Great piece of video and commentary, I've been to Bethel/Woodstock museum and grounds a couple times and It never gets old and a new memory Is made. Always something different I see, Life back then will never be again but at least It's preserved here so that we can all relive what was great. Thank You
We went over the 50th anniversary. Saw Arlo, Ringo, Edgar Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears and Fogerty…camped out at Yasgur’s farm down the road for 4 days. One of the best experiences of my life. ☮️❤️🎶
What they have done to the sight is amazing, a lasting legacy for generations to come. True ! it looks a bit of a tourist attraction, but if it was just the field and nothing else, how bland would that be ? unless they held a Woodstock festival every year. I cant believe its now 53 years on, since those glorious 3 days in 1969. Makes me sad to think of all the young people who attended, that are no longer with us. Many went home too the draft ,never to return, but many were changed forever after their Woodstock experience. They learned about humanity and humility, and took with them a greater sense of caring. And it "did" define that generation, for all time. . .and we need all that now, more than ever. . .I wish I could have been there.
Let's not get too carried away with the altruistic nature of this event...for the most part, it was just a chance to party and enjoy the music....most folks attending, ten years later, were just as predictably "conformist" as their parents were.
It's sad to see the comments from jaded people saying it's been turned into a tourist trap. Instead of private land that you can't visit it has instead been purchased and has a museum educating people on the 60s and the festival and you can explore a lot of the original grounds. It's run by a non profit. You can see concerts in the amphitheater. Thanks to some visionary people this is a great site you can visit and see a lot of it how it was in the 60s. The Woodstock festival was supposed to be a for profit venture, it only became free because they had no choice.
The Way it looks on the drive video is how it usually looks. The tourism isn't that often just inserts and farmers markets. Most tourists come and you nearly notice them and when you do it's cause they're the only people around the area lol.
I’m a huge fan. Their museum makes rock n roll hall of fame look like a thrift store. Love the land and woods and all the walking you can do visiting there. I’ve met wonderful people too. I go at least once a year. 50th was awesome!
Just attended The Catbird Festival. Incredibly impressed with the whole area. That did an outstanding job creating. Would absolutely recommend everyone see a show there if you ever get the chance.
Yes you can see concerts in the amphitheater but they are ticketed events and they require that you have to purchase tickets for their concerts..I wonder if they did anything special for the 55th anniversary of the Woodstock music and arts festival a couple of months ago?
Was there in 2019 for the 50th anniversary. What a great experience for all the Woodstock generation. Hope kids now can understand the history made that weekend
I just got back from Bethel Woods where I got to see the brick my kids dedicated to me ☮️ It’s a really awesome place to visit and memories flooded in that made me shiver.Gotta shout out to my friend Steve from Dana Point CA and his Jawa motorcycle that got us there ☮️
As with Our Generation, the energies, the imaginings, the hope and plans for a future unknown... this place has changed with time. Some good and to serve others even those yet unborn and some could have just been left to be as it was. May we never lose what was found during those days and continue to bring Light, Love, Peace and Hope to the World and what it/we have become. July 2021
1:14 ''...We are gonna need each other, and help each other to work this out... ' ', 1:29: ''the man next to you is your brother''. This kind of things is what is missing among people nowadays.
Video game addiction, addiction to cell phone usage (and to rarely actually talking to someone-just texting!), etc has affected those under the age of 35 or so...they are alienated robot people, who cannot communicate sincerely with their peers.
thank you for this....💙💙💙Absolutely LOVED the STILL PHOTOGRAPH for a reference of then,..& now.....I wasn't there,..but that's okay....my Soul can FEEL IT....💙💙💙
It is sad to me, that I was 10 years old in Kansas in 1969. For what I know about Woodstock is from videos on UA-cam. Love and Peace, that we don't have today 2022. I wish you could place the stage and where people joined to watch the bands. I can't visual it as it is today, it's confusing.
was there in 94 at 25 anniversary ...camped there for 10 days , didn't cost a dime, total free show with lotsa Woodstock veterans playing .also was a ufo flying disc over our camp about 200 yards behind original stage in a little clearing . sober btw , ...not light in sky ,a metallic disc, bell shaped,25 feet across , no lights. no sound, right at dusk..close enough to see the windows that went across the top . maybe 75 feet above our heads … heard people in woods coming up trail, turned to yell for them to look ,turned back and it was gone.. saw it for a good 10 seconds. Woodstock is indeed scared land ,lota energy, cosmic place .especially when you realize that there is no past or future ,just the eternal now .everything happens all at once . I am heading back for 50th anniversary , nothing free this time ,but maybe this time I can catch a ride home.... -infinite creation dreams us into ecstatic creations of reality -for ever and ever...
I'm from the UK and this is one location I'd love to visit. I did post on trip advisor to see if any trips went from NYC to this memorable place, it does seem a difficult place to get to though.
You can still see the shape of the actual area of the show, which is cool. I didn't see anything there, but it'd be cool if they built a nice little permanent amphitheater on the spot they can use to put on shows. Imagine how great it'd feel to be sitting out in the stars one night in the exact spot of Woodstock listening to some great music. I'd be like a dream. Maybe they have something they put up for events and take back down. Either way I'd love to see a show there.
@1StarProductions The part of that generation that ruined America didn't make this party. Woodstock was mostly full of the dissenters; we were right then and, we're still right.
@@chikkipop Please...most of my "groovy " friends from that era turned out to be just as cravenly materialistic as their parents were!...In the 80's I would sometimes ask people what they were doing, back in the 60s--some people would mad at me for even bringing up the subject!...they would say things like "that was then; this is now", or "Hey man, you are stuck in the 60s!!"...I do agree with you, that we were headed in a better direction...but then most of us copped out, sold out, cut our hair and joined the very rat race we were against...that's capitalism-and greed-for you!
@@curbozerboomer1773 Is someone surprised that people jumped on a trend because they wanted to be hip? The people who took it seriously, who *WERE* dissenters, who DID challenge straight culture and conformity, are still at it. My values are the same now as they were then, except that I'm older and wiser and can articulate them much better.
I'm from Wisc. and have made the trek to the site seven times. Yes you guessed it I'm a crazy Woodstock nut. It's great to finally see an aerial view of the site as it is now. But who's idea was it to put that crappy obnoxious music in there? I had to mute the audio. It was torture.
Só quem era jovem em 1969, agora pode sentir a emoção de ver as imagens aéreas belíssima de Bethel onde foi realizado o maior, o melhor e mais louco festival de Rock do mundo, denominado Woodstock. Curti muito, eu só tinha 18 anos.
dude.,.... not sure if it was because you wanted to monetize the video? but this video needed a song. one full song, not the same 10 second tune repeated over and over and over again...
Only way to visit/have Woodstock these days is a time machine. Sadly, nothing like this can ever happen again. I regret being born too late. This site now looks like your average tourist trap. Magic's all gone.
There are still mini versions of Woodstock in various places . there is an outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Columbia river in washington state surrounded by empty fields . after the concerts , you can set up a tent and sleep there . A very fun place .
Woodstock teme, by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" shoud be played, as back ground music" not that crapy music, thats nothing to do with the festival" and too repetitive" 😤😱🤢
The Woodstock festival site has its good and its bad sides. The good is that the concert site itself that you see in the old pictures has not been built upon and can be visited and walked upon. The bad is that the "museum" up on the hill overlooking the concert site has a totally un-woodstock vibe. It's better fit for a Long Island winery or wedding venue. Well, you can't win them all.
We live in a world now where there’s no secrets & too much cotton wool health & safety. It’s so sad to think this will never happen ever again . Love Woodstock. I now go to Glastonbury festival as much as I can at 55 yrs old. I will try & buy tickets for next year.
I always thought that announcing the "sacrifice" made by the promotors, was just gratuitous and rather cringy. Too much preaching made to the masses, who were already well-behaved.
They should have left it as it was, just a field. Why does eveything have to turn into a a f*cking museum/corporate money making ugly monster, exactly what the original Woodstock WASN"T. Bullshit.
And just in time..
for the 55th anniversary of the Woodstock music and arts festival this year
Great piece of video and commentary, I've been to Bethel/Woodstock museum and grounds a couple times and It never gets old and a new memory Is made. Always something different I see, Life back then will never be again but at least It's preserved here so that we can all relive what was great. Thank You
We went over the 50th anniversary. Saw Arlo, Ringo, Edgar Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears and Fogerty…camped out at Yasgur’s farm down the road for 4 days. One of the best experiences of my life. ☮️❤️🎶
I've been here twice and it is a fantastic place to see music. So glad it was preserved for all of us to experience.
So well done. Great soundtrack. Woodstock was historic in many ways ✌🏼
I am an aging hippie and still believe in the dream. Got to attend 20 Years After Woodstock Reunion in Los Angeles
What they have done to the sight is amazing, a lasting legacy for generations to come. True ! it looks a bit of a tourist attraction, but if it was just the field and nothing else, how bland would that be ? unless they held a Woodstock festival every year. I cant believe its now 53 years on, since those glorious 3 days in 1969. Makes me sad to think of all the young people who attended, that are no longer with us. Many went home too the draft ,never to return, but many were changed forever after their Woodstock experience. They learned about humanity and humility, and took with them a greater sense of caring. And it "did" define that generation, for all time. . .and we need all that now, more than ever. . .I wish I could have been there.
Let's not get too carried away with the altruistic nature of this event...for the most part, it was just a chance to party and enjoy the music....most folks attending, ten years later, were just as predictably "conformist" as their parents were.
Woodstock is a reminder of the power of peace and love for one another in the darkest of times, Even today that message still resonates
I so wanna go back! the first time experience was way way wayyyy more than I could ever expect ❤
Im so glad I came across this. Many reminiscences.
It's sad to see the comments from jaded people saying it's been turned into a tourist trap. Instead of private land that you can't visit it has instead been purchased and has a museum educating people on the 60s and the festival and you can explore a lot of the original grounds. It's run by a non profit. You can see concerts in the amphitheater. Thanks to some visionary people this is a great site you can visit and see a lot of it how it was in the 60s. The Woodstock festival was supposed to be a for profit venture, it only became free because they had no choice.
The Way it looks on the drive video is how it usually looks. The tourism isn't that often just inserts and farmers markets.
Most tourists come and you nearly notice them and when you do it's cause they're the only people around the area lol.
I’m a huge fan. Their museum makes rock n roll hall of fame look like a thrift store. Love the land and woods and all the walking you can do visiting there. I’ve met wonderful people too. I go at least once a year. 50th was awesome!
Just attended The Catbird Festival. Incredibly impressed with the whole area. That did an outstanding job creating. Would absolutely recommend everyone see a show there if you ever get the chance.
Yes you can see concerts in the amphitheater but they are ticketed events and they require that you have to purchase tickets for their concerts..I wonder if they did anything special for the 55th anniversary of the Woodstock music and arts festival a couple of months ago?
Was there in 2019 for the 50th anniversary. What a great experience for all the Woodstock generation. Hope kids now can understand the history made that weekend
I just got back from Bethel Woods where I got to see the brick my kids dedicated to me ☮️ It’s a really awesome place to visit and memories flooded in that made me shiver.Gotta shout out to my friend Steve from Dana Point CA and his Jawa motorcycle that got us there ☮️
this is going on my bucket list !!!!what a wonderful place and time,,i'm 69 now,,
As with Our Generation, the energies, the imaginings, the hope and plans for a future unknown... this place has changed with time. Some good and to serve others even those yet unborn and some could have just been left to be as it was. May we never lose what was found during those days and continue to bring Light, Love, Peace and Hope to the World and what it/we have become. July 2021
My parents was there around the stage area! They have have great pics from it
I was also right up front. Now, how can I get to see those pics your parents have? ;-)
Your parents should get them published!
1:14 ''...We are gonna need each other, and help each other to work this out... ' ', 1:29: ''the man next to you is your brother''. This kind of things is what is missing among people nowadays.
FU LOL jus kidding
You're very right we need it today
Video game addiction, addiction to cell phone usage (and to rarely actually talking to someone-just texting!), etc has affected those under the age of 35 or so...they are alienated robot people, who cannot communicate sincerely with their peers.
The sight around the front stage was a lot larger than it is now because those trees at the top of the hill that weren’t there before.
thank you for this....💙💙💙Absolutely LOVED the STILL PHOTOGRAPH for a reference of then,..& now.....I wasn't there,..but that's okay....my Soul can FEEL IT....💙💙💙
Quite nice! Bravo! Thank you!
It is sad to me, that I was 10 years old in Kansas in 1969. For what I know about Woodstock is from videos on UA-cam. Love and Peace, that we don't have today 2022. I wish you could place the stage and where people joined to watch the bands. I can't visual it as it is today, it's confusing.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
was there in 94 at 25 anniversary ...camped there for 10 days , didn't cost a dime, total free show with lotsa Woodstock veterans playing .also was a ufo flying disc over our camp about 200 yards behind original stage in a little clearing . sober btw , ...not light in sky ,a metallic disc, bell shaped,25 feet across , no lights. no sound, right at dusk..close enough to see the windows that went across the top . maybe 75 feet above our heads … heard people in woods coming up trail, turned to yell for them to look ,turned back and it was gone.. saw it for a good 10 seconds. Woodstock is indeed scared land ,lota energy, cosmic place .especially when you realize that there is no past or future ,just the eternal now .everything happens all at once . I am heading back for 50th anniversary , nothing free this time ,but maybe this time I can catch a ride home.... -infinite creation dreams us into ecstatic creations of reality -for ever and ever...
Was there in '69 as a kid and '94 at Bethel. Def a sacred spot. Loved your UFO encounter...
Thank you.
It was great hearing the PA announcements, but that "background" music was annoying as hell.
agreed!
I second that!
Third
I’m just happy the Noo Yawk State Thruway is open now, man.
LOL!
I'm from the UK and this is one location I'd love to visit. I did post on trip advisor to see if any trips went from NYC to this memorable place, it does seem a difficult place to get to though.
there is an airport close to it
I've been there. It is hard to get to.
Very Very cool!!!
Thank you!
You can still see the shape of the actual area of the show, which is cool. I didn't see anything there, but it'd be cool if they built a nice little permanent amphitheater on the spot they can use to put on shows. Imagine how great it'd feel to be sitting out in the stars one night in the exact spot of Woodstock listening to some great music. I'd be like a dream. Maybe they have something they put up for events and take back down. Either way I'd love to see a show there.
Cool video, but that non stop music loop in the background was outta control. I was ready to puncture my eardrums with a sharp object
I watched it with the volume muted.
It would be cool to see the old superimposed over the new.
Over these hallowed grounds a generation was defined.
@1StarProductions The part of that generation that ruined America didn't make this party. Woodstock was mostly full of the dissenters; we were right then and, we're still right.
@@chikkipop Groovy
@@chikkipop Please...most of my "groovy " friends from that era turned out to be just as cravenly materialistic as their parents were!...In the 80's I would sometimes ask people what they were doing, back in the 60s--some people would mad at me for even bringing up the subject!...they would say things like "that was then; this is now", or "Hey man, you are stuck in the 60s!!"...I do agree with you, that we were headed in a better direction...but then most of us copped out, sold out, cut our hair and joined the very rat race we were against...that's capitalism-and greed-for you!
@@thomaskemer8109 Hated that word then, and still hate it.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Is someone surprised that people jumped on a trend because they wanted to be hip? The people who took it seriously, who *WERE* dissenters, who DID challenge straight culture and conformity, are still at it. My values are the same now as they were then, except that I'm older and wiser and can articulate them much better.
That background noise is annoying!
Woodstoock...que hermoso campo...Saludos desde Chile...😀
Great job!
I'm from Wisc. and have made the trek to the site seven times. Yes you guessed it I'm a crazy Woodstock nut. It's great to finally see an aerial view of the site as it is now. But who's idea was it to put that crappy obnoxious music in there? I had to mute the audio. It was torture.
Só quem era jovem em 1969, agora pode sentir a emoção de ver as imagens aéreas belíssima de Bethel onde foi realizado o maior, o melhor e mais louco festival de Rock do mundo, denominado Woodstock.
Curti muito, eu só tinha 18 anos.
dude.,.... not sure if it was because you wanted to monetize the video? but this video needed a song. one full song, not the same 10 second tune repeated over and over and over again...
I agree that background music is annoying. The rain chant from ‘69 whoaa ...oh oh oh oh better
Only way to visit/have Woodstock these days is a time machine. Sadly, nothing like this can ever happen again. I regret being born too late. This site now looks like your average tourist trap. Magic's all gone.
There are still mini versions of Woodstock in various places .
there is an outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Columbia river in washington state surrounded by empty fields . after the concerts , you can set up a tent and sleep there . A very fun place .
It's called the Gorge Amphitheater. Similar to Red Rock theater but more chill and the sleep over parties are awesome .
Awesome.
Woodstock teme, by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" shoud be played, as back ground music" not that crapy music, thats nothing to do with the festival" and too repetitive" 😤😱🤢
I was there for the 50th Anniversary!
I was there for the 20th Anniversary. A big party started out of no were that lasted days. Probably the best time I have ever had !!
The actual field always looks so tiny from the air. But overall the entire site looks fantastic.
It's been donated and preserved beautifully. It's a beautiful town and very peaceful here
WTF with the crappy music, Woodstock was a once in a lifetime thing, never again!!!
Going to be seeing Limp Bizkit and Bones here for Loserville 2024 ‼️‼️‼️
The Woodstock festival site has its good and its bad sides. The good is that the concert site itself that you see in the old pictures has not been built upon and can be visited and walked upon. The bad is that the "museum" up on the hill overlooking the concert site has a totally un-woodstock vibe. It's better fit for a Long Island winery or wedding venue. Well, you can't win them all.
very nice
Sacred Land Indeed!
Yes it was....
cwb0051 Very sacred indeed. Vietnam vet, ‘69-‘70
Didn't they have one in 1999
Nice!!!!
I didn't like the music that accompanied the video it was too repetitious
What song is that? Is the title of the song To Much Acid Blues?
Brown Pills Blues
Да были люди в наше время.....не то что нынешнее племя.......Ностальгия..............!!!!!!
Wood have been much better if Richie Havens "Freedom" was playing in the background instead of this incredibly annoying music ... WTF was that ???
can we please do this again? I'd do anything in the world to get 400k people together again to have another woodstock
I dont think that could ever be achieved again in that true spirit of innocence and discovery!
@@thomaskemer8109 that's true honestly. its impossible now since social media gets in the way of everything
As a resident is have to say lease don't lok
We live in a world now where there’s no secrets & too much cotton wool health & safety. It’s so sad to think this will never happen ever again . Love Woodstock. I now go to Glastonbury festival as much as I can at 55 yrs old. I will try & buy tickets for next year.
Cannot be replicated in the spirit of that time. I’m sorry it can’t . I have made two trips to the site. Beautiful!
looks totally commercialized. i don´t think i would even want to go there.
Why are people compelled to insert themselves into something that would be beautiful- if they didn’t. Can someone re do this without that ? Music.
we're going to make it a place that generation hated
Background music is awesome!
What a lame repeating edit on the backing music! Awful and annoying!
HAD TO MUTE!! Obnoxious music!! How about something FROM Woodstock?!
They turned it into a fucking tourist trap!! What a shame!
I always thought that announcing the "sacrifice" made by the promotors, was just gratuitous and rather cringy. Too much preaching made to the masses, who were already well-behaved.
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Looks like the younger generation, that has no idea what happened here. Built some touristy crap to make a buck.
They should have left it as it was, just a field. Why does eveything have to turn into a a f*cking museum/corporate money making ugly monster, exactly what the original Woodstock WASN"T. Bullshit.