ORIGINAL 1969 WOODSTOCK STAGE HAS BEEN FOUND! Here's the story... 

R.I.P. Campbell Hair. A young man from Glasgow Scotland who was part of the hogfarm east and helped build the stages and feed the people! He passed many years ago but being a Glaswegian myself, it blew my mind that a fellow Scot was part of this historical experience. He went on to work in the music business and toured with many of the greats including my hero's The Grateful Dead.

My woodshed teacher (34 years ago), Joe Beyer, was part of building the stage. In the Woodstock movie he is wearing purple.

Visited the museum at Bethel Woods a few years back & found it an interesting & emotional experience. Then walked over to see ‘the field of dreams’ itself and was surprised to see how relatively small the site looked to be, as in the movie it looked enormous! Was cool to just stand there & absorb the vibes of the place, & to recall what an amazing event the festival was!

We need another Woodstock these days for sure for unity

If you go to the site of the concert, the concrete stage footings are still there.

I have a piece of the stage now I got it today in mail. I got one of their necklaces made from the stage’s wood. I’m a big music and Woodstock fan. And a big history nerd. Great find and amazing technology today. 😊♥️🇺🇸☮️

Wish I could have been there. Wasn't old enough. Woodstock is to me. A time to love each other and the earth. It's needed now more than ever

Oh how I wish concerts were still like Woodstock...Oh how times have changed... I get by with a little help from my FRIENDS!!!!

After Woodstock entertained approx. 500,000 people in 1969, 4 years later there was the Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" in 1973 and more than 600,000 people were in attendance. The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Band entertained the assembled group. I missed Woodstock, as I was only 14 years old when it was held but as an 18-year-old young man, I attended the Watkins Glen festival, and it was fantastic!

I was a teen in 1969 living on the west coast and Woodstock certainly made headlines but it's significance has also very much grown over the years starting with the eventual release of the movie since then being kept alive by RU-vid. The idea that pieces of the stage were worth keeping for posterity would have been been laughed at back then.

I was blessed to work stage security at Woodstock. I spent the best part of three days on those often soaking wet boards. It was one of the highlights of my life. Glad the stage has been found.

The stage should have been preseved in full and kept in a museum somewhere.... i suppose it all being plywood the event organizers didnt consider this at the time

That story makes me Happy and Smile! Wow!!!

Incredible story!! What goes around, comes around!

So cool that you saved it but how sad that it’s being cut up and sold rather than kept together, as big as possible, for all to see somewhere.

from Woodstock to Stock Wood

Absolutely Awesomeness!!!

Cool story. Here I am at the monument, some 45 or so years later. -Al fm NJ

Thank you vlad this was a stellar listen.. stay safe and take care everyone

Fantastic.

Wow. I was only 11 wben Woodstock was on. . I recently moved to NJ and was able to stop and see where Woodstock. was. So cool to to just see it. iIt was a Saturday getting kinda late afternoon in Late October . So many people still there visiting. I hope to go back when weather gets warmer and visit the museum and see more.

Great story. Thanks

Very cool!!

Incredible story!!!!!☮️

Brilliant find, thanks, and God Bless🙏🏻

I have four jellybeans they were on the stage when the Beatles played in Shea Stadium,. my uncle worked for a company that erected the stage beetles performed on. When they took the stage apart , My uncle picked up a few of the jellybeans as souvenirs. Now I have them .. he kept them in an old aluminum 35 mm film can with a label on it,.

A piece of the Stage of Peace. : )

Oh my Gawd!!!! Thank goodness they found it! I was getting very, very worried about that plywood.

Wonderful story.

Just to set the record straight not everyone was "equal", there was a huge backstage area that was off limits and controlled by security. The following passes were issued...Press Pass, Staff Pass, Performer Pass, and Guest Pass.

Very Cooley O.......... Recently I seen a music video an part of it was building the stage .I recognized the name on the plywood

Beautiful ☮️👍

Woodstock - the greatest concert ever, and nothing will ever come close to the history that created.

Let’s bring all the pieces back together and reassemble like a huge jigsaw puzzle

AWESOME!!! PEACE!

I saw the Leslie Keyboard they used at Woodstock in Neil Shone's studio in Alameda CA, when l did some recording there. It sounds sweet on my tape!

Our family used to spend the summers at the Pines Hotel in S. Fallsburg. Both Woodbourne (the location of the bungalow colony) and Bethel (the location of the festival) are nearby. I’m pretty skeptical by nature, but everything in this story seems to check out. It’s an amazing find, and a unique opportunity for those of us who couldn’t attend the show (I was three).

10 years ago I was at the Monterey Pop festival site, no one was around, I got up on the stage and at the front edge of the stage I pulled off a small sliver of wood, I never did see any supposed "burn spot" where Hendrix burned his guitar though

Should of been assembled on the original site and covered from the elements for future generations to see. Imagine that.

Amazing!

I ❤️ed W☮️☮️DSTOCK '69 !

I have to say that while it may be pieces of the performance stage floor it can also be from the stage access bridge which had similar painted walls on it, the unpainted sheets were used in many areas : on the tower platforms, walls in the artist compound barricades etc etc. The section that was painted on main stage was a strip about 2 feet wide across the centerline of the turntable where the two halves were connected together. The piece that RIchie Havens backing guitarist Paul Williams is sitting on was 2 fully painted sheets that were a 'test' to see what a painted stage floor would look like etc . The stage was far from completed and there was no time to paint anything as designed. This info is directly from my colleague Chip Monck btw.

Termites were too buzzed to finish it off.

There is a woodworker in West Virginia who has a piece of the stage he has now made into shavings and will put a small piece in his relics to sell with certificate of authenticity! He knows this guy in this video! Crazy what a small world after watching this I had to go order from Cut N Create Woodsmithing. My peace dove is currently being made!

"If you want me to take a dump in a box, and mark it guaranteed I will... I've got spare time." Comes with certificate of authority that was written by someone who appointed himself the authority. HA. What a scam.

Reminds me of when people used to sell "pieces of Christ's cross". How do we know each pendant for sure contains a piece of the actual stage?

Very cool, I was 9, I remember thinking, shit, I'm too young, I couldn't wait to get older.lol

Cool..

Great Great Great !!!

The green grass area that was fence in next to the stage. What was it use for ??

The industrial boom started around 20 years before. Free love . Drugs. Cults rising in. And now look at us.

Need guitars made outa that wood

SOME WERE MY NAME IS ON THAT STAGE IN FILT MARKER (ON AIR NAME AT THE TIME THAT IS )

The pieces of the original stage should be incorporated into the stage at a new Woodstock Festival Reunion 2023. The majority of us that attended the original festival would love to attend Woodstock Reunion 2023!

I can easily infer that Jimi,Pete,Jerry, would all say something like "Its Just F ing Plywood man"

I remember seeing this and getting the fever, but by that time it was all sold out but you could by some sawdust. So they saved me from myself, that being said, I passed on the dust. I'd pay for a piece of the stage, but not Woodstock dust.

Cause the name "Woodstock" has been bought and used now as a corporation. Seems insane considering how counter-cultural the actual concert was.

"Oh, my God! We found this incredible piece of history still intact after half a century! Of course, we chopped it up and sold it for a few bucks."... Unbelievable. The entire thing should have been given or sold to the musuem at Bethel. What a shame.

I found a chunk of plywood that Jimi Hendrix himself stood on, only problem is you are going to have to take my word on it - $500,000 [or best offer !]

Concert may have been free, but pieces of the stage sure aren't. That's sure in the spirit of Woodstock. 😂

What a shame it wasn't preserved wtf

One thing you don't hear often is yeah it was free, after they broke down the fences and forced their way in and the organizers had no choice. Those guys invested everything they had, you know for them it was about making a profit, and there's nothing wrong with that. They lost their asses on this one, the only thing that saved them was the film that turned out to be a hit. Woodstock was never supposed to be a free festival.

Saw nothing to convince me this is the wood from Woodstock. lining up some knot holes would help. Plywood exposed 50 years like this was to harsh winters would be toast.

Big ears

Wait a sec.....was this housing bungalow part of the "Taking Woodstock" movie??

The Hippy movement was the beginning of the end of the U.S.A..

Have you considered donating that portion of the Woodstock stage to the Tock & Roll Hall Of Fame???

This guy , cutting and selling the stage 😆

How can I buy a sheet of the plywood from the stage??????

They're still trying to sell it!

Are the pieces of the stage free like the concert was?

I’m surprised Fender Custom Shop haven’t yet bought some of the stage to construct a commemorative Stratocaster and Telecaster, similar to the “ Hollywood Bowl benches “ Guitars.

Eric Cartman does not smile when you mention Woodstock.

Im gunna need a dna test on that wood. If it has the sweat of Hendrixs in it im all down with it.

Its a free stage from now on ! 😂

How many years can they continue to sell this stage wood? Apparently forever.

Everybody was not equal bc I heard that performers was fed steaks at the back of the stage while the audience had barely anything to eat

Were can i buy a piece ?

🎼🎸🥁🎹🎤

Why didn't you bring the stage back to where it was at the festival sight and set it up as a display? You could protect it from the weather to

I was born in 1961 and selling little pieces of the stage is the kind of thing that generation was (mine too) against. Not the spirit of Woodstock at all. Bad on you. Peace from Montreal. Not far from Bethel NY.

What about the stage from Woodstock II? Oh, that's right. It burned in the riot.

Woodstock is Snoopy's friend.

I say re build the stage right where it was with the usable pieces

THAT NEEDS TO BE IN A MUSEUM!! in one piece. Behind glass, at least. How are we going to reproduce archival footage in the future without preserving these. People wiping their hands on it, is further ruining the pieces. It's almost too late, and it's all because of money.

Any items or memorabilia of Jim Morrison / Doors? Just wondering 🤔.

The stage is literally Wood stock

This is silly. It's just a bit of processed wood. Next you'll be digging out the old cesspits looking for the DNA of some now-ancient/-dead rocker.

When you took a piece of the stage to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame did they charge you $10,000 to get in?

Fecal point?????

I visited Bethel back in 2014 and it was a great experience. The museum is worthless. Not many prized possessions there except for a jacket, some ticket stubs and a retrofitted VW Van. The real experience is the original site of the concert.

Ok, so they found PART of the stage, a really small part.

Even at the time, this wasn't much of a concert. Yes, big names but the sound was awful. The weather was miserable. The performances were subpar. The only reason for the hype is the number of people and the bad drugs. Anyone that went there and said that it was good was probably uncoscience in the free-clinic tent for 3 days.

It’s too big to keep intact. Maybe chopped up and shared for posterity but it’s too huge to keep it all together.

Oh ffs. It's just plywood. There's no magic, no "spirit", nothing other than sixty year old plywood. Don't fall for this silliness.

this just in. NOAH`s ARK has yet 2 b recovered!!!!!

The linked page plays music automatically. Can you please turn that off? It’s distracting from your message. I had to close the page to stop the autoplaying music.

haha... didn't know anyone was looking.

Comes down to money.... stage should of never been cut up

This generation destroyed everything.