Celebrating life 50 years ago

It's impossible for me to believe that Woodstock was 50 years ago this month...

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There was nothing like it before or since.

Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 

600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles  southwest of Woodstock. 

It was alternatively referred to as the Bethel Rock Festival or the Aquarian Music Festival but we all remember it simply as 'Woodstock'.

 Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. It has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation.

Jam-packed country roads became parking lots as people just took their car keys and walked miles into the festival. The gridlock in turn meant the bands couldn’t get to the fest; organizers scrambled for helicopters while having Richie Havens, the first artist to arrive, play an unscheduled and understaffed set. Food ran out, medical supplies ran out, and a downpour transformed the grounds into a mud pit. 

When the fest ended and organizers toured the mess, they feared they’d come across dead bodies. But they didn’t find any. Miraculously, they felt, Woodstock worked.

This is a famous- enough picture:

As 20-year-old sweethearts, Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly were immortalized as the poster (flower) children of Woodstock. A photograph of the couple — wrapped in a tender embrace and a pink blanket — became the cover of 1970’s “Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More.”

But at the time, they had no clue that photographer Burke Uzzle had even captured the shot at the festival, which took place the weekend of Aug. 15 to 18, 1969.“I don’t know how it happened,” Nick told The NYPost.

Yet the photo endured — and so did the love story. Fifty years after Woodstock, the now 70-year-old spouses are still holding on tight to one another. “It’s a moment that happens still this day,” said Nick, a retired carpenter. “When we first see each other in the morning, that’s the first thing we do. We give each other a hug and a kiss, and we stand there for about a minute or so, hanging on to each other.”

This is them - 50 years later.

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I personally am happy to hear that plans for the new re-hash, 'Woodstock 50' or whatever the f**k they were gonna call it, have been shitcanned.

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Wanna see the new PBS documentary about it?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/woodstock/

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The promoters of this new woodstock thing are just 

money-grubbing scumbags...

$ 32.00 hat or $ 40.00 T-shirt?

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Hear it for yourself - 

Here's the definitive collection: