Woodstock: 3 Days That Changed Everything (Full Documentary) | Amplified

[@kennethdiller2146]

The older I get the more I realize that the message of Woodstock of Love and Peace is the hope of the World! I am 82. What a wonderful video.

[@drats1279]

Lots of drugs will do that to you.

[@rogerhackler223]

People like you yourself need to be told something, which is that Woodstock was not about Peace and Love, because there was violence alot of recreational drug use, there were alot of sexual assaults, and there were riots. You cannot tell me that with all of the loud music that was played at deafening levels proves that there is no way that it was all about Peace and Love, which was all about this entire line of logic that said if it feels good do it, and that proves what you said is all a lie! Now everything that you have claimed proves you are all about telling other people that this was something that was peaceful, and the truth is that this whole line of logic that says if it feels good do it is destructive!

[@odessadelphine6061]

@@rogerhackler223 lol, there were no riots at Woodstock 1969. Maybe you’re thinking of the 1999 version. There were some arrests because some few out of the 500,000 didn’t know how to behave. That’s normal in a huge crowd. You seem to be missing the whole message of the time and era of Woodstock. They were there to be different from common culture and mostly they succeeded.

[@peterstafford4426]

The woodstock generation put Trump in office in 2016.

[@lauracarstiou3505]

I was there. No shooting or fighting. We thought we changed the world. We were so idealistic. I knew guys who came back from Vietnam and joined the peace movement. I was not high at Woodstock. It was about the music. Funny now shrinks are using psychedelics to cure people. Lol. I didn't see one argument. The locals helped feed us and gave us the peace sign. Americans were sick of the war. No one was assaulting anyone but people were swimming naked in the pond..to get the mud off!

[@ncavlleguy]

I would have loved to have attended Woodstock…. But I was only 2 yrs old ….. but later in life I did get to attend Woodstock in my mind and through all those beautiful people who were there and through their stories , we will always keep the message of Woodstock relevant .. it still inspires a new generation today and tomorrow . PEACE ☮️ LOVE ❤️ MUSIC 🌈……..

[@freespirit21newyork]

Im a flower 🌷💞 child and was born in 1965 and im so in love with the late 1960s music and the Woodstock era, there will never be another Woodstock, ever. It changed the world 🌍 and helped people through Vietnam. Thanks for posting this beautiful piece of our history 🎸💥🥁🪇🎹🪘🎉🎈🥳🌷🐦💞

[@precisionbrown6829]

If you were born in 65 you passed the hippie era. It stopped in the early 70’s

[@JoshuaJohnsOfficalChannel]

isnt coachella the new woodstock?

[@meghanmisaliar]

​@@JoshuaJohnsOfficalChannelnot really. They think they are though. Only ppl with money can go to Coachella

[@meghanmisaliar]

You're not a flower child. Stop it

[@josvandencamp8441]

In 1969 I was 15. No chance to get from Maastricht in the Netherlands to Woodstock. In 1970 I've watched Woodstock in the cinema, four and a half hours of it. The best event ever. Only love. It changed my life.

[@carolgiangreco6548]

Wow. That's beautiful.

[@juliemiller2523]

HEY JOS, I WAS 11, AND WANTED TO GO BADLY.. I LIVED ABOUT 1000 MILES FROM IT.. BUT I GOT THE DVD, AND IM STILL DIGGING IT AT 65 YEARS OLD XO

[@josvandencamp8441]

I've got a DVD set and watch it regularly. It was the best event ever.

[@marcielynn4886]

❤Did ger. to see the movie in a theatre in Tokyo.

[@josvandencamp8441]

@@juliemiller2523 Hey Julie. I've got the DVD and I watch it every year in August.

[@sangeetabasu7047]

I'm a 60's kid and though I was born and brought up in India, Calcutta, Flower Power or the Hippie culture made its way to us too. When I fell in love with music in my teens, I heard most of the acts that had played at Woodstock '69. I watched the Director's Cut Woodstock movie when I was in my early 30s. There will not be another gathering like that one. Ever. And it's true that it changed the world. Thanks for this wonderful documentary. There is something to be said for the freedom of spirit that marked the 60s and 70s and I was reminded of that.

[@freespirit21newyork]

Thank you for your share , I'm also a flower 🌷 child I was born in 1965 and I'm in love with the late 1960s music and movies too. I just love this video brings me back to a time in life that was much more sweeter 🎸💥🎹🌠🪘🎉🎈🥳 🌷🐦🌷💞

[@katstevens8266]

[@critterkarma]

I was 13 in the summer of 1969, and was there with my older brother, Adam and his high school buddy, Steve. It was amazing.

[@wandaburkett1269]

Wow you are so dam lucky to have the experience of a life time. I hope you shared this with your kids & any grandkids that are old enough. I mean 1/2 million people loving each other & the great music,

[@jamesbrooks4727]

@@wandaburkett1269 p

[@R.I.P.AlienJack]

Stephen Stills?

[@melodyelson3202]

Bravo, I was there as well at 14!! amazing we didn't return once the rain started after the first day.. our parents brought us my dad saw the poster it's the music & art festival! hello... we need the courage to work together to correct the three years of the pandemic and the generations brought up w/ out hugs w/ computers hippies love flower power let's try to make it easier for them to try and thrive ... •°~\\•☆♡/... ♡☆♡\|~.. thank goodness for the utube platform. we had MTV, yes, to record the details and see and hear is amazing

[@cristinagroppi369]

Io avevo 4 anni e ovviamente non be' ho saputo nulla fino a che non sono diventata grande.Beato chi ha potuto immergersi in quei momenti magici di musica e di amore .

[@lucysutton1015]

I was a punk kid at 7 in '69 and thought hippys were weird. The 50th anniversary changed my thinking by 180 degrees, and I can't get enough info, interviews, and video on the phenom that was Woodstock. It can never happen again, and it barely did then. Stars aligned perfectly...Aquarian! Gives me hope in this messed up world of 2022.

[@melodyelson3202]

we're not gunna let it I was there at 14 for the art show the poster made it clear...our parents took us . visit the museum it's automatically amazing and the land still has shows there I took my daughter to see Ringo Star... it was safe they were careful there were tents for people that took the wrong drugs .. somehow the pandemic messed up our world these three generations need to help ... this one, they interviewed positive event smart !°••~|\•••▪︎♡♡

[@melodyelson3202]

hear hear ... I was there at 17 my brother three years older you're two years younger...Our mom & dad were there Dad have bought tickets based on the "words music & art fesitval...I could write more we got there the day before using back roads .. Since we had art passes we enjoyed watching the set up on top of the hill ... Friday we never left dad grabed barely of hay we set up my art double matter, no glass just think plastic.. I watched me art sturred into backpack... Share the love and susses to friends & family... Better yet see the musean revel in the fact these kids turned the weekend to a huge event... Took our daughter to the 50th festival... Ringo stole the event that day... let's make this world spin in the right direction w/ music. Thanks for your comments ••~\○

[@AlbertHerrera-up7wd]

Got US'd & missed it; had to settle for Bob Hope & Jane Fonda.

[@melodyelson3202]

I was 14 & went with my family was on of the artist presenting my art... Took our daughter to the 50th to see Ringo... It's amazing if the world could be changed with music 🎶 and these three generations of kids effected by the pandemic could help change the 🌎 would...I hope so thanks for sharing your thoughts luckly the land was saved and the musesm is there...

[@melodyelson3202]

correction I was there at 14 my brother's we were three years apart my older & my little brother was three years younger than me ... Some day, I'll record my story at their museum... We took our daughter back for the 50th anniversary... We saw Ringo Star 🌟 and his band... What an awesome venue to this day ••~\☆•~\▪︎•~☆▪︎

[@mickeyhermit5475]

Every year this makes me feel sad missing my Woodstock friends were still here with me. I am happy to say though that we all stayed true to our hippiness

[@smithjarrod3935]

good! me too

[@lauracarstiou3505]

I want to meet up with some Woodstock friends

[@megbro10]

jealous! i hope you guys had a great time. memories you’ll never forget ❤

[@howtogetdisowned7478]

As a Gen Z, y’all truly had one of the most beautiful generational concepts. I wish hippies would’ve lasted.

[@daronjohnson9095]

​@@howtogetdisowned7478they definately still do and there's hippie festivals all the time all over the place, I go to them all the time, going to rislofest at terrapin hill in July

[@stellalush4547]

Thank You Artie, and Linda Kornfeld, thank you Michael Lange. Woodstock NEVER would have happened without you, I can just imagine the three of you standing there, guestamating how many people would actually show up if you really put this thing on...Artie, and Michael were way off, Linda saw things differently... Historically. Artie lost his wife Linda, his partner, the love of his life, and just a short while later, he lost his daughter Jamie, his BEAUTIFUL daughter, and my best friend, she was only 16. I don't know how that man held it together, but he did. You're a very special man. I Love You... Thank you for making the world a much better, and beautiful place.

[@melodyelson3202]

Thank you so much saying the tri ute to the creaters ... I was there at 14 years old w/ my two brother mom and dad ... dad bought tickets early... we got there the day before all the traffic bc I was presenting me art . we are so lucky for utube and this documentary can be shared with so many 2023. Let's not mess out let's work together to clear up this mess! °°~\○•°•○○●{...

[@gsmalley10]

Thank you for recognizing Linda's contributions. I've asked Artie to share more information and pictures of her, with no success. But that is his call. ☮️

[@yourangelinfleshorsackclot1523]

they just threw a concert and got paid for it = their job ... our creator (master) Jehovah did the rest ... creepy sheople make up ANY excuse to idolize more pooping people ...

[@jjjmac2003]

A few years ago I bought an authentic in tact Woodstock ticket for $50. I have it between glass in a frame. It's one of my most cherished items that I'm leaving to one of my grandkids. I can only hope that I can impress on them the true meaning of Woodstock.

[@katstevens8266]

wow

[@meghanmisaliar]

I'm surprised it was so cheap.

[@Friskee62]

I was there the entire 3 days. Did not pay, walked over the fences. Met numerous friends from my city and the collage in that city. So many stories to tell...

[@JeremiahB444]

What’s the best artists you saw over the 3 days?

[@Johndoe345-k2d]

I was there too. I was sporting a flat top haircut and I kicked some hippie ass.

[@f.k.m.6120]

I know alot of people attended . Have you seen yourself in the Woodstock movie ? I just watched the movie again July 6 ,.2023 my third time seeing the movie . Peace

[@meghanmisaliar]

Collage??

[@djvastfx]

Is it possible to feel nostalgia for a time I wasn't even alive yet for, it makes me emotional just watching this great event, and all the amazing artist and amazing loving people who attended!!!❤❤❤❤

[@stevetruth2696]

Yes, and to feel sad about memories that could have been made "if only".

[@benmartinez8443]

Yes, I feel the same way. I was born too late.

[@MuirgenRaz]

​@@benmartinez8443No, you're being reminded 'of your mission" coming fast in the future.🎉

[@rommarene4848]

I feel that way about 99

[@tracyford9429]

@@benmartinez8443 me too. I always wish I could have gone to a concert like this one

[@ryanisaiah97]

there is still peaceful music, events, and artists like this. It might not be super mainstream but its still here today. We vibin

[@MM-ig1iv]

Thank God that it was video recorded! because not only was all of the bands great and sounded great.. but what Hendrix did can't ever be topped! it sounded and still sounds unbelievable!

[@ellenr3292]

video recorded? lol check your World Book Encyclopedia honey... how old are you?

[@drats1279]

never say never. I am guessing you are not an English major.

[@sharolynwells]

@@ellenr3292 I just saw a film camera on this video. Gosh, it must be all our imagination...or maybe an acid trip?

[@robinhood480]

@@sharolynwells There’s a few film 🎥 cameras circulating around the festival grounds and the word is... they may not be exceptionally the best... so with a word of caution you may want to pass on that.... but it’s your trip man.

[@damfunk.]

@@ellenr3292 What are you mad at?

[@vinnyjamea96]

What a great documentary .. I cant help but feel sad that its never going to happen like this ever again.. Music has changed and not for the better sorry to say. People have changed and are not as loving. Who knows maybe things will change for the better.. Peace... Woodstock 69 for ever Thanks for the insperation

[@crystaldelgado9426]

You cant say its never going to happen ever again and then say maybe it will in order for it to change people have to be positive and say it will change no if ands or buts

[@saradavidson3054]

There will never be another Generation like ours......60's, Woodstock, Peace, Love, and Rock an Roll! ✌👍🏻🙏🌹

[@avalonaiinstitute]

Don’t give up to quickly. I’m producing a show in New Mexico called Toke Stock Live. It’s set to go on the air in September, 22, 2022.

[@dixirose111]

Coachella every year now. Whole families go.

[@hardnewstakenharder]

@Michael Jurek music has gotten better than Limp Bizkit.

[@dsbmwhacker]

As a Woodstock era teen...it is still fresh in my mind.

[@jjjmac2003]

I wanted to go to Woodstock so bad but didn't even know where it was. I was 12 yrs old at the time but from what I read it was going to be something great. This was the year I stopped listening to AM radio and started listening to FM radio. 1969 was a year of growth for me in many other ways.

[@melodyelson3202]

Bravo I was there at 14 w/ my family the poster said music and art festival... My dad bought tickets and shocked my brother and myself our younger brother was 3 years younger... See the museum... it honors the event and keeps the history going ... concerts still happen there ... this documentary is amazing share w/ as many utube has given us the ability to make it worth it .. Neil Young info was amazing ...

[@f.k.m.6120]

Like your story . It captures those times wow switching from AM to FM.

[@dakelei]

I'm 62 and a teacher. I end every class by saying, "Peace and love to you all." And I mean it.

[@wmanadeau7860]

Right on!

[@mjc11a]

@Chris Davies...Far out man! I say something very similar. To us OG's, these words and symbols carry a powerful meaning. I pray the younger generation will come to understand the power of such words and actions. Thanks for sharing and be safe 🙏 ☮️

[@yourangelinfleshorsackclot1523]

even fake azz hippies ...

[@carlbeamon1343]

I was in high school my room mate went and asked me to go but I was too young to understand but boy did I love the event that changed this country!

[@charleskemp2037]

you must have been in prep school if you had a room mate

[@justiceryan6215]

There will never be another Woodstock and the headliners that played there!! R.i.p Michael lang.

[@mm-qj6cc]

Beyond all measure, woodstock has the most memorable happening in our last 53 yrs of existence. Definition of EPIC!

[@catonsvilleman6900]

Back in that year people still had optimism in their hearts that they could indeed be the catalist of widespread change. I applaud that. Now it seems light years away that such germaine, grassroots efforts can be achieved.

[@r.christmas]

I went. It was a historical event for sure and everyone there felt it, as we slept in mud, ate weird stuff, made crazy friends, and kept high. The general feeling was... everyone was your brother and sister... but the bands and songs that stuck with me were those with a message of revolution, change.

[@robiniller35]

You were so lucky to be a part of that!

[@MijoShrek]

What we do in life. Echoes in eternity. Take that moment, it's yours. How sweet that is.

[@meghanmisaliar]

Sounds dirty and gross

[@r.christmas]

@@meghanmisaliar , no it was uplifting

[@larrygiglio5754]

Hello. Woodstock was a utopia of brotherly love that manifested reality for three days of cosmic time, that left all of us insane.

[@michaelcheevers68]

I wasn't born until '68 , first watched Woodstock concert aged about 18 or 19 and have loved it ever since , it introduced music to me that still holds me today .

[@freespirit21newyork]

Yes I was born in 65 and glad I'm a flower child 🌷🐦

[@katstevens8266]

[@tonywalton1052]

I was 16 at woodstock, We hitchhiked from Albany with a couple of Blonde girls. By the time I got there, the gates were down, i still have the tickets.

[@meghanmisaliar]

That's amazing. Never sell them.

[@Dancerlayla-z6g]

@@meghanmisaliarby the time you left they were dirty blonde lol

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@Dancerlayla-z6g wrong person.

[@Dancerlayla-z6g]

@@meghanmisaliar sorry

[@avavincent9481]

Exactly! No violence. My daughter watched something about Woodstock, her immediate reaction was the absence of violence. If only today.....✌️ I know I won't be around to ever see anything come close to it.

[@montanaelkwhisperer1744]

and.....in 1969......there were NO gun control laws of ANY kind!!

[@pericles2122]

As a grad student, I had planned with my young son and wife to do a 'cheap' camping trip to lAke Champlaign and stop over at this radio-advertised "family-picnic-with-music-in-the-trees" thing at Woodstock. So we drove up in our Robins-egg blue VW Beetle with golden suns my son had pasted on it. We got 'stuck' at Woodstock from Friday dusk till Sunday afternnoon - it was still easy to drive in , but we were at the end of the line driving out. We heard every music note at Woodstock, but, being in a tent a quarter mile from the actual grounds, we saw only the stage lights. Nevertheless, the community vibe was palpable and a righteous experience. Hendrix's Sunday morning "Star Spangled Banner" still 'shivers me bones'. I came away from 'Woodstock' with renewed faith in humanity - when the shit really gets heavy, I have no doubt the good in everybody will burst forth. (Note: in 1970, taking a break from a conference in Manhattan, I took a lunch break with a meditative stroll in Central Park eating an ice cream, when I saw this guy sitting alone on a park bench all hunched over and sobbing. For some reason, I stopped, sat down next to him and offered him a bite of ice cream...maybe just to stop his misery or something...so we (he) began to tell me of his misery - he was one of the Woodstock producers, they had sunk a lot of theirs and others' money into the festival, and he didn't expect to get them and him out of debt...he would lose his home, probably his family and go down in history as something to forget. But then shortly after, the movie came out and I know he was as happy as I was to know his tears had been dried and he was rewarded for a superhuman effort that changed American culture..

[@codybluetarp]

Yeah, the thing about Woodstock was that it was a Happening; not a trend. It didn't have time to be a trend, at least for some of us. There was a recognition at the time for me, a 20 year old, wondering what was happening, and finding out that when it did happen, it was through music. It helped to be a musician. Woodstock had many images that have recurred over the years. The most noteworthy to me was a 4th of July celebration at Gasworks Park in Seattle 10 years ago. I like to play publicly from time-to-time, and so i had my violin case in hand over there and at the entrance there were police standing at a table inspecting bags and stuff. So when i went through, one cop asked me, "What's in there?", pointing at the case. And i said, laughing, "a violin". And he said, "Open it." And i said, "If I open it, I play it", And played, "The Star Spangled Banner", Jimi style. The cops appreciated it. Just as Jimi played so masterfully for that be-draggled but somehow spangled banner crowd remnant at Woodstock. His contract was to play last. And he did, inspiring a whole generation of musicians, in a time with certain lights too bright to last long.

[@yourangelinfleshorsackclot1523]

greatest gathering of this realm and this sheople worshippers one of the agenda puppets and "his" little political plug ...

[@tygersflowerz]

I'm so glad it was well documented. Well filmed and well photographed. Had it not been, and we would have been just told about it, it probably would have ended up as one of those conspiracy theories. "Did it really happen like that?" or "Did it happen at all?" All the strife, darkness, death, war, and division of the 1960s had to inevitably lead up to something like this. The final straw were the Manson family killings a week before. It was the manifestation of the strong desire of thousands for a peaceful and loving world. If society wasn't going to give it to them, they were going to create it themselves.

[@samthunders3611]

Oh it definitely happened!

[@tedpeterson1156]

A bunch of hippies rolled around in the mud fior 3 days stoned out of their gourd. Set your goals higher. They didn't have shitters, and ran out of food. They had to get sandwiches made by Nuns and distributed by the National Guard. (The "Woodstock Generation" run much of everything now, and it should not go unnoticed everything is FUBAR) On balance I'd have rather seen the Apollo 11 launch a few weeks prior. They had a million people show up for that. I can't think of anything more pathetic than nostalgia for something you weren't even alive for, the Woodstock mystique was a media creation for the most part.

[@tygersflowerz]

@@tedpeterson1156 Haha! When a certain vibe of something catches on like wildfire, it's much easier to ignore the discomforts. Peace, love, and drugs are amazing medicine.✌️ 😁 Half a million people in one place living in peace and listening to music. Set my hopes and dreams for society higher than that? End world hunger. Cure cancer. The obvious. But for a general good time and good morale? The spirit of Woodstock is about as good as it gets. And the fact that it was so physically uncomfortable and the vibe was so high so many were willing to overlook those things for a few days...that's powerful. Btw, I HAVE read stories about people who went to Woodstock and didn't like it...for all the reasons you mentioned. I read about a guy who caught a ride out of there early and had more fun smoking and singing with the van of hippies that picked him up than he had at the festival. ..Wonder how far he had to walk to find a ride on the first unblocked road.

[@HisgGalore]

here

[@donnaburns3927]

Oh & the media reported what went on that glorious weekend fairly accurately. We could use some of that these days. Power to the people right on.

[@charleskemp2037]

things were real bad in '69, I was in high school then. today is real bad too, still having wars, bad politicians, mass illegal immigration, poor government & officials. we need another Woodstock !!!

[@MrJoeinz]

I was 16 yrs old in '69. This was a mindboggling time . . . with Bobby Kennedy and MLK being assassinated and the war still being escalated. I lived in New York (Yonkers) and was thinking of going, but they closed the NY State Thruway and that put the kybosh on that ! Truly my era . . . truly my passion, at that time ! Thanks for the memories !

[@williammetzo5407]

I was there.. got drafted in November. Gone in January... MAY GOD BLESS ALL.. THANK YOU GOD FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR ME!! I WOULDN'T CHANGE MY LIFE FOR ANYTHING.. MY SON HAS BEEN 22 YRS. IN THE ARMY.. TY GOD FOR AMERICANS... MAY GOD BLESS..

[@meghanmisaliar]

Thank you for your service.

[@larockeramenor]

Happy 52th anniversary, Woodstock Nation!

[@TrophyNZ1]

August 18th 2024 watching this, Would have been a trip attending this

[@user-th5hx7kl1l]

Merci beaucoup pour l'histoire de Woodstock in Pennsylvania, PA❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Millions of blessings, Esther St Juste

[@DukesMusic84]

Many legendary performances at Woodstock happened in the middle of the night, I think Sly and the Who went on at like 4-5AM. And Hendrix didn't get to go on til Monday. That's unheard of, sounds like a hell of a weekend.

[@kellyhiggins4234]

And the wind still cries " Mary", hey my loving crew what a ride . Here we are 50 , 60,70,80 yrs. Young soon we all will be totally gone . Our music collection, cars , historical events will all remain in this time capsule! What a trip! See you all at " "Orion's Belt" ✌ ☮🕊

[@yourangelinfleshorsackclot1523]

i dont know you creepy fake "hippie" random internet "person" so im not "yours" ... WE spirits of that era not marked for de existence will bring the good eras back to infinity ...

[@billrandel8006]

What a great time in history. Except for Viet Nam. Woodstock was a way for people to express there opinion about the war. And show there could be peace. Love and music at least for a little while. I was 14 and too young to be there. But have the album and have always considered myself a Woodstock hippie, don't have long hair or do drugs anymore but still have peace and love and music in my heart. Compared to the world today, I'd go back to 69 in a minute.

[@billrandel8006]

@David Wang not really a liberal, but I totally agree on your view of the orange asshole. Never Trump

[@SoopaKoopa]

@David Wang Yeah because this shit in the white house now is so much better.

[@richardsimons6978]

@David Wang Trump is a piece of sh*t but you're forgetting all of the slimewad politicians that came before and after him, including that POS Bernie. Bet you're a Democrap aren't you? Both parties sold out completely after JFK was murdered!

[@davidbowman4259]

@David Wang Bingo, amen and touche. I'd go back in a minute.

[@bee1411]

My heart wishes that I could have experienced it. :( My aunt was from that era, and told me when I was younger that she would tell me about her life when she was involved in the free love movement in the 60s when I was old enough, but she died from spinal cancer (the most painful kind) before I was old enough for her to tell me about it. She was such an amazing and accepting soul. Never judgmental, never mean, she was an absolute angel. She accepted people for who they are, not for what society pushes upon them. I’m still upset about how she died so young, and so painfully. (She died at only 62 years old.)

[@f.k.m.6120]

I was four when Woodstock took place. Watched the Woodstock movie last night. It's such a time machine in American culture and times . I have always been fascinated with that era of American history . The establishment , the Vietnam War , some people were for the war many were not. the hippie movement , the counter culture, civil rights , Jim Crow laws of the South , the awesome music and the awesome American made muscle cars .

[@stevedolesch9241]

I agree. Hippies are hip people. I came to Canada in '65 from Hungary. I was 9 and some months. Here, I heard many songs. Among them is Give Peace A Chance. Remember that? It seems it never goes out of style!

[@meghanmisaliar]

Hippies are troublemakers

[@dennismcandrew4587]

I was born in January 69. Woodstock was somehow, through my ears, it changed the colours of my blood. I started on the Green Beavers weekends at 12. I nearly became a math master and muso. At age 23 I chose to raise kids on my own. Now I just want to play and love a truthful lady. I have to say when I bought the album The Songs Of A Sphycadelic Age, the one with White Rabbit and Peddles And Flowers, I found I was on the correct path. White Rabbit opened my mind. Haven't had acid for 8 years now. I communicate with animals 🕺💯🤘✌️

[@raymondsemper5161]

✌🏿🎸💫

[@Chiroman527]

Great Documentary of this Powerful, enigmatic major Cultural Event - never to be Repeated. I was not Physically there, but was in mind and soul. My only critique is that Homage is paid to certain performers that were the Big Boys of their day. Others were catapulted into further stardom, i.e. Santana, Joe Cocker and Ten Years After. It is big shortcoming in the doc of NOT giving proper acclaim to Ten Years After. Their rendition of I'm Going Home for over 15 minutes, was one of the most powerful performances at Woodstock. No one even mentions TYA, even in passing. That is an atrocity of this film. Who could forget those terrific words of Alvin Lee when he announces the next tune: I'm Going Home.....by Helicopter". And then he sent that Gibson Guitar Flying for 15 minutes, carrying off a watermelon on his shoulder when they were done!! Iconic Moment of Woodstock.

[@andrasczehlarik9180]

I agree. The best band in Woodstock. ALVIN GENIUS. R.I.P.🍉

[@elainescott4702]

Hippies were about peace and wish that era could come back. Those were the days! 😇😇

[@meghanmisaliar]

They were troublemakers. They loved to protest and cause chaos.

[@mojojeinxs9960]

I went to visit the concert site in 2010. Was only 2 years old in 1969. Something magical about that place.

[@freespirit21newyork]

WOW that's amazing 👏🤩 does it look the same when you visited? BTW I was born in 1965 🌷🐦

[@mojojeinxs9960]

@@freespirit21newyork yes and no there's a museum built on the concert site. Two festivals held on the anniversary weekend every year. One in the woods on Yagurs farm the other down the road Hector's bar ...Hectorstock. small country town Bethel NY. The Catskills are magical.

[@MrMoe158]

@@freespirit21newyork The Field is not touched but they did put an Amphitheater and a museum in on top of hill. Very nice .You can walk the field and picnic but camping is not allowed . Cameras are everywhere . Hope that helps

[@meghanmisaliar]

​@@mojojeinxs9960why is your age relevant?

[@milmil6594]

The only things i found offensive on this short doc was the quote shown from Oprah Winfrey and mentioning Lola Palooza...I mean Oz fest was the answer to Palooza.. Winfrey and Palooza should never be mentioned in the same company with Woodstock

[@randysalles2292]

Agree

[@allanpeterson3358]

My generation ❤❤❤❤. My time on earth 😊😊😊😊. Glad I experienced things like Woodstock!!

[@sm31156]

I was 13 when Woodstock happened. We do not live far from there. My Dad was curious about it. So he my girlfriend and I rode up there just to see the action. And it was packed roads crowded and just people all over. So pretty much of what you saw on tv and heard about was all true.

[@MrMoe158]

LOL Yeah we see the video

[@jbebko4359]

RIP Michael Lang 🌼🎸1/8/22

[@julioaranton5223]

I believe that Woodstock began to affect consciousness to those who attended as it grew thru the volatile 60's between the conflict/ "darkness & light❤

[@winros]

It just shows how music brings people together!

[@donbenedik1277]

Great piece of history!

[@fullcircle4723]

Thank you for an amazing explanation of this iconic festival. I was 6 years old and remember the radio stations played a lot of that music of the time. I still think the best music came from the 60's and 70's because it lives on.

[@montanaelkwhisperer1744]

i was born in Woodstock in 62. my older sister worked as a caretaker, and lived at Michael Lang's estate on Yerry hill road. i met him many times, and always said hi when i would see him at festivals like mountain jam. i shoveled the snow off the walkways at big pink while my sister's boyfriend plowed the driveway with his truck. i sold firewood to Levon Helm, and worked at the Joyous lake. i did a walkabout at fourteen years old...and my first stop when i started hitchhiking south was at Yasgur's farm, and got to meet Max and his wife. we sat on their porch and reminissed about the festival, and then Max pointed to a good spot to camp for the night before travelling on the next day.

[@russmartin4189]

Woodstock has become mythologized. Now, it seems bigger than it really was. I had to work that weekend so couldn't go, but all my friends did. and I'll tell you this. It was a concert with a lot of great bands. It was a weekend when people accepted each other, did a lot of drugs, and got along. However, it changed nothing. Vietnam lasted another 6 years. Young people thought they would start a new world order. They didn't. Going back to college, it was the same. The bigger world didn't accept it at all. They didn't like the hippies and Nixon was elected the year before as a backlash against Vietnam protests and hippies. It was an island, a brief respite from everything else. It attracted a certain kind of person. If you were conservative, you wouldn't have gone. If you dressed like a hippie, you were an outcast in your small town. I walked int a bar with hair over my ears, but otherwise dressed conservatively. Everyone in the bar turned around and told me and my friends to "get out". That was the real world in 1969.

[@williamyanosko4010]

You are so correct.. I was 11 at the time..and saw what was going on

[@michaelserby7697]

I was 18 years old 🇺🇲 🖤

[@silentmozart]

“however it changed nothing-“ lol, that’s a lie. look at the bigger picture. there’s MANY music festivals now and since BECAUSE of this festival. may have not changed anything for you (which clearly it wasn’t supposed to lmao) but within music and the industry - it set the standard. everybody knows that.

[@flaviolozoya]

Nothing is free, how many different types of acid were passed around...... yeah big government operation with the true results of this operation hidden from public view...most of the bans we're in on it and those who began to think differently were conveniently killed...thus the 27 club.....I used to look at it through color glasses perhaps I should have stayed that way. Because now it just makes me mad.

[@robinhood480]

@@silentmozart What was better for you in 1970 than it was in 69 ? Oh yeah.... you weren’t there.

[@tankman5]

I'm 74 now, and the best three days I ever lived was at Woodstock, and I still can't explain it.......I guess you had to be there.

[@SouthernArtist77]

I loved hippies and I lived in Arkansas. I wanted to change the world because of Woodstock.

[@mariaboletsis3188]

Great documentary, thank you! What an awesome time to have been alive.

[@melodyelson3202]

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[@melodyelson3202]

totally understand your point of view ... I was there w/ my family suggestion see the museam ... share the dream that 2023 could be better for these three generations during the pandenic that's been a chalange

[@waldmarwolchuk9483]

70s 80s were the BEST EVER Music that will ever be around in HISTORY ... BEST Bands and Singers which will never be again in our time ...Still to this day we ALL listen to this Music even my children do that are grown up and on their own to this day

[@tedsallis]

A well crafted, comprehensive and informative documentary.

[@tobysirus4996]

I remember my older brother telling me about this "great music festival" that happened and some of the greatest bands of all time were there. I remember it was important to him that I knew about this. He was murdered in 1983 after having fathered 3 kids in a bank robbery gone wrong.I feel the need to know more about this iconic moment in history that was so important to him.Chris I think I know what you were trying to say now.Your message is still here if we want to hear it ! Peace and warm winds to you brother !

[@rodneyhone2220]

What was such experience to those who were there but on tv radio so unreal to be in Australia for a12 year old just mind blowing loved it but still pumping it out so many bands I just then many bands to come

[@quincee3376]

I hope this is a good documentary. There are tons but i clicked on this one. I'm in for the next 52 minutes. Thank you for this.

[@gltglt8624]

Out of all the guitar playing at Woodstock, it is clear that Alvin Lee's rendition of "going home" blowed all the other acts completely off the stage!😄😄

[@StonedMickey]

You must not have heard Jimmy

[@izzzzzzzzzzzie]

'by helicopter' I agree.

[@maryvoigt8763]

Didn't realize it was this weekend. Some reason I had to hear this music 🎶 today. Aloha and stay happy

[@johnnytoobad7785]

Great interview with Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie. Both Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm (of The Band) give an entire different perspective in their respective bio-books. RIP Mike, Richie and Levon. From what I've read "The Band" was a "headliner" and lived in Woodstock, yet NONE of their performance was in the movie due to objections from Albert Grossman. He also objected to their (original) version of "The Weight" being used in the official Easy Rider soundtrack and was quite upset when he saw it used in the film. Grossman objected to his stable of artists "encouraging" drug use.

[@jayes12]

I was only 5 years old at the time and many say it was the end of the hippie era. However, it was the beginning of great 70s rock bands such as STYX, Journey, KISS, ACDC, etc. I love listening to all of the interviews and documentaries about Woodstock. One little known fact is that on day 4, the cleanup period on Yasgur's farm was at the same time that Hurricane Camille had hours earlier made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

[@fongy200]

It's a real shame Iron Butterfly didn't play, they were superb. The Guitar work was astounding, they were exellent live. I expect they really regreted not tripling their efforts to attend.

[@johntoomey357]

They were offered but turned it down

[@Billnam691]

This is my third time watching, with years sometimes between, I watch to remember, I had come home from Vietnam in early 68" I came home to friends who had changed alot, so a year later we jumped into a van and made it to Woodstock, we were living in New York city, so we heard about pretty early, each time I watch this I personally think of friends who I lost in Vietnam and the fact I made it home meant I was always going them in my memory, wishing they were next to me, I always felt uncomfortable when the subject was brought up the solice I had when I heard when some people would say that the service man's duty was part of the reason why this was possible, I don't know because I don't believe that was the feeling that most of the people were thinking in that way, but in anycase I enjoyed it, and especially the music, unfortunately for everyone that enduring feeling of everything would move forward didn't last as long as it should have, because change started to become forced, what should have been a natural forward movement, became a forced idea to change a generation now not letting people assimilate the change proved divisive and led to a slow agonizing and angry trudging move for change, I had hoped we could move together changing what was needed to reach the changes needed, like the coming together at Woodstock had started has not yet started, but I believe it can and must, but this is a very different and difficult world we live in, I'll be gone but I hope that everyone together realizes the only way to that lies in respecting each other, and understanding this world we live in.

[@bobburroughs6241]

In England many of us had been into the great American bands for a couple of years now and had seen many - Canned Heat, Taj Mahal, Spirit, Love, Beefheart. Our own bands seen were Cream, Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd. We saw Woodstock on the big screen and free concerts in Hyde Park later in the year saw The Stones and Blind Faith. Grace's White Rabbit a tour de force. You can see from these pictures that they were just young people, not hippies. Magical years.

[@patriotamerican62]

I was there, I was 9 years old. First 2 days was great but Sunday rain and everything turn in mud. Didn't have enough Porta potties. Sunday I wanted to go home, but nobody could leave. Traffic jam city, people park everywhere.

[@robwasilewski9273]

Truly sucks that this generation will never have a great concert with peace and music

[@charleskemp2037]

nonstop wars nowadays

[@ZeroGravity60]

WAIT FOR IT ............. 👽👽

[@Glenn-em3hv]

This generation will see the return of our lord Jesus Christ!!!!!

[@nicolarollinson4381]

I was only 11 in '69 but I knew that one day I would be a hippy. I went to the early Glastonbury festivals before it was surrounded by fences. Happy, hazey days. Far out, as we said back then. Still a peace and love hippy at heart but more of a free' spirit. High on the spirit of the Divine' rather than pot. ✌️💜

[@freespirit21newyork]

Awww I was only 4 in 1969 and my spirit belongs to this music and I'm also a hippie by nature. And I gave up cigarettes and pot years ago thanks be to my LORD and Saviour 🌷🙏🌷🐦

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@@freespirit21newyork 💚❤🕊

[@Glenn-em3hv]

That's exactly me now and I never thought that my life would lead me to God but I guess you never know!!! God bless!!!

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@@Glenn-em3hv Always 🌈💜 God bless you too, brother

[@jamesharper5545]

The times were a changing and for a brief time for us in attendance was the center of the world. What a great time for just being. Being there was a taste of heaven on earth . From gwyn and James Spokane Washington

[@savylace1197]

i was only 5yrs old then, I remember my mother talking to friends and her sister in German, how she wanted to be there so badly, but couldn't cause i was only 5.

[@latishajaubert5600]

I was 8 when Woodstock hit the country ,my oldest brother wanted to go so bad but going from Louisiana to new York with no money i guess he gave up. We need this kind of event today , with all the hate out there, it would be a refreshing smell to the stinch thats out here now.

[@ssmouse77]

I was 12 y.o. I don't remember it happening at the time. As I became of age I got to meet people that actually went and told about their take of it all. Of course the name "WOODSTOCK" was every where and info relating to it. I grew up a hippie and love it. I just watched this video twice in a row and thoroughly enjoyed it I must say. Now I am 65 and still love it all. 🎵🎶🔉🎸

[@wmanadeau7860]

Same - right on

[@charlie-qo2co]

I fuckin wish i was at woodstock. Im waiting for our generation to get this.

[@Mr.Mia13]

Lmao we got the Travis Scott festival look what happen

[@Ean420]

@@Mr.Mia13 pure chaos but not woodstock chaos

[@bigbadbruins1]

My oldest brother went.He came back from concert and said I am going in the Navy

[@spence7985]

The overwhelming smell of patchouli tends to get that response

[@charlie-qo2co]

@@spence7985 this killed me oh my god

[@mycatisabastard2361]

@@spence7985 👏👏👏

[@nancylee5505]

@@spence7985 a×

[@TheRickPierceall]

Woodstock promotes acceptance of others and love. The navy was a known safe haven for homosexuals. Makes sense.

[@mikep4823]

A time of desperation for a generation that had enough of loosing family members friends to a war that was long over due to end. A time of expressing no more hatred within people. This will never be duplicated the times where so different and the message from the people was we had enough. But seams although the message of peace and love was very clear that it has been lost all over again.

[@drats1279]

Not everyone from that generation was as desperate and pathetic as you like to think. Many did not engage in the drug culture and the whining, self-pity, revolting and general loathing of authority that people like you like to portray. Most of the hatred you speak of was exhibited by the very morons out marching with their peace signs and pot. Some of us got on with our lives and didn't waste our time thinking peace and love would magically make everyone so sweet and solve all our problems. In the real world, ostracized by that pathetic generation, not everyone is peaceful and not everyone loves you. Real adults learn to deal with the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[@victoriapalombit7519]

while I agree that things are not the same, I think it is important to consider the context of the times we are living in. In '69 there weren't corporate conglomerates that owned everything including media, there were no cell phones with ads and notifications constantly bombarding you. I'm not saying they were easy times but, it is much harder these days to achieve an event like this. So much more wealth disparity but also a lot more awareness (and disinformation) because of the internet. People arent being influenced by the same things which makes things feel imbalanced or scary maybe? Idk I'm high

[@Bobcagon]

Micheal Lang was a visionary. Irregardless of failures he pushed on. RIP Micheal. Lest we forget… Woodstock took place during a viral pandemic.

[@Bobcagon]

@@michaelshafts1400 irregardless vs. regardless: What’s the difference? Regardless means without regard to or in spite of some specific circumstances (usually those that have just been or are about to be mentioned). Irregardless (yes, it’s a word) is a variant of regardless that’s typically used to mean the exact same thing. It’s got an extra negative element, the prefix ir-, so it’s often considered nonstandard.

[@ironwolf535]

I wish we could have another Woodstock.

[@d.d.williams7143]

IronWolf, I don't think there's enough peace and love left in the world to even try to attempt it today...

[@ironwolf535]

@@d.d.williams7143 yeah you're 110% right.

[@freespirit21newyork]

I wish I could rewind the decades and I can attend it as an adult as I was only 4 in 1969 🌷🐦

[@investigator2016]

They tried with 99 😂 It was all about money and it showed in the end. Not only that but people and the music had no inspiration and meaning so it was more of a concert than a gathering and it drew in the wrong kind of people.

[@axn8888]

Can Woodstock be made into a musical? would be nice to see Broadway's take on the iconic 3-days in 1969.

[@jpr1845]

Ahhhh Yah, Music Festival 4 Peace & Luuuuv. My 4th Grade Teacher at Sunset View Elementary School San Diego Cali. Mr. Green (R.I.P. 🙌🙏🙌🙏) Was therevall 3 day's & he brought in his " 💯 Whole In Tact Ticket, Cuz the Gates were Crashed & people Stormed to get in & hus Ticket waw Never Torn, he Framed it in a Two way Glass Frame, I got to hold it like for a Few Minutes & I had heard so Much about it. It was at the 5th Year Anniversary in 1974, Just when I started 4th Grade, I was in Summer Sports & he was getting ready for the New School Year & I was going to be in His Class & we got to talking & sure enough he brought his Class Framed Whole Woodstock Ticket for me to see. I'll Never forget that Experience with My Favorite Elementary School Teacher Mr. Green & him showing me his Most Prized Position💙🩵🙌✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@joycegullett80]

Extraordinary time and place, The most perfect peaceful time and music .❤

[@ralfgroh2719]

Brings back fond memories, very groovy... thanks so much!

[@jimcharles9705]

This is a sweet little rockumentary, especially for one where the producers were too cheap to acquire the rights to use any of the music or video. "Lets make a great thing on Woodstock, but use no music or video."

[@gordonteats298]

Their was THE CORNERSTONE FESTIVALS also in Chicago and Bushnell Illinois, later on,all the Christian bands played for 4 days straight

[@katherinehunter9526]

Yes it changed our lives and the World forever. Thank you for proving Peace and Love is possible! We just have to want it! 🕊💖🎶💃🏻🕺🕺🏽🕺🏼💃🏼💃🏽💞🎶🎸🎷🎹🥁🎻🎺📻👑🕯🙏🏻

[@michaelhiggins7072]

We could use another one of these rn

[@kevinishikawa393]

I wa8s seven years old at the time of Woodstock and can remember the Hippies in my neighborhood chilling out smoking weed wearing bellbottoms and donning red Gandhi dots on their foreheads there was a beautiful 15 year old girl Jessica who lived upstairs in my apartment in Islip NY she took me in and liked me hanging out with her and her friends when they would chill and relax and just enjoy the love of one another's company they were very excepting an loving of everyone and everything and very much close in contrast with the theme of Woodstock and what it stood for I feel as if I was there in spirt through my love and being accepted by these people who called Hippies so yeah I consider myself a left back Hippie always will be some say that the festival didn't change anything but in my humble opinion I most certainly did it has been the sole reason for many festivals to happen there after and I believe that the powers that be realized that Music is ultimately more powerful than anything in the world it the one thing they can't take away from us and that SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF THEM and in essence LOVE CONQUERS ALL let's hope and pray can all be safe and live well in the days and years to come cause this world needs more than can be said now stay well ❤️ Dr.K Ish

[@mariacardenas]

it was a great concert i never forget this awsome concert maria

[@MoHippieShoMe]

I Loved every moment of this! Happy Hippie FriYey to All of you Beautiful Souls ☮️ I offer you Flowers in exchange for Bullets ✌️💖🐦🎼 🌻🌹🌷🌺💐 ♥️☮️♥️✌️

[@michaelmoore4696]

I was 14...dad made it clear, don't come home if you go. Goddess, but I wanted to be there. Hippy? Yeah...that's me. Did we get the vinyl and see the movie? The question is how many times. It was the times. Something was sweeping the country for a number of years and it all ran downhill to become Woodstock. Nothing else like it since. In Hendrix's words... "It was beautiful." I count myself really lucky to have been alive. Monterey opened the door. Woodstock lives forever in my heart.

[@freespirit21newyork]

I was 4 back then 🌷🐦

[@michaelgreene6417]

Well, I was there, and I'd like to make a few comments. This was an excellent documentary, and it was obvious they wanted to produce it without turning it into a retrospective of the music, so there was none! I would have preferred, however, a documentary twice as long that did include highlights of the music, and I think it would have been even more effective. Richie Havens--wow, he seems like a super chill, loving guy, but I disagree with his final quote--the festival was about both the hedonism and the nascent spirituality found among the attendees, and frankly, the main reason there were three days of peace and love without any violence is that most of the people were stoned most of the time, and that's the honest truth. One thing can be said for sure--there was a truly unique zeitgeist to that era of the late 60's and early 70's for those who came of age then, and it had a truly profound impact on that and subsequent generations, both positive, as well as negative.

[@bugeanuflorin1531]

Thanks for posting a magical festival. Forever young. Congrats. ,,Flower Power Play, Life is Art,, Make love, not war,, PEACE AND LOVE. Fabulous comments. Good time for you

[@jimhayes3225]

This was great, I was 10 when it played, 10 years older and I would have been there.

[@Glenn-em3hv]

Same here!!!

[@liamodriscoll3739]

FANTASTIC HAPPENING 1969 NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN ❤

[@gotflight50]

Crazy how Woodstock happened 53 years ago in the same America we in now lmao

[@juliamazzuca6356]

My dad is 70! He was here