Posted by
Arnie on Saturday, June 23, 2007 11:09:41 AM
The thrill of it all. To get to go to Glastonbury, England to hear the music stars of today, to mix with thousands of like-minded people in a beautiful setting out in the country. It’s exciting. It’s something that the young thoroughly enjoy. It’s a time to let the hair down, let go, forgot about the hassles of the daily grind called work and responsibilities and just go out and have fun, and dive into the mud. 
But the rains came and came and came and turned the grassy knolls into muddy swamps. And this has the environmentalists concerned. “Glastonbury organisers have billed this year's festival as the most ecofriendly ever but the Environment Agency has warned that ammonia in the water could kill fish. An emergency team of "green police" were ordered to cordon off the river to prevent any more damage being done.”
And for the thousands of party goers, there never seems to be enough of those porta johns, so the kids are taking things into their own hands wherever it may be, and the environmentalist don't like it. Hey, it's just a once a year musicl festival. Get more porta johns. When you gotta go you gotta go. It's a party, man. It's cool. It's where everyone who is anybody is to see somebody who is someone. Hey, I'll bet your grandfather and grandmother went to Woodstock.
Yes, you got to admit that each generation since has had it's own style of open air musical festival.
"The urine that goes into the water flow is contaminated by alcohol and drugs, which also affects the frog and toad population." More than 4,000 fish died after the 2003 festival because of toxicity in the water.
But in 1969, there was not yet an Environmental Protection Agency, and the same things are happening now as happened 38 years ago, it just that now, it's a really big deal. Now how would you find your tent among all those thousands, or does it matter which tent you end up in?
There are some amazing pictures of the festival right here and some more of the environmental impact right here.