Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those unable or unwilling to shell out $135 for Woodstock '94, there was smaller, less expensive musical event last weekend at Great Woods--the HORDE (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere...
...saggy current Zeitgeist toward some more wired, more meaningful time. The '60s and '70s have attracted big cults, but to true devotees of deja voodoo, the golden age was the '50s. Survivors of that era rise from their golf carts and shout, "We don't need no stinkin' Woodstock! And Watergate nostalgia is for wonks! Listen, pal, I was a teenage teenager. I want the '50s -- Ike, Mad, duck and cover, the birth of rock 'n' roll. And films about teens in turmoil -- the cheaper and grungier the better...
...Although coverage of the 25th anniversary of Woodstock may make it seem as if everyone in America under 30 was digging Jimi and Janis in the rain, in reality there were but 400,000 revelers at Max Yasgur's farm. So what was the rest of America doing? A sampling of less historic entertainments enjoyed on the weekend...
...WOODSTOCK FESTIVALS...
...Woodstock '94 kicked off today with tens of thousands flocking to the three-day event in upstate New York. Some 180,000 scored the $135 tickets. Melissa Etheridge, Aerosmith, the Spin Doctors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend. One aspect of the original Woodstock threatens to repeat itself -- weather forecasters predict on-again off-again thunderstorms that would once again turn the fields of the 850-acre farm into...