re: Woodstock '99: Were You There?

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There’s a boob in the third pic




Give me a quadrant to narrow in on. Feels like I'm looking for Waldo.

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It wasn’t nice of him to call Fred a boob and get your hopes up

I went a few weeks after graduating high school. I took $250 to the festival with me, and within an hour of walking in the gates, I had spent $220 on a t-shirt and drugs. I assumed I’d be able to feed myself for 3 days on $30. There was so much price gouging that you couldn’t even feed yourself breakfast for that much. I was so hungry by the last day I remember looking at food on the ground and wanting to pick it up and eat it. Still, I had a great time. I wish I had brought some food in with me, though.

Via Wiki a list of those on the "Emerging Artists Stage". Not many there who did alot of emerging after all.

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Immoral Fibres, Simmi, Chris Glenn, Gary Durdin & The Clay Pinps, Johnny Rushmore, F.o.N., Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire, Sugar Daddy, Sticky Pistil, Bijou Phillips, Mike Errico, King Konga, Ben Lee, Beth Hart Band, Liars Inc., Chris Pérez Band, Sherri Jackson, Chris McDermott, Moby, Young & Fabulous!, Gargantua Soul, Serial Joe, American Pearl, Full Devil Jacket, Old Pike, Strangefolk, DDT, Skinnee J's, Gigolo Aunts, Fatboy Slim,Kirsti Gholson, Moe Loughran, The Scoldees, Supersuckers, Stormy Mondays, Big Sugar, John Oszajca,Pound,Pushmonkey,Cyclefy,Indigenous,John Entwistle, Reveille

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I guess Moby fit well. John Entwistle had, of course, already done most of the emerging he was ever going to do.

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I mean, feel free to Google “Kurt Cobain”+”feminism” to read up about he thought a lot of men were out to rape women.

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I mean, feel free to answer my question. Again: what were the feminist themes in Polly?

I'm well aware of Cobain's views on feminism but that pretty clearly wasn't what I asked.

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Why does this offend you? Afraid some girl will get inspired and hunt you down?

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Who said I was offended? What started this was I was merely correcting another poster who thought the documentary’s point that Nirvana and Pearl Jam were into social justice causes was silly.

Edit: to be honest, even though Gen Xers like to disparage Millennials and Zoomers for being too woke, Gen X popular culture was often just as woke. I think it was just lost on them at the time.

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Damn was up till 4 am watching sets of it on YT.

I can’t fathom how people can do that - thrash for several hours in the heat in the mob of thousands and then at the end of the day, then what? Did y’all actually sleep?

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That's pretty much it. If I wasn't 21 there was no way I could do it. Usually slept from about 2-8 AM I think in the tents, I don't remember it being hot and/or miserable at night (it still was upstate NY, and not Louisiana, after all). The tent area was grassed, so it didn't have that "hot tarmac" problem of where the concerts were.

The good thing was, with that many acts they had to be reasonably accurate with what time each band started, so you didn't have to show up at 4PM in the heat to watch a band finally walk out at 5:45, if you knew who you wanted to watch you can work it cutting it close. And, while there were a lot of people there, there was a lot of mosh pits, so you can use those and bounce your way closer to the stage if you wanted to get a closer view.

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We haven’t even touched upon Kurt Cobain’s support of LGBTQ rights yet.

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Oh, he was probably a leftist wackjob in some ways. We also had that 4 Non Blondes chick with the "frick daddy" boots, Sinead O'Connor, etc.

The need for aggressive right-wing action never goes away.

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Edit: to be honest, even though Gen Xers like to disparage Millennials and Zoomers for being too woke, Gen X popular culture was often just as woke. I think it was just lost on them at the time.

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A portion of Gen X certainly hit a woke spot. However, culture pretty quickly put a stop to it and redirected it. There was that brief PC flare up in the early 90's, but even as soon as '94 (for instance, with the movie PCU) it was pretty handily put down....and course corrected in the other direction probably a bit too far in the late 90's.

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Why would I need to read the lyrics? I told you the lyrics were about a rape. Sorry but there is nothing implicitly or explicitly feminist about escaping from a rapist. KC had several songs with strong feminist themes but you chose a poor example.

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It’s not just that it’s about rape. It’s about how Cobain writes the female character as the hero of the story by having her turn the tables on her assailant by psychologically manipulating him to make her escape.

Unless I’ve got the concept of feminism totally wrong, a story of a woman being the hero of her own story (her empowerment) is the textbook definition of a feminist story.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, the notion that the victim psycologically manipulated her assailant isn't a part of the actual true-life story that inspired Cobain to write the song. So, he deliberately added that part as a choice to empower the character.