¿Qué fue Woodstock? And I knew Bob Dylan and Paul Butterfield were here. Sí, nada se dejó al azar, pero nadie contó con el entusiasmo desbordado de una juventud harta de Vietnam y de las mentiras con que se manejaban los políticos.
By this point, July 15, 1969, the opening date of the rapidly growing, national buzz-generating festival, was exactly a month away.
Querían demostrar que la paz era posible, y se juntaron medio millón para demostrarlo. Because anything else I would do was going to be unfairly compared to Woodstock."
Y cómo le dije al vendedor, señalando a la multitud que los rodeaba: “En algún lugar de ahí estoy yo”.
When it was all over, the so-called Woodstock Nation had been born and popular culture had been forever changed. What was by the first day of the festival expected to be a total of 150,000 swelled to, reports to this day vary, somewhere between 400,000 and 600,000—at the time, roughly equal to the populations of several of New York State's larger cities.
"Nineteen-sixty-eight had been a terrible year, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and Vietnam and the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago," Lang says.
Al pisar la Luna, el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong recitó un texto que le habían hecho aprenderse de memoria y según el cual aquel era un pequeño paso para él y uno gigantesco para la humanidad.
"It was such an amazing experience to be immersed in this total love fest—so incredibly powerful and rewarding," says the Ulster County resident, well-known as an eternal pillar of calm in the tensest of situations. I was addicted.
After visiting a run-down, swampy bungalow colony that was immediately eliminated, they stumbled upon their field of dreams: Max Yasgur's farm in the Sullivan County town of Bethel, about 60 miles from the town of Woodstock. And not only that, but they were taking care of each other and themselves and embodying, in one massive tribal gathering, the message of compassion and togetherness that was the theme of the event—a theme that would be picked up and amplified henceforth.
"My dad was in the construction and heating business; my parents weren't that big on music.
Declaración de Nick Ercoline, uno de los presentes, inmortalizado luego por la foto de Burk Uzzle en la cubierta del
All over the news in recent months has been the saga of Woodstock 50, the three-day golden anniversary incarnation of the 1969 festival Lang had been preparing for the past few years. "[A] perfect green bowl," Lang recalls in
But the born promoter couldn't stay out of the game forever. "I already knew Woodstock from visiting the town with my parents when I was a kid. Desde el 8 de agosto empezó a llegar gente en pequeños grupos, aunque las obras de infraestructura iban tan lentas que cuatro días antes de empezar se creía que el festival tendría lugar en noviembre.
When asked if he ever thought he'd never put on another Woodstock Festival after coming down from the heights of the first one, Lang quips, "Never say never."
Y cuando se anunció el festival de Woodstock fue como si la juventud del país se alzara en armas, las armas del pacifismo. Michael Lang was born on the 11th December 1944 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA of Jewish origin and is a rock concert promoter, producer and artistic entrepreneur.
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Due to mud-making rain delays and other logistical snags, the event stretched from the planned three days into four, finishing with Hendrix's 9am set on August 18.
Joining Hendrix, Joplin, the Dead, and contemporaneously hot acts like the Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Canned Heat, The Who, and The Band was a brace of lesser-known newcomers whose star turns at Woodstock would make their careers: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, in their second-ever live appearance as group; Santana, a last-minute addition; and Joe Cocker, whose passionate performance of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" is among the iconic festival highlights preserved via the 1970 concert documentary
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