IT WAS CALLED A "WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY" , AND WAS GOING TO BE AT MAX YASGURS PIG FARM, IN BETHEL, NEW YORK, A FEW PEOPLE WERE COMING, MAYBE ABOUT 50,000, ALL WAS GOING TO BE IN ORDER, NEW YORK STATE PUT ON A COUPLE OF HUNDRED TROOPERS FOR CROWD CONTROL TO HANDLE A FEW THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO WERE GOING TO LISTEN TO A FEW BANDS, SOME FOLK MUSIC AND IT WAS IN AUGUST WHERE IT WOULD BE WARM, SUNNY AND DRY.
THE MUSIC BEGAN AT 5PM ON FRIDAY AUGUST 15 AND CONTINUED UNTIL MONDAY AUGUST 18, THE PROBLEM, 450,000 SHOWED UP, THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AND ALL LOCAL ROADS WAS PLUGGED WITH CARS, IN CHARGE OF THE SECURITY WAS "WAVY GRAVY" AND 85 "PIG-FARMERS"...THE 5 GATES TO LET THE CROWD IN WERE MERLY CRASHED DOWN ALONG WITH THE SECURITY FENCES, AND TICKETS DIDN'T MATTER AS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS SHOWED UP, MANY BEFORE THE EVENT EVEN STARTED. WELL THE REST JUST TURNED INTO HISTORY!!!!
NEEDLES TO SAY, "I MISSED IT" AT THE TIME I WAS MARRIED TO MY FIRST WIFE, LIVING IN ROCHESTER, NY, , 2 KIDS, WORKING 3 JOBS, VIETNAM WAS IN FULL BLOOM, THE NATION WAS IN TURMOIL, ABBIE HOFFMAN WAS IN CHARGE OF THE "YIPPIES", GOV. NELSON ROCKAFELLER WAS IN CHARGE OF THE STATE AND NOBODY WAS IN CHARGE OF WOODSTOCK.
IT WAS FREE LOVE, FREE DRUGS, FREE SEX, AND FREEDOM, BOTTLED WATER WAS $5.00 A BOTTLE, AND DRUGS WERE FREE!!! NOT ENOUGH FOOD, NOT ENOUGH MEDICAL CARE, 2 PEOPLE DIED, 2 BABIES WERE BORN, THE RAINS CAME, AND IT RAINED SOME MORE AND MUD WAS THE PLAYING FIELD AND A SMALL POND ON THE FARM FOR WATERING CATTLE WAS THE PLACE FOR SKINNY DIPPING TO CLEAN OFF THE MUD AND PICTURE TAKING.
WELL I DIDN'T GET TO GO TO WOODSTOCK, I HAD A FEW FRIENDS WHO DID GO, THEY SAID IT WAS THE "TRIP" OF A LIFETIME!!!
ALL WAS NOT LOST AS I STILL HAVE ALL MY OLD RECORDS OF "WOODSTOCK" !!!!!
HARD TO BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN 40 YEARS SINCE WOODSTOCK!!!
HERE IT WAS, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF "BABY BOOMERS" ALL AT THE "PIG FARM" FOR A "MUSICAL FEST CALLED "WOODSTOCK", BETHEL, NEW YORK!!!!
THE STAGE WAS SET, AND THE CROWDS WERE ON THEIR WAY OR ALREADY THERE!
THE ROADS WERE PACKED, THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY WAS BLOCKED, THE ONLY WAY IN TO THE PIG FARM FOR "WOODSTOCK" WAS HOOF IT IN!!!
WHEN WATER WAS SELLING FOR $5.00 DOLLARS A BOTTLE YOU GOT IT WHERE EVER YOU COULD!!!
LOOK AT ME IS WHAT I THINK SHE WAS SAYING!!!!!!!
THEY DROVE, WALKED, HITCH-HIKED AND TRECKED TO GET TO THE PIG FARM!!!
SHOWING IT ALL FOR A LITTLE ATTENTION SO AS NOT TO BE 1 OF THE FEW 450,000 WHO WERE THERE!!!!!
JIMMI DID HIS BEST BUT I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY HE DID A COUPLE OF SONGS!!
LIKE THE SONG SAID, WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN"!!! *(ccr)
THEY CAME WITH EVERYTHING OR WITH JUST A KID ON THE HIP!!!
THE "AFRO" BEADS, BANGLES AND WHOOPEE!!!!
"PEARL" *(JANIS JOPLIN) GAVE SOME OF HER BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAD, MOM AND THE KIDS ALL SHOWED UP FOR THE "EVENT"!!!
ARLO GUTHRIE SAYING A FEW WORDS ABOUT "LOVE AND PEACE"!!!
AND ALICES RESTAURANT!!
LIKE THE SIDE OF HIS CAR SAID, "WAR IS NOT HEALTHY" I BET HE WAS A #$3@4-%&#%@ "DRAFT-DODGER"!!!
FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN THEY CAME AND STAYED!!!
AND IT RAINED SOME MORE!!!!!
THE RAIN NEVER STOPPED!!!! AND THE PARTIES OVER!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGET-REMEMBER THE VETS WHO WERE FIGHTING IN 1969 SO THEY COULD HAVE THEIR"WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY"!!!!
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