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Location: Michigan | Did anyone make the " TRIP " out to woodstock in 1969 ?
Please post stories if you did.GWB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTdrPL22-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFCgAhZEO8 |
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Location: SoCal | Aw man, I wasn't even born then..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I was aware of it but it seemed like a long trip from Texas to see bands that I knew would be passing through Houston anyway.
Hindsight being 20/20, I would have been 16 and it would have been a hell of trip (assuming a snowballs chance in hell of convincing the parents to let me go)!
I did go and see the movie multiple times when it came out AT THE DRIVE-IN.....sound was awesome on those little metal speaker boxes! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was 16 in western Kansas, about as far away as you could be. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I was 6 |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I saw the movie while in Japan at Expo 70. English>Japanese>English translations across the bottom of the screen had Sly and the Family Stone singing
"I wanna
I wanna
I wanna drive a Honda!"
True. |
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Location: Michigan | What has taken so so long I was born at Woodstock.GWB |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I was a twelve year-old "hippie". A bunch of Cape Cod freaks mounted a caravan to Upstate NY...
My older brother and I wanted to go...
We had a ride, and there were grown-up freaks going...
I believe my Mom's words were, "No way in Hell!..." |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Seems like with the passage of time, more and more people went to Woodstock, although perhaps that's tailed off a bit. Somehow, the romanticism of that era seems to be wearing thin.
Personally, I was six years old. To the extent I was engaged at all in the world around me, it was a fascination with the space program. My heroes from the 1960's are the engineers that put men on the moon the hard way, not the hippies that got there pharmacologically. |
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Location: enid, ok | I grew up down the road from a guy whose older brother went. He managed to get within 10 miles of the place. |
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| I'm like Omaha - 8 years old at the time and glued to the TV for every space shot. My dream then was to become an astronaut. |
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Location: NJ | I was 13 and followed EVERY space flight (from Alan Shephard on) as well.
A bunch of older guys from the neighborhood went and offered t'take a couple of my friends & I. There woulda' been absolute HELL t'pay when I got back, so didn't go . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Having just graduated from high school, I was on a motorcycle trip that summer with my older brother and actually had planned to get to New York by mid August. We rode up to British Columbia from Southern California but never made it east of Alberta. Two of my high school buddies met us along the way in a Volkswagon bus that barely ran and we were all going to go together. It wouldn't go over about 50 but they did make it to the festival and their stories were outstanding. The war was raging back then and the draft was staring us all in the face, so the diversion was a slight bit of relief. Within a week after I got back home, I was in the National Guard. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I was 7 and I too was enthralled with the space program (still am!). It was cool the way everything else used to stop when the launches were on TV. Now it's just another "newsbite". |
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| was 8 years old, building estes and centuri model rockets, reading encyclopedias, and taking violin lessons....plus I rode a unicycle.. true uber geek...
I did have my Beatle Boots tho...
GH |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Am I the only one who was there?
Just another party in the blurr, was lucky enough to get out before the big rain. |
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Location: big island | if i went i don't remember |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I wasn't there either, was 8 years old. Kids in the neighborhood went, and I was impressed by the stories of drugs, rain and music.
Somehow, it didn't seem like a big deal. Since I was only 8, I reasoned that this is what you did every summer, like summer camp for the older kids. |
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Location: NJ | Okay, . . . let's take ANOTHER "tack" :
Does anyone know if someone (besides Bill, that is) played an Ovation at Woodstock?? |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | i've been on Woodstock...in Poland ;-)
4 years ago, over 400,000 people, and there was no rain.... it was really nice experience.
Przystanek Woodstock |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'll have to go watch the movie again, but my recollection is that no Ovations made it on stage. The likely candidates would have been Joan Baez and Richie Havens. I know Havens played a Guild 12-string, but I don't remember what Joan played. |
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Location: NJ | There were a LOT of performers at Woodstock who never "made it" to the album OR the movie
(including Larry Fine of the Three Stooges) . . .
Wasn't Jesse Colin Young there?? . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Hell Beal, it was practically in your backyard. Of course you went.
I was 14 and living in California. I didn't even hear about Woodstock until several years later..... |
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Location: Tampa, FL | I was 17. No job and I had to make a choice. I could go to Woodstock or buy a banjo. I remeber the tickets were $20 for the weekend. I bought the banjo.
My older brother did go and I believe my oldest brother might have been there in a support capacity (medic) but don't remember exactly. The brother that attended came back with stories aplenty. He talked about the line of vehicles parked on the road into Woodstock. Nobody remembered to bring water and the locals were scalping water for pretty outrageous prices. He and his friends ended up loading up on Bali Hai for the weekend as a cost containment factor. The rot gut was cheaper and less likely to be contaminated.
By the time he reached the entrance to the event, tickets were pretty much unnecessary, the crowds had effectively pushed down the fence and were simply walking in to the fields. I think he might still have his original ticket saved.
In his traveling group there was one couple that included a rather chunky female. Well, he woke up Sunday morning to see a massive butt rockin' and rollin' in the tent. I think it may have scarred him for life.
The best stories he had were about the general sense sense of comaraderie among the attendees. As well as the fact that many of the bands playing were debuting at this event. CSN indicated this was their first performance. I think this was the event that launched Santana. Country Joe and the Fish were a big hit with "The Cheer"
I remeber him telling me about the various public service announcements that took place over the weekend. Especially the "Stay away from the brown acid" comment.
I recall him saying the sound system pretty much sucked, I expect they had to rewire the farm to get power for the PA's. But in the end, the magic of the event wasn't the fidelity, it was the atmosphere and the sense that something unique took place.
I did enjoy the banjo, played in a Jug band for a few years, would probably make the same choice if the same situation presented itself again. Then again, I've never felt any compulsion towards the mainstream. Seems rather odd to think of Woodstock as the mainstream but in the years immediately following the event, it became very hip to claim attendance.
The Thursday before the event it was a long weekend on an eclectic mix of name bands and newbees and wannabees. During the weekend it grew into a bizarre event. By Monday it was a counter-cculture movement. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | To put it in perspective:
Ticket to Woodstock = $20 (2 days pay for a high school kid)
Ticket to see CCR, Jimi Hendrix et. al. at Filmore East in NYC = $6-$7
Movie = less than a $1
4 BR house in CT = $16K
Annual salary for Avionics Tech at PanAm = ~$7K
Gas = $.15 - $.25 per gal.
Cigarettes = 25 cents (I knew I would quit when they hit 30 cents. No way I would pay that :rolleyes: )
2lb Lobster dinner at nice local restuarant = $9.95 (most expensive item on the menu) |
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DID ANYONE OF YOU ATTEND WOODSTOCK 1969
