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RE: OTV: Idaho’s Woodstock hit Farragut
Gary Ingram: I was chairman of the Kootenai Republican Central Committee and raising a young family. My vice chair and I took my boat out on the lake and took pictures of people screwing on the beach, went into the park and witnessed the selling of drugs and selling beer and wine without a license, watched young people drunk or stoned and out of control, witnessed a large cache of entry money being collected and whisked away to places unknown in an old pickup with hippie folks in charge of the steering wheel.
Question: What was the wildest outdoor concert that you’ve attended?
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toadman on March 23 at 8:38 a.m.
“What was the wildest outdoor concert that you’ve attended?”
It was a live concert put on by a radio station in Dallas Texas. The event was a “beach party” in front of Dallas City Hall. The station had trucked in tons of beach sand for the event. Before my brother and I got out of his truck, we each smoked a cocaine laced joint. We then drank ourselves almost to oblivion during the remainder of the day. We watched several acts, and passed numerous joints through the crowd, in full view of the Dallas Police, who generally ignored everything. I remember standing in an ornamental fountain, a beer in each hand, waist deep in water, and yelling something at my brother, who was attempting to coax me out of the fountain. I was 17. It was 1987. If I did that sort of thing today, my heart would likely explode.
Kage_Mann on March 23 at 10:40 a.m.
Those memories are so far-out gary, I think you should become a novelist! I don’t think I missed anything back then.
What was the wildest outdoor concert that you’ve attended?
Loverboy.
Liz on March 23 at 12:20 p.m.
The US festival in California. 1982.
Escapee on March 23 at 1:24 p.m.
The Blue Mountain festival at the University of Idaho. A mini-Woodstock, complete with people rolling in the mud. I guess I would’ve never made a great hippie.But the music was great.
Stickman on March 23 at 9:53 p.m.
Gary: Reminds me of the 60’s, go figure.