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I Union for National Draft Opposition The war in Southeast Asia must stop. Now is the time for all young men to unite against the outrageous and unjust actions of our military leades. Massive refusal to serve will cut military manpower - they cannot fight without our bodies. I, the undersigned, will refuse induction when 50,000 others sign a similar pledge. This pledge is not legally binding but is a declaration of serious intent. U.N.D.O., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, is accepting draft cards of signees immediately. Your name will go on a master list, and we will keep in touch. NAME: . — ACTIVE ADDRESS: Jerry Garcia: New Riders of Purple Sage Pictures and story by Joe Fembacher ususally fork over 15 to 20 dollars to hear what “they think” is \their” music. A perfect example of pre-programmed Woodstock, hip commercialism, Express in Toronto. PERMANENT ADDRESS: BEST TELEPHONE NUMBER (area code) send to; Marcia Freedman 205 Norton Hall \ .. and unrest was replaced by discontent. ” Generally, I have always enjoyed rock music when it is presented live and in great quantities. Having missed Woodstock 1 have been searching for my own individual Camdot whereby all is togetherness, happiness and music. TECHNOCRACY’S CHILDREN State University of Buffalo Buffalo, New York 14214 There will never be another.. .WWI, WWH, WWIII, Wendell Wilike, At Smith, “Maine”, etc. and even a bit more applicable to our present situation... there will never be another Woodstock. This is a reality which few people seem capable of accepting. It is a reality brought upon our counter-culture by its own technocratic children. In an age of frozen food, pre-prepared anything you might wish, and programmed individually, the counter-culture has failed to live up to itself and has sold out to pseudo-Woodstock nations presented by hip capitalists who know that the electric freak will A Capital affair Being a bit quixotic, I have been searching for my windmills for a long time. So you can understand that when I began receiving rumors to the effect that this Festival Express thing up in Toronto was going STUDENTS SUMMER BOARD CONTRACTS WITH THE DORMITORY FOOD SERVICE ARE STILL AVAILABLE. Swinging rock festival's synth CONTACT THE FOOD SERVICE OFFICE, BASEMENT GOODYEAR HALL FOR INFORMATION 831-3537. to turn out to be another Woodstock (and remembering the same type of rumors that had been circulating last year about Woodstock) with two or three hundred thousand kids absorbing music, sunshine and each other. Anyway, I contacted my Sancho and fled into the deeply blued cotton filled horizons of Canada. Well, what it turned out to be and what I had hoped it would be were two completely different things. And as a result of the ensuing events, 1 have firmly decided to hang up my well-worn stash bag and retire from the festival circuit for good. « CHECKPOINT It’s really a shame that a good thing had to be spoiled by hip capitalism at its finest. Like an assembly line during the Industrial Revolution, rock “promoters” have set up a musical assembly line. It produces prefabricated Woodstock nations (on the minute scale, of course! which flaunt themselves FOREIGN CAR SALES A SERVICE nM Authorized Dealer llTlf/J SALES • SERVICE * under the guise of the musical “revolution The gate crasher Assembly lim ruber highly similar characteristics. Like some poorly written epic drama, each festival contains (sort of like an army survival kit): two or three promoters who are Capitalistic pig? (to quote an oft used phrase), a group of lads fucked up on drug? or trying to get fucked up drugs, security problems like you were inside a prison camp trying to see the commandant, two light towers that are placed almost exactly like those at Woodstock, a stage that looks slightly the same, sound work by Hanley, thousands of kids all trying to be on stage with the performers, and if you are in an upper cia* rock festival area, you get to have the pleasure of having road vultures work as your security men, etc., etc. Now, if you put all this together, hype it up through advertising, rumor, whatever, you will have what we had up in Toronto. ALu. v COMPLETE SERVICE FACILITIES FOREIGN CAR SPECIALISTS AUTO REPAIRING A COLLISION WORK \Visit Out New Showrooms” 497 Kenmor* Av*. ‘•\'.S:”' 1 oJo-zujj Winwood “ has found his may home Page six . The Spectrum . July 2, 1970