Oscar Woodstock
As Tom said Constanten, former keyboardist for The Grateful Dead: "Woodstock was a lightning in a bottle. It created a sense of community by connecting people who felt lonely and defenseless. " Until then, the hippies of conviction were lonely palms in the desert. The others were dressed as hippies out the weekend, but did not understand the philosophy and the mysticism behind the movement. To see how three days 500,000 people lived in peace and harmony in the rain and mud, with the psychedelic dancing in the neurons, made the concept of recreational drug use happen to occupy a new status. Today's marijuana has been proven by 43 percent of Americans (120 million). In percentage terms, rather than in the Netherlands (22.6 percent) where use was decriminalized for three decades. Stu Cook, Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist, who was the central act of the event, recalls that he and his group came from the rock environment of the Bay Area of San Francisco with skepticism.
"We always look down the nose to the East Coast, we had the Golden Gate Park. We thought we had something special. But we saw that Woodstock had freaks everywhere. " The concert was visible, due to excessive vehicular traffic that choked the roads with a million people, trying to reach the tiny village that appeared in the map because it allowed the show on its slopes. Woodstock became famous for the chaos that resulted, but no victims, as they would in Altamont. There was no water, food or adequate restrooms.
All that was left was drugs, and nobody thought that half a million young people with impaired senses could be managed wisely in that environment. The major mentioned the news media coming to the Time magazine cover. Otherwise it would have been nothing more than a footnote in local newspapers in Berkeley and Haight Ashbury. Then came the Oscar-winning film. The contagious feeling of camaraderie lasted a short time. Reality resume life as he always was and will remain so. The Grateful Dead wanted to keep the spirit of the time constant journey, but never again felt this strange union that occurred in a brief and unforgettable moment of rock history.