Was Anyone at Woodstock?

[givepeaceachance]

What WAS it LIKE? Could anything have been better?

[DejaVoo]

Oh i know..hasn't anyone here actually been there? I read that it was like tons of people but nobody started any fights or anything and it rained though. I don't really know too much about it though!

[Fractual_]

i wasnt there... but my mom got me the dvd for christmas, which was pretty sweet.

[Crush]

I wans't there either, but I wished I was. I got this DVD of Jimi Hendrix at woodstock. It is totally awsome. a friend of mine's got a documentary wich is sweet too. But isn't there something like a DVD set of like 8 DVD's containing the full 3 days. I mean they have a lot of video material. I would sit for 3 days non-stop :D

[givepeaceachance]

I want the video man! That is soo cool. How much is it and how many tapes?

[Crush]

I don't know, I belief it doen't even excist. It was a thought I had with some friends. At least I had that thought. So we were all like woow that's so cool than you could sleep with all the woodstock hippies together and wake up with some dude dressed like a cowboy telling stuff about a guy whose food stand got trashed and if we would help him :D That'd be great. So I hope some video dude sees this tread and makes it possible. If you ask me it would be possible since there's a looooot of video material as far as I know that is.

[Just4laughs]

I wasn't at Woodstock but I can tell you just about anything you want to know. The DVD idea is sweet but there is going to be a 22 cd release through a yahoo group which has about 80 percent of the festival on them. The groupe is called Woodstock69.

I haven't been to any of the Woodstock concerts but I have been to the field where they had the festival. It really sucks that the Gerry Foundation is going to build on it as soon as they pass the section 106 review. Ground breaking is set for July or August. Here's a picture of what the field looks like now.

[givepeaceachance]

It's terrible that they would build on the place where woodstock was built!!! I can't believe it!!! It's like a historic site, a part of our history, a peice of our culture. I don't know man... How can people sit around and let that happen?

[Just4laughs]

There is a group of preservationists working on preserving the field called the Woodstock Preservation Alliance (which I'm a member of) the website is www.thewoodstockspirit.org (http://www.thewoodstockspirit.org) if you want to learn more. Check out the message board too.

[Crush]

Building on the woodstock site suck :mad: But I suppose it had to happen sooner or later, since everything in this world gets build up with stuff. (siiiiiiiiiiiigh...)

Wooow 22 cd set waaaahaa :D that makes me happy! Do you know anyting more about it. It is going to be released right wooooow :D

[charredacacia]

if they decide to build, we should all like lay on the field and stuff so they cant bring in their construction equipment. and like thousands of us! i need sleep..

[givepeaceachance]

I would definitely do that. I'd lay there for a week if that's what it takes

[Rebel_1]

I was'nt born yet but i have the Woodstock DVD, Woodstock three days of peace and music. Saw some artist on there who arent alive today such as Jerri Garcia, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix. It was an awesome dvd but i to would like to see the whole thing on dvd. i would think they probably have video of all of it. They need to put more of it together into a platnium series. that would be cool.

[ImaPeach]

ergh. it's almost painful to watch the video, i wish i was there so bad!
well i'm going to see Arlo Guthrie soon, so that'll be my first time seeing someone who played Woodstock! Yay!!!

NY State Freeway is closed!

Building on the field is just wrong. wrong wrong wrong.

[Flowerian]

I have got the "Woodstock - DIrectors Cut" DVD and the "Woodstock Diaries", and they are both just, just wonderful... I wish I had been there, it sometimes makes me really sad when I watch the video :( Releasing the whole festival on DVD would be really cool, I'd pay every price for it...

[Crush]

Hi there, Here I am, looking for information about woodstock. I keep coming to this site : http://www.woodstockproject.com/ I never actually bothered to totally read it (I'm a lazy computer screen reader) But since I had totally nothing to do, I read it. And discoverd that the image is actually clickable. So in excitment I clicked on "woodstock" And I read the stuff. The guy/girl who did this tottaly rocks! If you're on this forum: please make an comment I would feel honoured, you managed to collect almost complete woodstock;) anywayz. I read it and came to the horrible conclusion that I've been living in a dreamworld. The fact is that I thought to have seen Jimi Hendrix on woodstock. In fact I haven't. They fucked it tottaly up. They erased parts, set "fire" at the beginning while it is much more closer to the end, they errased like complete songs. What is this vandalism! Can't they just bring it out totally. I mean if I want to hear it complete I'd have to buy 3 to 4 CD's and for 2 off 'em I'd have to search a whole damn lot. What is this trickery. Is this some sort of system, to let us buy like 50 cd's before we can read it :confused:

I damand an explanation!!!! :mad:

[Skanda]

I wish I could say that I was there, but I was sitting at home in Gary when it happened. I remember seeing a photo in the newspaper of the traffic jam it caused; that was really the first I heard of it. I was just 18, and about to head off to college.

I do know two people who went. Does that count? They describe it in absolutely glowing terms.

[givepeaceachance]

I'd love to hear what they have to say about it.

[jokerman]

I wasn't there as I was only 11 years old and living in the UK (as I still do). But, I still remember it vividly, seeing it on news programmes at home and REALLY REALLY wishing I was there - even at that age!

[marisco]

I`m lucky....I have a good friend who was not only at Woodstock, but also saw Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in `65, and I`ve been fortunate to hear eye witness accounts. We don`t get together as much as we would like on account of my friend lives in the US and I`m here in England.

I think it is tragic that the Woodstockl site is threatened. I`ve never forgiven the Liverpool authorities for destroying the original Cavern. Ok, there is a "rebuilt" Cavern Club in Matthew Street that I have been to on a number of occasions, but for me that is no compensation ( the one in the Beatles Story Museum at Albert Dock is better). And here we are threatened with the loss of another irreplaceable piece of rock history. Can`t help feeling someone somewhere gets satisfaction out of this sort of thing.

[DiscoDawn]

Alas, I too also have a friend who was there. He also remembers seeing Jimi back in Seattle, when he was in Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. He also said he got arrested with Dennis Hopper during a protest.

All this coming from a guy whose great uncle wrote Peter Pan.
Believe it or not.

[deezee]

i was lucky enough to be at most of the "big" concerts on the east coast in the 60's but this is the one HUGE concert "regret" i have. the worst part is my parents' summer house was in monticello,ny ( in the video they talk to a cop who is in front of char-lou's...a coffee shop in the town of monticello, new york) not that far from where woodstock was held. instead i was teaching painting at a summer camp that summer. bummer. i was at tanglewood in the berkshires though on the thursday before the festival started and saw the jefferson airplane, the who and bb king. grace slick said from the stage something to the effect that they were going to be helicoptered into the woodstock site as the traffic was already backed up for days. she laughed and said that they had no idea what to expect when they got there. guess we all know how that turned out.

i have many friends who were there. some of them hated it as it was all mud, rain, no food/drink, and very uncomfortable. i have other friends who loved it who go back to visit the site often. i also saved the newspaper articles from the next days and if i can find them i'll scan them and put them up here.


deezee

[weep]

I have that Director´s Cut DVD and I totaly love it!!!!:D
I think it would have been amazing to be there. Well, can´t do a thing about it, right?!
My parents saw Woodstock at the movie theatre when it came out new in the german ones.
In 1971 my dad saw The Who live, playing in germany. He just told me a few weeks ago (though he knows I like them for years now), man was
I jelous...;) . And like whoa, my dad was cool back in the days, can you believe it? ;) :p
Man, Woodstock, my dearest "historic" days....*dream*

[Dilapidated]

I so wish I could have been there! My old English teacher went with some of her friends, it was funny when she told us because she seems like more of a Celene Dion type. Anyway she said she had fun there. If my dad had been old enough he would have gone (he was only 11)... But he went to a lot of cool concerts like pink floyd and dylan and stuff back in the day...

[leprcon]

I was not there, but have a few friends who were there. They have shared many stories about it over the years. Actually you have probably seen my friend Jesse in the Woodstock video. When Richie Havens is singing "Freedom" and sings 'clap your hands, clap your hands' over and over Jesse is in a blue shirt and gets up and starts clapping and dancing. Soon the entire crowd stands up like a large wave.

Though I was not at the original Woodstock festival, I have been going back to Bethel, NY for years for the annual reunions they hold there. Can't wai til this August! 35 years man!!!!

[~Sam~]

Hey Guys! Yes, I was there. I went up from NYC with some friends, an oz of dope, lots of acid, and a case of wine. We got stuck in the parking lot that was the highway, and walked to the gate.

We got there just in time to see the mob push the fence down and get the whole thing declared a "Free Concert". After that, it was probably the best trip that I've ever had.

I remember crawling out of the tent at dawn to hear Gracey Slick on the speakers calling for some "Morning Maniac Music" and the 10 tabs of acid I had just put under my tongue kicked in like you wouldn't believe.

The rain was good... most of us Freaks really loved it. It made the banks by the pond all slick and we had a blast sliding down the mud on our bare asses and into the water.

I helped at the Hog Farm's food shack, made some friends and went home to Taos, NM with them.

Jimmy made a true ego mistake by demanding that he go on last. Mostly everyone was gone by then and he played to a field of debris with very few people. If you look closely at the video you were speaking of... you'll see a lone girl standing with her arms on the stage at the bottom right as Jimmy was playing... that's me.

A bunch of us picked up the trash, and away to NM I went.

[earthfog]

A bunch of us picked up the trash, and away to NM I went.
Sam, seriously, wonder if I saw you there.
WE never made it to the site while the concert was going on, but hung around
and worked Garbage when it was over.
Walked from Monticelo, but had the idea to not go any closer then the lake.
By that time was the second day anyway.
changed my life I think

[~Sam~]

See there, Earthfog... there's our connection. I think everyone who was in the area on those three days has remained somehow connected to this day.

Glad you picked up your share of trash to. It was a mess wasn't it?

[PeopleAreStrange]

wow, i remember seeing the chick when Havens was on :) wow that is like the grooviest thing ever man

[~Sam~]

Neat-O, Baby... I'm glad that you think so. Yup, that was me. And you know what? I didn't see the video until 3 or 4 years ago and was very surprised to find myself there.

[Simone]

Like so many of us at the time, I was there but lots of it I can't remember. Mud - people - music. It is mostly just a feeling now.

[benhaze]

Have you seen 'The Director's Cut' Woodstock on Warner Bro's S013549?

[DiscoDawn]

Yeah I have the Directors Cut, I watch Janis's performance all the time.

Hey, has anyone found out who it was that was born there?

[riversong]

howdy, peace - i posted this awhile back:



Oh, ja, I was there. Some I remember, some I don't. Much I do. Some of the time I was swimming in that mucky pond, some times I was up at the Hog Farm kitchen cuttin' up veggies, some times I was off in some tent havin' some kind of fun . . . ;-)

We rode out from Boulder in this crazy psychedelic van - Vince's van - it broke down around Toledo and all us mountain folk piled out. This nice farmer told us we could park in his drive and fix the van but then this sheriff came round and told us that 2 of us could stay with the van and the rest of us to "start walkin'". So we got separated and hitched the rest of the way. We got stopped quite a few times in that van - talk about a target!

It was a really powerful experience. I suppose some things could've been done better but really, it didn't matter. It was what it was. Woodstock was a great reflection of the times and I wouldn't have changed a thing about it. We all *knew* it was a moment in time unparalled; we just *knew* in our hearts that we were all participating in a some magical, momentous phenomena. The magic and the beauty of the energy was like nothing any of us had ever experienced before. There just *are* no words.

I was the Goodwoman who had Wheatgerm's medicine - if you saw the movie, you would've heard that announcement.

To be there with so many of our rock "heros" in one place was feeling blessed and to feel the connection of so many like-minded souls in one place is indescribable - it was so unbelievably and beautifully powerful.

The music, of course, was amazing. Just amazing.

It was hard to get through all the people to get up to the vendors for food and to get to the port-a-pots but that was such a minor thing. Besides, who wanted to give up their choice spot for that? If you could walk. Some folks peed right where they were. No big deal! And inspite of what you hear, not everyone was drugged out of their mind. Lots of folks weren't.

We stayed after to help clean up. If you've got a copy of the old LIFE magazine from Woodstock you'll see me with Janice, Roach, and Wheatgerm. Janice has her bright serape over her shoulder - we're wee tiny figures but you can see us. It felt good to help out. I still have a pair of shoes I found in the mud while cleaning up.

When we finally left we headed on back to Boulder and Nederland - stopped off at a couple of colleges along the way to get some money together. Kids just flocked to us, in awe, as they asked our mud spattered selves if we were at Woodstock. I remember one guy - straight looking as they come - who approached me and confided how much he wished he had been there. How much he really identified with us but he was almost finished with school, was already married and oh you know . . . I've always wondered whatever became of him.

And then we were home again in Colorado and back with our STP Family.

[prism]

I was the Goodwoman who had Wheatgerm's medicine - if you saw the movie, you would've heard that announcement.
I heard that announcement on the movie. You mean there's actually someone named Wheatgerm??? I always wondered about that part...

[toolab]

Hey Peace, read my thread on Woodstock. I was there as a 14 year-old and I had a blast. It was the best time of my life and I don't think that I will ever experience something like Woodstock again.


ALI

[LaurelBayTree]

i bought the documentary of woodstock on dvd. it is a two parter and i love it! it looks wonderful...i think my fave part is how you see everyone bathe in the nearby watering place...lake or river?

[LaurelBayTree]

Like so many of us at the time, I was there but lots of it I can't remember. Mud - people - music. It is mostly just a feeling now.

i am from syracuse, ny too. i also lived in watertown.

[riversong]

I heard that announcement on the movie. You mean there's actually someone named Wheatgerm??? I always wondered about that part...
Hey there, Prism -

Oh ya, there was a Wheatgerm, oh was there ever. Part of our STP Family (NYC, Boulder, and San Francisco) - I keep trying to say something about him but I realize there just are no words. He got shot lots of years ago and flew on out of this world but his memory lives on so huge in those of us who knew him. raggedy ole young sexy hunk of mountain man. ain't no one like him before or since . . . (before he died, he had changed his name to adam - he heard that "they" were after him for not registering for the draft - but wheatgerm he'll always be to me).

[wilddaisy69]

I still need to experience the woodstock video! My one friend wants me to come over one day and watch it, i can't wait. peace!

[HippieFlowerGirl67]

Did anyone happen to see John Densmore there? He went with his gf I think....

[GlitteryLLama]

i havent been at woodstock,

but i was in woodstock....... nice little town now... they have a statue of a guitar in a center :)

[sheeprooter]

i was negative 15 when woodstock happened



but i WAS at coventry! :p

[flowerchild89]

My mom got me the Woodstock DVD for Christmas...12 more days...

[RetroGroove_Grrl]

My fave part of the vid is country joe and his fixin to die rag, gotta love that kareokee ball.

It was really moving to see all those people standing up to sing along

[MBintheOC]

Unfortunately due 2 the idiots at Woodstock 99, I don't think there'll be another woodstock, notice there was nothing this yr 2 my knowledge:(I hope I'm wrong...

[YES I CANNABIS]

i would do anything to have gone to Woodstock69.. now they make 'new woodstocks' but they're not as good as the real one..

[toolab]

I was at Woodstock 69 and you can read my thread on the subject. It was the most spiritual event thatI ever attended and nothing since then has quite captured the feeling of total love, peace, and happiness. I'm grateful for having the opportunity to attend such a mind-boggling event. Peace to all.

ALI

[dylanzeppelin]

i got that magazine of the life special edition of woodstock.. i found it in the beginning of sept. in a canadian airport waiting to come back to america, i instantly had to get it.. its such an awesome thing that was woodstock. i, like many people, would give anything to travel back in time to have gone there.. but at least someone was smart enough to videotape it, otherwise it would only be distant memories for the few that remember.

riversong, what page or picture are you in, in the life magazine?!?

[gravel_run69]

I was in Coventry. Mud, shit and smoke! What a helluv a time.Woodstock, never heard about it till after it was over but the summer of '69 was the best!

[riversong]

i got that magazine of the life special edition of woodstock.. i found it in the beginning of sept. in a canadian airport waiting to come back to america, i instantly had to get it.. its such an awesome thing that was woodstock. i, like many people, would give anything to travel back in time to have gone there.. but at least someone was smart enough to videotape it, otherwise it would only be distant memories for the few that remember.

riversong, what page or picture are you in, in the life magazine?!?

hey now, dz!

back pages - it takes up the whole 2 pages. where's there acres of mud and trash. you'll see 4 leeeeetle people huddled together - janice with the blond hair and the serape - i'm in wheatgerm's old leather coat. but you can't see our faces and i wouldn't have known it was us if i hadn't been able to recognize the clothes and remember the 4 of us picking up trash.

i will be forever grateful to have been there. i wish you all could experience this as well - that some event would occur now with the same magic. doesn't every generation deserve some magic on a cosmic scale?!!

[riversong]

i got that magazine of the life special edition of woodstock.. i found it in the beginning of sept. in a canadian airport waiting to come back to america, i instantly had to get it.. its such an awesome thing that was woodstock. i, like many people, would give anything to travel back in time to have gone there.. but at least someone was smart enough to videotape it, otherwise it would only be distant memories for the few that remember.

riversong, what page or picture are you in, in the life magazine?!?
hey now, dz!

back pages - it takes up the whole 2 pages. where there's acres of mud and trash. you'll see 4 leeeeetle people huddled together - janice with the blond hair and the serape - i'm in wheatgerm's old leather coat. but you can't see our faces and i wouldn't have known it was us if i hadn't been able to recognize the clothes and remember the 4 of us picking up trash.

i will be forever grateful to have been there. i wish you all could experience this as well - that some event would occur now with the same magic. doesn't every generation deserve some magic on a cosmic scale?!!

[dylanzeppelin]

hey now, dz!

back pages - it takes up the whole 2 pages. where there's acres of mud and trash. you'll see 4 leeeeetle people huddled together - janice with the blond hair and the serape - i'm in wheatgerm's old leather coat. but you can't see our faces and i wouldn't have known it was us if i hadn't been able to recognize the clothes and remember the 4 of us picking up trash.

i will be forever grateful to have been there. i wish you all could experience this as well - that some event would occur now with the same magic. doesn't every generation deserve some magic on a cosmic scale?!!
okay i remember that pic now.. very cool, can i have your autograph, lol. thats gotta be amazing to have experience that, im jealous. i was born way to late.. it sucks.

[BrokenHunny]

my daddy was their, He even camped out with some famouse people. He use to be in a band* I dont know the name of it- its off the top of my tongue- He quit right before they got famouse-- one of the songs was like "stop people whats that sound everybody look whats going down." :) I love my daddy very much- hes so goofy old hippy!

[toolab]

To BrokenHunny,

The name of the band that your old hippy dad was in before they became famous is Buffalo Springfield. The band featured David Crosby and Stephen Stills and a few other well known folks that I don't recall their names.

[WildChild12843]

I can't believe they're going to build over that!?! It's a historic site, it should really be protected. I really wanted to go there too, I'm 14, it should be left for the younger generation to enjoy...

[peace6070]

i agree i would give anything to go to woodstock!!!