What Is Life At Woodstock: August 15-17, 1969?

Introduction
Mike Willeford, a young boy on a hot August day, remembers Woodstock like it was yesterday. Mike said, “I was 15 years of age and it was the height of my teenage years.” He recalls, “The Vietnam War was in full swing and our Country was looking for something that would build us and bring harmony.” Mike is my husband’s uncle and I chose him because he is fascinating. Mike is intelligent and was pleased to assist with my paper. I was in search of someone to interview that was at Woodstock and I wasn’t successful, but when Mike communicated to me that his former boss attended Woodstock, I thought it would be a perfect fit.
August 15-17, 1969, in Bethel, New York, The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place; which was deemed the grooviest event in music history. The event was originally planned to be held near the town of Woodstock, but when they couldn’t find a location in the town, the promoters moved the festival
Due to numerous delays, they ultimately played on Monday morning around 9:00am, when most of the audience had already left. Jimi played the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ which helped shape the sounds and images that still define Woodstock almost forty-five years later. Near the end of his two-hour show, Hendrix pulled out his electrifying version of the ‘Star Spangled Banner’. “It was designed to sound like dropping bombs and machine-gun fire – which blew the mind from thousands of feet away.” (Gallucci n.d.) It was described by the rock critic from the New York post as ‘the single greatest moment of the Sixties’. Yet it was witnessed by just a fraction of the crowd because most had gone home by the time he came on stage. (Bright 2009) “Jimi Hendrix got his fame from the event and it is now one of the most famous ways that the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ is played in my eyes. I’m not sure that it is the correct way, but I do know it is historical.” (Willeford