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The Beinging of The First Woodstock Concert
Two men, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman were looking for an idea for a television sitcom. They created an advertisment in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Mic heal Lang and Artie Kornfeld, who wanted to put on a festival and also buil a recording studio in Woodstock replied!
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Woodstock Grows
For $10,000 Woodstock ventures rents a 300-acre from Mills Industrial Park in Walkill from Howard Mills. But after a couple of months ads started popping up. But sadly The Wallkill Zoning board OFFICIALLY bans Woodstock because the town of Wallkill would declare war on the festival.
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Help From Some Friends
Elliot Tiber (of White lake) read about the banning, and he has a permint to run an arts festival. But Lang didnt think Tibers land would work out for the festival, but thankfully Tiber had a friend, His friend, Max Yasgur owns a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y with an alfalfa field. And that alfalfa field with $75,000 started Woodstock.
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Bethel Town
The town of Bethel and zoning boards give them a yes on the 3 day concert, promoters say they were thinking 50,00 people.
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Locals of Bethel
Residents filed a lawsuit for more portable toliets. While this was happening more residents start to tried to make a human barricade across Route 17B.
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Free Concert?
As 25,000 showed up Michael Lang realized that there is no ticket boths.
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No Concert?
The show was suppose to start at 4 p.m but, none for the performers were there! While the town was blocking off the roads with their bodies the performers were suck at thier hotels. But Lang all of a sudden sees Richie Havens ready to go on stage, while he sees a helicopter flying with artists in. Hevans walks on stage at 5:07 p.m and started singing "Freedom". Sweetwater, Melanie, Sly and the Family Stone, and the night ends with rain fall. -
Woodstocks Second Day
While more people crowd in to atend the concert; The Who, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead refusesd to play without cash in their pockets. After they got their money they headed to the stage and also did Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat and Santana end that night.
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The Ending of The First Woodstock Concert
After 3 days (technically 4 days) of peace and music the bands/artist Joe Cocker, Leslie West/Mountain, Sha Na Na, Jimi Hendrix and a lot more end the day!
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After Math of Woodstock
As a report from the New York Health Department listed 797 "documented instances' of drug abuse. While in those 3 days there was 2 deaths from drug overdose and one person was killed by a tractor accident. -
Documentary of Woodstock
They made a documentary of Woodstock that was directed by Michael Wadleigh and eited by Thelma Schoonmaker and Marthin Scorsese. Within the next year Woodstock was nominated for Best Film and Best Sound Oscar. It wins the Oscar for Best Documentary, Feature.
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Lost of Yasgur
Max Yasgur, the man who owns the dairy farm, passes away from a heart attack.
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10 Years Later
As the 10 year anniversary found and invited several '69 veterans and got them together to jam at Madison Sqare Garden. It was documented on film and released in 1991 as, "The Celebration Continues - Woodstock '79."
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