The biggest unanswered question about Woodstock '69 is; Who went home with Pete Townshend's Gibson SG guitar after he tossed it into the audience? That would be the ultimate souvenir!
AGAIN, FOLKS, THIS STORY IS JUST THAT A STORY,FALSE AT THAT. IT ALL HINGES ON A CNN REPORT SUPPOSEDLY, MADE AT THE TIME OF WOODSTOCK. AGAIN, CNN DID NOT EXIST UNTIL MANY YEARS LATER. KIDS, DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ONLINE!! THIS STORY IS COMPLETE UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT!!
Lazermaonaiser, it didn't happen. Why is it that your generation wants to believe that Woodstock was somehow really bad? Jealous, methinks. CNN did not even exist then so that should have been your first hint. False story. Didn't happen. Peace and Love from a 68 year old hippie
For a festival with over 400,000 people attending, small budget, and poor timing they pulled this festival off really well. a lot of this stuff is very minor and a lot worse has happened at events with smaller crowds
Maybe, but I think the quality of the music has masked the appalling organisation rather than they "pulled it off". It says a lot that it never became a long-running event like Glastonbury festival.
I remember woodstock very well. The first night I was hanging around with my dad, partying and having a good time. The music was loud, the drugs were kick ass. It was dark and I remember bumping into something for around five minutes, that's when I lost my footing and slid down this long tube and ran into my mother. I am so glad she was there to catch me. We became so close, we were in separable for the next nine months. Then she kicked me out into the cold cruel world. I was on my own!
In some parts of Europe it is still happening. As you said, it may happen again on a larger scale. That seems to be guaranteed by past estimates. Seems like some sort of unpredictable culling.
Woodstock wasn’t just about the hippies, it brought together roughly 500,000 completely unique different kinds of people, living diverse lives, from far and wide for a hand full of different reasons, could have been drugs, love, or even a free concert but what was astonishing was that they were all there in the moment for the same relative reasons. And that folks connected us all, love and peace! Hopefully we can all unite again for such a cause
There are better examples of massive numbers of people uniting for peace. Uniting for sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll isn't uniting for peace. There's a difference. I bet you would've been in a bad mood if you went to Woodstock. Some dude would be fucking your girlfriend while you're watching some shitty performance by some band you thought you liked. You'd be hungry and have to go to the bathroom. It would smell like shit.
Blue Mountain Edward Yes, but give them a break guys, it was the first festival of its kind and they were only expecting a few thousand people, not 500,000. In that regard it was a success I would say..
M Zach There were no organizers! You got in tickets or no tickets! The guy that owned this land was appalled but you don't here that much! They trashed his land! I was part of the generation of those types that were at Woodstock. But I was never like this bunch! All is showed is how filthy people can be, how dishonest and just disgusting in general! I mean putting drugs in drinks & food of unsuspecting people!!! That's horrible. Wonder how many of those unsuspecting people Od'd or died from some morons actions!
Screw that. Wallowing in shit, nothing to drink or eat??? Watching the movie was much better. Half the people there probably don't even really remember it.
i was 4 at the time, ... we never made it to the stage, but the music was so loud that my hearing was like I was in a subway tunnel for 3 days after ... and I managed to get lost because I stopped and talked with a vendor at a stand about the rainbow colored pipes he was selling, while my cousins kept walking ... .. I didn't understand at the time that they were pot pipes, I just liked the pretty colors .... lol :)
Lived 8 miles from there - my uncle was a paramedic there. Yes it was crazy but amazingly peaceful for an event like that. Abbie Hoffman and some of his crew tore down the fences at night that were put up during the day as he wanted this to be free. Lots of firsts there, I recommend Michael Lang’s books if you want the real history!
A.M Lash seriously, if anything Monterey pop should hold that status that Woodstock did. It kicked off the summer of love and introduced numerous legendary acts to the world. Plus there were far less people, and it seemed way more organized and clean
A.M Lash Maybe so, but it's funny that the people hating on Woodstock weren't there. You never hear the people who went say there was rampant rape, disgusting people, rancid, smelly, over rated, dangerous, violent, miserable, horrible sound, couldn't hear the music..blah blah blah. People who went for the most part have great memories from it, despite some of the issues like the rain, traffic, not enough toilets.. 😎
And I would still repeat it all :') It was the experience of my lifetime. Before even going, my friend (who has passed away a few years ago from old age) said "Guys, it's a slim chance any of us will survive, so enjoy every single moment you get" and man we did. What a time to be alive. If I wasn't so old, I'd definitely go experience anything near to what woodstock was
My dad, while preparing the bbq every summer, always tells us crazy stories from Woodstock 69. My personal favourite being how him, his buddies and a group of Dutch girls all did lsd and thought the trees were singing to them in Spanish.
every generation is screwed up in its own way - but essentially screwed up by the previous generation.. Millennials probably the least screwed up - but the most fragile and lazy..
If you millenials aren't screwed up it is because your boomer parents raised you right. And got rid of a whole lot of prejudices so you can have choices about how you want to live. The boomers were and are "the greatest generation." You guys have some catching up to do, but, you can do it.
@@acidwolfpackgang Well, there you have it. Another spoiled ungrateful millenial. I have a millenial son who actually appreciats how he was raised, and it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. You will have a different point of view when and if you have children of your own. Until then, try acting like an adult. Peace and Love
When that guy said "when we talk about Woodstock, we never talk about the toilet problems, the traffic jams, the lack of food or water and the deaths," and I thought "Wait, what?? Maybe we *should* talk about it" 😅
I was at the real one in 69 for 5 days and 1999 . Don't worry about the shit on this video .everyone helped everyone .it was a different world. People really cared about others .don't fret dear ,we all were there for each other the music was a bonus . In 1999 it was a rock concert about money.
I’m 19 im happy to be apart of my generation even though my generation definitely has our flaws, but I would do anything to have been at Woodstock. These are almost all of the bands that I’ve loved all of my life, thanks to my parents, and I cannot imagine what it must’ve been like to see them all live all at once
The best thing that came out of Woodstock other than the music, was that the farmer that owned the land did not have to lay down cow manure for his crops for a loooooong time!
I remember seeing a much more indepth documentary about Woodstock. In it, someone connected with planning and setting it up explained that they were running out of time, and the construction crew didn't have time to finish *both* the stage, and the fence. So they asked whoever was in charge, "Do you want a stage, or do you want a fence? Because we can't do both". The answer they were given was, "Well, we have to have a stage."... Once word got around that the fence around the concert/farm was incomplete and actual monitoring of people entering with paid tickets would be impossible, people from all over made the pilgrimage to get into Woodstock for free.
joli minou Yea, just try leaving a crowd of 500,000+ and all the roads shut down due to traffic..and pouring rain starting Sat. night. Easier said than done!
The "messed up things" that happened at the '69 Woodstock are not worth mentioning other than in some superficial gossip column. Best regards from a '49 born, 100%, 24/7 hippie/veteran/roadie/father/grandfather Chillax n' light up
I have lived in Woodstock N.Y. my whole life and attended the 25th anniversary concert in the 90s. My father was the sheriff of Ulster county in the 60s when the original concert took place and he had to be helicopter in and out of the event. What amazing pictures I have from both concerts..
I lived in Ulster in the '70's, I attended SUNY New Paltz, when it was known as the biggest party school in the SUNY system. Before New Paltz, I attended Oakwood Friend's School, just south of Poughkeepsie. I love the Hudson Valley, many great memories. A friend from college and her husband still live in Rosendale. I had a GF who was majoring in gold and silversmithing at New Paltz, and one day, we took a drive up to Woodstock, to look around. It was all a bunch of cool little shops, we found a shop that specialized in jewelry making supplies, and she bought a bunch of materials for her course. Sue, I was told that every year, people hold a "Woodstock Anniversary" festival, somewhere near Bethel. Is this true? Because I would love to go there sometime.
I was a teen in the 70s. I was a kid in the 60s. There was a structure and routine to life at that time that was conservative, predictable, "safe". Think Perry Como, Doris Day, and Andy Williams. Girls wore dresses, boys had short hair. I loved being a kid then because I felt secure. Then *this* happened, and it was new and exciting and unlike anything we'd ever seen. Even though I was underage there were plenty of other large-scale gatherings that I participated in, like the Walk For Mankind; 26 miles of just walking from point A to point B. Kids now in long hair and bell-bottoms, sneaking cigarettes and beer, guys and girls flirting and checking each other out. Just one big, collective co-creating. No guns, no fights, no shitty ugly music. Just a cool, organic evolution of changing values and experiences.
This is nitpicking at its finest. Yes every festival has its moments but leave it alone. This has been and always will be the greatest and most influential music festival in history. Peace love and music.
100% as if there's a single hippie out there who's never peed in a bush. the financial costs are covered by the fact that it was a huge historical moment and they legit found a solution to the traffic jam themselves ?? peace love and music
And what of it? You imply "He left in a huff"...no, he left when he didn't see any $$$ in cash in his pockets! (or sari)"Ravi Shankar" was 'nothing and no one' until Brian Jones and George Harrison said 'He's great!" (musically at least)
vonzigle ya, makes sense. The culture surrounding traditional Raga music is very different than the hippy counter-culture he would have encountered at Woodstock.
I was at the 3 day Bath rock & blues festival in the UK in 1970. It was much the same, rain, loos, etc. Led Zeppelin played one of their best performances apparently during a thunderstorm. I awoke to their last song Communication breakdown. Happy days.
Can I point out how ironic it was that Led Zeppelin passed on Woodstock to headline in New Jersey, USA? Had they been there, it may have been the same issue with rain making the stage an electrocution hazard, and it perhaps could have been worse because they wouldn't have been the headliners.
I was a kid and too young and on the other side of the US. I still love watching the film and the restored version of the concert. My older brothers were old enough to be there, but also lived on the other shore of the US, so they weren't there, either. Surprising me was the amount of drugs and only one OD in the three day event that resulted in death. Really an amazing time to be alive.
A friend of mine was there. He said, "Ya, it was peaceful for a while, but it's a good thing it ended on Sunday morning. With the mud, rain, and filth, if it had gone one more day it wouldn't have been known for peace and love. The music was great, but we were wet, we smelled, and all that hippie bliss was quickly wearing thin."
Woodstock was a spiritual experience that can never be duplicated! Just ask anyone who was lucky enough to go! It's something that can't be explained unless you were there!
Different experiences for different times. For the people that remember it fondly, it must have been really special, not just another 'good times' thing with drugs and partying, but something really unique and memorable for some reason.
SpeakYourNames : No I did not "GLOSS OVER " YOUR TEXTING TO A PERSON WHO ONLY JUST HAS BEEN SOBER 10 YEARS / MAYBE 8. PTSD / 6 MONTH'S VIETNAM SHIPS COMBAT . AND remember that little 16-17 year old sister-in-law.? HER new friend went up a week early: named Kelly, to help build the stage. We could never find out who was sleeping in that ditch while the tractor ran over him and we were never able to connect and find Kelly again ever ; in the 50 years since Woodstock . A distraught side note to our experience . I'm truly sorry .
I was there too I was 8 years old. I went with a friends older brothers and sister. Didnt do any hard drugs. But did try pot for the first time. Now 50 years later. I still smoke and Im healthy as ever. My only regret is I easnt old enough to really enjoy and know I was at a historic moment in my lifetime. Unfortunately my friends brother died in Nam shortly after and recently my friend passed on too. Wow good .emorirs
@Drew Biggah true, but i wouldnt advise anyone trying something like that at such a young age tho, let your brain and body develop first and then try stuff
Wow, this video is extremely subjective. Discrediting something good that happened because, agenda. Sorry but I've heard otherwise from every person I've talked to about it. It's legendary for a reason and it's not negative ones
Dawson Garret + true, theres more complaints here than youd ever hear from anyone that was actually there. I dought anyone stood in line to use a nasty port-pot. ppl running around naked aren't going to be shy about that. I've been to three that were 1/4 That size where ppl were found dead when it was over.
You can't have good without bad. It's extremely subjective to say it was just good. This video doesn't discredit the good of the festival. It just shows that some shit happened there. We've heard nothing but good about this concert for decades now. I bet there's a lot more bad that wasn't mentioned in this video. We all know it's legendary. That doesn't mean it was all good. Grow up.
Saving "everyone" from starving to "death". What an absurd comment to make about a 3 day festival. Not even slightly true. Saving a lot of people from being hungry is the real way to say what happened.
MSW, if you want to sell them, take them to the Museum that is at the site. They were looking for Original recordings and tapes. Could even get life tome free tickets for all concerts. It does have a first class venue that has prime time shows,big acts, like Zac Brown,Skynyrd's last tour,with Marshall Tucker.
Woodstock was no different than anything else. $$$$. Woodstock 2 in the late 90s was a corporate piece of shit. You never hear about it. I was there and hated every minute.
BADD1ONE -- May I ask... What was so bad about Woodstock in the 90s? In 69 it was supposed to be a festival of music and arts... How did it turn out when you attended? --Too capitalist oriented?...
chivalryalive it was so expensive. I paid 175$ for a ticket. Bottled water had become a thing then, 2.50 for water. Pretty sure I starved. Hell the condoms had Pepsi logos. The bands were mostly grunge. Not really the types of bands that promoted peace. A lot of fights. I was 16. I don't remember it vividly. Mainly because, it wasn't worth remembering.
Actually there have been a few, Woodstock Sound Outs were in the late 60s (the first festival was an expansion on this but they carried on till 71) and free, organised by fans. Woodstock 79 was a cash in at MSG then there was Woodstock '89 which is mostly forgotten, it's now even subtitled the forgotten Woodstock, which was mostly successful apart from cars getting stuck in the mud at the end. Woodstock '94 was pricy but value for money and had a good mix of established and up and coming artists, although lots of mud was thrown. (Confusingly this fourth incarnation is sometimes called Woodstock 2) Then you get to Woodstock'99 which was over priced and basically turned into a riot with people looting the vending concessions (bottled water at $25 for 100ml didn't go down well) then setting things on fire. So far that has put the kibosh on it. But actually only the 99 one was a total disaster.
BADD1ONE -- So sorry for your bad experience. That's very unfortunate... Or, as my friends and I would have said in the mid '80s-- "What a bummer!" ;-)
I've always loved that story about Pete Townshend and Abbie Hoffman. Townshend was a tough kid from London - a "street-fighting man". He didn't give a shit about the political speech Hoffman was giving. This was HIS show and HIS stage and he knocked Hoffman right off of it!
I don't think Townsend was very serious about that, though. I mean, Hoffman wasn't killed or anything, and we've all seen how hard Pete Townsend can swing a guitar.......
Well, Townsend's probably right. What I mean is that he probably didn't intend to hurt Hoffman, much. Again, he could've knocked him into next week. Looking this up, I can find no confirmation that the guitar hit actually happened. The interruption certainly did, and Townsend being annoyed by it, and shouting at Hoffman, but the instrumental whacking itself I can't find. Maybe it did happen, but it was a very gentle whack, if there was any whack at all.
Good ole rock n roll folklore. I read somewhere that he actually only nudged him with the guitar but the excess string coming from the headstock jabbed him in the back of the neck, causing him to jump off the stage. Who knows? Guess it’s best left to the imagination
Everyone talks about what a love-in it was. An uncle of mine lived in San Francisco in 1967 during the "Summer of Love". He recalled it being a din of drugs, crime and hostility. You couldn't walk down the street without someone asking you for or demanding money, trying to rob you or threatening you. Plus he said everyone smelled terrible.
Bill, did you see the show ? Are you old enough to have gone? The Hog Farm group did not have enough to feed 1/4 million people.It was fun if you did not mind the filth, and mst hippies being filthy did not mind. Even today, and I go thru trough White Lake every other year, the community was not and is not equipped to handle that may people . The "Band" did the best show,I liked them a ton. We stood at attention when Jimmy H. played the anthem,Cocker looked like he was fucked up,Santana also great.I ,if you were there took cars of you as well as a thousand little children playing in the mud, which was about 20% human waste, and the hill was DESTROYED! WERE YOU THERE AND DID YOU PAY OR CRASH. I was raised wrong, I was taught to respect authority, not make a mess,stay away from drugs, if you shit in the field, dig a hole first,then cover it, and DO NOT TRESPASS!
In the 70's, my sixth grade teacher told us about a guy who fell asleep under a tractor, or laying inside the wheel and fell asleep, something like that. I think the owner started it and drove away and the guy was killed. What a shame!
@@economicvase3986 ...see, this is why your generation is considered the most whiny entitled age ever. "They were hurting their FEET." LMAO. And lacking enough concessions...because your generation expects everything to be handed to them.
I was fifteen that year. If I could have gone, I would have loved the muddrugstrafficjamsandoverflowqingtoilets.The fun far outweighs the messed up at that age. HA!
I love hearing about Woodstock and wish I could have been there. Everyone coming together to enjoy music. Yes there was trash and traffic and overcrowding....but what concert doesnt have this to some extent? Considering the event planners didnt expect this kind of turnout I'd say it was a success. If this kinda thing happened now it would have ended up much worse. The music and message of the time....man....epic.
And despite all of those 'messed up things' almost half a million people were able to enjoy the festival, coexist, and avoid a full scale riot! That's why the memories of Woodstock '69 will live on. If something like that were to occur nowadays the spoiled entitled shits would tear things down before the first note was played! Hell, the '99 replay was much better organized and look what those punks did!!Bless the 60's counter-culture and what it tried to accomplish. One brief shining moment!!!
i think woodstock 99' had similar bathroom issues. by the second day all the portable toilest were well past overflowing. i saw one guy wake up at the crack of 10am. as he opened his tent flap he realized he was now surrounded by a 35 foot lake of human shit that ran down from the outhouses overnight. bad way to wake up. i watched for about 3 minutes as he just kinda stared at his predicament. i'm sure at some point he just sucked it up and slogged through it with everything valuable to him. but he also pitched his tent right in the middle of a large thoroughfair, and not the campground so...?
Jeremy Barriga Ummm....watch the original documentary recorded at the festival in 1969. Are you going to be a pedant that it was a hamburger stand, not a hot dog stand? What a time wasting chode.
Simply: I was there and this video gets it wrong about half the time. No big deal.... because the brilliance of that moment lights my memories forever; yeah.... Hendrix looked (and played) like a god.
Mermaid Man that's bull shit. If you know anything about festival music industry, you'd know that Hippies organize almost every festival. Just like non- hippies there's super productive ones and super lazy ones. There's bad apples in every group. Hippie is just a style, not an intelligence level. This particular festival, just happened to get ridiculous word of mouth advertising that nobody could have foreseen so many people coming, especially since it was the first year, and especially since it was in the 60's. The Earth population is so much bigger now... But even then, not even Bonnaroo has half a million people and it's run by mtv. And here we are 60-70 years later. You ever throw an open invite party? You never know, it could be 30 people, could be 300 people. Please don't hate on people to make yourself feel better. Doesn't do the world any good
all Woodstock fans like me have the same question...why no one, NO ONE will release ALL the music recorded at the festival. The only music released is incomplete compilations.
Woodstock was never intended to be the size it became. Yeah, some messed up things happened but you know something... with all the people and total lack of supervision and law enforcement along with all the people that were called in on the moment, it was still a safer concert than ANYTHING that would or could ever take place today. AND THAT IS A FACT.
Scott S not to mention there was 1 overdose. 1. People are overdosing at home now ffs. The dea has been getting more and more aggressive and everytime they do more people die. Odd.
Neat enough, my grandparents went to Woodstock. I would have LOVED to have went to woodstock.. I was born in 92, so i only BARELY remember hearing about Woodstock 99. Anyone on here go to that one at least? I know it failed miserably bc of bad attitudes, but id still like to hear about it
Funny that my dad was born 69 and went to the 99 concert. His parents for sure didn’t go to the original Woodstock, it’s not like he was made there lol but it still is ironic. My parents had great times at the 99 and even though they born right at that time they never went. They both say even with their not being at the first one, that the 99 one was nothing like 69. But they say it wasn’t nearly as bad as we think 99 was too. Everyone’s biased. Hippies are biased, nazis are biased, conservatives are biased, scientists are biased. I like to take the worst accounts and the best accounts and treat them both like fact and bring them together slowly working opinions down to a “balance” even though I am sure that true balance does not exist in humanity and probably nature.
I found this interesting - at 4:38 the narration says "CNN reported..." and mentions some woman fell from the scaffolding by the stage and broke her back. Taking this at face value makes it appear that CNN was around back in 1969. It wasn't. but this video doesn't say when they later reported about this accident.
"2 people died... one from an overdose and one from a tractor accident". CORRECTION (cause I was there) - One guy died in his sleeping bag when a water truck backed up over him, and a woman with appendicitis died in the ambulance because they couldn't get her to a hospital, past all the backed up traffic. I was sleeping in a car on the side of the road when I heard the ambulance go past...
I was 16 years old. I would have promised anything to my parents, if they would have allowed me to go. They said if I left with my friends, pitch a tent out there, because I was not coming back home. I was devastated. Never forgave them.....
I was on the New York State throughway and was at a Gas Station getting my Car fixed near Kerhonskin,...I was getting tired and looked exasperated...in the waiting area ...a guy offered me a Coke!, I said yes....and he smiled ...and said..." by the Time you get to Woodstock"...you won't look so Sad...I smiled and popped open the Drink...and got there before the Throughway was Closed...didn't even have a ticket,..the guy was Gerry Garcia. Kid you not.
I was 12 at the time, and we didn't have hippies where I lived, but we heard some were coming through town on their way to Woodstock so we wanted to see them. Yeah, they looked freaky to midwestern kids.
On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Festival was held in Bethel, New York. Over a half million people were gathered to see those legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Simon & Garfunkel, The Association, Ravi Shankar, Richie Gavens, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Status Quo, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins and Crosby, Stills & Nash performed on stage.
Pete Townshend did not hit Hoffman on the head with his guitar , he was far more clever . As most guitars in the day strings hung from the head of the instrument ,he flicked his guitar and on purpose cut Hoffman's neck with a loose string. Townshend remembers it cut Hoffman very close to the jugular and it bled a lot .He knew this because Hoffman glared at him from just off stage for the whole song, at which point Townshend mouthed sorry followed by fuck off. These people should do their homework far better.
Damn...those Baby Boomers were ANIMALS!!! It's funny, in a way...the people who used to say "don't trust anyone over 30" are now in their 60's, and I for one never trusted ANY of them when I was a kid, and I STILL don't trust them!
I was at Summer Jam. I was 19. Wish someone had made a documentary about it. I have watched everything that I could find about Summer Jam on CZcams. It was a great festival, maybe even crazier than Woodstock.
Sorry Grunge, but if your going to report in history, check your facts first. Instead of cups of gronola, the Air National Guard flew in food & medical supplies & the nearby townsfolk also came to the aid if the starving kids.
That’s exactly right Sphinx. The granola was served in cone shaped paper cups. The National Guard flew above the site and the soldiers flashed peace signs to all below from the helicopters. I believe this is where the line from the song Woodstock said.... I believed I saw the bomber airplanes flying shotgun in the sky, and they turned into butterflies across our nation. For all of you detractors, think of it this way. Where else are you going to find this many people gathered together, with so little violence as there was August 15, 16 and 17, 1969 on a dairy farm owned by the wonderful and kind Mr Max Yasgur. I’ll admit, I don’t remember all of it, but it was a beautiful memory that will last my lifetime. Peace ✌️
Dont forget yall WOODSTOCK was basically the template for all the modern music festivals we love now....thats why its important...ok *steps off nerd soapbox
No, it wasn't. LOL. How could that be a template when it went so wrong? More like an example to learn from. There's a difference. You're no nerd and you don't even know what a soapbox is.
What was the best festival experience you've ever had?
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Stfu , u just a clueless millennial
stupid in the sense of trivializing a significant event.
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I don't like the commentators voice either, but the video was great man. You need to loosen up lol
Tripped for two days and had a great time. Three weeks later I was on my way to Vietnam. That made Woodstock look like picnicking.
Thank you for your service.
fair play, mate. knew a couple of lads who went on mad benders before iraq
That you for your service. I am sorry that you did not get a hero's welcome when you got back.
This thank you for your service shit sounds ridiculous. Such a militarised culture. No offense to anyone.
Whatever whatever
The biggest unanswered question about Woodstock '69 is; Who went home with Pete Townshend's Gibson SG guitar after he tossed it into the audience? That would be the ultimate souvenir!
Didn't they set that on fire too on the last day? Oh Wait....That was Woodstock '99.
I did and still have it
I'm not shiting you mad I did and I still have it
I wasn't talking about the guitar I was talking about clap
@@patrickbush9526 you have Pete Townshends guitar?
"Yeah peace and love man, we are one" "wait... The hot dogs are a dollar now?! A whole dollar?! Burn the stand down!!"
Sounds fun to me.....sounds more fun than Coachella🙈☺️
Randy Pronk so like buying food at a football game then
Yeah like kids when they throw tantrums and roll around on the floor. Except hippies. With fire 🔥
AGAIN, FOLKS, THIS STORY IS JUST THAT A STORY,FALSE AT THAT. IT ALL HINGES ON A CNN REPORT SUPPOSEDLY, MADE AT THE TIME OF WOODSTOCK. AGAIN, CNN DID NOT EXIST UNTIL MANY YEARS LATER. KIDS, DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ONLINE!! THIS STORY IS COMPLETE UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT!!
Lazermaonaiser, it didn't happen. Why is it that your generation wants to believe that Woodstock was somehow really bad? Jealous, methinks. CNN did not even exist then so that should have been your first hint. False story. Didn't happen. Peace and Love from a 68 year old hippie
For a festival with over 400,000 people attending, small budget, and poor timing they pulled this festival off really well. a lot of this stuff is very minor and a lot worse has happened at events with smaller crowds
I think that’s a great exaggeration
Maybe, but I think the quality of the music has masked the appalling organisation rather than they "pulled it off". It says a lot that it never became a long-running event like Glastonbury festival.
well-said
It was a different time. Now there would be shooting, stabbings and rape
amen to that, imagine 1/2 million of the assholes that roam the planet today I think they should hold a free concert on the white house lawn today
My buddy’s mom is in the Woodstock Official concert film but she won’t say where because she’s totally naked
hatednyc MILF OR GILF, by now.
Bruh that’s legendary
lmao
hatednyc I hope she had the time of her life!!! Why hated nyc? I live in NYC!
hatednyc That's real history.
I remember woodstock very well. The first night I was hanging around with my dad, partying and having a good time. The music was loud, the drugs were kick ass. It was dark and I remember bumping into something for around five minutes, that's when I lost my footing and slid down this long tube and ran into my mother. I am so glad she was there to catch me. We became so close, we were in separable for the next nine months. Then she kicked me out into the cold cruel world. I was on my own!
That's some memory you've got
this deserves more likes💀💀
thats some glorious bs material
tanacon is shaking
You are kidding
keiziah for president JECSIF
keiziah for president she is nowhere near as talented as the artists that were at these Woodstock concerts
no1nestandsalone i- it was a fucking joke
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2 deaths and 2 births. The universe has a strange way of leveling itself out.
johny: Not really. N=More people are born than die.
True. But then something like the plague or WWII comes along and starts sorting shit out.
Johny: yes, but in spite of all that, the population keeps rising. Not saying that won't reverse itself at some point.
In some parts of Europe it is still happening. As you said, it may happen again on a larger scale. That seems to be guaranteed by past estimates. Seems like some sort of unpredictable culling.
like seinfeld
Woodstock wasn’t just about the hippies, it brought together roughly 500,000 completely unique different kinds of people, living diverse lives, from far and wide for a hand full of different reasons, could have been drugs, love, or even a free concert but what was astonishing was that they were all there in the moment for the same relative reasons. And that folks connected us all, love and peace! Hopefully we can all unite again for such a cause
There are better examples of massive numbers of people uniting for peace. Uniting for sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll isn't uniting for peace. There's a difference. I bet you would've been in a bad mood if you went to Woodstock. Some dude would be fucking your girlfriend while you're watching some shitty performance by some band you thought you liked. You'd be hungry and have to go to the bathroom. It would smell like shit.
Peace??? Hahaha.. Fuck hippies
Hippies all 500.000. No diverse but boring.
Won't ruin 69 likes.
Yes and no. Just a bunch of degenerates from various socioeconomic backgrounds.
It's pretty incredible that there were only two resulting deaths from that event.
People who knew how to behave. They were not the crazies that some would like us to believe.
Death by tractor? WTF?!
And supposedly the birth of twins
Bill Bohrd expect you know burning down hot dog stands, drugging random people because lol and turning a thruway into a parking lot
CineVince that's not true. A black man was killed by a biker gang
I would have gone through all of that just to see Jimi Hendrix!
... and janis joplin... i would sacrifice a lamb AND my left arm...
funny thing is... his gig started at 9AM in the morning of the last day and bunch of lame asses were already leaving the concert
your arm, fine, but not a lamb
I’d only go through that for the wife and kids,what a shit state that turned out
Sounds like an event organizer's nightmare.
Tanacon
Potato Noodle WHY WAS I THINKING OF THE SAME THING I LOVE THIS COMMENT
Event organizer failure, most tickets were not collected. Gate crashers knocked the fences down.
Blue Mountain Edward Yes, but give them a break guys, it was the first festival of its kind and they were only expecting a few thousand people, not 500,000. In that regard it was a success I would say..
M Zach There were no organizers! You got in tickets or no tickets! The guy that owned this land was appalled but you don't here that much! They trashed his land! I was part of the generation of those types that were at Woodstock. But I was never like this bunch! All is showed is how filthy people can be, how dishonest and just disgusting in general! I mean putting drugs in drinks & food of unsuspecting people!!! That's horrible. Wonder how many of those unsuspecting people Od'd or died from some morons actions!
"18 dollars for all 3 days, or just 7 bucks per day"
*what*
MotoKoko Most festivals charge more for single day passes. Sort of a wholesale concept
MotoKoko *inflation*
The third day was free. Obviously.
A pk of cigarettes were less than twenty cents around that time,so I've been told.
Math is hard?
Still wish I was there.
Screw that. Wallowing in shit, nothing to drink or eat??? Watching the movie was much better. Half the people there probably don't even really remember it.
ffjsb Whatever.
@@shiroitamagotchi2005 go ahead, wallow in human shit and piss... with no drinking water or food... have a ball.
@@ffjsb and just one toilet for the whole crowd.
Imagine the smell.
It'd kill anyone lungs.
Me, too,!
Videos you can smell.
Dylan Wesley ohmagaw, I was thinking the same. My hygiene OCD was triggered.😖.
Dylan Wesley I know right? After the first minute, I started to hold my breath for as long as I could. Blech!
i was 4 at the time, ... we never made it to the stage, but the music was so loud that my hearing was like I was in a subway tunnel for 3 days after ... and I managed to get lost because I stopped and talked with a vendor at a stand about the rainbow colored pipes he was selling, while my cousins kept walking ... .. I didn't understand at the time that they were pot pipes, I just liked the pretty colors .... lol
:)
Ah yes, the smell of body odor, piss, shitty ditch weed, and broken dreams
😂😂😂
Saved everyone from total starvation?? It was a 3 day event. I doubt if anyone would've died from starvation in 3 days.
Rest In Peace Steve B ... sorry you didn't make it.
mda037 I'm pretty sure she was just being sarcastic/exaggerating about people actually dying from total starvation..
lol!
They were on different drugs so yeah you need to drink a lot of water
steve b Where can I send flowers to show my grief?
Lived 8 miles from there - my uncle was a paramedic there. Yes it was crazy but amazingly peaceful for an event like that. Abbie Hoffman and some of his crew tore down the fences at night that were put up during the day as he wanted this to be free. Lots of firsts there, I recommend Michael Lang’s books if you want the real history!
Woodstock has been OVERLY sugar-coated. The reality of how it really was is hugely ignored
Ur gayass millennial still talking about it , how was it ignored ¿
A.M Lash seriously, if anything Monterey pop should hold that status that Woodstock did. It kicked off the summer of love and introduced numerous legendary acts to the world. Plus there were far less people, and it seemed way more organized and clean
A.M Lash true but it was so rad
Were you there?
A.M Lash Maybe so, but it's funny that the people hating on Woodstock weren't there. You never hear the people who went say there was rampant rape, disgusting people, rancid, smelly, over rated, dangerous, violent, miserable, horrible sound, couldn't hear the music..blah blah blah. People who went for the most part have great memories from it, despite some of the issues like the rain, traffic, not enough toilets.. 😎
And I would still repeat it all :') It was the experience of my lifetime. Before even going, my friend (who has passed away a few years ago from old age) said "Guys, it's a slim chance any of us will survive, so enjoy every single moment you get" and man we did. What a time to be alive. If I wasn't so old, I'd definitely go experience anything near to what woodstock was
awesome, too bad that the stupid moron young ppl of today ,including this video , dont understand.. their loss, idiots..
@@kaffeice7 ok boomer..
@@chiriviscospower eat shit millennial moron
Sick 🤙
The Farmer in bethel who offered the land is in the most beautiful place in paradise right now
My dad, while preparing the bbq every summer, always tells us crazy stories from Woodstock 69. My personal favourite being how him, his buddies and a group of Dutch girls all did lsd and thought the trees were singing to them in Spanish.
I love how those who lived in that time period have massive balls to tell Gen X, Gen Z, Millennials that we're a screwed up generation.
every generation is screwed up in its own way - but essentially screwed up by the previous generation..
Millennials probably the least screwed up - but the most fragile and lazy..
If you millenials aren't screwed up it is because your boomer parents raised you right. And got rid of a whole lot of prejudices so you can have choices about how you want to live. The boomers were and are "the greatest generation." You guys have some catching up to do, but, you can do it.
@@janicejohnson6438 first generation of spoiled entitled(which you can clearly see it still shows) brats everyone before then had to work
@@acidwolfpackgang Well, there you have it. Another spoiled ungrateful millenial. I have a millenial son who actually appreciats how he was raised, and it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. You will have a different point of view when and if you have children of your own. Until then, try acting like an adult. Peace and Love
Oops, my reply wasn't meant for you. Sorry!
I'm here because of the FyreFestival Documentary on Netflix !
Mathilde Grn same
Omg same
Me too😂
When that guy said "when we talk about Woodstock, we never talk about the toilet problems, the traffic jams, the lack of food or water and the deaths," and I thought "Wait, what?? Maybe we *should* talk about it" 😅
It's sad but me too lol
I knew several people who said they left their cars on the highway and came back 3 days later and they were still there
damn thats cool actually. because if that happened today, that shut would have been gone after day one
wow they were still there ? the cars didnt drive themselves away? thats odd!
kosmique - No on-board 'puters or GPS in them daze. Cars were at the mercy of human-operated everythang... My car grazes whenever it wants..
Zach m
American shithole.
Peter Jongsma Still triggered that Trump called your country a shithole (and justifiably so)?
Even knowing all this, I would have LOVED to have been there.
chironapolonio exactly
Same
I was at the real one in 69 for 5 days and 1999 . Don't worry about the shit on this video .everyone helped everyone .it was a different world. People really cared about others .don't fret dear ,we all were there for each other the music was a bonus . In 1999 it was a rock concert about money.
@@trevorwilson5461 they forgot to care about the environment with all the trash left behind
same
I’m 19 im happy to be apart of my generation even though my generation definitely has our flaws, but I would do anything to have been at Woodstock. These are almost all of the bands that I’ve loved all of my life, thanks to my parents, and I cannot imagine what it must’ve been like to see them all live all at once
same here
The best thing that came out of Woodstock other than the music, was that the farmer that owned the land did not have to lay down cow manure for his crops for a loooooong time!
And Tim Allen.
I remember seeing a much more indepth documentary about Woodstock. In it, someone connected with planning and setting it up explained that they were running out of time, and the construction crew didn't have time to finish *both* the stage, and the fence. So they asked whoever was in charge, "Do you want a stage, or do you want a fence? Because we can't do both". The answer they were given was, "Well, we have to have a stage."... Once word got around that the fence around the concert/farm was incomplete and actual monitoring of people entering with paid tickets would be impossible, people from all over made the pilgrimage to get into Woodstock for free.
I would still rather be there than in Coachella 😂
Then people ask what is wrong with america...
😂😂😂
@@WhenAllTheWarmthLeavesUs Americans, simply put.
@@elcheapo572 Couldn't agree more.
Gross
Sounds better than the Frye Festival
It’s funny because I’m watching the documentary right now lol
Lol saved them from starving...ever hear of LEAVING!
No one’s leaving in a massive traffic jam. Although, if you were smart, you wouldn’t have attended in the first place.
joli minou ever heard of not DYING because you haven't eaten for a couple days? Everybody so fragile
I need to take you to a fest beautiful promise you'll never want it to end
the festival only took place over 3 days. starvation... come on.
joli minou Yea, just try leaving a crowd of 500,000+ and all the roads shut down due to traffic..and pouring rain starting Sat. night. Easier said than done!
The "messed up things" that happened at the '69 Woodstock are not worth mentioning other than in some superficial gossip column.
Best regards from a '49 born, 100%, 24/7 hippie/veteran/roadie/father/grandfather
Chillax n' light up
Kick ass!
I think you are now my favourite old person ....bless you
Right! these are just the things that happened at Woodstock. Most of these aren't even messed up
Giving LSD laced kool-aid to children isn't messed up?
@@XtoverusRex i would be happy
I have lived in Woodstock N.Y. my whole life and attended the 25th anniversary concert in the 90s. My father was the sheriff of Ulster county in the 60s when the original concert took place and he had to be helicopter in and out of the event. What amazing pictures I have from both concerts..
I lived in Ulster in the '70's, I attended SUNY New Paltz, when it was known as the biggest party school in the SUNY system. Before New Paltz, I attended Oakwood Friend's School, just south of Poughkeepsie. I love the Hudson Valley, many great memories. A friend from college and her husband still live in Rosendale. I had a GF who was majoring in gold and silversmithing at New Paltz, and one day, we took a drive up to Woodstock, to look around. It was all a bunch of cool little shops, we found a shop that specialized in jewelry making supplies, and she bought a bunch of materials for her course. Sue, I was told that every year, people hold a "Woodstock Anniversary" festival, somewhere near Bethel. Is this true? Because I would love to go there sometime.
I was a teen in the 70s. I was a kid in the 60s. There was a structure and routine to life at that time that was conservative, predictable, "safe". Think Perry Como, Doris Day, and Andy Williams. Girls wore dresses, boys had short hair. I loved being a kid then because I felt secure.
Then *this* happened, and it was new and exciting and unlike anything we'd ever seen. Even though I was underage there were plenty of other large-scale gatherings that I participated in, like the Walk For Mankind; 26 miles of just walking from point A to point B. Kids now in long hair and bell-bottoms, sneaking cigarettes and beer, guys and girls flirting and checking each other out. Just one big, collective co-creating. No guns, no fights, no shitty ugly music. Just a cool, organic evolution of changing values and experiences.
Ok boomer.
aw❤️
'No shitty ugly music'.....EXACTLY!
...and no Corona virus I guess!
This is nitpicking at its finest. Yes every festival has its moments but leave it alone. This has been and always will be the greatest and most influential music festival in history. Peace love and music.
Yea most things on this video where half truths at best
100% as if there's a single hippie out there who's never peed in a bush. the financial costs are covered by the fact that it was a huge historical moment and they legit found a solution to the traffic jam themselves ?? peace love and music
Yeah it was a disaster but it was fun man!😒
@@yetekt8025 Woodstock 69 went about as good as you can hope an event of that size can go, now Woodstock 99 was a disaster
Ravi Shankar was performing at the festival but he said everyone was so stoned it was disgusting. So he did his bit and left ASAP...
And what of it? You imply "He left in a huff"...no, he left when he didn't see any $$$ in cash in his pockets! (or sari)"Ravi Shankar" was 'nothing and no one' until Brian Jones and George Harrison said 'He's great!" (musically at least)
there is a record release of that
vonzigle really? Where's your source? I heard he chilled out in the helicopter that Jimi rode in on... Slept on the back bench..
vonzigle ya, makes sense. The culture surrounding traditional Raga music is very different than the hippy counter-culture he would have encountered at Woodstock.
vonzigle so he split and had sex with young , young , girls...sicko!
I was at the 3 day Bath rock & blues festival in the UK in 1970. It was much the same, rain, loos, etc. Led Zeppelin played one of their best performances apparently during a thunderstorm. I awoke to their last song Communication breakdown. Happy days.
Can I point out how ironic it was that Led Zeppelin passed on Woodstock to headline in New Jersey, USA? Had they been there, it may have been the same issue with rain making the stage an electrocution hazard, and it perhaps could have been worse because they wouldn't have been the headliners.
I was a kid and too young and on the other side of the US. I still love watching the film and the restored version of the concert. My older brothers were old enough to be there, but also lived on the other shore of the US, so they weren't there, either. Surprising me was the amount of drugs and only one OD in the three day event that resulted in death. Really an amazing time to be alive.
I need to take a shower.
Ken White I got a thick little sticky shower for ya....funny thing is you'll actually be dirtier when it's over .
Kendall White
Nah, you're gonna need a chemical cleanse.
The kind you get after coming into contact with hazardous waste ( which is what they were )
I resemble that remark.
I'm not american and i don't know why so much hate on hippies, they were only trying to have a good time. Millenials are some depressing sometimes
A friend of mine was there. He said, "Ya, it was peaceful for a while, but it's a good thing it ended on Sunday morning. With the mud, rain, and filth, if it had gone one more day it wouldn't have been known for peace and love. The music was great, but we were wet, we smelled, and all that hippie bliss was quickly wearing thin."
Woodstock was a spiritual experience that can never be duplicated! Just ask anyone who was lucky enough to go! It's something that can't be explained unless you were there!
Different experiences for different times. For the people that remember it fondly, it must have been really special, not just another 'good times' thing with drugs and partying, but something really unique and memorable for some reason.
Sorry dude missed it was born in 1975 only seen footage
don't eat the brown acid
Messed up things that happened at Woodstock and you just gloss over the tractor accident.
This girl sounds giddy to narrate something incorrectly
SpeakYourNames : No I did not "GLOSS OVER " YOUR TEXTING TO A PERSON WHO ONLY JUST HAS BEEN SOBER 10 YEARS / MAYBE 8. PTSD / 6 MONTH'S VIETNAM SHIPS COMBAT .
AND remember that little 16-17 year old sister-in-law.? HER new friend went up a week early: named Kelly, to help build the stage. We could never find out who was sleeping in that ditch while the tractor ran over him and we were never able to connect and find Kelly again ever ; in the 50 years since Woodstock .
A distraught side note to our experience .
I'm truly sorry .
@@barrycolley8079 I think you've had enough internet/of life for today. Take care.
SpeakYourNames : Setting Reality Correct For My Participation In My World / No One Else's / You Do You And I Testify For Me .
@@barrycolley8079 no...nobody said that you glossed over anything.
Let's talk about the 'messed up things' that have occurred SINCE Woodstock... man!
Amen.
"One of the most"?
It is the GOAT musical event.
I don’t ever see someone bring something like this back ever again
I was there too I was 8 years old. I went with a friends older brothers and sister. Didnt do any hard drugs. But did try pot for the first time. Now 50 years later. I still smoke and Im healthy as ever. My only regret is I easnt old enough to really enjoy and know I was at a historic moment in my lifetime. Unfortunately my friends brother died in Nam shortly after and recently my friend passed on too. Wow good .emorirs
wow pot at 8? heheh groovy haha , i suppose u didnt try sex there lol
"didnt do any hard drugs" *was eight* lmao
@Drew Biggah true, but i wouldnt advise anyone trying something like that at such a young age tho, let your brain and body develop first and then try stuff
Wow, this video is extremely subjective. Discrediting something good that happened because, agenda. Sorry but I've heard otherwise from every person I've talked to about it. It's legendary for a reason and it's not negative ones
Dawson Garret + true, theres more complaints here than youd ever hear from anyone that was actually there. I dought anyone stood in line to use a nasty port-pot. ppl running around naked aren't going to be shy about that. I've been to three that were 1/4 That size where ppl were found dead when it was over.
Dawson Garret
You can't have good without bad. It's extremely subjective to say it was just good. This video doesn't discredit the good of the festival. It just shows that some shit happened there. We've heard nothing but good about this concert for decades now. I bet there's a lot more bad that wasn't mentioned in this video. We all know it's legendary. That doesn't mean it was all good. Grow up.
It was an experience I will never forget.
Did u actually go?
Saving "everyone" from starving to "death". What an absurd comment to make about a 3 day festival. Not even slightly true. Saving a lot of people from being hungry is the real way to say what happened.
Justin MATTHEWS smoke weed all day everyday for 3 days and dont eat any food. See if you make it.
I think they were being sarcastic there, Justin.
Matthew Sullivan i dont get hungry when i smoke weed so what is your point.
@@kowikowi465 lying ass
Compared to modern times it was exceptionally peaceful
Most of us prefer to remember the good and there was plenty of good.
Yeah, but it's best to look back with clarity. I think we've all heard the good side. It's time to hear the bad side.
What good bunch of hippie pieces of shit
I still have live tape recordings from Woodstock...
MSW me too. On my jimi hendrix cd that about 10 million other people also have
The lost Creedence Woodstock tapes ...
MSW, if you want to sell them, take them to the Museum that is at the site. They were looking for Original recordings and tapes. Could even get life tome free tickets for all concerts. It does have a first class venue that has prime time shows,big acts, like Zac Brown,Skynyrd's last tour,with Marshall Tucker.
Mine are original on tape,live at Woodstock 1969...
You should share your videos online.
Woodstock was no different than anything else. $$$$. Woodstock 2 in the late 90s was a corporate piece of shit. You never hear about it. I was there and hated every minute.
BADD1ONE -- May I ask... What was so bad about Woodstock in the 90s? In 69 it was supposed to be a festival of music and arts... How did it turn out when you attended? --Too capitalist oriented?...
chivalryalive it was so expensive. I paid 175$ for a ticket. Bottled water had become a thing then, 2.50 for water. Pretty sure I starved. Hell the condoms had Pepsi logos. The bands were mostly grunge. Not really the types of bands that promoted peace. A lot of fights. I was 16. I don't remember it vividly. Mainly because, it wasn't worth remembering.
Actually there have been a few, Woodstock Sound Outs were in the late 60s (the first festival was an expansion on this but they carried on till 71) and free, organised by fans. Woodstock 79 was a cash in at MSG then there was Woodstock '89 which is mostly forgotten, it's now even subtitled the forgotten Woodstock, which was mostly successful apart from cars getting stuck in the mud at the end. Woodstock '94 was pricy but value for money and had a good mix of established and up and coming artists, although lots of mud was thrown. (Confusingly this fourth incarnation is sometimes called Woodstock 2)
Then you get to Woodstock'99 which was over priced and basically turned into a riot with people looting the vending concessions (bottled water at $25 for 100ml didn't go down well) then setting things on fire. So far that has put the kibosh on it. But actually only the 99 one was a total disaster.
BADD1ONE -- So sorry for your bad experience. That's very unfortunate... Or, as my friends and I would have said in the mid '80s-- "What a bummer!" ;-)
...and so was the first one! (so...tell us then...WHY THE FUCK were you therein the first instance??? At #2 that is...?)
From Amsterdam
Covid X-mas , me 70
What a blazing era we had
Feel blessed
I've always loved that story about Pete Townshend and Abbie Hoffman. Townshend was a tough kid from London - a "street-fighting man". He didn't give a shit about the political speech Hoffman was giving. This was HIS show and HIS stage and he knocked Hoffman right off of it!
I don't think Townsend was very serious about that, though. I mean, Hoffman wasn't killed or anything, and we've all seen how hard Pete Townsend can swing a guitar.......
Well, Townsend's probably right. What I mean is that he probably didn't intend to hurt Hoffman, much. Again, he could've knocked him into next week.
Looking this up, I can find no confirmation that the guitar hit actually happened. The interruption certainly did, and Townsend being annoyed by it, and shouting at Hoffman, but the instrumental whacking itself I can't find. Maybe it did happen, but it was a very gentle whack, if there was any whack at all.
Good ole rock n roll folklore. I read somewhere that he actually only nudged him with the guitar but the excess string coming from the headstock jabbed him in the back of the neck, causing him to jump off the stage. Who knows? Guess it’s best left to the imagination
snowjob
That's right, Abby Hoffman was a punk.
That was the best thing to happen. Hoffman in the media called for the youth of America to crash the concert
Everyone talks about what a love-in it was. An uncle of mine lived in San Francisco in 1967 during the "Summer of Love". He recalled it being a din of drugs, crime and hostility. You couldn't walk down the street without someone asking you for or demanding money, trying to rob you or threatening you. Plus he said everyone smelled terrible.
Wish I had been there. It was the coolest, most legendary mess of all time.
As great as the LSD and the performances were, attending this festival seems like a nightmare.
Both locals and producers could not handle what it became.
+David Wadsworth: It went just fine. Stop telling lies.
+Charlie Rothwill: Your comment stinks.
Bill, did you see the show ? Are you old enough to have gone? The Hog Farm group did not have enough to feed 1/4 million people.It was fun if you did not mind the filth, and mst hippies being filthy did not mind. Even today, and I go thru trough White Lake every other year, the community was not and is not equipped to handle that may people . The "Band" did the best show,I liked them a ton. We stood at attention when Jimmy H. played the anthem,Cocker looked like he was fucked up,Santana also great.I ,if you were there took cars of you as well as a thousand little children playing in the mud, which was about 20% human waste, and the hill was DESTROYED! WERE YOU THERE AND DID YOU PAY OR CRASH. I was raised wrong, I was taught to respect authority, not make a mess,stay away from drugs, if you shit in the field, dig a hole first,then cover it, and DO NOT TRESPASS!
It's all perspective
SOUNDS LIKE A DAMN GOOD TIME!
In the 70's, my sixth grade teacher told us about a guy who fell asleep under a tractor, or laying inside the wheel and fell asleep, something like that. I think the owner started it and drove away and the guy was killed. What a shame!
all things considered , it went well
A bunch of hippies doing drugs and hurting their feet in an overcrowded place lacking concessions? Yeah that's better than everything else nowadays.
@@economicvase3986 ...see, this is why your generation is considered the most whiny entitled age ever. "They were hurting their FEET." LMAO. And lacking enough concessions...because your generation expects everything to be handed to them.
@@partsbill2003 we're spoiled.
I was fifteen that year. If I could have gone, I would have loved the muddrugstrafficjamsandoverflowqingtoilets.The fun far outweighs the messed up at that age. HA!
I love hearing about Woodstock and wish I could have been there. Everyone coming together to enjoy music. Yes there was trash and traffic and overcrowding....but what concert doesnt have this to some extent? Considering the event planners didnt expect this kind of turnout I'd say it was a success. If this kinda thing happened now it would have ended up much worse. The music and message of the time....man....epic.
When did WatchMojo change their name to Grunge???
This is the exact same format and it still sucks.
HA!!! Spot on Soldier4Usa2005!!! I totally noticed that too, man!!
Hahaha
And despite all of those 'messed up things' almost half a million people were able to enjoy the festival, coexist, and avoid a full scale riot! That's why the memories of Woodstock '69 will live on. If something like that were to occur nowadays the spoiled entitled shits would tear things down before the first note was played! Hell, the '99 replay was much better organized and look what those punks did!!Bless the 60's counter-culture and what it tried to accomplish. One brief shining moment!!!
I was in my mother’s womb during Woodstock and I heard everything!
sounds so nasty
Lyv Rue not as nasty as you wanna be with me ....butt I won't tell. Oops!
i think woodstock 99' had similar bathroom issues. by the second day all the portable toilest were well past overflowing. i saw one guy wake up at the crack of 10am. as he opened his tent flap he realized he was now surrounded by a 35 foot lake of human shit that ran down from the outhouses overnight. bad way to wake up. i watched for about 3 minutes as he just kinda stared at his predicament. i'm sure at some point he just sucked it up and slogged through it with everything valuable to him. but he also pitched his tent right in the middle of a large thoroughfair, and not the campground so...?
@@slavesforging5361 i think if you put your tent at the bottom of a hill, you get what you asked for. Ir your toilet at the top of one...
the burning of hot dog stands did not happen in 69 , but in in the 90s version of the stock
Jeremy Barriga Ummm....watch the original documentary recorded at the festival in 1969. Are you going to be a pedant that it was a hamburger stand, not a hot dog stand? What a time wasting chode.
Fuckin' liar.
Does it matter?. Lol
I would have loved to see Richie Havens perform live opening at Woodstock! So iconic and such a great artists!
Simply: I was there and this video gets it wrong about half the time. No big deal.... because the brilliance of that moment lights my memories forever; yeah.... Hendrix looked (and played) like a god.
Not really sure why Woodstock was/is so mythologized.
Christian Hollister it's mythologized because the reality is that it was pretty gross and a pain in the ass. Or did you mean idolized?
Cause it was so big and So free.
If it wasn't for the Woodstock film...we probably wouldn't be talking about it. There were bigger festivals that weren't documented as well
Mermaid Man that's bull shit. If you know anything about festival music industry, you'd know that Hippies organize almost every festival. Just like non- hippies there's super productive ones and super lazy ones. There's bad apples in every group. Hippie is just a style, not an intelligence level.
This particular festival, just happened to get ridiculous word of mouth advertising that nobody could have foreseen so many people coming, especially since it was the first year, and especially since it was in the 60's. The Earth population is so much bigger now... But even then, not even Bonnaroo has half a million people and it's run by mtv. And here we are 60-70 years later.
You ever throw an open invite party? You never know, it could be 30 people, could be 300 people.
Please don't hate on people to make yourself feel better. Doesn't do the world any good
Christian Hollister, the people were too high to realize what a mess it really was.
all Woodstock fans like me have the same question...why no one, NO ONE will release ALL the music recorded at the festival. The only music released is incomplete compilations.
Woodstock was never intended to be the size it became. Yeah, some messed up things happened but you know something... with all the people and total lack of supervision and law enforcement along with all the people that were called in on the moment, it was still a safer concert than ANYTHING that would or could ever take place today. AND THAT IS A FACT.
Scott S not to mention there was 1 overdose. 1. People are overdosing at home now ffs. The dea has been getting more and more aggressive and everytime they do more people die. Odd.
Matthew Sullivan people were overdosing at home during the 60s and 70s too, people overdosing on drugs isn’t exactly a new phenomenon.
I missed Woodstock. I would have gone for Hendrix. There'll never be another Hendrix, and there'll never be another Woodstock.
The concert goers ingoring the speakers asking them to pickup their trash is a good summing up of the Sixties.
Neat enough, my grandparents went to Woodstock. I would have LOVED to have went to woodstock..
I was born in 92, so i only BARELY remember hearing about Woodstock 99.
Anyone on here go to that one at least?
I know it failed miserably bc of bad attitudes, but id still like to hear about it
Funny that my dad was born 69 and went to the 99 concert. His parents for sure didn’t go to the original Woodstock, it’s not like he was made there lol but it still is ironic. My parents had great times at the 99 and even though they born right at that time they never went. They both say even with their not being at the first one, that the 99 one was nothing like 69. But they say it wasn’t nearly as bad as we think 99 was too. Everyone’s biased. Hippies are biased, nazis are biased, conservatives are biased, scientists are biased. I like to take the worst accounts and the best accounts and treat them both like fact and bring them together slowly working opinions down to a “balance” even though I am sure that true balance does not exist in humanity and probably nature.
I mean to say, my dad was born the year of origional Woodstock, my mother in 74 so they did not go to the 69 one but both went to the 99 one.
I found this interesting - at 4:38 the narration says "CNN reported..." and mentions some woman fell from the scaffolding by the stage and broke her back. Taking this at face value makes it appear that CNN was around back in 1969. It wasn't. but this video doesn't say when they later reported about this accident.
"2 people died... one from an overdose and one from a tractor accident". CORRECTION (cause I was there) - One guy died in his sleeping bag when a water truck backed up over him, and a woman with appendicitis died in the ambulance because they couldn't get her to a hospital, past all the backed up traffic. I was sleeping in a car on the side of the road when I heard the ambulance go past...
the music, and performances made it all bearable!! IT WAS ABOUT UNITY!!✌💇♀️
I was 16 years old. I would have promised anything to my parents, if they would have allowed me to go. They said if I left with my friends, pitch a tent out there, because I was not coming back home. I was devastated. Never forgave them.....
Moon glow. Hope it is a Long and Healthy hate.
George whiplemyer jr. It was!!!!
Ok, that is sad
moon glow ... you could have poisoned them
Ed Wilson if I could have found a way to do it and not get caught - I would have... Lol!!!
I was on the New York State throughway and was at a Gas Station getting my Car fixed near Kerhonskin,...I was getting tired and looked exasperated...in the waiting area ...a guy offered me a Coke!, I said yes....and he smiled ...and said..." by the Time you get to Woodstock"...you won't look so Sad...I smiled and popped open the Drink...and got there before the Throughway was Closed...didn't even have a ticket,..the guy was Gerry Garcia. Kid you not.
I was 12 at the time, and we didn't have hippies where I lived, but we heard some were coming through town on their way to Woodstock so we wanted to see them. Yeah, they looked freaky to midwestern kids.
The girl in the thumbnail is so beautiful.
On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Festival was held in Bethel, New York. Over a half million people were gathered to see those legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Simon & Garfunkel, The Association, Ravi Shankar, Richie Gavens, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Status Quo, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins and Crosby, Stills & Nash performed on stage.
“These are some of the messed up things that happened. Bathroom line.”
Pete Townshend did not hit Hoffman on the head with his guitar , he was far more clever . As most guitars in the day strings hung from the head of the instrument ,he flicked his guitar and on purpose cut Hoffman's neck with a loose string. Townshend remembers it cut Hoffman very close to the jugular and it bled a lot .He knew this because Hoffman glared at him from just off stage for the whole song, at which point Townshend mouthed sorry followed by fuck off. These people should do their homework far better.
"Just 7 bucks a day" as she shows a picture that says 6 dollars
Damn...those Baby Boomers were ANIMALS!!! It's funny, in a way...the people who used to say "don't trust anyone over 30" are now in their 60's, and I for one never trusted ANY of them when I was a kid, and I STILL don't trust them!
never trust a hippie!
Gosh darn baby boomers. They taking our jehrbs nd houses!
Joe Black
That is because they are all born upside down they talk out their arses and shit comes out their mouths.
Joe Black How old are you to be censoring yourself on a comment you wrote on CZcams
Don't trust anyone under 30.
I would have gone just to hear Jimi Hendrix play the national anthem
I was born in 1982, I wish I was alive back in the 70s I would be hanging with the hippies and at Woodstock.
Despite all of this Woodstock seemed lit
Woodstock may be the most remembered but summer jam 73 at watkins glen was by far the largest. Right at the end of the vietnam war
Sorry, it went on for another 2 years.
I was at Summer Jam. I was 19. Wish someone had made a documentary about it. I have watched everything that I could find about Summer Jam on CZcams. It was a great festival, maybe even crazier than Woodstock.
People say they wish they could go back in time to see Woodstock, but I sure the hell dont.
This isn’t true. Have you ever watch the actual Woodstock documentary of the festival. No.. this is so inaccurate
Sorry Grunge, but if your going to report in history, check your facts first.
Instead of cups of gronola, the Air National Guard flew in food & medical supplies & the nearby townsfolk also came to the aid if the starving kids.
Starving kids?
That’s exactly right Sphinx. The granola was served in cone shaped paper cups. The National Guard flew above the site and the soldiers flashed peace signs to all below from the helicopters. I believe this is where the line from the song Woodstock said.... I believed I saw the bomber airplanes flying shotgun in the sky, and they turned into butterflies across our nation. For all of you detractors, think of it this way. Where else are you going to find this many people gathered together, with so little violence as there was August 15, 16 and 17, 1969 on a dairy farm owned by the wonderful and kind Mr Max Yasgur. I’ll admit, I don’t remember all of it, but it was a beautiful memory that will last my lifetime. Peace ✌️
if people were really starving that horribly then they would leave the event
Brendan O how. By driving away?
1Sphinx Rising Some of this is true, cars being left, traffic jams, etc., the rest is just bs
Not gonna lie, I don't think it would have been nearly as fun as we'd all like to think.
Dont forget yall WOODSTOCK was basically the template for all the modern music festivals we love now....thats why its important...ok *steps off nerd soapbox
Monterey was before that.
No, it wasn't. LOL. How could that be a template when it went so wrong? More like an example to learn from. There's a difference. You're no nerd and you don't even know what a soapbox is.