Thank you so much for this video. I was only 8 years old when Woodstock happened, but as a teenager I discovered the event and have watched the movie and viewed countless hours of performance videos. It's been a dream of mine to visit the location. You really inspired me to make the trip and cross it off my bucket list.
Strangely, the imprint of the stage is still on the ground. You can actually make it out. Perhaps it's an oman that the original Woodstock '69 will never die ! ☮️✌️
I got to see the movie Taking Woodstock a few years ago in the theater. I was so moved that i bought the DVD an still have it. Goes into great detail on how Elliot got to hook up with Michael Lang and create a Utopian Dream, if only for a few days. I sure learned a lot that i didn't know. I had my Woodstock experience at the 20 Years After concert, back home in Los Angeles during Aug 89. Had many of the original performers and i had the honor of talking to Wavy Gravy. Wa also finally able to find it on DVD. I keep asking what happened to my Generation and even made a video asking the same questions. Thanks for the video. Am an aging Hippie trying to exist in some altered world today. The official 50th Annv concert has been cancelled. Sadly with so many divisions going on today, you couldn't get a half a million people together without major chaos. If that ground could talk, the stories it would have. I still believe in the dream, despite all that is going on.
Absolutely! I can not explain the feeling of standing in this field....cliche' as it sounds, just standing there gives you such a peaceful feeling. I am trying to put together a longer version of this video that I had hoped to have done before the 50th anniversary weekend, but I just am not happy with some of my footage. I had hoped to get back up to record some more, but it's about a 4 hour drive from me and I just haven't had the change this summer. Take care Randy!
That movie is bollocks. Elliot Tiber's only part of Woodstock was referring Michael Lang to a real estate agent, Lang and the Real Estate man met Max Yasgur, without Elliot, and worked out a deal, Max's son Sam, and Max's wife both confirmed that's actually what happened. The book Elliot Tiber wrote, and the movie based on the book is completely made up of falsehoods and fabrications. It's a LIE.
Fuzz Face yeah, he thought they were going to hold the concert in the parking lot of his family’s motel....HA! I believe a lot of the crew stayed at the motel in the weeks leading up to the show.
we are the woodstock generation I was 18 years old when woodstock happend the node of the moon stood in pisces in my own node of the moon freedom peace unity never again happened this like here trhe atmosphere was pure magic happiness could be lived for threedays and th akashic records were filled with LOVE
Woodstock 1969 - I was there... Some of my buddies and I decided the night before and we just went. I got there just in time to see the tall chain link fence go down...! I soon took a job selling hot dogs at a concession... all the food was gone in one hour. I made a small pay check for that. I saw a friend from my home town, Steven Tallerico who you will know as Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fame... He was in a very bad condition, if you know what I mean. The crowd continued to swell. I ran into a previous girlfriend and her sister who put me up in their tent. I stayed two or three days on then bummed a ride back to Westchester. I noticed a professional photographer on the stage take a shot in my direction just before I left and when the TIME Magazine special came out in December spotted my distant image although without enough facial details to convince anyone but myself.
I have a baby food jar filled with dirt from that magical location... Im 47 years old and wasn't in attendance but in the 1990s drove to that place and collected the soil for my own reasons...
I was there in 1969 but remember nothing since I was only a year old lol My 16 year old sister dragged me there with her friends while my parents were on vacation. I went to the 1994 Woodstock though and had a blast! I never went to the 1999 show and glad 2019 never happened!
Actually, the Star Spangled Banner was not the last song of Hendrix set. He then segued into a very bluesy and moody number to close out the event. It's on the original 3 record Woodstock album.
Technically it's The Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, a 4 minute explosion of improvised guitar playing, (called "Woodstock Improvisation") and then Villanova Junction. Then he came out for a very rare encore of a rather subdued Hey Joe.
Oddly enough....last week the local paper in my town ran an article from a woman who was there, and actually still has photos that she herself took of Jimi very close to the stage. Turns out, I know her husband, he gave me her number and we had a text conversation discussing her article. I hope to, if things work out, to do an in person interview with her when I do a longer version of this.
If that's true, then the album didn't show it. The album ended with the Hendrix blues number, he then quietly said "thank you",. Then the crowd chanted "More, more, more, more, more...." Then cut off.
Great video! :) My in-laws have recently moved a few miles near the Woodstock area and when my husband and I visit we always play Jimi Hendrix music on the car journey driving down, it's strange because even though we were born in the 80s, we feel nostalgic for a time we never even lived through. That's the beauty of rock music 🎸
Love, Peace and Fuzz Pedals by Sunbreak. It doesn’t seem to be on streaming but there is a track by them with a similar groove that is. Called ~ It Was Never Enough
Sept 1985 my friend Greg and I decided to go camping in the White Lake, NY area and look around for the original Woodstock site. We had no idea where it was, other than it was somewhere in Bethel. I got the info from a Hartford Courant newspaper article about the 15th anniversary the previous year. No directions, no description, no street names, no google no aerial photos to guide us to open farm fields, no GPS. We just had an atlas and a 1972 Toyota Corolla, heading out the day after Hurricane Gloria swept through. After driving around and even past the site we nearly gave up when we spotted the concrete monument in the distance! That was it! In 1985 it was a corn field. Half were crops and the other half of the field was wild grass. We walked all over it. Took lots of pictures, and I even found a petrified sandal. A few of the large wood beams from the stage and light towers were still scattered on the ground by the stage area. No one was around. It was so peaceful. As a side note, Simple Minds had just finished filming the video for Alive and Kicking a day or two before in the immediate vicinity. I returned to the old historic farm field in 1986, 1987 and again for the 20th reunion in 1989, finding a sandal again here and there. Last time I was there was June 2004 and was horrified to see that Bethel Woods was under construction. I guess it's a good thing in retrospect, but I sure miss the peaceful farm field.
What a great story….thanks for sharing! And yes, while I do think the venue and museum are great assets to that area, I would have loved to have seen the area in it’s full natural glory in the 70’s and 80’s.
@@rkline65 It really was peaceful there. I will go back someday to see it now and the museum, etc. But I hated the energy I got when I saw it in 2004 under construction.
That would be nice if they could turn that land into something nice like a factory, colaseium, farm, or something useful instead of letting it sit there.
No the real question everybody wants to no is where's the part where you can see white lake or i like to call hippie lake there's photos at the concert where you could see the lake i plan on skinny dipping in it one day im thinking about riding the bike up there cant wait to feel that wind in my hair can't wait to get to the garden so i can feel at home just like my favorite song by blind faith can't find my way home toot a loo my garden freinds peace
With such a wide variety of musical performers, I found it odd that nearly everyone attending were in their late teens or 20s. Considering that rock and roll had been around since the 1950s, why were there not a lot of older fans over 30 back then? Was it not normal for them to be attending a rock concert? Today you may see older fans of a rock singer or group in attendance, unless they specifically appeal to the youth segment only. However there were a lot of musical groups performing music at this place, that would appeal to older folks. Sure it was a little noiser than what was heard in the 1950s and early 1960s, but to view every video and photograph back then and not see anyone around 30 is just odd to view, in my own opinion. Today there are older folks that like listening to pop music and I'm sure that was the case back then, although I wouldn't classify that as pop music, just rock and roll basically. Sure it wasn't a scene that elvis would have gone to, for sure, but these songs must have played in restaurants, clubs, stores, etc, and heard on most popular radio stations at the time, and even on american bandstand or other variety shows, and dance shows, etc.. I don't think anyone has explained this to me in any adequate way on television or anywhere else. Did they just promote this concert to young people as a marketing ploy, knowing that they would fork out the most dollars for this? I still haven't viewed or heard any answers in regard to this.
This music was not played in restaurants and stores back then. This was all new and recent music except for Sha Na Na and they were comedy basically. This wasn't mainstream music yet. Some of the older Folk music fans could have shown up but they were intolerant of electric rock.
Nice to look back at such an iconic place. But as a side note, it's astonishing how many videos and 'maps' of the '69 Festival are published that give no reference to the compass points of the area. That entire Catskills area is very confusing if you're lost! The stage faced S-SW, with the listeners conversely watching the performers to the N-NE. If anyone with an imagination wants to depict in their minds from which direction the sun rose and set on the grounds during the event, where the ground was so saturated, where the campers stayed, where the crossing from the stage to the helicopter pad was, etc., the compass points are essential. Just a few brief mentions of compass directions in this video would have gone a long way to set the mood. On a wider note, in our day there is so much turmoil, violence, unrest, along with Marxists champing at the bit to rule over everyone. But if we'd be more interested in realities, such as where real crimes are truly taking place, if there is any actual truth in the Media, whether fetuses are alive or just blobs to be cut out, that a person's DNA is XX or XY... maybe even which direction is north - perhaps there'd be less upset. But, there is no regard for obvious order or direction in today's pop-culture society.
Woodstock can never be duplicated. Those days are long gone.
I would like to have lived in that era. I'm from 1971
Thank you so much for this video. I was only 8 years old when Woodstock happened, but as a teenager I discovered the event and have watched the movie and viewed countless hours of performance videos. It's been a dream of mine to visit the location. You really inspired me to make the trip and cross it off my bucket list.
thanx Richard, great job of overlapping old and new footage/images. precise and to the point. thanx again !
Strangely, the imprint of the stage is still on the ground. You can actually make it out. Perhaps it's an oman that the original Woodstock '69 will never die ! ☮️✌️
I attended the 2019 50th anniversary. Fantastic weekend experience!!!!!
I got to see the movie Taking Woodstock a few years ago in the theater. I was so moved that i bought the DVD an still have it. Goes into great detail on how Elliot got to hook up with Michael Lang and create a Utopian Dream, if only for a few days. I sure learned a lot that i didn't know. I had my Woodstock experience at the 20 Years After concert, back home in Los Angeles during Aug 89. Had many of the original performers and i had the honor of talking to Wavy Gravy. Wa also finally able to find it on DVD. I keep asking what happened to my Generation and even made a video asking the same questions. Thanks for the video. Am an aging Hippie trying to exist in some altered world today. The official 50th Annv concert has been cancelled. Sadly with so many divisions going on today, you couldn't get a half a million people together without major chaos. If that ground could talk, the stories it would have. I still believe in the dream, despite all that is going on.
Absolutely! I can not explain the feeling of standing in this field....cliche' as it sounds, just standing there gives you such a peaceful feeling. I am trying to put together a longer version of this video that I had hoped to have done before the 50th anniversary weekend, but I just am not happy with some of my footage. I had hoped to get back up to record some more, but it's about a 4 hour drive from me and I just haven't had the change this summer. Take care Randy!
That movie is bollocks. Elliot Tiber's only part of Woodstock was referring Michael Lang to a real estate agent, Lang and the Real Estate man met Max Yasgur, without Elliot, and worked out a deal, Max's son Sam, and Max's wife both confirmed that's actually what happened. The book Elliot Tiber wrote, and the movie based on the book is completely made up of falsehoods and fabrications. It's a LIE.
Fuzz Face yeah, he thought they were going to hold the concert in the parking lot of his family’s motel....HA! I believe a lot of the crew stayed at the motel in the weeks leading up to the show.
that was a surprisingly good little film. I didn't expect much from it, and it surprised me.
@@tonym994 I have three videos on the groovy time and one in process. Never thought we would end up in today's nightmare. ✌️
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO/CONCERT........ JIMMY HENDRIX and Cie......REMUMBER peace and love FREE
Great image merging !
we are the woodstock generation I was 18 years old when woodstock happend the node of the moon stood in pisces in my own node of the moon freedom peace unity never again happened this
like here trhe atmosphere was pure magic happiness could be lived for threedays and th akashic records were filled with LOVE
Woodstock 1969 - I was there... Some of my buddies and I decided the night before and we just went. I got there just in time to see the tall chain link fence go down...! I soon took a job selling hot dogs at a concession... all the food was gone in one hour. I made a small pay check for that. I saw a friend from my home town, Steven Tallerico who you will know as Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fame... He was in a very bad condition, if you know what I mean. The crowd continued to swell. I ran into a previous girlfriend and her sister who put me up in their tent. I stayed two or three days on then bummed a ride back to Westchester. I noticed a professional photographer on the stage take a shot in my direction just before I left and when the TIME Magazine special came out in December spotted my distant image although without enough facial details to convince anyone but myself.
I have a baby food jar filled with dirt from that magical location... Im 47 years old and wasn't in attendance but in the 1990s drove to that place and collected the soil for my own reasons...
I was there in 1969 but remember nothing since I was only a year old lol My 16 year old sister dragged me there with her friends while my parents were on vacation. I went to the 1994 Woodstock though and had a blast! I never went to the 1999 show and glad 2019 never happened!
Actually, the Star Spangled Banner was not the last song of Hendrix set. He then segued into a very bluesy and moody number to close out the event. It's on the original 3 record Woodstock album.
HeadShotSongs agree. I think most people, my self include, just call the Banner the finally because it was what it performance was remember for....
Technically it's The Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, a 4 minute explosion of improvised guitar playing, (called "Woodstock Improvisation") and then Villanova Junction. Then he came out for a very rare encore of a rather subdued Hey Joe.
Oddly enough....last week the local paper in my town ran an article from a woman who was there, and actually still has photos that she herself took of Jimi very close to the stage. Turns out, I know her husband, he gave me her number and we had a text conversation discussing her article. I hope to, if things work out, to do an in person interview with her when I do a longer version of this.
If that's true, then the album didn't show it. The album ended with the Hendrix blues number, he then quietly said "thank you",. Then the crowd chanted "More, more, more, more, more...." Then cut off.
Nothing better on the planet.
Great video! :) My in-laws have recently moved a few miles near the Woodstock area and when my husband and I visit we always play Jimi Hendrix music on the car journey driving down, it's strange because even though we were born in the 80s, we feel nostalgic for a time we never even lived through. That's the beauty of rock music 🎸
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What is the name of the song and artist that was in the introduction of this video please.? Thank you.
Love, Peace and Fuzz Pedals by Sunbreak. It doesn’t seem to be on streaming but there is a track by them with a similar groove that is. Called ~ It Was Never Enough
Children are adorable.
I was 2 at that time
Sept 1985 my friend Greg and I decided to go camping in the White Lake, NY area and look around for the original Woodstock site. We had no idea where it was, other than it was somewhere in Bethel. I got the info from a Hartford Courant newspaper article about the 15th anniversary the previous year. No directions, no description, no street names, no google no aerial photos to guide us to open farm fields, no GPS. We just had an atlas and a 1972 Toyota Corolla, heading out the day after Hurricane Gloria swept through. After driving around and even past the site we nearly gave up when we spotted the concrete monument in the distance! That was it! In 1985 it was a corn field. Half were crops and the other half of the field was wild grass. We walked all over it. Took lots of pictures, and I even found a petrified sandal. A few of the large wood beams from the stage and light towers were still scattered on the ground by the stage area. No one was around. It was so peaceful. As a side note, Simple Minds had just finished filming the video for Alive and Kicking a day or two before in the immediate vicinity. I returned to the old historic farm field in 1986, 1987 and again for the 20th reunion in 1989, finding a sandal again here and there. Last time I was there was June 2004 and was horrified to see that Bethel Woods was under construction. I guess it's a good thing in retrospect, but I sure miss the peaceful farm field.
What a great story….thanks for sharing! And yes, while I do think the venue and museum are great assets to that area, I would have loved to have seen the area in it’s full natural glory in the 70’s and 80’s.
@@rkline65 It really was peaceful there. I will go back someday to see it now and the museum, etc. But I hated the energy I got when I saw it in 2004 under construction.
Great intro music bro
72 horas de paz, música y amor no habrá otro parecido o igual.
Can’t wait to check it out and first place I am going w they invent time machines.
For years I was Led to believe Jimi opened with our national anthem...not that that matters at all it was historic as all get up!
Sublime
thats not Hendrix playing the star spangled banner
Avoiding copyright.
Far out man!!!
That would be nice if they could turn that land into something nice like a factory, colaseium, farm, or something useful instead of letting it sit there.
I think it’s beautiful the way it is ❤
\m/ Woodstock 50
No the real question everybody wants to no is where's the part where you can see white lake or i like to call hippie lake there's photos at the concert where you could see the lake i plan on skinny dipping in it one day im thinking about riding the bike up there cant wait to feel that wind in my hair can't wait to get to the garden so i can feel at home just like my favorite song by blind faith can't find my way home toot a loo my garden freinds peace
With such a wide variety of musical performers, I found it odd that nearly everyone attending were in their late teens or 20s. Considering that rock and roll had been around since the 1950s, why were there not a lot of older fans over 30 back then? Was it not normal for them to be attending a rock concert? Today you may see older fans of a rock singer or group in attendance, unless they specifically appeal to the youth segment only. However there were a lot of musical groups performing music at this place, that would appeal to older folks. Sure it was a little noiser than what was heard in the 1950s and early 1960s, but to view every video and photograph back then and not see anyone around 30 is just odd to view, in my own opinion. Today there are older folks that like listening to pop music and I'm sure that was the case back then, although I wouldn't classify that as pop music, just rock and roll basically. Sure it wasn't a scene that elvis would have gone to, for sure, but these songs must have played in restaurants, clubs, stores, etc, and heard on most popular radio stations at the time, and even on american bandstand or other variety shows, and dance shows, etc.. I don't think anyone has explained this to me in any adequate way on television or anywhere else. Did they just promote this concert to young people as a marketing ploy, knowing that they would fork out the most dollars for this? I still haven't viewed or heard any answers in regard to this.
This music was not played in restaurants and stores back then. This was all new and recent music except for Sha Na Na and they were comedy basically. This wasn't mainstream music yet.
Some of the older Folk music fans could have shown up but they were intolerant of electric rock.
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Nice to look back at such an iconic place. But as a side note, it's astonishing how many videos and 'maps' of the '69 Festival are published that give no reference to the compass points of the area. That entire Catskills area is very confusing if you're lost! The stage faced S-SW, with the listeners conversely watching the performers to the N-NE. If anyone with an imagination wants to depict in their minds from which direction the sun rose and set on the grounds during the event, where the ground was so saturated, where the campers stayed, where the crossing from the stage to the helicopter pad was, etc., the compass points are essential. Just a few brief mentions of compass directions in this video would have gone a long way to set the mood.
On a wider note, in our day there is so much turmoil, violence, unrest, along with Marxists champing at the bit to rule over everyone. But if we'd be more interested in realities, such as where real crimes are truly taking place, if there is any actual truth in the Media, whether fetuses are alive or just blobs to be cut out, that a person's DNA is XX or XY... maybe even which direction is north - perhaps there'd be less upset.
But, there is no regard for obvious order or direction in today's pop-culture society.
"Marxists champing at the bit to rule over everyone"?
Talk about being disconnected from reality and truth. 🤦♂️
Turn off Fox Entertainment, boomer.