@Sanguine - Is that you running through the mud in that first picture? I believe I am one of the guys behind the shirtless guy on the right.

Yeah, I was old enough(17) and came from a conservative family too. But that didn't prevent me from doing some really stupid things back then anyway.

And I have to admit it must not have been me in that picture. Instead, I bought the album to listen to Jimi play the Star Spangled banner. I liked it so much I went to San Antonio in 1970 to watch him play it live right before he passed on.

I was fascinated with Woodstock. I have read books and review as many pictures of the festival as I could. Last year some new never seen ones came to light. You want to no the one stark difference between kids from 1959 and the kids today? Kids today are soft, fat, flabby fast food eating pre diabetic out of shape couch potatoes. It's no wonder they get sick when anyone sneezes. Most of the attendees in 69 where thin and muscular with very low BMI numbers. They played outside. They worked outside. They loved being outside where the germs play.

I know it is pure "anecdotal" and the people telling us about the doom and death from Covid hate Anecdotal.... But sometime things are what they are and you don't need a PHD in science to know who nature works.

Aug 1969 I was stationed at Ft. Ben Harrison, Indianapolis. IN.

The weekend of Woodstock we discussed going there. But instead we drove across scores of miles of cornfields, to reach an amusement park in Monticello IN, called Indiana Beach, which held concerts. I don't remember the band that played.

No offense intended, but Indiana wasn't much, for this Socal conscript. BTW many big groups played at this venue, including Janis, Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, The Who and others. Iron Butterfly sticks in the fading remnants of my mind.

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Aug 1969 I was stationed at Ft. Ben Harrison, Indianapolis. IN.

The weekend of Woodstock we discussed going there. But instead we drove across scores of miles of cornfields, to reach an amusement park in Monticello IN, called Indiana Beach, which held concerts. I don't remember the band that played.

No offense intended, but Indiana wasn't much, for this Socal conscript. BTW many big groups played at this venue, including Janis, Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, The Who and others. Iron Butterfly sticks in the fading remnants of my mind.

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I was fascinated with Woodstock. I have read books and review as many pictures of the festival as I could. Last year some new never seen ones came to light. You want to no the one stark difference between kids from 1959 and the kids today? Kids today are soft, fat, flabby fast food eating pre diabetic out of shape couch potatoes. It's no wonder they get sick when anyone sneezes. Most of the attendees in 69 where thin and muscular with very low BMI numbers. They played outside. They worked outside. They loved being outside where the germs play..

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Aug 1969 I was stationed at Ft. Ben Harrison, Indianapolis. IN.

The weekend of Woodstock we discussed going there. But instead we drove across scores of miles of cornfields, to reach an amusement park in Monticello IN, called Indiana Beach, which held concerts. I don't remember the band that played.

No offense intended, but Indiana wasn't much, for this Socal conscript. BTW many big groups played at this venue, including Janis, Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, The Who and others. Iron Butterfly sticks in the fading remnants of my mind.

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So does
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in mine.

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