Woodstock at 40

Woodstock turned the big 4-0 this week end and we were so lucky to be there, at Bethel Woods Centerfor the Arts. The festival's peace and love message was swallowed, like everything else now a days, by commercialism, but the legacy is not fading. The concert called "The Heroes of Woodstock", was great and so different than all others concerts that we've been to and we've seen plenty - only to name Bon Jovi. Here, the show was not only on the stage but outside too. The concert started and ended with Jimi Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner", and in between many of the bands from the original concert : Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane, Sha Na Na, The Band etc. From 5pm to 1am, 8 hours of good music in an an 1969 atmosphere!
Outside, instead of skinny hippies sliding in mud, on older generation of hippies alongside their children and grandchildren, but all of them young at heart and in good spirits. It was fantastic! We enjoied every moment, and had a good time with our new friends....
To top everything, we were witnesses of a wedding on stage. In the middle the band Mountain' s performance, the music stopped and on the stage appeared a weeding procession: the groom , Leslie West , the leader of the group, around 65-70 years old and loaded and the bride 35-36 years old and pretty. After the priest finished the ceremony, as a weeding gift for the bride and for us, they started singing their signature song "Mississippi Queen". It was insane... lots of cheering and clapping, although was after midnight and the people were kind of tired, drunk or high (plenty of funny smells around us - to paraphrase Clinton, "I smoke but I didn't inhale" , I can say that I didn't smoke but I inhale!!!).
We arrived home around 5 in the morning..,
I will post pictures when I will have time to download them, now I am in a little bit of hurry, because the weather is excellent and we are going to the beach...