As for me, I was 22 and my best friend Bonnie and I had left NJ to head to California in early summer of '69.
Once there we found out about the Woodstock Festival. So we hopped back in our VW minivan and hit the road back to NY!
We got there early enough in the week to get into the site, and parked the bus on some local guys property for the weekend.
set up a base camp near the HOG FARM and headed into our future.
in the words of our beloved ARLO GUTHRIE, "MAN, ALOTTA FREAKS!"
it was ~FaR oUt~!

The world has never been the same and neither have we!
We wanted things to change.

I remember sitting in the field waiting for the bands to start
and someone started making peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches
and we'd take a bite and pass it on. food was getting rare,
and the stands that were set up were such a hassle to get to cause you had to walk over so many people,
it was hardly worth tryin. when you got up there the line was killer anyway, so we just all shared food!

I have many stories of that weekend.
fell in love a thousand times with guys who would walk by and we'd lock eye contact and keep walking.
it was constant connecting. walking by and touching or looking deep at each others eyes and moving onto the next person to share with as they walked by.
There was a purity of the spirit there. a genuine sharing of soul. my life changed there, I quit smoking cigarettes on an acid trip,
we paid $5 to a farmer with a tractor to tow our van out of the mud after Woodstock ended, and we made it into the movie!
right after SHA NA NA and before Joe Cocker!
we're doing YOGA with Tom Law, I'm the one with the headband on!

This is us in the Woodstock movie. i'm in the yellow top just as the video begins!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyMlKkMrpU

Bonnie is still my best friend and she and I return to the site everytime i'm back to NY.


My biggest story on Woodstock is that I was admiring a girl there
for days thinking she was so cool.
(In the movie, she has on the fringed halter and short skirt
that's dancing wildly with Fantuzzi, the guy with the big hair waving his arms around).
Anyway, I thought she was the coolest and at one point,
she entered into a camp I was at.
I offered her one of my Kool cigarettes.
She said 'I don't smoke cigarettes'.
I thought 'WOW! I want to be more cool like her'.
I was on acid at the time and it really made an impact!
So...that's when I quit smoking!!!
On an acid trip at Woodstock!