Woodstock 1969 40th Anniversary - Glenn Weiser at Bethel Woods - Red House by Jim Hendrix

On August 4, 2009, I returned for the first time in 40 years to the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY, which I had attended. I was accompanied by Marc Mahuzier, a reporter at large for the French daily Ouest-France, which circulates in the Brittany-Normany region. Mahuzier interviewed me about my experience at the Woodstock festival for a story which ran in the paper's August 15th edition, took pictures, and filmed me standing on the gravel patch where the stage had been playing Jimi Hendrix's Red House on acoustic guitar (too bad I played to an empty house, but hey, that's show biz). It felt strange being there-the former cow pasture where the largest concert audience ever assembled in one place once sat is now a kept lawn, looking more like a golf course than the place where the 1960s counterculture crested. But as I lingered, people came in a steady trickle to the Woodstock monument that sits on the northwest corner of the grounds to gaze upon the place where history was made and pay homage to the hippy ideals of peace and love. Mahuzier's full story can be read on my website at www.celticguitarmusic.com/Woodstock2009.htm
-Glenn Weiser

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[FullThrottle214]

PEACE AND LOVE MAN!!

[HeartOfTheSun2008]

Yeah rock it!

[raine0acid]

nice one cat! RIP the hippy days

[oneswatter]

you should of brougyht a wind baffle!

[marleyman32508]

diggggg

[jpksculpt1]

thanks enjoyed-good job!

[hamamaamiia]

I can hear the hippie !

[Spartacus2008]

way cool nice job....great song...