Woodstock
Location(s)	United States Bethel, New York (site of original festival) Saugerties, New York Rome, New York
Years active	Original festival held in 1969; namesake events held in 1973, 1989, 1994, and 1999.
Founded by	Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld
Date(s)	scheduled: August 15 – August 17, 1969, but ran over to August 18
Genre(s)	Rock and folk, including blues-rock, folk rock, jazz fusion, latin rock, and psychedelic rock styles. Alternative rock and rap were played at post-1969 Woodstock festivals
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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel (Sullivan County) is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, which is in adjoining Ulster County. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (450x639, 88 KB) Summary http://www. ... Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, USA. The population was 4,362 at the 2000 census but Bethel experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2007. ... Saugerties is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... // Artie Kornfeld Father of Woodstock Whats a little wind and rain? Love to all. ... This article is about the day of the year. ... is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the genre. ... Folk song redirects here. ... Blues Rock or Blues-rock is a fusion genre of music which combines elements of the blues with rock and roll. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... Jazz fusion (or jazz-rock fusion or fusion) is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music. ... Los Lobos Chicano rock or Latin rock is rock music performed by Mexican American groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture. ... Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Max Yasgurs Farm (1999) Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919—February 9, 1973) was the owner of a dairy farm in Bethel, New York upon which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on August 15-18, 1969. ... Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, USA. The population was 4,362 at the 2000 census but Bethel experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2007. ... This article is about the day of the year. ... is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. ... Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. ... Ulster County is a county located in the state of New York. ...

The festival exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s – early 1970s and the "hippie era". Thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the day appeared during the sometimes rainy weekend. Although attempts have been made over the years to recreate the festival, the original event has proven to be unique and legendary. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. ^[1] For the Roy Harper album Counter Culture, see Counter Culture. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... For the British TV show, see Hippies (TV series). ... This article is about the magazine. ...

The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock; an accompanying soundtrack album; and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Woodstock (subtitled 3 Days of Peace & Music) is a 1970 documentary on the Woodstock Festival in 1969. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. ... Woodstock is a song about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969. ... Crosby, Stills & Nash, also Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when including occasional fourth member Neil Young, are a folk rock/rock supergroup. ...

Introduction

Woodstock was assembled through the joint work of Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld. It was Roberts and Rosenman who had the finances, and who placed the following advertisement in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal under the name of Challenge International, Ltd.: “Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions.”^[2] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... // Artie Kornfeld Father of Woodstock Whats a little wind and rain? Love to all. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ...

Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together originally to discuss a retreat-like recording studio in Woodstock, but the idea morphed into the festival as we have come to know it. There were problems among the four: Roberts was regimented, and knew what was needed in order for the venture to succeed, contrasted with the laid-back Lang who saw Woodstock as a new, relaxed way of bringing business people together.^[2] There were further doubts over the venture, as Roberts wondered whether to consolidate his losses and pull the plug, or to continue pumping his own finances into the project.^[2] His decision to continue with the project resulted in one of the most successful events in music history.

Woodstock was a profit-making venture, aptly titled "Woodstock Ventures". It only became a "free concert" after it became obvious that the event was drawing hundreds of thousands more people than the organizers had prepared for. Around 186,000 tickets were sold beforehand and organizers anticipated approximately 200,000 festival-goers would turn up.^[3] The fence was purposely cut by the UAW/MF family in order to create a totally free event, prompting many more to show up. Tickets for the event cost US$18 in advance (approximately US$75 [1] today adjusted for inflation) and $24 at the gate for all three days. 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. Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (often referred to as simply the Motherfuckers, or UAW/MF) was an anarchist affinity group based in New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Midtown Manhattan viewed from the World Trade Center. ...

The four founders behind Woodstock Ventures made Warner Brothers an offer to make a movie about Woodstock. All Artie Kornfeld required was $100,000. It would appear that it would benefit Warner Brothers, as "it could have either sold millions or, if there were riots, be one of the best documentaries ever made," according to Kornfeld.^[4] Warner Bros. ...

The festival came amidst military conflict abroad and racial discord at home. It was the biggest bash for the counterculture and is a reminder of the youthful hedonism and excess of the 60s. It was a culmination of what the counterculture meant — the bands appealed to the generation that was questioning the direction of American society. Many of the biggest artists of the 60s performed at the Festival, and it was their influence on the youth that brought them together to a farm in Bethel to struggle against bad weather, food shortages and poor sanitation.^[5] The site of Woodstock became, for four days, a countercultural mini-nation. Minds were open, drugs were available and "love" was "free". It was a festival where nearly 400,000 "hippies" came together to celebrate under the slogan of "three days of peace and music". At the time, it held the record for the largest music audience in the world until the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in 1973 drew 100,000 more people. Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman crystallized this view of the event in his book, Woodstock Nation, written shortly afterwards. It also created a massive traffic jam and closed the New York State Thruway.^[3] Poster for the event The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, also sometimes referred to as the Watkins Glen Festival, was a 1973 rock festival which received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for Largest audience at a pop festival. Up to 600,000 people came to the Watkins Glen... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Yippie flag, ca. ... Abbott Howard Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party (Yippies). Later he became a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine. ...

Although the festival was remarkably peaceful given the number of people and the conditions involved, there were two recorded fatalities: one from what was believed to be a heroin overdose; another caused by an occupied sleeping bag accidentally being run over by a tractor in a nearby hayfield. There were also two births recorded at the event (one in a car caught in traffic and another in a helicopter) and four miscarriages.^[6] Oral testimony in the film supports the overdose and run-over deaths and at least one birth, along with many colossal logistical headaches. Furthermore, because Woodstock was not intended for such a large crowd, there were not enough resources such as portable toilets and first-aid tents. Heroin (INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. ... A line of portable toilets. ... First aid is a series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that a non-doctor or layman can be trained to perform. ...

Yet, in tune with the idealistic hopes of the 1960s, Woodstock satisfied most attendees. Especially memorable were the sense of social harmony, the quality of music, and the overwhelming mass of people, many sporting bohemian dress, behavior, and attitudes. ^[7] The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ...

After the concert Max Yasgur, who owned the site of the event, saw it as a victory of peace and love. He spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with possibilities of disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe spent the three days with music and peace on their minds. He states that “if we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future...”^[2] Max Yasgurs Farm (1999) Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919—February 9, 1973) was the owner of a dairy farm in Bethel, New York upon which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on August 15-18, 1969. ...

Sound for the concert was engineered by Bill Hanley, whose innovations in the sound industry have earned him the prestigious Parnelli Award. "It worked very well," he says of the event. "I built special speaker columns on the hills and had 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on 70-foot [21 meter] towers. We set it up for 150,000 to 200,000 people. Of course, 500,000 showed up." ALTEC designed 4 - 15 marine ply cabinets that weighed in at half a ton a piece, stood 6 feet straight up, almost 4 feet deep & a yard wide. Each of these woofers carried four 15-inch JBL LANSING D140 loudspeakers. The tweeters consisted of 4x2-Cell & 2x10-Cell Altec Horns. For many years this system was collectively referred to as the Woodstock Bins. William Bill Hanley (born in Balleyeast, Northern Ireland, February 28, 1915, died September 17, 1990) was an ice hockey administrator in the province of Ontario in Canada, best known for his lifetime of service to the Ontario Hockey Association. ... An old Altec Lansing PC speaker. ... A Sony 9 inch woofer Woofer is the term for a loudspeaker driver that is designed to produce low frequency sounds, typically from around 40 hertz up to a few hundred hertz. ... For professional wrestler John Bradshaw Layfield, see John Layfield. ... A shielded Peerless v-line dome tweeter A tweeter is a driver designed to produce high frequencies, typically from around 2,000 hertz to 20,000 hertz (20,000 Hz is generally considered to be the upper limit of the human ear). ...

Performing artists and sequence of events

A stamp commemorating the original concert

Celebrate the Century - 1960s - Woodstock Festival This image is a postage stamp produced by the United States Postal Service after 1978. ... Celebrate the Century - 1960s - Woodstock Festival This image is a postage stamp produced by the United States Postal Service after 1978. ...

Friday, August 15

The first day, which officially began at 5:07 p.m. with Richie Havens, featured folk artists. This article is about the day of the year. ...

• Richie Havens (opened the festival - performed 7 encores)
  1. High Flyin' Bird
  2. I Can't Make It Any More
  3. With a Little Help from My Friends
  4. Strawberry Fields Forever
  5. Hey Jude
  6. I Had A Woman
  7. Handsome Johnny
  8. Freedom/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival
• Country Joe McDonald, played separate set from his band, The Fish
  1. I Find Myself Missing You
  2. Rockin All Around The World
  3. Flyin' High All Over the World
  4. Seen A Rocket Flyin'
  5. The "Fish" Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
• John Sebastian
  1. How Have You Been
  2. Rainbows Over Your Blues
  3. I Had A Dream
  4. Darlin' Be Home Soon
  5. Younger Generation
• Sweetwater
  1. What's Wrong
  2. Motherless Child
  3. Look Out
  4. For Pete's Sake
  5. Day Song
  6. Crystal Spider
  7. Two Worlds
  8. Why Oh Why
• The Incredible String Band
  1. Invocation
  2. The Letter
  3. This Moment
  4. When You Find Out Who You Are
• Bert Sommer
  1. Jennifer
  2. The Road To Travel
  3. I Wondered Where You Be
  4. She's Gone
  5. Things Are Going my Way
  6. And When It's Over
  7. Jeanette
  8. America
  9. A Note That Read
  10. Smile
• Tim Hardin, an hour-long set
  1. If I Were A Carpenter
  2. Misty Roses
• Ravi Shankar, with a 5-song set, played through the rain
  1. Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital
  2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal
  3. Raga Manj Kmahaj
  4. Iap Jor
  5. Dhun In Kaharwa Tal
• Melanie
  1. Tuning My Guitar
  2. Johnny Boy
  3. Beautiful People
• Arlo Guthrie--order of set list unknown
  1. Coming Into Los Angeles
  2. Walking Down the Line
  3. Story about Moses and the Brownies
  4. Amazing Grace (which closed set)
• Joan Baez-she was 6 months pregnant at the time
  1. Story about how the Federal Marshals came to take David Harris into custody.
  2. Joe Hill
  3. Sweet Sir Galahad
  4. Drugstore Truck Driving Man
  5. Sweet Sunny South
  6. Warm and Tender Love
  7. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  8. We Shall Overcome

Baez Source: Arthur Levy, annotator of the expanded editions of the 12 Joan Baez CDs on Vanguard Richie Havens (born January 21, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American folk singer and guitarist. ... Sgt. ... Music sample Strawberry Fields Forever Problems? See media help. ... For the album of the same name, see Hey Jude (album). ... Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (or simply Sometimes I Feel) is a traditional Negro spiritual. ... Swami Satchidananda on the cover of his biography Swami Satchidananda (1914–2002) was an Indian religious figure who gained fame and followers in the West, especially in the United States. ... Country Joe McDonald Country Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in El Monte, California) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group Country Joe and the Fish. ... Country Joe and the Fish, from the cover of Feel Like Im Fixin to Die Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music/folk music band known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 1970. ... The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-Im-Fixin-To-Die Rag is a popular protest song from the band Country Joe and the Fish from their 1967 album of the same name. ... John Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. ... Sweetwater was a rock and roll band best known as the first group that played at the Woodstock festival in 1969. ... Whats Wrong is a song written by Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson and M. Horn. ... The iconic cover of the bands 2nd album designed by The Fool The Incredible String Band were (and are) a Scottish acoustic band who way back in the 1960s built a popular following among the British counter culture, and are considered psych folk music pioneers. ... Bert Sommer (February 7, 1949 - July 23, 1990) was a folk singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969. ... America, a Paul Simon song, was made popular by 1960s folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. ... Tim Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) was a United States folk musician and composer who was a part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene and performer at the Woodstock Festival. ... For other persons named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation). ... Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947 in Astoria, New York City) is an American singer-songwriter. ... Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ... For other persons named Joe Hill, see Joe Hill (disambiguation). ... Sweet Sir Galahad is a song written by Joan Baez, which she first performed in 1969 at Woodstock; she subsequently included it on her 1970 album One Day at a Time. ... Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a United States African-American Negro spiritual song. ... We Shall Overcome is a protest song that became a key anthem of the US civil rights movement. ...

Saturday, August 16

The day opened at 12:15 pm, and featured some of the event's biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners. is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. ...

• Quill, forty minute set of four songs
  1. They Live the Life
  2. BBY
  3. Waitin' For You
  4. Jam
• Keef Hartley Band
  1. Spanish Fly
  2. Believe In You
  3. Rock Me Baby
  4. Medley
  5. Leavin' Trunk
  6. Sinnin' For You
• Santana
  1. Waiting
  2. You Just Don't Care
  3. Savor
  4. Jingo
  5. Persuasion
  6. Soul Sacrifice
  7. Fried Neckbones
• Country Joe McDonald (without The Fish)
  1. The Fish Cheer
• Canned Heat
  1. A Change Is Gonna Come/Leaving This Town
  2. Going Up The Country
  3. Let's Work Together
  4. Woodstock Boogie
• Mountain, hour-long set including Jack Bruce's "Theme For An Imaginary Western"
  1. Blood of the Sun
  2. Stormy Monday
  3. Long Red
  4. Who Am I But You And The Sun
  5. Beside The Sea
  6. For Yasgur's Farm (then untitled)
  7. You and Me
  8. Theme For An Imaginary Western
  9. Waiting To Take You Away
  10. Dreams of Milk and Honey
  11. Blind Man
  12. Blue Suede Shoes
  13. Southbound Train
• Janis Joplin (Performed two encores: Piece of My Heart and Ball & Chain)
  1. Raise Your Hand
  2. As Good As You've Been To This World
  3. To Love Somebody
  4. Summertime
  5. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
  6. Kosmic Blues
  7. Can't Turn you Loose
  8. Work Me Lord
  9. Piece of My Heart
  10. Ball & Chain
• Grateful Dead
  1. St. Stephen
  2. Mama Tried
  3. Dark Star/High Time
  4. Turn On Your Love Light

Grateful Dead's performance was plagued by technical problems, including a faulty electrical ground and members Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir reported getting shocked every time they touched their guitars. The Dead's performance footage was not included in the movie, but at one point Jerry Garcia appears holding a joint, saying: "Marijuana. Exhibit A." Quill - a Bohemian band in an age of Hippies Quill was a popular Northeast USA band that played extensively throughout New England and New York in the late 1960s and that gained national attention by performing at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. ... Keef Hartley (born April 8, 1944 in Preston, England) is a British musician. ... Santana (originally the Santana Blues Band) is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. ... For other uses, see Canned Heat (disambiguation). ... Mountain is an American rock band, popular in the early 1970s. ... John Symon Asher Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a Scottish-born musician, composer and singer. ... Blue Suede Shoes is a rock and roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. ... Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943–October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. ... Piece of My Heart is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. ... Summertime is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. ... Piece of My Heart is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. ... This article is about the band. ... Dark Star is a song by the Grateful Dead. ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. ... Robert Hall Weir (October 16, 1947–) is an American guitar player, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. ... Sign warning of possible electric shock hazard An electric shock can occur upon contact of a humans body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient current flow through the muscles or hair. ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. ...

• Creedence Clearwater Revival
  1. Born on the Bayou
  2. Green River
  3. Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)
  4. Commotion
  5. Bootleg
  6. Bad Moon Rising
  7. Proud Mary
  8. I Put A Spell On You
  9. Night Time is the Right Time
  10. Keep On Chooglin'
  11. Suzy Q
• Sly & the Family Stone
  1. M’Lady
  2. Sing A Simple Song
  3. You Can Make It If You Try
  4. Everyday People
  5. Dance To The Music
  6. I Want To Take You Higher
  7. Love City
  8. Stand!
• The Who began at 4 AM, kicking off a 25-song set including Tommy
  1. Heaven and Hell
  2. I Can't Explain
  3. It's a Boy
  4. 1921
  5. Amazing Journey
  6. Sparks
  7. Eyesight to the Blind
  8. Christmas
  9. Tommy Can You Hear Me?
  10. Acid Queen
  11. Pinball Wizard
  12. Abbie Hoffman incident (see section below)
  13. Do You Think It's Alright?
  14. Fiddle About
  15. There's a Doctor
  16. Go to the Mirror
  17. Smash the Mirror
  18. I'm Free
  19. Tommy's Holiday Camp
  20. We're Not Gonna Take It
  21. See Me, Feel Me
  22. Summertime Blues
  23. Shakin' All Over
  24. My Generation
  25. Naked Eye
• Jefferson Airplane began at 6 a.m. with an eight-song set, capping off the overnight marathon. (Grace Slick greeted the audience with, "Alright friends you have seen the heavy groups; now you will see morning maniac music, believe me, yeah. It's a new dawn... [...] Good morning people!")
  1. Volunteers
  2. Somebody To Love
  3. The Other Side of This Life
  4. Plastic Fantastic Lover
  5. Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon
  6. Eskimo Blue Day
  7. Uncle Sam's Blues
  8. White Rabbit

The Original Woodstock Poster with the Wallkill, New York location

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Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18

Joe Cocker was the first act on the last officially booked day (Sunday); he opened up the day's events at 2 PM. His set was preceded by at least two unidentified instrumentals by The Grease Band. is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Joe Cocker OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an English rock/blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice and his cover versions of popular songs. ... The Grease Band are a rock band which evolved out of Joe Cockers backing band. ...

• Joe Cocker
  1. Dear Landlord
  2. Something Comin' On
  3. Do I Still Figure In Your Life
  4. Feelin' Alright
  5. Just Like A Woman
  6. Let's Go Get Stoned
  7. I Don't Need A Doctor
  8. I Shall Be Released
  9. With a Little Help from My Friends
• After Joe Cocker's set, a storm disrupted the events for several hours.
• Country Joe and the Fish resumed the concert around 6 p.m.
  1. Rock and Soul Music
  2. Thing Called Love
  3. Love Machine
  4. The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
• Ten Years After
  1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
  3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
  4. Hear Me Calling
  5. I'm Going Home
• The Band - Set list confirmed via Levon Helm's book "This Wheel's On Fire"
  1. Chest Fever
  2. Tears of Rage
  3. We Can Talk
  4. Don't You Tell Henry
  5. Don't Do It
  6. Ain't No More Cane
  7. Long Black Veil
  8. This Wheel's On Fire
  9. I Shall Be Released
  10. The Weight
  11. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
• Blood, Sweat & Tears ushered in the midnight hour with five songs.
  1. More and More
  2. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
  3. Spinning Wheel
  4. I Stand Accused
  5. Something Comin' On
• Johnny Winter featuring Edgar Winter, his brother, on two songs.
  1. Mama, Talk to Your Daughter
  2. To Tell the Truth
  3. Johnny B. Goode
  4. Six Feet In the Ground
  5. Leland Mississippi Blues/Rock Me Baby
  6. Mean Mistreater
  7. I Can't Stand It (With Edgar Winter)
  8. Tobacco Road (With Edgar Winter)
  9. Mean Town Blues
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young began around 3 a.m. with separate acoustic and electric sets.
  • Acoustic Set
  1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
  2. Blackbird
  3. Helplessly Hoping
  4. Guinnevere
  5. Marrakesh Express
  6. 4 + 20
  7. Mr. Soul
  8. Wonderin'
  9. You Don't Have To Cry
  • Electric Set
  1. Pre-Road Downs
  2. Long Time Gone
  3. Bluebird
  4. Sea of Madness
  5. Wooden Ships
  6. Find the Cost of Freedom
  7. 49 Bye-Byes
  • Neil Young skipped most of the acoustic set (the exceptions being his compositions "Mr. Soul" and "Wonderin'") and joined Crosby, Stills & Nash, but refused to be filmed during the electric set; by his own report, Young felt the filming was distracting both performers and audience from the music. Young's "Sea of Madness," heard on the album, was actually recorded a month after the festival at the Fillmore East.
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  1. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
  2. Driftin'
  3. Born Under A Bad Sign
  4. Morning Sunrise
  5. Love March
• Sha-Na-Na
  1. Na Na Theme
  2. Yakety Yak
  3. Teen Angel
  4. Jailhouse Rock
  5. Wipe Out
  6. Book of Love
  7. Duke of Earl
  8. At the Hop
  9. Na Na Theme
• Jimi Hendrix after being introduced as the 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' corrected this new group's name to 'Gypsy Sun and Rainbows'. The full list of Hendrix's Woodstock performance:
  1. Message to Love
  2. Hear My Train A Comin'
  3. Spanish Castle Magic
  4. Red House (Hendrix's high E-string broke while playing, but played the rest of the song with five strings.)
  5. Mastermind (written & sung by Larry Lee)
  6. Lover Man
  7. Foxy Lady
  8. Jam Back At The House
  9. Izabella
  10. Fire
  11. Gypsy Woman/Aware Of Love (These two songs written by Curtis Mayfield were sung by Larry Lee as a medley)
  12. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Stepping Stone
  13. The Star-Spangled Banner
  14. Purple Haze
  15. Woodstock Improvisation/Villanova Junction
  16. Hey Joe

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Cancelled appearances

• The Jeff Beck Group was scheduled to perform at Woodstock, but failed to make an appearance because the band broke up the week before.
• Iron Butterfly was stuck at an airport, and their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them.
• Joni Mitchell was slated to perform, but her agent informed her that it was more important that she appear on "The Dick Cavett Show" on Monday, with its national audience, rather than "sit around in a field with 500 people" Ironically, David Crosby & Stephen Stills as well as Jefferson Airplane (who all performed at the festival) also made it to the Cavett show. It was believed to have something to do with her breakdown at the Atlantic City Pop Festival two weeks before where she exited the stage in the middle of her third song crying because of the fans not listening to her sing. Though Mitchell was not present, she wrote and recorded the song "Woodstock" that was also a major hit for Matthews Southern Comfort and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
• Canadian band Lighthouse was originally scheduled to play at Woodstock, but in the end they decided not to, fearing that it would be a bad scene. Later, several members of the group would say that they regretted the decision.

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Refused invitations

• The promoters contacted John Lennon, requesting The Beatles to perform. Lennon said that the Beatles would not play unless Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band could also play. The promoters turned him down.
• Procol Harum were invited to perform but reportedly declined due to the festival happening at the end of a long tour, and because of the impending birth of Robin Trower's child; The band elected to pass on the festival to be back in England for the birth. The child arrived two weeks late.
• The Doors were considered as a potential performing band, but cancelled at the last moment. Contrary to popular belief, this occurrence was not related in some fashion to lead singer Jim Morrison's arrest for indecent exposure while performing earlier that year; the cancellation was most likely due to Morrison's known and vocal distaste for performing in large outdoor venues. ^[8] There also was a widely spread legend that Morrison, in a fit of paranoia, was fearful that someone would take a shot at him while he was onstage. Drummer John Densmore attended; in the film, he can be seen on the side of the stage during Joe Cocker's set.
• Led Zeppelin was asked to perform, their manager Peter Grant stating: "We were asked to do Woodstock and Atlantic were very keen, and so was our US promoter, Frank Barsalona. I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill". Instead the group went on with their hugely successful summer tour, their only time out being taken to attend Elvis Presley's show, at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, on August 12. ^[9]
• Jethro Tull refused to perform; there are varying accounts of the reasons for this decision. One claim is that they thought it wouldn't be a big deal^{[citation needed]}; Ian Anderson is reported to have said he "didn't want to spend [his] weekend in a field of unwashed hippies".^[10] Another theory proposes that the band felt the event would be "too big a deal" and might kill their career before it started.^[10]
• The Moody Blues declined to perform, because they were booked for another event in Paris at the same time and decided to play there instead of Woodstock, a decision they later regretted. They were promoted as being a performer on the third day on early posters that listed the site as Wallkill.
• Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation. Lead singer Tommy James stated later: "We could have just kicked ourselves. 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."^[11]
• The Clarence White-era Byrds were given an opportunity to play, but refused to do so but they did perform at the Atlantic City Pop Festival held August 1,2 & 3, 1969, two weeks before Woodstock.
• Paul Revere & The Raiders declined to perform.
• Bob Dylan was in negotiations to play, but pulled out when his son became ill. He also was unhappy about the number of hippies piling up outside his house near the originally planned site. ^[12] He would go on to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival two weeks later. At his June 30, 2007 concert at Bethel Woods, the original site of the Woodstock festival, Dylan joked (just before he performed 'All Along the Watchtower)': "Great to be back here-- I remember being here, playing at six in the morning, and it was pouring rain, too... a big field of mud!" ^[13]
• Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention Quote: "A lot of mud at Woodstock. We were invited to play there, we turned it down." - FZ. Citation: "Class of the 20th Century", U.S. network television special in serial format, circa 1995.
• Free were asked to perform and declined.
• Spirit were asked to perform but declined and went on a promotional tour.
• Mind Garage declined because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal and had a higher paying gig elsewhere. ^[14]

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Trivia

• The festival was conceived by four young partners – Michael Lang, owner of a small store in New York City; Artie Kornfeld, an executive at Capitol Records; and two venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman.^[15]
• It was moved from Wallkill, NY to Bethel, NY just 31 days before it began.
• Its population temporarily swelled by festival attendees, Bethel was one of the largest cities in New York State.
• Despite a crowd of 500,000, only 200 people were arrested on site for various drug offenses.
• The most documented injury was lacerations and/or puncture wounds to the feet.
• There were two documented deaths: one person died of a drug overdose, a second was run over by a tractor while sleeping in a field. Some sources claim there was a third death due to a ruptured appendix, but that has yet to be proven.
• The Grateful Dead played in the rain. Several members of the band received shocks during their performance and Phil Lesh (bass player) heard a helicopter radio transmission through his bass while playing.
• Neil Young played with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, but did not appear in any of the film footage released of the group playing at Woodstock.
• Richie Havens had to play so long that he ran out of material and improvised what became one of his biggest songs: “Freedom.”
• The Doors first agreed to consider playing because they thought the festival would be held in Central Park, but decided against it when they learned the event was in upstate NY.
• Although scheduled to play on Sunday, by the time Jimi Hendrix played on Monday morning, only 35,000 people remained.

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Media coverage and The New York Times

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As the only reporter at Woodstock for the first 36 hours or so, Barnard Collier of the New York Times was almost continually pressed by his editors in New York to make the story about the immense traffic jams, the less-than-sanitary conditions, the rampant drug use, the lack of "proper policing", and the presumed dangerousness of so many young people congregating. Collier recalls: "Every major Times editor up to and including executive editor James Reston insisted that the tenor of the story must be a social catastrophe in the making. It was difficult to persuade them that the relative lack of serious mischief and the fascinating cooperation, caring and politeness among so many people was the significant point. I had to resort to refusing to write the story unless it reflected to a great extent my on-the-scene conviction that 'peace' and 'love' was the actual emphasis, not the preconceived opinions of Manhattan-bound editors. After many acrimonious telephone exchanges, the editors agreed to publish the story as I saw it, and although the nuts-and-bolts matters of gridlock and minor lawbreaking were put close to the lead of the stories, the real flavor of the gathering was permitted to get across. After the first day's Times story appeared on page 1, the event was widely recognized for the amazing and beautiful accident it was." The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

After the festival was finished Collier wrote another article about the exodus of fans away from the festival for the New York Times. He speaks of such a peaceful event considering the size of the crowd and listens to Dr. William Abruzzi’s (chief medical officer during the event) opinions that these were beautiful people. The weekend had become an incredible unification of youth. This opinion had seemingly rubbed off on several locals. Bus driver Richard Biccum described them as "good kids in disguise."^[6]

The Abbie Hoffman incident

Prior to the festival, poet/activist John Sinclair, the leader of the White Panther Party and manager of the Detroit-based group MC5, had been convicted and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in Michigan for marijuana possession, after giving two joints to an undercover police officer^[2]. The sentencing caused considerable controversy, given the trivial amount of marijuana at issue, and it led to various luminaries of the day taking up Sinclair's cause. Among these were John Lennon, who wrote and performed the song "John Sinclair", and who, along with his wife Yoko Ono, later headlined the Free John Now Rally rally at the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor. John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941 in Flint, Michigan) is a Detroit poet, one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party from November 1968 to July 1969. ... The White Panthers were an American political collective founded in 1968 by Lawrence (Pun) Plamondon and Leni and John Sinclair. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... MC5 (short for Motor City Five) was a hard rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1964 and active until 1972. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Yoko Ono chronology Some Time in New York City is John Lennons third post-Beatles album, and fifth with Yoko Ono, and was released in 1972. ... For the song by Die Ärzte, see Yoko Ono (song). ... Crisler Arena, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the home arena of the mens and womens basketball teams of the University of Michigan. ... Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

For his part, Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman decided on a somewhat more spontaneous course of action. At a brief lull during The Who's performance of Tommy, Hoffman, who had ingested LSD after working the past few hours at the medical tent,^[2] abruptly walked onto the stage and began addressing the crowd from Pete Townshend's microphone. He shouted, "I think this is a pile of shit! ... While John Sinclair rots in prison ..."^[16] Alerted to the disturbance, Townshend (who apparently had been too distracted to notice Hoffman ambling onto the platform), snarled at Hoffman, "Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending the interloper tumbling. As the crowd let out an approving roar, Townshend returned to his microphone to add a sarcastic "I can dig it!" Following the conclusion of the next song, the short "Do You Think It's Alright?", Townshend issued a stern warning to those in attendance: "The next fucking person that walks across this stage is gonna get fucking killed, alright? You can laugh, [but] I mean it!" The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on Hippies) was a highly theatrical political party established in the United States in 1967. ... Abbott Howard Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party (Yippies). Later he became a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine. ... The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. ... Alternate cover Deluxe edition cover Tommy is the first of The Whos two full-scale rock operas (the second being Quadrophenia), and the first musical work explicitly billed as a rock opera. ... Pete Townshend (born Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend on 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer. ... Do You Think Its Alright? is a song written by Pete Townshend of The Who. ...

Townshend later said he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, though he insisted he would have knocked Hoffman off stage regardless of his message. The incident can be heard in its entirety on unedited Woodstock tapes and bootleg CDs of The Who's performance. Additionally, an edited fifteen-second sound bite of the incident can be heard on The Who compilation set Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2). The Woodstock documentary also depicts this event. The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. ... Thirty Years of Maximum R&B is a box set by British rock band, The Who. ...

In his autobiography, Hoffman, apparently unaware that the confrontation had been captured on audio, attempted to deny that Townshend had been riled into hitting him: "If you ever heard about me in connection with the festival it was not for playing Florence Nightingale to the flower children. What you heard was the following: 'Oh, him, yeah, didn't he grab the microphone, try to make a speech when Peter Townshend cracked him over the head with his guitar?' I've seen countless references to the incident, even a mammoth mural of the scene. What I've failed to find was a single photo of the incident. Why? Because it didn't really happen."

The film

Main article: Woodstock (film)

The documentary film, Woodstock, was directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese, was released in 1970. Warner Brothers agreed to pay $100,000 for the film. So Wadleigh proceeded to round up a crew of about 100 from the New York scene. With no money to pay the crew he agreed a double or nothing scheme in which double pay was received if it went well whereas they received nothing if it bombed. The plot was simple, like a modern day Canterbury Tale, he strived to make the film as much about the hippies as the music, listening to their feelings about the times, the Vietnam War for example, as well as the views of the townspeople. To him this is what would make the film, not just the music.^[4] Woodstock (subtitled 3 Days of Peace & Music) is a 1970 documentary on the Woodstock Festival in 1969. ... Michael Wadleigh (born September 24, 1941) is an American movie director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. ... Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American Academy Award-winning film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over thirty-five years. ... Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (b. ...

It received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film has been deemed culturally significant by the United States Library of Congress. In 1994, Woodstock: The Director's Cut was released, expanded to include Janis Joplin as well as additional performances by Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and Canned Heat not seen in the original version of the film. The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943–October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. ... Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement. ... Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... For other uses, see Canned Heat (disambiguation). ...

Woodstock today

A plaque has been placed at the original site commemorating the festival. The field and the stage area remain preserved in their rural setting. On the field are the remnants of a neon flower and bass from the original concert. In the middle of the field, there is a totem pole with wood carvings of Jimi Hendrix on the bottom, Janis Joplin in the middle, and Jerry Garcia on top. A concert hall has been erected up the hill, and the fields of the old Yasgur farm are still visited by people of all generations. A Gitxsan pole (left) and Kwakwakawakw pole (right) at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia. ... Max Yasgurs Farm (1999) Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919—February 9, 1973) was the owner of a dairy farm in Bethel, New York upon which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on August 15-18, 1969. ...

In 1997, the site of the concert and 1,400 surrounding acres was purchased by Alan Gerry for the purpose of creating the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The Center opened on July 1, 2006 with a performance of the New York Philharmonic. On August 13, 2006, Crosby Stills Nash & Young performed to 16,000 fans at the new Center — exactly 37 years after their historic performance at Woodstock. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts center located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crosby, Stills, & Nash (sometimes known as Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) is a pioneering folk rock/rock supergroup that formed out of the remnants of three 1960s bands the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the Hollies. ...

In August 2007, the 103-acre parcel that contains Max Yasgur's former homestead was placed on the market for $8 million by its current owners, Roy Howard and Jeryl Abramson.^{[citation needed]} The home, barn, fieldhouse, and acreage, which are listed by Joshpe Real Estate of New York City, have been the site of frequent Woodstock reunions.[2]

The Museum at Bethel Woods is scheduled to open in June 2008. The Museum will contain film and interactive displays, text panels, and artifacts which explore the unique experience of the Woodstock festival, its significance as the culminating event of a decade of radical cultural transformation, and the legacy of the Sixties and Woodstock today.

Gallery

The Woodstock stage area facing sloping field at Bethel Woods

Woodstock Plaque

A man points to where the original stage stood in 1969

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See also

• Atlantic City Pop Festival (August 1, 2, 3, 1969)
• Radio Woodstock
• Woodstock '79 (1979)
• Woodstock '89 (1989)
• Woodstock '94 (1994)
• Woodstock '99 (1999)
• Przystanek Woodstock
• Rock Concert at Poconos raceway, July 8, 1972
• Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before the better known Woodstock Festival. ... Woodstock 79 was a rock concert that took place in 1979, in honor of the 10th Anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival. ... Woodstock 89 was a rock concert that took place in August 1989 on the site of the original Woodstock concert of 1969 as a spontaneous celebration of the events 20th anniversary. ... Woodstock 94 poster design Woodstock 94 is a rock concert that was held in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock concert of 1969. ... Woodstock 1999, held July 23-25, 1999 was the second music festival, after Woodstock 94, that attempted to emulate the success of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. ... Przystanek Woodstock, Żary 2003 Przystanek Woodstock, Kostrzyn nad Odrą 2005 Przystanek Woodstock (Polish for Woodstock Gathering; English-language materials often refer simply to the Woodstock Festival) is an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by and named for the Woodstock Festival, that has taken place since 1995. ... Officially called Concert Ten, the rock concert at Pocono International Raceway in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on July 8 and 9 of 1972, attracted 300,000 people. ... Poster for the event The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, also sometimes referred to as the Watkins Glen Festival, was a 1973 rock festival which received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for Largest audience at a pop festival. Up to 600,000 people came to the Watkins Glen...

External links

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Woodstock

• Bethel Woods Center for the Arts & The Museum at Bethel Woods
• Official Site for Woodstock 2009 (under construction)
• 1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert
• "Woodstock: A New Nation", Book excerpt from "Aquarius Rising" by Robert Santelli
• Woodstock at the Open Directory Project
• Woodstock Museum
• Woodstock En Beauce
• The Woodstock Project

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