I'm the most nostalgic person alive. HELP!

[WoodstockChild]

I didn't live in the sixties and I'm more nostalgic than most of them. Yikes! Watching the Woodstock movie gives me this ache in my heart and stomach that I can't quite describe. A throbbing feeling in my soul. Something is missing, an empty space that once was filled. Could it be fellowship? Love? Peace? Fire? I can't quite pt my finger on it. Please, true hippies. If you can, will you fill my heart with stories of the past, of the glory days, of Woodstock?

[TrippinBTM]

Dude, you don't need old hippies telling about the old days, that will just sink you deeper into nostolgia. Face it bro, you live now, not then. Focus on the past and you'll never be satisfied, because it can never be attained. You like what you saw back then? Go out and create it here and now. Love and Fellowship and Peace and Fire are timeless; they exist today as well as in 1967. Don't waste your energies on trying to be "back then" as it will never fill your soul. Those hippies back then would never have acheived anything (questionable as to whether they acheived anything, but that's another thread) if they'd just sat around talking about how good it had been in 1920s.

[seancourt]

Yea, take what you have and go with it. Make it the best you can, dwelling on the past does shit except make you long about it more.

[Flight From Ashiya]

If you're heavily into the Woodstock Festival vibe I recommend you check out the very first rock,folk,pop festival:The Monterrey Pop Festival 16-18 June 1967.
In many ways Woodstock was a repeat of Monterrey.It seemed to contain the same performers.
D.A.Pennebaker made a superb film of Monterrey before he made the legendary Woodstock film.It's much harder to see the Monterrey rockumentary because it was never on general movie theatre release.
I know that if I could choose to go back & be at either Woodstock or Monterrey ;-I'd much prefer to be at the Monterrey festival.

[lalalamort]

The idea of a 15 year old pining over a boring rock festival that rained most of the time is fucking hilarious.........

You seem to have posted similar threads ine very section woodstock child.........stop trying so hard

[Autumn_Mama]

The idea of a 15 year old pining over a boring rock festival that rained most of the time is fucking hilarious.........

You seem to have posted similar threads ine very section woodstock child.........stop trying so hard

Do your parents let you out of the house?

[lalalamort]

yeh cos um........thats doesnt have any releveance to what i said

[Autumn_Mama]

You must have lived a VERY sheltered life to think Woodstock was "some boring rock festival".

[lalalamort]

1. It rained for most of the three days
2. The performers wouldnt play until they were paid, whic his rather hypocritical
3.90% of people had left by the time hendrix played,
4. A lot of the music there was shithouse, but some was ok
5. As a non LSD user, it personally would have been more boring cos the people would piss me of for being so boring and fucking annoying to be around.
6. The fact that shes fifteen is amusing because at 15 you are easily impressioned into what you think is cool or not. I was like that. Ive learn so much more about the world over the last 2 years and expect to learn a lot more.
7. And like I said was that, she had posted the same thread all over the forums like wanting to seem cool or like a "real hippie" or something.

Thats all I have to say and ive wated another 2 minutes of my life justifying myself to random people on the other side of the world

[Autumn_Mama]

You've learned so much about the world in the last two years? That's pretty funny, man. Let her alone. You don't know where people stand in a spiritual sense of these things. For many, it was a great enlightenment. Who cares what she is trying to be? Atleast she is not afraid of it and is finding who she truly is.
I am still laughing at the mere thought of you "learning so much about the world in two years". You are not far from 15, man---you are both kids to me.

[lucyinthesky]

I didn't live in the sixties and I'm more nostalgic than most of them. Yikes! Watching the Woodstock movie gives me this ache in my heart and stomach that I can't quite describe. A throbbing feeling in my soul. Something is missing, an empty space that once was filled. Could it be fellowship? Love? Peace? Fire? I can't quite pt my finger on it. Please, true hippies. If you can, will you fill my heart with stories of the past, of the glory days, of Woodstock?
my boyfriend and i are the exact same. i love it/hate it :)

[WoodstockChild]

I love Woodstock. I can't help it. I'm not "trying to be" anyone other than myself. That's why I'm on hippy.com, not myspace. To me, Woodstock was a beautiful spiritual experience for many people and generations to come, and you need to respect our opinions.

If Woodstock was a quote "boring rock festival" then why are you on this website? Seriously.

[Naturalhi]

You've learned so much about the world in the last two years? That's pretty funny, man. Let her alone. You don't know where people stand in a spiritual sense of these things. For many, it was a great enlightenment. Who cares what she is trying to be? Atleast she is not afraid of it and is finding who she truly is.
I am still laughing at the mere thought of you "learning so much about the world in two years". You are not far from 15, man---you are both kids to me.
You know you'll never convince lala, see where he's coming from?

All reasons come from #1 standpoint, me as opposed to us, whereas Woodstock was the biggest family reunion on earth.

How many fights, knifings, shootings, etc. happened at WS2, everybody who was there was there, but not together. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/sunglasses.gif

[themnax]

what made the 60s was that they were the exception to looking back. our parents and probably grandparants as well had spent their lives walking backwards, looking backwards. what made the 60s and 70s what they were, what they were able to be, what we did that was so different that made it all possible, was that for what was to most of us a concept that was totaly new, we were looking forward instead of looking back.

if you want what we had then, that is what it would take now.

not trying to relive some fantasy of how much better things couldhave been.

well alright we DID achieve something for that brief moment. there were downs as mentioned. there are always downs. but there were also people letting it all hang out and enjoying themselves without hurting each other. there was wavy gravy's granola, and while i wasn't myself personaly there, i did feel the love among the real hippies at the time that i did know.

i think for that moment, however fleeting, the gains did outweigh the downs more then 2 to 1. the real woodstock, i'm talking about, and the monteray thing considered a precursor to it.

but if you want to talk about real nostelgia, mine isn't about events or excitement, nor for that matter entirely about the past, but about perspectives and priorities that are in no way time bounded. about ways of doing things that are sustainable without becoming drudgery nor robbing clarity of thought and peacefulness either.

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[Naturalhi]

I love Woodstock. I can't help it. I'm not "trying to be" anyone other than myself. That's why I'm on hippy.com, not myspace. To me, Woodstock was a beautiful spiritual experience for many people and generations to come, and you need to respect our opinions.

If Woodstock was a quote "boring rock festival" then why are you on this website? Seriously.
Here's another thouht> maybe you're reincarnated after dying in a horrible accident on the way home from the festival, yeah, everyone in the VW micrabus was elated over festival and hi over the weed and some dumb truckdriver ran over the bus and killed all and since this was your last memory from then, your obsessing over it now, it could happen! http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[WoodstockChild]

Heh I've never thought of that :)

[Naturalhi]

But just because I have recurring dreams about how I died last time. Didn't mean I wanted to be a broker again this time.

Hence maybe pleasant happenings before death might cause nostalgia........

[SunLion]

I'm a bit late jumping into this thread, but I can't resist commenting...

I felt much the same at that age. At 15, it was 1976, and most people just wanted to forget the 60s. I hoped there would be another Woodstock in '79. In fact, in the summer of '79 I remember seriously considering just hitting the road, hitchhiking towards that part of New York. I still remember that it was raining and I was listening to Abbey Road. It really did bother me that there was not another Woodstock that year, or at least no big festival.

Now, at age 45, I'm GLAD I was just a kid in the '60s. I'm glad I missed it all. Honestly. Seeing what some people saw (e.g. San Francisco in 1966 for instance) would have given me false hope that would have been very hard to cope with later.

Some things really are better now. People don't trash campgrounds at festivals so much. People who are gay or bi or poly are much more accepted. There's less overt racism and sexism. The "hippie kids" I meet these days are for real, and mostly NOT doing it because it's "cool" or as a purely fashion thing, which I think was a HUGE factor in the 1960s. And these days there's much more "crossover" between alternative subcultures. The "generation gap" isn't gone, but man, it's NOTHING like it once was.

Nice post, I wish I had the whole world at my fingertips, via the Internet, when I was your age; I wish you the best.

[drumminmama]

swet and kind words, Sunlion.

WC, I've encouraged this (sometimes meanly) to you repeatedly: carry the fire forward.
the hippie generation was the first with a widespread middle class and the luxury to question the post WWII values.
sure, using mom and dad's stipend for college to live in a crash pad was a bit hypocritical, but when one is changing mass consciousness, its OK (=that's tounge in cheek, btw)
This generation has instant communication. Leary embraced the web as the new group mind to the end of his life.
Maybe he was onto something.
Nostalgia will sap the energy you need to continue the work of changing the patterns of the world to more peaceful ways of existance.
Self generated euphoria can carry you through.
If the community behind Woodstock resonates with you, use it as a touchstone, and not a life raft. Let it be the place from which you grow, not where you stall.

oh, and Conservative republicans are the most nostalgic people alive.. see where it got them consciously?

[Naturalhi]

I'm a bit late jumping into this thread, but I can't resist commenting...

I felt much the same at that age. At 15, it was 1976, and most people just wanted to forget the 60s. I hoped there would be another Woodstock in '79. In fact, in the summer of '79 I remember seriously considering just hitting the road, hitchhiking towards that part of New York. I still remember that it was raining and I was listening to Abbey Road. It really did bother me that there was not another Woodstock that year, or at least no big festival.

Now, at age 45, I'm GLAD I was just a kid in the '60s. I'm glad I missed it all. Honestly. Seeing what some people saw (e.g. San Francisco in 1966 for instance) would have given me false hope that would have been very hard to cope with later.

Some things really are better now. People don't trash campgrounds at festivals so much. People who are gay or bi or poly are much more accepted. There's less overt racism and sexism. The "hippie kids" I meet these days are for real, and mostly NOT doing it because it's "cool" or as a purely fashion thing, which I think was a HUGE factor in the 1960s. And these days there's much more "crossover" between alternative subcultures. The "generation gap" isn't gone, but man, it's NOTHING like it once was.

Nice post, I wish I had the whole world at my fingertips, via the Internet, when I was your age; I wish you the best.
I just have to jump in here and say " If you remember the sixties you weren't really THERE"! And also you must have forgotten about 'Altamount'
When the whole concert got trashed, and since then I've watched America become the "ME FIRST, and scr*w you, Nation"

Now, not being human I don't understand human emotions, but ya'll appear to be on a downward spiral, to destuction.....sorry ......just my humble opinion as an Orangutan forward Observer.http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

[SunLion]

"If you remember the sixties you weren't really THERE"!

I understand that as a humorous line. But only in the joking sense. Plenty of people who were "there" (Vietnam, Haight-Ashbury, the Civil Rights fights, the '68 DNC, etc.) not only remember it, but can talk about it in great detail; many have written very outstanding literature about it.

And also you must have forgotten about 'Altamount' When the whole concert got trashed

No, your mention of that just underscores my point, an example of how in some respects things really are better now. Most really gigantic festivals featuring hippie bands and non-conforming hordes of 100,000+ people are without major incidents, and nothing like the scene that went down at Altamont.

I've watched America become the "ME FIRST, and scr*w you, Nation"

I absolutely agree that mainstream culture is exactly that.

[~MorningManiacMusic~]

The idea of a 15 year old pining over a boring rock festival that rained most of the time is fucking hilarious.........

You seem to have posted similar threads ine very section woodstock child.........stop trying so hard

You weren't even alive when Woodstock 69' happen....So how would you know if it was boring?

[satirul]

i don't remember woodstock.but i'm not sorry.because i live now,and it's just as good.
let me share to you a memory from 2 years ago,woodstock child:

we were about 50.000
we made our tents on the beach,but everybody slept where sleep got them,on the beach,on the field,on the side of the road,in stranger's tents.
a friend of mine went barefoot all day and his feet were full of mud.while he slept,somebody came and washed his feet.
during the night,you could see campfires all along the beach.
we sat at a campfire,about 100 people.some played guitars,tambourines,violines,flutes.we all sang in one voice.i was leaning on some dude i never saw before,and a girl who never saw me before was leaning on me.
i took out my ciggarette pack,took one and passed the pack on,along with some steak i had.it never got back to me,but that was ok.soon a bottle of wine arrived from another side,followed by food and more ciggarettes.we ate,we drank,we smoked,we passed on.we all felt good together and we were complete strangers.

that was vama veche a couple of years ago.
now the place has become "trendy" and all sorts of screwed up people are coming.we still have our fires and communing,but the odd looks and comments we get give us an edge.so this year we're moving on another deserted beach.

the point is,now it's just as good.

[Runnin' Blue]

Hi all I'm new here and I just had to add my 2 cents, the 60's and 70's was good and bad. Thank God for the drugs, which made the bad times better and the the good times much better. I really don't sit back and recall, but there are those times I'll be in some bar, the band plays that song and it's like magic. You go back, remember that time, that girl, oh the place in time and I'm sitting there with that big GRIN on my face. Boy O Boy was that good but I live for today. I do love the music from that time and it's about all I listen to now days......oh this will be the day that I die.......fallin fast.......we all got up to dance............the day the music died.......Bye Bye ........a generation lost in space.............Oh those songs they bring a tear to my eye and I remember Boy o Boy did I live or what? So Remember The Days Of Future Past..... But Live For Today It Just May Be Your LAST ......Another Day Closer To.....Death

[themnax]

Hi all I'm new here and I just had to add my 2 cents, the 60's and 70's was good and bad. Thank God for the drugs, which made the bad times better and the the good times much better. I really don't sit back and recall, but there are those times I'll be in some bar, the band plays that song and it's like magic. You go back, remember that time, that girl, oh the place in time and I'm sitting there with that big GRIN on my face. Boy O Boy was that good but I live for today. I do love the music from that time and it's about all I listen to now days......oh this will be the day that I die.......fallin fast.......we all got up to dance............the day the music died.......Bye Bye ........a generation lost in space.............Oh those songs they bring a tear to my eye and I remember Boy o Boy did I live or what? So Remember The Days Of Future Past..... But Live For Today It Just May Be Your LAST ......Another Day Closer To.....Death

you say thank god for the drugs, i say god i never got addicted to anything.

i say thank god there was a mood created, that we were able to experience, whatever the drugs may or may not have contributed to it. and i think the only thing they really contributed to was the idea people had in their heads doing them that it was doing so.

you say false hope. i say not false at all. just a real hope that people gave up on or simply got distracted from too soon.

people always get tired of the same things so everything chainges. sometimes this is good. sometimes this is silly. sometimes this is disasterous.

the knee jerk swing away from peace and love, because people went back to putting trying to impress each other ahead of us, is what created a market for the tyranny raygun and khomani conspired to create and under which we all live now.

yet the hope has not died. can never die. will never die.

the fix may be in. the corporate mafia may rule the planet. but just like peace and love, people get tired of too long the same thing.

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[aphrodite_pretty]

Maybe you're feeling that way because you were there in another lifetime and have been reincarnated. Some folks believe that, some don't.

[Runnin' Blue]

"you say false hope. i say not false at all. just a real hope that people gave up on or simply got distracted from too soon."

Hey Man I never said that and I never said I was Addicted to anything WTF was that a Flash Back you're having ?

Hey man you off the Meds today, or is that really you in there? Like I said My 2 cents.....

[WoodstockChild]

Aphrodite_pretty, I love that song quoted in your signature. It's my favorite Stevie Nicks song. Actually I saw her twice in concert, one solo and once with Fleetwood Mac :)
It's just that whole idea of rock 'n roll doesn't exist anymore. It just disintegrated. When they died, the whole lifestyle died with them. I just want one day to feel what it was like. Just one day.

[janis89]

i took out my ciggarette pack,took one and passed the pack on,along with some steak i had.it never got back to me,but that was ok.soon a bottle of wine arrived from another side,followed by food and more ciggarettes.we ate,we drank,we smoked,we passed on.we all felt good together and we were complete strangers.
Why weren't I with you??!

Anyway,I'm nostalgic too sometimes,but i suggest you 'd better try to live your life Now,not just Let her pass through you...I now how you feel,and i'd really like to go back to the 60's too sometimes,but don't forget that they had their problems too!! Have fun,and enjoy life the best you can,Now ''cause we may not be here tomorrow''-Janis-

[Naturalhi]

It's just that whole idea of rock 'n roll doesn't exist anymore. It just disintegrated. When they died, the whole lifestyle died with them. I just want one day to feel what it was like. Just one day.

Wood, child I don't know where you've parked the Yellow subbut if I'm dead how can I be here trying to soothe you're fevered brow?:H And there are a lot of woodstock rockers still around, obviously not where the yellow sub is docked, but we're here! We just got old and the bands broke up for various reasons, the world speeded up so the music had to also, up until a few weeks ago I could have said "at least your generation didn't live under the threat of of the 'Abomb' or being forced to fight and die for a war on the other side of the globe" but can't use that argument now!:mad:

Well I said all that to say all this! rock is still alive you just can't hear it through all the thumping bumping and grinding thats so popular today:p

[WoodstockChild]

I feel so much better when I'm listening to music. Right now I'm listening to "Cool Change" by the Little River Band and before I was listeining to Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan. It's just such peaceful and inspiring music. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival is such a calming song too.

[petrock]

i listen to "get along" by the peaceful panthers

also "love is the issue" and "rock the pot house"

[Smokey McPot]

Right now i'm listening to the sweet sounds of Celine Dion

[sExY BaBy KaTiE]

the turtles <3 my heart will go on

[WoodstockChild]

I love the Turtles "It Ain't Me Babe"

[misterrain]

I think that the whole peace and love thing was an excuse to get high and screw. Things really haven't changed that much, as people still find excuses to get high and screw.

A few people actually did something important in the 60s, but it had nothing to do with going to a music festival. I mean, that's just silly.

[Naturalhi]

misty, if you feel that way why did you migrate to a hippy forum in the first place?

[TheLizardQueen]

A few people actually did something important in the 60s, but it had nothing to do with going to a music festival. I mean, that's just silly.True. Don't get me wrong, I love 60's music, 60's clothes, etc, but I would never want to live in the 60's. And it does kind of piss me off when I keep hearing people spout off about how it was so much better in the 60's, and how the present day sucks because of rap music, Bush, whatever. Well, it wasn't that much better in the 1960's, if anything, it was worse. Just because the music was better doesn't mean the quality of life was any better. Discrimination was still rampant, typical gender rolls were still in place, etc. Yes, we still have those now, but people didn't have the same amount of freedoms as they do now. It was only though the hard work from Civil rights groups, women's groups, student's groups, etc, was there any change, and not from dirty teenagers dancing around in fields on acid.

[Naturalhi]

True. Don't get me wrong, I love 60's music, 60's clothes, etc, but I would never want to live in the 60's. And it does kind of piss me off when I keep hearing people spout off about how it was so much better in the 60's, and how the present day sucks because of rap music, Bush, whatever. Well, it wasn't that much better in the 1960's, if anything, it was worse. Just because the music was better doesn't mean the quality of life was any better. Discrimination was still rampant, typical gender rolls were still in place, etc. Yes, we still have those now, but people didn't have the same amount of freedoms as they do now. It was only though the hard work from Civil rights groups, women's groups, student's groups, etc, was there any change, and not from dirty teenagers dancing around in fields on acid.
If it weren't for "dirty teenagers dancing around in fields on acid" you probly wouldn't enjoy some of the freedom you enjoy today! Such as before the revolution women thought that the way to a mans heart was through his tummy, so they became suzie home makers, during The REV. they found out that a better way to control their man was farther south, AY? Which led to all kinds of new avenues of freedom.

And men found out women weren't made of porcelin and want to have fun too, actually the 60's was good for everybody, you should thank us
dirty hippys oterwise you might have to look forward to, how did they used to say it? Keep her bare foot and pregnant, to her home, and out of trouble. Yeah that sounds about right.

[VespertineRising]

I bumped into this old hippie lady selling flowers on the beach the other night and she gave me a wealth of stories from the old days when flower children were everywhere. It was amazing the shit she told me. I love old nostalgic stories . ooooo yea

[HonorSeed]

My nostalgia goes back a little further than the hippie 60's, I day trip into the imaginary worlds of bygone yesteryear looking at photos..........here's one u may like:)


http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/thumbs/heron.jpg

[farmer dylan]

check it check it check 1 2

[HonorSeed]

Here is anudder one

http://www.lilesnet.com/paul/Memories/images/helms1935_2.jpg

[themnax]

as pointed out by natural hi, the 60s weren't when the problems had been solved, it was when something was being done about them. it was the real hippies and not the established media, that was doing it.

but even the corporat media at least covered the story, something it doesn't even do that any more.

my memories of the 50s and 60s, when i was still in school, and living up in the hills along side the railroad tracks, was of passinger trains the i.c.c. made the railroads keep running before amtrak was cooked up. they still had pretty colors from when the railroads were still trying to get people to ride them in the late 40s and early 50s.

there was talk of the government maintaining the tracks and letting the railroads run the trains which would have been fair since it also builds the roads for cars to drive on. but it was mostly just talk and we ended up with amtrak instead. which is still better then notrak, but still a pale shadow of what could be too.

settlement patterns were still largely based on the availability of public transportation and i don't think anyone born since then entirely understands the advantages of that.

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