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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Anybody else catch the Woodstock special on the History channel over the weekend? Great stuff. Lots of interviews with the artists, attendees, and promoters. Nothing like that will ever happen again. Too many rules and regulations. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I saw it a while back.
It is a good program and the "sister" program about sex in '69 really gets into the "free love" Haight-Ashbury scene.
I found the "sex in 69" more interesting cause I have heard the Woodstock stuff ad nauseam.
both worth watching |
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Location: south east Michigan | Stephen.. it's to bad we visited Haight-Ashbury 41 years too late.
Damn...
so close. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | yeah...but I still got some pretty cool vibes just by being there.
I just wish we had known that the old Jefferson Airplane house/mansion was within walking distance of Amoeba Records. I would have liked to have seen it. |
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Location: NJ | saw the specials a while back and they are interesting.
stephen we talked about the haight while walking down it and that was cool |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...1973.
While I was still in the navy, I had a friend who's cousin managed an apartment building at the corner of Haight & Ashbury. We stopped by his place on our way to see Zeppelin at the stadium.... let's just say we got "prepared"..... cool place. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I rode through the HA District on a motorcycle in July, 1969. I didn't notice that it was whole lot different from the beaches in Southern California where I lived back then. Just a lot more people my age (and a little older) dressed in rags and looking for freebies from older people with whom we shared, for the most part, a mutual sense of misunderstanding and lack of respect. Of course, back then, we had no idea what it would someday mean from a historical perspective. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | I often wonder if a significant proportion of the attendees, if interviewed now, would say that they couldn't hear the music, were cold, wet and hungry and were really annoyed by the thousands of drunks and stoned people falling about and puking on them. (I just wonder, I'm not saying it's so). My parents (not in the US admittedly) spent the late 60's working hard, buying a house and starting a family. Probably heard some of that pop music on the wireless alright... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Let's not be L 7. |
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| Sycamore is right.Being at woodstock must have sucked for most of the people there.Look at the old films,thousands of people with no food,water,shelter.Shit everywhere,naked people running around,fights and drugs were just a step away,and it lasted 3 days.And no Ovation guitars,that must have been the worst part. |
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Woodstock special on the History channel
