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| Originally posted by alpep:
it was conviscated by a nun and burned in an incinerator....
So you went to Catholic schools too? It was great preparation. When I got to boot camp there was NOTHIN' those guys could do to me that topped the nuns. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I was sixteen and on the wrong freaking continent!!
So bloody cool, amazing time!!
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Location: Location Location Location | I was in the Navy in Boot Camp in Great Lakes, Ill. My friends were at Woodstock. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I was 12 years old and too young to attend. But I certainly knew about it. I was big into radio and WNEW-FM from NY had been talking it up for about a month. It started out sounding like an "Arts and Crafts" fair, but then as the dates grew closer folks like Rosko and Jonathon Schwartz were talking it up as some kind of "love and peace happening" and the performer list kept changing almost every day. You could call the station and get free tickets.
There wasn't any kind of live feed broadcast or anything like that of the event, but the station kept giving updates throughout the weekend what was going on and who was on stage at that time. But how did they know? There were no cell phones or pay phones at the site. Well, what they did was very clever - the performers were shuttled in and out of the grounds by helicopter and the station had a guy on the ground at the local staging area where they flew from. So when an act would depart on the copter he would phone WNEW and give a report, so the air guys would keep the listeners informed. They made playlists to align approximately with who was on stage, so if Janis for example had just left on the copter for the site, around 30 minutes later WNEW-FM would play a set of Janis music.
Physically I was in Bellmar New Jersey, but my ear was glued to the radio and I could get a sense of what must be going on. My minds-eye pictured a field of well organized Art's and Crafts booths with a stage at one end and everything quite civil (remember, the only reports on the radio were from the heli staging area, not the venue itself). Only later when I saw the movie, and by that time was getting high myself, did I know the sheer magnitude of the whole thing. I was luckly to have experienced it, if only from 150 miles away. |
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Location: east coast usa | Playing my first guitar, a cheapy yamaha, playin stick ball, riding dirt bikes, flippin baseball cards, remember flipping baseball cards? really a lost art. lol getting ready for the 6th grade!. Starting to grow my hair over my ears, and thinkin that was cool ! |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Wrong age (11) and wrong place for that .... |
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Location: Right now? | I was a freshman in high school. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Losov:
Originally posted by alpep:
it was conviscated by a nun and burned in an incinerator....
So you went to Catholic schools too? It was great preparation. When I got to boot camp there was NOTHIN' those guys could do to me that topped the nuns. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I was kicking around Lake St. Croix Beach, east of the Cities. I was two and don't remember it at all. Must have been the drugs. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I was 16 and my parents wouldn't let me go. They wouldn't let me go the Democratic National Convention in Chicago either. How unfair was that? Good thing somebody was thinking |
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Location: ms | I was a child of God walking along the road. But it was a dirt road down in Mississippi. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I remember sitting in the den watching the news with Mom and Dad. I was a freshman in high school, and Daddy asked me if I would have liked to be there. I said yes of course. When he asked me why I'd want to put up with the crowds and the mud, I simply said, "Jimi Hendrix". |
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Location: Chicago | An 11-year old SF Bay Area (Los Altos Hills) kid who had recently discovered guitar and was obsessively studying it. Read the San Francisco Chronicle account of the festival, yes, and Circus mag. Bought the TRIPLE LP hot off the rack and gotta say: "I'm Goin' Home" Alvin Lee and 10 Yrs. After blew my little mind: Santana, Hendrix, the Airplane, Who..... Holy Sh*t! I was never the same. |
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Location: SoCal | At Shaw AFB, Sumpter, SC...coming out of flight school with a stop-over at the Air Force's primary training base for the recon version of the F-4. Five bases in seven weeks, everything we didn't have in storage was in a Fiat 124 Spyder (including a D-18 Martin 12-string).
Wouldn't have been far but not appropriate for someone about to be promoted to 1st Lt.
For the Sullivan show, sophomore in high school (Mt. Angel, OR), at a friends house. |
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Location: Texas | 10 years old in Mexico City.
Learning guitar and into the Beatles, Monkees and Hendrix but wanting to learn about bluegrass, banjos, mandolins and as much acoustic stuff I could.
Heard about it on the news but really not interested since according to my Mom it was just a bunch of hippies on drugs listening to loud rock and roll.
Of course now I feel like it is part of me since I have seen the movie so many times and listened to those artists all my life.
Plus had a chance to meet many people and artists that were there.
I love the whole Woodstock vibe and era.
Peace, love and rock and roll. |
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Location: Texas | ...and I had a '65 Strat, my first electric.
used to take it to bed with me.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
F-4 You're the man...
I maintained ECM 'tronics on the C, D and E. The ol' kerosene burner... awesome bird! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I was in the fetal position at the time. In utero. And on the wrong coast at that. :p |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 16 and had just moved from North Dakota to Kansas to start my junior year in a new State and new high school. I made the stupid decision to wait until I moved to get my driver's license and then found out it was too late for driver's ed. All that was way more important than Woodstock. That was a bad year. |
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Location: SoCal | About the time I got to my 1st squadron (VMCJ-3) in El Toro, they were transitioning from the EF-10 to the EA6A (two seat, later became the 4-seat B). It was a composite squadron so had both the RF-4B and the EA6A. Years later, Wing Electronic Warfare Officer, VP of Old Crows (San Diego), and VP of IEEE (San Diego). Funny, wasn't an engineer. Course (when I was eleven), I did build a 12-foot wind tunnel with my mom's vacuum cleaner motor...she didn't think it was funny as that just left her with a broom. After replacing her motor, I eventually found another one.
Had my dealings with nuns in grade school, then Benedictine Monks for the first 2 years of High School. When the high school transitioned to coed, we had the Benedictine nuns and monks.
Definitely prepared me for when I went to MCRD (boot camp in San Diego) and then OCS five months later.
What I remember is the TV coverage of the horrible traffic jams...course, in most of Southern California, that is the normal commute. |
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Location: south east Michigan | So... Beal was there.
Makes sense. A man deep into the music industry with access to a helicopter factory.
It's a slam dunk. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by cholloway:
1969 was not a very good year... Okay, Colin is always an upbeat guy. I've been around him enough to know that if something was "not very good" it probably has to do with his ex-wife. Am I close? |
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Location: Location Location Location | Nuns, Jesuit priests, boot camp...those were my big 3 training areas for the BIG one...Marriage. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | August of 1969 . . . I was in boot camp. A group of us took a motorcycle ride from L.A. to Victoria and north on Vancouver Island during the month of July before I went in. When I turned around and rode back to L.A., they headed east to Woodstock. Lucky bums. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | "Woodstock: Now and Then" Tonight 8pm EST; The History Channel; 120 min. |
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