Hope this doesn't cause any flashbacks
Jun 5, 2019 19:59:29 #
I was told if I remember this festival, I wasn't there. Just out of the USAF, just married, looking for gainful employment. I was busy so I missed it.
Looks a bit like poverty in a third world country.
Why do they all look so young?
Bill
Looks a bit like poverty in a third world country.
Why do they all look so young?
Bill
Jun 5, 2019 20:27:20 #
?? Unless you retired with 30 years, You would have been 6 (if retired with 20) at the time of Woodstock.
I was 17 - was in a rock band - but none of us did drugs. I had NO interest in going - and Glad I didn't.
I do NOT like Mud - which was why I was in the USAF x 26 instead of the Army.
My Brother 15 wanted to go - - but parents said Fugeddaboudit !!
It was the best of times. The worst of times are yet to come (Revelation).
I was 17 - was in a rock band - but none of us did drugs. I had NO interest in going - and Glad I didn't.
I do NOT like Mud - which was why I was in the USAF x 26 instead of the Army.
My Brother 15 wanted to go - - but parents said Fugeddaboudit !!
It was the best of times. The worst of times are yet to come (Revelation).
Jun 5, 2019 20:45:48 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
?? Unless you retired with 30 years, You would have been 6 (if retired with 20) at the time of Woodstock.
I was 17 - was in a rock band - but none of us did drugs. I had NO interest in going - and Glad I didn't.
I do NOT like Mud - which was why I was in the USAF x 26 instead of the Army.
My Brother 15 wanted to go - - but parents said Fugeddaboudit !!
It was the best of times. The worst of times are yet to come (Revelation).
I was 17 - was in a rock band - but none of us did drugs. I had NO interest in going - and Glad I didn't.
I do NOT like Mud - which was why I was in the USAF x 26 instead of the Army.
My Brother 15 wanted to go - - but parents said Fugeddaboudit !!
It was the best of times. The worst of times are yet to come (Revelation).
Revaluations? Thought that was Dickens. I did only the four I signed for. I was just shy of 22 when I got out in February,69 with an early out. Got married the fifth, three days later. Am now 72.
Bill
Jun 5, 2019 21:19:48 #
newtoyou wrote:
Silly Bill - - Revelation - - Last book in the New Testament.Revaluations? Thought that was Dickens. I did only the four I signed for. I was just shy of 22 when I got out in February,69 with an early out. Got married the fifth, three days later. Am now 72.
Bill
Bill
I stuck it out for 26 years - USAF. I was gonna be a Pilot - - but when Viet Nam shut down - -
They decided they needed Engineers more than the Glut of returning Pilots - -
So My slot was cancelled. Kinda Glad though - I got to help build GPS, and went on to do bigger things.
Now - I'm just a Kid at 66. Congrats :) :)
Jun 5, 2019 21:26:55 #
Jun 5, 2019 21:57:57 #
kpmac wrote:
Where all the problems with our country got started. Loved the music, though.
I still do. Rock is the only genre to use all genres.
Can't say I agree with your viewpoint of it being the cause of all our country's ills tho. It was not the cause of a police action that relieved our country's youth population. All those who had a problem with our government's duplicity. That problem still exists.
Woodstock may have been one of many symptoms, but surely not a cause.
Bill
Jun 5, 2019 23:02:59 #
Frankly, in spite of the mud, I wish I could say I had gone. I was just back from VietNam, returning to college, and a rock concert was not part of my agenda, but there were some memorable performances I would have loved to experienced live. Interestingly, I just saw an excellent documentary on it last night featuring performances by the likes of Santana, Baez, Richie Havens, CCR, The Band, )efferson Airplane, The Dead and Joplin. Good stuff!
Jun 6, 2019 07:39:19 #
Jun 6, 2019 07:58:10 #
JeffL
Loc: New Jersey
kpmac wrote:
Where all the problems with our country got started. Loved the music, though.
No, our problems started in Washington, DC, where they continue and actually worsen. I sometimes wonder what Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, and others could have contributed to the music of our times had drugs not taken them too soon. And, in 1969 I was just finishing my 8th year in the USAF, planning to leave.
Jun 6, 2019 09:52:46 #
Our problems are of our own making, each and everyone of us PERIOD.
Jun 6, 2019 10:01:11 #
sr71 wrote:
Our problems are of our own making, each and everyone of us PERIOD.
How true. By the way, do or did you fly one of those 71's?
What an adrenaline rush that must be.
Bill
Jun 6, 2019 10:35:13 #
newtoyou wrote:
I was told if I remember this festival, I wasn't there. Just out of the USAF, just married, looking for gainful employment. I was busy so I missed it.
Looks a bit like poverty in a third world country.
Why do they all look so young?
Bill
Looks a bit like poverty in a third world country.
Why do they all look so young?
Bill
OMGosh. I just googled to see the value of this edition.
Look if you want a surprise.
Bill
Jun 6, 2019 10:59:58 #
newtoyou wrote:
I still do. Rock is the only genre to use all genres.
Can't say I agree with your viewpoint of it being the cause of all our country's ills tho. It was not the cause of a police action that relieved our country's youth population. All those who had a problem with our government's duplicity. That problem still exists.
Woodstock may have been one of many symptoms, but surely not a cause.
Bill
Can't say I agree with your viewpoint of it being the cause of all our country's ills tho. It was not the cause of a police action that relieved our country's youth population. All those who had a problem with our government's duplicity. That problem still exists.
Woodstock may have been one of many symptoms, but surely not a cause.
Bill
Well said. I was there all of 18 years old. Survived all the problems and had some great times in spite of them. My father said upon my return home that if his generation were in that same environment with hard alcohol, it would have been a disaster. Woodstock woke up the music industry, realizing how much money there was to be made off of "the kids." In '68 and '69, I saw Jimi Hendrix at a Hunter College Auditorium and Cream at the gym of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, NJ (with nuns flanking the stage!).
Jun 6, 2019 11:03:25 #
newtoyou wrote:
Revaluations? Thought that was Dickens. I did only the four I signed for. I was just shy of 22 when I got out in February,69 with an early out. Got married the fifth, three days later. Am now 72.
Bill
Bill
I went in the USAF in May 1st of 58 and was discharged in June 13 of 62. I enjoyed every minute of it. Made a great bunch of friends there. Got married 2 years after that and that was 53 years ago. The honeymoon isn't over as yet.
Jun 6, 2019 11:47:02 #
They are forgot to mention BS&T and the main star Monday morning Jimi Hendrix. So many bands there will never be a concert like Woodstock again with the talent that was around in thd late 60's. Wonderful time to be alive and listening to Rock & Rock!
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