I was 11 years old and remember Woodstock being reported on the news in Great Britain. It seemed a fantastic experience, but I was too young and 3,000 miles away. I’m 66 now so those attendees must all be in their 70’s now. It’s a lifetime ago, but we still talk about it. The festival summed up the feeling of the age.
I'm 70 now lucky to survive this long. Burnt in my heart the love of the flower power generation. Drugs were pure and free. Humbled to have been part of the love child generation. Sly put on the best act. I wanna take you higher!!! Love and light to all involved in playing this pod cast. Peace.
I was in the Air Force at the time, stationed at Reese AFB in Lubbock, TX. A fellow medic and I rode our BMW motorcycles up to the 3-day Denver Pop Festival (DPF) during the last weekend in June, 1969, WAY outside our mileage limits. As more groups signed to perform at Woodstock, they were announced during the DPF. Because I had taken a 3-day "leave", I didn't have enough "leave time" to go anywhere in August, so I missed it. However, my roommate from Woonsocket, RI, went. He described the Woodstock event as "unbelievable!" In other words, he was blown away by his experience.
I was 19 and living in UK, Woodstock was huge, everybody talked about it for years. Sadly by now many attendees will be dead or like me in early, mid, or late seventies.
i went with 5 friends after seeing Led Zepperlin at the flushing meadows ny pavillion (65 worlds faitr). we drove to the monticello race track exit on the ny thruway and parked the car at the exit we then walked about 12 miles to the site! what a blast! i ran into so many friends from my Long Island home, it was amazing. The movie- "Taking Woodstock" was realistic as it could be and people should see it to get a taste of the scene. Out of 45 of us i guess 5 are left due to our wild lifestyles of "turn on, tune in and drop out (drop dead)".
I was 13 in 1970 my brother took me to see that movie woodstock in calexico cal. i will never forget that it was awesome to see santana and i loved that peace and love days hippy times motorcycles everywhere
I went to Woodstock, rightly called the Bethel Festival despite Woodstock being acossiated and getting credit to this day for the event they rejected! Unfortunately the darkest side of the fastival was the garbage left behind! It seems wherever humans go mountains of garbage appear!
I was 17 and it was the greatest party I've ever been to in my life. The following yr. got in a bit of trouble and was forced to join the service. Ended up in Nam. Not such a good party.
I remember seeing a photo of a naked bottom in the 1969 article on Woodstock in a Time magazine read at a reading room in Palani a temple town in South India where I now lived as a sādhu meditating in the era of turning East. As a New York ex-pat - I arrived overland from London in 1967, Summer of Love. Satchidananda was a former mill manager from nearby Coimbatore and I knew his relatives. Now age 78, back in India for good. 😊
How thankful I am that I wasn't there in the midst of the rain, mud, filth, drugs, chaos, heat, shortages of food, water, medical supplies, the difficulties getting there and leaving, etc. i was home enjoying peace and quiet before heading off to college.
A gathering like this will never happen again. Where can you get a half million people together and have that type of unity?
How have we gone from the spirit of Woodstock to the world of war we see today? Love and peace to all boomers.
I was 11 years old and remember Woodstock being reported on the news in Great Britain. It seemed a fantastic experience, but I was too young and 3,000 miles away. I’m 66 now so those attendees must all be in their 70’s now. It’s a lifetime ago, but we still talk about it. The festival summed up the feeling of the age.
This is the second time Love showed it's self on this earth! I wish I had been there!
I'm 70 now lucky to survive this long. Burnt in my heart the love of the flower power generation. Drugs were pure and free. Humbled to have been part of the love child generation. Sly put on the best act. I wanna take you higher!!! Love and light to all involved in playing this pod cast. Peace.
I was in the Air Force at the time, stationed at Reese AFB in Lubbock, TX. A fellow medic and I rode our BMW motorcycles up to the 3-day Denver Pop Festival (DPF) during the last weekend in June, 1969, WAY outside our mileage limits. As more groups signed to perform at Woodstock, they were announced during the DPF. Because I had taken a 3-day "leave", I didn't have enough "leave time" to go anywhere in August, so I missed it. However, my roommate from Woonsocket, RI, went. He described the Woodstock event as "unbelievable!" In other words, he was blown away by his experience.
Sending Greetings to Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock where Grace Slick established herself as a goddess of Rock n Roll and Love.❤❤❤
I don't know about peace and love, but there was music
I was 19 and living in UK, Woodstock was huge, everybody talked about it for years. Sadly by now many attendees will be dead or like me in early, mid, or late seventies.
I still have the poster in perfect condition.
You can visit the site . There is even a museum. The Bethel Center for the Arts in Bethel NY.
i went with 5 friends after seeing Led Zepperlin at the flushing meadows ny pavillion (65 worlds faitr). we drove to the monticello race track exit on the ny thruway and parked the car at the exit we then walked about 12 miles to the site! what a blast! i ran into so many friends from my Long Island home, it was amazing. The movie- "Taking Woodstock" was realistic as it could be and people should see it to get a taste of the scene. Out of 45 of us i guess 5 are left due to our wild lifestyles of "turn on, tune in and drop out (drop dead)".
Wow, I missed it, I used my time becoming a United States Marine at Parris Island.
Remembering Gypsy DJ Henry RIP / Woodstock High Priestess and Midwife. ❤❤❤
I would like to back to 1969 in time at the age of 25 experience this space in time.
A friend made it to Woodstock - "Hey Ziller, get your old man's Combie, we're going to Woodstock'. Nothing organised, just 'hey man, let's go'.
I was at Ft. Gordon, Georgia when this event took place. I was shipped out to Vietnam a couple of months later.
I was 13 in 1970 my brother took me to see that movie woodstock in calexico cal. i will never forget that it was awesome to see santana and i loved that peace and love days hippy times motorcycles everywhere
I went to Woodstock, rightly called the Bethel Festival despite Woodstock being acossiated and getting credit to this day for the event they rejected! Unfortunately the darkest side of the fastival was the garbage left behind! It seems wherever humans go mountains of garbage appear!
I was 17 and it was the greatest party I've ever been to in my life. The following yr. got in a bit of trouble and was forced to join the service. Ended up in Nam. Not such a good party.
Interesting. Saw an MTV microphone in one of the crowd shots. MTV started about12 years later.
I remember seeing a photo of a naked bottom in the 1969 article on Woodstock in a Time magazine read at a reading room in Palani a temple town in South India where I now lived as a sādhu meditating in the era of turning East. As a New York ex-pat - I arrived overland from London in 1967, Summer of Love. Satchidananda was a former mill manager from nearby Coimbatore and I knew his relatives. Now age 78, back in India for good. 😊
Going to be a million and half people here by tonight I remember that famous line
Thanks
There will never be another.
No cell phones...👍
The place still exists and the farm still belongs to the same family. In Bethel New York
Mom and Dad wouldn't take me. They said that kind of environment was inappropriate for a one year old.
Max’s farm was probably never the same. There were probably marijuana plants coming up shortly after the festival
How thankful I am that I wasn't there in the midst of the rain, mud, filth, drugs, chaos, heat, shortages of food, water, medical supplies, the difficulties getting there and leaving, etc. i was home enjoying peace and quiet before heading off to college.
Almost everything about woodstock can be described with one word, that is the word grotesque.
Woodstock continues to do one thing, sicken!
Love how everyone says what a success this was when the dark side of it all is not talked about
The crowd reminds me of a Trump rally 😮
Where did they all pee and poop?
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The unity and goodness of Woodstock isn't evident today. Sadly, Trump and MAGA have taken us back to the dark ages.
They were all about peace, love and music back then. Now they attend trump hate rallies.
America's youth downfall right then and there.
Woodstock 69 the rot set in. Downhill from there all the way. 🥶🤮