See, now, that’s why I don’t think Whoopi is a comedian.  She just said the deal, and you’all are laughing.  There were "woodstocks" all across the country for several years, music and hanging out together in huge groups.  What Ms. Whoops said is true.  Except in my case, my parents were progressives, so I was just doing what seemed right at the time because that’s what they taught me to do.  I wasn’t a rebel, I was a conformist to my rebel parents!

Ah I remember the days. No I-pods, no cell phones, no tweet this or facebook that. Folks actually looked at each other and spoke about matters that well…mattered. Now, I’m hooked up to my I-pod, listening to  the old and new, tweetering to my tweets and staying in touch with my friends.

Maybe I should smoke something and just chill but then I’d start coughing and I would have to go to the bathroom and well it just crappy that Woodstock was forty years ago because that means I’m getting…old.

 

If you were a patent of teenagers during that period It was one lousy rotten time. Sex, drugs, rock & roll took their toll………..big time!

As a rooster I will stay out of the hen house regarding the View, I was not impressed with watching the TV this past June when I visit my son. I did see 10 minutes of the View because I am a Whoopie fan but changed the channel seeing how the show was going….wow. Yes I was at woodstock and it had a message from that generation, it made clear my life belonged to me and being there was a insight to my future with or without drugs. I felt part of a new society that would make changes in the near future, and better late than never. Uncle Sam needed to shave and wear some beads for a change. My heart will always be at woodstock and the event is as historical as pilgrims landing at plymonth rock. T.Teamoh

I am going to go out on a limb here….and actually answer the question, No I didn’t go, yes I was of age….and I hated that I missed it. Wanted to go badly…….there were so many cool groups there……

I was 13 and much too young to even think of leaving middle class Middletown Township, in Monmouth County New Jersey and seek out that kind of excitement let alone with a bunch of hippies.  I did not partake of any drugs at that point of my young life, and I might have been terrified if I had been there.  I have always wondered what it would have been like…did buy the albums yet never experienced the 3 days of blissful music and mayhem.  My favorite s were Joan Baez, the Who, and many more.

I did not go to Woodstock, I was in Spain studying to become a Spanish teacher. If I had been here, I would not have gone anyway..that was "not my scene’. Little did I realize in 1969, that 6 years later I would be teaching in the county where it took place! I have lived just a few miles from the site since 1975! I used to tell my students "en 1969 yo fui a espana, los astronautas fueron a la luna y el resto del mundo fue a Woodstock" (in 1969 I went to spain, the astronauts went to the moon and everyone else went to Woodstock!) But I have been to the Woodstock museum there, it carries me back to that time. We were all filled with a sense of righting wrongs, establishing social justice..and we did a lot. And I still have that sense..and will fight for a cause i believe in!

I to was too young, no I didn’t go. Being from a family of 10, it was like having WOODSTOCK all the time. Would I want my children to go, hell…. no. Oh well how we change as we get older. I wouldn’t change my flower-power days for anything…….

I wasn’t alive during the first Woodstock, but I was for 1999, and I remember the news stories and media coverage and all the rapes and mud.  Neither of those two things are very appealing to me, so considering a 2009 voyage was pretty much unheard of.  I’m not necessarily "anti-hippy", but I do think the time of "free love/sex" is over. I’m worried about healthcare, employment opportunities, and mounting debt, and perhaps I’m too much of a "square", but even the idea of temporary relief from these stresses through drugs or sex don’t make me want to partake. I’m curious to know if there’s going to be a nostalgic trip down memory lane every 10 years to commemorate something I can’t really see what all the hype was about in the first place? Maybe some of you older people can help me, but what happened at Woodstock that makes it so great that it should be re-lived decade after decade? Not trying to be rude. Just curious. :)