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Re: what's with the anger?
In a message dated 02/16/2002 4:53:06 PM Central Standard Time,
TheWho-Digest-Owner@igtc.com writes:
> Excuse me? Reckless drinking and fighting is -not- part of the
> tradition of rock and roll. Its the tradition of drunk assholes.
>
> > You
> > need to loosen up. I can't believe you have these attitudes at 18. Did
> you
> > watch the woodstock movie and think, "I can't believe they let these
> crazies
> > do all these drugs, run around naked, and wallow in the mud!
> Flibbity-floo!"
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't hear about lots of drunken
> brawling fights at Woodstock '69, only at Woodstock '96 (or whatever
> year it was). With the Vietnam war raging full-tilt, hippies were
> into peace and love, not drunken bar fights. It seems to me that the
> reality of being drafted to kill other people with a gun was enough
> fighting for them that they didn't need drunken slugfests to liven up
> their lives.
>
OK- let's get a few things straight:
1. where exactly in the above post of mine did i say there were drunken
fights at woodstock? i was simply stating that this 18-year old's attitude
toward one fight breaking out between 2 people outside a concert and toward
allowing alcohol at concerts was pretty uptight, especially for someone his
age. Didn't the mods and rockers tend to brawl from time to time?
2. I don't think starting or participating in drunken brawls is necessary to
spice up one's life. I have never been in a bar brawl or any brawl of any
type. I have never, as an adult, taken a swing at another person in anger,
as a matter of fact.
3. wasn't violence (tho toward instruments and hotel rooms- not necesarily
people) a part of the Who's tradition? Did u see keith richards whack that
idiot fan who was running around the stage during rock n roll circus with his
guitar? drinking and drugs ARE a part of the history and culture of rock and
roll- and fights sometimes accompany these- it is inevitable, but certainly
not excused. those fighting should be arrested- but drinking at rock
concerts should certainly not be forbidden. That was my only point.
kevin mc