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The Woodstock Group was created to collect all the memories and feeling of this monumental event and the effect it had on our culture that continues today. Everyone is welcome whether you were there or not. Just like the real thing 39 years ago, this Group is all about Peace, Love and Music.
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Hello everyone! Welcome to the Woodstock Group. This is where you can get your information on the Eons Woodstock Experience '08
Below you will find a list of all music groups that have expressed interest in being a part of this one-of-a-kind experience. Check them out! You'll be glad you did.
Old Tokers
Hippies for Life
Old School Soul Music
Music World Café
Brian and Diana's Music Room
Guitar Players 50+
The Lighter Side of Oldies Music
Club funk
And the Beat Goes On
The Gospel Music Cafe
How Blues Can You Get
Classic Country and Bluegrass
Progressive Rock Archive
Classic Rock
The Latin Music Club
Come Together
No Direction Home
Into The Mystic
Stoned Soul Picnic
The Jazz Cafe
Bach And Baroque
All country music
The Country Music Connection
New Music for (not so) Old People
Iggy's Inn
Acoustic Music
Personal Improvement Group
Beatle Mania and More
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WOODSTOCK 1969: IN RETROSPECT
I was very clued in back then, in 1969 at the age of 19, when I worked in the non-theatrical department for Warner Brothers Seven Arts in NYC. I knew all about the impending Music and Art Fair somewhere up there in the good ole "borscht belt" where for so many summers my family took a bungalow. The promoters had an office at WB7 and they loved to sit on their desks and put their feet up on their chairs..a true sign of the times. I was dating Alan, of the WB7 mailroom and he sooo wanted to go. For moi, a citygal all the way, the great outdoors up till then meant walking to Tonys Pizza for a slice and a coke, or strolling up to Fordham Road to hang out on a Friday night. The idea of sleeping in a field was completely foreign, but Alan was a cutie and so I agreed. It was the first time I ever went "away" with a boy and so when we had to get a motel room because of the pounding rain and clogged roads on Friday night, I made Alan sleep on a chair..
On Aug 26th I turn 58 and it truly amazes me how well I remember so much about Woodstock (what I call the Bethel Bash.) There I was, walking 10 miles on route 17B because the NYS Thruway and the route itself were closed to any additional auto traffic. And I was a true JAP (Jewish American Princess) complete with a suitcase, trudging along and bitching all the way. We were looked on by the local townspeople lining the road as aliens and some did seem to be playing the part. But even still, as if we were running a marathon, they offerred up water, soda, fruit all sorts of goodies to help us on our way in the humid hot sun.
It truly was a time...Mary Jo Kopeckne and Ted Kennedy, Sharon Tate and the Manson Family, the US Space Program and the Moon..and me and the Bethel Bash...I suppose it was my own personal synchronicity to be there and remember it vividly enough to write all about it.
Harriette Schwartz
THE MASSES OF PEEPS
As I said I worked my way to about 50 ft from center stage.
As my trusty little Kodak instamatic recorded it, the space was somewhat limited. See first reply for photos of those around me..the part of the masses, that I was...H
signing off
Just doing a spot of group housecleaning here and wanted to say thanks Eons and all the 'sponsoring groups' for a great weekend !!
I'm looking forward to a "REAL" anniversary celebration next year and expect to "be back then" for another experience extraordinar'
best regards, keep the spirit alive
Gary
I'm looking forward to a "REAL" anniversary celebration next year and expect to "be back then" for another experience extraordinar'
best regards, keep the spirit alive
Gary
blast from the past
I was in Woodstock the summer of 69...I graduated from high school that year and was living in CT. I went w/my cousin and we never stopped talking about our adventure throughout the years. She passed away a couple of years ago and I have found lots of comfort in those memories .
What sticks out for me is people everywhere and lots of weed and wine being shared. You became fast friends w/the person standing next to you at the moment.
We did end up at a First Aid tent when my cuz twisted her ankel. It was crazy what was going on in that tent.. that was a trip in itself!
The Forever Young Generation still rocks!!
What sticks out for me is people everywhere and lots of weed and wine being shared. You became fast friends w/the person standing next to you at the moment.
We did end up at a First Aid tent when my cuz twisted her ankel. It was crazy what was going on in that tent.. that was a trip in itself!
The Forever Young Generation still rocks!!
Janis Joplin - Woodstock Live - Try
Janis sings Try at the worlds most famous music festival with her Kozmic Blues Band.
To young to go then- But I carry on..
I remember when my brother and his friends were packing up to leave for Woodstock.
my two strongest memories was my first smell of "sweet air" and one of my brothers friends was playing an harmonica that was attached to a home made metal frame around his neck. I was a mini hippie from that moment on.
We watched the news of the event and I was jealous. That was my kind of event, but at 11 years old they only way you were there is if you had hippie parents and I certainly did not. 4 years later as a long hair, army coat wearing lover of "nature"
I lived the life by going to every outdoor music festival I could find. I enjoyed the company of other people while they enjoyed music and the lifestyle.
Through out the 70's I ran keg parties around town. $100 for the band and $100 for 5 kegs of Fallstaff. Two bucks for all you could drink- those were the daze.
I kept that Woodstock mentality and now I am building a Music Festival in Scottsdale Arizona this December. It is called Festival of the Wise www.festivalofthewise.com. our Eons page is view link
It is a weekend of good music and arts but it also has cool sessions and demonstrations on yoga, meditation, arts and crafts, Peace, the environment and what we can do, individually and as a community to change the world we live in.
Eons is one of our sponsors and we hare putting together a meeting place at the event where we can meet up. I have set aside a VIP area around the stage for Eon members only.
Come and join the Festival of the Wise group and we will get you a code to use for discount tickets.
Nothing is ever going to be like the original Woodstock. But Festival of the Wise is going to be a good time and by the end of it, we will all have a new found sense that we can change the world. It may only be our individual world that we change but that is a good place to start.
Hope to see you there.
my two strongest memories was my first smell of "sweet air" and one of my brothers friends was playing an harmonica that was attached to a home made metal frame around his neck. I was a mini hippie from that moment on.
We watched the news of the event and I was jealous. That was my kind of event, but at 11 years old they only way you were there is if you had hippie parents and I certainly did not. 4 years later as a long hair, army coat wearing lover of "nature"
I lived the life by going to every outdoor music festival I could find. I enjoyed the company of other people while they enjoyed music and the lifestyle.
Through out the 70's I ran keg parties around town. $100 for the band and $100 for 5 kegs of Fallstaff. Two bucks for all you could drink- those were the daze.
I kept that Woodstock mentality and now I am building a Music Festival in Scottsdale Arizona this December. It is called Festival of the Wise www.festivalofthewise.com. our Eons page is view link
It is a weekend of good music and arts but it also has cool sessions and demonstrations on yoga, meditation, arts and crafts, Peace, the environment and what we can do, individually and as a community to change the world we live in.
Eons is one of our sponsors and we hare putting together a meeting place at the event where we can meet up. I have set aside a VIP area around the stage for Eon members only.
Come and join the Festival of the Wise group and we will get you a code to use for discount tickets.
Nothing is ever going to be like the original Woodstock. But Festival of the Wise is going to be a good time and by the end of it, we will all have a new found sense that we can change the world. It may only be our individual world that we change but that is a good place to start.
Hope to see you there.
Woodstock Ronins – a Call to Arms!
As I am swept through the lush overgrown farmland surrounding New Hope, Pennsylvania, I can’t help but reflect upon Woodstock, New York, where I spent a great part of my youth. Indeed I am one of the 500,000 who attended the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel in the summer of 1969. That event literally changed my life. I had a motorcycle back then also. I rode it to the festival where I got stuck in traffic. A girl hopped onto the back of my machine. She has remained my wife for thirty-eight years.
As a grandfather, it truly amazes me how many people young and old identify with this event, which took place nearly forty years ago. I believe it is because Woodstock has become the cultural and spiritual icon in the collective consciousness of America. Sitting in the mud way back then I had no idea that life would have taken me this far, and that I would be living in this current reality.
A picture of my current V Star is the wallpaper on my computer at work. It often evokes comments, and the subject of the sixties and Woodstock often arises as a result of it. I marvel as the eyes of the young and old sparkle when I mention I was there. Most people get a sense of wonder and awe and feel in some remote way a connection, which is spiritual and uplifting. People often tell me that they knew someone that was there, or that they wanted to go and couldn’t, or that their parents would have killed them if they did. Others apologize that they didn’t make it. Sadly the young often time lament that they were born at the wrong time.
Why this intense longing to belong and identify with this event? I believe it is because Woodstock represents the moral conscience of America, a cultural, psychological and spiritual focal point, and a vortex. As an icon of America’s unyielding youthful exuberance, fierce independent expression, and social and political justice, it serves to transport us into a moral realm where we are able to take an objective look at all that was wrong and right with our society and nation then and now.
The Woodstock experience helps us to rise above the political chaos and confusion of present day domestic and international realities, and to get in touch with our collective conscience and moral fiber. The institutions which have risen out of the ashes of the sixties have fallen short of their moral imperatives. We, as Americans, must turn inward to rekindle the spirit which Woodstock instills in our hearts. We have raised the epic event to the stature of myth and embraced the positive values which it has come to represent.
Many of us who came into direct contact with the light of Woodstock were galvanized in the mud together and carried the light with us in our hearts as we rejoined the masses. We took our divergent and respective paths as we integrated with society. Yet sadly, many of us have let the embers cool. We have become disillusioned with the political and social economic realties of modern living and, in many cases, have actually embraced much of what we had once despised.
Yet all is not lost. It’s not too late. It’s time to wake up! The social ills of present day America need to be challenged as never before. What kind of world will we leave our great grandchildren if we do nothing and mire in our lethargy? Pressing environmental issues threaten our very existence as a species. Internal domestic inequalities, misplaced values and excesses threaten our stability as a viable culture. We need to get back in touch with our core values which made us cry out in protest, and we need to take action! Woodstock veterans - we need to lead the way! We have the potential to once more become the leaven of our society. We need to ignite the spark to once again blow the lid off this nation!
The present situation calls to mind a book written some time ago by Beverly Potter entitled “The Way of The Ronin”. In her book, Professor Potter likens the social upheaval in feudal Japan after the arrival of Marco Polo and the introduction of Western culture to modern times. Up to Marco’s arrival, there was a feudal system and a structured social hierarchy in Japan (much like pre - sixties America). One of the classes in that society adversely affected by the changing social order was the Samurai warrior, who defended the royal chieftains. They were also skilled in science, art and the marital arts. With the advance of western ideas, this entire segment of society suddenly found themselves displaced. Only two choices remained: one was ritual disembowelment (not very appealing); the other was to become Ronin, or outlaw. As Ronin, many thousands of these displaced knights infiltrated the countryside and became doctors, artists, farmers, philosophers and the like. Yet they never lost their special powers, which they practiced in secret. Whenever the need arose (because the established institutions became corrupt or otherwise could not defend the common man), they came out of seclusion, practiced their ancient art and saved the day. That same day is dawning in America. There is resurgence, and there is a cry for the return of the Woodstock Ronin who can lead us out of the mess we are in! If you are anything like me, the mud of Woodstock still squishes between your toes.
The young should not be saddened that they were not at Woodstock. If anything they should realize the tremendous power they possess in numbers. They should connect with the goals, aspirations and hopes of all generations. They should organize, and they should demand a better world which they and their children shall inherit. It is within their grasp, but time is running out. Today they would have the advantage of the cooperation of an older generation which we didn’t have forty years ago. United we can form a political and socioeconomic force never before seen in America. Young and old could work together for the common good. First, we must once more come together as brothers and sisters on the local level. On the world stage, it is imperative that we stop alienating fellow nations and become a participant in the inevitable one world society necessary for preservation of the planet.
It is up to the Woodstock Ronins to rise up, come out of seclusion and lead the way. Everything is in place. Carpe diem!
Christopher Cole
Author of “The Closer’s Song”
As a grandfather, it truly amazes me how many people young and old identify with this event, which took place nearly forty years ago. I believe it is because Woodstock has become the cultural and spiritual icon in the collective consciousness of America. Sitting in the mud way back then I had no idea that life would have taken me this far, and that I would be living in this current reality.
A picture of my current V Star is the wallpaper on my computer at work. It often evokes comments, and the subject of the sixties and Woodstock often arises as a result of it. I marvel as the eyes of the young and old sparkle when I mention I was there. Most people get a sense of wonder and awe and feel in some remote way a connection, which is spiritual and uplifting. People often tell me that they knew someone that was there, or that they wanted to go and couldn’t, or that their parents would have killed them if they did. Others apologize that they didn’t make it. Sadly the young often time lament that they were born at the wrong time.
Why this intense longing to belong and identify with this event? I believe it is because Woodstock represents the moral conscience of America, a cultural, psychological and spiritual focal point, and a vortex. As an icon of America’s unyielding youthful exuberance, fierce independent expression, and social and political justice, it serves to transport us into a moral realm where we are able to take an objective look at all that was wrong and right with our society and nation then and now.
The Woodstock experience helps us to rise above the political chaos and confusion of present day domestic and international realities, and to get in touch with our collective conscience and moral fiber. The institutions which have risen out of the ashes of the sixties have fallen short of their moral imperatives. We, as Americans, must turn inward to rekindle the spirit which Woodstock instills in our hearts. We have raised the epic event to the stature of myth and embraced the positive values which it has come to represent.
Many of us who came into direct contact with the light of Woodstock were galvanized in the mud together and carried the light with us in our hearts as we rejoined the masses. We took our divergent and respective paths as we integrated with society. Yet sadly, many of us have let the embers cool. We have become disillusioned with the political and social economic realties of modern living and, in many cases, have actually embraced much of what we had once despised.
Yet all is not lost. It’s not too late. It’s time to wake up! The social ills of present day America need to be challenged as never before. What kind of world will we leave our great grandchildren if we do nothing and mire in our lethargy? Pressing environmental issues threaten our very existence as a species. Internal domestic inequalities, misplaced values and excesses threaten our stability as a viable culture. We need to get back in touch with our core values which made us cry out in protest, and we need to take action! Woodstock veterans - we need to lead the way! We have the potential to once more become the leaven of our society. We need to ignite the spark to once again blow the lid off this nation!
The present situation calls to mind a book written some time ago by Beverly Potter entitled “The Way of The Ronin”. In her book, Professor Potter likens the social upheaval in feudal Japan after the arrival of Marco Polo and the introduction of Western culture to modern times. Up to Marco’s arrival, there was a feudal system and a structured social hierarchy in Japan (much like pre - sixties America). One of the classes in that society adversely affected by the changing social order was the Samurai warrior, who defended the royal chieftains. They were also skilled in science, art and the marital arts. With the advance of western ideas, this entire segment of society suddenly found themselves displaced. Only two choices remained: one was ritual disembowelment (not very appealing); the other was to become Ronin, or outlaw. As Ronin, many thousands of these displaced knights infiltrated the countryside and became doctors, artists, farmers, philosophers and the like. Yet they never lost their special powers, which they practiced in secret. Whenever the need arose (because the established institutions became corrupt or otherwise could not defend the common man), they came out of seclusion, practiced their ancient art and saved the day. That same day is dawning in America. There is resurgence, and there is a cry for the return of the Woodstock Ronin who can lead us out of the mess we are in! If you are anything like me, the mud of Woodstock still squishes between your toes.
The young should not be saddened that they were not at Woodstock. If anything they should realize the tremendous power they possess in numbers. They should connect with the goals, aspirations and hopes of all generations. They should organize, and they should demand a better world which they and their children shall inherit. It is within their grasp, but time is running out. Today they would have the advantage of the cooperation of an older generation which we didn’t have forty years ago. United we can form a political and socioeconomic force never before seen in America. Young and old could work together for the common good. First, we must once more come together as brothers and sisters on the local level. On the world stage, it is imperative that we stop alienating fellow nations and become a participant in the inevitable one world society necessary for preservation of the planet.
It is up to the Woodstock Ronins to rise up, come out of seclusion and lead the way. Everything is in place. Carpe diem!
Christopher Cole
Author of “The Closer’s Song”
Woodstock, the soundtrack
am aware that there is much work going into other playlist(s) for this festival, the post is not a scoop or trump of that effort in any way, truly it was an honor and pleasure to assist in its construction ... below is just my own take on the sounds of the day, which I am honored to share with you, thanks for the opportunity.
suggest that you open the reply in a new window with your browser, start the playlist then minimize that 2nd window and continue your Eons Woodstock Festival experience.
Enjoy! Peace! ===\
( oh - I heard that the Blue acid is bad )
suggest that you open the reply in a new window with your browser, start the playlist then minimize that 2nd window and continue your Eons Woodstock Festival experience.
Enjoy! Peace! ===\
( oh - I heard that the Blue acid is bad )
Thank you everyone!
This was a fantastic weekend. Thank you to all who contributed and to all who participated and just had a blast remembering '69, the music, Woodstock, and whatever else you were doing that August.
Stay tuned. This was just the beginning. Time to get ready for the 40th!
Stay tuned. This was just the beginning. Time to get ready for the 40th!
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