Woodstock Page #9

I was talking about that...

...small circles of friends

around living rooms...

...around pipes, when they weren't

selling any papers on the street...

...and we weren't walking around this

beautiful green place smoking, and...

...not being afraid.

There's a cat, and I really don't even

know his name...

...but I remember

that Chip said that...

...his old lady just had a baby and that

made me think.

Wow, it really is a city here!

But this is, this is for you

and your old lady, man! Whew!

That kid is going to be far out!

"Why must every generation

think their folks are square?"

"And no matter where their heads are,

they know Moms ain't there."

"Because I swore when I was small,

that I'd remember when..."

"...I knew what's wrong with them,

that I was smaller, then."

"I determined to remember

all the cardinal rules..."

"...like sun-showers are legal

grounds for skipping school."

"I know I have forgotten

maybe one or two..."

"...but I hope that I recall them

all before the baby is due."

"And I know he'll have

a question or two..."

"...like, 'Hey, Pop, can

I go ride my zoom..."

"...that goes two hundred

miles an hour..."

"...suspended on balloons?"'

"'And I can put a droplet of

this new stuff on my tongue..."

"...and imagine frothing dragons

while you sit and wreck your lungs?"'

"And I must be permissive..."

"...understanding the

younger generation..."

"...and then I'll know

that all I've learned..."

"...and then I'll know that

all I've learned, my kid..."

"...then I'll know that all I've

learned, my kid assumes..."

"...and all my deepest worries

must be his cartoons..."

"...and still I'll try to tell

him all the things I've done..."

"...relating to what he can

do when he becomes a man..."

"...and still he'll stick

his fingers in the fan..."

"...and, 'Hey, Pop, my girl

friend is only three..."

"...she's got her own bitty

phone and she's taking LSD..."

"...and now that we're best friends,

she wants to give a taste to me."'

"'But what's the matter, Daddy?

How come you look so mean?"'

"'Could it be that you can't

live up to your dreams?"'

No, it's not true, because we're

doing it! I love you. Goodbye.

Ladies and gentlemen, John Sebastian!

Give me an "F"!

Give me a "U"!

Give me a "C"!

Give me a "K"!

What does that spell?

F***!

Sing it!

More! More!

Country Joe!

Sir? You live here?

I sure as hell do!

Do you mind if we ask

you a few questions?

I'm right here to answer them.

Have you been affected by this

festival at all? In any way?

What? We lost all of our milk.

We're just trying to put together a film,

to show what the whole picture was like.

You know, from all sides.

How do you feel about it?

Do you want me to

explain in plain English?

A shitty mess!

Tell me, in what way?

No bathrooms.

Our hundred fifty acres.

Gone, that's all.

And we didn't rent to them.

They all trespassed, every one!

Clarence, first tell me

where you want this to go.

Can I ask you a question?

Is it okay if we use your telephone?

Oh, we have none. It's out.

This is a disaster area.

We don't even have a phone.

It's been out since yesterday morning.

Water?

Water I can give you.

And I'm sorry the phone has been

out, I had an emergency call.

It's a disgraceful mess, if

you want to know the answer!

What, specifically, has happened to you?

My fields are all cut up.

Our second cutting of hay is going.

Our cows, the milk truck didn't get here.

The milk had to be thrown out.

May I ask you how much money

you made on this, uh, four days?

I have no, no conception.

Did you make five thousand dollars?

have no idea.

It's too private a question?

It's, it's not only too private,

I didn't even have a chance...

...to total up the amount

of purchases we made...

...the amount of money we took in.

We just, uh, haphazardly

sent it to our home...

...and had it locked up until we had

a chance to sit down and count it...

...which would probably be in

about, uh, two to three days.

Would you like to see it again next...?

I'd love to see it again!

You'd love to see it, though?

I can't say the farmers would.

Well, it, it's, it's

a matter of opinion.

What are your feelings

about the garbage?

Where there are people, there is garbage.

You, you can't stop, stop progress.

Saturday night we got word

over WVOS that...

...a lot of kids in town

didn't have anything to eat.

Word went out that everybody should

contribute food.

We went over to the park...

...the village permitted

them to camp there.

A police car went up the street here

with a loud speaker...

...and told the kids to come up there.

And we fed them Saturday

night and all day Sunday.

Excess stuff was taken over to the school

and they flew it to the, to the site.

How do you feel about them now?

Very good. I have a

nineteen-year-old myself.

He's out on the Coast, and I felt that

we've got to give them a fair shake here.

If kids are hungry, you've got

to feed them. I don't know...

...maybe we ought to put, we

ought to put everybody on pot.

And those kids were all happy.

They were all on pot.

Well, whatever it is...

It never should have happened.

If pot makes them happy and no trouble...

...maybe we ought to put all

the adults on pot!

You want a fifteen-year-old girl

sleeping in the field in a tent?

What are you, out of your mind?

It never should have happened!

Do you feel bad about the kids

who were killed in Vietnam?

This has nothing to do with...

It's the same thing. The same thing.

There's no comparison.

People get more excited about the kids

in Monticello than they do about...

Fifteen-year-old kids

sleeping in the field?

They wanted to.

They're all high on pot!

Look, maybe if pot made them peaceful,

maybe we all should take pot!

I was giving them water all along the

road here, right up on the bridge...

...and they were not on pot!

Very lovely children, believe me.

They were selling stuff.

There was plenty of stuff there.

There's no doubt about it.

They had hundreds of kids in that house.

If you have four hundred

and fifty thousand kids...

...and you've got two or three hundred...

...they were selling these,

these blue acid tablets...

...which are bad,

and they were selling them.

True, but figure the law of averages.

If you took 500 adults and brought

them together and had plenty of booze...

...you know what

would have happened?

You didn't see any drunks.

That's right. There was no fighting.

There was nobody stealing.

We had to feed them! What the hell

else was there to do?

There was nothing else to do!

Having a good time?

Very nice.

The water is nice.

We were all sitting on a tree

stump over there.

And the more people got on it,

the lower it got.

About a year ago, I wouldn't have

believed this was the way to swim...

...but this is the way to swim!

It's the way to go all

the time, actually.

Think that's going to happen?

It's got to happen!

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