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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 40 years ago today, Woodstock began...I know some of the younger members were not around but quite a few of our older members were...
So where were you? Did you go?
I was in Gloucester, Virginia getting ready to start my senior year in High School, and disapointed with my father who absolutely (his words) would not let me go (I had planned to leave two days before the event and travel with my friend from Washington DC and my band mates from High School to the event)...we had no idea it would become the iconic event it became...we just wanted to hear the bands and hang out...But, alas, I was forced to remain at home and went fishing instead...to tell the truth, I think I had the better time of it as the mud, crowds, traffic jams, etc, made it really difficult. Still, watching the movie's out of the event, I seceretly wish I had gone...I'm sure I was not alone: my band mates weren't able to go either...
How about you? |
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Location: SoCal | 45 years ago today the Beatles were first on Ed Sullivan. Where were you? Bet more people were aware of that than Woodstock.... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I was sitting in front of my TV watching: Mom and Dad let us stay up for the first half of the show...It was years later when I saw the rest of it... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Enjoying the summer before 2nd grade. |
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| Working. When they announced the concert and were promoting it, I figured it was gonna be a damn mess. When I saw the movie I realized I was right and I'm still glad I didn't go. |
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Location: big island | summer before 9th grade. saw it happening on the TV but decided to go play spin the bottle with some neighborhood girls in the basement of a home under construction. woodstock couldn't compete with that. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Falmouth, Mass... My brother and I had a ride to go, but my Mom said "No Way, Jose!"
(My brother's name is Joseph)
I was 12, and he was 15, but we were going with Adult Freaks.
And Yes, we were more upset once we discovered what we missed... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | WS '69 - Teaching F-111 Electronic Counter-Measures at Lowry AFB, Denver and enjoying my third month of marital bliss. The only woodstock I knew of was on my treasured Marlin 336C .30-.30. 
ES '65 - Watched 'em at our church youth group meeting.  |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | there. |
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Location: Veedersburg, Indiana | RVN. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Beal:
there. Really? How cool is that. Was it fun being there, or more fun lookiing back and knowing you were there? Does that make sense? |
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Location: Vernon CT | I was probably on Cape Cod with my family. We use to rent a cottage for 1 month in July or August or 2 weeks each depending on Availability. I was also getting ready for 8th grade!
My Brother however was there!!! Never talks much about it as I doubt he remembers much Dru.... & Old age!! ;) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I was supposed to go with a couple of friends, and my parents put the kybosh on it at the last minute. One of my friends was interviewed at the beginning of the movie. He got in trouble when it came out as his father was running for county office at the time. :D |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
45 years ago today the Beatles were first on Ed Sullivan. Where were you? Bet more people were aware of that than Woodstock.... Uh, Paul ... The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. I was in kindergarten.
When Woodstock happened, I was still in grade school and my Mommy wouldn't let me go. The first I heard of it was from C,S,N&Y. |
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Location: SoCal | Well, it sounded good......
By the way, I was in junior high and didn't even hear of Woodstock until several years later.
I've led a sheltered life..... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
1964 I should have caught that, in that a year later I was in basic training... 
Good 'Right Field' catch bobbo! |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | 1969 was not a very good year... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I was 9 and my mother's sister, all of 19 and very much aware of how much I loved music, wanted me to go with her and a few friends. Got it by Dad, who had NO idea what it was, but Mom was a rock. Said not even over her cold, dead body and, once she gave Dad the infamous "Mom Glare" (insert picture of a really teed off Grizzly here), even he backed down.
I was SOOOO close... |
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Location: NJ | in 69 I was 13 and was reading all about the music scene in circus magazine.
really wanted to go but was obviously not old enough.
funny side note. I bought the mad magazine which had the parody "I remember, i remember the wonderful woodstock faire" and it was conviscated by a nun and burned in an incinerator....
those were good times ..... |
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| Well, I was probably watching "Sesame Street" or something like that, since I was 5.
But I do like to go to the town of Woodstock quite a bit.
Michelle |
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| In 69 I was 13 and living in a South Ontario farm town so I wasn't going anywhere except maybe hitching a ride with a .22 over my shoulder to go shoot gophers for some local farmer at $4 a day.
I was always interested in music but I never bought into that hippie counter culture thing as even when I was very young they always seemed extremely naive to me and their whole deal turned on someone else paying the freight so that they could have a secure country to hang out in plus criticize everything and squack about how "the man" was holding them back. Never had much time for dopers either. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | In '69 I was 21 and I called the road my home...
No, wait. That was Jackson Browne. I was nine years old. My brother, Jon, was sixteen. I think I spent the summer watching him tie dye T-shirts in a tub out in the back yard. Not quite Woodstock, but we had the spirit. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I was 16, working in the snack bar at a summer camp; I remember hearing about its' happening, but I was trying to earn money for college.
(And forget even considering going--my folks were pretty strict and I'd never have gotten permission to go, anyway.)
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I was 14, on the other side of the continent, and didn't hear anything much about it until the movie came out.
Saw it in Tokyo while on a school trip to Expo 70; with English and Japanese subtitles. The subtitles were 'suspect'. They had Sly & the Family Stone singing "I wanna, I wanna, I wanna buy a Honda!" |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I was 5 |
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Woodstock: Where were You?
