Woodstock 1969 Fan Stories

Woodstock was an accident for me, one of those great accidents that happen once in a lifetime and you never forget. Until Friday evening August 15th, 1969 I had never heard of Wood…

I went to Woodstock with my friends, Dave Semjchuk, John O\'Hara, John Bragg and his little brother Gregory and a couple of girls who were friends of John B\'s. I think a couple of…

The fact of the matter is that during my summer break from college at WSU, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, I came up with this great brain storm. I would drive from Wisconsin and drop in…

The summer of 1969 had been really hot and sweaty nothing much was happening around the Bronx, until my rock band, Group Power found out in early August that there was a super conc…

I had my (full, 3 day) ticket a month ahead of time. In fact, we had things planned a month ahead of time, but there were some inadvertant glitches (not the traffic, nor busts, btw…

Woodstock Sound-Outs, Van Morrison and No Beans. © Dakini Verona 1969. The year was an infamous one in the history of the era… and it was a very important year in my life. I had ju…

i was born in England in 1962. my mother was 16 when i was born and i grew up listening to the Beatles, the who and early american mucsicians, it was in my blood early. we moved to…

Yes, I was there. I have my original program, but I gave up $18.00 ticket at the gate since I was there early enough that they were still taking tickets! Went with some friends fro…

It was the summer of 1969, my husband found out about the woodstock concert being held in Woodstock NY, I worked at an airline and we lived in Dallas Tx. On the spur of the moment …

I was only 15 at the time.. and Heidi, (my sister) was 19. I was staying with her for the summer at her house in Buffalo, New York. We were pretty fond of the music at the time, ev…

The summer of 69 was a tumultuos time in Washington, D.C.. Nixon was president and the demonstrations were a fairly regular event that attracted crowds that rivaled Woodstock. Geor…

Who was Joe Tuck? He was; well, Joe Tuck,-- they, the University, if they had been bent on exhibiting some new face of tolerance, in admitting him it could only have been tolerance…

Hello, I\'ve attached a short letter and photo that I sent to David Geffen on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. I never received a reply and I didn\'t expect one. The reason being…

I never got to Woodstock but a friend of mine did, his story and mine is below I am 58 now and looking back at my life, the old friends that I have lost and those I have just lost …

HI, I\'m age 56. I grew up in a time commonly known today as the explosive generation of the 1960\'s. Where racial hatred and unrest, deadly riots, along with anti- war protest and…

A true story: I had just moved to Philadelphia area from New York and met some new friends. Fred told me about a concert coming up in upstate NY and since I had a car, he wanted to…

I was 16 in the summer of \'69. A bunch of us were working the tobacco fields around Essa township near Angus, Ontario. There were two outdoor concerts coming up one called The Fre…

Background: I was a senior at Cleveland Heights High School. The world was changing from the Ozzie and Harriet, My 3 Son traditional family life. I lived in Cleveland Height, Ohio …

I was 15 years old in 1969 and spending the summer as a CIT (counselor-in-training, kinda like a camp counselor\'s go-fer) at Holiday Ranch Camp, a horseback riding summer camp for…

I read about this \"Three days of music and peace\" concert while in Harvard Square one day and thought it would be the perfect gift for my first anniversary! We were 20 yrs old. I…

In 1969, I was too young to know very much about the Woodstock festival. I had heard a little bit about it after the fact, but didn\'t pay much attention to it. By the time the mov…

We were living in Michigan in August of 1969. I was 23 in January that year and my husband, Bob was 24. Bob worked on the fender line for Chrysler. He came home from work on the 16…

My family had just moved to New York and I got a summer job working in a car parts dealer. I was 19. My new friend Ron asked me if I wanted to go to a rock concert upstate. I asked…

My trek to Woodstock follows the words to a great David Crosby song, it’s been a long time comin and it’s goin\' to be a long time gone. I was a month shy of my 17th birthday, look…

I was 7 years old in the summer of \'69. I already loved the music of that era. I was in Northwest Indiana at that time living by Lake Michigan. If anyone was going to Woodstock I …

As I am swept through the lush overgrown farmland surrounding New Hope Pennsylvania, I can\'t help but reflect upon Woodstock New York where I spent a great part of my youth. Indee…

In Joni Mitchel’s lyrical homage to Woodstock, her words \"and we’ve got to get ourselves back in the garden\" do not mean falling into a static dead letter pile of unvital statist…

Unfortunately, I was only born in October of 1969; too late to attend the original. As luck would have it, a friend of mine who was a hippie and lived @ height ashbury back in \"67…

That Summer of \'69 myself and some buddies headed out from Southern California for the East Coast and a plan to go to the Woodstock concert with actual tickets in hand. One notewo…

http://robdrum.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3883892%3ABlogPost%3A125 Reaction Paper/Woodstock Robert Marcus Hudson County Community College Spring 2009 Mus 101: Introduction to M…

I lived in Upstate New York during the 1960\'s and \'70\'s. My family was getting ready to move to Monroe, New York from Suffern (NY). Monroe is near one of the main highways (17W)…

I and my fellow musician-friends drove up in a VW bus (of COURSE!). Our first feelings of real exhilaration were when once we drove out of New Jersey (from Morristown), got on the …

I’m an “Underground Music” columnist my job is to find obscure bands and review them, bring them to the masses. But, Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. No band that …

I\'m the type of person who thought the 19 minute Greatful Dead song \"Shine your Love Light\" was not only good but unbelievable. Seems that most others thought it was horrible. P…

West Fest... not exactly Woodstock since it was only a day event rather then 3, but man was there love,peace, and music everywhere. I found out about West Fest on woodstockstory li…

being 14 and in the pop culture of the suburbs it is rare for a 14 year old like me to be into the music i am. i grown up with the sounds of classic and psychedelic rock my mom was…

HUMAN CONDITION Salubrious slime thinly coated Through foul excrement trudgingly devoted Insatiable tube through which passes Endless sludge the culture of the masses Sightless org…

Three long score have I stumbled forward in vain Weighed down by indifference and mediocrity Adrift in the glare of self pity and inactivity A mechanical being devoid of sympathy S…

On the first of “four days of peace, love and music,” we packed ourselves into a Dodge Dart and drove from New Paltz to Bethel. OK, somewhere NEAR Bethel -- we got to within nine m…

How does it feel to be filmed without you knowing? To find yourself up on the screen \"glowing\" in the dark, as it were, along with countless thousands of other \"freaks\" (as Arl…

I decided to go to woodstock 99 because my grandfather before me was there in 69 and told me that if i missed woodstock i would miss being a part of history. so me and eight friend…

Woodstock was an accident for me, one of those great accidents that happen once in a lifetime and you never forget. Until Friday evening August 15th, 1969 I had never heard of Wood…

That;s right! I didn\'t go even after a barage of requests from my friends fo about a month or 2 before. I had just turned 20. I was over my head in the Woodstock generation but st…

Woodstock 25th anniversary Aug 1994: During the summer of 1994, my husband talked me into going to Woodstock 94. I would have preferred Disneyland, but he said it was a once in a l…

I was 10 years old when Woodstock Happened. I grew up hearing about it and I read articals on it.Saw the movie when it came out on video. I aways felt that even though I wasn\'t th…

Saturday 08/15/2009 I finally when back to Woodstock or (Bethel Woods) after 40 years. I have to admit I was amazed to see how they changed the place. A new music center, a museum,…

I was raised on the west coast during the 60\'s and I was on that coast when Woodstock happened. But \"The Woodstock Generation\" sure fit us...we lived and breathed it. I wish I c…

I was working my way through college in the summer of \'69. A friend and I, we played together in a rock band, planned to drive up to Woodstock in my jalopy, a 1950 Plymouth sedan.…

Living in a camp in the national forest outside Aspen with droves of folks going through Colorado. They found their way to the families and the land outside Aspen and Boulder - sto…

1969 - did not go quiet as decades before had disappeared into the lost memories of history buffs. “Woodstock“, “Hippy“, “The Summer Of Love“, “Haight and Asbury” will remain with …

I was a rock promoter in Toronto at the time and very well known in the business. I got a call at my office in July from a Michael Lang, inviting us to come to his festival the fol…

Atlantic City Rock Festival Test driving my newly-purchased-with-babysitting-money, first-car, 1963 Ford Falcon station wagon, my friend Jenny and I, both 17, had driven from Cleve…

It was early August 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when me and my friend Carlos Muriel saw an add in Rolling Stone magazine...\"3 days of Peace and Music\". After looking at the li…

In early August of 1969 I was really looking forward to Woodstock. I had seen the posters around New York City. I asked around and found a couple of guys from Westfield, NJ who wer…

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me I\'m going on down to Yasgurs farm I\'m going to join in a rock n …

Hello Everyone! My first experience at Woodstock was in \'95, the last year it was on the original site. It was very beautiful, I even brought my 1year old son. Since then we\'ve b…

As for me, I was 22 and my best friend Bonnie and I had left NJ to head to California in early summer of \'69. Once there we found out about the Woodstock Festival. So we hopped ba…

I live in India...and when Woodstock happened I was 12 years old. So no I didn\'t get to witness the real thing. However, I saw the film 7 times. I play and sing Woodstock (CSNY) a…

part 1 ...after getting to Woodstock Friday morning, we walked to the field which was only a couple miles further on. I had the idea to tape the event with a small tape recorder an…

We were two girls from a small town in California , my best friend Janet and I were both 20 had been to San Francisco at the Haight/ Ashbury in February of 69 to check it out , but…

I submitted a story to Rolling Stone upon my return from the 1969 event..if memory serves, my story was one of the ones that got published along with others who attended. I thought…

I have some vivid memories, if not fragmentated, of my Woodstock adventure, Including driving my \"57\" Chevy Belair to Woodstock, with my brother Garry, his girlfriend Laverne and…

I was the product of a broken home and was living with my grandparents in upstate New York -unhappily since I was a Brooklyn boy- during the middle and late 60’s. As many children …

I WAS ALWAYS TOLD I WAS A THROW BACK FROM THE SIXTIES I was six (6) when the Woodstock Festival took place....I was visiting my Aunt Nell\'s in Centereach , LI at the time.....all …

I hadn\'t heard of the concert until several days before it happened. A friend of mine, Terry (who has since passed from this realm), told me there was going to be a concert in ups…

I hadn\'t heard of the concert until several days before it happened. A friend of mine, Terry (who has since passed from this realm), told me there was going to be a concert in ups…

I rarely talk about Woodstock 1969 much less set out to pin down in print an event made threadbare by time. Somehow the airing might oxidize the doing. I\'ve kept Woodstock pockete…

In 1969 my new girlfriend (later my wife) Barbara and I were spending our first summer together on Long Island, NY. We were working as maids at a tennis resort in the Hamptons. It …

1969 - I was 12 years old, the Griswold Family Vacation voted to stop the station wagon near Bethel. Looking for a geological dig site, we couldn\'t figure how to get gems out of a…

August 13, 1969. My parents said woodstock was a cultural disaster and that there was no chance in hell i was going. Of course I went. I told them my band \" The Groovy Smoothies\"…

Woodstock…My Story Woodstock, yeah, I was there in 1969 for that celebration of life through music. Some still crack it up to a big drug and sex fest. When I talk seriously about W…

As I approached Woodstock, the crowds were enormous and I began to worry that I might not be allowed into the festival. So I stopped and paid seven dollars for a ticket to the Frid…

I was a neophyte, 27. Sitting amongst hundreds of thousands of bodies knees to backs and backs to knees. All sorts of mind tools passing by that seemed to not end. One of my favori…

I didn\'t go to Woodstock. I had to work at a Howard Johnson\'s Restaurant in I-84 just over into Connecticut. The city was Danbury. I remember waiting on many folks that nite as t…

by Rupe (stage crew) I was always a fan and I was curious about the \"happening\" in \'69 but I never went because at the time I was only 15 and the folks said, \"bla bla bla\" ...…

I was twenty years old and a seminary student in the summer of 1969. I was a loner, a peripheral man on the fringes of both the counterculture and society at large. It was a turbul…

I was driven down a road from which i would never return the same. I grew up on 60\'s and 70\'s music even though I was born in 1974. This music resonated through me like never bef…

When woodstock happened back in \'69, I wasn*t even a twinkle in my parents\' eyes. As I grew up, I heard their amazing stories of their experience (yes, they were part of the hist…

I came to Woodstock to Die in 1969 - an angel saved my life.... I knew it would happen. It\'s 3:am in the morning and I can\'t sleep. I\'m thinking about the trip I made back to Be…

It was June of 1969 and the status quo of the USA was in transformation. Our standing as a member of the world community was questionable and the youth of America were morphing soc…

At the time I was living in New Jersey when I found out about the festival. A group of my friends and I finally were able to get tickets. There were seven of us all together. Our o…

Moose Jaw, SK is a small city in Saskatchewan, Canada and a 3 day drive away from where the 1994 Woodstock celebration was held. And at the age of 19 I would have done anything to …

Woodstock is a part of me. I was not even born yet though everything I am is from the gifts my Mother gave me. She was a \"true flower child\" and in 1969 she was 17 defining herse…

in 1969 I came to this country from colombia south america and the first place I went was woodstock in august I met my first american girlfriend by the lake on my second day in woo…

Even though I wear a suit and work for a corporation - Woodstock Nation has lasted all these years and carried me throughout. At 19 years old, I begged my mom to lend me her new st…

Woodstock by Javier Campost (translated from English by Nick W. Hill) I wasn’t at Woodstock in August 1969 among these peaceful green hills a summer day about this same time when i…

I was born in 1950 and I can tell you, the late 60\'s was a time like no other. I had just graduated from high school and it seemed everything in the world was revolving around mus…

Attended the first in 1969. Flew back home to New Hampshire from a summer of bumming around Alaska, and hitched down to Bethel for music and magic under the sun, moon, stars and ..…

My best friend and I decided to go to Woodstock \'94 but we were only 17 (a month away from 18) and both didn\'t have cars. I got the bright idea that we should hitch hike there (f…

Woodstock Times ©Emerson Dean Brooking, Ph.D. I heard about a music festival that was being held over the weekend in New York. As I had a couple of days before school began, I deci…

I was born in Poland in 1994 (not that long ago, I know), and I grew up in a family that loved music. My dad\'s love for music swiftly infected my sister and later on me. I remembe…

This particular experience happened to my friend Dave and myself on the second or third or maybe it was the fourth day. Their are only a few things that I remember, like getting th…

The latrines overflowed in Rome during Woodstock 1999 ... I drove up there with my 2 kids, they were 13 and 15 at the time. It was Rachel who observed that in 1969, the watchword w…

It all started in the summer of \'69. My old man and old lady sadly split. Daddy O decided to split the scene and go truckin out east. By coincidence he was asked to deliver a new …

My name is Deneen and I am on a never-ending search for my bio-parents. I have always had a weird feeling that my bio-parents were at woodstock. I am drawn to anything woodstock ho…

Duane & Paulette\'s story: In 1969, we were high school buddies, part of a group of friends into music and art who got sent to the Principal’s office for hair too long, or dress to…

i prepared for months for everything and anything bus drivers went on strike due to no lunch break i have a whole ticket tent,booze,dry white socks,new waterproof hikers,and a chai…

MY DAUGHTE AND I WENT TO WOODSTOCK 25TH ANNNAVERSARY. IT WAS A GREAT ADVENTURE AND A GOOD TIME. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY EX-HUSBAND: FOR IMPLING IT WAS CRAZY TO TAKE A 16 YEAR OLD …

I got to Woodstock on Thursday (day before it started) and was driving my \'69 Dodge van through the festival grounds when someone from the crowd asked if he could hitch a ride on …

I graduated from the class of 1969 in a small New Mexico town. Three days after graduation, I moved to San Antonio, TX. I wasn\'t at that time a hippie; I was pretty green growing …

When I was about 18 a friend of mine introduced me to a girl named Joyce Kelly. Joyce wasn’t a beauty, but she had something special, a whispering voice, she was kind and considera…

\"Building a Getting To Woodstock\" ... Woodstock Renion 2009,... To: http://www.woodstockstory.com/contact.html 06-05-09 Sparrow LaPoint ~.........................................…

I had just turned 18 on Aug 3rd. My mother let me go to Woodstock, because my big brother (age 21) was going with me- boy was that a mistake! 4 of us ( my best friend, and my broth…

We all lived & worked in the White Plains NY area & heard ads for Woodstock onWPLJ fm. It sounded like a cool weekend so we all bought tickets (still have em). When I got home from…

I have never been to a music festival, so, that proves that I have never been to anything relating to Woodstock, seeing as I was not alive when Woodstock \'69 took place (I\'m 12 y…

Twiggy and I were 19 the summer of Woodstock, we had long straight hair with bangs, wore bell bottoms and see through eastern european embroidered peasant blouses. I think i had my…

I was 15 in 1969 and had admission tickets, back then they were sold on WNEW radio. we had tickets for the Art show admission, not the Music show. I was an artist and those were th…

I took the \"Magic Bus to Woodstock\" from Baltimore MD that left at midnight Thursday and we arrived to the sound of the driver telling everyone they had to get off the bus as he …

It\'s all in bits and pieces, no flow or ebb to my memories, or lack of, just the distant feeling of pure amazement, fun, and wonder, too young to be affected by nature\'s conditio…

In 69 I was a 16 year old in search of a deeper meaning of life. I walked in all the anti-war rallies and attended the war moratoriums. Lost a cousin in that war. I was experimenti…

I was 15 when Woodstock happened and I lived a world away from it. All my gods and heroes were there at the time. Then the record came out with the unforgettable gatefold cover and…

I did not get to attend the 1969 festival but one of my memories of it is my father and I watching a news video of the concert-the video from the helicopter in the Canned Heat movi…

Yes, I was there with the Crisis Team, from the Family of Woodstock organization. I can tell you that a \"Love In\" this was not. An ecstasy laden rave with George Clinton, food th…

Wishing I could have been there, but was in Vietnam at the time, just was able to read about it, being bummed that I could not be there, still love that era, always a hippie, will …

First and foremost, thanks so much for the groovy site...I love it! I was 13 years old when Woodstock changed our world. I lived in Arizona at the time with my picture perfect, sta…

Don’t forget …my fellow Woodstock Sojourners…the world, and the times we came from…growing up in the relative innocence of the 1950’s …followed up by one of the most tumultuous and…

I knew it would happen. It\'s 3:am in the morning and I can\'t sleep. I\'m thinking about the trip I made back to Bethel NY in August 2008, to the site of the original Woodstock Fe…

First of all I would like to say..man, Willits what are u thinking!! Back in 1994 my sister, Tami, and best friend, Sara, and I took off across the USA. Our goal: Woodstock 94! It …

One of my most vivid memories while at Woodstock comes back every time I hear Canned Heat\'s \"Up to the Country\". I had to use a port o potty really bad! I kept going from one to…