Ive seen the video again this week-end. I work with an older guy that actually saw! Jimi Hendrix there. But, while watching the movie i still think Ten Years After stole the show. For that time period Alvin Lee was on fire!. Your fave?.

I attended Woodstock in 1969, best concert ever.  If I remember correctly a three day ticket cost me 15 bucks.  My favorite was Saturday when Santana played.

Woodstock came at a time when there was military conflict overseas and racial discord at home.  It was supposed to be the biggest gathering of the counterculture of the time.  I went with two friends and we were in the Army at the time and just returned from Vietnam not too long before.  It was the best music weekend ever.   Concerts as we know them today were not commonplace during that time.  Woodstock is also the first time the soundbooth was out in the crowd.  Up until that time it was always placed where monitor world is now.  The organizers were hoping for 200,000 people but over 500,000 attended. 

Fixed it for you. 

Louis and mudlark at Woodstock1, that is unfreakin real. Why havent you mentioned this befor?. The biggest musical event in the history of the planet. imo its not going to get any better than that. To me, nothing compares to that. You guys could have been seen in the sea of people! on the Woodstock cover!. You guys werent just at a concert, you were part of history!. Documentarys were made, stories told, rumors of this and that and you two can confirm! it. Im just blown away. Louis and mudlark all this time! to my knowledge have never mentioned this.

How can you two even go to anything else without yawning or thinking what you are seeing is second best. Maybe its just me but im seriously blown away that you guys experienced the greatest musical gathering the world will ever witness. UN....FREAKIN......REAL. Have you ever wanted to go back to that field and just let your mind go back to that time?.

I have walked the field 3 times since the event and savored all the memories.  When I was flying charters I would always try to route myself over the area and give a short announcement about the area we were over.  It was always a well received comment. 

Naw, the deal in a lifetime is good friends.  Then we can kick back and talk about all the fun times.   

Agree with ya there, Louis.  Means so much more than most things.

I'm not exactly young so Woodstock doesn't hold any strange or cosmic mysticism with me.  I met a guy who attended the event that, at the time, had occurred only 5 or 6 years prior.  No doubt, it was quite the event and had a lasting impression, but sometimes I think people (Paicey ) build it up to be more than it was.

Seriously, I think Live Aid is the only other show that can compare to Woodstock.
Almost certainly not on a musical level, but as a landmark moment for the 80's generation. The decade all about consumerism, money and me, me, me, spawned the mother of all charity gigs.
Some of my friends were involved, I unfortunately was not (simply because I wasn't playing with anyone who was invited to perform).
Still I think Woodstock was the ultimate all time rock festival, with Live Aid coming in second and most of the others way behind.

Incredible story mudlark!. Can you go to a concert at all these days and not think back at your experience?. Whoever you see from now on will simply be a concert not a life changing event. Wasnt there a cup a bottle or anything to pee in befor you had to explode?. I get ticked off when i have to leave my seat! at a concert to go, let alone trek across a sea of people, what a trooper!. I can imagine that to this day when you have to go (real bad) it takes you back. I can just see the guy in the trench coat walking through the crowd as a pot and drug vendor. Alls i can do is tell people i saw the movie and you were there! eating peanut butter and vienna sausages! . WHAT A MEMORY!.