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Just watched the film Woodstock, peace love and rock and roll. Should have left it a memory.
 

I was nineteen and in Vietnam when Woodstock happened but I wouldn't have gone even if I had of been stateside.

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Facts: Carlos Santana was blitzed on psilocybin and recalls nothing of his performance and Jimi Hendrix's performance of the National Anthem was strictly spontaneous. He claims he had never played it before.
 
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I was there. Maybe I still am the fool I was then but I still am a sort of “hippie” as I believe we should all get along. Peace
 
I was too young to go and have remained a sort of hippie type ever since for having missed this historical event. I loved the optimism of the '60's. :love_heart:
 
I worked at the post office and our supervisor threatened to fire anyone who went to Woodstock and missed work. Five of my co-workers went and I went in to work. My future wife, who was in high school, got permission from her mom and went with her friends. She had the foresight to record her thoughts in a journal:

"Maura invited Janet and I to go to this big hippie festival in Woodstock where all these fantastic bands are playing, and 50,000 kids are going...can you imagine sleeping out on the ground with 50,000 kids. Dynamite!...her father would only let five go in the car to Woodstock...so we laid out this fantastic plan...it is going to be one helluva pisser...Shit-this place is so outrageous! Really...thousands of kids are camped all over the highway...so we found this path and went up in the woods and set up camp...later we started to walk to the festival...and we jumped on the backs of cars and finally got up to the concert...we had to wade through mud...they were giving out free food, soda, beer...the people, God, are so kind it's just unbelievable...I never want to go home...this is the most peaceful three days of my life...I had the warmest feeling inside of me, but I knew as soon as I got back home it would be gone."

But I could never get her to return to Woodstock before she died.

So I missed Woodstock and my fellow workers were not fired. A lesson learned about how corporations operate. But I didn't miss the summer jam in Watkins Glen, NY in 1973. There were 600,000 people at that festival. Traffic, three amazing bands, mud, rain, car keys stolen, and the adventure of my life.
 
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But I didn't miss the summer jam in Watkins Glen, NY in 1973. There were 600,000 people at that festival. Traffic, three amazing bands, mud, rain, car keys stolen, and the adventure of my life.[/QUOTE]

I didn't see you there. We must have missed each other. Watkins was a hell of a party. Remember the skydiver was killed at the opening?
Crazy dazes alright, the U-Haul truck burning in the bog. Good Times!
 
Fantastic comment, TonyK....thank you.... And now corporation are even worse.... many people have 'awakened' to what is going on... but some still prefer to play the ostrich...
 
fmdog44 said:
Facts: Carlos Santana was blitzed on psilocybin and recalls nothing of his performance and Jimi Hendrix's performance of the National Anthem was strictly spontaneous. He claims he had never played it before.
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Jimi's performance was the one and ONLY time I ever cared to hear or listen to the "national anthem"....
 
Robusta: I missed the skydiver and U-Haul truck. We camped up on a ridge above the concert as we took a wrong turn and got lost in NJ and arrived late. Stayed another two days.
 
I was 10,and looking back it was probably a good thing I missed it...
I spent the 70's being hippie enough....:cool:
But it was far out man.....
 

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