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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Let's see ...
I was 8, a neighbor kid had just been drafted, and the rest of the big kids were going. I asked my Mom if we could go and she said it would be too buggy. That answer made sense to me.
Since we lived near the thruway, I remember my Dad commenting that the thruway was backed up. He didn't seem too impressed by the people going.
When the big kids came back, I remember they had a good time, and I wished I had gone. But realistically, for an 8 year-old, my Mom was right. It would've been too Buggy. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | I was 13, 2 yrs into teaching myself to play the guitar, and didn't hear about it til later. I didn't listen to the radio that much altho I loved music. I would listen to records that my brother would buy since he was older he knew best.
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Location: south east Michigan | Did you know that Martin Scorsese was stationed stage right giving directions to the camera guys?
And the he edited it?
I did not know that.
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When the movie came out our Boy Scout troop went downtown to see it.
Out troop leader was quite the rebel. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Interestingly, like several others here, I was 13 in '69 (well, I turned 13 in late Nov., but it still counts) and my feelings were much like those of the plainspoken Joe Rotax, several posts back, when he said: "I was always interested in music but I never bought into that hippie counter culture thing as even when I was very young they always seemed extremely naive to me and their whole deal turned on someone else paying the freight so that they could have a secure country to hang out in plus criticize everything and squack about how "the man" was holding them back. Never had much time for dopers either." |
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Location: Newington, CT | Joe Rotax said: "I was always interested in music but I never bought into that hippie counter culture thing as even when I was very young they always seemed extremely naive to me and their whole deal turned on someone else paying the freight so that they could have a secure country to hang out in plus criticize everything and squack about how "the man" was holding them back. Never had much time for dopers either."
Strikes me there's a song somewhere in there...someone want to write it? Kind of a reverse hobo/hippie ballad or something. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by AlanM:
there's a song somewhere in there "Change" |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | 1969? Graduated High School, enlisted into the Navy (due to a very low draft number) and spent the summer getting ready to leave for boot camp in January. Woodstock? Missed the whole thing except by recordings...... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | with your hat you would have fit right in!! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I was 5 and remember nothing... the "brown acid" was indeed bad. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...Beal, it wasn't until AFTER I was in the Navy that I heard the Voices.... might have been the Orange Barrel Acid on Guam though..... |
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Woodstock: Where were You?
