Woodstock 40th 1969-2009

How blessed we were to have such incredible music at that time

Pat

Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship and Country Joe McDonald are among the acts that will descend on Bethel, New York, on August 15th to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, Billboard.biz reports. Mountain, Ten Years After, Canned Heat and Big Brother and the Holding Co. will also play the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a venue built on the site of the original Woodstock, which ran from August 15th-17th, 1969.

Helm appeared at the 1969 fest with the Band, while Jefferson Starship took the Woodstock stage as Jefferson Airplane. With the exception of Big Brother & the Holding Co. — Janis Joplin performed at the ‘69 concert with the Kozmic Blues Band — the rest of the acts performing on August 15th all had a set at the original Woodstock festival. As Rock Daily previously reported, Richie Havens will also play a Woodstock-related event on August 14th, returning to Bethel to perform “Freedom,” the song that opened up the ‘69 festival, at a media-only event.

Four decades after it drew hundreds of thousands to upstate New York, Woodstock promises to be everywhere this summer. Taking Woodstock, an Ang Lee-directed comedy about the behind-the-scenes story of the fest, is due to hit movie theaters on August 14th. Plus, Woodstock.com plans to relaunch itself as a social networking site and the festival’s original promoters and organizers are scrambling to hammer down plans to commemorate the original festival by 2010.

Edited by Biker Pat

It has been said,that if you can remember where you were when Woodstock was on ,,you werent there,, man

Brunswick wrote: I cant remember where I was last week...

If I remember correctly, I was in Skerries today! Beautiful sunshine and a nice  coffee in the new cafe at the monument.

GG

Anyone remember watching the Woodstock movie down in the old Fairview Cinema on one of those Friday Night excursions after last drinks from the Neptune? 

pogue did you ever live in san diego

jean

Rock on Muller.

If I remember correctly you had the original Woodstock triple album and played it at my 21st which was held in your house in Ennafort in August 1974

At that time I could not afford a party so Muller and a few of our friends held a small party in Muller's house.

We used an old tape cassette player run through my Da's old wireless to play my cassettes as well as Muller's record player.

Never forgotten my great friend.

I have that album (the triple vinyl one - I dont think its yours Muller - I bought it second hand in the old Basement X record shop on Bachelors walk in the early 80s).  I havent taken it out of the press for a few years - must dig it out and give it a spin. 

Pogue Mahoney wrote: I have that triple album as well -i swiped it from a box at a 21st birthday party i went to a while back.

That's funny..I have it too but I don't know where I got it.

I came home drunk one night and there it was on the table the next day......

The blonde was me -We used to dress up as girls in those days.
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