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Woodstock Music Festival August 15-18 1969
Could it be that woodstock was 43 years ago? really? can't be.....i'm only 17 years old and i was there..oh, i was 17 when i hitchhiked to woodstock....wow it really sux to be this old. we got there on thursday and left on monday; right after Hendrix played. i can remember most of it i think. we camped out near the hog farm, in the woods. we went there with nothing and quickly realized that we needed to have something to sleep in. so we built a 3 sided shelter with a roof. we got some hay and made a super groovy floor. with a nice little fire pit, we quickly had the place filled up and enough food, water and ahhhhh mental refreshments for all....it was really far out.....(i've been looking for Wendy for all this time...we met there...Wendy are you out there?)
we were so far away from the stage, but i remember seeing a little white dot on the stage singing...it was the who. we swam in the lake, nude of course and had a great time in the mud pit. one thing i can recall is the smell. sometimes i go by a dumpster and get that same refreshing aroma, and it brings me back. strange hah?
looking back on it, when we were there, we never realized how spectacular it was; just a hippy fest...a really big one. and to think that it was the start of something so enduring is great. if it happened today it would be sponsored by comcast or verizon, and it would just be another opportunity to market krap that we don't need. how did we get from woodstock to today? back then people connected. today they text. i hate text. it turns people into slugs hiding under a rock, peeking out to see if someone is there....sorry for the rant...didn't mean to offend anyone...STOP TEXTING AND TALK TO SOMEONE....and now it's time for something completely different.
they say that we pay for our past discretions; in my case i have no regrets. it is what it is.
every time i see the movie, i look for a dude with bell bottom jeans, long hair with a head band, a straggly beard, and smile on (a really big smile). the closest i got to seeing myself was when everyone was jumping over the fence to get in.....oh, i forgot to say that i didn't have a ticket to get in...sorry....PEACE LOVE AND HOPE......or something like that....
if you were there, share your story please.
we were so far away from the stage, but i remember seeing a little white dot on the stage singing...it was the who. we swam in the lake, nude of course and had a great time in the mud pit. one thing i can recall is the smell. sometimes i go by a dumpster and get that same refreshing aroma, and it brings me back. strange hah?
looking back on it, when we were there, we never realized how spectacular it was; just a hippy fest...a really big one. and to think that it was the start of something so enduring is great. if it happened today it would be sponsored by comcast or verizon, and it would just be another opportunity to market krap that we don't need. how did we get from woodstock to today? back then people connected. today they text. i hate text. it turns people into slugs hiding under a rock, peeking out to see if someone is there....sorry for the rant...didn't mean to offend anyone...STOP TEXTING AND TALK TO SOMEONE....and now it's time for something completely different.
they say that we pay for our past discretions; in my case i have no regrets. it is what it is.
every time i see the movie, i look for a dude with bell bottom jeans, long hair with a head band, a straggly beard, and smile on (a really big smile). the closest i got to seeing myself was when everyone was jumping over the fence to get in.....oh, i forgot to say that i didn't have a ticket to get in...sorry....PEACE LOVE AND HOPE......or something like that....
if you were there, share your story please.
I think my Uncle who just got back from the war convinced them it was a folk concert. True story can't make that stuff up ;)
great story......coming from the catskills i was close but was up in maine that summer working......nygirl your so funny.....were you one of the first acid babies?....billy
I was there too but I was only 8 and I do not remember too much to tell you the truth. I still to this day dont know what my parents were doing there it was so not their thing.
Lots of memories. I had already migrated to San Francisco in the spring and couldn't make it. Rivil, maybe I bumped into you at Golden Gate park or the Filmore. Those were innocent times -- back when we knew everything. And the music was fantastic. Filmore every Friday and often Sunday too.
Hey OH -- I had some of those purple bell bottoms too.
bootcampbilly - love the visual of nakid canoeing!!!
Hey OH -- I had some of those purple bell bottoms too.
bootcampbilly - love the visual of nakid canoeing!!!
Great stories!!! I was only 10..... So my mom wouldnt let me go.. Went to a lot of blue grass festivals though in the late 70's. Nothing though compares to woodstock Im sure ! Thanks for sharing
We left as Hendix was playing the SSB, there was a little lake in back of the stage and we borrowed a dudes canoe and canoed around the lake naked and partying with all the partyers on the shore.
Watkins Glen was next.
Bootcamp
Watkins Glen was next.
Bootcamp
I haven't really told my Woodstock stories. Actually I have better ones from the "Atlanta Pop Festival" on July 4th weekend in Georgia. It was a long trek from Norwalk to Macon Georgia and back. Now that was an adventure to say the least. I think the statue of limitations is up by now...
Did you go to the "Powder Ridge Festival" in CT that was canceled? We didn't know it was canceled til we got there. So we made the best of it along with a couple of thousand others.
Actually I remember late one night going up to the wall in front of the stage and looking through the cracks when Crosby Stills & Nash where playing. That is when I was close. Sunday I was closer than the camera, I moved up.
The hog farm was over the hill to the left of the stage, correct? And little where people other there playing acoustic instruments and people doing yoga.
Ciao
Hector
Did you go to the "Powder Ridge Festival" in CT that was canceled? We didn't know it was canceled til we got there. So we made the best of it along with a couple of thousand others.
Actually I remember late one night going up to the wall in front of the stage and looking through the cracks when Crosby Stills & Nash where playing. That is when I was close. Sunday I was closer than the camera, I moved up.
The hog farm was over the hill to the left of the stage, correct? And little where people other there playing acoustic instruments and people doing yoga.
Ciao
Hector
yes Hector we are ridden hard and hung up wet, but we are still kickin.
thanks for sharing your woodstock experience. wow, we might have bumped into each other. i checked out the pic and you sure were down in front. i would have freaked out if i was down there....heck, i freaked out up in the hog farm...come to think of it, i freaked out everywhere....it sure was a trip...
peace out....
thanks for sharing your woodstock experience. wow, we might have bumped into each other. i checked out the pic and you sure were down in front. i would have freaked out if i was down there....heck, i freaked out up in the hog farm...come to think of it, i freaked out everywhere....it sure was a trip...
peace out....
Hector- you posted your Woodstock pics.on Medhelp?I have got to check that out.
How fun to think of all the boomers at that time. I too, am glad it is over and feel nothing but sympathy for my parents at that time. But it is fun remembering the awesome music and energy of the times, truly several lifetimes ago, for me.
I was strictly blue jeans and beads. LOL.
How fun to think of all the boomers at that time. I too, am glad it is over and feel nothing but sympathy for my parents at that time. But it is fun remembering the awesome music and energy of the times, truly several lifetimes ago, for me.
I was strictly blue jeans and beads. LOL.
I remember I was 10 years old when I found out about woodstock; my babysitter told me about it because she was going. I remember being so intrigued with what she was telling me, she was in deed a true hippy. I remember telling my mom that I wanted to go. LOL
uncledudeness, Thanks for the post, Very eloquently written.
uncledudeness, Thanks for the post, Very eloquently written.
I think I was 15 ? But that didn't stop a guy friend and me from trying to talk another friend with a car into driving to it. Good thing we didn't cause we'd just have gotten caught in the huge traffic jam.
This was probably around the time I was wearing my purple big bell bottom pants.
This was probably around the time I was wearing my purple big bell bottom pants.
i didn't make it to woodstock but i did made it to newport '69. it was in northridge, in the san fernando valley. had the honor to see jimi play the start spangled banner! awesome. also, janice, eric burden, jefferson airplane, the who...and so much more. it was a great summer that year. thanks for posting. belle
Yes I was 17 also. That makes us.....OLD!
Me and a friend actually had tickets. I think it was $18 for all 3 days. We took a bus from the Port Authority in Manhattan to get there. Either on Wednesday or Thursday when the field still had 2-3 foot grass. We slept in the grass the first night. When they were still building the stage right near us. I lost my friend before the concert even started. Too many people. Go to the bathroom and you never see the people again. We had no money and lived off of the Hog Farm (1st time I ate brown rice) and free food people passed around and the beers they through from the stage. I slept on the open ground. When your 17 you can adapt to anything.
I stayed up near the front as I was a music nut then too. I sat near the movie camera all day Saturday so that is how I found my picture. Tool 25 years to find it. I just kept looking near the camera. Its a pretty well know picture with "hippy girl dancing" while tripping. I post my pics in my profile, although the Rolling Stone photographer didn't capture my "good side". haha
Seems like many lifetimes ago now. Thank goodness. The music was great but a lot of nonsense too. I got a ride home at the ride both from someone who lived in the Connecticut town near where I lived. I am done with August east coast heat, cold rain and mud. That's why I have lived is SF for the last 31 years.
Ciao!
Hector
Me and a friend actually had tickets. I think it was $18 for all 3 days. We took a bus from the Port Authority in Manhattan to get there. Either on Wednesday or Thursday when the field still had 2-3 foot grass. We slept in the grass the first night. When they were still building the stage right near us. I lost my friend before the concert even started. Too many people. Go to the bathroom and you never see the people again. We had no money and lived off of the Hog Farm (1st time I ate brown rice) and free food people passed around and the beers they through from the stage. I slept on the open ground. When your 17 you can adapt to anything.
I stayed up near the front as I was a music nut then too. I sat near the movie camera all day Saturday so that is how I found my picture. Tool 25 years to find it. I just kept looking near the camera. Its a pretty well know picture with "hippy girl dancing" while tripping. I post my pics in my profile, although the Rolling Stone photographer didn't capture my "good side". haha
Seems like many lifetimes ago now. Thank goodness. The music was great but a lot of nonsense too. I got a ride home at the ride both from someone who lived in the Connecticut town near where I lived. I am done with August east coast heat, cold rain and mud. That's why I have lived is SF for the last 31 years.
Ciao!
Hector
I was traipsing around "the city of love", wishing I could get across country in time. It was fun hearing about, but Golden Gate Park and The Filmore had lots of minis going on that Summer.
I remember singing the Who's,"My Generation", 'hope I die before I get old...' We were so innocent and so on top of the world.
Glorious youth. :-)
I remember singing the Who's,"My Generation", 'hope I die before I get old...' We were so innocent and so on top of the world.
Glorious youth. :-)
I did not attend but ah yes I remember it VERY well. All of my friends went but at that time my father was very ill and so ASKING if I could go was just out of the question. After seeing the "seen" on th news I was jealious of the friends who were there. I must admit that I would have been scared. I did however attend the viet nam protest in Dc. ya know the one they show in the movie Forest Gump, lol and that was VERY scarey......Marine's waking us up in Potomic park with guns in our face's Woodstock wouldl have been more fun. Maybe in my next life Janice, Jimmy, and all the other who have gone on will sing to me. Still to this day my FAVORITE is Carlos Santana. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Peace and Love to you. And in this day and age some people should try it. The peace and love part. :)
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