Woodstock ’69 Lineup!
Woodstock weekend rolls on! In honor of the 46th anniversary of the Woodstock ’69 festival, watch live footage of performances in order of the original line-up on our Twitter page! Original Woodstock...
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Woodstock weekend rolls on! In honor of the 46th anniversary of the Woodstock ’69 festival, watch live footage of performances in order of the original line-up on our Twitter page! Original Woodstock...
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Today marks the 46th anniversary of Woodstock Music & Art fair of â69, the 3 days of peace and music that will live on forever! Today we celebrate the magic, community and importance of Woodstock. Relive the Woodstock ’69 performances in the order of the original line-up all day on our Twitter!...
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This week Lyric Culture is launching its Woodstock Collection sold exclusively on The Home Shopping Network! Tune in and catch the vibes this Thursday at 9PM EST to shop it! Lyric Culture’s founder recently had a hangout with Michael Lang. Read all about here on their...
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Scarlet Disko: How old were you during Woodstock? Stephen Conley: I had just turned twenty in June. SD: What were you doing at the time? SC: I was a college student going to the University of Virginia, majoring in political science. SD: Were your parents aware that you were going to Woodstock? SC: No, by that time I had been going to college for 2 or 3 years so I was living independently. SD: How did you get to Woodstock? SC: We hitchhiked from a little town called Pound in Virginia. We didnât get far the first day, but the next day we caught a ride that took us all the way to White Lake. This guy was bringing his children from Georgia back to his wife who was a nurse in White Lake. He was driving a Mercedes Sedan, and we sat in the back drinking beer the whole way. There was a bucket in the car that him and his kids peed in so we didnât have to stop once. When we got to White Lake to drop off his kids, we spent the night at their house and the next day his wife dropped us off about three miles from the festival on her way to work. SD: What day did you get there? SC: Mark and I got there on Tuesday and nothing was ready; we camped up on the hill, not far from the lake. The first night that we heard music we wandered around to find that it was the Hog Farm playing the Beatlesâ âA Day in the Life.â They were playing at an open stage and that was the first time I had granola, not knowing what it was. The Hog Farm was playing it so well that we thought the Beatles were actually down there. The Hog Farm was able to recreate how the orchestra rises and rises in the song with just a few simple instruments. We were stunned by how well they performed, it was an incredible opening music act that we experienced. SD: How many friends did you go to Woodstock with? SC: There was supposed to be six of us in a station wagon going to Woodstock together. However, the guyâs dad who we were borrowing the station wagon from was worried about it breaking down on us and decided not to let us use it,...
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Joel Rosenman shares some thoughts on the...
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Scarlet Disko: How old were you during Woodstock? Barry Shapiro: 18. S: What were you doing at the time? B: I had graduated high school in June. The following fall I would be going to film school at the School of Visual Arts in New York. After graduation I had been living with a bunch of people in a house in Rego Park, Queens (New York), Bobby [Torres], then the conga player in Joe Cockerâs Grease Band was one of them. He wasnât around that often since he had been on the road with the band, but he had a room there. It was a house full of musicians and there was always music going on in the basement. S: How did you get to Woodstock? B: I went with my friend David who was a best friend at the time. We went in the back of a friend of Davidâs car. I didnât know them and we didnât stay with them during the festival. We were driving up Friday night when all of a sudden weâd reached a point where traffic had completely stopped. After awhile, out of nowhere, this guy in a pickup truck shows up and he gathered together a caravan of vehicles and said, âFollow me, I will get you there.â He had been doing this all evening, going back and forth from where he got us to where he took us. When he dropped us off as close as he could get us to the festival he told us, âSleep here tonight, and when you wake up just follow the music.â (I think it was about a 3 mile walk from there.) If it werenât for that guy in the truck we might not have ever made it to the festival. We followed the music in the morning. At some point I got separated from David and didnât see him again until after we got home. I wound up getting into the festival and eventually I came upon 10 or so people I had just graduated high school with…it was perfect. I spent the next two days with them. We were directly in front of the stage up the ridge of the bowl, in other words not all the way in the back but certainly not near the front of the stage. It was a good spot, the sound was really good, and it...
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