GHOSTS OF FESTIVALS PAST

[TheGunslinger138]

Throughout history, music festivals have changed the face of popular culture forever. When executed properly, they express the fundamental unity of the sublime and bring together different people from all manner of backgrounds into one shared experience, one joined moment, in an effort to celebrate life and all the great things that make it up. When executed properly, they can change the world. When executed poorly, they can be devastating and stand as examples of the negative potential humans latently harbor that can be brought out by the wrong set and setting. When executed poorly, they can become testaments to our inherrent brutish animalism.

My question is this: If you were given the chance to go back and attend any music festival, which would you choose and why?

[mob roulette]

altamont. so i can get my stab on.

[TheGunslinger138]

Mine would be Woodstock 94. I remember watching it from home at the tender young impressionable age of fourteen and wanting nothing more than to be there in the mud with the rest of the freakshow. It was my first experience seeing something of that magnitude and I was instantly obsessed with music and music festivals. I got my first guitar later that year and started attending concerts of my choosing the year after.

[PsyGuyRy]

Monterey International Pop Music Festival, 1967.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/MontereyPopFestival.jpg/345px-MontereyPopFestival.jpg

Shit.

[menikmati]

Hmm, this is a really hard question.

[Boourns]

Glastonbury 95, for that legendary Pulp performance. And I hear Radiohead AND Portishead also played that weekend.

[menikmati]

Radiohead didn't play glastonbury in 1995.

[amyzzz]

Glastonbury 95, for that legendary Pulp performance. And I hear Radiohead AND Portishead also played that weekend.
Holy fuck. That's a good one. But I don't really care about Pulp.

[amyzzz]

Radiohead didn't play glastonbury in 1995.
Nevermind then. But Portishead would be worth the price of admission.

[Courtney]

Yes, difficulty (but good) question. My preliminary answer is Isle of Wight, 1969, but I need to think about it more.

[frankl]

I would have liked to go to this:
http://www.dancingmonica.com/images/Newport69Poster.jpg
It was two miles from my house. Apparently there was a near riot with people climbing fences to get in, and LA banned rock festivals after that.

[chairmenmeow47]

do the acid tests count?

[Boourns]

But I don't really care about Pulp.

You fail.

[TheGunslinger138]

do the acid tests count?

Hell yes they count.

[gaypalmsprings]

http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/images/ghosts.jpg

[Proadict]

woodstock 1969, monterey fest, any glastonburry, any leed and read, coachella 2004 , 2005 and 1999 and for finish any festival with a performace with pink floyd or nirvana

[menikmati]

reading 1991 or 1992 for Nirvana. 1991 had their "breakthrough" performance...while 1992 had their grandest set ever...hmm, that's a toughie.

[boyalien0]

Definitely Monterey Pop. Legendary Hendrix set, Otis Redding, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Ravi Shankar, Mamas and Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Big Brother and The Holding Company.

BEST. FESTIVAL. EVER.

[bmack86]

Monterey Pop. That's not even a question. Otis left the stage on fire (figuratively) and Hendrix left his guitar on fire (literally). It's the point where pop music blew wide open. You could do anything after that.