Woodstock The History and Legacy of America’s Most Famous Music Festival eBook Charles River Editors
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*Includes pictures.
*Explains how the festival was put together and highlights the performances.
*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a table of contents.
"We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn...there were a half million people asleep. 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. And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live a quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his Bic, and in the night I hear, 'Don't worry about it John. We're with you.' I played the rest of the show for that guy." – John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Woodstock, more accurately entitled the Woodstock Music Festival; An Aquarian Exposition Three Days of Peace and Music, represents one of the most enduring symbols of the Youth Movement of America’s late 1960s and early ‘70s. As the public pinnacle of that social phenomenon, the giant festival that overwhelmed a section of an upstate New York farm for a week during a time of national and international upheaval evolved from a typical speculative financial venture to a defining historical monument thanks to the legendary performances by many of the era’s greatest musicians.
The now iconic festival all began with an advertisement in The New York Times taken out by four financial investors. Michael Lang was the manager of a rock band, and Artie Kornfeld served as an executive for Capitol Records, a major label of the time for both classical and non-classical music. Joined by capitalists John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, the ad read simply, “Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions.” The original idea called for the construction, maintenance and management of a recording studio in the Bethel, Wallkill and Woodstock areas, close to where Bob Dylan and a group called The Band lived. The picturesque setting was first envisioned as a retreat for rock artists, and no thought at all was given to such a prodigious event as the festival that followed. If a live performance was to be held, it would have been staged as a one-day promotion for the studio.
All of this gave way to the larger concept, in part inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967, the largest of its kind to that point. The working title of the new rock festival took a similarly different approach from what inevitably resulted, originally dubbed the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. A long search ensued, based on cost and crowd estimates that, in the end, turned out to be more than overly-conservative. Of course, nobody involved would have originally guessed that the event would include participants like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane and dozens of other acts over several days.
By music festival standards, the audience at Woodstock was biblical in size, but the largest audience in festival history consists of those who claimed they were there. The closing decades of the 20th century abounded with countless claims by Baby Boomers who said that they had been among the mass that descended upon the New York farming community. In truth, Woodstock was a three-day, muddy logistical nightmare, as ill-prepared hippies arrived at an equally ill-prepared site with limited food supplies and even more limited access to restrooms. Ironically, as the music festival ballooned beyond anyone’s expectations, it defeated the original purpose of the organizers. As John Roberts explained before Woodstock had even ended, “If we had any inkling that there was going to be this kind of attendance, we certainly would not have gone ahead...Financially speaking, of course, the festival is a disaster.”
Woodstock The History and Legacy of America’s Most Famous Music Festival eBook Charles River Editors
Excellent accounting of the planning of the Festival, what artists participated, and how it played out (no pun intended). The event was followed day-by-day, act-by-act. Many interesting anecdotes about those in the audience, how certain musicians got included or excluded, how they performed, what they performed, and whether their participation helped or hurt their career. The last chapter was a wrap-up of "where are they now?" Many have died, many continue their careers. Mostly, I read this to learn about the cultural impact of Woodstock, and the book offered that and so much more. It's not a long book, but it was packed full of interesting information, delivering exactly what I was looking for.Product details
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Woodstock The History and Legacy of America’s Most Famous Music Festival eBook Charles River Editors Reviews
It was a very interesting read. The book gave a decent account of the activities at Woodstock. I would recommend this book.
Poorly edited with lots of typos. Just the very briefest of an overview. Better books on the topic out there.
I very well remember when Woodstock took place. This is the best evidence that I was not there.
This 49 page discussion is a very thorough summary that I enjoyed reading especially just after attending a concert in Fargo put on by Arlo Guthrie, the great folk singer who was also at Woodstock August of 1969. His only memory of the event was flying in by helicopter and getting high - proof positive that he was there.
What I most appreciated about Wodstock The Historyband Legacybof America's Most Famous Music Festival were two points
1 - Who did vs who did not attend, and
2 - How did Woodstock affect their careers, and where are they now.
It is remarkable, although it probably should come as no surprise, how many of the performers passed away within so short a time period after Woodstock.
I highly recommend reading Woodstock by Charles Rivers Editors. My only regret is that it doesn't include some of the songs playing in the background for readers to hear as they read.
Music lovers know the events of Woodstock. This book tells (perhaps for the first time) of musicans who did not perform or those who did the hours they were onstage plus each playlist by the musican or band. Why were some not recorded? A required resource for real musicologists.
Thought the book would have more pages and more about the performers for the price of the item. I would not recommend it there are better books for the same price out there . May Woodstock Nation live forever.
I have heard about Woodstock but did not know a lot about what happened there. The book gave so much information that anyone that was not born during that time can also have the knowledge. I like the fact that it was neutrally written, so that one can make your own conclusion. I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys relevant history.
It is delightful to read about America's most Famous Music festival which took place during a time of
social foment. The Vietnam war was expanding , the Hippy movement was on ,and of course drug experimentation was on .
It is interesting to find out behind the scenes anecdotes of this iconic event;where some of the best of Music legends either debuted or performed.
Excellent accounting of the planning of the Festival, what artists participated, and how it played out (no pun intended). The event was followed day-by-day, act-by-act. Many interesting anecdotes about those in the audience, how certain musicians got included or excluded, how they performed, what they performed, and whether their participation helped or hurt their career. The last chapter was a wrap-up of "where are they now?" Many have died, many continue their careers. Mostly, I read this to learn about the cultural impact of Woodstock, and the book offered that and so much more. It's not a long book, but it was packed full of interesting information, delivering exactly what I was looking for.
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