Candice Bergen | 08/13/2009 8:45 am

Candice Bergen: Thrilled to Have Missed the Mud

In response to: This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival. Did you go? If you didn't what did you feel about it?

Oh yuck. I was thrilled to have missed it. What a nightmare. In fact, I have devoted a considerable amount of time imagining how stoned I would have had to be to groove on mud for miles with naked people writhing in it and rain pouring down while somewhere, not really visible, people far away were playing music trying not to get electrocuted. Oh aaarrgh. Spare me.

I did get to go to the much drier precursor, Monterey Pop Festival, which was great. Mamas and Papas. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Simon and Garfunkel. I found some tattoo decals and put a clipper ship on my chest. But Woodstock … oy. And Altamont … let me outta here.

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Yes, this is how I would feel about it. And the drive home too…

By Laura Ward on 08/13/2009 11:41 am

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Yes, but I bet you, if someone organized something like Woodstock now, a lot of nuts would do just that.

By O E on 08/13/2009 1:03 pm

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I, on the otherhand, reveled in the mud, rain and accoutrement, along with my diverse companions from Boston U. Our Guru, Swami Satchidananda was flown in to quell the rioting. After his message with a quote about non-violence by Gandhi, a palpable blissful peace calmed the dazed chaos and people stopped throwing bottles and rocks and ripping their clothes off. It’s amazing to think that some of these people are now Wall Street Brokers. A few of my music industry associates from that time, who are still alive, and me are conjuring a plan for an authentic but saner more peaceful, sequel of the original, with sanitation and safety measures. Unlike the last revival where people who paid upwards of $100 to attend for preferred seating, drove up in BMW’s wearing Armani. And cocaine casualties were reported. We actually have a compilation CD of music with Santana and other legendary musicians, and a recorded message of hope and peace by Sri Swamiji for the new millenium in the works, that will be featured. A vip @ VHI has offered to produce and broadcast a global live feed of the event. It’s probably not likely that Candice Bergen will accept our humble invitation to host. But there will be a bronze statue of her seated on the stage. Wearing a long silk tiedyed scarf embroidered with miniature Ganesh’s.

By nirmala heriza on 08/14/2009 1:30 pm