Seeing I just hit my BIG 60 yesterday and many of this Boards members are Classic Rockers, just want to know if any of you also lived this?
I think I was 15 at the time.  Niagara Falls was dried up ****Nixon was in in or almost in?  I got chased off the river by the NY Parlk police for filling my pockets with coins tourists tossed in the River  by tourists for good luck a bove the falls thru the years.
Got served my first beer  45 years ago at a local bar courtecy of a fake draft card.  Beer of choice was Iroquois thanks to the local Buffalo  tribe!    Woodstock had already occurred and my mother would not let me go so my sister was kind enoigh to let me use her 67 Mustang for   travel to Watkins Glen to see the BAND - DEAD and ALLMAN Bros! a couple years later.   Nothing better than listening to a couple 8Tracks on your 60th!  Woodstock Soundtrack and CSN&Y 4 Way Street.   Only problem is you gotta do it on Itunes as the 8Tracks are history.
 
Any of you guys go to either concert?
 

We lettin younguns in now?

I was a redneck...lol Country music and Elvis,Roy Orbison,righteous bros,Johnny Rivers,Glen Campbell, just a few that were on my 8 tracks. Was in Caribue Maine in 73.

Had to work for both concerts, had lots of friends that went to one or the other, but I needed the bucks for college tuition.  Did get up to Toronto for the Festival Express show there, so saw the Band and the Dead on the same bill, and caught the Bros opening for the Dead at the Fillmore East in the first Allman Bros appearance there.
 
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I too was a poor college student working my way through undergraduate school.  I was on the seven year plan because I would quit school to work. 
I had friends that went to Woodstock but I wasn't into the hippie scene as I was still pretty much a high school jock.  Went to a number of shows at the Fillmore East, MSG, etc. but my favorite was the Schaeffer Music Festival at the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park.  Carnegie Hall was another venue that I saw some great acts.    

Well Im only 42 but did manage a few dead shows but also had to work my **** off from a very young age so touring was never a option for me. I wish I could have seen a young Jerry G, or Allmans or Hot Tuna, Led Zepplin but thanks to modern technology some of these great acts are releasing shows on dvd. Wife got me Sunshine Daydream, the springfield creamery benefit 8/27/72 and Move me Brightly celebrating Jerrys 70th, this disk gave me goosebumps made me cry, laugh and dance in my living room as much as I hate technology I love the new music they continue to remaster. Sorry its off subject but go buy Move Me Brightly if your a Jerry fan. Peace           

Good responses! Glad I wasn't the only one with a fake Draft card. Think I was in the same boat of being too young to be a Hippie! I think first concert at the Aud in Buffalo was a local band Raven that opened for Joe Walsh and the "James Gang". Missed Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. I did see the Original James Gang is gonna tour this summer! You know they will play Funk49!

Hippies were a media creation.
Freeks (double es) were real!
 
I didn't even want my real draft card.    
 

Well I was too old when all this occurred and put my time in before Nam and then got married and worked at various things so be glad you're 60 and younger as before you know it you'll look back and ask.....where the hell did it go?
Happy birthday RichW !!.....And HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone.

Guys just went into the basement and dug out my cerwin vegas dx5 from 15 years ago and plugged them in! Cranked them up to some Stephen Stills tree top flyer and jammed!! Wife came out with the what are you doing look....she jammed also! The speakers can stay for a while! Its like fishing, hunting,****ing, it gets in your blood! Rocking out tonight....or at least till 800, gotta work ya know