Woodstock....40yrs.!!

Yes, I was there......just weeks before my best friend and I went off to Parris Island USMC. We went on motorcycles ( Harley Sportsters) and barely made it home .....wish I had taken pics. Well maybe not it was a lifetime ago.
 
I'm in the right demographic, but, no, I wasn't there. At the time, I thought it was just a big party distracting people from important political work.

Someone must have been there with some Kodachrome or Tri-X, though.
 
I was 15, and lived in Florida...I was not there..I didn't know about Woodstock until a few years later. Not sure if photography was a high priority on these kids..They were more concerned with the political atmosphere they were trying change. Although, I'm pretty sure that there had to be "Photographers" attending to record the event.

But why are we seeing the "Same-Ol, Same-Ol" photos posted everywhere. Like a "Sound-Bite" that all the news agentcies use all day along with the radio stations.
 
I was there and it had nothing to do with politics. How do folks think this? It was about drugs, mud, drugs, rain, drugs, mud and some really great music when the weather permitted. And can you imagine a rock concert today with that many people with no violence? That was a miracle. Anyway the media has made the event into some kind of second coming or something. That it wasn't.
I did not have a camera with me. I think it would have gotten ruined from the weather. Did anyone photo this amazing event?
 
I've been depressed all weekend after seeing Grace Slick in a recent CNN interview. She was one hot lady back when'. Good grief she looks old and quite chunky now! I guess a lot of sex, drugs and R&R are not the best for aging gracefully (no pun intended).
 
Political? Only if you think showing up at a big muddy rock concert is a political act. I was pretty political at the time and had no doubt that Woodstock was a big party.

As the anecdote goes, Abbie Hoffman got up and tried to give a political speech. Pete Townsend whacked him on the side of his head with a guitar.
 
GS has been out of it for a long time. Very much like the Steppenwolf lead singer. They were great performers but when the edge fades and you look to their intellect, well there's not much there.
 
I have pix of a lot of those people from that era. I guess I was just too stoned from the Miami Pop Festival a coulple of weeks earlier to consider going to a field in Woodstock. Hoffman was brilliant bt one of his speeches just didn't belong there. It woud have been preaching to the choir anyway. Why bother?

How could Leica miss the opportunity to market a Woodstock Fortieth Annversary M2 with Cannibus Green vulcanite? For taking far out pictures of course!
 
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Just the once.....I'd like to have seen Jimi doing his stuff - with that 'wrong way round' guitar! ....I often wonder what his music would be like now, had he survived it all!😱.....anyway - from this ageing Brit. hippie it's still the definitive 'star spangled banner' 😀
Dave.😉
 
During that great event I was about 100 miles away in the Albany County Jail. My friend "zigzag" and I were arrested for hitch-hiking, 4th degree possession of hashish (that's what's left in the bowl after you've already smoked it) and possession of "psychedelic paraphernalia".
A 30 day sentence was enough to help me miss that hippie happening. Got a free haircut , too!
I don't remember if anything else happened in 1969.
 
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