Listening to the 3LP set - damn that's a good album.

Listening to the 3LP set - damn that's a good album.

A great time and place indeed.

But if you can remember it you weren't there. I think.

I wasn't there, AFAIR - but I was at "Woodstock in Iowa" . In August 1970 the Joe Davies County officials pulled the plug on a festival that was supposed to be held near Galena Illinois. The promoters rapidy found a location near Wadena Iowa swelling the population from 200 or so to 30000. Not exactly Woodstock, but the Poco, Flying Burrito Brothers, Everly Brothers, Sons of Champlin, Joan Baez, REO Speedwagon, (White) Lightning and Big Mike Edwards showed up among others.

woodstock: one of my favorite cds. MFSL does a good job with it. When you just want a smile on your face and feel like listening to some good ole hippy real music, ya just can't beat it. :banana:

Great record! I ran across a clean 3LP set in a thrift store a couple of weeks ago after many months of looking at many FUBAR'd copies.

I have always been fascinated by the whole Woodstock vibe, sound, history, legacy, everything. I have many times thought of riding to the site with a guitar and a sleeping bag and just kind of hanging out. Still havent done it. I already know that Sullivan County are more ANAL about visitors NOW then they were THEN. The all mighty $$ is probably the biggest reason. A lot of folks coming for a visit probably don't want to pay to do their thing. There is some kind of show every August I think. Some bigger than others. That would be fun.

Arlo Guthrie was the MC a few years ago I think. He is still great. I go to see him a lot and have met him and his traveling music family on several occasions. Its so neat to realize that artists like him were never in it for the money. It was and is their life. Arlo has pretty much been on the road the whole time since. He has one heck of a story about melting into the floor and becoming part of the molecular structure of the stage after more or less being shoved out in front of the crowd WAY before he was scheduled to perform. After he has you in stitches laughing he breaks into "Coming Into Los Angeles" carring a couple of KI's (kilo's), don't touch my bags if you please, MR customs man.....

You know, I have the 3lp album, and the movie....BOTH GREAT!

For more music check out Woodstock 2. The lesser known album.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/a7/Woodstock2AlbumCover.jpg

It's damn far removed from the way things were then, but there's an entire community of folks trying to preserve the Woodstock/Dead tour vibe.

It's a nice time to spend the weekend at a hippie festival. Bonnaroo is of course the largest and most commercial of these, but there's local and regional shows that are just as much fun. If you ever fantasize about having gone to Woodstock, it's the next best thing.

It is true a rock/hippie festival is something everyone should experience at least once. Some people think that all of that got left on the album covers and is now a lost dream, but thats not true. There are a multitude of "hippie", folk, rock gatherings that go on every year, all around the country.

The Rainbow Family gatherings were a big deal up into the 90's. I just havent kept up since. They are probably still doing it today. The Further Tour was a pretty cool traveling Hippie music show with members of the Grateful Dead and other counterculture icons.

Funny recently I read a quote by Jerry Garcia where he remembered wondering what a "hippie" was supposed to be. They were being called that by "normal" people but it wasnt any name that they coined themselves. Most of the more Far Out folks refered to themselves as Freaks if anything at all....

For more music check out Woodstock 2. The lesser known album.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/a7/Woodstock2AlbumCover.jpg

Funny, Just before I saw this thread, I started one about Jorma Kaukonen. I recently picked up a copy of Woodstock 2,almost a whole side is Jefferson Airplane!

'Don't eat the brown acid'??!

Oh no. Dudes.

Pete

'Don't eat the brown acid'??!

"Uh, to get back to the, uh, the warning that I've received, you may take it with how many however many grains of salt you wish, that the brown acid that is circulating around us is not specifically too good. Uh, it's suggested that you do stay away from that. 'Course it's your own trip, so be my guest, but, uh, please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?"

Cranking up the volume on Ten Years After and listeing to Alvin Lee and the rest of the band doing I'm Going Home is a good thing to do. :D

OOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The memories. You have just made me want to hear it again.

Cranking up the volume on Ten Years After and listeing to Alvin Lee and the rest of the band doing I'm Going Home is a good thing to do. :D

:smoke::smoke:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmen to that brother!!:music::music: