Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has made a thread about this yet!!





August 15th, 1969: The first day of Woodstock.
Official start time was 5:07 P.M..

Artists who played that day were:

* Richie Havens
* Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival
* Sweetwater
* The Incredible String Band
* Bert Sommer
* Ravi Shankar
* Tim Hardin
* Melanie
* Arlo Guthrie
* Joan Baez


To celebrate, I stood out in the rain and just tilted my head up to the sky and closed my eyes and held my arms out to my sides. It was amazing.

And by absolute pure chance, I was wearing the hippie-est clothing I own.



Well, sorry if this was a sort of meaningless thread.
....or if the topic of Woodstock has been beaten to a pathetic pulp.
I just wanted to let people know if they didn't already.

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"If it's planned, it's boring." - Freddie Mercury

Not at all meaningless, this was a great musical event that will never be witnessed again. These are the artists that i've been listening to my whole life. Happy 41st aniversery.

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Thanks for the reminder Kashoggi,There will never a concert to rival the original Woodstock.Although there have been valiant efforts to make some semblence to the original nobody will ever to recreate the magic of the first for they were magical and much more innocent times.

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Also today

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Music's the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. Play it loud enough, it keeps the demons at bay.

"Don't take the brown acid."

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Thanks for bringing up Woodstock. The music festival all others are and will be measured by.

I was only a few years old, but something about Woodstock resonates with me like nothing else. I guess I genuinely believe in the power of music and of people coming together. Plus, all those great artists in one place, together, wow!

The Summer of 69' was super.

Thank you Khashoggi, I was planning to go with a few friends and then thought staying in Chicago was a better idea

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Some of the many great acts! Ahh, the summer of 69'!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1pMeyy__r0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYDvQ1HH-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTdrPL22-Y

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I believe in Christianity as i believe that the sun has risen. not only because i see it, but because by it, i see everything else. C.S. Lewis

i always wondered what a mosh pit of half a million would look like from the air....wow

wish i was there. wish i was alive to experience the hippy movement, punk, or grunge era, but i wasn't. for any of them....damn

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riley

I was 16 years old in '69 and heard about it before,but there was no way I could get there from Tennessee....nobody I knew went,but since then it seems like everybody was there.
It's like other significant events,there's always somebody saying,"I was there"....and young people don't know if they were or not since all you had to say about Woodstock was,"it was muddy and I was tripping and really don't remember a lot except the music was great."

No one made a thread because some people who remember being there, probably weren't really there, and some people who probably were there, don't remember being there...

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The headlining act was the Who. They got paid $12,000 for their performance.

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Haha, yeah, it's just so unfortunate, I think, that a lot of people who were there were tripping so badly that they can't remember BEING there. What a great experience it must've been to live through. It's a shame that I was born 26 years too late....

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"If it's planned, it's boring." - Freddie Mercury