Woodstock 40 year Anniversary

[Prettymaid]

Does anyone have any thoughts? Memories? I was living about an hour away from the original site in 1989
and went there the day of the 20th anniversary.
Not much was going on, lots of campers, tents, etc...
I bought this tshirt.

[eaglesvet]

Nice shirt! I agree, not much goes on in that town most of the time! We had been through it once or twice when driving through NY state, unassociated with any special anniversary. Just went into some of the more artsy/hippie shops and looked around.

[MikeA]

Now when I think of Woodstock, I think of the ones who are no longer with us. Morbid I guess, but Woodstock sort of ended an era, or at least marked the start of the end of an era.

I probably missed some, and some of these artists, you may not have heard of, but they were there. Many of them were virtual "unknowns" in 1969. Some remained "unknowns" and others went on to Stardom.

RIP

Jerry Garcia
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead)
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Keith Moon
John Entwistle
Paul Butterfield (Butterfield Blues Band)
Alan Wilson (Canned Heat)
Bob Hite (Canned Heat)
Tom Fogerty
Tim Hardin (wrote songs for Rod Stewart, Peter, Paul and Mary)
Nicky Hopkins (Jefferson Airplane)
Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane)
Felix Pappalardi (Mountain)
David Brown (drummer for Santana)
Bert Sommer
Alan Malarowitz (Sweetwater)
Albert Moore (Sweetwater)

[TimothyBFan]

Wow Mike-what a list. How sad to think so many died so young!

[MikeA]

Wow Mike-what a list. How sad to think so many died so young!

Well, certainly not all of them died in their 20's, but many of them did! The lifestyle they lived was not conducive to enjoying great-grand-children.

[Stars]

Mike, it is sad to think of all those musicians being gone from this earth now-like they say, there must be quite a band playing in heaven!
I was 17 years old the summer of Woodstock (1969), and I was working at a summer camp near the spot where Woodstock was being held. A bunch of us wanted to go so badly, but our boss threatened to fire us if we went. Some of us did go (not me, unfortunately ), and he made good with his promise to fire them. I sure wish I had gone-I was so worried about what my parents would say if I got fired from that job!

[Prettymaid]

I love that story Stars!

Has everyone seen the movie? I used to have it but I lost it somewhere along the way. It's fun to watch. What a fun-loving bunch of people! (I've always dug the hippy dippy thing!)

[EagleLady]

Awww, I am sorry Carla. I would have told my boss to take this job and shove it, just to go see The Who

[MikeA]

A bunch of us wanted to go so badly, but our boss threatened to fire us if we went. Some of us did go (not me, unfortunately ), and he made good with his promise to fire them. I sure wish I had gone-I was so worried about what my parents would say if I got fired from that job!

Pretty much the same thing happened to me Stars, though there was no one else where I worked that threatened to go. Just a bunch of longhairs I hung out with that went. But had I taken off to go, I would have lost my job. I'd probably have had a bit further to travel...from Dallas, Texas <LOL>

[Brooke]

Great stories! I think it's strange that they call it Woodstock, but it actually happened nearer to Bethel.

From watching bits of the movie, I don't think I would have wanted to have been there. What a mess it turned out to be! They planned for like 10,000 and like 500,000 showed up!