers ago, huh?! (five'll get ya ten he either rode his old Bonnie there or he came with Sunshine Lipchitz in her VW bus)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Hey Mark! Maybe you're in luck afterall!!!
Seems Ed here just might have been one of those Boomers who actually WERE there droppin' in(err...maybe that should be "droppin' out") there at Yasgur's farm some 38 summers ago, huh?!
(five'll get ya ten he either rode his old Bonnie there or he came with Sunshine Lipchitz in her VW bus)
Nah, I was in New London going through Coast Guard "indoctrination" that summer...that other stuff came some years later after I got out...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Check Pants
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Had to look that one up. 35th anniversary of Woodstock.
The little sarcastic bird of Peanuts fame who doubles as a personal advisor to Snoopy? 
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Check Pants
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All of the threads are starting to blur: internet, Luddites, kickstarts, electric starts, Woodstock, Elton, Al, Jimmy, Jimi...aaaahhhh, flashback!
Lyndon Johnson, Memphis Garbage strike, Martin Luther, The Gulf of Tonkin, Tet offensive, Bobbie, Afros, Eugene McCarthey, Nixon/Agnew, '68 Chicago Police riots/Mayor Daley, Paris student riots, Donovan/CSN&Y/Jefferson Airplane/Arlo Guthrie, Monterey->Woodstock->Altamont. A lot happened in a few short years (I was a kid). No wonder (part) of the world was ready for some brain dead Disco music by the middle 70's.
jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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I remember me and 4 of my friends sitting in an overheated Pontiac on I-95 in BFE, South Carolina. We left it on the side of the road and hitched back to Florida. That's as close as I got to 'ol Max's farm.
Bummer, I thought. In hindsight, maybe it was a blessing.
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Max Yasgur backwards is Rug Say Xam ! Listen to the rug , it will guide you . Give yourself some positive vibrations . 
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The little sarcastic bird of Peanuts fame who doubles as a personal advisor to Snoopy?
Sarcastic? Never quite saw him that way. Now I have to read the strip with another attitude in mind.
Can't get the Fig Newton song out of my head.
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...and the acid you had to "watch out for" was the brown acid, not blue...
I was stuck on the thru-way unable to proceed any further 'cause it was basically shut down trying to get there.
Definition of Insanity: "Doing things the same way over and over and expecting different results."
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