How was your personal experience of Woodstock?

''I would have to say that Woodstock was the most impressive experience I ever had,'' he recalled. ''It wasn't just a concert or a speech. It was the sense of finding such a huge group of people and how we started by sharing the music and ended up by finding a gentle, moral view of life. read more

I remember it as news that the Thruway was closed because of some big rock festival well over a hundred miles away. Then the album came out. I loved it. By then I could afford an occasional album using my paper route earnings. read more

'Some people played music,'' he said. ''We talked about how Woodstock had changed us. We tried to find the old places and where we had been.'' Mr. Bayer, who still wears his hair moderately long, acknowledged that a good deal of what has been termed the Woodstock Nation had changed. But he noted that he had changed as well. read more