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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