Woodstock 1969

[MonarC]

Was anyone here, at Woodstock 69'?

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

I wasn't even alive. But the 30th anniversary for it, Woodstock '99, was held here in my hometown in Rome, NY. I was only 10, though, and too young to go to that nutfest. My mom and aunt and older cousins went, though. I remember hearing the music from my grandma's house, and seeing all the blimps and planes. Most exciting thing that's ever happened here in...ever. Unfortunately it went to **** really fast. Exhibit A:

From

To

Good old Rome.

[MonarC]

Wow! That's pretty exciting.

I just was curious if maybe someone here was there. Im sure it was an amazing experience. I would have loved to see Jimi Hendrix play.

[70s show watcher]

i wasant but my mother was she and a few friends went

[MonarC]

That's cool. Get your mom to tell us a story about it.

[MrCleveland]

Only in photos, music, and movies. I wasn't even around for the first one.

But it seemed like a wonderful time that I wish I had a Time Machine and go there. (I hope there's a way soon that you can go through time without ****ing something up).

There was a '94 Concert which went okay.
The '99 Concert was just **** all around.
Now there will be a 40th Anniversary, I hope they can find some of the original performers that are still alive since that's one of the few reasons why the '99 one sucked.

[MonarC]

Yeah that would be a cool idea. I bet Carlos Santana would do it if others joined.

[Chocoholic]

Reverend Jim from Taxi: "Ya know, if I didn't go to Woodstock, then there would only have been 499,999 people there!"

Woodstock was way before my time. Whenever I hear the name, I always think of that darn bird from Peanuts. I never found him that funny. I don't know why.

[Fleet]

No, I wasn't there. Too young (8 years old) and on the other side of the country.

[MonarC]

Originally Posted by ChesneyLady

Reverend Jim from Taxi: "Ya know, if I didn't go to Woodstock, then there would only have been 499,999 people there!"

Woodstock was way before my time. Whenever I hear the name, I always think of that darn bird from Peanuts. I never found him that funny. I don't know why.

He's so cute.

Eric Forman on That 70's Show got a tattoo of him on his butt.

"You have a little yellow bird on your ass." - Donna

[MrCleveland]

Originally Posted by MonarC

Yeah that would be a cool idea. I bet Carlos Santana would do it if others joined.

Without a doubt, Santana might.
I also would like to see Paul McCartney there even though he was around during the 1st Woodstock, he never went because John Lennon couldn't get any connections to The Beatles.
I'd also like to see Brian Wilson there too for the same reason McCartney never went...that and he was a vegetable.

Here are a few bands that didn't go to the 1st Woodstock....

This is from Wikipedia, so it may not be 100%....

Cancelled appearances

* The Jeff Beck Group was scheduled to perform at Woodstock, but failed to make an appearance because the band broke up the week before.[citation needed]
* Iron Butterfly was stuck at an airport, and their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them.[citation needed] At one point, helicopters were the only means of transportation that could get to the location.
* Joni Mitchell was slated to perform, but her agent recommended that she appear on The Dick Cavett Show on Monday, with its national audience, rather than "sit around in a field with 500 people"[citation needed] Though Mitchell was not present, she wrote and recorded the song "Woodstock" that became a major hit for Matthews Southern Comfort and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. She [Joni Mitchell] was discouraged by the audience response to her performance at the Atlantic City Pop Festival that was held earlier in August prior to Woodstock. The audience was so rude that she was not able to complete her set and she walked off the stage, sobbing.
* Canadian band Lighthouse originally was scheduled to play at Woodstock, but in the end they decided not to, fearing that it would be a bad scene. Later, several members of the group would say that they regretted the decision.[citation needed]

[edit] Refused invitations

* The promoters contacted John Lennon, requesting The Beatles to perform. Lennon said that The Beatles would not play unless Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band could play also. The promoters turned him down.[citation needed]
* Procol Harum was invited to perform, but reportedly declined because the festival was happening at the end of a long tour, and because of the impending birth of Robin Trower's child; the band elected to pass on the festival to be back in England for the birth.[citation needed]
* The Doors were considered as a potential performing band, but canceled at the last moment; the cancellation was most likely due to Jim Morrison's known and vocal distaste for performing in large outdoor venues.[16] Doors drummer John Densmore attended, however, and in the film, he can be seen on the side of the stage during Joe Cocker's set.
* Led Zeppelin was asked to perform, their manager Peter Grant stating: "We were asked to do Woodstock and Atlantic were very keen, and so was our US promoter, Frank Barsalona. I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill". Instead the group went on with their hugely successful summer tour, playing that weekend south of the festival at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey. Their only time out taken was to attend Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, on August 12.[17]
* Jethro Tull refused to perform. Ian Anderson is reported to have said he "didn't want to spend [his] weekend in a field of unwashed hippies".[18] Another theory proposes that the band felt the event would be "too big a deal" and might kill their career before it started.[18]. Although Jethro Tull did not perform, their music was played over the public address system. In the film, during the interview with the promoters (where they are discussing how much money they will be losing on the venture), the songs "Beggar's Farm" and "Serenade to a Cuckoo", from the album This Was, can be heard in the background.
* The Moody Blues declined to perform, because they were booked for another event in Paris at the same time. They were promoted as being a performer on the third day on early posters that listed the site as Wallkill.[citation needed]
* Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation. Lead singer Tommy James stated later: "We could have just kicked ourselves. We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me. So we passed, and we realized what we'd missed a couple of days later."[19]
* The Clarence White-era Byrds were given an opportunity to play, but refused to do so. They did, however, perform at the Atlantic City Pop Festival held August 1,2 & 3, 1969, two weeks before Woodstock.[citation needed]
* Paul Revere & The Raiders declined to perform.[citation needed]
* Bob Dylan was in negotiations to play, but pulled out when his son became ill. He also was unhappy about the number of hippies piling up outside his house near the originally planned site.[20] He would go on to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival two weeks later.
* Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention said: "A lot of mud at Woodstock. We were invited to play there, we turned it down." - FZ. Citation: "Class of the 20th Century", U.S. network television special in serial format, circa 1995.[citation needed]
* Free were asked to perform and declined.[citation needed]
* Spirit were asked to perform but declined and went on a promotional tour.[citation needed]
* Mind Garage declined because they thought it would not be a big deal and had a higher paying gig elsewhere.[21]
* Arthur Lee and Love were long rumoured to have declined an invitation, but it was confirmed by Mojo Magazine that it was Monterey Pop Festival that they declined because of inner turmoil with the band.[citation needed]

[TripperFan]

Funny you'd post this. There was a time during the 70s when it was a bit of a joke because it seemed like everyone would say they had been at Woodstock (because it turned out to be such a "happening").

I was a little too young, but I did date a guy who was there. He was still pretty young (in his mid teens) but did have pictures as proof. It sure would have been something back then. Sad that Jimi played last really; most of the people had to evacuate before then and missed a beautiful performance of the Star Spangled Banner, etc..

Yep - you can NEVER go back - the subsequent versions were pathetic to say the least.

[Dude111]

I wasnt at it but I have it on VHS,records and cassette!!!

The VHS set I have is the first 1979 WCI HOME VIDEO release (Brown guard on both)

The records are the first 1970 releases as is my cassette...

At first I had a newer 1975 re-issue on cassette and it sounded like garbage.. Thin trash!!

The original 1970 Ampex releases are goregous!!!!!