If you look closely, you'll see that most of these young people are healthy. Today, we would be seeing overweight people. Something happened in the 70s that ruined our health - food companies started putting crap into our food. I miss the 60s/70s.
I spent 3 days at Woodstock. I was 25 at the time and told all my friends about a concert that was advertised on a billboard. I sent away for tickets, but all my friends skipped it because no one knew what it would become. Anyway, as i was driving up the Thruway, I noticed that traffic was building up, and i took the next exit. I drove for a little while and came across a farmer. I asked him if there was another entrance to the festival and said to continue down the road until i came to a left turn. I followed his directions and, unbeknownst to me, drove in the band entrance. I drove right up to the stage, and no one questioned me. We set up our tent a little way away from the stage. We wandered around a lot. Everyone was polite and friendly. We spent half the time sitting in front of the stage and the other half wandering around. We had plenty of food and drinks, and we gave some away to others who didn't have enough. The comradery was life altering, and if i wasn't a hippie before Woodstock, i was when i left. At the time, we thought that we were going to change the world. We were despised by half of the population. The government tried to stifle us . People look back nostalgically to the 60s, but there was a lot of fear among the flower people, too.
I was 10 years old in 1969, I didn't know or hear about it, until years later when I learned of it and that over 400K people attended. I was amazed how word of mouth got this thing going. You guys did it all without any of the social media platforms available today. Not bad for using what God gave us all, a mouth to get the word out.
I have always wished I had been there. But I was 1yo. I was born in the wrong decade. The music, the people & just the scene would have been amazing to see in person! And at 25yo. Wow. The memories you must have ❤
Accurately represented. It changed a lot of people's lives, it was that real. Like most things outside of the mainstream, it was coopted by the machine, and withered on the vine.
What a wonderful story. I remember seeing the movie in my youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Me and my friends tried our best to emulate the Hippie Movement, that did change the world from South America to the Himalayas. 🙏🎶
"...At the time, we thought that we were going to change the world..." You didn't know it at the time but you, and the whole 400k+ strong crowd, DID change the world, for the better.
My parents were 20 and 21 when they attended with my dad’s cousins. They said it was the most peaceful, beautiful, gathering of more ppl than ever expected. They did leave a day early due to the rain and mud, but have memories that lasted their lifetimes.
I was a teenage musician in the 60s. The entire motto of pop music back then was: "Do your own thing!". For that reason you had many types of music. Every artist was basically selling his own type of music. The record companies in the early 70s began categorizing everything in order to make larger profits. When I hear pop music today, everyone is trying to sound like everyone else. The free spirit of the 60s has definitely died out!
Not just music. Today it's all about conformity. Tattoos were once a sign of rebellious individuality. Now they're just a stamp of conformity, branding you as part of the mindless trendee pack. If tik-tok featured ppl jumping off a cliff, I have no doubt thousands of ppl would follow. All staring at their phones as they jumped. You don't have to think these days, you just have to follow the crowd and mimic the trends.
@mojoguzzi6407 Nobody lives in reality any more. They're all living in an electronic cloud where anything can be true. Any notion that facts and evidence are important has been lost.
....und wenn sie auf der Bühne sind, halbnackt, oder irgendwie möglichst verrückt gekleidet, dann tanzen sie mehr als sie singen. Manche tanzen derart akrobatisch, dass man sich fragt, um was es hier eigentlich geht. Bühnenshow, Selbstdarstellung. Das sieht man auf alten Bildern nicht. Den meisten war die Kleidung gleichgültig. Sie haben einfach gesungen und Musik gemacht. Und was für eine! Ich habe das Gefühl, dass es nie wiederkehrt.
Apparently there was a similar movement in Germany at the turn of the last century??? You'd know better than I. So, there's at least the hope it's cyclic.
This proves we could live together, this period was the most fantastic time of my life. In my place of residence there were no knife crimes, muggings, phones being stolen, (because they didn't exist), it was a different world. I'm in my 70's now and I really love and miss that time of my life. That kind of happiness doesn't seem to exist anymore...this world is a poorer place now 😢
Awesome vid. I was there for all 3 days. Me and a friend hitchhiked there from Cortland, NY. So many stories to tell. I am 77 years old now and always think about my time at Woodstock...I am proud to be part of that history.
It was definitely a world shifting event for the hippie generation at the time. Not all of us could make it to Woodstock, but there were reverberations of it at other locations in the USA. I personally attended a Woodstock knockoff festival on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, a few months after Woodstock. Many of the same musicians and performers, but only about 25,000 people were at the event. I remember seeing Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Grateful Dead, and many others at the event. The weather was perfect.
@@Ottee2 sounds great, i wish i was there. but not at the miserable overcrowded mudbath of woodstock , just another case of the knock off being better than the original imho
I was just 14 when Woodstock took place, but I remember it well. An iconic time in our history that defined a generation. I was living in Miami, Florida at the time, going to school. Life was simpler then, but I adopted that hippy spirit I saw & I still carry it to this day, even at 69 years old & a grandmother!
i was 15 and i was mad that i couldn't go...i lived an hour away. Two neighborhood boys went who were thought of as ''hippies''. They still brag about it.
@@MartaWomack Now you see those kids at Senior centers, old, grey, a few with walkers...(sh) it happens, but they are a goldmine of the (sh)it we used to do.
The 1960s and 1970s will always be remembered as a time when for a fleeting second, just a fleeting second, young people dared to dream of a better world! An Utopia that just might be within grasp! But that was never to be! Reality bites back hard, and here we are today....
@@dawnemile7499 , Things did change. You don't know anything, and I'm guessing you weren't around then. For one thing, we stopped the war in Vietnam. Or, at least, we contributed to that effort. Also there were many liberation movements arising at that time. Black liberation, Gay liberation, Women's liberation, Chicano liberation; all of these movements are still reverberating through society, today.
The older people that live there said that the young people were extremely nice and always well behaved! I wonder if we can say that about the young people today?
The ones I've seen are very nice and smart. I feel bad that they can't run around outside feeling safe. I was five years old, running all over town barefoot every day with other five and six year olds. We never used incect repellant or sunscreen. No racism in my area. Most moms just worked outside of the house, part-time, if at all. Most families had 3 or 4 kids and that's a lot of work.
I was a month and a half away from shipping to RVN. Hooked up with a black GI at the bus depot at Dix, bussed to NYC and then on to Bethel. Scored some MJ on the bus, stayed until about midday Sun. then had to head back to Dix. Made it by 7am Mon., cleared post, went on my pre-transit leave, did my tour (pictured) and was lucky enough to make it home!
Stressing about seeing that war on the news, worrying about so many kids shipping out, and actually losing friends and neighbors, put a major dent in my childhood I never really got over. I am truly happy that you made it home. And I'm glad you got to Woodstock!!!
same here! I was 10, but my older cousins were there and stopped at our place on their way home. they took a bath and left brown and black stains in our bathtub, lol! i was so intrigued by them.
@@klausuhlig7141 I kind of get that too. I am a long-haired old guy who does sound engineering for live bands. Still living the life like I forgot to grow old 😄
I loved what Woodstock represented. I wanted to be there so bad that it ached in my soul but I know now that I was a part of that culture. It was truely amazing and brought all that the movement of the 60s into focus. It is sad to see what has become of this world since then. ☮☮☮
It represented getting laid and letting your freak flag fly . Diddy would have loved it . Peace shit was something the media concocted . Just look at the garbage that was left behind and the number of gonorrhea cases .
demonic music which destroyed millions young people destroyed and look what is happening today seeds sown then, and you don't know what peace and love is if you think that was peace and love
P. S. There's beautiful video on RUclips showing the lovely "reclaimed landscape" of Max Yasgur's Farm today, which has been beautifully restored to its original beauty and has been set aside as a National Historical Park. Ted Schempp
My now deceased husband attended Woodstock and told me some terrific stories about the entire event! It was a once in a lifetime peaceful gathering! We boomers had some of the best music played during those 3 days🤩
@@Jettingred4 Saw a pic of Gracie Slick, now old. Loved Starship. My favorite love song of all time is Marty Balin's "Miracles" on my Red Octopus album. It will always be my favorite.
Advanced tickets were $18, and on site for $24. It ended up a free concert because there were so many people. I was too young to even think about attending, but I always thought so many people, and no violence. It was peace, love and rock n roll.
I was 5 1/2 years old when I was there. My parents were 24, and my sister was about a year old. I don't recall a lot about the festival, but I knew my dad was always disappointed by his generation. He thought they'd change the world for the better, but was upset that they'd all joined the establishment and chased "The American Dream". He believed in the spirit of Woodstock, but came to think that it was no more than a pipedream.
What did your Dad do after Woodstock to improve the world? I turned 20 in 1969. I could have done so much more during all my years, yet I did get a degree in engineering and used it in my work for 35 years, did volunteer work directly helping teens and new moms, donated lots of money to groups like WWF, NRDF, and Greenpeace, and raised a good kid who became an award winning videographer.
The American dream was redefined by Woodstock and that is true today. From the white picket fence and house to van life and off the grid living. Where do you think this thinking came from? The American dream is now diversified into many different types of American dreams.
By the time I was in my mid-30's I began wondering the same thing, what happened to us? It became apparent to me eventually what happened is that we had to eat. That meant getting jobs, getting married, having children, and getting on with life. Few of us had the power to make much of an impact, and I hope that there is a little left of our generation as we are now in the sunset years of our lives. Personally there is still a bit of Woodstock left in me even to this day.
I saw several of them in the documentary. It was from the view of the men who set it up and how much work it took to make it happen. It also talks about the farmers and townspeople who donated food to feed the crowds and were happy to do it.
1:04 The photo with the man and woman hugging each other under a dirty blanket is the front cover of my original triple disc Woodstock LP. I am looking at the LP I bought as a teenager 55 years ago and am about to play it again for the wonderful nostalgia.
I couldnt go because I was in another country. But I had a 16 RPM record of all the performances. This event changed so many lives. And mine. 3 years later I was in the Army. From hippy to Soldier. To Biker to Yuppie. To property owner to holidaying retiree. What a life I have lived since 1969. Thanks for the memory trip.
There were many great Iconic performances at Woodstock!! Ten Years After with Alvin Lee’s Guitar performance of “I’m Going Home” is my absolute favorite Woodstock as well as All TIME PERFORMANCE!! 😱👍🏽
@mbrawthen, how he is almost never considered to be among the greatest guitarists is beyond me. He and Johnny Winter are two grossly under rated musicians.
Ditto! I loved Alvin Lee and especially his rendition of "Going Home" that he played at Woodstock. I used to tell my friends that this was the version that I wanted to be played at my funeral. Sadly, I'm almost 80 now and all the people that I expressed that request to have preceded me to the grave. I'm no longer planning on a funeral, simply a merciful passing on my way to the oven. Peas out ...✌
I was there and I will never forget it. I LOVED IT. I will never forget the drum solo of the Santana and 10 years after guitar playing. If you were there you know what I mean. I am 74 now and like I said I LOVED IT.
I look at old people (of which I relate) and wonder if they had long hair, muscle cars (or Corvairs), fringe on their jackets, went to Stones' concerts, wore bell bottoms, and other iconic blasts from the past.
I don’t care bout any negative things about Woodstock. I was 12 yrs old when I found out about this beautiful festival. My feelings about wishing I would have been alive and participating at this amazing 3 day concert!
Nope... Somewhere in the mid-eighties 500.000+ people in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands spread the same atmosphere of peace and unity while they were demonstrating against nuclear weapons. Usually i feel awful in crowds but there and then i just felt like one happy cell in a friendly organism. There is a reason why divide-and-rule is so popular among the powers that wannabee.
There was nothing great about standing in long bank & grocery store lines without access to internet. That was just plain downright boring. We've banished boredom now, and I'm so much happier about that.
@@barackmycat9448 Out of all that the only one I have is the $800 phone which is really a supercomputer in my pocket with access to the world of information and so well worth that minuscule investment. As for the traffic, identity crime and stolen numbers well you might just be doing something wrong I haven't had any of that, myself so far anyway.
I almost made it! My friends who went to just about anything happening at the time made plans to pick me up in the early morning before the event. My mother caught wind somehow and stopped me as I was getting in the car. I was about 15 at the time. 😂 When my friends got back they said it was incredible but was definitely lacking in getting food as well as the whole toilet situation. They mentioned the traffic and the mud. Watching this video now makes perfect sense.
I was 13, and planning to run away from my NYC apartment, where my grandmother ruled with an iron fist to make it to Woodstock.(I had always been ahead of myself in everything). I didn't get to leave however, until November. I wound up in Greenwich Village and the East Village, where I began to live that lifestyle. I am 68 and will never forget those times and life. It shaped me forever.
I had never paid much attention to the Grateful Dead. I was focused on Rush, Pink Floyd, UFO, and Led Zeppelin etc. Then in mid April, 1991 my roommates and I, all musicians, heard GD were playing the huge Silver Bowl (The Dust Bowl as we call it in Vegas) and we all decided to buy tickets and check out the Friday show. We got to the parking lot where Shakedown Street was already in full swing and stepped out of our cars into another world. The vibe was beautiful. The people were amazing. We made our way inside and got stopped due to our bongos and conga drums we had in tow. They said, "you cant bring those in here, were recording". My roommate in a moment of brilliance simply said to the ticket taker: "Bro, we have to play with Santana" The ticket taker accepted our tickets and said "Just try to keep it down". We thanked him profusely and set off to find a spot as close to the front as possible to set our blanket. We then took in the fact that we were in the midst of 40,000 people all smiling at each other. By shows end, we were all newly christened Deadheads. We got home, discussed, then headed back to the ticket sellers intending to buy tickets for Sat and Sun shows. Sat was sold out, so we all got Sunday tickets, spent Saturday at the Silver Bowl at Shakedown Street, and returned Sunday for the last show. Back home and plotting, we decided to do a mini tour. Our friend that worked at the airport car rental place set us up with the nicest 15 passenger Ford Van they had, and a group of us followed the Dead to neighboring California, caught all three shows, hit the beach for a day and returned home. I made sure to attend all 3 days of the next 4 shows from 1992-1995, then Jerry died and there was no 1996 performance to attend :(
I only attended 2 Dead concerts. In the real early 90's. I accidentally got high in venue. Because we were in nose bleed section. I knew was feeling little high, but until they turned on intermission lights, I didn't know we were sitting a cloud of a mixture of weed smoke & opium smoke. And I had thought the Opium smell was cologne. Until I could see nobody was close enough to smell their cologne. 😂 I like their music, but the deadheads were annoying. Trying to sell acid to us, every 10 ft Trying to leave. 😢
@@anitawindbigler7100 Being solicited at a Dead show back in the day was pretty much a given. The majority of the attendees wanted to be high on something to make the concert special, and deadheads would check on people to make sure they not only were cool enough and had enough water, but were in the mindset they wanted to be in. Believe it or not many of the people letting you know they had wares felt they were being polite given the setting :)
72' outside of Eugene in a field they flew in over the crown in a Piper Cub landing in the back of the field. Don't remember a lot other than I sold a lot of of Lids for $10. ea.
You go to that huge field today and walk around, you can still find trash from the festival in the dirt. It’ll be there for a long time. Pick some up, take it home and frame it and put it on your wall as a real souvenir of the Great Woodstock Peace and Music Festival. 👍🏼👏🏼😃
I’m going to visit the place in Bethel, New York. I’ve read that people who visit it today can still “feel the energy” that was created. I get chills just thinking of this Alas, I was born 10yrs too late to attend. Groovy 60s ☮️ 💗 Hope.🤍🤍🤍
I was imagining what it must have been like for the people who left early due to the mud and rain only to learn that they missed Jimi Hendrix. Thank you for this great video. I've seen so many and look forward to seeing any more that come along. What an epic event! Hippies were love and peace.
I saw Hendrix at first Isle of White in UK where he was almist washed out by rain, they stopped show because they were afraid of someone being electrocuted on stage, weather eased during the night then he came back on stage at about 3.00am next morning
Summer after graduation in 1970 I told my parents I was going camping with some friends for a week, I just didn't tell them how many. Approximately 300,000 attended the Goose Lake Music Festival. It was the eastern states version of Woodstock. Came out of it a full-fledged hippy.
I was unfortunately not able to make it to Woodstock. I was otherwise involved in a small military conflict in Southeast Asia, know as the Vietnam War.
@@greywebb1472 Thank you We thought of you, not like Kamala who says we didn't have any troops in conflict Somewhere theres a video of troops saying "What the hell are we?" I remember my friends and I wondered if we would have to go because there was talk of drafting woman but then thankfully the war ended Kids now dont have a clue about having to go if there numbers up Happy you made it home.
Pretty good video. One of the few that doesn't focus entirely on the negatives. I went to a different festival--on the west coast--that weekend, but many of my friends were at Woodstock, so I got a lot of first hand reports. This video is closer to what I heard from them.
I was at Altamont and left just before the Stones performed and the Hells Angels killed someone trying to get on stage or something. I only saw one naked person-a fat man running through the crowd toward the stage. I didn't see what happened to him. The entire event was very peaceful, minus the killing. The Hells Angels were apparently hired to keep the peace or something. Santana was my favorite performance, full of life and vigor compared to everyone else. I was stationed at Travis AFB at the time. I don't know whatever happened to all my photos.
@@criscoleman I got there the fence was laying down. I headed to the rental truck and climbed up over a Ryder truck from the front and dropped gown off the back ON YO THE STAGE. Santana was playing. I landed right behind the drummer. And got scooped up by a couple Angels who gave me wings into the crowd. *I'M HEEEEEEERE* ploup Made my way through the crowd to the back, because a girl I knew from the Burlingame Rec center where we saw Santana play for $1.00 in the Rec, center. Then they went to Woodstock and charged $3.00 the next time. RIP OFF sucks, we tossed pennies on the stage. LOL So yea I took the girl to the back of the crowd and went over the rise into the TALL GRASS. Dropped down on a blanket and got NAKED! A chopper flew over when I finished and rolled off her. We were laying naked to the sjy and the camera man in the chopper. We made the movie Gimme Shelter, a QUICK 1/4 second flash. Yea I was smart too, left in the middle of Mick's start. Missed the dark action. But 4 people died at that concert, one drunk slipped in the the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct canal and drowned. And 2 people got run over in their sleeping bag. It was a MESS, it was WILD, it was AWESOME and FREE. Concerts today SUCK in comparison. There were no cops, no one getting busted by narcs. Everyone sharing jugs of Red Mountain Vin Rose. Sharing joints and acid. Haven't been to one like it since? US Festival COPS. Burning Man COPS. All the other rip off festivals? *TRAINWERCK*
Never knew about Woodstock until I was much older. Thirteen at the time, parents divorcing...mind on other things. Probably a good thing. Grew up, went to college, and became a nurse. Provided for my family and helped many families through childbirth.
To me as German I understood that a new time has come! Like in the song: a new day has come. And today its nearly done. ❤❤❤❤❤ Wonderful! Many sensitive people in the world felt this! It was the reality of a new world spirit. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for your service. I was stationed at Travis AFB at the time and did make it to the Altamont Rock Festival, which was also in the hundreds of thousands. I was fortunate in that I cross trained in the middle of my tour of duty and changed units. Shortly after I did, my entire unit, the 60th Supply Squadron, was shipped to Vietnam.
It only rained on Friday. No big deal. Toilets stank but they sufficed. Got there Friday night and camped out 6 miles away. Hiked in and it was a blast. Never saw one argument. Skinny dipping to clean off the mud. I had no problem with that. I never saw any lewd behavior. Town folk helped feed and water us. I was not on drugs! It was a beautiful experience in spite of inconveniences. Some babies were born and everyone cheered. This moment in time will never happen again.
I’m delighted to say that I was privileged to share in that era. True, we were naive about the possibility of an immediate transformation of life at the time. However, to this day we ever so slowly come to recognize the possibility of a ‘we’ world, rather than a ‘me’ world. Recognizing the underlying unity of all beings. Advaita / not two. ✌️…. 💕. 🙌
I’ve never forgiven my brother for lying and telling me that Woodstock had been cancelled. He wanted me to go with his crowd to the Atlantic City Pop Festival, held at a motor racing course in NJ. It sucked.
I'd run away from home that weekend, going down to Washington DC to see what this hippie thing was all about. I was 17. Everyone was saying hey we're going to Woodstock do you wanna come? I had no idea what it was I thought it was just something on the other side of town and I said sure. We're leaving in in a few. I said I was ready but right when I was getting into the vehicle I hand grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back. It was my mother. Well let's just say I didn't get to Woodstock. I got to watch it on the news on TV. Damn
Woodstock was the result of the baby boom. All those young people were born in the intention to bring peace to humanity after WW2. We loved music and new technological developments brought the possibility of a huge gathering. At that time, love was still a mystic experience. I am happy to have lived in this unique social event. ☮☮☮
I was stationed at Ft Monmouth NJ, US Army Signal School. I was on a weekend pass, took trains to Boston, rode buses, and hitch hiked to South Carver Mass. Rode the Edaville Two Foot Gauge Railroad. Took pictures of small steam locomotives. One picture of a locomotive that I actually rode in the cab with the engineer, I later titled "Woodstock". That same weekend I had missed the whole thing.
It was a very dangerous part of the body like the imprint of a woman’s vagina is today in a pair of skin tight pants with no panties. Just showing off another part of a women’s body .A different time a different body part.
@@Parkertannerz I was also 4 at the time and it seems to me like it would have been a good time great music free spirit peace and love people helping people something this generation knows nothing about...well most of them
I was 18 years old. Santana band, with his guitar playng and great latin percussion, was the top musical moment for me. Joe Cocker was great, as well as Sly & the Family Stone, the Who ans so many others. Unforgettable.
Santana was my favorite band that performed at the Altamont Rock Festival in California, also in 1969. It also was a great gathering in the hundreds of thousands, with only on mar-The Hells Angels killing someone who was trying to get on stage or something.
If you got that many people together today, it would be a different scene. More and more potent drugs. Violence. Guaranteed people would die. It would be a mess. It might’ve been a mess back then but compared to what it would be today it was nothing.
Indeed. There was some violence at Woodstock, there HAD to have been. Doesn't matter WHAT the era, when you put 400K+ people together in a setting like that and some of them will be stressed out enough to cause problems. That is just the nature of the Human beast. There were DEFINITELY overdoses and bad trips galore. They were more numerous than was reported but the volunteers on the ground mitigated quite a lot of the problems. Despite the organizers not being prepared for the mass of people who actually attended, despite the 700 actual overdoses, there were only 2 deaths and one of those was the result of a young man being run over by a tractor. The other was initially thought to be an overdose but that declaration is questionable, given what we now know about the circumstances under which that other young man died.
I liked the performance of Credence and Santana good performers that are still performing today. What an era compared to today where you can’t even have fun anymore with your friends. No fights then no one carried guns for protection. Everyone got along with each other.✌🏽✌🏿✌🏼
We have to remember, these young adults and youth were products of 1950s parenting, USA style parenting...so decorum, manners, politeness, respect for elders, learned societal behaviour, all come from these parents and being raised in the 1950s and 1960s!! These nice, polite, mannered individuals whom attended a festival in New York State should not be a shock to anyone!!! (try this kind of gathering now!!) Woodstock in the 1990s was violent and had many rapes reported.
An excellent book on how the Woodstock generation saw the future: "The Greening of America" by Reich. It was written very soon after the event. Very convincing indeed. But for too few years. Very little remains of what was almost all for us.
I was 18 at the time and I had absolutely no desire at all to go to Woodstock. I’ve never liked outdoor concerts. I don’t like being at the mercy of the weather - especially summer heat and humidity. I also deduced that the bathroom situation would not be optimal and I turned out to be right about that. Outhouses and port-a-loos are not my thing. I have zero regrets that I wasn’t at Woodstock.
I was a Marine in Danang, Vietnam till September 1969 and didn’t turn 21 till October 12th of that year.! I couldn’t Vote or Drink Alcohol in the U.S.A. but I could have died in a war zone that seemingly no one wanted here.! But we either enlisted got drafted or go to jail so didn’t want to go to Canada and be a Draft Dodger or Unpatriotic and enlisted in the Corps Semper Fidelis.!
Yes & all of us demonstrating at home to stop that war knew it was possible for us to die here as our friends were dieing there - we stood for our beliefs no matter what - even at Kent State 😢
I was 18 years old during Woodstock. I was in California at the time, but watching this video brings back SO many nostalgic memories. Hot damn, man. Those were the GOOD 'OLE DAYS and that is a fact. NO other generation before...or after....can compare. That is another fact. 🙏✨💖😊
I was 18 and living on the California West Coast myself at that time, so I’ve missed actually hearing about Woodstock until it became. The movie presented here are in the IMAX theaters. But I really didn’t miss much because a lot of the music that was playing at Woodstock originated here on the West Coast. Jefferson airplane, Santana, Grateful Dead , Janis Joplin, and others I don’t recall right off hand.
Would have loved to been there in person. Never was but I did get to speak to Joe Cocker and did get a message on the net from Leo Lyons of Ten Years After, I thought he was bizzare on his bass, as well as the woman on the Woodstock Album cover. Now a grandma with grandchildren to keep her smiling. Thanks for the video. Nice to see so many classic VW's! haha, ya man, coool
What makes Woodstock particularly poignant is the knowledge that on the other side of the world young Americans were being shipped by their thousands into the meatgrinder known as Vietnam.
But the fat people (sorry, "plus sized") of today tell us it's their hormones, their genetics, their any flimsy excuse and that their obesity has absolutely nothing to do with the quality and quantity of what they eat.
A friend of mine, we are English, worked as a nanny in Scarsdale. Some friends took her to a music festival. Turned out to be Woodstock. She never returned to Scarsdale! I bowed to her as the one person I knew who had actually been there.
ROLLING STONES, GEIRGE HARRISON NOT AT WOODSTOCK ... The peace and love crowd totally TRASHED the place ... then went their merry way . LOVED THE MUSIC, THOUGH!
I'm glad I was a little too young for this. I was at a summer camp not far from Woodstock when it took place. I heard about it but didn't know exactly what it was. I can see why the neighbors didn't like it. This documentary is well done.
I was 20 and went with my sister and her husband, lost track of them within the first 30 minutes and didn't see them the entire time. What an amazing experience.
My brother and I got as far as White Lake on Friday before we decided to turn around because it was raining so hard and by the way, that ain’t a farmer milking that cow. That was just a festival goer trying to help milk out a cow that probably hadn’t been milked for a day or two.
😊Well, in fact the Byrds were there. Not the band properly, but they were there in one song, the one sang by Joan Baez: "Drugstore truck driving man", written by Gram Parsons and Roger McGuinn. A beautiful performance.
15:37 That's NOT a farmer trying to milk a cow, Mr. Robo-voice! 17:09 That's NOT Jerry Garcia, Mr. Robo-voice!! 21:12 A guitarist high on a platform...the trunk of his car!! About the only thing high is the guitarist! CROWD SURFING??? Got news for ya, Mr. Robo-voice, that didn't start `til the `90's!! I call bullshit!! Aug. 15th. George Harrison was at Abbey Road recording, "Here Comes The Sun" and other tracks for side two of "Abbey Road". On the 18th, they were recording, "The End". So, what's The Rolling Stones at another concert thousands of miles away got to do with Woodstock?
Out of all the bands I could cite; here's Fear on SNL in 1981. Crowd surfing started in the 1990s my arse. Sit down you idiot. Jim Morrison was known to jump into the crowd btw. You jam fool. ruclips.net/video/AumYnYlG9fg/видео.html
If you look closely, you'll see that most of these young people are healthy. Today, we would be seeing overweight people. Something happened in the 70s that ruined our health - food companies started putting crap into our food. I miss the 60s/70s.
And cancer started to spiral upward……..
@janicer8641, 👍 good point! Thanks for mentioning it! 💙
Vote for Robert Kennedy. ✌️
Obesity is a huge problem causing billions in medical coss. JFK was big on fitness, trump is big on fatness.
The Wise woman. You are so very right about your observation. So very true.
I spent 3 days at Woodstock. I was 25 at the time and told all my friends about a concert that was advertised on a billboard. I sent away for tickets, but all my friends skipped it because no one knew what it would become. Anyway, as i was driving up the Thruway, I noticed that traffic was building up, and i took the next exit. I drove for a little while and came across a farmer. I asked him if there was another entrance to the festival and said to continue down the road until i came to a left turn. I followed his directions and, unbeknownst to me, drove in the band entrance. I drove right up to the stage, and no one questioned me. We set up our tent a little way away from the stage. We wandered around a lot. Everyone was polite and friendly. We spent half the time sitting in front of the stage and the other half wandering around. We had plenty of food and drinks, and we gave some away to others who didn't have enough. The comradery was life altering, and if i wasn't a hippie before Woodstock, i was when i left. At the time, we thought that we were going to change the world. We were despised by half of the population. The government tried to stifle us . People look back nostalgically to the 60s, but there was a lot of fear among the flower people, too.
I was 10 years old in 1969, I didn't know or hear about it, until years later when I learned of it and that over 400K people attended. I was amazed how word of mouth got this thing going. You guys did it all without any of the social media platforms available today. Not bad for using what God gave us all, a mouth to get the word out.
I have always wished I had been there. But I was 1yo. I was born in the wrong decade. The music, the people & just the scene would have been amazing to see in person! And at 25yo. Wow. The memories you must have ❤
Accurately represented. It changed a lot of people's lives, it was that real. Like most things outside of the mainstream, it was coopted by the machine, and withered on the vine.
What a wonderful story. I remember seeing the movie in my youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Me and my friends tried our best to emulate the Hippie Movement, that did change the world from South America to the Himalayas. 🙏🎶
"...At the time, we thought that we were going to change the world..."
You didn't know it at the time but you, and the whole 400k+ strong crowd, DID change the world, for the better.
My parents were 20 and 21 when they attended with my dad’s cousins. They said it was the most peaceful, beautiful, gathering of more ppl than ever expected. They did leave a day early due to the rain and mud, but have memories that lasted their lifetimes.
Sweet.
I feel the same way. Give them a hug for me.
@@paulmartinelli4872 I will give them a heavenly hug!
Those two kids are in their mid-70's today.
@@BillySBC yes, unfortunately my mom passed at 64 and my dad a year ago at 74. They were high school sweethearts ❤️
I was a teenage musician in the 60s. The entire motto of pop music back then was: "Do your own thing!". For that reason you had many types of music. Every artist was basically selling his own type of music. The record companies in the early 70s began categorizing everything in order to make larger profits. When I hear pop music today, everyone is trying to sound like everyone else. The free spirit of the 60s has definitely died out!
Not just music. Today it's all about conformity. Tattoos were once a sign of rebellious individuality. Now they're just a stamp of conformity, branding you as part of the mindless trendee pack. If tik-tok featured ppl jumping off a cliff, I have no doubt thousands of ppl would follow. All staring at their phones as they jumped. You don't have to think these days, you just have to follow the crowd and mimic the trends.
@mojoguzzi6407 Nobody lives in reality any more. They're all living in an electronic cloud where anything can be true. Any notion that facts and evidence are important has been lost.
The next return to basics revolution is running a little late--or maybe most people didn't notice.
....und wenn sie auf der Bühne sind, halbnackt, oder irgendwie möglichst verrückt gekleidet, dann tanzen sie mehr als sie singen.
Manche tanzen derart akrobatisch, dass man sich fragt, um was es hier eigentlich geht.
Bühnenshow, Selbstdarstellung.
Das sieht man auf alten Bildern nicht.
Den meisten war die Kleidung gleichgültig. Sie haben einfach gesungen und Musik gemacht.
Und was für eine!
Ich habe das Gefühl, dass es nie wiederkehrt.
Apparently there was a similar movement in Germany at the turn of the last century??? You'd know better than I.
So, there's at least the hope it's cyclic.
This proves we could live together, this period was the most fantastic time of my life. In my place of residence there were no knife crimes, muggings, phones being stolen, (because they didn't exist), it was a different world. I'm in my 70's now and I really love and miss that time of my life. That kind of happiness doesn't seem to exist anymore...this world is a poorer place now 😢
People have changed a lot since then.
Awesome vid. I was there for all 3 days. Me and a friend hitchhiked there from Cortland, NY. So many stories to tell. I am 77 years old now and always think about my time at Woodstock...I am proud to be part of that history.
@@Friskee62 Would love to talk to you about what it was like. I was 18 and too busy chasing guys but I loved it and still have the album, well worn.
was it a commercial event? / did u have to pay for tickets?
It was definitely a world shifting event for the hippie generation at the time. Not all of us could make it to Woodstock, but there were reverberations of it at other locations in the USA. I personally attended a Woodstock knockoff festival on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, a few months after Woodstock. Many of the same musicians and performers, but only about 25,000 people were at the event. I remember seeing Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Grateful Dead, and many others at the event. The weather was perfect.
@@Ottee2 sounds great, i wish i was there.
but not at the miserable overcrowded mudbath of woodstock , just another case of the knock off being better than the original imho
I was just 14 when Woodstock took place, but I remember it well. An iconic time in our history that defined a generation. I was living in Miami, Florida at the time, going to school. Life was simpler then, but I adopted that hippy spirit I saw & I still carry it to this day, even at 69 years old & a grandmother!
i was 15 and i was mad that i couldn't go...i lived an hour away. Two neighborhood boys went who were thought of as ''hippies''. They still brag about it.
@@MartaWomack Now you see those kids at Senior centers, old, grey, a few with walkers...(sh) it happens, but they are a goldmine of the (sh)it we used to do.
The 1960s and 1970s will always be remembered as a time when for a fleeting second, just a fleeting second, young people dared to dream of a better world! An Utopia that just might be within grasp! But that was never to be! Reality bites back hard, and here we are today....
Don't give up yet, it takes a long time to reach utopia.
Who doesn't dream of a a better world? They were not special just ignorant.
@@dawnemile7499 , Things did change. You don't know anything, and I'm guessing you weren't around then. For one thing, we stopped the war in Vietnam. Or, at least, we contributed to that effort. Also there were many liberation movements arising at that time. Black liberation, Gay liberation, Women's liberation, Chicano liberation; all of these movements are still reverberating through society, today.
It was calm, peaceful, No Violence, No Guns, No murders,
The older people that live there said that the young people were extremely nice and always well behaved! I wonder if we can say that about the young people today?
The ones I've seen are very nice and smart. I feel bad that they can't run around outside feeling safe. I was five years old, running all over town barefoot every day with other five and six year olds. We never used incect repellant or sunscreen. No racism in my area. Most moms just worked outside of the house, part-time, if at all. Most families had 3 or 4 kids and that's a lot of work.
We now have a drug infested violent society . What happened to the immigration system ? Ask your nearest Democrat.
That's just amazing! Imagine it happening in this day.
Mostly white people were there.
My parents went to Woodstock! They were there mostly to see the Grateful Dead, but loved all the other singers too! Wish I could’ve been there! ❤
Check the dates........you may well have been!
I loved the 60's and 70's. Wish I could have stayed.
It was better being 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's.
@@MikeDame-gb1mx me too...went in the navy to avoid viet nam...20 yrs later i retired with a check 😁
Well put!!@@senianns9522
Me too brother, bring the 60's back
@@senianns9522
Said, Joe Walsh.
I was a month and a half away from shipping to RVN. Hooked up with a black GI at the bus depot at Dix, bussed to NYC and then on to Bethel. Scored some MJ on the bus, stayed until about midday Sun. then had to head back to Dix. Made it by 7am Mon., cleared post, went on my pre-transit leave, did my tour (pictured) and was lucky enough to make it home!
I'm glad you made it back. I hope your life has been good to you since then.
GR8 post, lost a cousin,
But my # and ending of draft
Just missed out……🤷🏿♂️👍
Stressing about seeing that war on the news, worrying about so many kids shipping out, and actually losing friends and neighbors, put a major dent in my childhood I never really got over. I am truly happy that you made it home. And I'm glad you got to Woodstock!!!
Welcome home!
Great story, I was at the LA CO Sheriffs Academy, marching and getting yelled at. Didn't even know about a festival.........
I was too young and too far away but I appreciate the people who attended and made this iconic event happen.
same here! I was 10, but my older cousins were there and stopped at our place on their way home. they took a bath and left brown and black stains in our bathtub, lol! i was so intrigued by them.
And I was to old but I'm still here, and still living that life, last year some one called me here in Mexico the oldest teen ager
@@klausuhlig7141 I kind of get that too. I am a long-haired old guy who does sound engineering for live bands. Still living the life like I forgot to grow old 😄
I loved what Woodstock represented. I wanted to be there so bad that it ached in my soul but I know now that I was a part of that culture. It was truely amazing and brought all that the movement of the 60s into focus. It is sad to see what has become of this world since then. ☮☮☮
It represented getting laid and letting your freak flag fly . Diddy would have loved it . Peace shit was something the media concocted . Just look at the garbage that was left behind and the number of gonorrhea cases .
demonic music which destroyed millions young people destroyed and look what is happening today seeds sown then, and you don't know what peace and love is if you think that was peace and love
Ignore the a-holes. 💙
P. S. There's beautiful video on RUclips showing the lovely "reclaimed landscape" of Max Yasgur's Farm today, which has been beautifully restored to its original beauty and has been set aside as a National Historical Park. Ted Schempp
Well 1969 music festival made a national historic park for a generation of baby boomers the hang out and listen to music😊
Perfect!
My now deceased husband attended Woodstock and told me some terrific stories about the entire event! It was a once in a lifetime peaceful gathering! We boomers had some of the best music played during those 3 days🤩
@@Jettingred4 Saw a pic of Gracie Slick, now old. Loved Starship. My favorite love song of all time is Marty Balin's "Miracles" on my Red Octopus album. It will always be my favorite.
Advanced tickets were $18, and on site for $24. It ended up a free concert because there were so many people. I was too young to even think about attending, but I always thought so many people, and no violence. It was peace, love and rock n roll.
I was 5 1/2 years old when I was there. My parents were 24, and my sister was about a year old. I don't recall a lot about the festival, but I knew my dad was always disappointed by his generation. He thought they'd change the world for the better, but was upset that they'd all joined the establishment and chased "The American Dream". He believed in the spirit of Woodstock, but came to think that it was no more than a pipedream.
❤❤
What did your Dad do after Woodstock to improve the world? I turned 20 in 1969. I could have done so much more during all my years, yet I did get a degree in engineering and used it in my work for 35 years, did volunteer work directly helping teens and new moms, donated lots of money to groups like WWF, NRDF, and Greenpeace, and raised a good kid who became an award winning videographer.
The American dream was redefined by Woodstock and that is true today. From the white picket fence and house to van life and off the grid living. Where do you think this thinking came from? The American dream is now diversified into many different types of American dreams.
By the time I was in my mid-30's I began wondering the same thing, what happened to us? It became apparent to me eventually what happened is that we had to eat. That meant getting jobs, getting married, having children, and getting on with life. Few of us had the power to make much of an impact, and I hope that there is a little left of our generation as we are now in the sunset years of our lives. Personally there is still a bit of Woodstock left in me even to this day.
We worked very hard to change the world, but we were out-numbered.
These photos weren’t hidden, I remember seeing them on TV at the time!
yea this is a bullshit YT channel profiting off other people's work.
I saw several of them in the documentary. It was from the view of the men who set it up and how much work it took to make it happen. It also talks about the farmers and townspeople who donated food to feed the crowds and were happy to do it.
@@maggiesays7827 Yea there's a book or two and a movie, and a album.
OLD NEWS
@@punapeter I wasn't sure if you had seen the documentary that's still playing. I guess you have.
@@maggiesays7827 ya
No matter what I love WOODSTOCK it brought young people together through music.
And sex. And drugs.
@@Boccaccio-ii1fl
You can skip it and just enjoy the music.
1:04 The photo with the man and woman hugging each other under a dirty blanket is the front cover of my original triple disc Woodstock LP. I am looking at the LP I bought as a teenager 55 years ago and am about to play it again for the wonderful nostalgia.
They were fcking...
They got married and are still together. I read an article about them on the festivals 50th Anniversary, I do believe…
I couldnt go because I was in another country. But I had a 16 RPM record of all the performances. This event changed so many lives. And mine. 3 years later I was in the Army. From hippy to Soldier. To Biker to Yuppie. To property owner to holidaying retiree. What a life I have lived since 1969. Thanks for the memory trip.
I missed it but if given one trip in a time machine, Woodstock would be my destination!
There were many great Iconic performances at Woodstock!! Ten Years After with Alvin Lee’s Guitar performance of “I’m Going Home” is my absolute favorite Woodstock as well as All TIME PERFORMANCE!! 😱👍🏽
@mbrawthen, how he is almost never considered to be among the greatest guitarists is beyond me. He and Johnny Winter are two grossly under rated musicians.
@mbrawthen, I can never understand how he and Johnny Winters aren't always considered among the greatest guitarists of all time.
Richie Havens.. FREEDOM!
Big Red 🎸❣️❣️
Ditto! I loved Alvin Lee and especially his rendition of "Going Home" that he played at Woodstock. I used to tell my friends that this was the version that I wanted to be played at my funeral. Sadly, I'm almost 80 now and all the people that I expressed that request to have preceded me to the grave. I'm no longer planning on a funeral, simply a merciful passing on my way to the oven. Peas out ...✌
I was there and I will never forget it. I LOVED IT. I will never forget the drum solo of the Santana and 10 years after guitar playing. If you were there you know what I mean. I am 74 now and like I said I LOVED IT.
It is truly amazing that all those young long haired, rock loving people are all in their 80s now..
I look at old people (of which I relate) and wonder if they had long hair, muscle cars (or Corvairs), fringe on their jackets, went to Stones' concerts, wore bell bottoms, and other iconic blasts from the past.
I don’t care bout any negative things about Woodstock. I was 12 yrs old when I found out about this beautiful festival. My feelings about wishing I would have been alive and participating at this amazing 3 day concert!
I was also 12. My brother was 16 and some guys he knew were going but my mom would'nt let him go.
You forgot Sly and the Family Stone! A huge Impact!
‼How could they have left them out! Or did no one photograph them.
this video is a hack job
I loved them! Stand!!!!
Also Ravi Shankar.
@@vijaygovind2134 Ravi was no impact for rockers, only the airheads.
The only time half a million people have ever agreed with anything.
Nope... Somewhere in the mid-eighties 500.000+ people in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands spread the same atmosphere of peace and unity while they were demonstrating against nuclear weapons. Usually i feel awful in crowds but there and then i just felt like one happy cell in a friendly organism. There is a reason why divide-and-rule is so popular among the powers that wannabee.
Anywhere from 6 to 10 million people the world over preemptively protested the illegal invasion of Iraq on February 15, 2003
@@hexxan007 I remember! Huge demonstrations all over Nlds.
@@doktormcnasty Yes, there were 500.000 in Hyde Park in Sydney!
@@doktormcnasty like that counts? lol
It was a great time to be alive without computers and cell phones.
There was nothing great about standing in long bank & grocery store lines without access to internet. That was just plain downright boring. We've banished boredom now, and I'm so much happier about that.
@@doktormcnasty You can have the identity crime, stolen numbers, $800 phones and horrible traffic.
What I can remember of it.
@@barackmycat9448 Out of all that the only one I have is the $800 phone which is really a supercomputer in my pocket with access to the world of information and so well worth that minuscule investment. As for the traffic, identity crime and stolen numbers well you might just be doing something wrong I haven't had any of that, myself so far anyway.
@@doktormcnasty That's just silly. You were obviously not born yet and are completely misinformed.
The sixties was one of my best decades. I enjoyed the music - without the mud, the mess and the drugs.
Woodstock started with Richie Havens and ended with Jimi Hendrix. Both had African and native American lineage.
Greetings from the Philippines! 🎉
Two of the very best performances, too.
I was born in 1956, MUSIC was a huge part of my youth. What happened to music? It's like gone man!
I almost made it! My friends who went to just about anything happening at the time made plans to pick me up in the early morning before the event. My mother caught wind somehow and stopped me as I was getting in the car. I was about 15 at the time. 😂 When my friends got back they said it was incredible but was definitely lacking in getting food as well as the whole toilet situation. They mentioned the traffic and the mud. Watching this video now makes perfect sense.
I was 13, and planning to run away from my NYC apartment, where my grandmother ruled with an iron fist to make it to Woodstock.(I had always been ahead of myself in everything). I didn't get to leave however, until November. I wound up in Greenwich Village and the East Village, where I began to live that lifestyle. I am 68 and will never forget those times and life. It shaped me forever.
If I only had a time machine. These performances must have been amazing to experience firsthand!
they were, and they were FREEEEEEE every weekend in Golden Gate Park
I would bring boxes of rubbers and tetracycline
I had never paid much attention to the Grateful Dead. I was focused on Rush, Pink Floyd, UFO, and Led Zeppelin etc. Then in mid April, 1991 my roommates and I, all musicians, heard GD were playing the huge Silver Bowl (The Dust Bowl as we call it in Vegas) and we all decided to buy tickets and check out the Friday show. We got to the parking lot where Shakedown Street was already in full swing and stepped out of our cars into another world. The vibe was beautiful. The people were amazing. We made our way inside and got stopped due to our bongos and conga drums we had in tow. They said, "you cant bring those in here, were recording". My roommate in a moment of brilliance simply said to the ticket taker: "Bro, we have to play with Santana" The ticket taker accepted our tickets and said "Just try to keep it down". We thanked him profusely and set off to find a spot as close to the front as possible to set our blanket. We then took in the fact that we were in the midst of 40,000 people all smiling at each other. By shows end, we were all newly christened Deadheads. We got home, discussed, then headed back to the ticket sellers intending to buy tickets for Sat and Sun shows. Sat was sold out, so we all got Sunday tickets, spent Saturday at the Silver Bowl at Shakedown Street, and returned Sunday for the last show. Back home and plotting, we decided to do a mini tour. Our friend that worked at the airport car rental place set us up with the nicest 15 passenger Ford Van they had, and a group of us followed the Dead to neighboring California, caught all three shows, hit the beach for a day and returned home. I made sure to attend all 3 days of the next 4 shows from 1992-1995, then Jerry died and there was no 1996 performance to attend :(
I only attended 2 Dead concerts. In the real early 90's.
I accidentally got high in venue. Because we were in nose bleed section. I knew was feeling little high, but until they turned on intermission lights, I didn't know we were sitting a cloud of a mixture of weed smoke & opium smoke.
And I had thought the Opium smell was cologne.
Until I could see nobody was close enough to smell their cologne. 😂
I like their music, but the deadheads were annoying. Trying to sell acid to us, every 10 ft Trying to leave. 😢
@@anitawindbigler7100 Being solicited at a Dead show back in the day was pretty much a given. The majority of the attendees wanted to be high on something to make the concert special, and deadheads would check on people to make sure they not only were cool enough and had enough water, but were in the mindset they wanted to be in. Believe it or not many of the people letting you know they had wares felt they were being polite given the setting :)
72' outside of Eugene in a field they flew in over the crown in a Piper Cub landing in the back of the field. Don't remember a lot other than I sold a lot of of Lids for $10. ea.
😅 UFO? I loved them! 😅
😅 Thank God I didn't even know Altamont was happening or I would've tried to go there. 😮
You go to that huge field today and walk around, you can still find trash from the festival in the dirt. It’ll be there for a long time.
Pick some up, take it home and frame it and put it on your wall as a real souvenir of the Great Woodstock Peace and Music Festival. 👍🏼👏🏼😃
They should've made people give a piece of two of garbage to leave the venue..
I’m going to visit the place in Bethel, New York. I’ve read that people who visit it today can still “feel the energy” that was created. I get chills just thinking of this Alas, I was born 10yrs too late to attend. Groovy 60s ☮️ 💗 Hope.🤍🤍🤍
Celebrating my 2nd week in Vietnam. I wanted to go so bad but duty called. Service to our country.
Thank You for your Service, Glad you made it back!!
Thank you for your service. God Bless you and God Bless the USA!
@@Itwillbeso Thank you so much
@@Wendy-bm3fl Thank you so much
I was imagining what it must have been like for the people who left early due to the mud and rain only to learn that they missed Jimi Hendrix. Thank you for this great video. I've seen so many and look forward to seeing any more that come along. What an epic event! Hippies were love and peace.
I have a feeling that it wasn’t mud, if it was a cow pasture ,😊😊believe me, it was cow manure mixed with Rain. lol
I saw Hendrix at first Isle of White in UK where he was almist washed out by rain, they stopped show because they were afraid of someone being electrocuted on stage, weather eased during the night then he came back on stage at about 3.00am next morning
I never made Woodstock but I did make it to the Celebration of Life down in Louisiana. Once in a lifetime experience.
I was as the Celebration of Life Fest. Good time, but not mentioned very often.
Summer after graduation in 1970 I told my parents I was going camping with some friends for a week, I just didn't tell them how many. Approximately 300,000 attended the Goose Lake Music Festival. It was the eastern states version of Woodstock. Came out of it a full-fledged hippy.
I was unfortunately not able to make it to Woodstock. I was otherwise involved in a small military conflict in Southeast Asia, know as the Vietnam War.
Thank You
Thank you for your service. ❤
Not to worry, dc always has another one🤑🤷🏿♂️🤪🤮
huggggggg…
@@greywebb1472 Thank you We thought of you, not like Kamala who says we didn't have any troops in conflict Somewhere theres a video of troops saying "What the hell are we?"
I remember my friends and I wondered if we would have to go because there was talk of drafting woman but then thankfully the war ended
Kids now dont have a clue about having to go if there numbers up
Happy you made it home.
Pretty good video. One of the few that doesn't focus entirely on the negatives. I went to a different festival--on the west coast--that weekend, but many of my friends were at Woodstock, so I got a lot of first hand reports. This video is closer to what I heard from them.
I did Altimont and the Fillmore West, weekly.
I was at Altamont and left just before the Stones performed and the Hells Angels killed someone trying to get on stage or something. I only saw one naked person-a fat man running through the crowd toward the stage. I didn't see what happened to him. The entire event was very peaceful, minus the killing. The Hells Angels were apparently hired to keep the peace or something. Santana was my favorite performance, full of life and vigor compared to everyone else. I was stationed at Travis AFB at the time. I don't know whatever happened to all my photos.
@@criscoleman I got there the fence was laying down. I headed to the rental truck and climbed up over a Ryder truck from the front and dropped gown off the back ON YO THE STAGE.
Santana was playing. I landed right behind the drummer. And got scooped up by a couple Angels who gave me wings into the crowd.
*I'M HEEEEEEERE* ploup
Made my way through the crowd to the back, because a girl I knew from the Burlingame Rec center where we saw Santana play for $1.00 in the Rec, center. Then they went to Woodstock and charged $3.00 the next time. RIP OFF sucks, we tossed pennies on the stage. LOL
So yea I took the girl to the back of the crowd and went over the rise into the TALL GRASS. Dropped down on a blanket and got NAKED!
A chopper flew over when I finished and rolled off her. We were laying naked to the sjy and the camera man in the chopper. We made the movie Gimme Shelter, a QUICK 1/4 second flash.
Yea I was smart too, left in the middle of Mick's start. Missed the dark action. But 4 people died at that concert, one drunk slipped in the the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct canal and drowned. And 2 people got run over in their sleeping bag.
It was a MESS, it was WILD, it was AWESOME and FREE.
Concerts today SUCK in comparison. There were no cops, no one getting busted by narcs. Everyone sharing jugs of Red Mountain Vin Rose.
Sharing joints and acid.
Haven't been to one like it since? US Festival COPS.
Burning Man COPS. All the other rip off festivals?
*TRAINWERCK*
A crowd the size of which politicians can only dream of...
until trump
@@cjryan88he wishes
@@cjryan88 Yep, that liar would be lucky to have that many in total for all his rallies.
@@Paul-AndreMenard lol Most of those that went to Woodstock are Trump voters today lol. Stop it lol.
@@Paul-AndreMenard you must live under a rock! His Rallies are HUGE! MAHA, MAGA man. Far Out!
Never knew about Woodstock until I was much older. Thirteen at the time, parents divorcing...mind on other things. Probably a good thing. Grew up, went to college, and became a nurse. Provided for my family and helped many families through childbirth.
72 years old and I left my heart in the 60s.An indelible memory...I'm "branded" for life...
Amid the chaos, there was unity and idealism everywhere.
No there wasn't . Just look at the garbage and STD's .
@@chrisbronson5341 yes there was.
To me as German I understood that a new time has come! Like in the song: a new day has come. And today its nearly done. ❤❤❤❤❤
Wonderful! Many sensitive people in the world felt this! It was the reality of a new world spirit. ❤❤❤❤
Woodstock: 300'000 poeple together in peace not war❤❤❤
A giant 'love in' ❤
I miss this time so much when everyone stuck together
On August 15, 1969 I was in Vietnam. It wasn't a summer of love, that's for sure.
Thank you for your service. I was stationed at Travis AFB at the time and did make it to the Altamont Rock Festival, which was also in the hundreds of thousands. I was fortunate in that I cross trained in the middle of my tour of duty and changed units. Shortly after I did, my entire unit, the 60th Supply Squadron, was shipped to Vietnam.
It only rained on Friday. No big deal. Toilets stank but they sufficed. Got there Friday night and camped out 6 miles away. Hiked in and it was a blast. Never saw one argument. Skinny dipping to clean off the mud. I had no problem with that. I never saw any lewd behavior. Town folk helped feed and water us. I was not on drugs! It was a beautiful experience in spite of inconveniences. Some babies were born and everyone cheered. This moment in time will never happen again.
Awesome that you were able to experience it!
Before killing babies became an Idol of the leftist thinkers or should I say NON thinkers
I was only 12 years old at the time but I remember thinking, I wish I was there ❤
I’m delighted to say that I was privileged to share in that era. True, we were naive about the possibility of an immediate transformation of life at the time. However, to this day we ever so slowly come to recognize the possibility of a ‘we’ world, rather than a ‘me’ world. Recognizing the underlying unity of all beings. Advaita / not two. ✌️…. 💕. 🙌
I’ve never forgiven my brother for lying and telling me that Woodstock had been cancelled. He wanted me to go with his crowd to the Atlantic City Pop Festival, held at a motor racing course in NJ.
It sucked.
I'd run away from home that weekend, going down to Washington DC to see what this hippie thing was all about. I was 17. Everyone was saying hey we're going to Woodstock do you wanna come? I had no idea what it was I thought it was just something on the other side of town and I said sure. We're leaving in in a few. I said I was ready but right when I was getting into the vehicle I hand grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back. It was my mother. Well let's just say I didn't get to Woodstock. I got to watch it on the news on TV. Damn
Just home from Vietnam and was busy working and raising my young family. I did not attend.
Thank you for your service ❤
Woodstock was the result of the baby boom. All those young people were born in the intention to bring peace to humanity after WW2. We loved music and new technological developments brought the possibility of a huge gathering. At that time, love was still a mystic experience. I am happy to have lived in this unique social event. ☮☮☮
I was 25 old when I remember this episode thank for sharing this story and video this very interesting thanks
I was 15 years old and was in central Mexico. San Miguel de Allende’ I had friends going there but I was underage to leave Mexico .
Notice the lack of tattoos?
I was stationed at Ft Monmouth NJ, US Army Signal School. I was on a weekend pass, took trains to Boston, rode buses, and hitch hiked to South Carver Mass. Rode the Edaville Two Foot Gauge Railroad. Took pictures of small steam locomotives. One picture of a locomotive that I actually rode in the cab with the engineer, I later titled "Woodstock". That same weekend I had missed the whole thing.
Thank you for your service. I was stationed at Travis AFB at the time, but I was able to attend the nearby Altamont Rock Festival in 1969.
When my boyfriend told me he bought two tickets to Woodstock l told him.
But l don't like crowds 😅Lol. It turned out to be a life changing event.
Just had graduated from HS, felt the vibe in the era. Ended up in Japan and India in the 70s.
I was a hippy in the 70s so I can relate to this, peace and love. Shame how bad things have got today.
Pathetic censorship of photographs. The nipple must be a very dangerous part of the human body.
The ‘Fe Male’ nipple, sir, is known to grow very sharp teeth when shown to the world. 😢
@@Parkertannerz glad to many like you didn’t go and spoil it for everyone else
It was a very dangerous part of the body like the imprint of a woman’s vagina is today in a pair of skin tight pants with no panties. Just showing off another part of a women’s body .A different time a different body part.
@@Parkertannerz I was also 4 at the time and it seems to me like it would have been a good time great music free spirit peace and love people helping people something this generation knows nothing about...well most of them
@@ParkertannerzYou were in Vietnam, in a trench, during the War? Yeah, right.
I must have missed the reason these photos were kept hidden.
Me too. Didn’t see anything new.
I was 18 years old. Santana band, with his guitar playng and great latin percussion, was the top musical moment for me. Joe Cocker was great, as well as Sly & the Family Stone, the Who ans so many others. Unforgettable.
Santana was my favorite band that performed at the Altamont Rock Festival in California, also in 1969. It also was a great gathering in the hundreds of thousands, with only on mar-The Hells Angels killing someone who was trying to get on stage or something.
If you got that many people together today, it would be a different scene. More and more potent drugs. Violence. Guaranteed people would die. It would be a mess. It might’ve been a mess back then but compared to what it would be today it was nothing.
Indeed. There was some violence at Woodstock, there HAD to have been. Doesn't matter WHAT the era, when you put 400K+ people together in a setting like that and some of them will be stressed out enough to cause problems. That is just the nature of the Human beast. There were DEFINITELY overdoses and bad trips galore. They were more numerous than was reported but the volunteers on the ground mitigated quite a lot of the problems. Despite the organizers not being prepared for the mass of people who actually attended, despite the 700 actual overdoses, there were only 2 deaths and one of those was the result of a young man being run over by a tractor. The other was initially thought to be an overdose but that declaration is questionable, given what we now know about the circumstances under which that other young man died.
because the population is getting darker
A different attitude, and 69 versus now
@@martincvitkovich724And a certain religion.
@@slactweakyes, quite a few underage girls got pregnant and didn't know which stranger was the daddy.
I liked the performance of Credence and Santana good performers that are still performing today. What an era compared to today where you can’t even have fun anymore with your friends. No fights then no one carried guns for protection. Everyone got along with each other.✌🏽✌🏿✌🏼
We have to remember, these young adults and youth were products of 1950s parenting, USA style parenting...so decorum, manners, politeness, respect for elders, learned societal behaviour, all come from these parents and being raised in the 1950s and 1960s!! These nice, polite, mannered individuals whom attended a festival in New York State should not be a shock to anyone!!! (try this kind of gathering now!!)
Woodstock in the 1990s was violent and had many rapes reported.
Well said.
A different attitude that will never be again
@@genelyda1102 Never say never,never say always🥰
@@janinewetzler5037 Sharing weed was a huge part.
Remember it was still illegal.
Now days I wouldn't think of sharing weed at a concert.
Absolutely! Different parenting, most came from 2 parent homes with a mom that was a homemaker. Thankful I grew up in th 60s and 70s.
7:55 surprised to see myself enjoying the music. I am center bottom with eye glasses and mouth open, smiling....
Amazing! Imagine casually seeing yourself at a life-transforming, historical event 55 years later!
An excellent book on how the Woodstock generation saw the future: "The Greening of America" by Reich. It was written very soon after the event. Very convincing indeed. But for too few years. Very little remains of what was almost all for us.
I was 18 at the time and I had absolutely no desire at all to go to Woodstock. I’ve never liked outdoor concerts. I don’t like being at the mercy of the weather - especially summer heat and humidity. I also deduced that the bathroom situation would not be optimal and I turned out to be right about that. Outhouses and port-a-loos are not my thing. I have zero regrets that I wasn’t at Woodstock.
Well, there's always one!
I was born in 1961 and I remember watching footage on the news! It made me wish I could grow up fast and be a part of all that!
And by the time I was old enough to participate, it was over.
I was a Marine in Danang, Vietnam till September 1969 and didn’t turn 21 till October 12th of that year.! I couldn’t Vote or Drink Alcohol in the U.S.A. but I could have died in a war zone that seemingly no one wanted here.! But we either enlisted got drafted or go to jail so didn’t want to go to Canada and be a Draft Dodger or Unpatriotic and enlisted in the Corps Semper Fidelis.!
Yes & all of us demonstrating at home to stop that war knew it was possible for us to die here as our friends were dieing there - we stood for our beliefs no matter what - even at Kent State 😢
I was 18 years old during Woodstock. I was in California at the time, but watching this video brings back SO many nostalgic memories. Hot damn, man. Those were the GOOD 'OLE DAYS and that is a fact. NO other generation before...or after....can compare. That is another fact. 🙏✨💖😊
I was 18 and living on the California West Coast myself at that time, so I’ve missed actually hearing about Woodstock until it became. The movie presented here are in the IMAX theaters. But I really didn’t miss much because a lot of the music that was playing at Woodstock originated here on the West Coast. Jefferson airplane, Santana, Grateful Dead , Janis Joplin, and others I don’t recall right off hand.
@@keithpoppy9227 Yes...a lot of the music originated from San Francisco. I grew up near San Jose....a hop, skip and a jump away from S.F.
I was cutting thru a jungle while avoiding booby traps carrying my M16 in Vietnam when Jimmy Hendrix was doing his thing at Woodstock
We didn’t want you to be there. It was oh so wrong. Glad you made it back. And, thank you.
Would have loved to been there in person. Never was but I did get to speak to Joe Cocker and did get a message on the net from Leo Lyons of Ten Years After, I thought he was bizzare on his bass, as well as the woman on the Woodstock Album cover. Now a grandma with grandchildren to keep her smiling. Thanks for the video. Nice to see so many classic VW's! haha, ya man, coool
George Harrison was NOT at Woodstock!!!!
True. He was at Haight Ashbury attending the summer of love.
Certainly not sitting comfortably on his couch. LOL
What makes Woodstock particularly poignant is the knowledge that on the other side of the world young Americans were being shipped by their thousands into the meatgrinder known as Vietnam.
Yes a totally unnecessary war
It's so amazing to see that people weren't fat at that time. So much has changed in just 50 years.
But the fat people (sorry, "plus sized") of today tell us it's their hormones, their genetics, their any flimsy excuse and that their obesity has absolutely nothing to do with the quality and quantity of what they eat.
A friend of mine, we are English, worked as a nanny in Scarsdale. Some friends took her to a music festival. Turned out to be Woodstock. She never returned to Scarsdale! I bowed to her as the one person I knew who had actually been there.
ROLLING STONES, GEIRGE HARRISON NOT AT WOODSTOCK ...
The peace and love crowd totally TRASHED the place ... then went their merry way .
LOVED THE MUSIC, THOUGH!
I'm glad I was a little too young for this. I was at a summer camp not far from Woodstock when it took place. I heard about it but didn't know exactly what it was. I can see why the neighbors didn't like it. This documentary is well done.
There's a good documentary on it. I'm not sure if it's the same one but it's playing on Roku and Tubi now.😉
I was 18 and unable to go but caught the movie while tripping on mescaline with my bf. We felt we were right there! ☮️💓🕊️
I was 17 that summer and went to see the movie tripping on LSD
I just love watching this old footage and learning about such interesting times in history. Thank you so much ❤
This is a remarkable account - one of the best I've seen by far
I was 17 years old in India and was fascinated by the free spirit of Woodstock. That was an amazing time
"32 of the most iconic artists in American music!" 26 US bands/artists 5 Brits and one from India!!
American music not Americans...
We had a terrific concert right after this in Dallas called the Denton Pop Festival. Perfect weather. Perfect lake. Same bands and we had a BLAST.
No fat people at all.
Our food wasn't chemicals it was nutritious and we cared how we looked
I was 5'5" and 110lbs then and was considered to be fat .🤷🏽
They were smokers. Almost all of them.
Interestingly this very generation forgot revolution, discovered health and stopped to smoke two decades later.
not like a trump rally LOL
@@katella I'm the same 6'-2" and under 195 with the same 34" waist I had in HS.
I was 20 and went with my sister and her husband, lost track of them within the first 30 minutes and didn't see them the entire time. What an amazing experience.
My brother and I got as far as White Lake on Friday before we decided to turn around because it was raining so hard and by the way, that ain’t a farmer milking that cow. That was just a festival goer trying to help milk out a cow that probably hadn’t been milked for a day or two.
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Very interesting video.
The Byrds were hugely popular at that time did a lot of shows and festivals and refused Woodstock - they just thought it would be another gig.
The Doors, another hugely popular group, weren't there either, though in the movie I did see him backstage.
@@deborahjesser2028 That's why they did not want to miss the European version of such an event one year later at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
😊Well, in fact the Byrds were there. Not the band properly, but they were there in one song, the one sang by Joan Baez: "Drugstore truck driving man", written by Gram Parsons and Roger McGuinn. A beautiful performance.
Jim Morrison and the Doors weren't there 😢
@@jacquimunns2093 Backstage...Not performing, but THERE nonetheless.
Woodstock is one very unique and special concert that will live forever!
15:37 That's NOT a farmer trying to milk a cow, Mr. Robo-voice!
17:09 That's NOT Jerry Garcia, Mr. Robo-voice!!
21:12 A guitarist high on a platform...the trunk of his car!! About the only thing high is the guitarist!
CROWD SURFING??? Got news for ya, Mr. Robo-voice, that didn't start `til the `90's!!
I call bullshit!! Aug. 15th. George Harrison was at Abbey Road recording, "Here Comes The Sun" and other tracks for side two of "Abbey Road". On the 18th, they were recording, "The End".
So, what's The Rolling Stones at another concert thousands of miles away got to do with Woodstock?
Out of all the bands I could cite; here's Fear on SNL in 1981.
Crowd surfing started in the 1990s my arse.
Sit down you idiot.
Jim Morrison was known to jump into the crowd btw.
You jam fool.
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Now these people are the establishment !
NO, WE ARE NOT!
@@MariaElena51185 Still a rebel Maria !
@@eamonhannon1103 haha, yes always ! ☮️
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No ! Never !