My parents met at Woodstock.
I bet a lot of people met at Woodstock in 1969.  The festival had over 400,000 people there
Yes, they met while watching Jimi Hendrix.
That guy was awesome.  He only had a four year career.  But man, what an influence he had in music
Yes, too bad he died so young.
the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. "Rolling Stone" listed it as number 19 of the "50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll".
The event was captured in the Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary film "Woodstock", an accompanying , and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for both
chess, which has remained a passion for him. According to Sawyer, the Woodstock Festival, in 1969, had a big impact on his career path. He was in the 1960s a regular at Mickey Ruskin's club Max's Kansas City, where he met Jimi Hendrix, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Diane Arbus. Arbus would later make a portrait of him in her studio.
Career.
In 1968, Sawyer found his vocation as a photographer while traveling in Colombia,