The local rock stations in the Miami area, as well as the Miami Herald, TV, etc. have been making hay about the 40th anniversary of WOODSTOCK. I didn't make that one. However several weeks before that some local promoters hastily put together the Miami Pop Festival at Gulfstream Race Track just north of here and across the county line in Hallandale, FL. It was a huge success and the promoters decided to repeat the success on a farm in Woodstock.
Woodstock quickly grew beyond anyone's expectations.
My big regret is that I didn't have the good sense to shoot the Miami Pop Festival, the Orlando Rock Festival, and the Rock Pow Wow at the Hollywood, FL Seminole reservation in black and white, ONLY black and white. What few Ektachromes I can find are horribly faded and discolored, and feeding a dozen varieties of fungi, plus my slide files were always in disarray. But there was another thing going in the sixties besides "Peace, Love, & Happiness" that always seems to get swept under the proverbial rug.
My son just turned 33. When he was 15 he convinced me to get him a Yamaha acoustic guitar, soon followed by an electric. One day he was listening to some of my collection (and I still have it!) of sixties rock records and he said "Dad, I just realized why there was such a blossoming of creativity in rock music in the late sixties! They were all either stoned or tripping!" As the Grateful Dead so aptly put it "Ridin' that train high on cocaine".
And I don't want any of you young bucks jumping in with a "Yeah, but digital can be backed up, copied, stored on multiple hard drives...etc." Show us the images in forty years. They're likely as not going to be less well preserved than the 16 year old groupies who are now quickly aproaching their sixtieth birthdays, and I've got the pictures to prove it...LOL