40 years ago this weekend - WOODSTOCK

[Doc Moose]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090813/cm_csm/ewoodstock

Like groovy, man  

Anyone there????

[Scanner]

Cool! Yeah, I was there!  If you saw the movie, I'm the guy in the cutoffs with the long hair!

[Chrisj CMA]

Cool! Yeah, I was there!  If you saw the movie, I'm the guy in the cutoffs with the long hair!

Really? I wasnt there but I saw a film clip of a guy in shorts w/long hair getting his butt kicked by cops and being dragged off........was that you?

[Michael K (Az.)]

No! Wait! That wuz me! You know, the one with his shirt off! Besides, he hit me first the big bully!

[F6Mark]

So 40 years ago this weekend.....
We had just moved from west texas to Houston. 
I was about to start the 10th grade.
I didn't know a thing about it!  I was clueless.   I am completely furious that my parents failed to keep me informed about current events.
And that whole civil rights movement?  Never heard about it until I joined the Air Force.

[iliveforcurves]

I wasn't there but I dated a woman who was.  She said it was great, muddy but great.

[~ Timbrwolf]

.......oooohhhhhh yeeeaaahhhhhh


...........1969 I was 14 in jr high school.....within the next year I would toast my first "fattie"....and let my...wild side....take over for many years to come....I remember being so bummed because I was obviously way too young to head out to Woodstock even though it was only one state away from me....a year later I was 15 and getting ready to say goodbye to jr high and head on off to high school....the end of the year everyone was just hanging out in classes and killing time till it was summer vaca....I remember I bought the Woodstock album to school and asked my english teacher if she minded if I.....played a little music.....ofcourse I carefully placed the needle at the song for Country Joe McDonald and The Fish.....and cranked up the volume...before yanno it ol Country Joe was screaming....Gimmie an F.....gimmie a U.....gimmie a C.....gimmie a K !.....Whats that spell ?....whats that spell ?....whats that spell ?.....I can still remember hearing that word....echoing down the hall....and my poor ol teacher...I can sware I heard her mumbling to herself......its over...I made it....a few more days....and SPENCER IS GONE OUT OF MY LIFE....FOREVERRR !!!! ..   

[Rowdy]

1969 I was Corpral in the Marine Corps      but a hippy at heart 

[Doc Moose]

Numerous news organizations have tried to do stories about the 40th year commemoration of the Woodstock event. 
Unfortunately, they have been thwarted by the problem that they can't find any participants that have any recollections of the event.  (Good SH*T, man....  )

[valkmc]

I was 11 and only a couple of hours away in upstate NY. I can remember several of the teenagers in our neighborhood packing up their van and heading out after the news began to cover the back up on the NY State Thruway. I beg to go but my parents were not insane enough to let me. For years after I listened to the stories of two of the guys who went, it almost seemed to be made up until I watched a TV  show and read other reports and realized their stories were the same.

[RP#62]

One of my highschool buddies went (no way were my parents going to let me go).  When the movie came out he went to see it but they wouldn't let him in because he was underage.
-RP

[R J]

In that time frame, I was a puttin around my beat on a old Hardley-Diversion,  the week after, I got a Cog-A-Sock-ie to play with.     2 weeks after that I got a Yam-A-hopper to test.

Guess what we got for real.

If you said Moto-Goose-ie, oh you is so so correct, vibrating worthless SOB.

Some of the guys down in the LA area got to test some Duc's.     Would of loved to rode 1 on patrol.

In my opinion, the Goose was worse to ride than the Hardley-Diversion.  The Goose vibrated everything from the knees up till it fell asleep.

[TwoDogs]

iliveforcurves - great avatar ! The other Valkyrie.  Trivia question - what do the XB-70 and the F6 have in common ?

A : the number six.

[rmrc51]

I was there!

A few of us who all worked in the local supermarket heard about this concert. We all rented an Avis box truck and went up there. Talk about a muddy mess!!! lol. The truck got stuck at least twice as I remember it! Everyone was sharing what ever they had. Lots of great music, a hell of alota fun and plenty of skin!!! lol

[Momz]

My wife and I went to the 20 year Woodstock revival in 89. By the time we found Bethel NY, we were toasted.
We did see "Guns and Roses" and the "Grateful Dead". We were lucky enough to meet Jerry Garcia at a gas station. He couldn't find the place either. So we burnt a fattie, looked at local maps, asked locals for directions, and were generaly dazed and confused.
But we did manage to get there, and as history repeated itself, it rained and was generaly a mud pit. We got the pictures to prove it.

We also made the trek in 94. We had five people in my extended cab F150. My wife, myself, my brother , my 2 year old daughter and my 9 year old nephew. Now that was the trip to HELL. We also got pictures to prove it.
NEVER AGAIN!