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Woodstock - Wikipedia. Woodstock. Arnold Skolnick (who designed the logo) says that the dove on the guitar was actually designed to resemble a catbird (and it was originally perched on a flute). Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld. Website. The Woodstock Festivals. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival attracting an audience of over 4. New York from August 1. August 1. 8, 1. 96.
In 2. 01. 7 the festival site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co- organized a small festival on the East Coast the prior year, the Miami Pop Festival, where an estimated 2. Early in 1. 96. 9, Roberts and Rosenman were New York City entrepreneurs, in the process of building Media Sound, a large audio recording studio complex in Manhattan. Lang and Kornfeld's lawyer, Miles Lourie, who had done legal work on the Media Sound project, suggested that they contact Roberts and Rosenman about financing a similar, but much smaller, studio Kornfeld and Lang hoped to build in Woodstock, New York. Unpersuaded by this Studio- in- the- Woods proposal, Roberts and Rosenman counter- proposed a concert featuring the kind of artists known to frequent the Woodstock area (such as Bob Dylan and The Band). Kornfeld and Lang agreed to the new plan, and Woodstock Ventures was formed in January 1.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival attracting an audience of over 400,000 people. Love Actually (2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Burt Cohen, and his design group, Curtain Call Productions, oversaw the psychedelic transformation of the office. Similar differences about financial discipline made Roberts and Rosenman wonder whether to pull the plug or to continue pumping money into the project. The promoters had experienced difficulty landing big- name groups prior to Creedence committing to play. Creedence drummer Doug Clifford later commented, . It famously became a .
Tickets for the three- day event cost $1. Ticket sales were limited to record stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post Office located in Midtown Manhattan. Around 1. 86,0. 00 advance tickets were sold, and the organizers anticipated approximately 2. After local residents quickly shot down that idea, Lang and Kornfeld thought they had found another possible location in Saugerties, New York. But they had misunderstood, as the landowner's attorney made clear, in a brief meeting with Roberts and Rosenman. Town residents immediately opposed the project. In early July, the Town Board passed a law requiring a permit for any gathering over 5,0.
On July 1. 5, 1. 96. Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals officially banned the concert on the basis that the planned portable toilets would not meet town code. He claims to have introduced the promoters to dairy farmer Max Yasgur.
Sam Yasgur, Max's son, agrees with Lang's account. The stage would be set up at the bottom of the hill with Filippini Pond forming a backdrop. The pond would become a popular skinny dipping destination.
The organizers once again told Bethel authorities they expected no more than 5. Despite resident opposition and signs proclaiming, .
Stop Max's Hippy Music Festival. Schadt and building inspector Donald Clark approved the permits, but the Bethel Town Board refused to issue them formally.
Clark was ordered to post stop- work orders. Free festival. At a meeting three days before the event, organizers felt they had two options: one was to complete the fencing and ticket booths, without which the promoters would lose any profit or go into debt; the other option involved putting their remaining available resources into building the stage, without which the promoters feared they would have a disappointed and disgruntled audience. When the audience began arriving by the tens of thousands the next day, the Wednesday before the weekend, the decision was made for them. Those without tickets simply walked through gaps in the fences, and the organizers were forced to make the event free of charge. Though the festival left its promoters nearly bankrupt, their ownership of the film and recording rights more than compensated for the losses after the release of the hit documentary film in 1.
Fearing chaos as thousands began descending on the community, Bethel did not enforce its codes. The facilities were not equipped to provide sanitation or first aid for the number of people attending; hundreds of thousands found themselves in a struggle against bad weather, food shortages, and poor sanitation. Roberts was successful in persuading Rockefeller not to do this. Sullivan County declared a state of emergency.
Because of the rain delays that Sunday, when Hendrix finally took the stage it was 8: 3. Monday morning. The audience, which had peaked at an estimated 4. Hendrix before leaving during his performance. His psychedelic rendition of the U. S. The song would become . These people were out.
It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. We're with you.' I played the rest of the show for that guy. There also were two births recorded at the event (one in a car caught in traffic and another in a hospital after an airlift by helicopter) and four miscarriages. There was a sense of social harmony, which, with the quality of music, and the overwhelming mass of people, many sporting bohemian dress, behavior, and attitudes, helped to make it one of the enduring events of the century. He spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with potential for disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe spent the three days with music and peace on their minds. He stated, . We set it up for 1. Of course, 5. 00,0.
Each of these enclosures carried four 1. JBL D1. 40 loudspeakers. The tweeters consisted of 4. Behind the stage were three transformers providing 2,0. Neil Young skipped most of the acoustic set. Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
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Performed to a considerably smaller crowd of fewer than 2. Instead, Dylan signed in mid- July to play the Isle of Wight Festival of Music, on August 3.
Dylan set sail for England on Queen Elizabeth 2 on August 1. Woodstock Festival started. His son was injured by a cabin door and the family disembarked. Dylan, with his wife Sara, flew to England the following week.
Dylan had been unhappy about the number of hippies piling up outside his house in the nearby town of Woodstock. Also, Beck's piano player Nicky Hopkins performed with Jefferson Airplane. According to guitarist Robby Krieger, they turned it down because they thought it would be a .
I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill. Woodstock weekend, Zeppelin performed south of the festival at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey. Their only time out taken was to attend Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, on August 1. There were also concerns about money. As bassist John York remembers: . But at that point they weren't paying all of the bands.
He asked us if we wanted to do it and we said, 'No'. We had no idea what it was going to be. We were burned out and tired of the festival scene. However, they had a contract with concert promoter Bill Graham, which allowed him to move Chicago's concerts at the Fillmore West. He rescheduled some of their dates to August 1. Graham did so to ensure that Santana, which he managed at the time, would take their slot at the festival. According to singer and bassist Peter Cetera, .
Lead singer Tommy James stated later: . We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me. So we passed, and we realized what we'd missed a couple of days later. We were invited to play there, we turned it down.'. According to frontman Ian Anderson, he knew it would be a big event but he did not want to go because he did not like hippies and other concerns including inappropriate nudity, heavy drinking and drug use. Raven turned down his offer based on the fact that the year before the band played at one of Woodstock's .
Lang assured them that his concert was going to be different. The band respectfully declined. Their manager did not want them to go and said, . The band members were disappointed and in response said, .
You will have helicopters pick us up. We will fly straight to the show.
We will perform immediately, and then we will be flown out.' And I picked up the phone and called Western Union.. During the first few days of the festival, national media coverage emphasized the problems. Front page headlines in the Daily News read . Coverage became more positive by the end of the festival, in part because the parents of concertgoers called the media and told them, based on their children's phone calls, that their reporting was misleading. According to Collier, this led to acrimonious discussions and his threat to refuse to write the article until the paper's executive editor, James Reston, agreed to let him write the article as he saw fit. The eventual article dealt with issues of traffic jams and minor lawbreaking, but went on to emphasize cooperation, generosity, and the good nature of the festival goers.
The chief medical officer for the event and several local residents were quoted as praising the festival goers. During the festival a rare Saturday edition was published. The paper had the only phone line running out of the site, and it used a motorcyclist to get stories and pictures from the impassable crowd to the newspaper's office 3. Middletown. Artie Kornfeld (one of the promoters of the festival) went to Fred Weintraub, an executive at Warner Bros., and asked for money to film the festival. Artie had been turned down everywhere else, but against the express wishes of other Warner Bros. Woodstock helped to save Warner Bros at a time when the company was on the verge of going out of business.
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