Woodstock=Overrated? I think not.

So I wake up to a newspaper filled with stories about Woodstock. To say the least, I was ecstatic. But I turn to the Viewpoints section, that being my favorite section, to see an article title "Woodstock: Get Over It Already". The whole tone of the article put me off. He went on to say that people don't talk about the Grateful Dead almost getting electrocuted or how people took loads of drugs or that lawsuits were produced by the festival. My least favorite part about the article was that he mentioned he didn't go. He didn't experience it just as I never will. How can he have such an angry opinion if he didn't go or perhaps he has an angered opinion because he doesn't get to go. Leonard Pitts on the other hand wrote a lovely article and put Woodstock into perspective. I personally knew these things, but the positives of the festival outweigh the negatives by a mile. It was three days of peace, three days of 400,000 people in a dairy field listening to music. The situation could have been a catastrophe but it wasn't. 400,000 people at a semi-free concert got along, that would not happen today. And the music is a whole other story! Jefferson's Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Who and Crosby Stills and Nash; all on the same stage for $18, thats amazing. It was the best time for music, worthy of such a festival.