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“The sabbats of the old days have come to life in a new form-- the outdoor rock festival. Both serve as a cathartic release from the drudgeries of daily secular existence. Those young people in attendance at the concerts are, for the most part, those who label themselves proudly the "new generation," those who, like the European serf, feel a profound schism between themselves and the establishment. At the concerts, as at the sabbats, there is throbbing, hypnotic music, widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs by the celebrants, an escape into animality...”
― Arthur Lyons