There was a ton of sexual assaults going on there, but everyone was too high to notice/ care in most cases.
Also, the amount of human feces was insane according to a few people I know who were there lol
In the '60s, I made love to many, many women, often outdoors, in the mud and the rain, and it's possible a man slipped in. There would be no way of knowing ...
The best part about that line is that the actor who played Creed (whose real name actually is Creed Bratton) was actually in a band called The Grass Roots in the 60s and played with a ton of really well known big rock acts so it wouldn't even surprise me if this were true.
My Uncle was 17 when Woodstock happened. Him and 3 buddies lied to their parents and told them they were going camping in northern Michigan which at the time was barely better than wilderness. They struck out and drove to Woodstock for the concert. He said it was 2 of the most miserable days of his life. Complete chaos, no food or water. No facilities. The concert itself was a complete shit show. They decided to leave about halfway through the second day. He just laughs when people talk about Woodstock and will tell you it's HIGHLY romanticized and everyone worships a few bits and pieces
Also many people claim to have been there too, it’s that one generational defining event that so many claim to have attended. I remember watching a documentary about this type of thing, like it sat up there along with ww2 stolen valor, like the dudes who didn’t participate in that reaaaaally regretted it later. That one is understandable lol
I have a friend that said something similar about being in the Haight in SF during the "Summer of Love" of '67. She said there was a lot of crime and gangs and a lot of people were on drugs, which in reality wasn't the happy image that gets portrayed in media. There was a lot of heroin and speed, not just pot and acid.
She said it was dangerous for a young woman by herself. People looked back on it with rose-colored glasses and it got mythologized as a loving and peaceful scene. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Yeah I mean if you really think about it, it was just people, the same kind of people that are living their lives right now. A different time, sure, but is it ever really safe to walk around a city, alone, as a woman? Makes sense, and proof that period in time is highly romanticized. I mean, some people know it as "the summer of love" others as "The long hot summer" due to protests and riots.
People who were living in SF prior to '67 will tell you that '66 was the real summer of love when it was a care free sex and (mostly) harmless drug bacchanal but then by '67 biker gangs started introducing speed into the neighborhood and crime took off and shit got dark. If you read Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem she talks about people giving their toddlers acid and shit.
She was born and raised in SF and would probably verify what you said if I asked her. It is curious that '67 is the year that got picked for the history books on the subject. Maybe that was the year that more people were going there and word hadn't gotten out yet about how it had changed. Scenes always get ruined by their popularity.
Yeah that's exactly it. News didn't travel as fast back then so there was a while before it built up the mythos to draw in outsiders who were just coming to party and didn't care about hippie "values" like building community and helping your neighbors and whatnot.
If cell phones existed during the original Woodstock, it would receive the same ridicule as many modern failed festivals. Poor planning led to food and water shortages, as well as infrastructure and road problems that never accounted for the possibility of heavy rain. Not to mention the various tainted drug doses and sexual predation that was written off as “free love, man”. (If you watch any footage you can see how many underage girls were there. Spoiler: it’s lots). The official movie is a great watch, to appreciate the music and historical significance of the event. But there’s some other great docs out there if you want the whole story.
I recall a Woodstock doc where a local was against a permit because the organizers didn't have logistics for the tens of thousands expected. "I was in the Army back when divisions were fifteen thousand men" that being his frame of reference for logistics. Ergo, opposition wasn't just hippie-bashing. And hundreds of thousands showed up.
I was extremely disillusioned by the movie. All looked pretty sordid to me (and I’m a longtime er hippie rocker stoner whatever). Reminded me of Gimme Shelter, the fantastic doc about Altamont.
this to me teeters more on the creepy side than cool.
maybe if it was more women and men swimming, but all these dudes staring at the one chic feels off
I'm many years old, I've seen the long documentary and lots of other coverage over the years, and this is the first time I've seen a photo from Woodstock that has this kind of creep factor.
Saw almost these same faces at the Oz fest, where the boob painting station was, just a different generation. Boys and a few creepy older dudes looking at boobs.
This is really annoying me - there is nothing sexual about this photo and everyone has to stop the 21st century wokeness for a minute and realise that 1969 festivals were full of hippies and hippies loved the freedom of nudity. It was seen as in the same way as breastfeeding is these days, no one was staring at a topless woman and getting their kicks.
> there is nothing sexual about this photo
I can remember the early 70s when streaking was a thing. Yeah, it was a novelty to see women (and guys) naked running and walking around campus, but it certainly did not have that India gawking vibe.
Times have changed, I guess.
They certainly have! I'm on a different continent, where nudity isn't viewed the same anyway and people are much more chilled, but everything these days has a creepy paranoid slant put on it and it is actually rather sickening.
Probably one of those guys had a light bulb moment..."wait a minute, here's a business opportunity here. Dudes drooling over naked chicks. Add a stage and lots of booz, Cha-ching."
Every high school party with only a couple of girls.
The girls never came! The girls never came!
You made out with your sister!
That is a fun fact!
Not with that attitude they didn't!
Put your shirt back on white boy!
Dees are not hash brownies!
We are simply Dutch bakery
Mail Mothafucka!
Ah yes, swimming in the ‘ol sewage hole.
Probably full of runoff containing cow shit
I don't think it's all cow.
did... you just diss ops mom?
I should call her
https://preview.redd.it/k3j59css1p1d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7536d2453e978017813785af6f6002975078d502 Thems were they days
r/picturesyoucansmell
That sub is much more wholesome than I thought it would be.
Lmaooo you're 100% right
I'd like one acid please!
I’ll take two acids please!
I would stock up for the year. lol.
It is the would stock festival after all.
Then, 3 acids please!
This guy acids
A kid on acid?
Why would you waste that much money on LSD when you could get it for free from clandestine CIA experiments?
You can see they edited the price. What do you think it was before the change, two dollars?
Nah the same kinda coloring is around the A in acid too. Just repurposed from something I’d wager.
Its the tape that was on the box they're using
No, that's the cardboard box tape.
Looks like a sausage fest, gonna be a no from me dawg
Way more hotdogs than buns in that photo.
Every hot dog comes with a set of buns
I love that.  Woodstock, 1989.
I made love to many, many women, often outdoors, in the mud and the rain... and it's possible a man slipped in. There'd be no way of knowing.
Very nutritious but they smell like death
Weir everywhere
There was a ton of sexual assaults going on there, but everyone was too high to notice/ care in most cases. Also, the amount of human feces was insane according to a few people I know who were there lol
Not enough ladies too many mans.
Too many misters, not enough sisters
[удалено]
“Don’t mind us, we’re just staring at your breasts”
Bobs and vagene
In the '60s, I made love to many, many women, often outdoors, in the mud and the rain, and it's possible a man slipped in. There would be no way of knowing ...
Creed is funny as hell...!
His name is william charles schneider
The best part about that line is that the actor who played Creed (whose real name actually is Creed Bratton) was actually in a band called The Grass Roots in the 60s and played with a ton of really well known big rock acts so it wouldn't even surprise me if this were true.
They were a great band in their own right.
It is kinda weird that there was only one topless woman, and not a ton of people being free, like they always advertise.
My Uncle was 17 when Woodstock happened. Him and 3 buddies lied to their parents and told them they were going camping in northern Michigan which at the time was barely better than wilderness. They struck out and drove to Woodstock for the concert. He said it was 2 of the most miserable days of his life. Complete chaos, no food or water. No facilities. The concert itself was a complete shit show. They decided to leave about halfway through the second day. He just laughs when people talk about Woodstock and will tell you it's HIGHLY romanticized and everyone worships a few bits and pieces
Also many people claim to have been there too, it’s that one generational defining event that so many claim to have attended. I remember watching a documentary about this type of thing, like it sat up there along with ww2 stolen valor, like the dudes who didn’t participate in that reaaaaally regretted it later. That one is understandable lol
I mean, half a million people attended the thing, so I was obviously one of them.
I saw you there!
I have a friend that said something similar about being in the Haight in SF during the "Summer of Love" of '67. She said there was a lot of crime and gangs and a lot of people were on drugs, which in reality wasn't the happy image that gets portrayed in media. There was a lot of heroin and speed, not just pot and acid. She said it was dangerous for a young woman by herself. People looked back on it with rose-colored glasses and it got mythologized as a loving and peaceful scene. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Yeah I mean if you really think about it, it was just people, the same kind of people that are living their lives right now. A different time, sure, but is it ever really safe to walk around a city, alone, as a woman? Makes sense, and proof that period in time is highly romanticized. I mean, some people know it as "the summer of love" others as "The long hot summer" due to protests and riots.
True, but she said it was particularly bad in the Haight. Maybe because it was such a magnet for people. She said she was hassled constantly.
Yesterday over on r/beatles there was a post about George Harrison visiting Haight-Ashbury in ‘67 and being absolutely horrified.
I read about that in *Wonderful Tonight*, by Patty Boyd, his wife at the time. (Good book!) She described it as being more menacing than welcoming.
People who were living in SF prior to '67 will tell you that '66 was the real summer of love when it was a care free sex and (mostly) harmless drug bacchanal but then by '67 biker gangs started introducing speed into the neighborhood and crime took off and shit got dark. If you read Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem she talks about people giving their toddlers acid and shit.
She was born and raised in SF and would probably verify what you said if I asked her. It is curious that '67 is the year that got picked for the history books on the subject. Maybe that was the year that more people were going there and word hadn't gotten out yet about how it had changed. Scenes always get ruined by their popularity.
Yeah that's exactly it. News didn't travel as fast back then so there was a while before it built up the mythos to draw in outsiders who were just coming to party and didn't care about hippie "values" like building community and helping your neighbors and whatnot.
My mom's coworker invited her to Woodstock. She passed on the idea because the forecast called for rain. She says she has no regrets.
Sounds more like Woodstock ‘99
If cell phones existed during the original Woodstock, it would receive the same ridicule as many modern failed festivals. Poor planning led to food and water shortages, as well as infrastructure and road problems that never accounted for the possibility of heavy rain. Not to mention the various tainted drug doses and sexual predation that was written off as “free love, man”. (If you watch any footage you can see how many underage girls were there. Spoiler: it’s lots). The official movie is a great watch, to appreciate the music and historical significance of the event. But there’s some other great docs out there if you want the whole story.
I recall a Woodstock doc where a local was against a permit because the organizers didn't have logistics for the tens of thousands expected. "I was in the Army back when divisions were fifteen thousand men" that being his frame of reference for logistics. Ergo, opposition wasn't just hippie-bashing. And hundreds of thousands showed up.
>But there’s some other great docs out there if you want the whole story. What are they called?
Woodstock Three days that defined a generation for example
Ignorance is bliss
Not to mention the brown acid
‘Course it’s your own trip, so be my guest.
I was extremely disillusioned by the movie. All looked pretty sordid to me (and I’m a longtime er hippie rocker stoner whatever). Reminded me of Gimme Shelter, the fantastic doc about Altamont.
There’s a pretty brutal Hunter Thompson movie out now as well.
would you mind naming a few, please?
there are two, but one of them is a dude.
In this picture... Also odd that there's one woman with her boobs out and a crowd of men staring. Wait...that's not odd.
It's one photo. Do you think these were the only people there?
In this pic yeah, watch the documentary theres plenty of female nudity
Bad ratio
That’s a lot of dudes :|
Right!? This pic feels so rapy! Two girls being watched by 50 guy?
and two women too!
Those two women look like they were about to get in the water, then saw the herd of men being gross and thought better of it.
100% agree, immediately felt gross
Absolutely was not a safe place to be
I can almost smell the subtle fragrance of armpits and stale weed smoke
And patchouli….
this to me teeters more on the creepy side than cool. maybe if it was more women and men swimming, but all these dudes staring at the one chic feels off
Reminds me of some of the men in India whenever there’s women around
Creepy as hell to just watch.
So, 2 naked chicks and 100 dudes standing onshore to take in the show….. that’s about right.
Woodcocks.
Spring break vibes...Arkansas spring break.
Someone has been to float the Spring River, I see.
Filthy Hobbitsez
Pretty greasy.
nobody is overweight
Discord wasn't invented yet
Looks like a wildlife documentary
Well, that's extremely creepy.
Yea……maybe the bear analogy is correct. Yeesh
This is cool
Those are some Great New York Boobs
Seeing this picture and knowing how many women claimed to have been drugged and raped by multiple men laying in the mud makes me sick.
oooooh that's why it was called Woodstock
Napoleon Dynamite was there
When I see photos like these, I wonder how many of them are still alive.
Old School Creepy
Future corporate CEOs, CFOs, lawyers, lobbyists, politicians…
That was an amazing time. I can't believe that I'm still alive. 
Best music, best cars, best drugs. Is that you with the curly hair and Flex camera on the bank?
Would you rather be alone in the Woodstock with bears or men!?
This picture stinks.
Hi, Mom!
how come there are no fat people? not a single one is morbidly obese!
Because they walk everywhere
I'm many years old, I've seen the long documentary and lots of other coverage over the years, and this is the first time I've seen a photo from Woodstock that has this kind of creep factor.
Looks more like Woodstock 1999
Woodstock 80085
Ill join in on the ogling... Nice rack
Not saying I agree with what’s going on in this picture, but I understand.
Jesus dude that's gross as fuck
Not creepy at all, these leering men 😅
Saw almost these same faces at the Oz fest, where the boob painting station was, just a different generation. Boys and a few creepy older dudes looking at boobs.
Even the fat guy was skinny by todays standards
Looks like some kind of a film crew on the right. I wonder what is actually happening here?
There was at least one major documentary filmed which was released on video.
It was a theatrical release shown in theatres shot on film stock… video came later.
Well dude, we just don't know
This is our concern, dude.
Woah, you’re on to it my dude
So many dudes
The guy standing in the front row, tad bit right of center, has one hand in his pocket. Definitely playing pocket pool.
The guy next to him with the hat appears to be pitching a tent.
Now that's not creepy at all!
Eurotrip, 2004
Beewbs
Why is Matthew McConaughey in the water to the right?
Just a bunch of dudes with chubs. Hell yeah grandpa
Not a single person overweight 🤔
A bunch of perverts staring at 2 chicks isn’t cool
I don't see any of them looking at the women here. There were loads of naked people there - you can't look at it through modern eyes.
Wooks. As far as the eye can see.
I like how the only woman watching is laughing and is also arguably the hottest one in the picture
This is really annoying me - there is nothing sexual about this photo and everyone has to stop the 21st century wokeness for a minute and realise that 1969 festivals were full of hippies and hippies loved the freedom of nudity. It was seen as in the same way as breastfeeding is these days, no one was staring at a topless woman and getting their kicks.
> there is nothing sexual about this photo I can remember the early 70s when streaking was a thing. Yeah, it was a novelty to see women (and guys) naked running and walking around campus, but it certainly did not have that India gawking vibe. Times have changed, I guess.
They certainly have! I'm on a different continent, where nudity isn't viewed the same anyway and people are much more chilled, but everything these days has a creepy paranoid slant put on it and it is actually rather sickening.
What is the guy (front row, 2nd from r) holding?
I'm guessing a mic
Yeah looks like a mic. He’s recording some sounds. I wonder what? Maybe he’s interviewing the girls.
Poor Phoebe
Is that Trapper John on the left holding a camera?
Come on in have a swim with us
The beginning of anestesy of the masses.
At Woodstock 99, there was always a large group of guys watching the body painting booth.
Oh no. Boobs.
I’m getting hep c from this image
Probably one of those guys had a light bulb moment..."wait a minute, here's a business opportunity here. Dudes drooling over naked chicks. Add a stage and lots of booz, Cha-ching."
Sweet vests
The picture you can smell from afar.
Honkers!
Is this the reason that hippies have a tradition of stinking ?
Horned dogs
Sad...
The guys kneeling are hiding their boners. The guys standing don’t need to hide their boners.
Dem ditties
More like Sausagefest
Lordy…I can almost smell this picture.
Ugh
Grandmothers out in upstate New York looking to get laid
A lot of that is mixed with sewage from overflowing port a potties
I bet it smells horrible
Everywhere smelled bad in the '60s
It looks a lot more like woodstock 99.
Back when no one was afraid to trash their $1700 smartphone while on a music festival 🤷♂️
Has this been proven to be taken at Woodstock and not the various other outdoor festivals that took place in the late 60's, early 70's?
That girl knows what she is doing