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Woodstock, the most hippie event to have ever happened, ran from August 15 to 18, 1969. It included appearances by such musical legends as Jimi Hendrix and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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What the depictions of the “three days of peace and music” leave out are the huge logistical problems involved. Instead of the expected 50,000, about a half a million attendees turned up. Roads were clogged for miles (made worse by rains and mud), food, water and sanitation shortages were rampant, and the Air Force had to help with helicopter airlifts. Read more Woodstock ran from August 15th to 18th, 1969. Jimi Hendrix and other musical notables made appearance.Image source: The organizers expected 50,000.
They peaked at over 400,000.Image source:Image source: LIFEImage source: Getty The roads were soon clogged with traffic jams as people flooded the festival.Image source: Getty Images Food, water and sanitation was scarce.Image source: GettyImage source: Despite it all, only two deaths were recorded: one from heroin overdose, and one from tractor riding over a sleeping attendee.Image source: Getty Images There were also two births: in a car caught in the traffic jam, and one after an airlift to a hospital.Image source: Henry DiltzImage source:Image source. While many greats like Janis Joplin appeared, other declined for various reasons. Jethro Tull, for example, had a dislike of hippies and concerns over public nudity.Image source: Henry Diltz / CorbisImage source:Image source: Tucker Ransom/StringerImage source: AP Due to unusable roads, medicine had to be flown in via helicopter.Image source: AP To combat food and water price hikes, both the organizers and local sheriff organized free food and water relief efforts.Image source: APImage source: APImage source: AP Going out was no easier than getting in: many had to walk or hitchhike.Image source: APImage source: Three Lions / Stringer.
Woodstock: The Director's CutSure, you've seen the Oscar-winning 1970 documentary capturing the festival, with innovative split-screen effects by editors Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese in their first hit collaboration. What you haven't likely seen is this behemoth of a three-hour, 44-minute epic, which adds songs and artists unseen in the original, 30 performances including Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Band, the Grateful Dead and Neil Young. It's playing in theaters nationally for the first time since the first release, for one night, Aug. 15, but it's available for home viewing, too.
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a GenerationThere are plenty of inspiring, immortal Woodstock performance scenes in this smart, nostalgic PBS documentary (Aug. ET, check local listings), but it pulls back to give you the big picture and the history of the event, mixing you-are-there footage with thoughtful reminiscences by insiders and the kindly townsfolk who weren't into hippies but discovered they liked those 400,000 hungry kids who called them “Sir” and “Ma'am” and donated everything in their pantry to keep them fed. It should've been a disaster — a 50,000-volt cable was unearthed and thousands risked electrocution — but it was a wonder. Everybody helped everybody, as if peace and love weren't just a pipe dream. My GenerationIn a top-notch, Sundance Festival-hailed documentary few saw thanks to music rights issues, double Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple chronicles not one but three Woodstock music festivals: 1969, 1994 and the riotous one in 1999, with great insights from original fest celebs like Graham Nash, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, and Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane. Hugh Romney, known as Wavy Gravy, explains how his security force, basically the opposite of the Hell's Angels at Altamont Festival, became what he called a “Please Force” urging people to do the right thing — and 400,000 did. The 1969 producers went bankrupt but made a profit at last in the 1980s.
It's a fascinating comparison of youth culture through the ages. Creedence Clearwater Revival Live at WoodstockCreedence, which was just cresting as a titanic act in 1969, was not included in the 1970 documentary and album partly because John Fogerty was annoyed that their set was delayed until long after midnight, and he felt like they were Janis Joplin's warmup act. 'I thought the band played really well at Woodstock,” Fogerty tells AARP. “Unfortunately, most of the audience was asleep at that late an hour.
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It's a happening that has taken on mythical recollections. It was a wonderful performance by a classic rock band and I'm proud of it.'
You can now listen to the hour-long performance of 11 tunes by a band at its peak from “Born on the Bayou” to “Suzie Q.” In fact, you can of their show for free right now, and own it on CD, 2 LPs or digitally.