I was in the military at the time..........so I wasn't able to go. Best I could do was go see it at the base theater, when the movie came out.

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Atlantic City Pop Fest One week before Woodstock 3 Days Douglas Quintet, Three Dog Night, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Booker T. and the M.G.’s, Tim Buckley, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Byrds, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Chicago, Joe Cocker, Crazy World of Arthur Brown,American Dream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Lighthouse, Little Richard, Lothar and the Hand People, Hugh Masekela, Buddy Miles Express, Joni Mitchell, Mother Earth, Procol Harum, Santana

I have heard that many of these were much better then Woodstock was. Woostock was not the only Festival at the time, Check out the acts that were at the Atlanta Pop Festivals of the times. They were better then Woodstock which has just become a promotional money maker.

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all i can say is wow.. wish i could be there.. all i can do now is watch dvd's sob~

Thats cool. I used t go the Cap Center all time. Aerosmith, Dokken, Priest, Black Crowes, some others I forget due to a grassy substance.

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I was 16 at the time and living in upstate New York. However, I had a P/T job and I was in a band. The band had gigs on Friday and Saturday nights, and I worked Saturday. On top of that, no car and no one really knew how big Woodstock would turn out.

Needless to say, my parents would have refused to let me go and that would have been the case with most of the other kids I knew. Plus, the tickets were fairly expensive (not considering all the groups, but still a fair amount in dollars for a 16 year old ... remember, it was NOT a "free concert" in the beginning!)

In upstate anyway, authorities (of a more conservative bent) had been warning parents about this Woodstock event. They didn't either know how big it would be, but they did know there would be "hippies," drugs, rock music, etc. and they were spreading the world. Any parent like mine would have been very suspicious if their kid said he was "going camping" for that particular weekend.

It only became apparent how truly world changing it was as things went along. I remember that the people on our local progressive station were themselves totally blown away by how it was evolving. But by the time it was clear what was really in the making, they were also telling people that you'd probably never make it if you started out "now." We all heard about and saw pictures of the Thurway, etc.

The interesting thing is that after it was all done, there was surprisingly little talk among the adults about it. And because almost no one any of us my age were there, we too more or less had to wait for the movie.

There was no internet and if you were a ways a way (1000 miles) from the farm in New York, 'one did not even know it had happened until a blurb in the newspaper a or TV news, the next week.

And what self-respecting hippie read the paper or did TV news? 'Vaguely remember hearing about it and then came more stuff in real life...and alluva sudeden, a movie came out. 'Remember going and thinking a combo of "Wow" and "WTF"...?

Hey, cvilliera; the Atlanta Pop Festival poster is identical to the one used at the Lubbock pop festival I played at. Same artist, hand giving the peace symbol, even "the world is waiting for the" part done in the same way. I never would have remembered that if you had not posted the picture. Thanks!!

This is what I know to be true. Feel free to correct me, though...

For Led Zeppelin, they (even then) were very picky about what types of gigs they'd play. Hence, they ended up passing on it.

For the Who, Pete Townshend did not want to do the gig at all. However, there was an issue with their management that required them to do it. Hence, they ... of course ... did perform.

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Too young for Woodstock, but I've been to Levon's Midnight Ramble.

http://www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm

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I know people who traveled from San Francisco for the event.

I'll have to ask them how they knew. Perhaps those hippies learned to use telephones, or maybe some California radio DJ's might have mentioned it.

Stones? Beatles?

Went here instead. Killer Labor Day Weekend Two weeks after Woodstock.

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