What It Was Really Like To Be At Woodstock Back In 1969
This month, in 1969, nearly half a million music lovers got together at a dairy farm in New York for the legendary 3-day Woodstock Festival.
Publicized as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", 32 bands, including Jimi Hendrix,The Who and Santana, played for the huge audience rain or shine. Flower children, muddy fields, naked people swimming - it was all there, just as you'd expect. Luckily, two LIFE photographers Bill Eppridge and John Dominis were on site during the festival and managed to capture the essence of the 1960s perfectly. Take a look at the pics below and vote for your favorites!
(h/t: sobadsogood)
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I wonder who took care of all the trashes they left behind... Something tells me they didn't do it themselves.
#10
Wonder if this beautiful young man in the pic is still around? The spring of youth!
#12
I'd chose a groovy way just so that I might cross paths with Jimmy Hendrix and the likes
#15
One thing I like about the 60-70s hippy era- the beautiful women were natural!
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I mostly just noticed how much thinner everyone was -_-
Before the advent of corn syrup in everything
Yeah, they didn't eat junk food at each meal and between each meal at the time...
Lol..they were proper vagrant starving hippies....not the wanabe hipsters of today :p
drugs do that :P
Trashes...trashes everywhere!
Bit gross isn't it!
It's true that there wasn't any environmental awareness but even so...
The farmer who gave his land for this concert paid people to come in after the concert to tidy up. Wins all round - people had a good time with the whole vibe and music and others made money. What's not to like?
Yeah...sure...there always be people to get your trashes after you...good thinking. I hope it was ironic...
See my post below
Yeah that made me cringe quite a lot... That's not the image I had of the hippie community.
The "mature content" ones are so funny. They show more than that on 'Naked and Afraid' with no disclaimer! Someone's afraid of getting sued. :-)
I mostly just noticed how much thinner everyone was -_-
Before the advent of corn syrup in everything
Yeah, they didn't eat junk food at each meal and between each meal at the time...
Lol..they were proper vagrant starving hippies....not the wanabe hipsters of today :p
drugs do that :P
Trashes...trashes everywhere!
Bit gross isn't it!
It's true that there wasn't any environmental awareness but even so...
The farmer who gave his land for this concert paid people to come in after the concert to tidy up. Wins all round - people had a good time with the whole vibe and music and others made money. What's not to like?
Yeah...sure...there always be people to get your trashes after you...good thinking. I hope it was ironic...
See my post below
Yeah that made me cringe quite a lot... That's not the image I had of the hippie community.
The "mature content" ones are so funny. They show more than that on 'Naked and Afraid' with no disclaimer! Someone's afraid of getting sued. :-)