43 Years ago today, it started . . .

[Greg Myers]

[Badluck 13]

Ahhhhhhh yes,Three Days of Peace and Music,actually four days with Jimi's excellent performance!!!,I love to have seen/been there,but I was only 6 at the time,my sister and her husband talked of going but couldn't,I have the VHS,DVD,DVD Blu Ray,original LP (record for who don't know ) and CD's and my most prized possession,an original at the gate admission ticket!!!!!......My daughter,Baby Girl,love watching and listning to Woodstock..............PEACE!!!!!!!

[CadillacPat]

You'l have to go back a little further than August 1969 to find the roots of the Freak Generation, back around 1963.

Woodstock, sadly, was the beginning of the End of Peace and Love.

CadillacPat

[Foxer]

and my most prized possession,an original at the gate admission ticket!!!!!.....

Most people there didn't even have one of those.

I was just out of the Army living 2 hours away in CT. A friend and I started heading that way on a whim then heard the traffic reports and decided it wouldn't be worth it. .. HEAD KICK! ...

Edited August 15, 2012 by Foxer

[Chuck Doan]

I was too young to go, but old enough to remember the pictures in Life magzine.

[george 53]

Had a freind who went. he said that other than the music, it was a MISERABLE time! No planning, no emergency facilities , not enough consesion stands, and to the chagrin of MANY attendees, NO COPS!!!!! I heard even the State Police wouldn't go in. Funny how things change once you look back on it.

[mikemodeler]

I was too young to go, but old enough to remember the pictures in Life magzine.

Same here Chuck. I faintly remember hearing about it on the evening news, in between stories of the Vietnam War and the Cubs fading (again) down the stretch!

[peekay]

I was there!

.....but later - 1982 in Todd Rundgren's barn studio with my brother's NY-based band, The Drongos. 3 feet of snow outside.

[Harry P.]

Had a freind who went. he said that other than the music, it was a MISERABLE time! No planning, no emergency facilities , not enough consesion stands, and to the chagrin of MANY attendees, NO COPS!!!!! I heard even the State Police wouldn't go in. Funny how things change once you look back on it.

I was too young to go, but I've read about it. Wasn't the problem that waaaay more people showed up than they thought would come, and they sort of overwhelmed the whole place?

[Greg Myers]

Yeah, I missed it too. Singed up to miss something else

[Rob Hall]

About a year before I was born...my brother was at Ohio State then, he wanted to go, but his Mustang got stolen.

[Foxer]

I was too young to go, but I've read about it. Wasn't the problem that waaaay more people showed up than they thought would come, and they sort of overwhelmed the whole place?

exactly!

[slusher]

l remember it l was young. l remember everyone getting my brothers model glue and sniffing it just because he complained about it. My cousin still says glue is his favorite smell. l am glad he does not live close...

[CadillacPat]

I seriously doubt there was s single Glue Sniffer among the entire 500,000 in attendance.

CadillacPat

[Chuck Most]

All I know about Woodstock is this- if you claim to remember it, you weren't really there.

[Lunajammer]

I don't think news of it got west of the Mississippi until about '73 when it started becoming a reminiscence.

[Crazy Ed]

Like CadillacPat said it was the beginning of the End. Altamont stuck the knife in the Heart. Funny how few folks knew/remember CCR were the "Headliners", John Sebastian wasn't suppose to Play there and the Incredable String Band did a GREAT set - If you liked their Music to start with!

[zenrat]

My first thought is look at all the litter.

[Maindrian Pace]

And now we have Juggalos. That's progress.

-MJS

[Tom Setzer]

I was in Nam when Wood stock happened, and I wouldn't have gone anyway, due to all the anti war garbage that was spewed there! But I would have loved to have seen Jimmi's proformanc Live!

[Badluck 13]

I was in Nam when Wood stock happened, and I wouldn't have gone anyway, due to all the anti war garbage that was spewed there! But I would have loved to have seen Jimmi's proformanc Live!

Tom,

Thank you and thank you for coming home.................

[Harry P.]

I was in Nam when Wood stock happened, and I wouldn't have gone anyway, due to all the anti war garbage that was spewed there! But I would have loved to have seen Jimmi's proformanc Live!

So would a lot of people who actually went to Woodstock! He was the last to perform, and by the time he came onstage the crowd of 500,000 or so had dwindled down to maybe 40-50,000... just a tenth of what was there the day before.

Interesting Woodstock trivia: Creedence Clearwater Revival played there. Not many people realize that, because John Fogerty insisted that CCR's performance was NOT to appear in the Woodstock movie (I don't know why he insisted that, but he did!).

[Lunajammer]

...because John Fogerty insisted that CCR's performance was NOT to appear in the Woodstock movie (I don't know why he insisted that, but he did!).

Let me guess, a dispute over ownership and royalties?

[Harry P.]

Let me guess, a dispute over ownership and royalties?

Not a bad guess, I guess!

[Harry P.]

Grace Slick, Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden, etc. Doesn't get much cooler than this...