...the one who is being interviewed and she refers to people as "cats" and talks about some guy who was on speed who came up to her and asked her about "his wild eyes." I have always wondered about her. Who is she? What's she doing now?
sharei have thought the same thing.i fell in love with that hippie chick 39 years ago when the movie came out. i would love to see a where are they now, the people in the crowd at woodstock.
shareI figure that a lot of the people in the movie might have passed on.
However I do know of one person featured in the movie who is alive and well. In the telephone call sequence, there is a young guy with glasses who talks of how "to cheat the telephone company." Then he states that he's calling home to tell them "I'm alright." "I'm fine, man" he says....
Unfortunately I don't know his name but he's now a doctor in Albany, New York. I spoke to somebody who knows of him, but could not remember his name.
As far as the toothy hippie chick, I haven't a clue. I like how she mentions that "this is the third largest city in the world." That's a little bit of misinformation. Really Woodstock became the third largest city in the state of New York.
Maybe the second largest. Buffalo's population was 462,000. There could have been more at Woodstock.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
Just watched the movie today and I agree, thought she was intriguing and interesting. It's weird to think if she was about 18 then she'll be almost 60 now. I wonder if she found her sister that she refers to in the interview? I also wonder where she is now. In fact, I'd love to know what happened to a lot of the young people interviewed in the film, what they are doing now and what they think of their views given in the interviews 40 years on. I actually found that more interesting and thought provoking than the music from the artists performing.
shareThis is a great thread, and a topic if have longed wondered. A doco of people appearing in this, or Gimme Shelter, would be amazing. Think of it!
The "couple" being interviewd in the bus. The blonde guy & hippy girl. he talks about "balling". What happened to him/them?
The chick interviewed while skinny dipping
The chick who asks the old couple if she could their phone.
the guy from the crowd who jumped on stage with Canned Heat
The person who caught Pete Towshends guitar
Go to GImme Shelter..
the fat, nude man
the white MILF asking for donations to the Black Panthers
The girl at the front of the stage with tears in her eyes just before the murder
Any of the Angels
The dude who hit Jagger
Yes, corgi37 a "Where Are They Now" documentary on these people would be great. Interesting to see peoples love of the film. For some it's about the music and the bands, but for me, it was about the people who attended. Think the three I'd really like to catch up with are Port-O-San Hippie, the girl in the info booth and the young couple. Did a bit of research over the last month and had a bit of correspondence with some of the photographers who were there and recorded the event...but no luck so far tracking down these folk in the film. Where the hell are they?????
shareTotally agree. I thought some of the people being interviewed were just as interesting as the performing. I was very intrigued by the "cool cat" hippie girl and still bring her up time to time. Lets create a coalition to find some of these people?
shareGreat idea SunnySideDown66. As I said in earlier post, I've been trying! Over the last month I've spent hours researching this, chasing up old articles etc on the internet, leaving posts on various websites related to counterculture, Woodstock, music, film, hippies, flower power etc etc etc, you name it. Got a lead from one of the photographers there on the day but unfortuately nothing came of that. Suggest you go off and have a try yourself and use this message board to relate any news or success as I seem to be going up blind alleys!I keep checking in the hope someone will post some definite news. If you've not done so, it's worth reading the "attendee interview" post on this board as well. Yeah, that girl is really cool..wonder if she's ever seen the film! It would make a great story, can't believe no one has tried before..or maybe they have and the passage of time is just too great. Got a feeling if nothing breaks with the 40th anniversary DVD or the 40th anniversary in August, nothing ever will. Good luck and keep in touch dude.
shareA follow up on the people in the film would be amazing. And surely there's some one around who would know what's happened to the people. I mean, relatives, partners, friends etc.
The people in this movie are what i enjoy. It's such a different world and mindset. I was 6 in 1969 but i feel a strong affinity the music and spirit of that era. I'm a Stones freak, but also love The Who.
And i really wanna know what happened to whoever caught Pete Townshend's guitar!
As best I understand it, the band's roadies quickly retrieved Pete's Gibson after he chucked it to the crowd!
Mind you, that was one hell of way to finish an already legendary set, don't you think?
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The guitar went into the gap between the stage and the 8 foot high wood fence holding the crowd back.
As for the girl, I think she was from Buffalo area on the Lakes, one of many festival-goers who ended up as casual volunteers helping the Hog Farm people in movement city - a cluster of tents away from the concert hillside.
Here's footage of her interview from 4:24 to 6:16...unfortunately the audio was disabled on this one, but we get to see her! Someone out there knows her!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ky556gYCcc&feature=PlayList&p=1086CC4ADB9A20AA&index=14
Hey richmarst, interesting info dude. Where did you find out that she was from Buffalo? Any other snippets you got? Cheers!
share"can't believe no one has tried before"
Like you, I am surprised that no-one has followed this up before. I know that the girl who is the subject of this thread; her identity and what became of her, has long intrigued people.
Production companies will green-light any tired old reality show idea that gets pitched at them, yet a gem of a documentary awaits anyone who could locate and interview her and other members of the public who appeared in the movie, I am quite sure.
"Good, my dog found the chainsaw..."
Messages from those who were there, including some in the film/on the album covers
http://www.woodstock69.com/woodstock_mem.htm
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This is an excellent thread, and I'd love a "where are they now" documentary on the people featured in "Woodstock" and "Gimme Shelter."
To your list of colorful character, I would add the paranoid-sounding guy who blamed the rain on the helicopters, saying they were seeding the clouds.
There's a documentary called Woodstock, Now and Then that interviews some of the people who were there, including people you see in the film. The couple on the record album cover are still alive and married: Nick and Bobbi Ercoline. Somewhere there's a picture of them today, this old granny and grandpa wrapped in a blanket. The yellow butterfly staff belonged to a boy named Herbie.
My friend Adams was there. You see him just for a second when they are throwing the cans of beer from the stage to people in the audience. He was the son of Paul Douglas from his marriage to Jan Sterling. The last time I talked to him he was writing a book about her life. He had a heart attack and died in '03.
You want sausage? I've got sausage, too.
Saw the film for the first time a couple of days ago and was fast-forwarding parts of it due to limited time, when I saw the girl and paused and listened to her conversation.
I was charmed with her. She seemed just so natural and slightly shy at times when the interviewer spoke to her. She seemed to be open and trying to help others, plus she was concerned about her sister's whereabouts. A lovely girl with a very attractive personality.
I wonder how her life turned out as well...
Even now, with all the 40th anniversary stuff going on...I guess one would hope that the woman in question (or someone who knows, or knows of, or knew of her) would read this and could shed some light on our lost beauty of the 60's. Where to possibly begin any sort of research as to her identity? There were nearly half a million people there, and it's been 10 years gone times 4...
shareI always wondered what happend to the young nun who flashes the peace sign at the begining of the movie.
The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.
The couple on the album cover (perhaps on the second printing of the album cover?) appeared on Australia's Today Show (perhaps it was Sunrise?) a few weeks ago. They are still together and said that their parents didnt even know that they had gone to the festival.
Yeah, that 'cool cats' girl is cute and shy and Id love to know where she is today and how her life turned out.
Unfortunately we dont have all that much time to find these people, not really. Within the next 30 years they will all start heading on up to the big Festival in the sky to hear Jimi and Janis again. 30 years isnt that long considering its now been 40 years since the actual event.
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Michael Jackson 29/08/58 to 25/06/09. May Angels lift you as high as your music has lifted us
all i know is i fell in love with her and was gonna make this same topic
Everybody Wants Some!!
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Hey dude, that's really interesting. I've not spotted that so will have to check it out. Cheers man.
shareThat sounds like a step in the proper direction...anyone with a copy of the 40th Anniversary Soundtrack? Give a listen to the track "Woodstock Farewell" and listen carefully for any info?! I'll be on the lookout for that, thanks! No, what am I thinking? I meant, GROOVY! :)
shareWasn't she in the interview right after Ten Years After doing "I'm Going Home"? She's kinda bucktoothed in that red/black checkered shirt, and aside from calling everyone "cat" she said "like" and "ya know" in almost every sentence. I'd forgotten this sort of talk originated that far back and in New York. I always regarded that as valley and/or surfer talk from southern California in the late 70s which has now permeated pretty much every English-speaking country amounst young people and every one of the 50 US states. Prevelant even on this mostly younger forum where people always write "so I'm like (blah) and like totally ya know (blah)". I'm not exactly a language nazi but jeez like ya know it sounds a bit dumbed-down, like ya know. Whatever ;-)
shareSure it was a bit dumbed down. She even makes the completely erroneous statement that "[Woodstock] is like the 3rd largest city in the world." Big deal.
shareSlang usage of the word "like" goes back pretty far:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#In_slang_and_colloquial_speech
About the girl in the plaid shirt talking about the "wild eyes": 11 years ago, I was living in upstate New York. I was in a Wal-Mart in Monticello and I saw a woman who looked just like that girl. Don't know if it was her, but the resemblace was pretty strong.
"The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades"
I like to think, and hope that she is out there somewhere, doing well. She obviously left quite an impression on more than a few of us.
shareI always thought the Port-O-San cleaner was a great guy. I was kind of shocked when I read this in the Trivia section:
The filmmakers and distributor were sued by the man who was interviewed while cleaning the Port-O-San portable latrines, on the grounds of mental anguish, embarrassment, public ridicule, and invasion of privacy. An appellate court opinion in this lawsuit may be read at Taggart v. Wadleigh-Maurice, Ltd., 489 F.2d 434 (3d Cir. 1973).
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I wanted to know more about her too and wondered what happened to her. I discovered recently that her name was Valerie 'jeanne' cooper. She sadly passed away just a few weeks ago. From what i have read about her, her life wasnt an easy one in her later years with struggles with homelessness and mental health issues. But in her lucid moments she was very much still as she was in the film and was a great person to talk to. Sadly missed by a lot of people in her neighbourhood who knew her and thought of her fondly. There are quite a few comments under the woodstock 'emotional colours' clip on youtube.
http://buffalorising.com/2015/06/looking-back-at-jean/
Some lovely anecdotes and stories about her here:
http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/buffalonews/valerie-j-cooper-jeanne-condolences/175125734
Here's an article about her: http://www.buffalonews.com/columns/denise-jewell-gee/elmwood-village-fixture-lived-a-rich-life-masked-by-mental-illness-20150705
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krypton_son: Thanks for sharing. So sad and tragic. At least for a brief moment in film she was captured memorably for posterity.
After all... tomorrow is another day.
stupidsexyflanders: Wow, that's amazing, thanks. It's nice to know what happened to her but sad to find out how her life turned out.
After all... tomorrow is another day.