Woodstock

 1999

This is one of the many murals that lined the "great wall" that kept the woodstockers inside their weekend home, and gate crashers out.  Unfortunately, the walls came down on Sunday afternoon and that bad element just crept on in.

This a picture of me and Duke Devlin, an original woodstock attendee.  He gave local Rome businesses a tour of the site prior to opening day.  It was a very informative tour and cool to see the site before it was filled with people.

Here is a picture of the main stage, still being built during our tour.  See the completed stage in the pictures that follow.

This is a picture of the second stage.  It was the smaller of the two stages and was decorated in roman columns and adorned with the woodstock logo on top.

This is a picture of one of the many woodstock camping areas.  This was actually a last minute addition when the planned camping grounds overflowed.  

Here is a picture of the main stage during one of the performances.  As you can see there sure were a lot of people out there.  I talked with people from all over the country, and even a couple from as far away as Australia!

Here is a picture of me on Sunday afternoon standing in front of the small stage.  I think the band on this stage when this photo was taken was Rusted Root (one of my favorites).

Here is a picture of the Griffiss runway tower.  People stood up there during the festival to keep an eye on all the woodstockers as they partied below. 

Here is a picture of one of the vendor tents.  This particular tent would either paint or tattoo anything you wanted anywhere on your body,  even in those rarely seen un-mentionable areas!  There were a lot of these un-mentionable areas on full display on the grounds of woodstock that weekend.

This is a picture of the rain dance that woodstockers were engaged in trying to get some rain to fall from the heavens and break up the tremendous heat on the grounds.  To make drums they used the trash cans from the site and hit them with plastic soda bottles.

This is a picture of one of the hangars used for the rave clubs.  It was pretty quit in there when this picture was snapped but after the last act at night, the rave was filled with woodstockers!!  

This pictures gives a you a good idea of the amount of trash that accumulated over the three day festival.  As you can see on the ground, there is literally a carpet of trash.  It was very unusual walking through it that weekend.

As everyone already knows, fires stopped the concert on Sunday night and caused major problems.  Here is a picture of one of the bonfires started by the woodstockers just before things stated to get out of hand.