Posted by Chris on July 30, 1999 at 14:51:03:
These are my favorite posts from Woodstock.com forums. I wasn't completely depressed until now. I just realized what a high we were on for 5 days. It was amazing energy and I will never forget it. Can't wait for the next Woodstock! Read on..
dakota
Member
posted 30 July 1999 02:23
I'm having reversed culture shock or something. I had an easier time adapting to the
environment at woodstock than I am having trying to get used being away from the place and
back home - safe and sound. On my lunch hour today I went down to the local park and laid
out in the 38 degrees (celcius) sun in my bra and underwear (oh, hey wait a second - I've
always done that) and I was craving a jumbo freezie and watermelon so bad that I just had to
get me some - I almost felt like I was ripping THEM off (freezie for lunch - watermelon for
supper - hey, poof, the woodstock diet). If I hadn't left my tent for dead at woodstock I'm
sure that I would have had to pitch it in my back yard. One of the reasons I went to
woodstock was to get rid of some of this abundance of energy - it appears as though it has
only mulitplied. Woodstock is so much more than an event - it's a state of mind. Ironically
enough my 10 year high school reunion is on Friday and Saturday - if it hadn't been for
woodstock - I may have actually been feeling old and archiac, nahhhh that's just silly. Damn,
I even miss the cute neon bugs in Rome that bite like a son of a bitch. My biggest regret? -
that I couldn't have been everywhere at once. Call woodstock what you want - it was most
definitely the biggest party that I've ever been to. People ask me 'how was woodstock?' I just
and say 'it was a RIOT!' - pun intended. And I learned an invaluable lesson from all of my
fellow MPS'ers - (like when the world hands you a lemon - make lemonade) - "when the skies
give you rain - slick up the slip 'n' slide" and damn quick. That was a perfect example of the
'never-die' enthusiasm and spontanaiety that people brought to woodstock with them.
ChristyGirl
Member
posted 30 July 1999 02:52
I think the fact that we are all still posting messages fully four days after the festival proves
that we're all a little out of place right now
Gemineye
Member
posted 30 July 1999 06:18
hello again dakota.
yeah. i need to put it to rest and go to friggin sleep too...
ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
too much Woodstock heh heh
Brianstash77
Junior Member
posted 30 July 1999 10:46
I am i withdraw too... When I left Sun night about 12am.. I went on a 3 day adrinealine trip, I
was so hyped.. I honestly loved it. It was worth it's weight in gold...150 bucks, you can't buy
experinces like that. I'll see you all in 2004
Brian
killerkiss
Member
posted 30 July 1999 10:53
i was at woodstock from 5:30 a.m. friday all the way up to the end of the lame jimi hendrix
video.
the whole event was just one huge nonstop party!!
was it worth it?? HELL YEAH IT WAS WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!
an experience that can never be erased from our minds.
see you all later, maybe in 2004, damn i'll be 26 that year...wonder if i'll still party like i did
this past weekend.........
brownacid
Member
posted 30 July 1999 11:02
I miss all my new MPS buddies. I felt like I didn't have enough time with them.
Woodstock 2004 should be a week-long event so I can really get to know everybody. You
know what I mean.
The riotous ending just didn't seem to fit and I been thinking that day three should be done
over again. With the proper ending. But, oh well.
2004 will be the best Woodstock of all time because we now know how not to end the thing.
Love to all my fellow MPS'ers. I miss you all terribly and I want you in my pants.
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when in rome do as the canadians do!!!
gkablunt
Junior Member
posted 30 July 1999 11:13
I'm in withdrawl too! All my friends who didn't go just can't understand. Woodstock is a state
of mind and an experience unlike any other. I hope when I'm 24 in 5 years I will still want to
go because I can't wait to go right now!
Tribecalledted
Member
posted 30 July 1999 12:01
You know what I really miss - those frozen lemonade things
MMMMMMMMMM they rocked
gravedave
Member
posted 30 July 1999 12:06
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who is experiencing WS withdrawal. It started
almost right away for me - I couldn't sleep Sunday, not because of the riots (I didn't even
know about them until the next day even though I stayed until the end of the event) but
because I already missed it so badly. On Sunday night I actually hesitated before I got my
first real shower in four days. There was some sense of finality that came with that shower. I
lay in bed that night in the absolute silence of the night and MISSED it so badly.
I feel real compassion for those who walked away from this event with an overall negative
feeling.
The real shock is re-entering this funeral procession of a daily grind that we call 'reality.' For
four days I got to act like a normal person and not make any explanations for anything I did,
and I was just surrounded by one of the gentlest crowds I have ever encountered anywhere.
SpookyC
Member
posted 30 July 1999 12:43
Hurray for this post!
I'm with you guys, I loved it and could be back there now if allowed. Yeah, of course it had it's
bull but it truly was a peaceful time for the most part. I arrived at 10:00AM Thursday morning
and left at 6:30AM Monday, I could have stayed longer.....
I miss everything about it (except the porto's), so much that I am going to another festival
this weekend. It won't be woodstock, but I will certainly make the best of it!
The reality check of real life and work is not setting well with me.... Do we really have to wait
until 2004?
I had a fantastic time, it's too bad that the rest of the world is seeing only what the media
wants it to see. Overall, it was a peaceful and wonderful 4 days.
C
Green Mind
Member
posted 30 July 1999 12:56
I don't think we should have to wait until 2004 by any means. Someone else just has to pick
up the slack and organize a similar festival (perhaps on a smaller scale) that lasts three days
and has major acts. Every summer the mood is right with all the radio station festivals
drawing the bands together. Someone just has to do the big bang event like Lang did.
I am REALLY withdrawn. I even went to New York (the city that never sleeps) immediately
after Woodstock but it still didn't match the excitement. Greenwich Village at midnight is
supposed to be boehemian heaven but it was nothing compared to Woodstock.
I'll never see that much non-stop excitement again.
I already find myself wanting to drive back just to see the ghost town that it now is and take
pictures of it just to know the site is still there and that it wasn't an illusion. The ghosts still
haunt me that I didn't do EVERYTHING there was to do there.
And I agree that it should be a week just to meet more people. All the bulletin board people I
met were the three in my caravan there.
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*Green Mind's Woodstock 1999 Journal*
www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Bay/9641/wjournal.html
Green Mind
Member
posted 30 July 1999 12:58
I don't think we should have to wait until 2004 by any means. Someone else just has to pick
up the slack and organize a similar festival (perhaps on a smaller scale) that lasts three days
and has major acts. Every summer the mood is right with all the radio station festivals
drawing the bands together. Someone just has to do the big bang event like Lang did.
I am REALLY withdrawn. I even went to New York (the city that never sleeps) immediately
after Woodstock but it still didn't match the excitement. Greenwich Village at midnight is
supposed to be boehemian heaven but it was nothing compared to Woodstock.
I'll never see that much non-stop excitement again.
I already find myself wanting to drive back just to see the ghost town that it now is and take
pictures of it just to know the site is still there and that it wasn't an illusion. The ghosts still
haunt me that I didn't do EVERYTHING there was to do there.
And I agree that it should be a week just to meet more people. All the bulletin board people I
met were the three in my caravan there.
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*Green Mind's Woodstock 1999 Journal*
www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Bay/9641/wjournal.html
Christopher
Junior Member
posted 30 July 1999 13:14
Blessed be for this post!!!!
The hardest part about the entire festival was having it come to an end. I think I've bored my
friends to death with all of the tales that I have told them of the three days and I'm not even
close to running out! In 2004 I'll be 27....and I'll definately be at Woodstock! My only regret
was that I didn't get a lot of names and info to all of the great folks that I met there. I'll
probably spend the mext 5 years on this site trying to track them all down! See yall in 2004!!
I wouldn't miss it for anything!
BillyKidd
Junior Member
posted 30 July 1999 13:40
I drove by the Woodstock site again on Wednesday. I was hoping to get in and walk around,
but they had security on the gates (unlike when the event was actually going on!). Dakota, I'd
like to live near you just so I could check you out sunbathing in your undies. Wow.
Billy
adele~
Junior Member
posted 30 July 1999 14:20
Me, too.I actually started a share group over at Utne.com, but this is better, because you all
were there. I'm not pleased with the rape stories I read last night here. Other than that it was
some kind of chemistry that trascended normal life, like we walked into the future. I would
like to be able to go back in time and do it again at least twice to be able to see more.
Anyone walk to the showers of Friday night? That part of the camp grounds was so weird with
all the flooding. I thought ppl really treated each other well under the circumstances of the
"restroom" facilities and the water flooding. I am in shock about the rapes, yet I miss being
so close with everyone, especially during Limp and Rage.
gravedave
Member
posted 30 July 1999 14:25
My one regret is that I didn't make a recording of the crowd noises on Thursday night. It was
really amazing - every now and then there would be a 'noise wave' where the people in their
campsites would just start to cheer spontaneously and it would spread throughout the entire
site. It was amazing and I would love to be able to hear that again, or even sleep to it. There
was so much positive energy in one place that it is hard to even imagine or explain. At night
the sound the crowd made was one of the things that I recognized that may never ever
happen again. There were so many things that I saw that I will probably never see again that
it's hard to believe that I saw so much, experienced so much and well.... lived so much in
such a short period of time. I can't ever remember feeling so alive. It was such a powerfully
positive experience for me.
Fenmore
Member
posted 30 July 1999 14:34
I spent about 45 minutes walking through the site on Tuesday morning, after everybody had
left. It was weird. The only people around were a few clean-up workers, about five security
guards, myself and a few Rome Laboratory employees who had wandered in. I took about 20
pictures of the garbage, the light pole, the burned trailors, the stages, and what was left of
the wall and the campgrounds. It was an eerie place . . . tough to believe that 48 hours
before there had been over 200,000 people there. I missed the fun and the people at that
moment, and I've continued to miss it since that moment.
At some point soon, I'll get back to my real life. . . .
ipokesmot
Member
posted 30 July 1999 14:34
That crowd noise was funnier than shit!!!
It kinda died down fri but thurs night was insane haha.... I wish I had brought my boom box
to play my collection of howard stern sound effects full blast "BA BA BA
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"
swerdman
Member
posted 30 July 1999 14:40
I've lived in Rome all my life and it was an amazing transformation that occurred. It was such
a great experience, even super conservative people were just mezmorized by how much fun is
possible. If not for the riots to bring us back to earth i think the city would still be floating on
cloud '99!
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