Rockefeller sends the National Guard to Woodstock

Armies are very good at quickly establishjng field kitchens, field hospitals, field toilets, field showers, first aid posts, etc. If a New York National Guard logistics unit was sent in, they would be too busy supplying “disaster relief.”

Also consider the role of USAF helicopters doing their (pre deployment to Vietnam) “work ups” by hauling over-dosed hippies out of Woodstock.
 
Well, I am not sure on how plausible it is, but let's say it happens.

There would be a mixed reactio on the get-go, as there would clearly be some people who would be initially supportative and go on about "family values" or something while others would see this as clamping down on freedom of speech and so on. If things got violent and so on, then it'd really look bad on Nelson and alot of others when they get off the 1950s trip and kinda realize what just happened was pretty damn messed up.

It'd likely valdiate alot of what the hippies were saying in the long run and would probably provide a backlash against the right-wing
 
In a way, they were - the US Army had to airdrop food and medical supplies into Woodstock because they had not planned on so many people attending.

Frankly, it's an image of Woodstock I wish more people would visualize - a bunch of US soldiers dropping sandwiches to a mob of crying hippies.

For the record, that intervention was recorded for posterity in the film Woodstock. There's a scene in which one of the female performers(I'm thinking Grace Slick) tells the crowd not to be afraid of he military, because they're there to help them. I can't find the clip on You Tube.
 
Let’s jump ahead to later years. In 1994, Woodstock 94 was held and attracted a large audience, but the name casted an image for caution. 2019 was supposed to be the year of Woodstock 50. Only a handful of original performers, the youngest in their seventies, would be around, but it would have been a very ceremonial presentation. But the name presents a risk, so there won’t be one.

Move only five years after Woodstock to 1974 and you have the Ozark Music Festival. It was ranked by many as “second only to Woodstock” yet it was nearly forgotten after it ended. Developers promised 50,000 tickets would be sold and booked the Missouri State Fair Grounds in Sedalia. When the event came in July, three to six times that many people showed up (sound familiar). While Yasgur’s farm returned to its farm status after Woodstock in New York, the Missouri fairgrounds were an exhibition facility that had to be cleaned up quickly for the state fair. Professional recordings became the basis for a movie about Woodstock, but such recordings from Ozark were confiscated as evidence for fraud. The only remaining records are YouTube slide shows and a few pieces of 8 mm movie.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/bigger-woodstock-ozark-music-festival-1974/

So, we see strong evidence for aversion to multi-day art and rock concerts. But a more recent trend might open the doors. Several communities are have been organizing Fuzz Fest, a three-day camping-concert event. Few book any artists of fame, they are just local events. Attendance figures are more in the range of 15,000. Can this be the future of outdoor camping concerts?
 
For the record, that intervention was recorded for posterity in the film Woodstock. There's a scene in which one of the female performers(I'm thinking Grace Slick) tells the crowd not to be afraid of he military, because they're there to help them. I can't find the clip on You Tube.

I just think it odd that - perhaps because of the disproportionate influence the Boomers have on pop culture - we have Woodstock as this glorified days long festival of free love, drugs and great music, when it was mostly a bunch of shit covered hippies that the Army literally had to distribute food to in order to keep the, from starving.
 
I just think it odd that - perhaps because of the disproportionate influence the Boomers have on pop culture - we have Woodstock as this glorified days long festival of free love, drugs and great music, when it was mostly a bunch of shit covered hippies that the Army literally had to distribute food to in order to keep the, from starving.

Well, actually, the inanities of Woodstock, including the botching of the food supply, was the subject of a certain degree of mirth in the more cynical corners of the counterculture.
 
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