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History of the Woodstock Festival - part 5

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 5

Authored By Johnny Blogger
As volunteers started cleaning up the media swung into gear, quickly painting it as a 'nightmare' in the New York Times. They called the fans 'lemmings' and asked what sort of culture could create such a colossal mess? But the trouble with taking that angle was this: it didn't sell. People felt good about Woodstock, [...]
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History of the Woodstock Festival - part 4

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 4

Authored By Johnny Blogger
As the rain came down and turned the whole site into a quagmire, the dirt that had covered the main electricity cables was washed away, leaving them exposed. Gradually the insulation on those cables got worn away by the ceaseless trudging of the masses. So now there were thousands of wet people set to be [...]
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History of the Woodstock Festival - part 3

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 3

Authored By Johnny Blogger
The Woodstock festival was due to start on the Friday, but by Thursday of that week, traffic was in gridlock. On the quiet, Lang et al had begun to expect 200,000 to attend because they knew that big fests in 69 were pulling those kinda numbers. Besides, all roads were jammed from midweek onwards. But [...]
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History of the Woodstock Festival - part 2

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 2

Authored By Johnny Blogger
This new quartet of businessmen - Lang, Kornfeld, Roseman and Roberts - were worried. They were worried that they might not get enough people to their festival. Crazy, huh? They genuinely hoped to get a mere 50,000 there and wereconcerned that might not be be possible because there had been very few big festivals in [...]
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History of the Woodstock Festival - part 1

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 1

Authored By Johnny Blogger
If you've seen the Woodstock movie, you'll have seen Michael Lang, one of the guys who helped put Woodstock on. A forever hipster riding a horse or a motorbike, with wild hair and one of those beatific smiles that suggest he's permanently stoned. In 1970 he seemed like a new type of business dude who [...]
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