Do any of you have Woodstock stories?

[mindfulNJ]

Were you there? I was only 9 at the time...so of course I wasn't.:)I just finished watching the movie, and I would love to hear some personal stories of those amazing 3 days...anyone?

[Shrek]

1. Here's one

;)

[mindfulNJ]

3. hehe...I love that Woodstock:)

Charles Shultz must have been there.

[4morewars]

2. don't eat the brown acid !!!! n/t

[bif]

4. My friend and I were 13 at the time and we planned to hitchike there

But we chickened out at the last minute. Bigtime regrets there. Sorry for the letdown. i was there in spirit though and consider myself a product of the Woodstock Generation. The first time I saw the movie, I totally related to it and in a wierd way, feel like I was there. I know several people who were and many of them consider it the high point (no pun intended) of their lives.

[ewagner]

5. My best Woodstock stories

Were usually told in singles bars to pretty women after a few drinks.

p.s. I wasn't at Woodstock.

[Wickerman]

6. In the 80's there for awhile, I could swear I met everyone who was there

Every middle aged dude a ran into who knew I was into music told me about "being at Woodstock". I was fast closing in on meeting all 400+K. :eyes:

I should add that I was fascinated by Woodstock and did a LOT of research on the organization, dynamics, background, characters and such, as well as the performers and nature of the crowd, etc. I wrote 3 or 4 college research papers on the weekend and the fore and aftermath. So, it was easy to spot the liars. Cornered, "oh, man, its been a long time and we were so stoned."
That is my favorite memory of Woodstock, all the poseurs who never went.

[WoodrowFan]

7. yes

I love how Schultz drew him flying around in all directions with a little dotted line behind him. HEH HEH

[ET Awful]

I was 6 months old at the time. . .

and we were on our way, but my dad's bus broke down in Canada (we lived in Alaska at the time). We never made it :(. I did however get the consolation prize of a Jefferson Airplane concert in Anchorage a few months later :)

[XNASA]

8. Oh yeah. It was great.

I was standing backstage (I was Pete Townshend's guitar roadie) and a young & naked Lt. G. W. Bush staggered up to me yammering something about brown acid and two girls who pulled the old "let's go skinny dipping trick" on him and swiped his flightsuit. He was really whacked out of his mind.

Course I'm sure that Kerry would have been doing the same thing if he were there, but he wasn't......he was in Nam.

[Intelsucks]

9. # of people who claim they were there vs. # of people who actually were

there, is probably about 100:1.:o

[bif]

12. Wasn't it Roger Maris who said something like

"Wow, I think I've met all 400,000 people who were in the stadium when I hit my 61st homer."

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. I went to Woodstock 99

Got LOTS of great memories from that....

[NewHampster]

11. we had two tickets for Day 3

My brother and I made the mistake of waiting for that day. We knew we were screwed and planned to ride in on his Honda.

The Momma put her foot down and said we weren't going to a disaster with helicopters flying cover. Ended up watching on the news.

The Sad part. My mother sent the tickets in for a refund that of course we never got.

But!! We were all there in spirit.




look at the brochure
http://www.woodstock69.com/woodstock_brochure2.htm

[seventhson]

13. I do.

But it will have to wait. I am following the stories about the translator who saw papers predicting 9-11 .

Later I will tell you ...

[absyntheNsugar]

14. I had a teacher who had a bit too much fun in the 60's

Great math teacher, complete mess otherwise. Anyway, he swore he was at Woodstock, and doesn't know what the big deal was. He said the concert was cancelled early, someone died and it wasn't too far from us here in San Jose.

Um...that was Altamont Mister Biggs....

[NewHampster]

15. By the Way, Its True. If you can remember the Sixties

You weren't really there.

:hippie:

20. hmmmm, I remember San Francisco quite well in 1966-7

I was 10 at the time.
Remember seeing Country Joe and the Fish in Golden Gate Park.
Coretta Scott King speaking.
climbing a lot of trees in Menlo Park.
riding my bicycle through the hallways of SRI.
Summer in the City number 1 on the radio.
the hippies in the nonviolence class my dad took me to at the Free University at Stanford.
I knew it was different than usual even then.

[NewHampster]

24. Awesome

growing up in frisco during the summer of love...

[izzie]

16. Yes I did not go

My daughter tells me the same. I guess she was to young and I was to old and both our hearts were there.

[Archae]

17. My oldest sister went to it.

She was 15 at the time.

She called it one huge, stinking, muddy mess, with some great music from time to time.

[LastKnight]

18. i would have given ANYTHING to live through the 60s...

damn the music alone would make me give up everything i have just to see hendrix or santana or anyone else preform at woodstock, dammit, why does music have to suck these days? WHY?

-LK

[KittyWampus]

19. Born In 62, So Too Young But Found A Used Woodstock T-Shirt

in a musty thrift shop around the year 1978. Wore it til there was only a few threads left.

[Mr. McD]

21. I would have liked to have been there but I

had reservations on a plane headed for Viet Nam.:shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

22. Yes

I like that time he went to play hockey with Snoopy, but the birdbath had melted back into water. Man, was Snoopy pissed! :-)

[DancingBear]

23. Well, here's a real one

We drove up from CT . I went with a friend who had his license - I was only 15 3/4 at the time (told mom I was going camping - didn't say where :) ).

Got stuck about 9 miles or so from the sight - just left the car and started walking - just over a rise saw a hay wagon that was "owned" by Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm (ask your parents) - we hopped on (along with 20 or so others) and got a ride in.

I couldn't have been "on the grounds" for 10 minutes when I met the kid who lived one street over from me back in CT! I asked him what time it was and he said "I don't know man, I think I left it upstairs".

We spent most of the two days plus (left long before Hendrix came on) back by what was called the Jungle (among many other names), because it had a pond and we could watch naked women swim.

C,S & N were horrible, The Who were not much better, and I was a big Ten Years After fan back then.

I did not break the spell of virginity <sigh> , but I did learn how to inhale without choking.

[RebelOne]

25. Well, I live in Woodstock now

Woodstock, Georgia, that is.