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- Filmmaker Barbara Bedick captures the ambiance at Woodstock just before Max Yasgur gave his speech...whatever day that was. Cleaner version at: • Woodstock 1969 - Home ...
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8/19/17 from filmmaker Barbara Bedick:
Since yesterday, August 18th was an anniversary of the end date of the Woodstock festival, I thought I would add something, having found an old poem, written during that summer. Here follows some background, and then a poem by my then, 20 year old self.
July 1969, the summer of love, and when the US astronauts walked on the moon for the first time on July 20th, and it was telecast on tv. I watched in a bar that was full of people drinking beer, and celebrating the moment. I lived in a rented room in a house of a family. The father was an artist, mom worked in Kingston, and two children, a boy and a girl. I was treated like a member of their family. But I also had privacy and my own entrance/exit out of the house, as my room was sort of an addition to the house. Every morning I bicycled to The Art Student’s League, and studied painting/drawing with Arnold Blanche. Later that summer, Aug. 16-18 was the Woodstock Festival at Max Yasgur’s farm, close to our summer bungalow in the Catskills, outside of Monticello, New York. I returned to our house in the Catskills, from Woodstock, just in time to go to the festival. I returned wearing a headband around my head and down my back, and a bracelet of bells around my feet. The world was changing.
The poem below are impressions of my month in Woodstock, where I studied painting.
Tales of Woodstock
A rainy misty day.
The song of Groovy,
and how we skipped through the streets.
The space around us was filmed in a fine mist.
The air was warm, and we were like children.
Piling into a car,
watching the countryside rush past.
Girl in white dress,
patchouli wafting in the air.
Harmonicas were played,
and the harmonies existed.
Bluesy songs, sung from the heart and soul.
The flower children sat atop the car.
Not only on top, but all over it.
There was food, and everyone shared.
Besides that, there was love between them,
and the feeling of being one.
The flower children thrived on life,
and yes, “wore flowers in their hair.”
People slept in cars at night,
but lived at Becky’s during the day.
For there was music at Becky’s.
Music is emotion,
something to groove on.
Climb into the sound,
and the music will speak to you.
Song of how we tromped through the streets together,
arm on shoulder,
arm on waist.
How we would pool our money together,
36 cents rich, with a penny to spare.
Sometimes hustling money.
Other times playacting for food.
Laughing through the hallowed alley,
then the lot for cars which was painted with white lines,
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the log,
careful not to step in mud or glass,
down the street and past the dogs to the cafe,
where friends would gather.
Weighing the importance of Indian Pudding.
To leave we would walk up the hill,
and it did not “bring us down.”
It was a song of how we played like children,
walking arm on shoulder,
arm on waist,
through the streets of town,
like the sun with laughter.
Mountains surrounded the town,
like a strong, strange army,
forming a complete circle in the distance.
The gentle guru, old, white haired man,
would tell the tale that once under the shadows and spells they cast,
the mountains would bring you back.
You would have to return someday.
Glimpsed while speeding down the hill on your bicycle,
in the cold morning,
the mountains seemed blue, and a rich green.
Colors to be used in your watercolors, later that morning.
At times the mountains would be covered in mist,
or buried under billowy clouds.
Other times the view of their majesty was completely clear.
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gosh i wish i would have been around during that time
Need to put this to music
i was born in the wrong generation...
@prismetumblr found my stand alone 2" by 4" picture of just myself in the official `69 woodstock photo book while browsing in a book store a few years back. totally blew my mind. i had no idea a photographer had taken my picture. it is such a cool thing being able to show people that picture , especially being a musician.
That was really cool. I love seeing older raw footage. Thanks for posting! The couple that made the cover of WoodStock (the one with the blanket and they were the only ones standing) they did a followup on them and they went backto the place where woodstock was held. Historic! Pretty cool if you ask me. Wonder where these people are now in the world?
Thanks for posting this, it made me feel like I was there!
That's me at 2:28 with the striped shirt!!!!! I knew I went to Woodstock !!!!
Very interesting. I'm glad someone else had a movie camera. Mojo. it's how we were then. Shame the world isn't like it now.
this was amazing! thank you for this! i really wish i could have lived during this time and attended. the atmosphere looked like a dream. does anyone know of any music festivals of today that have a woodstock-like vibe?
totally agree!
im sure that is super 8 camera she used..But woodstock '69 is the best open air concert ever held ..no one could beat it..I wish im there ..
Not super 8, regular 8.
No mud yet! (must've been the first day). :)
When 500,000 people showed up to the revolution without hearing about it on Twitter. When ideas meant more in the real world than they did in the virtual one. I was 5 years, I was there and my mother was a Hippie. PEACE.
@verasco79 There was mickey D's, but the food wasn't choc full of bullshit
Woodstock 69 : historical, pinnacle of the hippie movement. Love, peace, drugs and sex. The prophetic downfall of America. Great Music.
Woodstock 94: Forgettable. OK music.
Woodstock 99: Heat, High-prices, heavy music= Carnage. Last reminiscence of
Generation X. Good Music, better than 94.
The Next Woodstock : More Controlled. Lower prices, shitty music.
Same as EXIT in Serbia. Every year bunch of people comest to Novi Sad get drugged, drunk, garbage all over the place, take a mud bath. Really nice site to see.
lol youngns probley come here saying "wheres the sound" LOL 8mms didnt have sound just a lil tidbit for ya:)
from EL SALVADOR American Center.... magnifico video les felicito, WOODSTOCK POR SIEMPRE. viva el FMLN, VIVA EL CHE GUEVARA... VIVA SCHAFICK HANDAL.
I wasn't even a thought at this time. Not even my mom was a thought in 1969. But I really do wish I could have lived and experienced life through this time 😌
@rbedick No problem. Scan if you must and you probably should, too many Woodstock/hippy haters around. Funny you should write now, I've spent the past 47 hours & 17 minutes (so far) DLing the entire (or damn near) concert from someone online. After I started that DL, I found another that looks to be MUCH fuller, so I'll grab that, too, but I probably have even more stuff that neither source has!!
This generation was one of the greatest, I agree. And I also agree that this world only gets worse and worse. We people are making it that way. But it isn't perfect now, it wasn't then, and won't be tomorrow and years to come.
The only thing we CAN do is care. We CAN make ourselves better, and help others. We have to remain optimistic, and while appreciating the good times then, stay attuned to now. Look forward to the future and do what YOU can to make it right.
Good luck. :)
Ditto. I am of the same mind & am appalled at the numerous 20 & 30 year-old fat slobs I see in the public.
Being of the Flower Children generation, I'm proud to say I'm still slim & trim & love kick-box aerobics as well as swing dancing like a maniac. I also work out at a local gym where most of the 20 & 30 year olds are slim & trim. Gosh it's like visiting 1960's, an awesome era in which to have lived.
I think even the grass where they sat will remember that day
I just cant find anyone who just wants peace and love,and is closer to a natural mind,someone pure,good in spirit
Someone easy to befriend and love
Its sad...
The hippies are the best people ever lived,the more you'll understand them,the more you will feel the greatness of the word "PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION"
they knew how life must be lived!
To bad a hippy is a man in a million,otherwise the world would be a better place to live
I feel the complete same way about it im 21 years old and i wish i could have been there.Warp tour just doesnt cut it,Woodstock was more about just a concert,it was a more like a spiritual movement.For those 3 days they where away from society and from the media.They were able to meet people who traveled from all parts of the usa just to be at woodstock....WHY CANT WE HAVE A WOODSTOCK
Its good to know Im not the only one of my gen that has the spirit of LoveLight andPeace in them The thing that I wish my friends knew was that there is nothing stoppin us from bringing this same spirit back to the surface. Its not about tryin to reenact the 60s and the hippie culture its about invoking that same vibe into this current moment. There will not be another 60s but if this gen today wakes up we can def become aware of LoveLight andPeace again Think bout it We can change the World :)
I got dizzy from watching this (filmmaker ?) movie. Sheesh, it was awful! The panning was worse than amateurish, and the lack of any kind of continuity was boring...where was the story? I mean this was supposed to be made by a "filmmaker"...at least that's what it said. Just because they used 8mm film, doesn't mean it has to look as if it was done by a 5 yr. old swinging a camera around. I'm just sayin'...
you misunderstand the sixties. no one has ever said most people liked this or did that. it was about how more people started branching away from a common culture and experienced things and individualized themselves to who they wanted to be. take drugs and play hooky...many people loved the music of Hendrix and Joplin but to others they were considered evil because it was new. Sex is more prevelant now but nudity was big back then. you are very misinformed with the true meaning of the sixties.
At the time males were required to regester for the draft on your 18th birthday or they came after you. You could say one was serving their OWN best interests if they cound not afford to leave the country...
Jimi was stationed in Clarksville, TN, Fort Campbell, 101st Airborne Div & jammed here in Nashville a great deal in `65/6 or so. He was a patriot who saw nothing wrong w/ playing the anthem, complete w/ bombs & screams!
ok im like 16 and i was at this santana concert like a year ago and i had to take a piss realllll bad so i left to go pee while santana was still goin but we only like 1/4 way thru. and i walk in the bathroom and this guy starts yellin at me to go back out there and watch it. hes like "mann my dad didnt take me to this shit back when i was ur age..."these guys played at woodstock man!!" i was ok, took my piss and went back out there. funny story right.
I am from that generationl. the feeling was to each their own..no judgements, just have a good time
@perciful1 It could be because they are still young. It is mostly because of less processed food and being more active. There was probable not as much high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated this and that put into food. They had good eating habits because they did not grow up on fast food. Their mothers probably cooked for them most nights.
Sheesh, why must you be such a crude abrasive person? Sharing opinions is great but you don't have to insult me because you don't like what i have to say. If you were there, you obviously haven't grown up at all if you still have an immature need to curse people out. I am not ignorant thank you very much.
I kind of wish I could have gone to woodstock. I mean it was the greatest rock concert of all time. It was the largest Anti-War protest, the birth of the Woman's Movement, it represented all of what the 60's and that culture was about. Everyone cared and shared with everyone. And for humans in that quantity that is astounding.
Tons of reasons why no fatties. Fewer convenience items, no computers/Ps3's to sit and stare at. Really not much in the way of TV at home. A lot less processed/prepared foods to quickly zap in the microwave. None of the high fructose crap we have now, and none of these foods where they cram it with fat to = flavor.
because our society today, it just cant happen. Though there was a woodstock west, it was not succesful. woodstock was peaceful, happy, and care free. woodstock west was horrible, people fought. the security was hells angels. and we know that cant be good. anyway....
Come to San Francisco, hippies Are still around haight, all over. Hippie hill is dope on 4/20, a whole bunch of people blazing it up. Yesterday I seen a hippie get punched out on a bus, fucking hipster was talking shit and got socked by a few people, pretty funny
Far Out,man! Hey, Aliyah! 'Gotta love old ppl?' Whoa...we weren't old THEN! I wasn't there,but wanted to be. But judging by the lack of smiles in this old movie, I'm kinda glad I wasn't. And all those people,your parents,gparents,ggparents(?)...still feel like 19 inside,trust me! LOL
Alright people. I respect my elders and everything, but youtube isn't a place for older people to lecture the youth. Save it for somewhere else, and let people put there comments on here without elderly people lecturing us on how we need to mature. I dont care if you're 41, 57, or 80. Calm down.
Yea, but just got to make the best of it. Having 400k+ people together and having such little violence with each other is mind blowing. There are more crimes with half that many people in todays generation. The good old days, muscle cars and people like hendrix and bob dylan.
if i could go back to one time in history this would be it wow it was groovy peace and love!
@theremedy, I did notice that and youre right. Food doesnt need to have whatevers in it and doesnt need to be made in a lab. This film was amazing to watch. Thank you for posting. I was 2 when Woodstock happened so I couldnt go..another concert I missed..lol
does anyone know the name of the guy or video that was in omega man of woodstock? it had this hippy kind of guy saying things like " We're all here because we know whats really important ........... to get along as human beings " and so forth.
My poor young fellows. Doesn't you really understand what it means??? They created your freedom (in culture, and in every way) That's why you can wears anything, listento anything, tell your opinion about anything. They were real pioners.
A gathering of the tribes. Three days that expressed a generation, who seemed to lose the thread around 1973. If you talk to people who were young in those days,most will sooner or later ask the simple poignant question: " What happened"?
my dad was there, it used to be my bedtime story,
back in the days was better i guess, Fcking hard to be 25 in 2009 in California, The best act was jimmy,and CSN, according 2 my father. thumbs up for all the people that went to woodstock 69.
I dont babysit. I hate babysitting. and my comment was saying how people older than me need to stop lecturing us how the youth is so terrible now. I was saying how the lecturing needs to stop (at least on youtube). I dont think you understood what I meant.
Awesome video. So much better than all the other videos that just zoom in on the stage and don't really capture the moment. A few days to celebrate peace and love during a time of death and destruction. Thank-you for sharing.
Thanx very much for sharing the film footage! A happenstance of foresight for sure....I hope more film will be uncovered by anyone else who was there. Search your garages and attics, people!!! Best Regards!
I was not there I only knew about it in the spring of 1970 when two car loads of "hippys " came to Coconut Grove trying to run a health food store sale bean sprouds wheat grass tofu ... oh and meatless meat
i agree. i'm almost 16 and i respect my parents and adults, i got whooped when i did something wrong.
i don't see what's so wrong about it now! the way i see it it's the parents' fault that some kids act how they do
I liked seeing footage not seen before. I'm re-reading Woodstock Nation by Abbie Hoffman and very interesting in seeing new video or hearing tracks previously unreleased from the festival. Rev. Bookburn - Radio Volta
exactly- simplicity. remember how helpless and miserable everyone was during the 3 day northeast blackout? myself included? i remember a time when cell phones were for for emergencies and good vibes kept you awake.
1. Unless 17 makes me a '' oldie '' im still young.
2. I didnt say anything that happened to them after that era.
3. Hell, id live through the 80's, but only if I i was in High School, high school + old Metallica = \m/
Great documentary! Actually , it made me think of a new Biblical scene..."and the mud opened up and all the hippies walked through without harm". The colors and style of the video is awsome, a real piece of history. Thank you.
I don't care if there is no music here fuck this is gold this shit will never be repeated ever they had tried but it'd never been the same..it's fucking good!!! to see what really happened.
@hardinmarc WRONG! . " in our hearts there burned a fire , while we danced in the pouring rain ,and forty years later i still carry the flame" from "woodstock man"
OMG!! I'm such an old soul and would litterally give it all, to turn back the hands of time for those three days and be right there, huggin my brothers and sisters, rockin to some real music!!!!!!!
well, some of you may understand, that even though we have technology , the quality of life has been diminished. people are not the same either.they had a different mindset than we do today.
Thanks for uploading this orig. footage.
The '69 Woodstock could never be duplicated.
@Louis69 You obviously ain't ever been to Glastonbury. Every year it's like Woodstock. 150, 000. Young and old, terrific vibes and music and drugs. The spirit will never die, dude.
half a million people and no violence. Soul Sacrifice, I'm Going Home, Purple Haze, Little Help from my friends, my Generation...
what's wrong with a few days without food for all that?
theres that word again....generation! theres the same number of ppl born each year theres no such thing as a generation...the ppl in this video are just the same as you and me.
Yeah it's amazing to see the weight thing... there's something very wrong with our commercial farming methods. I don't see how it can be attributed to lazyness... but i'm not a scientist.
This is the way it is...., stop and smell the roses once in a while and be happy. take it as it comes...tit for tat. what comes around goes around my friend...remember that always
fue un fenomeno demasiado bacano en ese entonces, y todavia da mucho de que hablar no? 748 comentarios hasta ahora
You are declaring to not declare. We have things to say not because we are weak willed but because we believe in whatever thing we choose to believe in. To denounce a person their voice is to deny freedom.
If you wish to be a watcher on the sidelines not participating then be happy doing that but dont cut another when they wish to practice that very same right in a different manner... lest you become the very monkey tool you laugh so readily at.
Most of the people who went to woodstock were just regular people in upper state NY who heard of a big concert going on. The event had no political direction other than ant and music. Yes there was long hair, pot, bare boobs etc. Nothings changed!!! I saw more boobs at Lollapalooza, more pot, long hair dreadlocks. The media billed this at the big 60s event. The Isle of Wight Fest was BIGGER and went down 2 weeks later drawing nearly 2 million. Do yo hear 'Wight Generation?' Hype!
Wow.. can ya believe that most of the people in this footage.. if not all.. are in their 60s?! It's not like they're wearing top hats, bow ties, and Jimini Cricket jackets,rollie fingers moustaches, Elvis da pelvis hair mousse... these are a bunch of longhairs with jeans and tee-shirts.. not much different from the youth of today! Only now they're senior citizens!! Some already in depends wearing wife beaters, suspenders, and dentures watching wheel o fortune re-runs in their rkn chair
i wish i coulda been there, it really shows the power in numbers, and i mean you probobly didnt even have to bring your own weed, just take a big breath of that air lol
If you were a good parent you would be able to teach your kids to be decent without spanking them.
And grounding isn't abuse... No one has ever even said that before.
fvang199, how were you there, i looked on your account expecting you to be in your 60's to make shure you werent kidding or something, and your 29, you werent even born then.
how dare you say this, what an arrogant statement. Everybody is a child of the time he is born in. Do you believe you would/can be so much different then the masses were/are?
I've only ever seen newsreel footage of Woodstock, rather than from the perspective of an attendee. What an experience!
I was a mere fetus at the time, so I couldn't go. :)
Wow, AWESOME video! I was born in 1974 and heard lots and lots about this Woodstock where the 'mind and body were free'. Some say it was just a huge hippie druggie gathering concert, but now I SEE it was a place to for far more good than evil. Very nice vid, I love 8mm, this felt real and raw as THaT is what it was! Thanks! 5 stars!
Oh yeah, much easier to control, with the establishment going up in flames, riots breaking out, and the portapotties detonating in a big brownish ball of inferno while they try to confine thousands in a small little playpen hoping everyone will nod politely to the music and whisper quietly among themselves as a band named Limp Bizkit starts off with an upbeat
Yeah I noticed it. But you have to remember this was before the internet. Hell this WAS the internet back then. Now people complain if they have to move 2 feet. Back when you didn't have remotes to your TV's and no Micky Dee's. But at least all these fat kids will have strong thumbs from texting. You never know when you might need strong thumbs right.
@Louis69 Thats because of all the religion stuff we have encapsulated in the society today. I dont think i have to mention what kind of religion im thinking of.
hmmm-woodstock,where's the sex,drugs and rock and roll,that's what made woodstock news,,,nice home video,your parents believe it or buy into it,pretty lame
not so many blacks into the music scene like white kids - with money and time to travel cross country and hang out. alot of motown going on at that time as well..
"A little bitter...are you?" Ppl deserve to be bitter and besides there's nothign wrong with bitter just as their isnt sweet or salty. Stop antagonizing ppl.
Who was he serving?
He wasnt serving the interest of the Vietnam people, nor was he serving the interest of the American people.
Who's interest was he serving?
You should send this off to a company (like gotmemories . com) for a proper frame by frame transfer. The would probably clean it beforehand and make it look even better than it's projected. This is a historical piece and should look as good as it can. I don't think it costs that much for a small amount.
This is the moderator speaking - yeah, the comments here are being screened, some people are saying some nasty stuff that's not in the spirit of Woodstock - anyway, I'm imposing a moratorium on comments about the weight and eating habits of those who attended the festival.
I was born in this era, but I didn't have time to go to woodstock or be a hippie. Although I did really enjoy the hippies and hung out with them whenever possible.
Being a true hippie wasn't all about drugs and pot smoking. It was awesome. Read up on it some time.
The Woodstock of '99 was too regulated and commercialized .. probably couldn't bring your cooler, couldn't drop a load in the woods, confined to certain areas etc.. oh and tickets were 150 dollars each.. a single serving of pizza was 12 bucks.. I guess they figured modern-day hippies were rich..
You are right pennyfrannie4life! there were no fat people at woodstock. Lollapolooza must weigh 4 times more than woodstock with less people. If people were fatter at woodstock, it would have left a crater, rather than memories. Think about it, gen yer's!!!!
Armin, you will to when you reach my age...57, it's all about the mature process through your stages of your life...all of us goes through it partner
For some reason I wish myself and all my friends were born in this generation because of the freedom
and the music. That would be so amazing. Sadly I'm 14 and the closet thing to Woodstock is warped tour for me an my friends lol.
Woodstock was one of those special moments in time. The human expression (music, dress, caring, standing for something, attitude) in response to the crazy nature of the time period is a testament to how powerful human beings really are.
300000 ppl at one concert festival in the 1960s was a huge dealio we can all tell, but now theres ppl like fatboy slim playing in front of 360000 ppl for one 3 hour gig and its totally not that rememberd XP
interesting comment... good point... made me think... hmmm... why no fatties?!? is it the lack of msg in their hippy diet? they probably had all around healthier food... er somehting...anyways...hi5able comment...cya
@tommy21183
No- fairly sure it was all about peace and love man, that's one of the reasons shit was possible back then without regulations.
i have a jimi hedrix at woodstock. it has amazing footage of his whole set plus interviews with people who were involved,,, i got it from sams :)
Im 17 my grandmother went here Original Woodstock in 1969 She was 21. She passed away this year from type 1 diabetes. My Grandmother was a hppie.
That was great to see in an eery kind of way. a cool look at history from a different perspective. You should contact the museum up there and see if they would be interested in a copy of that.
They were good times, because there was no violence between those people. They were all for peace. And people wont try to attempt to bring those days back because they are too scared to do so.
Very very cool.. and groovy. I was an infant at this time, but Woodstock is in my top 5 places in History I would have loved to witness.
@verasco79 i think there was but it wasnt a huge chain restaurant in every town and introduced to kids at a young age with the happy meal
Far out! Someone wrote that the movie was filmed on the edges and the real event was taking place in the crowd... and here's the evidence. Thanx for posting, a little piece of history.
the song that followed that was AWESOME ! take out 'vietnam'
and insert the 'middle east', history repeats itself.
and it's 1,2,3 what R we fightin 4, dont ask me i dont give a damn.
How bout we stop sitting here writing all these long comments about how terrible it is now, and actually try to make a difference!