mikeyank
Long time forumite
1969 was a monumental year, with a man walking on the moon, the New York Mets winning the World Series, (much to my chagrin) and The Woodstock Music & Art Fair - "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". I was home for the summer from my first year away at college, and the rock radio station in New York City at the time, WNEW-FM had been heavily promoting the weekend, and I was asked to go with several guys from my summer job, but I declined. Initially with all the reports on the news that weekend of the traffic, the overcrowding, the lack of food and the rain made me glad I was home in my parent's house that weekend, but in retrospect it would have been a hell of a memory, but at least we have the music and the movie to make us feel like we might have been there.
That weekend proved to the world that the rock and roll culture had turned a corner moving the musical experience into the next level. We met Jimmy Hendrix, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, the underrated but incredible Riche Havens, Canned Heat, and even Sha Na Na for comic relief, and those are just off the top of my head. Wikipedia, as usual has the complete list of acts and story of the weekend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock
And of course we got to see the shirtless and sometimes naked hippies in the mud and practicing make love and not war. It was an amazing memory, even if I never made the trip upstate to Bethel NY, myself.
That weekend proved to the world that the rock and roll culture had turned a corner moving the musical experience into the next level. We met Jimmy Hendrix, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, the underrated but incredible Riche Havens, Canned Heat, and even Sha Na Na for comic relief, and those are just off the top of my head. Wikipedia, as usual has the complete list of acts and story of the weekend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock
And of course we got to see the shirtless and sometimes naked hippies in the mud and practicing make love and not war. It was an amazing memory, even if I never made the trip upstate to Bethel NY, myself.