I was 11 years old and remember Woodstock being reported on the news in Great Britain. It seemed a fantastic experience, but I was too young and 3,000 miles away. I’m 66 now so those attendees must all be in their 70’s now. It’s a lifetime ago, but we still talk about it. The festival summed up the feeling of the age.
I was in the Air Force at the time, stationed at Reese AFB in Lubbock, TX. A fellow medic and I rode our BMW motorcycles up to the 3-day Denver Pop Festival (DPF) during the last weekend in June, 1969, WAY outside our mileage limits. As more groups signed to perform at Woodstock, they were announced during the DPF. Because I had taken a 3-day "leave", I didn't have enough "leave time" to go anywhere in August, so I missed it. However, my roommate from Woonsocket, RI, went. He described the Woodstock event as "unbelievable!" In other words, he was blown away by his experience.
I'm 70 now lucky to survive this long. Burnt in my heart the love of the flower power generation. Drugs were pure and free. Humbled to have been part of the love child generation. Sly put on the best act. I wanna take you higher!!! Love and light to all involved in playing this pod cast. Peace.
I went to Woodstock, rightly called the Bethel Festival despite Woodstock being acossiated and getting credit to this day for the event they rejected! Unfortunately the darkest side of the fastival was the garbage left behind! It seems wherever humans go mountains of garbage appear!
I was 19 and living in UK, Woodstock was huge, everybody talked about it for years. Sadly by now many attendees will be dead or like me in early, mid, or late seventies.
It was the best time I ever had ,not one fight or argument,the rain just made us dance and sing ,the hog farmers fed us ,the music was hypnotic,it was joyful . the women were were beautiful and sweet especially in the ponds and lakes bathing iN which I participated 😂to say your glad you didn’t go makes me laugh your a softy it was worth any hardship,Hendrix blew me away. The Who ,Alvin lee ,Santana . Janice, Creedence ,and soooo many more . If you didn’t go you missed the greatest gathering ever ……. The best time I ever had ✌️☮️🌹🥰❤️🤟🏼😁
Just visited woodstock museum and grounds very cool! I met a gentleman their that told me great stories of the event! He was there from start to finish. I remember the news reports about the concert. I was young but would have loved to have been there. What an adventure and musical experience it must have been as well as communal experience with lots of cool people enjoying the moment. The best music era ever!! Peace love,and happiness to everyone!
I was 13 in 1970 my brother took me to see that movie woodstock in calexico cal. i will never forget that it was awesome to see santana and i loved that peace and love days hippy times motorcycles everywhere
1969 we were 5 and lived in New Jersey. Sally and I made a variety show for the neighborhood kids. Singing and dancing, story telling and puppet show. A TV station did a segment on us and when it aired there was no real news, so our show was highlighted. Then thousands of adults showed up for our show. We had no loud speakers or anything. Law from all over decended and chased all the people off. Many of those people, I am sure, went to Woodstock a few weeks later The next morning we had to go to the police station and Sally and I were banded from putting on anymore shows in the neighborhood. We, eventually, ended in a football stadium and got a really good record company contract. Sadly Sally's parents stopped it and it ended really badly. Back then was really different in ways I can't describe. I was 6 then and I didn't get to go to Woodstock.
Me and 3 others headed there from Wisconsin 2 days before it was supposed to start expecting to get there in under 12 hours. Traffic was already heavy going east in Indiana and when we got to the Ohio border we were stopped by the Ohio state patrol and ordered to turn around. By that time we had heard on the radio about the chaos not just at the site, but that it was almost impossible to get closer than 100 miles from it via car. We went reluctantly headed home to Wisconsin. We kept listening for info on the radio, and before we got home we heard a report the the Ohio Turnpike was actually closed due to a massive traffic jam. Fortunately I not only bought the album made, but over the years saw live several of the acts that had appeared there. Unfortunately, we will never see the like of camaraderie in such a large gathering of humanity of every variability again, it was truly a once only event.
I was 17 and it was the greatest party I've ever been to in my life. The following yr. got in a bit of trouble and was forced to join the service. Ended up in Nam. Not such a good party.
i went with 5 friends after seeing Led Zepperlin at the flushing meadows ny pavillion (65 worlds faitr). we drove to the monticello race track exit on the ny thruway and parked the car at the exit we then walked about 12 miles to the site! what a blast! i ran into so many friends from my Long Island home, it was amazing. The movie- "Taking Woodstock" was realistic as it could be and people should see it to get a taste of the scene. Out of 45 of us i guess 5 are left due to our wild lifestyles of "turn on, tune in and drop out (drop dead)".
I remember seeing a photo of a naked bottom in the 1969 article on Woodstock in a Time magazine read at a reading room in Palani a temple town in South India where I now lived as a sādhu meditating in the era of turning East. As a New York ex-pat - I arrived overland from London in 1967, Summer of Love. Satchidananda was a former mill manager from nearby Coimbatore and I knew his relatives. Now age 78, back in India for good. 😊
How thankful I am that I wasn't there in the midst of the rain, mud, filth, drugs, chaos, heat, shortages of food, water, medical supplies, the difficulties getting there and leaving, etc. i was home enjoying peace and quiet before heading off to college.
I was 3 years old when this happened. I'm glad I missed it. Unprepared youth not thinking about food, water, sanitation all to hear some music and get high. Well I don't need to get high. Studio produced albums sound better and being away from so many people is also awesome. But if you were there and had a good time that's good for you. It's not for everyone.
I was 11 years old and remember Woodstock being reported on the news in Great Britain. It seemed a fantastic experience, but I was too young and 3,000 miles away. I’m 66 now so those attendees must all be in their 70’s now. It’s a lifetime ago, but we still talk about it. The festival summed up the feeling of the age.
A gathering like this will never happen again. Where can you get a half million people together and have that type of unity?
I was in the Air Force at the time, stationed at Reese AFB in Lubbock, TX. A fellow medic and I rode our BMW motorcycles up to the 3-day Denver Pop Festival (DPF) during the last weekend in June, 1969, WAY outside our mileage limits. As more groups signed to perform at Woodstock, they were announced during the DPF. Because I had taken a 3-day "leave", I didn't have enough "leave time" to go anywhere in August, so I missed it. However, my roommate from Woonsocket, RI, went. He described the Woodstock event as "unbelievable!" In other words, he was blown away by his experience.
I'm 70 now lucky to survive this long. Burnt in my heart the love of the flower power generation. Drugs were pure and free. Humbled to have been part of the love child generation. Sly put on the best act. I wanna take you higher!!! Love and light to all involved in playing this pod cast. Peace.
I went to Woodstock, rightly called the Bethel Festival despite Woodstock being acossiated and getting credit to this day for the event they rejected! Unfortunately the darkest side of the fastival was the garbage left behind! It seems wherever humans go mountains of garbage appear!
I was 19 and living in UK, Woodstock was huge, everybody talked about it for years. Sadly by now many attendees will be dead or like me in early, mid, or late seventies.
This is the second time Love showed it's self on this earth! I wish I had been there!
Wow, I missed it, I used my time becoming a United States Marine at Parris Island.
How have we gone from the spirit of Woodstock to the world of war we see today? Love and peace to all boomers.
Sending Greetings to Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock where Grace Slick established herself as a goddess of Rock n Roll and Love.❤❤❤
I was at Ft. Gordon, Georgia when this event took place. I was shipped out to Vietnam a couple of months later.
It was the best time I ever had ,not one fight or argument,the rain just made us dance and sing ,the hog farmers fed us ,the music was hypnotic,it was joyful . the women were were beautiful and sweet especially in the ponds and lakes bathing iN which I participated 😂to say your glad you didn’t go makes me laugh your a softy it was worth any hardship,Hendrix blew me away. The Who ,Alvin lee ,Santana . Janice, Creedence ,and soooo many more . If you didn’t go you missed the greatest gathering ever ……. The best time I ever had ✌️☮️🌹🥰❤️🤟🏼😁
You can visit the site . There is even a museum. The Bethel Center for the Arts in Bethel NY.
Just visited woodstock museum and grounds very cool! I met a gentleman their that told me great stories of the event! He was there from start to finish. I remember the news reports about the concert. I was young but would have loved to have been there. What an adventure and musical experience it must have been as well as communal experience with lots of cool people enjoying the moment. The best music era ever!! Peace love,and happiness to everyone!
I was 13 in 1970 my brother took me to see that movie woodstock in calexico cal. i will never forget that it was awesome to see santana and i loved that peace and love days hippy times motorcycles everywhere
I still have the poster in perfect condition.
1969 we were 5 and lived in New Jersey. Sally and I made a variety show for the neighborhood kids. Singing and dancing, story telling and puppet show. A TV station did a segment on us and when it aired there was no real news, so our show was highlighted.
Then thousands of adults showed up for our show. We had no loud speakers or anything.
Law from all over decended and chased all the people off.
Many of those people, I am sure, went to Woodstock a few weeks later
The next morning we had to go to the police station and Sally and I were banded from putting on anymore shows in the neighborhood.
We, eventually, ended in a football stadium and got a really good record company contract.
Sadly Sally's parents stopped it and it ended really badly.
Back then was really different in ways I can't describe.
I was 6 then and I didn't get to go to Woodstock.
Me and 3 others headed there from Wisconsin 2 days before it was supposed to start expecting to get there in under 12 hours. Traffic was already heavy going east in Indiana and when we got to the Ohio border we were stopped by the Ohio state patrol and ordered to turn around. By that time we had heard on the radio about the chaos not just at the site, but that it was almost impossible to get closer than 100 miles from it via car. We went reluctantly headed home to Wisconsin. We kept listening for info on the radio, and before we got home we heard a report the the Ohio Turnpike was actually closed due to a massive traffic jam. Fortunately I not only bought the album made, but over the years saw live several of the acts that had appeared there. Unfortunately, we will never see the like of camaraderie in such a large gathering of humanity of every variability again, it was truly a once only event.
I was 17 and it was the greatest party I've ever been to in my life. The following yr. got in a bit of trouble and was forced to join the service. Ended up in Nam. Not such a good party.
I was twelve years old that year and wasgonna run away from home to go there but never made it.❗wish i could've been there,❗⁉️🎶🎵👌🥰🔥💯👍🌌🇺🇲
No cell phones...👍
A friend made it to Woodstock - "Hey Ziller, get your old man's Combie, we're going to Woodstock'. Nothing organised, just 'hey man, let's go'.
i went with 5 friends after seeing Led Zepperlin at the flushing meadows ny pavillion (65 worlds faitr). we drove to the monticello race track exit on the ny thruway and parked the car at the exit we then walked about 12 miles to the site! what a blast! i ran into so many friends from my Long Island home, it was amazing. The movie- "Taking Woodstock" was realistic as it could be and people should see it to get a taste of the scene. Out of 45 of us i guess 5 are left due to our wild lifestyles of "turn on, tune in and drop out (drop dead)".
I don't know about peace and love, but there was music
i love how there's so many images NOT from Woodstock in there specially with people wearing shirt of Gun's 'n Roses and such... 🤣
Going to be a million and half people here by tonight I remember that famous line
The place still exists and the farm still belongs to the same family. In Bethel New York
I remember seeing a photo of a naked bottom in the 1969 article on Woodstock in a Time magazine read at a reading room in Palani a temple town in South India where I now lived as a sādhu meditating in the era of turning East. As a New York ex-pat - I arrived overland from London in 1967, Summer of Love. Satchidananda was a former mill manager from nearby Coimbatore and I knew his relatives. Now age 78, back in India for good. 😊
Pictures many of which were not of Woodstock makes this at least partially bullshit.Still it was the best time I ever had,,
Remembering Gypsy DJ Henry RIP / Woodstock High Priestess and Midwife. ❤❤❤
There will never be another.
Interesting. Saw an MTV microphone in one of the crowd shots. MTV started about12 years later.
great. thanks
An old saying be if you remember Woodstock you probably weren't there.
Mom and Dad wouldn't take me. They said that kind of environment was inappropriate for a one year old.
Thanks
Max’s farm was probably never the same. There were probably marijuana plants coming up shortly after the festival
And they really, really destroyed it in 1999 period too. Sad period it seemed like 94 wasn't called that went for around 3.... That's what killed it
$8 for a ticket question mark shoot.I rememberpaying 40 bucks for a ticket to oz.Fest in nineteen ninety seven
How thankful I am that I wasn't there in the midst of the rain, mud, filth, drugs, chaos, heat, shortages of food, water, medical supplies, the difficulties getting there and leaving, etc. i was home enjoying peace and quiet before heading off to college.
Love how everyone says what a success this was when the dark side of it all is not talked about
Woodstock continues to do one thing, sicken!
Don't eat the brown acid
Almost everything about woodstock can be described with one word, that is the word grotesque.
I was 3 years old when this happened. I'm glad I missed it. Unprepared youth not thinking about food, water, sanitation all to hear some music and get high. Well I don't need to get high. Studio produced albums sound better and being away from so many people is also awesome. But if you were there and had a good time that's good for you. It's not for everyone.
The crowd reminds me of a Trump rally 😮
No talk of the hells angel that killed the black dude?
The unity and goodness of Woodstock isn't evident today. Sadly, Trump and MAGA have taken us back to the dark ages.
America's youth downfall right then and there.
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They were all about peace, love and music back then. Now they attend trump hate rallies.
Woodstock 69 the rot set in. Downhill from there all the way. 🥶🤮