Woodstock was organized???
A Chinese fire drill is organized.
There was a lot of stuff going on at the time.
People forget that the first Moon landing, Woodstock, Kennedy leaving Mary Jo to drown in a river, and the Manson Family murders in LA happened in the course of a few weeks. Among other things.
I seem to recall the music rights to the concert were tied up for decades. Probably still fighting over it. Same with “Concert for Bangladesh”.
Anytime something is “Free” it gets all kinds of f@&!ed Up. Hippies never really learned that.
The music was pretty spotty, performance wise. It looks to me, or listens to me, that Santana, Joe Cocker and a very few others did well, sonically speaking.
I was there as a 17yo. New to the “culture”. Travelled with 2 friends from R.I. ‘cuz we heard Hendrix and others were playing (as I believe the main reason most people were there). Saw some great music. “Give me an F.” More appropriate for today’s regime. (left before Hendrix played). Had a great time.
a generation-defining touchstone,
More than one person has put a reference to their presence at Woodstock on their tombstone, which, when I see it always makes me a little sad. Was it really THAT much of a big deal?
Nearly all the same bands played at the Newport Jazz festival a month before Woodstock. I rode a Triumph Bonnieville there with a friend of mine from Connecticut. The whole weekend was similar to Woodstock. All the stores and restaurants sold out of everything. There were 10s of thousands of hippies there knocking down the fences and making the whole thing a free for all! When we got home we turned down an offer to go to Woodstock because we were so worn out from the Newport fiasco.
Thanks for letting us kids throw a party in your field.
Couldnt have done it with out your blessing!!
Did he take the brown acid?
Biggest concert in history. 60 million baby boomers claim to have attended.
RIP.
A few friends and I organized a pig roast/beer bash at a forest campground in college. 400lbs of pig, 20 kegs and a band.
From what I was told it was a raging success even after it was crashed by a biker gang.