TOO LATE FOR WOODSTOCK

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32494, 2 January 1971, Page 14

TOO LATE FOR WOODSTOCK

(By

WHIM WHAM)

"People from all over the Pacific will be able to get together in the one place for virtually the first time and be able to communicate openly. Be prepared to share yourself, your food, your love. Together we can make a beautiful scene ... it had to happen sometime".— Pamphlet announcing Pacifica, a proposed three-day peace-rock festival for which a 600-acre farm near Te Kuiti was to be the site. Youth’s got a Problem, keeping up with Youth. This Year’s New Left will be next Year’s Old Right. Long Hair can’t save you if you’re long in the Tooth, And you can wake up and find you’ve turned Senile in the Night: And that’s not funny when you haven’t turned Twenty yet, And Everything was groovy till Somebody changed the Groove. The Music changes faster, the older you get, And your Stride gets shorter, the faster your Legs move. Gather ye at your Woodstocks while ye may, Don’t seek the Happening when the Happening’s past. You’ve seen the Film, now’s your chance to display What local Talent can do, you’d better move fast! Don’t wait for the Developers and the P.R. ■ Committees To set up annual Woodstocks at the Beaches and Domains' / Of a dozen Kiwi summer Resorts and Cities. Railway Enthusiasts will arrive by special Trains. Don’t wait for the Oil Companies, the Cigarette Men, Arts Council or Golden Kiwi to pay for the Lot You can’t eat your Woodstock and have it over again, By Establishment Invitation (Bring-your-own-Pot!) If it’s your Thing, go ahead and DO it, before The next Generation Gap yawns to swallow It, I’m yawning already, Sir, isn’t Youth a BORE? If it’s big, if it’s American, they have to follow It. Our Youth and our Establishment are terribly alike, Has Either a Thing or a Thought to call its own? Almost ANYTHING that isn’t Second-hand would strike One as the wildest Happening (after Woodstock) ever known.