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I'm only 16,
but I hear the stories about woodstock from my parents and grandparents
(yeah, they went together) all the time, and to be perfectly honest, I
just wish it could all be like that again, all we have today is
pointless violence, every day we lose so many people to a war without a
pupose, we need to find a way to put it all back, to set things right,
love is more powerful than hate I'm sure that in time we will all
embrace each other and the truth that violence and war are unnatural,
to me, woodstock was not just music, it was our way of saying "we will
not conform, we will not give in, we will not fight."
Jacob Maumee, Oh USA
On the way to Woodstock '69 (No Sound)
It was one of
the great events of my life; mind blowing in every way. The music was
beyond compare, the energy was on the level of an exploding universe,
the vibe was that of peace and love. It took me about six weeks to come
down to earth after that trip. I consider it the defining moment of the sixties. After Woodstock
everything started going down hill and today we've finally reached the
bottom of the barrel with an executive branch of government that is by
far the worst this beautiful country has ever seen.
Lawrence Bronx, New Your USA
Woodstock Archival Footage
I was stoned half of the time. . . i dont remember anything, i Love The Who tho! Peace!
Dylan San Fran, man, CA
Local Business Owner discusses Woodstock 1969
Where do I start...
got close to Woodstock NY but the crowd was so big by then that we had
to park our car on the road 60 miles, yes, 60 miles from the site. We
then began to walk along the road but from time to time the people that
lived on the road would let us get a drink of water or some gave us
cookies!! Got to the site and of course it was raining I remember a guy
on a motorcycle put me on the back of it and I road through the crowd
to get to the site much earlier than my friends. I was smoking and
doing chocolate. mess people were so kool and I was so happy it seems as
if I was floating through the sky. I stayed after the festival over a
week just walking around trying to find my car go figure. I will never
have a trip like that again and now a days when I tell the college
students I was there they want to actually touch me I guess hoping the
spirit of Woodstock would touch them as well I teach tye dye classes
and life is good. I did complete college and now have 3 children 12
grands and 2 great-grands. I would not change my life for nothing even
though we came up with so much history that we wittnessed daily my time
at Woodstock will remain the most eventful and happiest of my life this
is from a ole hippie and proud of it.
Peace out
Sunshine Aurora , Illinois United States
Janis Joplin Interview after Woodstock '69
I wasn't there but I remember the week of the concert. A buddy and I were 15 and took a bus from a small town to Milwaukee to
stay a week at his 21 year old sister's apartment. A whole week of no
parental guidance where we couild basically do what we wanted in (to
us) a big city. We had heard of a park where the local hippies hung out so we wanted to
be part of that scene. The park would on any given day would be filled
with people but it was empty except for one guy. We asked where
everyone was and he said they all went to a concert. We said great,
where's it at? And he said New York. It's called Woodstock. We had heard there was going to be a Woodstock concert festival but
right then and there we realized that if hundreds of hippies from a
city a thousand miles away were headed there it was going to be big
event. People from all over the country were headed to upstate New
York. I'm sure most of those Milwaukee freaks and those from other cities
never got there when they closed the New York freeway to the site.
Probably more never made than those who did. It would have been a
million people instead of 500,000.
John Palm Springs, Ca. USA
Leslie West of Mountain Interview
I was 16 the
year I hitch hiked to Woodstock with a sister of a guy I knew. I ran
away from home and hid out for 2 weeks to make sure I got there! We did
not have tickets. I had no money and just the clothes on my back. We walked when the traffic stopped and by the time we got there the
fences were down and it was free.The first thing I recall seeing was a
huge teepee with smoke coming out the top. We were separated early on. I was holding her money! I slept on the hill in the rain and mud and dried out there too. Dropped a lot of acid. Food was of no concern. When the rains came I was pulled under the stage. I met a guy who
hitched from CA with his pet goat. That was a trip since I am a
Capricorn. I ran into my 2 best friends and one was on crutches, no
clue what happened to her. I remember so vividly hearing Sly sing STAND.It woke me up and I stood! I found an abandoned house and took up residency with some people I
met. We were thrown out of that house and moved into an abandoned vw
bus. I bought a box of saltines and a tub of butter and lived on that. I have no memory of how I got home. I stayed a day or two after the music ended and cleaned up some of the trash. There was only one baby born that I recall but I was not paying attention. I wish there was a reunion somewhere for the 40th anniversary. Us old folks would be there! My 21 year old son just went to Langerado in the Florida everglades. His experience was much like mine. Holly Fairfield, CT
Woodstock Archival Footage
Woodstock?
Well, who would have thought it would define a generation. I was
excited to see The Incredible String Band take the stage. I always
admired their hippie idealism. But, they didn't go over well. They
sounded pretty good, but they didn't connect with the crowd. Melanie
was an unknown at the time. But, her performance was captivating. Her
song " Candles In The Rain" the best tribute song to the festival. She
is the only one who still sings the ideal of woodstock. Bill Hoboken, NJ
