Woodstock...were you there???  

Hi Misty, I got married very young and missed out on woodstock,I have always felt that I missed a lot..I was a young married girl with 3 babies and a control freak for a husband at that time...Oh how i wish I could have gone there,Im sure it was a blast.I really hate to tell you how young I was when I married but i will..I was 15 and my hubby at that time was 17..I told someone that once and they called me trash because I was married so young,but back then we all did that..I think that is why there are so many young grandmothers now days.I was a grandma at 31 years old....Im just now growing up and you can bet if it ever happened like that again "I would be there".... I lobe all those singers however and I have all their CDs...I stll dress in jeans and tops just like the old times,maybe im just an old hippie at heart...Oh man I bet you did have some fun back then...

I can't be%100 sure where I was. But I do know I was 15 at that time. It was 1969 I think. I was with the circus somewhere down south. Florida would be my guess. But I loved the whole concert etc. 3 days of great music. Goota love Hendrix though. Thanks.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!

Wow you were there! Finally I can say I know someone that actually attended. I must have been so "groovy" to be there lol. I envy you that experience.

Hi mistymornster..love the article. I've always been facinated by Woodstock, even though as pointed out by this article I knew very little. Good joy!

I was too young to go to woodstock, and being in canada I wouldn't have gone anyway. I did get a chance to see woodstock in the movie theater though.

I would never have walked around naked though, it just never was me.

Well I didn't get to go...and it wasn't for lack of trying. I was only 9 the time. We had "hippies" living next door in an apartment complex. Mostly college students and professors. We would sit outside with them and they would all play guitars and smoke pot. Us kids of course didn't smoke we just sat and sang songs. One of the professors and his wife were going and they said if our parents agreed we could go with them in their camper. Well I begged for weeks to no avail (like I would let my 9 yr old go..lol) Well of course we didn't get to go. But they told us all about the music and how some people got "carried away" (literally). I can't imagine what a "learning experience" it would have been for a 9 yr old, and my sister was only 6...lol Oh well...I've lived this long I guess I'll just be jealous of everyone that went forever...hehehe

I did not attend the festival because I live in the United Kingdom, which would make it quite a journey. Nevertheless, I do remember the festival well and it was televised here and reshown several times. Even after all these years it is still the most significant pop festival that ever took place, and as you say it is a part of pop history.

Hi Mistymornster, thanks for the very interesting article. I am too young to have been there, but I can tell you that I am a big fan of the music from those days and of the revolutionary feeling as well. It is sad that those kind of music and artist have become very rare.

I didn't make it to Woodstock...it was too far, as I lived in Western Washington, somewhat North and East of Seattle in what was then a farm and ranch community called Woodenville (Unfortunately pronounced like "Wood-en", but named after the Wooden family, and pronounced VO - den,
the family was from Holland.
I did make it to the FIRST American Rock Festival, which was called
"The Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair" held in 1968, one year before Woodstock, was held at Betty Nelson's Raspberry Farm and Commune (remember communes?) Known locally as "Betty's Farm" it was a wonderful place where free music was often performed. It (is?) was near Gold Bar, a small town at the foot of the Cascade mountains, near the Skykomish River. (Thus "Sky River Rock Festival)
Some of the bands and entertainers featured there included: Santana, Country Joe and the Fish, Big Mama Thornton,Allman Joy (Later called Allman Brothers)
James Cotton, and best of all: THE GRATEFUL DEAD!
The lighter than air part...was free hot air balloon rides! There are rumours that Pink Floyd played there...I do not remember them playing there, but to be honest, this WAS the psychedelic era...and I did indulge back then. Amazingly enough the promotional posters and artwork still remain, and are on the web.
MOST F**Kin AMAZING: The entire DEAD show was recorded on 1" master reel-to-reel tape...and YES! the tape yet exists! You can hear the complete GD show at Sky River! The history of America's first Rock Festival is viewable on the following site:
http://www.geocities.com and
www.historylink.org Google "Sky River Rock Festival"
for many links to this culturally significant piece of rock history.

Ciao - Ridgerunner