These Woodstock Photos Were Kept Hidden For a Reason 

I spent 3 days at Woodstock. I was 25 at the time and told all my friends about a concert that was advertised on a billboard. I sent away for tickets, but all my friends skipped it because no one knew what it would become. Anyway, as i was driving up the Thruway, I noticed that traffic was building up, and i took the next exit. I drove for a little while and came across a farmer. I asked him if there was another entrance to the festival and said to continue down the road until i came to a left turn. I followed his directions and, unbeknownst to me, drove in the band entrance. I drove right up to the stage, and no one questioned me. We set up our tent a little way away from the stage. We wandered around a lot. Everyone was polite and friendly. We spent half the time sitting in front of the stage and the other half wandering around. We had plenty of food and drinks, and we gave some away to others who didn't have enough. The comradery was life altering, and if i wasn't a hippie before Woodstock, i was when i left. At the time, we thought that we were going to change the world. We were despised by half of the population. The government tried to stifle us . People look back nostalgically to the 60s, but there was a lot of fear among the flower people, too.

I was a month and a half away from shipping to RVN. Hooked up with a black GI at the bus depot at Dix, bussed to NYC and then on to Bethel. Scored some MJ on the bus, stayed until about midday Sun. then had to head back to Dix. Made it by 7am Mon., cleared post, went on my pre-transit leave, did my tour (pictured) and was lucky enough to make it home!

P. S. There's beautiful video on RU-vid showing the lovely "reclaimed landscape" of Max Yasgur's Farm today, which has been beautifully restored to its original beauty and has been set aside as a National Historical Park. Ted Schempp

I don’t care bout any negative things about Woodstock. I was 12 yrs old when I found out about this beautiful festival. My feelings about wishing I would have been alive and participating at this amazing 3 day concert!

Advanced tickets were $18, and on site for $24. It ended up a free concert because there were so many people. I was too young to even think about attending, but I always thought so many people, and no violence. It was peace, love and rock n roll.

No fats, tats and pig rings

I had never paid much attention to the Grateful Dead. I was focused on Rush, Pink Floyd, UFO, and Led Zeppelin etc. Then in mid April, 1991 my roommates and I, all musicians, heard GD were playing the huge Silver Bowl (The Dust Bowl as we call it in Vegas) and we all decided to buy tickets and check out the Friday show. We got to the parking lot where Shakedown Street was already in full swing and stepped out of our cars into another world. The vibe was beautiful. The people were amazing. We made our way inside and got stopped due to our bongos and conga drums we had in tow. They said, "you cant bring those in here, were recording". My roommate in a moment of brilliance simply said to the ticket taker: "Bro, we have to play with Santana" The ticket taker accepted our tickets and said "Just try to keep it down". We thanked him profusely and set off to find a spot as close to the front as possible to set our blanket. We then took in the fact that we were in the midst of 40,000 people all smiling at each other. By shows end, we were all newly christened Deadheads. We got home, discussed, then headed back to the ticket sellers intending to buy tickets for Sat and Sun shows. Sat was sold out, so we all got Sunday tickets, spent Saturday at the Silver Bowl at Shakedown Street, and returned Sunday for the last show. Back home and plotting, we decided to do a mini tour. Our friend that worked at the airport car rental place set us up with the nicest 15 passenger Ford Van they had, and a group of us followed the Dead to neighboring California, caught all three shows, hit the beach for a day and returned home. I made sure to attend all 3 days of the next 4 shows from 1992-1995, then Jerry died and there was no 1996 performance to attend :(

I was unfortunately not able to make it to Woodstock. I was otherwise involved in a small military conflict in Southeast Asia, know as the Vietnam War.

If you got that many people together today, it would be a different scene. More and more potent drugs. Violence. Guaranteed people would die. It would be a mess. It might’ve been a mess back then but compared to what it would be today it was nothing.

Pathetic censorship of photographs. The nipple must be a very dangerous part of the human body.

The sixties was one of my best decades. I enjoyed the music - without the mud, the mess and the drugs.

These photos weren’t hidden, I remember seeing them on TV at the time!

I was imagining what it must have been like for the people who left early due to the mud and rain only to learn that they missed Jimi Hendrix. Thank you for this great video. I've seen so many and look forward to seeing any more that come along. What an epic event! Hippies were love and peace.

George Harrison was NOT at Woodstock!!!!

We have to remember, these young adults and youth were products of 1950s parenting, USA style parenting...so decorum, manners, politeness, respect for elders, learned societal behaviour, all come from these parents and being raised in the 1950s and 1960s!! These nice, polite, mannered individuals whom attended a festival in New York State should not be a shock to anyone!!! (try this kind of gathering now!!) Woodstock in the 1990s was violent and had many rapes reported.

I was 11 and a musician but i was 3 thousand miles away. But knew all the music and saw the movie a year later(documentary)😊

You go to that huge field today and walk around, you can still find trash from the festival in the dirt. It’ll be there for a long time. Pick some up, take it home and frame it and put it on your wall as a real souvenir of the Great Woodstock Peace and Music Festival. 👍🏼👏🏼😃

I wonder if those little children have any memory of being there, and if it somehow shaped their young lives? Even the little ones would be in their 50s now I think. Do ya think anyone is jumping up and down right now after spotting themselves or someone they knew/know in one of the photos? I was 16. Me and some friends started hitch hiking from central NJ. We caught rides on the GSP. Got to the top of NJ and stopped by the cops. We never did get the rest of the way. Seems that our parents had reported us as missing children and there was a BOLO out. Oh... that, and the 'stuff' that the cops found on us. Yeah... bad plan, man.

The Byrds were hugely popular at that time did a lot of shows and festivals and refused Woodstock - they just thought it would be another gig.

Oh, the music and the musicians...............those memories from Toronto 1969. Any one who was a participant truly thought they were unique and actually changing society. Sadly the "establishment" won because harder drugs came into the picture.

Harrison was NOT there.

I can’t imagine a great musician giving a performance under the influence of drugs! Anyone else agree with me?

"32 of the most iconic artists in American music!" 26 US bands/artists 5 Brits and one from India!!

Herein ia great example of ROSE COLORED GLASSES.

An excellent book on how the Woodstock generation saw the future: "The Greening of America" by Reich. It was written very soon after the event. Very convincing indeed. But for too few years. Very little remains of what was almost all for us.

when the festival was over, the landscape was full of trash,just like Frisco and La today

This is one festival I soooo wish I’d been to!

The greatest generation made the worst generation

No fat people at all.

Living proof that the nipple is the most frightening part of the human body .

GEORGE HARRISON was NOT there... BS

I was only 11 yrs old in 1969 I remember many teenagers in my neighborhood leaving for the festival. I felt jealous...lol although youth stopped me from going in 69' I made it my mission to attend Woodstock II in 94' 😜👍👍

This is the only reason I envy older folks who attended. I was unfortunately born in ‘65 in Europe.

There are no fat people. We find the reason in our food. think!

I was there...this commentary is mostly wrong!

Woodstock was basically the final act of the Boomer Peace and Love movement. Just a few years later the Vietnam War ended and Disco ruled the music scene.

I was only 5 years old at the time but I wish I was one of the young kids who were there. Would have been a hell of a road trip as I was in California. 😅

Loved it all.

If you remember Woodstock. You weren't actually there.

Loved the video.

It took me a while to realize that the initials on Baron Wolman’s shirt were for his name and not for Black & White photography.

The Jack Webb narration style kind of misses the whole feeling of the event.

Gee, who would have thought getting ~300,000 people in a small area would create so much trash strewn about? Go figure. On a side note, I saw Santana in Vegas in 2017 and he was great. If you haven't seen him yet, I recommend seeing him before he stops playing for live audiences. Fantastic show.

No over weight youth in the pictures and videos, try to find one. What has happened to us?

30000 days like Woodstock ❤

My sister and I read about it in the Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post. I was 16 and she was 19 1/2.

My brother and I got as far as White Lake on Friday before we decided to turn around because it was raining so hard and by the way, that ain’t a farmer milking that cow. That was just a festival goer trying to help milk out a cow that probably hadn’t been milked for a day or two.

Woodstock-typical US life. The hippies got stoned and made history while the rest of us had to work.

You forgot Sly and the Family Stone! A huge Impact!

The cows were clearly un-a-moozed.

This video is something of a "puff" as they say in the newspaper trade..... A few photos most if not all have been seen before and a rather tedious narration.

Just home from Vietnam and was busy working and raising my young family. I did not attend.

The only time half a million people have ever agreed with anything.

unneceraly negative on the drumscore of "twas in the old ugh days" - poor critics that give us no info whatsoever for the ones among us that knew the days, so aimed at todays youth, living with mummy ?

How have things progressed in this country as a result? We have a nation of kids that don't know if they are boys or girls, so much drug addiction that people have to carry around narcan injections, increase in teenage pregnancy, suicide the leasding cause among 14-35 year old people and not to mention the leading cause of death in America, abortion. Yes, the Woodstock generation, which I'm a part of, has really improved the state of mankind in America.

Jimi was paid the most at $27,000.00

What a sickening "NEOCON" narrative!! Bye Bye Miss American Pie...

I must have missed the reason these photos were kept hidden.

It took the farmer two weeks to clean up the garbage.

In some quarters this was billed as the Democratic Convention for young people.

Stop talking and show the photos!

Altamont killed the Woodstock vibe

It is now considered an archeological site. Honest!

I wonder if any of these acts performed straight.

great time

So in the end, what was the reason the Woodstock photos were kept hidden?

I was 3-my parents wouldn’t let me go so i followed the grateful dead in my 20’s. Lol 😊

Everybody knew somebody who had been there. No overweight people. Drugs? Mostly weak weed.

All photojournalists were male. That's why it seems many ppl were naked. They weren't

Do these people trust themselves now that they are over 35?😂

I wasn’t there but I wish I had gone to it. Guys I knew who were there said it was one big orgy. They told me they had sex with a couple dozen stoned out women.

Very interesting. But why censur the nudity?

And then there was Woodstock 99 in Rome ny what a disaster, filth and rioting , fires and destruction 👎

Everything here is well documented.

Boring, nothing there that needed to be kept hidden.

The most glorified shit show in history

As far as I'm concerned you could have kept them hidden

Nothing at all new here..

Are all this people today's the American democrats?

Good L at that time

Don't take the brown acid.

haha woodstuck. all the tune in, turn on drop outs and down with "the man" are 70's+ handling bills, retirement, health care, housing, food, grand/great grand kids..... all the stuff they said didn't matter.

From "Apollo and Dionysus" in "Return of the primitive: The anti-industrial revolution" by Ayn Rand - "I found one brief letter to the editor of _The New York Times_ (September 3), as a lone voice of cognitive and moral sanity. It said, in part: "Perhaps the most peculiar of this event, if we are forced to regard the festival as symbolic, is the awful mindless conformity of external appearance and behavior, and the manifest desperation of this lonely herd of pilgrims doing what Dharma demands -- the lack of personal will or spirit...."

Not fully agreeing with this narrator. No doubt that every single person that went to Woodstock do not regret it! TRUTH IS George Harrison DID NOT ATTEND WOODSTOCK and the photo you used was taken inside the Apple headquarters in London. That FALSEHOOD just gave this video a BIG THUMBS DOWN.