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Who here was at Woodstock? SOUND OFF! (VAN-ityyyy)
01/25/2024 | Me

Posted on 01/25/2024 5:08:57 PM PST by Az Joe

I have met 2 people who swear they were at Woodstock. I had no reason not to believe them.


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To: Az Joe

My Dad wouldn’t let me take his car for the w/e.

All in all that turned out OK.

I hate traffic jams and camping in the rain.


21 posted on 01/25/2024 5:19:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: EvilCapitalist

I was born a little less than a year after Woodstock ... can’t ask my mother about it any more, she has since passed.


22 posted on 01/25/2024 5:21:24 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Az Joe

The one in 1994?...


23 posted on 01/25/2024 5:22:03 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Reily

I’d vote for it.


24 posted on 01/25/2024 5:22:11 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Az Joe

My husband was there.
Hitchhiked bc of the traffic jam.
Lost him two years ago. 💔


25 posted on 01/25/2024 5:22:19 PM PST by Kiss7
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To: Az Joe

I went. It sucked, too dirty and far away for a 15 year old dumbass who ran away to go.

Then much to my mom’s desires I went to the Bull Island Soda Pop Festival in New Harmony, Indiana, a perfect location if you know the history of the area. Then we went to a 2 day event In Indianapolis that I can’t remember what it was called. Terrible experience..

Then I had the great fortune to attend what I consider the best festival of my concert going experience even though critics didn’t like it, the 3 day festival in Sedalia, Missouri. I still think about the awesome music I heard in Missouri.

Those were different times. I cannot imagine how much it would cost to try and do something like that in today’s world. Burning Man is kinda close with attendance numbers, but nothing else.


26 posted on 01/25/2024 5:24:58 PM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: Az Joe

Too young. I was 8. I thought Woodstock was a little bird on Charlie Brown.


27 posted on 01/25/2024 5:27:20 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Az Joe
I wasn't there but a bunch of teachers at The Meade School which I was at were talking about it and went. The teachers were all younger and one always wore a brown leather hat. He is in a prominent photo.

And here it is:

28 posted on 01/25/2024 5:27:43 PM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Az Joe

I met a bunch of musicians later that were there. Too young. I think I was 12.


29 posted on 01/25/2024 5:28:57 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Az Joe

I was 12, and I lived in Upstate NY, probably 150 miles away.

I probably would have gone had I been in college at the time, although I probably would have hated the logistics (food, shelter, facilities, getting there) more than I would have loved the music.

F LBJ, the Democrats, and the globalists who lied to get 58,000 of our troops killed, and countless more injured, physically, chemically, and psychologically. All so they could line their pockets


30 posted on 01/25/2024 5:29:11 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Az Joe

I remember some kid brought the Woodstock Album to listen in Art class, 7th grade. When they did the ‘Fish Chant’ (?) the teacher freaked out and scratched the record trying to take it off …


31 posted on 01/25/2024 5:32:59 PM PST by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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To: Az Joe
I was at a Boy Scout meeting one night at a Presbyterian Church Auditorium hall when one of the guys told us of a huge music outdoor concert in New York that had happened several months earlier.

I was not there at Woodstock and at the time had never even known about "grass."

32 posted on 01/25/2024 5:35:06 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Az Joe

Missed Woodstock, made Watkins Glenn.


33 posted on 01/25/2024 5:35:29 PM PST by knarf (I talk to much to be in jeapordy.)
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To: 11th_VA

If ALL the people who claimed to h ave been at Woodstock, WERE really there, it would have had to have been 10x larger. Same as people claiming to have been at game Babe Ruth supposedly pointed to a spot in the stands then hit a home run there. Same, just different.


34 posted on 01/25/2024 5:36:11 PM PST by desertsolitaire ( M)
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To: Az Joe

I was a 15 year old Boy Scout and a young neighbor couple borrowed my camping gear and it went. Does that count? :)


35 posted on 01/25/2024 5:36:43 PM PST by Shark24
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36 posted on 01/25/2024 5:37:21 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Az Joe

I was about to start my freshman year at Occidental College. I read about the event in the newspapers, but I didn’t care at all for that sort of music. I had my ear glued to KWIZ, an all Oldies station in Santa Ana, Calif. and also Chuck Cecil’s Swingin’ Years on KFI (Rush’s future home in the Southland), a program devoted to the Big Bands of the early- to mid-twentieth century. I was also starting to acquire a collection of records that today amounts to more than 1,000 78 rpm discs and a similar number of 45’s.


37 posted on 01/25/2024 5:38:22 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Az Joe

I joined the United States Army on 16 August 1969.


38 posted on 01/25/2024 5:38:33 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: musicman

We have a winnerrrr!!!!


39 posted on 01/25/2024 5:39:00 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Az Joe

I briefly thought about it, but correctly figured it would be a real logistical mess. More recently, I got to know a guy who was there selling acid and he did lots of it himself.

He is a flaming liberal, and the acid may well have caused it. He hated Trump with a white-hot passion, and that’s why I stopped talking to him. Don’t know if he’s still alive, and don’t care. Most likely the clot shot got him by now.


40 posted on 01/25/2024 5:41:41 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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