wickedflea | they called each other "dude" and "man"

I was thinking about going home to MS in mid-July and going to the Hobstock festival while I was there. It was going to be a big-ass rock festival over in the Delta. It would have been really cool; Mississippi doesn't exactly get a lot of big-name artists. But of course it's cancelled. (Check the website; how's that for not giving much information?) I wonder what the deal was. Maybe the hippies were afraid of the summer heat. Damn, now that I think about it, it probably isn't that great an idea to get 100,000 of those smelly bastards in one place in 100-degree weather. Probably would have set off a major funk reaction, and not of the musical sort. I also wonder if law enforcement had anything to do with it. I can picture there being a really bad scene with hundreds of people getting busted. Widespread Panic, who I think was scheduled to play the event, has been having a lot of troubles of that sort in the South, especially Mississippi, so no telling what a huge, four-day event would unleash. (Remember this unfortunate debacle from my hometown?)