Couple From Woodstock LP Cover is Still Married 46 Years After Concert w/pictur

[Ichingcarpenter]

Bobbi And Nick Ercoline were girlfriend and boyfriend 46 years ago this weekend, when they decided to attend the Woodstock music festival being held on a farm in Bethel, New York.

During a serene moment, a photographer captured their picture and it ended up as the cover art for the Soundtrack album to one of the most historic concerts of all time.

With the festival’s anniversary this week, we wanted to report the good news that this couple is still together. They were married two years after Woodstock, and have two grown children.

“I think the further we get from the original event the more meaningful it becomes, the more we realize how phenomenal it was: all those people coming together with no violence, just peace, love and sharing,” Bobbi told Seattle P-I in 2009. “Forty years later it’s just remarkable that it could have occurred.”


http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-couple-from-woodstock-lp-cover-is-still-married-46-years-after-concert/

[madokie]

1. Awesome

[malaise]

2. Truly beautiful

Looks like those hippies know something about lasting relationships.

[gregcrawford]

3. Sigh...

... I had tickets to Woodstock, but ended up having to work, so I gave them to a friend. By the time he finally got to the gate, it was a free concert. Lotta good music, lotta bad acid, and too much mud!

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I had a choice of going to Woodstock with two friends or

going to California on a surfing safari......... I went surfing

My two friends can be seen on the album in the crowd pictures.
I don't regret the surfing but wished I could have done both.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Don't feel bad. Actually being there was not that great. Not **that** much acid, but yes,

LOTS of mud. These were farmer fields, with about twenty inches of rich topsoil, (you know, cows) and when it rained it became the biggest mud fest ever. Under makeshift plastic tarps the music was drowned out, and you could barely see the stage.

Only after the movie came out did we feel like we experienced anything resembling a concert...

We got tickets also, but no one took them. My younger brother wrote a thanks you letter to Max Yasgur and his wife wrote back saying how nice of him to thank them. Alas, my brother lost both the tickets and the response letter.

Almost seems like ancient history these days.

[Marty McGraw]

24. With all that mud & jubilation

I'm sure whole new strains of STD's were created in that cocktail moment.

[Quackers]

6. Not to be that guy

But why doesn't the picture they're holding match the picture used for the cover? Sorry, OCD kicking in.

[BlueJazz]

8. I noticed that also. Perspective is different and a few things are drawn in the album cover.

[kcr]

11. Just taken from a different angle

You can see the same tree behind them, and if you look closely enough some of the same items in the background from different angles. It's also the same blanket draped the same way.

[Glassunion]

12. Actually it is...

If you look at the album cover, you'll note that the cover photo is a cropped cropped version of what they are holding.

Here they are in better detail...

Album Cover:


Photo:

[turbinetree]

7. When Hitch Hiking was a form of transportation...............................

did this from California with another HIPPIE, and we played pool for cash to live off , took us 7 days.
Best experience in my life----------------people cared back then, on what was going on around us-------------best song and I love Ten Years After and Alvin Lee is truly missed and I might add he was the fastest when it came to the guitar


Peace ------Love--------Woodstock

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

15. Ten Years After was with the Festival Express tour of Canada too.

But for some reason wouldn't sign the paperwork to be in the movie that came out of those three concerts and the train trip.

[Botany]

21. Sweet!

Thanx for posting

[turbinetree]

25. It was and still is the most.........................

fantastic experience of my 65 year old life.

Thank you

[JDPriestly]

27. I'm amazed that there aren't more movies and more pouplar history about the 1960s

and the hippie and near-hippie culture. It was quite an experience just living through those changing time. We entered 1960 with one culture and came out in 1975 with a very different one. Women's liberation was a big changer as was the anti-war movement. And the music was wonderful!

[niyad]

9. awww, thanks!! after reading some of the truly depressing stuff here, what a lovely thing to see!

[Zorra]

10. heartwarming

Thanks, Ichingcarpenter

[Eleanors38]

13. It doesn't take much to get out of the doldrums.^^^

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. lovely

[hifiguy]

16. Aww, that's just sweet!

[DebbieCDC]

17. Damn that's awesome, good for them

Also, Ten Years After "I'd Love to Change the World".....

[IHateTheGOP]

18. Great story. Thanks for this post.

[mcar]

19. I love this

Mazel tov you crazy kids!

[kwassa]

20. Who was the photographer? Anyone know?

I'm curious because I was in a Woodstock photo by Life photographer John Dominus.

[hollowdweller]

22. Wonder if they still get high?

[winterwar]

23. Kick ass

Yep

[GP6971]

26. I'll date myself

Very cool

[PatrickforO]

28. Congrats! Nice looking couple then and now!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. Keep in mind the conservatives of the time were saying ALL of them should be killed....

They were saying the hippies should be drafted and have their heads shaved and then shipped off to Vietnam which they LOVED as it was killing 250+ a week.