This year is the 40th anniversary of WOODSTOCK  

Yes i do remember the first Woodstock Music festival as i was very much a young college student with my own band called ARCHIBEATS. I was the lead guitarist and my favourite was Carlo Santana, Joe Cocker. Sly and the Family Stone.Those were great times though i wasn`t taken up with the hippy culture but used to see hippies regularly in my city of Bombay. Goa was the fav destination of the hippies and they would throng Bombay before going to Goa.Yes, i do miss the old Woodstock though i have a couple of cassettes.Soul Sacrifice,anyone?

Summer of 69 I had just had my last son in MArch dont even know if I even watched much tv at that time.
as we were staying with my SIL or close by adn so much was happening back then.
CAnt remember when I really heard about Woodstock but I do like the music of most of the ones you talked about.
Yes and to bad all concerts cant go like that one!
I have seen peices it on tv since then tho

The summer of 1969 I was 1 year old. My parents had been married for 4 years and I had a brother that was 4 years older than me. I don't remember much of the years up till about the late 70's or early 80's. I don't know anyone that was in the Woodstock era...actively participating that is. I've heard it was a pretty wild time though.

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Hey celtic! OLD HIPPIE HERE! I remember it well! I was too
young to go, only 16! And my parents wouldn't let me go!
Damn it! I had some friends that were going and I wanted to
go with! I have that album and no record player and wish so
much that I could listen to it again! I loved Jimi Hendrix
playing the Star Spangled Banner! That was the best rendition
ever! Could he play that guitar! And don't forget Carlos Santana!
I loved Janis Joplin too singing Ball and Chain, Summertime....
And I was a big Arlo Guthrie fan too! Hell, I loved so many
artists that were there! Remember Country Joe and the Fish
"And it's one, two three what are we fightin' for, Don't ask
me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam!" That was one
of the best times in the history of music! It was all about
peace and love! That was an incredible time to be alive,
except for the Viet Nam War!

It's also the fortieth anniversary of my high school graduation. Old flower child here. The summer of 1969 was a big deal in my life, emotionally for many reasons. I became pregnant with my daughter in May of that year, I remember what I was doing during the moon landing, the paranoia I felt during the period of the Manson murders, everything else from that summer just comes rushing back. Sometimes the nostalgia is almost too much and I can't listen to the music. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it was amazing the music we got to hear, often for free.

When I think of Janis, I think especially about the Monterey festival, because that was when she first came out with that huge voice of hers and stunned the crowd. Nobody had heard anything quite like her before, and I don't think have since.

I didn't go to Woodstock so only saw the movie later with everyone else. Great music, and I think the movie was very, very well done. I do think Hendrix provided the most powerful moments.

Did you see the Band's "Last Waltz"? That was another perfect concert film.

hiya celticeagle

I was only 11 years old back then and I'm from the UK, but I've seen enough footage of woodstock and loved the flower-power hippies getting high and spreading words of love and peace man You're right peace was more desired in those days.
My sister was into Jimi Hendrix and my brother loved Sly and the family Stone, so I'm no stranger to that music, and I've heard of Janis Joplin.
I loved Electric Ladyland Jimi Hendriz is bound to be in most oldies collections.

Alice

I sure do know what your talking about. And Hendrix hits me too. Yes I am an old hippie that never turned yuppie. I was at the farm but didn't go down on. Now ask me why. Why you ask? Because I have a problem of having to be near a bathroom.LOL Sad isn't it but true. It was wonderful and I wish I could say I saw it all. I loved being that close thow, and there is somethingt to be said for the peace we pushed.

Thanks for the memory.

Yep, another old hippie checkin' in...I was fifteen at the time and really getting in to the rock music of the time...couldn't make it to the show but I was there in spirit. I've been lucky enough over the years to have seen nine of the bands that played there. Sadly I never got to see Janis or Jimi but some of my favorites were CSN, Ten Years After, and the Grateful Dead.