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It looks like we're going to get
a little bit of rain,

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so you better cover up.

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Everybody who's in the back,
please move back!

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Please move back.

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We have to get away
from these towers.

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Put the mic stands down
on the floor.

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Cover all the equipment.

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We were all in our mid-20s.

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We had created something
that was much bigger

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than we had anticipated.

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I see it.

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All of you up on the towers,

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please come down.

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You are making it
very, very dangerous.

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All right, everybody,
just sit down, wrap yourself up.

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We're going to have
to ride it out.

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Everything that could
possibly go wrong was happening.

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I mean,
it was all hell breaking loose.

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Hold on to your neighbor, man.

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And let's think hard
to get rid of it, please.

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No rain!

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No rain!

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No rain!

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When you think about it,

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it could have been
an absolute disaster.

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And I just kept thinking,

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"Which direction is this thing
going to go?"

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Try to keep yourself comfortable.

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It's gonna blow through.

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♪ Call out the instigator

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♪ Because there's something
in the air ♪

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♪ We got to get together
sooner or later ♪

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♪ Because the revolution's
here ♪

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♪ And you know it's right

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We did not plan ahead,

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we did not plan
where we were going to stay,

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we didn't think about food.

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It was just, like,
"Hey, this sounds like fun.

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Let's get in the car and go."

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♪ We have got
to get it together ♪

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♪ We have got
to get it together... ♪

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We would pack

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as many hitchhikers as we could
in the car,

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sitting on top of each other.

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And as we got closer,

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there would be people
walking on foot like pilgrims.

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It looked like a pilgrimage.

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We were looking for answers.

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We were looking for other people

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that felt the same way
as we did.

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♪...and houses

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♪ Because there's something
in the air ♪

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No matter where you looked,
you saw people.

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It was like a field
with people growing in it.

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I had never, never seen
that many people in my life

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in one place at one time.

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♪ And you know it's right

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My feeling was,
this is what we've been talking about,

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this is what
we've been aiming for,

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this kind of freedom.

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If 400,000 people could get together

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and have absolutely no violence,
absolutely no conflict,

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I felt like,
if we could bring all that love

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back into society,

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we could change the world.

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♪ We have got
to get it together ♪

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♪ We have got to
get it together now ♪

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I grew up in New York City,

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and I came
from a wealthy family.

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My mother died when I was young,

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so when I was 21,

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I inherited about a quarter
of a million dollars.

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That was quite a bit of money
in those days.

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I had a job down on Wall Street
doing research.

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When I met John,

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I had just gotten out
of law school

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and was playing with a band
down in the Village

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and at the clubs
on Second and Third Avenue,

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but I was starting to get
a little frayed at the edges.

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Neither one of us, I think,
was really on a career path

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that we knew was the right one.

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Joel and I met playing golf.

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We hit it off.

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And, uh, we thought
we'd go into business together,

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investing this money that I had.

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The denture cleanser you've hoped for

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is here at last.

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Start using new effervescent
Polident tablets today.

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John's grandfather
founded the Block Drug Company,

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the maker of Poligrip
and Polident.

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That fortune was the source
of the seed money

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for a recording studio
in Midtown Manhattan,

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Media Sound,
which for John and Joel,

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actually turned into
their first successful venture.

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It was because of Media Sound
that John and Joel

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met Michael Lang
and Artie Kornfeld.

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How much do those matches sell for?

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65 cents for the roll.

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Michael had had a head
shop in Miami, in Coconut Grove,

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the center of the hippie culture
down there.

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Right there,
is that a pipe?

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Yeah, it's a Turkish water pipe.

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With two hoses.

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In 1968,
he moved to Woodstock, New York,

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about 100 miles north
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and was introduced
to Artie Kornfeld,

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who was a vice president
at Capitol Records.

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They called us in early 1969,

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and said, "We're very interested
in building a recording studio

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"in Woodstock, New York.

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"We know that you and Joel
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"in New York City.

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Would you meet with us?"

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We said, "Sure!"

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When we met them,

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they were quite different
from us,

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meaning a lot of fringe,
a lot of buckskin,

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and a great deal of hair.

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John and I were making an effort

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to look like businessmen
at the time.

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So we,
we couldn't have represented

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more distant ends
of the spectrum.

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What Artie said was, basically,

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Woodstock was a center
for artists,

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and that a recording studio
there

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would have
a natural constituency,

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and it would be a success.

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As we were looking through the proposal

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that they'd given us,

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we noticed an idea
for an opening day party,

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where musicians who lived
in the area...

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Tim Hardin, John Sebastian,
Bob Dylan...

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would perform.

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I said, "The idea of having
a concert with those stars,

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"I mean, why don't we skip
the studio idea

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"and just do a big concert?

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We could make a fortune."

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So, in late January 1969,
the four of us shook hands,

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and started brainstorming
what Woodstock could be.

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To the hippie youth of today,

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this is part
of their real world.

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This is the atmosphere
at the Monterey Pop Festival.

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The music is frantic,
the sounds are wild,

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and the mind is free.

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♪ I rolled and I tumbled

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♪ I cried the whole night long

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Outdoor rock festivals were
a pretty new concept at the time.

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They had begun in 1967
with Monterey Pop.

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And by 1968, '69,

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there had been a few festivals
scattered around the country.

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Michael Lang was the only one
of the four

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that had any experience
in the concert business.

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In 1968, he had helped produce
a festival in Miami

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that was a huge disaster.

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It was held at a racetrack,
had very little atmosphere,

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it rained, there were a lot
of lawsuits afterwards;

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the festival never really
came off.

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But Michael knew that
this is what he wanted to do.

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And he had this idea
of taking the festival

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out of the racetrack,

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and putting it
in a bucolic place.

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I had been thinking about doing

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a series of concerts
in Woodstock.

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And I always thought
if you could dream it up,

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you could put it together.

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And this was a chance to make,
you know, a dream come true.

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Michael and Artie had
optioned a property in Woodstock,

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but it was far too small...
it was just ten acres.

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So that didn't work out.

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A property in Saugerties
didn't work out.

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And then John and I
found a piece of property

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that was in Wallkill
that was being turned

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into an industrial park.

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It didn't knock you out
visually,

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but it was available.

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Michael hated it.

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It was everything
he didn't want...

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just a flat, barren
piece of land

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that had no trees, no soul.

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You know how some pastoral scenes

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are beautiful and calming

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and make you feel comfortable,
at peace?

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This was completely
the opposite.

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But we needed to get going,
we needed a site,

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and I felt that we could
transform it into something

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more spiritual and special.

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The town signed off on the festival

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as a, kind of
a music and arts fair

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where kids would walk around
and look at art

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and hear some music
in the background.

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And "An Aquarian Exposition,"

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which is what they called
Woodstock,

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had some kind of
mystical feel to it.

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Michael suggested that,
like Monterey,

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we should have a crafts village
and an art exhibition

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alongside the music.

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We all loved it!

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It was such a natural add-on
to what we were thinking about.

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We wanted to make it
like visiting another world,

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like visiting the world
you were dreaming about

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if you were a young person.

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This shining place
that you could go to

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and feel
that you weren't a misfit,

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or that you weren't
on the wrong side of a debate,

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or that you weren't

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under the suspicious eye
of the authorities.

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For the generation that was coming of age

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in the late '60s,

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everything was up for grabs.

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Young people were rejecting
the status quo,

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whether it was your parents
or whether it was your community

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or... or the business
establishment.

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This counterculture,
as it was called,

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influenced music,
it influenced art,

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and it certainly influenced
the way people dressed.

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But clearly, politics was at the
center of the counterculture,

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because the one thing
that affected everybody

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was the war in Vietnam.

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Last week's casualty figures
in the Vietnam War,

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released today, showed
299 Americans killed, 355...

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I remember watching the news in,
you know, 1968

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and asking my father, "Why are
we fighting in Vietnam?"

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And his answer was always,
"Because they're communists."

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I didn't find that satisfactory.

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My father had been
in World War II in Europe,

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in the Signal Corps.

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He always made clear
that he thought the Army

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was a great experience,

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and everybody should do it.

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He just had a very positive view

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of serving one's country
that way.

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And he did support the war
in Vietnam.

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The men of World War
II just assumed that their sons

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would also be soldiers.

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That's how you became a man.

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You grew up,
you served your country.

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So my older brother Jim

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signed up
for the Naval Reserves.

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I remember the day
that he went to Vietnam,

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and being terrified.

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When I was 18,
I had to register for the draft.

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I was in college,
so I got a deferment.

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But there was always that thing
in the back of your mind.

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You knew that they were
just one step behind you.

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If you were in college,

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you'd better hope that you had
all your money straightened out

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and grades were good
and everything else,

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because if you dropped out,
you were going to Vietnam.

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When I was 20 years old,
I was faced with a draft physical.

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I'm putting down
that I'm a bedwetter,

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that I'm a homosexual,
that I'm a communist.

252
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I think there were 14 things
in all that I had written down.

253
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So they escorted me over
to the psychiatrist.

254
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He just said, "Kid,
I'm gonna give you one year

255
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to straighten yourself out,"

256
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and he gave me a deferment
for 12 months.

257
00:14:02,117 --> 00:14:06,190
There's no way to
describe how terrifying it was

258
00:14:06,224 --> 00:14:08,606
to be a 17-year-old,

259
00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,472
knowing that the Vietnam War
was your fate.

260
00:14:12,506 --> 00:14:15,061
I wasn't alone in any way

261
00:14:15,095 --> 00:14:18,858
in transitioning from being
personally afraid of the war

262
00:14:18,892 --> 00:14:22,344
to being politically opposed
to it.

263
00:14:22,378 --> 00:14:24,794
You kill people!

264
00:14:24,829 --> 00:14:28,074
You kill people!
You kill people!

265
00:14:31,940 --> 00:14:35,219
I participated in a
couple of marches on Washington,

266
00:14:35,253 --> 00:14:37,531
anti-war rallies.

267
00:14:37,566 --> 00:14:39,706
The war was insane.

268
00:14:39,740 --> 00:14:42,467
You know, an insane conflict
that, um...

269
00:14:42,502 --> 00:14:43,986
made everybody crazy,

270
00:14:44,021 --> 00:14:45,205
whether you were fighting
the war

271
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or fighting against it.

272
00:14:47,024 --> 00:14:49,785
Hell, no, we won't go!

273
00:14:51,787 --> 00:14:53,685
♪ Look what's happening
out in the streets ♪

274
00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,895
♪ Got a revolution ♪ Got to revolution

275
00:14:55,929 --> 00:14:58,035
♪ Hey, I'm dancing
down the street ♪

276
00:14:58,069 --> 00:15:00,589
♪ Got a revolution ♪ Got to revolution

277
00:15:00,623 --> 00:15:02,256
♪ Oh, ain't it amazing,
all the people that I meet? ♪

278
00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:03,247
♪ Got a revolution

279
00:15:05,007 --> 00:15:07,941
This is a CBS News Special Report...

280
00:15:07,976 --> 00:15:10,806
And then,
on top of everything else,

281
00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,878
Martin Luther King
was assassinated.

282
00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,776
The Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr.,

283
00:15:15,811 --> 00:15:18,055
was shot to death
by an assassin late today

284
00:15:18,089 --> 00:15:21,506
as he stood on a balcony
in Memphis, Tennessee.

285
00:15:23,819 --> 00:15:25,821
When Martin Luther King was killed,

286
00:15:25,855 --> 00:15:28,272
I knew a lot of people
who just felt,

287
00:15:28,306 --> 00:15:31,102
we have to do things
differently,

288
00:15:31,137 --> 00:15:33,311
because the way the
establishment have done things

289
00:15:33,346 --> 00:15:35,865
has led to this.

290
00:15:38,592 --> 00:15:40,974
By the time I got to be 16,

291
00:15:41,009 --> 00:15:44,460
I was really questioning
the way society is structured.

292
00:15:44,495 --> 00:15:47,636
I objected to racism.

293
00:15:47,670 --> 00:15:52,089
I objected to inequality,
consumerism, and poverty.

294
00:15:52,123 --> 00:15:55,264
I objected to the war
in Vietnam.

295
00:15:55,299 --> 00:15:59,061
One thing is clear in this year of 1968,

296
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and that is
that the American people

297
00:16:01,753 --> 00:16:04,584
want no more Vietnams.

298
00:16:06,862 --> 00:16:09,589
Of course,
we had hope for Bobby Kennedy.

299
00:16:09,623 --> 00:16:13,903
He seemed to be one of us
in a lot of ways.

300
00:16:13,938 --> 00:16:17,977
We really felt that
he was finally going to be able

301
00:16:18,011 --> 00:16:20,945
to change things.

302
00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:23,120
I mean,
he was out there espousing peace,

303
00:16:23,154 --> 00:16:25,156
and, you know, fighting
against poverty and racism,

304
00:16:25,191 --> 00:16:27,779
and all the things
that we believed in

305
00:16:27,814 --> 00:16:30,023
and wanted so deeply.

306
00:16:30,058 --> 00:16:33,199
He was our voice.

307
00:16:35,442 --> 00:16:41,276
In June of 1968,
I was leaving a bar in my hometown.

308
00:16:41,310 --> 00:16:43,036
I turned on the radio.

309
00:16:43,071 --> 00:16:45,590
The senator is lying with his eyes closed,

310
00:16:45,625 --> 00:16:47,282
absolutely unmoving,

311
00:16:47,316 --> 00:16:49,077
blood underneath his head.

312
00:16:49,111 --> 00:16:51,700
I heard the assassination
of Robert F. Kennedy

313
00:16:51,734 --> 00:16:55,428
as it unfolded in real time.

314
00:16:55,462 --> 00:16:59,742
And it just completely undid me.

315
00:16:59,777 --> 00:17:02,607
Senator Robert Francis Kennedy

316
00:17:02,642 --> 00:17:09,614
died at 1:44 a.m. today,

317
00:17:09,649 --> 00:17:13,204
June 6, 1968.

318
00:17:16,104 --> 00:17:18,140
The shock of it was...

319
00:17:18,175 --> 00:17:22,800
It was just devastating,
absolutely devastating.

320
00:17:22,834 --> 00:17:26,390
Martin Luther King
and then Bobby Kennedy.

321
00:17:26,424 --> 00:17:29,220
You know, all these peacemakers.

322
00:17:31,809 --> 00:17:33,407
It was, like,
oh, this is what we do.

323
00:17:33,431 --> 00:17:35,192
This is what we do.

324
00:17:35,226 --> 00:17:38,298
You know, as soon as somebody
tries to speak out,

325
00:17:38,333 --> 00:17:40,128
and they're too forceful,

326
00:17:40,162 --> 00:17:42,509
this big machine,
whatever the hell it is,

327
00:17:42,544 --> 00:17:45,754
is gonna shut them up.

328
00:17:45,788 --> 00:17:48,998
The only thing
that we took solace in

329
00:17:49,033 --> 00:17:50,276
was music,

330
00:17:50,310 --> 00:17:53,382
and there was a lot
of politically conscious music

331
00:17:53,417 --> 00:17:54,797
that we were listening to.

332
00:17:54,832 --> 00:17:57,800
You know,
like Buffalo Springfield.

333
00:17:57,835 --> 00:18:01,908
♪ There's something
happening here ♪

334
00:18:01,942 --> 00:18:06,637
♪ What it is
ain't exactly clear ♪

335
00:18:06,671 --> 00:18:11,676
♪ There's a man with a gun
over there ♪

336
00:18:11,711 --> 00:18:15,784
♪ Telling me I got to beware

337
00:18:15,818 --> 00:18:17,682
♪ I think it's time we stop

338
00:18:17,717 --> 00:18:19,477
♪ Children, what's that sound

339
00:18:19,512 --> 00:18:22,273
♪ Everybody look
what's going down ♪

340
00:18:24,413 --> 00:18:26,874
When I was so disillusioned
with everybody's else's thinking,

341
00:18:26,898 --> 00:18:29,004
I could escape into my music.

342
00:18:29,038 --> 00:18:31,972
It was such a comfort to me.

343
00:18:32,007 --> 00:18:34,906
You know, I hadn't met
a lot of people at that time

344
00:18:34,941 --> 00:18:37,185
that felt like I did.

345
00:18:37,219 --> 00:18:41,948
But when I listened to music,
those people were there.

346
00:18:41,982 --> 00:18:45,400
♪ Young people
speaking their minds ♪

347
00:18:45,434 --> 00:18:48,817
♪ Getting so much resistance
from behind ♪

348
00:18:48,851 --> 00:18:50,819
We couldn't wait for Saturdays,

349
00:18:50,853 --> 00:18:52,176
when we could go buy
the latest record

350
00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,167
and then come home
and literally lay on the floor

351
00:18:54,202 --> 00:18:56,514
and play it over and over
and over.

352
00:18:56,549 --> 00:18:58,413
My father hated the music.

353
00:18:58,447 --> 00:19:01,864
He was always clapping
his hands over his ears and just...

354
00:19:01,899 --> 00:19:04,212
Would say, "Damn hippies!"

355
00:19:04,246 --> 00:19:08,285
♪ Come gather 'round, people,
wherever you roam ♪

356
00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:10,977
♪ And admit that the waters
around you have grown ♪

357
00:19:11,011 --> 00:19:12,841
♪ And accept it that soon...

358
00:19:12,875 --> 00:19:15,188
Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

359
00:19:15,223 --> 00:19:18,329
basically said
to our parents' generation,

360
00:19:18,364 --> 00:19:21,229
"Get out of the new way
if you can't lend a hand."

361
00:19:21,263 --> 00:19:24,266
♪ You better start swimming
or you'll sink like a stone

362
00:19:24,301 --> 00:19:28,615
♪ For the times
they are a-changin' ♪

363
00:19:28,650 --> 00:19:30,755
Music had our ideas.

364
00:19:30,790 --> 00:19:34,828
For my generation,
that was the thing.

365
00:19:34,863 --> 00:19:37,003
Especially our political views.

366
00:19:37,037 --> 00:19:39,902
♪ It ain't me, it ain't me

367
00:19:39,937 --> 00:19:43,527
♪ I ain't no military son

368
00:19:43,561 --> 00:19:46,564
♪ It ain't me, it ain't me

369
00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:48,601
♪ I ain't no fortunate one

370
00:19:50,292 --> 00:19:53,157
Music was terribly important to us.

371
00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:57,023
I came to the San Francisco
Bay Area in June '67,

372
00:19:57,057 --> 00:20:00,164
and there was music everywhere.

373
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:03,512
There were free concerts
going on in Golden Gate Park,

374
00:20:03,547 --> 00:20:05,273
with all of these bands.

375
00:20:05,307 --> 00:20:08,414
I got to see Janis Joplin,
the Jefferson Airplane,

376
00:20:08,448 --> 00:20:11,900
and the Dead, free.

377
00:20:11,934 --> 00:20:13,798
It really was amazing.

378
00:20:16,387 --> 00:20:19,425
Music and lyrics became our tribal drum.

379
00:20:19,459 --> 00:20:23,083
So we had a, kind of
a secret communication going

380
00:20:23,118 --> 00:20:25,741
in the river of music
that flowed through us.

381
00:20:28,192 --> 00:20:31,264
You know, it was a...
wild liberation.

382
00:20:31,299 --> 00:20:34,888
It was Dionysian.

383
00:20:34,923 --> 00:20:36,580
And drugs played a big part
in that.

384
00:20:36,614 --> 00:20:41,378
♪ Something to make us all happy ♪

385
00:20:41,412 --> 00:20:45,416
We smoked a lot of pot
and did a fair amount of acid.

386
00:20:45,451 --> 00:20:49,386
You know, the society
that we're rebelling against,

387
00:20:49,420 --> 00:20:51,491
they don't want us smoking pot.

388
00:20:51,526 --> 00:20:55,081
Must be a good reason to smoke pot.

389
00:20:55,115 --> 00:20:59,050
The more that we as a generation

390
00:20:59,085 --> 00:21:02,226
saw that what had been
rammed down our throats

391
00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:07,680
was false...
it was false, it was a lie...

392
00:21:07,714 --> 00:21:10,855
the more it freed us up
to experiment.

393
00:21:12,581 --> 00:21:14,549
I mean, we had free love.

394
00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:20,313
The pill allowed us
to just go to a party

395
00:21:20,348 --> 00:21:23,316
and be with somebody.

396
00:21:23,351 --> 00:21:28,217
We just reveled in having
that much freedom

397
00:21:28,252 --> 00:21:32,532
and that much ability
to piss off your old man.

398
00:21:32,567 --> 00:21:34,407
Movies were shown on two screens

399
00:21:34,431 --> 00:21:36,329
at the opposite ends
of the gymnasium.

400
00:21:36,364 --> 00:21:38,158
They consisted
of color sequences

401
00:21:38,193 --> 00:21:40,067
that gave the appearance
of different-colored liquids

402
00:21:40,091 --> 00:21:42,128
spreading across the screen.

403
00:21:42,162 --> 00:21:44,924
Sexual misconduct was blatant.

404
00:21:44,958 --> 00:21:46,581
The smell of marijuana
was prevalent

405
00:21:46,615 --> 00:21:49,100
all over the entire building.

406
00:21:51,758 --> 00:21:55,590
By 1969, it really did
feel like we were finally winning

407
00:21:55,624 --> 00:22:01,009
some kind of cultural war
against the establishment.

408
00:22:01,043 --> 00:22:02,873
You know, this is how we lived,

409
00:22:02,907 --> 00:22:06,014
and if you didn't like it,
too bad.

410
00:22:06,048 --> 00:22:08,223
We were seeing that America

411
00:22:08,257 --> 00:22:10,087
wasn't what we were taught
it was,

412
00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:13,470
and when you stop looking at it
that way

413
00:22:13,504 --> 00:22:16,231
and you start trying
to figure it out for yourself,

414
00:22:16,265 --> 00:22:20,822
then, uh...
it changes your life forever.

415
00:22:37,183 --> 00:22:38,919
Once they got the permits they needed

416
00:22:38,943 --> 00:22:40,566
from the town of Wallkill,

417
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,785
the first thing that John and
Joel and Michael and Artie did

418
00:22:42,809 --> 00:22:46,434
was to assemble a core team
to help produce the festival.

419
00:22:46,468 --> 00:22:48,919
There was Stan Goldstein

420
00:22:48,953 --> 00:22:51,059
who had worked with Michael
on Miami Pop.

421
00:22:51,093 --> 00:22:54,580
There was John Morris, who
had experience booking acts;

422
00:22:54,614 --> 00:22:58,204
Chip Monck, whose role
was stage design and lighting;

423
00:22:58,238 --> 00:23:02,726
Bill Hanley, one of the pioneers
of event production sound.

424
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,867
These were guys who knew
how to put together an event.

425
00:23:07,109 --> 00:23:09,077
Stan called his friend
Mel Lawrence

426
00:23:09,111 --> 00:23:12,805
to be the director
of operations.

427
00:23:12,839 --> 00:23:15,428
My mission was to, um, plan

428
00:23:15,463 --> 00:23:19,121
for all of the functions
of the festival

429
00:23:19,156 --> 00:23:23,263
aside from the actual show.

430
00:23:23,298 --> 00:23:28,130
Everything from fences to food
to transportation

431
00:23:28,165 --> 00:23:33,204
to fire access,
lines of communication,

432
00:23:33,239 --> 00:23:39,072
security, water, sewerage...
you know this, that.

433
00:23:39,107 --> 00:23:43,594
I made a checklist
that blew everybody's minds.

434
00:23:46,183 --> 00:23:49,911
One specific thing was toilets.

435
00:23:49,945 --> 00:23:51,706
We knew we'd have to have
a lot of them.

436
00:23:51,740 --> 00:23:54,225
No one knew how many.

437
00:23:54,260 --> 00:24:00,508
So, I began going to events
with a stopwatch and clipboard.

438
00:24:00,542 --> 00:24:01,819
Madison Square Garden,

439
00:24:01,854 --> 00:24:03,890
baseball stadiums...

440
00:24:03,925 --> 00:24:05,927
any place that there were
a lot of people.

441
00:24:05,961 --> 00:24:08,343
And I timed them,
going in and coming out,

442
00:24:08,377 --> 00:24:11,139
and going in and coming out.

443
00:24:11,173 --> 00:24:12,934
And I took all the information
I gathered,

444
00:24:12,968 --> 00:24:17,317
multiplied by the size of the
crowd we thought we might have,

445
00:24:17,352 --> 00:24:21,667
and came up with outrageous
numbers of johns.

446
00:24:21,701 --> 00:24:24,117
Tens of thousands, just...

447
00:24:24,152 --> 00:24:26,948
Impossible numbers.

448
00:24:26,982 --> 00:24:31,470
So we lined up
as many as we could get.

449
00:24:34,369 --> 00:24:36,647
I was in charge of the booking,

450
00:24:36,682 --> 00:24:40,133
and Creedence was the first band
that we booked.

451
00:24:40,168 --> 00:24:41,894
And then we got
Jefferson Airplane,

452
00:24:41,928 --> 00:24:45,553
Joe Cocker, and Ten Years After.

453
00:24:45,587 --> 00:24:48,556
We didn't get the Stones
or Dylan or the Doors,

454
00:24:48,590 --> 00:24:51,593
but we booked a lot of the acts
we wanted to,

455
00:24:51,628 --> 00:24:54,527
including the Who
and Jimi Hendrix.

456
00:24:58,980 --> 00:25:03,502
We had just started planning our first tour

457
00:25:03,536 --> 00:25:05,365
as Crosby, Stills, Nash,
and Young,

458
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,334
when we heard that Hendrix
was going to play it,

459
00:25:08,368 --> 00:25:11,889
and the Who, and Sly,
and Airplane, the Band,

460
00:25:11,924 --> 00:25:13,339
the Grateful Dead...

461
00:25:13,373 --> 00:25:16,273
you know, everybody
that we thought was cool.

462
00:25:21,002 --> 00:25:23,118
They needed to get the
word out about the festival.

463
00:25:23,142 --> 00:25:25,765
They had a channel to do that,

464
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,596
through the alternative press.

465
00:25:28,630 --> 00:25:31,046
There was the Berkeley Barb
and the Rat

466
00:25:31,081 --> 00:25:32,392
and the Village Voice,

467
00:25:32,427 --> 00:25:35,672
and word about the festival
poured out,

468
00:25:35,706 --> 00:25:37,397
not just to New York,
where they thought

469
00:25:37,432 --> 00:25:38,616
they would draw
the most people from,

470
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,299
but all across
the United States.

471
00:25:42,333 --> 00:25:44,888
Woodstock
was on everybody's lips.

472
00:25:57,417 --> 00:26:01,214
Tom and I subscribed
to Rolling Stonemagazine,

473
00:26:01,249 --> 00:26:04,459
and long about, oh, early May,

474
00:26:04,493 --> 00:26:08,601
I started seeing these ads
for a three-day festival

475
00:26:08,636 --> 00:26:11,777
with all these bands
that we loved.

476
00:26:11,811 --> 00:26:15,056
And I said, "Tom!
You wanna go to this?"

477
00:26:15,090 --> 00:26:17,127
For tickets and information,

478
00:26:17,161 --> 00:26:20,648
write to
Woodstock Music and Art Fair...

479
00:26:20,682 --> 00:26:23,443
We heard it on the radio.

480
00:26:23,478 --> 00:26:27,378
They were describing
this happening-to-be

481
00:26:27,413 --> 00:26:28,897
and that people were coming

482
00:26:28,932 --> 00:26:30,416
from all corners
of the United States,

483
00:26:30,450 --> 00:26:33,937
and apparently abroad, as well.

484
00:26:33,971 --> 00:26:37,423
I was hanging out at the fountain

485
00:26:37,457 --> 00:26:40,737
in, in Washington Square,
with my guys,

486
00:26:40,771 --> 00:26:42,462
who were all musicians,

487
00:26:42,497 --> 00:26:43,577
and then all of the sudden,

488
00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:46,052
tickets were being made
available.

489
00:26:46,087 --> 00:26:50,885
You could buy one day, two days,
or three.

490
00:26:50,919 --> 00:26:52,438
And jeez, three days!

491
00:26:52,472 --> 00:26:54,716
Wow! That means staying there
over...

492
00:26:54,751 --> 00:26:57,270
Wow, what an adventure
that would be!

493
00:26:57,305 --> 00:26:59,790
We gotta do this!

494
00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:05,727
It was early June,

495
00:27:05,762 --> 00:27:08,385
so they started to build
at the Wallkill site.

496
00:27:08,419 --> 00:27:11,319
They brought in electricity,

497
00:27:11,353 --> 00:27:14,563
they started to lay
the groundwork for a stage,

498
00:27:14,598 --> 00:27:18,878
and they hired a couple
of hundred kids to help out.

499
00:27:18,913 --> 00:27:24,056
And these kids, they didn't look
like anybody else in this town.

500
00:27:24,090 --> 00:27:26,334
They were a little suspicious about us,

501
00:27:26,368 --> 00:27:28,750
but we just forged ahead.

502
00:27:28,785 --> 00:27:31,788
All that did was, I guess,
sound the rallying cry

503
00:27:31,822 --> 00:27:34,204
for what called itself

504
00:27:34,238 --> 00:27:38,173
the Concerned Citizens Committee
of Wallkill.

505
00:27:38,208 --> 00:27:39,979
They didn't like the looks of the people

506
00:27:40,003 --> 00:27:42,315
who were working on the site.

507
00:27:42,350 --> 00:27:45,146
They didn't like long hair,
rock music,

508
00:27:45,180 --> 00:27:47,907
and all
that that implied to them.

509
00:27:47,942 --> 00:27:50,220
We really tried to practice
good community relations,

510
00:27:50,254 --> 00:27:54,396
but the Concerned Citizens
had the wind up.

511
00:27:54,431 --> 00:27:58,366
Wallkill was a pretty conservative place.

512
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,334
The way they saw it,
these were kids who smoked dope,

513
00:28:01,369 --> 00:28:03,474
who had casual sex...

514
00:28:03,509 --> 00:28:07,099
They didn't want these hippies
in their town.

515
00:28:08,652 --> 00:28:11,793
John and I were
having dinner in New York City

516
00:28:11,828 --> 00:28:14,037
when the town of Wallkill
passed an ordinance

517
00:28:14,071 --> 00:28:16,522
saying you can't have
a gathering

518
00:28:16,556 --> 00:28:18,973
of more than 5,000 people.

519
00:28:19,007 --> 00:28:20,560
Essentially, it just legislated

520
00:28:20,595 --> 00:28:23,356
the possibility of a festival
on this property

521
00:28:23,391 --> 00:28:26,187
out of existence.

522
00:28:26,221 --> 00:28:28,914
But we had already sold
so many tickets,

523
00:28:28,948 --> 00:28:31,192
and hired so many bands,

524
00:28:31,226 --> 00:28:34,816
we couldn't turn back
at that point.

525
00:28:34,851 --> 00:28:36,276
It was like being on a rollercoaster

526
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:37,819
that had just crested the rise,

527
00:28:37,854 --> 00:28:41,478
you know, before that first
enormous plunge.

528
00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:47,035
I contemplated the abyss of
a total wipeout and thought,

529
00:28:47,070 --> 00:28:50,004
"Let's not declare bankruptcy...
let's throw this festival."

530
00:28:50,038 --> 00:28:54,905
♪ I'm going up the country,
baby, don't you wanna go? ♪

531
00:28:57,494 --> 00:29:01,256
♪ I'm going up the country,
baby, don't you wanna go? ♪

532
00:29:02,464 --> 00:29:04,294
♪ I'm going to some place...

533
00:29:04,328 --> 00:29:09,057
It was the first week of July,
about five weeks out,

534
00:29:09,092 --> 00:29:13,441
so there was a mad scramble
to find a new site.

535
00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:14,994
They drove around
Upstate New York

536
00:29:15,029 --> 00:29:17,756
talking to local people,
real estate brokers...

537
00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:20,206
anyone who would listen.

538
00:29:20,241 --> 00:29:21,690
Michael and I,

539
00:29:21,725 --> 00:29:24,624
we must have looked for a week
or maybe ten days,

540
00:29:24,659 --> 00:29:29,112
renting helicopters
and going here and going there.

541
00:29:29,146 --> 00:29:31,977
And then we meet Max Yasgur.

542
00:29:32,011 --> 00:29:34,255
Max was a farmer.

543
00:29:34,289 --> 00:29:36,775
And he was very successful.

544
00:29:36,809 --> 00:29:40,330
His dairy supplied
almost everybody in that area

545
00:29:40,364 --> 00:29:42,332
with milk.

546
00:29:42,366 --> 00:29:45,369
Everybody knew Max Yasgur.

547
00:29:45,404 --> 00:29:49,442
Yasgur was a, you know,
he was a law-and-order Republican,

548
00:29:49,477 --> 00:29:50,858
but, you know, he also believed

549
00:29:50,892 --> 00:29:53,688
in personal freedom
and freedom of expression,

550
00:29:53,722 --> 00:29:56,829
and that's what
he hung his hat on.

551
00:29:56,864 --> 00:29:59,659
We went to see Max,
and we just hit it off.

552
00:29:59,694 --> 00:30:02,179
I think he liked the fact
that we were doing something

553
00:30:02,214 --> 00:30:04,526
in the face
of a lot of adversity

554
00:30:04,561 --> 00:30:06,874
and that we believed in.

555
00:30:06,908 --> 00:30:11,844
Max takes us to the top
of this hill, and there it is!

556
00:30:11,879 --> 00:30:14,433
A natural amphitheater.

557
00:30:14,467 --> 00:30:18,540
Michael and I looked
at each other: "This is it!"

558
00:30:18,575 --> 00:30:21,543
This was exactly what they were looking for,

559
00:30:21,578 --> 00:30:25,962
and they made a deal with Max
right there on the spot.

560
00:30:38,250 --> 00:30:40,873
Joel and I went up
to get some kind of a handle

561
00:30:40,908 --> 00:30:42,875
on the town politics.

562
00:30:42,910 --> 00:30:45,233
We sure didn't want to
get into the same problem there

563
00:30:45,257 --> 00:30:48,018
as we had in Wallkill.

564
00:30:48,053 --> 00:30:53,058
We were asked to fill
out our attendance expectations

565
00:30:53,092 --> 00:30:55,267
on the permit application.

566
00:30:55,301 --> 00:30:57,407
We used Monterey Pop's record,

567
00:30:57,441 --> 00:31:00,928
28,000 people a day,
or something like that,

568
00:31:00,962 --> 00:31:04,103
as the baseline.

569
00:31:04,138 --> 00:31:05,449
We multiplied it times two,

570
00:31:05,484 --> 00:31:07,486
and said, you know,
"In our wildest dreams,

571
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,177
this is what we're hoping for."

572
00:31:09,212 --> 00:31:13,630
And within a couple of days,
we got our permits.

573
00:31:15,908 --> 00:31:18,428
A sign was erected near our house,

574
00:31:18,462 --> 00:31:20,050
and it said something like,

575
00:31:20,085 --> 00:31:22,742
"Don't buy Yasgur's milk,
he loves the hippies."

576
00:31:22,777 --> 00:31:26,056
And I thought to myself,
"You don't know Max,

577
00:31:26,091 --> 00:31:29,163
because we're going to have
a festival."

578
00:31:29,197 --> 00:31:31,475
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair,

579
00:31:31,510 --> 00:31:33,719
the three-day
Aquarian Exposition,

580
00:31:33,753 --> 00:31:36,653
will be held at White Lake,

581
00:31:36,687 --> 00:31:39,104
in the town of Bethel,
Sullivan County, New York.

582
00:31:39,138 --> 00:31:42,279
And on Friday, August 15,
you'll hear and see:

583
00:31:42,314 --> 00:31:44,695
Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie,

584
00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:49,079
Tim Hardin, Richie Havens,
the Incredible String Band...

585
00:31:52,151 --> 00:31:54,982
Everyone felt excited

586
00:31:55,016 --> 00:31:56,811
about the possibilities
of the new site,

587
00:31:56,845 --> 00:31:59,710
but there was a lot to be done.

588
00:32:01,057 --> 00:32:02,955
We had to start all over again

589
00:32:02,990 --> 00:32:07,339
to construct what we had built
in several months in Wallkill

590
00:32:07,373 --> 00:32:09,410
in less than four weeks.

591
00:32:09,444 --> 00:32:11,239
The half a million at the old site

592
00:32:11,274 --> 00:32:13,207
was all down the drain, right?

593
00:32:13,241 --> 00:32:16,348
And we have to put
another $800,000 into this one.

594
00:32:16,382 --> 00:32:19,903
Building a stage, getting the
lights and the sound system up,

595
00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:20,939
fences.

596
00:32:20,973 --> 00:32:22,181
Food concessions.

597
00:32:22,216 --> 00:32:25,012
Portable toilets...
I mean, it was extraordinary.

598
00:32:25,046 --> 00:32:29,016
And Joel and I had never done
any of this before.

599
00:32:29,050 --> 00:32:31,673
But because of ticket sales,

600
00:32:31,708 --> 00:32:35,884
we actually felt that we were
gonna turn a profit.

601
00:32:35,919 --> 00:32:38,266
They knew by this time
that there were going to be

602
00:32:38,301 --> 00:32:41,166
more than just 50,000 people.

603
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,859
Ticket sales looked like it was
going to be closer to 100,000.

604
00:32:44,893 --> 00:32:47,586
And with 100,000
stoned-out kids,

605
00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:51,624
they knew that there could be
some difficulties.

606
00:32:51,659 --> 00:32:56,353
There's been some trouble
at a few of the pop festivals.

607
00:32:56,388 --> 00:32:58,079
What do you think
brings that about?

608
00:32:58,114 --> 00:33:00,426
Why will it happen at one place
and not another?

609
00:33:00,461 --> 00:33:02,601
You know,
I, I really don't know.

610
00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:05,328
Like, in Miami,
they broke down the fence,

611
00:33:05,362 --> 00:33:08,262
and they had a lot of fights.

612
00:33:08,296 --> 00:33:09,549
Do you think it has anything

613
00:33:09,573 --> 00:33:11,023
to do with the size
of the audience?

614
00:33:11,058 --> 00:33:13,036
I think it has to do a little
bit to do with the size.

615
00:33:13,060 --> 00:33:16,856
It has more to do with the way
the festival is organized.

616
00:33:16,891 --> 00:33:19,687
To see what was really happening,

617
00:33:19,721 --> 00:33:22,138
we sent people to almost
all the major rock festivals

618
00:33:22,172 --> 00:33:23,691
that summer.

619
00:33:23,725 --> 00:33:26,038
They went to Atlanta,

620
00:33:26,073 --> 00:33:28,765
they went to Denver,

621
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:31,699
and they went to Newport.

622
00:33:31,733 --> 00:33:34,288
And every one,
there were problems.

623
00:33:34,322 --> 00:33:37,049
They had teargas used in Denver,

624
00:33:37,084 --> 00:33:39,879
they had violence
in Los Angeles County.

625
00:33:39,914 --> 00:33:42,641
So, back in New York,
they kept insisting

626
00:33:42,675 --> 00:33:47,025
that they needed to have
security people for safety.

627
00:33:47,059 --> 00:33:49,130
I told John
that all the cops in the world

628
00:33:49,165 --> 00:33:51,029
weren't going
to prevent violence.

629
00:33:51,063 --> 00:33:54,894
It had to depend upon building
the kind of expectation

630
00:33:54,929 --> 00:33:57,242
and the feeling of this event
we're gonna have

631
00:33:57,276 --> 00:34:01,177
so that people didn't want
to hurt each other.

632
00:34:01,211 --> 00:34:04,801
We also knew that there
would be a lot of drugs around

633
00:34:04,835 --> 00:34:06,699
and there would be
a lot of people

634
00:34:06,734 --> 00:34:08,701
who couldn't handle
whatever it was

635
00:34:08,736 --> 00:34:10,807
that they were going to take,

636
00:34:10,841 --> 00:34:14,431
and that that had
to be dealt with, as well.

637
00:34:15,536 --> 00:34:16,847
Hi, there.

638
00:34:16,882 --> 00:34:18,573
Uh, my name is Hugh Romney

639
00:34:18,608 --> 00:34:20,748
and I'm going through
a series of changes

640
00:34:20,782 --> 00:34:24,683
in this fur room
at the Electric Circus store.

641
00:34:24,717 --> 00:34:26,650
What is essentially
on the front of my brain

642
00:34:26,685 --> 00:34:28,652
is this Hog Farm poster,

643
00:34:28,687 --> 00:34:32,449
which we're gonna be moving
all around the country...

644
00:34:32,484 --> 00:34:34,348
"we" being a commune.

645
00:34:34,382 --> 00:34:38,800
Stanley Goldstein
suggested that we look to this...

646
00:34:38,835 --> 00:34:42,494
This commune called the Hog Farm,

647
00:34:42,528 --> 00:34:43,978
and that we should bring

648
00:34:44,012 --> 00:34:47,533
as many of these folks
to the festival as we can,

649
00:34:47,568 --> 00:34:50,985
and have them handle
our security.

650
00:34:51,019 --> 00:34:54,782
So he went and met
with a fellow named Hugh Romney,

651
00:34:54,816 --> 00:34:57,474
also known as Wavy Gravy.

652
00:34:57,509 --> 00:34:59,442
We'd been driving around the country,

653
00:34:59,476 --> 00:35:00,753
putting on these shows.

654
00:35:00,788 --> 00:35:02,272
We had a certain skill

655
00:35:02,307 --> 00:35:05,033
with working with large crowds.

656
00:35:05,068 --> 00:35:07,484
We were a happening.

657
00:35:09,417 --> 00:35:13,145
So Stan Goldstein showed up
and says, "How would you guys

658
00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:17,287
like to do this music festival
in New York State?"

659
00:35:17,322 --> 00:35:18,495
And we said, "Well,

660
00:35:18,530 --> 00:35:20,532
"it sounds like a good time,

661
00:35:20,566 --> 00:35:23,051
but we're gonna be
in New Mexico."

662
00:35:23,086 --> 00:35:25,778
And he says,
"That's all right,

663
00:35:25,813 --> 00:35:28,954
we'll fly you in
in an Astrojet."

664
00:35:28,988 --> 00:35:34,546
And indeed, 85 of us boarded
this American Airlines Astrojet

665
00:35:34,580 --> 00:35:36,927
going to Woodstock.

666
00:35:36,962 --> 00:35:39,896
We all arrived at the Albuquerque airport

667
00:35:39,930 --> 00:35:42,519
and loaded up a couple of sets
of teepee poles

668
00:35:42,554 --> 00:35:46,661
and flew off to New York.

669
00:35:46,696 --> 00:35:50,872
The stewardesses
locked themself in a little room,

670
00:35:50,907 --> 00:35:53,565
and we just took over the plane.

671
00:35:57,224 --> 00:36:00,882
We got to New York City,
piled off the aircraft,

672
00:36:00,917 --> 00:36:04,196
and there was the press.

673
00:36:04,231 --> 00:36:07,544
What is the Hog Farm going to be
doing in Woodstock?

674
00:36:07,579 --> 00:36:11,893
Well, the Hog Farm
is a many-sided, multi...

675
00:36:11,928 --> 00:36:13,861
We're a kind of a family,

676
00:36:13,895 --> 00:36:15,518
a huge expanded family.

677
00:36:15,552 --> 00:36:17,071
And we could do any number
of things,

678
00:36:17,105 --> 00:36:19,280
because each one of us
is gonna do a different thing.

679
00:36:19,315 --> 00:36:21,282
But mostly we're just gonna
try and be groovy,

680
00:36:21,317 --> 00:36:23,560
and spread that grooviness
through everybody.

681
00:36:23,595 --> 00:36:25,907
Well, the Hog Farm has been
hassled by security people,

682
00:36:25,942 --> 00:36:27,368
and they're calling you
security people,

683
00:36:27,392 --> 00:36:30,464
so how do you feel
about the, you know, the name?

684
00:36:30,498 --> 00:36:31,844
Well, I feel secure.

685
00:36:31,879 --> 00:36:33,708
I don't know what
"security people" means.

686
00:36:33,743 --> 00:36:35,607
I never was called
a security person before.

687
00:36:35,641 --> 00:36:37,056
It's, like, you're
the first person

688
00:36:37,091 --> 00:36:39,335
that's ever called me that...
how do you feel?

689
00:36:40,370 --> 00:36:41,716
Well, I feel..

690
00:36:41,751 --> 00:36:43,131
Do you feel secure?

691
00:36:44,167 --> 00:36:45,720
There was a picture

692
00:36:45,755 --> 00:36:47,343
in the Postthe next day.

693
00:36:47,377 --> 00:36:50,898
My father called and said,
"Nice cops you've hired."

694
00:36:50,932 --> 00:36:52,969
He thought that I was
really out of my mind,

695
00:36:53,003 --> 00:36:55,696
to be involved in this thing.

696
00:37:16,510 --> 00:37:19,247
We're a small town,
we'll never have all those people here.

697
00:37:19,271 --> 00:37:22,447
They'll never...
they'll never be here, you know.

698
00:37:22,481 --> 00:37:24,552
I didn't believe it.

699
00:37:27,348 --> 00:37:29,050
That's all you heard on the radio.

700
00:37:29,074 --> 00:37:32,871
"Woodstock, town of Bethel,
Woodstock," you know?

701
00:37:32,905 --> 00:37:34,262
And ha-ha,
we're all laughing, you know?

702
00:37:34,286 --> 00:37:35,908
And a guy come to me,
he says, "Look out,

703
00:37:35,943 --> 00:37:37,334
this might be something bigger
than you thought."

704
00:37:37,358 --> 00:37:39,118
I've been here all my life,
you know?

705
00:37:39,153 --> 00:37:41,500
They're talking about
hundreds of thousands of people,

706
00:37:41,535 --> 00:37:42,777
and so on and so forth.

707
00:37:42,812 --> 00:37:44,676
We never saw that in this town.

708
00:37:55,342 --> 00:37:57,447
There was a certain backlash,

709
00:37:57,482 --> 00:38:01,209
but mostly, you know, it was
kind of a daily little buzz

710
00:38:01,244 --> 00:38:03,281
from the locals.

711
00:38:04,903 --> 00:38:06,836
We started to hear rumors

712
00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:08,872
that this thing was more or less
out of hand

713
00:38:08,907 --> 00:38:10,253
because no one knew

714
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:13,083
the amount of tickets
that were sold.

715
00:38:13,118 --> 00:38:19,020
One time they said 25,000,
and then it was, it was 150,000,

716
00:38:19,055 --> 00:38:20,988
and then they don't know,

717
00:38:21,022 --> 00:38:23,266
and it got to a point where, uh,

718
00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:26,062
you started to get
a little worried about it.

719
00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:47,601
It was early August

720
00:38:47,635 --> 00:38:49,810
and we were about a week out

721
00:38:49,844 --> 00:38:52,537
from the beginning
of the festival,

722
00:38:52,571 --> 00:38:55,781
when, all of a sudden,
people started showing up.

723
00:39:02,892 --> 00:39:04,583
About a week before,

724
00:39:04,618 --> 00:39:05,836
they started showing up
in small groups

725
00:39:05,860 --> 00:39:07,448
and camping and so on,

726
00:39:07,483 --> 00:39:10,313
and the thing that Max and I
were trying to figure out is,

727
00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:15,042
they hadn't gotten the fence
around the field.

728
00:39:15,076 --> 00:39:17,458
And we thought, "Boy,
they'd better rush and do that

729
00:39:17,493 --> 00:39:20,358
if they want to sell tickets
to this thing."

730
00:39:31,230 --> 00:39:32,991
In the last week,

731
00:39:33,025 --> 00:39:35,407
if you saw what was going on,
you were immediately aware

732
00:39:35,442 --> 00:39:38,652
that it couldn't possibly
be finished in time.

733
00:39:38,686 --> 00:39:39,998
On Monday,

734
00:39:40,032 --> 00:39:42,897
everything was
in a state of preparation

735
00:39:42,932 --> 00:39:44,796
roughly on target for a festival

736
00:39:44,830 --> 00:39:46,936
to be thrown
some time in November,

737
00:39:46,970 --> 00:39:51,043
and not for one that was
supposed to begin in four days.

738
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,184
Let's clear the road, please!

739
00:39:54,219 --> 00:39:58,188
We showed up three days
before the festival opened,

740
00:39:58,223 --> 00:40:01,606
because that's what we were
supposed to do as food handlers.

741
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,780
It was thrown together
at the last minute,

742
00:40:03,815 --> 00:40:07,888
so we had to build our own food
stands before we manned them.

743
00:40:07,922 --> 00:40:09,545
We have spoken

744
00:40:09,579 --> 00:40:12,962
to a lot of different
food concession people,

745
00:40:12,996 --> 00:40:15,309
and all of them,
the legitimate guys,

746
00:40:15,343 --> 00:40:18,036
went by the wayside
when we lost Wallkill.

747
00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:22,834
What was left was an outfit
called Food for Love.

748
00:40:22,868 --> 00:40:25,733
There were three of them...
three guys.

749
00:40:25,768 --> 00:40:27,114
I think one of them

750
00:40:27,148 --> 00:40:28,609
had some kind of food catering
experience.

751
00:40:28,633 --> 00:40:32,257
I don't think the other two did.

752
00:40:32,291 --> 00:40:36,123
But we didn't have
any alternative.

753
00:40:37,952 --> 00:40:39,471
I think it was Tuesday,

754
00:40:39,506 --> 00:40:41,266
the construction foreman
tells us,

755
00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:44,234
"We just don't have enough time
to finish everything.

756
00:40:44,269 --> 00:40:46,858
"So which would you like
to have us finish,

757
00:40:46,892 --> 00:40:50,724
"the gates and the fences,
or the stage?

758
00:40:50,758 --> 00:40:54,797
We don't have enough men
and material to do both."

759
00:40:54,831 --> 00:40:59,077
I remember thinking, "If we
don't have gates and fences,

760
00:40:59,111 --> 00:41:02,045
"then we're not gonna
collect tickets.

761
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,497
"We'll be bankrupt.

762
00:41:05,532 --> 00:41:08,569
"And if we don't have a stage,
we'll be in jail.

763
00:41:08,604 --> 00:41:12,090
"Because there will
be 100,000 kids running around

764
00:41:12,124 --> 00:41:13,678
"with nothing to do.

765
00:41:13,712 --> 00:41:15,749
For three days."

766
00:41:15,783 --> 00:41:17,095
So that was the answer.

767
00:41:17,129 --> 00:41:19,373
The answer was,
"Build the stage."

768
00:41:23,619 --> 00:41:25,759
I'd go there in the middle of the night

769
00:41:25,793 --> 00:41:28,209
and people were building
the stage.

770
00:41:28,244 --> 00:41:30,971
It was going 24 hours.

771
00:41:32,317 --> 00:41:33,877
There was obviously so much to do,

772
00:41:33,905 --> 00:41:36,701
and so little time
in which to do it,

773
00:41:36,735 --> 00:41:41,015
we had all come to realize
that all of our individual jobs

774
00:41:41,050 --> 00:41:43,880
were going to be left
somewhat undone.

775
00:41:43,915 --> 00:41:45,399
So we all kind of banded
together

776
00:41:45,433 --> 00:41:49,403
into one sort of SWAT team
trying to run around and finish.

777
00:41:58,792 --> 00:42:02,416
I quit my job at the restaurant
in Ocean City with no notice.

778
00:42:03,969 --> 00:42:07,145
I just told them
that I wouldn't be in anymore.

779
00:42:07,179 --> 00:42:08,560
And they said, "Why?"

780
00:42:08,595 --> 00:42:10,666
And I said,
"Well, I'm going to Woodstock."

781
00:42:12,944 --> 00:42:15,291
We didn't get on the road till around noon,

782
00:42:15,325 --> 00:42:18,674
and by the time
we got to within,

783
00:42:18,708 --> 00:42:23,092
I don't know, miles of Bethel,

784
00:42:23,126 --> 00:42:27,545
the traffic was just,
you know, crawling.

785
00:42:27,579 --> 00:42:30,548
The folks on the road,
the people who lived there,

786
00:42:30,582 --> 00:42:33,827
one would think that they
would throw things at us.

787
00:42:33,861 --> 00:42:35,276
No!

788
00:42:35,311 --> 00:42:37,106
They just welcomed us.

789
00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:41,317
♪ The morning came,
the morning went ♪

790
00:42:41,351 --> 00:42:45,908
Never before in my life

791
00:42:45,942 --> 00:42:51,603
did I feel so much anticipation.

792
00:42:51,638 --> 00:42:53,743
This is going to be so cool!

793
00:42:53,778 --> 00:42:55,849
♪ My bride's gonna come

794
00:42:55,883 --> 00:42:59,335
♪ Oh, ho, are we gonna fly

795
00:42:59,369 --> 00:43:02,890
♪ Down in the easy chair?

796
00:43:02,925 --> 00:43:08,102
We were at a dead standstill for hours.

797
00:43:08,137 --> 00:43:10,001
People just got out
and sat on their cars

798
00:43:10,035 --> 00:43:11,727
and started talking
to each other,

799
00:43:11,761 --> 00:43:14,108
getting to know each other.

800
00:43:14,143 --> 00:43:16,386
You know,
starting long conversations

801
00:43:16,421 --> 00:43:19,700
about politics and about music.

802
00:43:19,735 --> 00:43:24,809
Before long, we felt like we had
hundreds of best friends.

803
00:43:24,843 --> 00:43:26,431
♪ Strap yourself to a tree...

804
00:43:26,465 --> 00:43:28,571
We were sitting on the back porch

805
00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:31,885
and my God, the traffic,
all of a sudden, it started.

806
00:43:31,919 --> 00:43:33,818
And I'm telling you,
it never let up.

807
00:43:33,852 --> 00:43:35,820
We just opened the one door.

808
00:43:35,854 --> 00:43:36,821
But you couldn't let them in.

809
00:43:36,855 --> 00:43:38,408
It was impossible.

810
00:43:38,443 --> 00:43:40,618
And we let 40 or 50 people
at a time,

811
00:43:40,652 --> 00:43:43,068
they'd get their groceries
or whatever they needed,

812
00:43:43,103 --> 00:43:44,518
let them out the back,

813
00:43:44,552 --> 00:43:48,004
and then open up the door,
let another 50 in.

814
00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:51,249
And these people, some of them
walked four and five, six miles.

815
00:43:51,283 --> 00:43:53,769
"Where's the Woodstock?
Where's the Woodstock?"

816
00:43:53,803 --> 00:43:55,322
♪ We'll climb that hill

817
00:43:55,356 --> 00:43:59,015
This sight is hard to believe.

818
00:43:59,050 --> 00:44:00,672
We're over White Lake,

819
00:44:00,707 --> 00:44:03,779
in the midst of this
music festival encampment.

820
00:44:03,813 --> 00:44:06,609
We're up over the trees now,
we're coming in over...

821
00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:10,337
We were on the state highway,
and cars were stopping.

822
00:44:10,371 --> 00:44:13,685
And we realized that this was
parking for the concert,

823
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:15,791
so we got out of the car
and started walking,

824
00:44:15,825 --> 00:44:19,242
and we saw people
setting up lawn chairs

825
00:44:19,277 --> 00:44:22,038
to watch this spectacle.

826
00:44:22,073 --> 00:44:25,214
It looked like this
whole part of New York state

827
00:44:25,248 --> 00:44:27,147
was just being turned
upside down

828
00:44:27,181 --> 00:44:29,252
by this event.

829
00:44:29,287 --> 00:44:32,117
The traffic is terrible.

830
00:44:32,152 --> 00:44:33,740
It is backed up from White Lake

831
00:44:33,774 --> 00:44:35,914
right back through
on the Quickway past Monticello,

832
00:44:35,949 --> 00:44:41,609
and there's no place to park...
everything is full.

833
00:44:41,644 --> 00:44:43,888
They were announcing on the radio

834
00:44:43,922 --> 00:44:47,926
that you couldn't get there,
and, you know, "Don't go."

835
00:44:47,961 --> 00:44:50,722
They were saying,
"Don't go, don't go!

836
00:44:50,757 --> 00:44:52,828
"You can't get in,
it's already overcrowded,

837
00:44:52,862 --> 00:44:56,245
and they're shutting it down,
and turn around and go home."

838
00:44:56,279 --> 00:45:00,352
Nobody was turning around.

839
00:45:00,387 --> 00:45:04,218
It sort of increased
our desire, more than anything.

840
00:45:04,253 --> 00:45:06,704
Like, one way or another,
we'll get there.

841
00:45:25,930 --> 00:45:30,279
♪ Love is but a song to sing

842
00:45:30,313 --> 00:45:32,246
♪ Fear's the way we die

843
00:45:32,281 --> 00:45:35,180
As you walked in, it hit you.

844
00:45:35,215 --> 00:45:37,424
Suddenly, it just all
came into view at once.

845
00:45:37,458 --> 00:45:39,944
♪ You can make
the mountains ring ♪

846
00:45:39,978 --> 00:45:45,432
This whole enormous bowl full of people.

847
00:45:45,466 --> 00:45:50,230
It was mind-boggling.

848
00:45:50,264 --> 00:45:54,199
Coming over the hill and
feeling the energy of that crowd

849
00:45:54,234 --> 00:45:56,512
is something
that I'll never forget.

850
00:45:56,546 --> 00:46:00,136
There was so much power in it.

851
00:46:00,171 --> 00:46:02,449
♪ Come on, people now

852
00:46:02,483 --> 00:46:03,933
♪ Smile on your brother

853
00:46:03,968 --> 00:46:06,211
♪ Everybody get together

854
00:46:06,246 --> 00:46:09,663
♪ Try to love one another
right now ♪

855
00:46:09,697 --> 00:46:12,217
It was indescribable,

856
00:46:12,252 --> 00:46:16,152
the feeling that came over me
of warmth,

857
00:46:16,187 --> 00:46:20,467
and, "Oh, my God, there are
this many people in the world

858
00:46:20,501 --> 00:46:22,814
that think like I think."

859
00:46:22,849 --> 00:46:24,816
"There are all these people here!"

860
00:46:24,851 --> 00:46:30,304
I never knew there were
that many people in the world.

861
00:46:33,860 --> 00:46:36,690
Once we got there,
the fences were just trampled.

862
00:46:36,724 --> 00:46:40,728
We walked up that hill,
and we saw, you know,

863
00:46:40,763 --> 00:46:41,902
all these people.

864
00:46:41,937 --> 00:46:44,353
Our age, looked like us.

865
00:46:44,387 --> 00:46:45,906
Dressed like us.

866
00:46:45,941 --> 00:46:48,460
People... us.

867
00:46:48,495 --> 00:46:51,049
I mean, it was just...
it was...

868
00:46:51,084 --> 00:46:55,502
It was like, you know, meeting
your brothers and sisters.

869
00:46:55,536 --> 00:46:59,195
It was really beautiful.

870
00:46:59,230 --> 00:47:01,439
♪ Come on people now

871
00:47:01,473 --> 00:47:03,027
♪ Smile on your brother

872
00:47:03,061 --> 00:47:05,167
♪ Everybody get together

873
00:47:05,201 --> 00:47:09,827
♪ Try to love one another
right now ♪

874
00:47:09,861 --> 00:47:11,967
♪ Right now

875
00:47:12,001 --> 00:47:15,073
♪ Right now

876
00:47:17,144 --> 00:47:20,113
We'll be getting
our show on in about five minutes.

877
00:47:20,147 --> 00:47:21,873
Just keep cool and relax.

878
00:47:21,908 --> 00:47:23,737
We'll be with you
as soon as we can.

879
00:47:23,771 --> 00:47:25,981
Thank you.

880
00:47:26,015 --> 00:47:28,224
Do you realize
that half of these people

881
00:47:28,259 --> 00:47:29,432
don't have tickets,

882
00:47:29,467 --> 00:47:30,824
and there are people
five miles away

883
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:32,228
sitting on a highway
with tickets

884
00:47:32,263 --> 00:47:33,954
who have driven 2,000
or 3,000 miles?

885
00:47:33,989 --> 00:47:36,232
Whatever has to be done
to make it right,

886
00:47:36,267 --> 00:47:37,958
Yeah.

887
00:47:37,993 --> 00:47:41,824
It was obvious we were in deep shit.

888
00:47:41,859 --> 00:47:43,861
After having worked
that afternoon,

889
00:47:43,895 --> 00:47:46,449
trying to organize people
to put the fences up,

890
00:47:46,484 --> 00:47:48,348
and actually pounding in posts
myself,

891
00:47:48,382 --> 00:47:51,109
I realized it wasn't going
to happen.

892
00:47:51,144 --> 00:47:53,284
We weren't going to be able
to ring

893
00:47:53,318 --> 00:47:56,011
about a mile of perimeter.

894
00:47:56,045 --> 00:47:58,530
What are you going to tell
a few hundred thousand people

895
00:47:58,565 --> 00:48:00,429
who are sitting in your field

896
00:48:00,463 --> 00:48:01,924
when you're supposed to be
collecting money from them?

897
00:48:01,948 --> 00:48:03,580
"Go back out and come back in
when we get the tickets

898
00:48:03,604 --> 00:48:05,917
and we finish the fences
and the rest of it"?

899
00:48:05,952 --> 00:48:09,403
You are now giving the world's
greatest three-day freebie.

900
00:48:09,438 --> 00:48:10,818
That's what it is.

901
00:48:10,853 --> 00:48:12,648
No, there's a way to do it. There is no way.

902
00:48:12,682 --> 00:48:13,994
Artie came up with,

903
00:48:14,029 --> 00:48:15,823
"Can't we get a whole bunch
of girls,

904
00:48:15,858 --> 00:48:17,239
"and put them
in diaphanous gowns

905
00:48:17,273 --> 00:48:18,561
"and give them
collection baskets,

906
00:48:18,585 --> 00:48:20,138
and send them out
into the audience?"

907
00:48:20,173 --> 00:48:25,937
It was the most ludicrous thing
I had ever heard in my life.

908
00:48:25,972 --> 00:48:28,871
As a business venture,
it was dead.

909
00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:33,427
And I don't know why, but sort
of a curious calm overcame us,

910
00:48:33,462 --> 00:48:35,947
and it seemed like the gates

911
00:48:35,982 --> 00:48:39,709
just weren't really
what was important here anymore.

912
00:48:39,744 --> 00:48:41,919
It's a free concert from now on.

913
00:48:43,196 --> 00:48:46,164
That doesn't mean
that anything goes.

914
00:48:46,199 --> 00:48:50,030
What that means is, we're gonna
put the music up here for free.

915
00:48:50,065 --> 00:48:53,482
What it means is that the people
who are backing this thing,

916
00:48:53,516 --> 00:48:55,242
who put up the money for it,

917
00:48:55,277 --> 00:48:56,243
are gonna take a bit of a bath.

918
00:48:56,278 --> 00:48:57,348
A big bath.

919
00:48:57,382 --> 00:48:58,728
That's no hype.

920
00:48:58,763 --> 00:49:01,628
That's truth...
they're gonna get hurt.

921
00:49:01,662 --> 00:49:03,354
But what it means
is that these people

922
00:49:03,388 --> 00:49:05,977
have it in their heads

923
00:49:06,012 --> 00:49:09,429
that your welfare is
a hell of a lot more important...

924
00:49:09,463 --> 00:49:12,087
and the music is...
than a dollar.

925
00:49:17,023 --> 00:49:19,266
The roar that went up from that crowd

926
00:49:19,301 --> 00:49:21,993
was incredible.

927
00:49:22,028 --> 00:49:24,685
Despite its roots

928
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:26,618
in trying to be
a capitalist enterprise,

929
00:49:26,653 --> 00:49:28,551
the concert was liberated.

930
00:49:29,690 --> 00:49:30,898
You don't even have to bother

931
00:49:30,933 --> 00:49:32,452
bringing your tickets
or anything,

932
00:49:32,486 --> 00:49:34,419
because they aren't going
to collect them.

933
00:49:34,454 --> 00:49:36,525
There's no way they can.

934
00:49:36,559 --> 00:49:38,561
They got a fence
that's, like, half up,

935
00:49:38,596 --> 00:49:40,943
and there are people
just sitting in that field.

936
00:49:40,978 --> 00:49:42,324
It's really beautiful.

937
00:49:42,358 --> 00:49:44,084
We're still waiting

938
00:49:44,119 --> 00:49:45,430
for the arrival of group one.

939
00:49:45,465 --> 00:49:47,432
Now, please bear with us.

940
00:49:47,467 --> 00:49:48,916
Due to the traffic problems,

941
00:49:48,951 --> 00:49:51,574
we're going to have to start
a little later.

942
00:49:51,609 --> 00:49:54,094
The bands were all in different hotels,

943
00:49:54,129 --> 00:49:56,096
and if you tried to drive
down to the site,

944
00:49:56,131 --> 00:49:59,237
it would take you six hours
to do it.

945
00:49:59,272 --> 00:50:02,792
It became obvious
that we needed helicopters.

946
00:50:02,827 --> 00:50:05,588
But then
Richie Havens showed up,

947
00:50:05,623 --> 00:50:09,040
and it was, like,
"Richie, please go on now."

948
00:50:09,075 --> 00:50:11,698
And he said, "I'm not scheduled
to go on till later."

949
00:50:11,732 --> 00:50:15,460
I said, "Richie,
we don't have anybody else."

950
00:50:15,495 --> 00:50:17,876
I actually was afraid to go on first,

951
00:50:17,911 --> 00:50:21,915
basically because I knew
the concert was late

952
00:50:21,949 --> 00:50:24,435
and I didn't want to get
beer cans thrown at me.

953
00:50:24,469 --> 00:50:26,230
You know, "Don't do this to me.

954
00:50:26,264 --> 00:50:29,474
"Don't put me in front of your
problem like this," you know?

955
00:50:29,509 --> 00:50:32,132
"My bass player
isn't even here."

956
00:50:32,167 --> 00:50:35,963
But I went on, you know,
and it was beautiful.

957
00:50:35,998 --> 00:50:39,622
♪ Hey, look yonder,
tell me what's that you see ♪

958
00:50:39,657 --> 00:50:43,454
♪ Marching to the fields
of Concord? ♪

959
00:50:43,488 --> 00:50:47,837
♪ Looks like Handsome Johnny
with his flintlock in his hand ♪

960
00:50:47,872 --> 00:50:51,082
♪ Marching to the Concord war

961
00:50:51,117 --> 00:50:54,430
♪ Hey, marching
to the Concord war ♪

962
00:50:54,465 --> 00:50:58,193
Once the festival started,
we opened the food stands.

963
00:50:58,227 --> 00:51:02,266
And a throng of people
came running up the hill.

964
00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:05,752
There were too many people,
too many arms reaching out,

965
00:51:05,786 --> 00:51:08,030
so we just started
handing out hamburgers.

966
00:51:08,065 --> 00:51:12,069
And people began to shower us
with joints.

967
00:51:12,103 --> 00:51:15,658
I had one in each pocket,
one in my ear,

968
00:51:15,693 --> 00:51:18,454
and I was smoking two at a time.

969
00:51:18,489 --> 00:51:21,078
I got really high.

970
00:51:23,356 --> 00:51:25,979
I was onstage for something like two hours

971
00:51:26,013 --> 00:51:28,154
because nobody else was there
to go on.

972
00:51:28,188 --> 00:51:31,467
I did about four or five encores, you know,

973
00:51:31,502 --> 00:51:33,090
until I had nothing else
to sing.

974
00:51:33,124 --> 00:51:36,265
And then "Freedom" was created
right there on the stage.

975
00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:38,854
That's how "Freedom"
was created, onstage.

976
00:51:38,888 --> 00:51:42,029
It was the last thing I could
think of to sing.

977
00:51:42,064 --> 00:51:43,410
I made it up.

978
00:51:54,594 --> 00:51:58,425
I remember hearing Richie Havens

979
00:51:58,460 --> 00:52:00,910
playing "Freedom."

980
00:52:00,945 --> 00:52:02,878
And I was way up on the hill,

981
00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:05,950
and I heard it,
and I was transported.

982
00:52:05,984 --> 00:52:09,540
♪ Freedom, freedom

983
00:52:09,574 --> 00:52:12,922
♪ Freedom, freedom

984
00:52:12,957 --> 00:52:14,821
It's a good word to use.

985
00:52:14,855 --> 00:52:18,065
It wasn't just the freedom
of being able to smoke a joint,

986
00:52:18,100 --> 00:52:22,139
it was the freedom of being able
to be who you were.

987
00:52:22,173 --> 00:52:24,934
Not feeling that somebody
was going to judge you

988
00:52:24,969 --> 00:52:26,867
or threaten you.

989
00:52:26,902 --> 00:52:31,009
So, yeah, freedom
on a lot of levels.

990
00:52:36,981 --> 00:52:39,777
I left the backstage area
and I went into the crowd,

991
00:52:39,811 --> 00:52:42,676
and I went up, and I got
in the middle of the crowd,

992
00:52:42,711 --> 00:52:45,955
and that was, like,
"Wow, look what we've done.

993
00:52:45,990 --> 00:52:49,787
We actually pulled it off,
and it's happening."

994
00:52:49,821 --> 00:52:51,754
What better way to start

995
00:52:51,789 --> 00:52:53,515
than with the beautiful
Richie Havens?

996
00:52:53,549 --> 00:52:56,069
The audience reaction was just wonderful.

997
00:52:56,103 --> 00:52:58,968
It just brought the spirit
right up and you felt,

998
00:52:59,003 --> 00:53:00,522
"Okay, this is going to work.

999
00:53:00,556 --> 00:53:01,833
We're going to be okay."

1000
00:53:02,765 --> 00:53:04,008
And then, thank God,

1001
00:53:04,042 --> 00:53:06,838
we got the helicopter rotation
working,

1002
00:53:06,873 --> 00:53:09,427
and started to get people in.

1003
00:53:09,462 --> 00:53:13,224
We apologize for
the noise of the choppity-choppity,

1004
00:53:13,259 --> 00:53:16,503
but it seems there are
a few cars blocking the road,

1005
00:53:16,538 --> 00:53:19,161
so we're flying everybody in.

1006
00:53:19,196 --> 00:53:22,371
Once the artists started arriving,

1007
00:53:22,406 --> 00:53:25,443
the first band to go on
was Sweetwater,

1008
00:53:25,478 --> 00:53:28,688
followed by the acoustic acts.

1009
00:53:45,014 --> 00:53:51,193
♪ I dreamed I saw Joe Hill
last night ♪

1010
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:54,921
♪ Alive as you and me

1011
00:53:54,955 --> 00:53:57,061
It was after midnight,

1012
00:53:57,095 --> 00:53:59,753
and in fact,
it was starting to rain.

1013
00:53:59,788 --> 00:54:03,170
All through the crowd,
there were matches

1014
00:54:03,205 --> 00:54:05,725
and cigarette lighters
and candles,

1015
00:54:05,759 --> 00:54:08,693
and it looked like fireflies.

1016
00:54:08,728 --> 00:54:10,108
♪ "I never died," says he

1017
00:54:10,143 --> 00:54:12,041
The field was illuminated.

1018
00:54:12,076 --> 00:54:16,322
Not as bright as the blue light
on Joan Baez on the stage,

1019
00:54:16,356 --> 00:54:19,773
but the immediate impact
was the size of that crowd.

1020
00:54:22,328 --> 00:54:26,884
There was nothing in
that field but human beings.

1021
00:54:29,990 --> 00:54:33,649
Joan Baez was just wonderful.

1022
00:54:33,684 --> 00:54:37,170
She ended that night
in a drizzle.

1023
00:54:37,204 --> 00:54:40,829
I looked out in the field
and saw all these people,

1024
00:54:40,863 --> 00:54:44,315
and it was, like,
"Let's go to sleep."

1025
00:54:44,350 --> 00:54:46,328
Maybe the best thing for everybody to do,

1026
00:54:46,352 --> 00:54:49,907
unless you have a tent or
some place specific to go to,

1027
00:54:49,941 --> 00:54:54,532
is carve yourself out
a piece of territory,

1028
00:54:54,567 --> 00:54:58,433
say goodnight to your neighbor,
and say thank you to yourself

1029
00:54:58,467 --> 00:55:01,332
for making this the most
peaceful, most pleasant day

1030
00:55:01,367 --> 00:55:05,336
anybody's ever had
in this kind of music.

1031
00:55:06,993 --> 00:55:08,477
Joel and I got on the Hondas.

1032
00:55:08,512 --> 00:55:10,376
And we rode up to a hill

1033
00:55:10,410 --> 00:55:15,070
that was, you know, maybe
a mile away from the stage.

1034
00:55:15,104 --> 00:55:17,900
And in the distance,
you could see hundreds,

1035
00:55:17,935 --> 00:55:20,144
thousands of little campfires.

1036
00:55:20,178 --> 00:55:22,836
It was like an army at rest
before an enormous battle

1037
00:55:22,871 --> 00:55:25,460
the next day.

1038
00:55:25,494 --> 00:55:28,014
It was really beautiful.

1039
00:55:28,048 --> 00:55:30,534
That moment will stay with me
forever.

1040
00:55:39,715 --> 00:55:41,728
I guess the reason we're here is music.

1041
00:55:41,752 --> 00:55:43,029
So let's have some music.

1042
00:55:43,063 --> 00:55:45,065
Ladies and gentlemen, Quill!

1043
00:55:55,731 --> 00:55:56,950
The first day of the festival,

1044
00:55:56,974 --> 00:55:58,631
there were a lot
of people there.

1045
00:55:58,665 --> 00:56:01,772
Maybe 250,000, 300,000 people.

1046
00:56:01,806 --> 00:56:04,119
That was the folk day.

1047
00:56:04,153 --> 00:56:06,742
The second day of the concert
was the rock'n'roll day.

1048
00:56:06,777 --> 00:56:09,780
That's when everyone showed up.

1049
00:56:09,814 --> 00:56:11,989
They wanted to see the Who,
Airplane,

1050
00:56:12,023 --> 00:56:14,301
the Dead, later that night.

1051
00:56:14,336 --> 00:56:19,928
So the crowd grew
by about a hundred thousand.

1052
00:56:19,962 --> 00:56:21,723
Holy shit, this thing

1053
00:56:21,757 --> 00:56:25,934
is way beyond
what we ever could've imagined.

1054
00:56:25,968 --> 00:56:28,523
We just felt like we were going
to get crushed up

1055
00:56:28,557 --> 00:56:29,800
against the stage,

1056
00:56:29,834 --> 00:56:31,422
and we didn't really want that.

1057
00:56:31,457 --> 00:56:35,012
So like a lot of people, we just
decided to go out exploring,

1058
00:56:35,046 --> 00:56:39,188
walking around to see
what was going on.

1059
00:56:39,223 --> 00:56:40,914
On the periphery of the crowd

1060
00:56:40,949 --> 00:56:44,262
was a two-lane highway
of people,

1061
00:56:44,297 --> 00:56:47,956
and it never stopped moving
for the entire festival.

1062
00:56:47,990 --> 00:56:49,889
People were going
to the food stands,

1063
00:56:49,923 --> 00:56:51,753
they were coming
from the bathroom.

1064
00:56:51,787 --> 00:56:54,480
They were going God knows where.

1065
00:56:56,343 --> 00:56:58,276
If you just started wandering,

1066
00:56:58,311 --> 00:57:00,417
you'd come across all kinds
of stuff.

1067
00:57:02,384 --> 00:57:05,525
A lot of it was like
just walking the boardwalk

1068
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:06,733
and seeing the sights

1069
00:57:06,768 --> 00:57:08,735
and taking in the scene.

1070
00:57:19,332 --> 00:57:22,473
Walking around,
I remember thinking,

1071
00:57:22,508 --> 00:57:26,097
"Holy shit, there are a lot
of breasts here."

1072
00:57:26,132 --> 00:57:29,307
Most of the nudity I'd seen
previously

1073
00:57:29,342 --> 00:57:32,000
was in Playboy,

1074
00:57:32,034 --> 00:57:35,244
and small bits on a hot date,

1075
00:57:35,279 --> 00:57:37,488
but, you know, really not much.

1076
00:57:37,523 --> 00:57:40,284
And there were a lot of people,
girls and guys,

1077
00:57:40,318 --> 00:57:45,289
who were very, very open
with their lack of clothing.

1078
00:57:45,323 --> 00:57:49,673
Especially down by the water.

1079
00:57:49,707 --> 00:57:54,505
The good thing about
skinny dipping is, we all went in.

1080
00:57:54,540 --> 00:57:57,577
Fat, skinny, it didn't matter.

1081
00:57:57,612 --> 00:57:59,959
Nobody looked, nobody cared.

1082
00:57:59,993 --> 00:58:05,240
It was just plain fun.

1083
00:58:07,725 --> 00:58:09,175
I was 17.

1084
00:58:09,209 --> 00:58:11,049
Normally, my jaw would be
on the floor, staring,

1085
00:58:11,073 --> 00:58:14,180
but when everything,
to a certain extent,

1086
00:58:14,214 --> 00:58:15,802
is beyond belief to begin with,

1087
00:58:15,837 --> 00:58:18,253
nothing surprises you.

1088
00:58:18,287 --> 00:58:22,222
♪ I remember how the sun shone down ♪

1089
00:58:22,257 --> 00:58:25,363
There was kind of a,
a path in the, in the woods

1090
00:58:25,398 --> 00:58:28,366
where people had all kinds
of different shops set up.

1091
00:58:28,401 --> 00:58:32,543
They were selling, you know,
musical stuff,

1092
00:58:32,578 --> 00:58:35,477
and things like beads and crafts
that they had made.

1093
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:40,862
Hand-tie-dyed clothing,
blown-glass pipes,

1094
00:58:40,896 --> 00:58:43,312
and stuff like that.

1095
00:58:43,347 --> 00:58:47,351
Kind of head shops in the woods,
that sort of thing.

1096
00:58:47,385 --> 00:58:50,354
There was one table set up where
they were just selling pot.

1097
00:58:51,700 --> 00:58:53,702
We were well supplied.

1098
00:58:55,359 --> 00:58:58,051
Saturday was kind of a day

1099
00:58:58,086 --> 00:59:01,158
where, you know, we walked,
like, a couple of miles,

1100
00:59:01,192 --> 00:59:03,298
checking things out.

1101
00:59:03,332 --> 00:59:08,579
There was so much happening that
that was almost as interesting

1102
00:59:08,614 --> 00:59:10,823
as seeing the music.

1103
00:59:12,721 --> 00:59:15,448
Just to the other side,
it was a wooded area.

1104
00:59:15,482 --> 00:59:19,107
Well, that's where the Hog Farm
was set up.

1105
00:59:19,141 --> 00:59:21,799
This was commune life.

1106
00:59:21,834 --> 00:59:23,732
You know, I had heard about it,

1107
00:59:23,767 --> 00:59:26,908
but I had never seen it
in action.

1108
00:59:26,942 --> 00:59:31,188
We had been living
in a group for years by then,

1109
00:59:31,222 --> 00:59:35,261
and it was quite
an amazing experiment.

1110
00:59:35,295 --> 00:59:38,160
You know, the understanding
that the people around me

1111
00:59:38,195 --> 00:59:42,751
are all part of the same spirit.

1112
00:59:42,786 --> 00:59:44,995
There was, like,
a couple hundred of them

1113
00:59:45,029 --> 00:59:48,136
with all these kids
running around.

1114
00:59:48,170 --> 00:59:51,139
They had teepees and yurts,
you know,

1115
00:59:51,173 --> 00:59:56,731
and all these various
little, you know, dwellings.

1116
00:59:56,765 --> 01:00:01,252
A whole bunch of them
came on all these exotic buses

1117
01:00:01,287 --> 01:00:03,392
that they had painted up.

1118
01:00:03,427 --> 01:00:05,981
It was magical.

1119
01:00:09,778 --> 01:00:11,987
And the Hog Farm had built a small stage.

1120
01:00:12,022 --> 01:00:14,680
And there was music there,
as well.

1121
01:00:14,714 --> 01:00:17,199
I didn't realize that at first.

1122
01:00:17,234 --> 01:00:21,721
There was always some kind
of musical jam going on over there.

1123
01:00:23,827 --> 01:00:26,243
Away from the,
the actual concert,

1124
01:00:26,277 --> 01:00:29,902
the Hog Farm was kind
of a center of gravity

1125
01:00:29,936 --> 01:00:33,043
for the festival.

1126
01:00:33,077 --> 01:00:35,217
The Hog Farm turned out to be

1127
01:00:35,252 --> 01:00:38,255
an interesting choice
for security.

1128
01:00:38,289 --> 01:00:42,328
They didn't call themselves
a police force;

1129
01:00:42,362 --> 01:00:45,089
they called themselves
a please force.

1130
01:00:45,124 --> 01:00:48,506
They substituted,
"Hey, you, do this,"

1131
01:00:48,541 --> 01:00:50,370
with, "Would you please do
this?",

1132
01:00:50,405 --> 01:00:52,686
or, "Would it be all right
with you if...?", and so forth.

1133
01:00:52,718 --> 01:00:56,031
Keep back, keep back now,
let them through.

1134
01:00:56,066 --> 01:00:59,448
Everything's got room
to flow here.

1135
01:01:02,037 --> 01:01:07,249
The please chiefs were myself and Tom Law.

1136
01:01:07,284 --> 01:01:08,803
We turned it into fun.

1137
01:01:08,837 --> 01:01:12,116
Oh, yes.

1138
01:01:12,151 --> 01:01:15,292
They gave a nice flavor to the festival.

1139
01:01:15,326 --> 01:01:17,639
We paid them $18,000.

1140
01:01:17,674 --> 01:01:19,296
I remember that.

1141
01:01:19,330 --> 01:01:21,170
I don't remember paying them anything.

1142
01:01:21,194 --> 01:01:22,989
I thought we just
chartered the jet.

1143
01:01:23,024 --> 01:01:24,473
Maybe that's what that cost.

1144
01:01:24,508 --> 01:01:26,510
Maybe that's where
the 18 grand went.

1145
01:01:26,544 --> 01:01:28,212
They did it just
because they wanted to be there,

1146
01:01:28,236 --> 01:01:29,869
and because they felt
that they could be useful.

1147
01:01:29,893 --> 01:01:31,895
They were really nice people.

1148
01:01:31,929 --> 01:01:35,484
♪ One, two,
three, what are we fighting for? ♪

1149
01:01:35,519 --> 01:01:38,004
♪ Don't ask me,
I don't give a damn ♪

1150
01:01:38,039 --> 01:01:40,075
♪ The next stop is Viet Nam

1151
01:01:40,110 --> 01:01:43,320
In the afternoon,
I kind of wandered back to the concert.

1152
01:01:43,354 --> 01:01:46,081
I was determined
I was not going to miss

1153
01:01:46,116 --> 01:01:49,809
all these incredible people.

1154
01:01:49,844 --> 01:01:52,329
♪ Now come on,
mothers, throughout the land ♪

1155
01:01:52,363 --> 01:01:54,538
♪ Pack your boys off
to Viet Nam ♪

1156
01:01:54,572 --> 01:01:57,541
My boyfriend was draft age.

1157
01:01:57,575 --> 01:02:00,958
And, you know, we had
this future planned out

1158
01:02:00,993 --> 01:02:05,791
and it certainly didn't include
him coming home in a body bag.

1159
01:02:05,825 --> 01:02:08,034
And so, you know, when
Country Joe McDonald got up

1160
01:02:08,069 --> 01:02:10,071
on Saturday afternoon,

1161
01:02:10,105 --> 01:02:12,487
we were right there with him.

1162
01:02:12,521 --> 01:02:16,698
♪ And it's five, six, seven,
open up the pearly gates ♪

1163
01:02:16,733 --> 01:02:19,563
♪ Well, I ain't no time
to wonder why ♪

1164
01:02:19,597 --> 01:02:21,392
♪ Whoopee, we're all goin'
to die! ♪

1165
01:02:21,427 --> 01:02:24,154
All right!

1166
01:02:25,742 --> 01:02:27,571
We were 400,000 kids on a hillside

1167
01:02:27,605 --> 01:02:30,125
who all were vehemently
against the war.

1168
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,887
And, you know, for me, it was,
like, "These are our people!"

1169
01:02:33,991 --> 01:02:36,373
"We found our people!"

1170
01:02:41,274 --> 01:02:43,483
Are you enjoying the festival?

1171
01:02:43,518 --> 01:02:46,003
Yeah, it's out of sight...
it's beautiful.

1172
01:02:46,038 --> 01:02:49,489
Why did you come
to the festival?

1173
01:02:49,524 --> 01:02:52,113
To see the best music
in the world, man.

1174
01:02:57,532 --> 01:03:00,190
The only bored moment I had that weekend

1175
01:03:00,224 --> 01:03:02,951
was when Santana was about
to appear,

1176
01:03:02,986 --> 01:03:05,057
and I didn't know
who Santana was.

1177
01:03:05,091 --> 01:03:09,164
And Santana woke me up.

1178
01:03:13,341 --> 01:03:16,585
You got...
you got drawn into this music.

1179
01:03:16,620 --> 01:03:19,105
The song was "Soul Sacrifice,"

1180
01:03:19,140 --> 01:03:21,694
which most of us
had never heard before.

1181
01:03:31,877 --> 01:03:35,501
Listening to it,
I felt like we had gone from civilization

1182
01:03:35,535 --> 01:03:38,953
to some place
where there was no rules.

1183
01:03:38,987 --> 01:03:44,372
And some people took the freedom
to extreme places.

1184
01:03:46,167 --> 01:03:49,135
People were there to have a good time

1185
01:03:49,170 --> 01:03:51,034
and they were doing it.

1186
01:03:51,068 --> 01:03:53,036
Now, it meant a lot of drugs.

1187
01:03:53,070 --> 01:03:58,524
It was mostly marijuana,
hashish, and LSD.

1188
01:04:00,664 --> 01:04:02,908
One girl told me that just standing still,

1189
01:04:02,942 --> 01:04:04,599
she was getting stoned.

1190
01:04:04,633 --> 01:04:09,742
And my guess was that within
a thousand feet of the stage,

1191
01:04:09,776 --> 01:04:11,882
everybody was stoned.

1192
01:04:16,956 --> 01:04:20,995
There were a lot of
people who took a lot of drugs

1193
01:04:21,029 --> 01:04:24,205
in very strenuous circumstances

1194
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:28,140
and were incapable
of dealing with that.

1195
01:04:28,174 --> 01:04:32,144
The freak-out tents were oases.

1196
01:04:32,178 --> 01:04:36,527
Wavy Gravy and the Hog
Farm were taking care of bad trips.

1197
01:04:36,562 --> 01:04:41,325
Freak-out tents had been set up
where people could lie down,

1198
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:43,062
and folks from the Hog Farm
were in there, you know,

1199
01:04:43,086 --> 01:04:44,950
just holding people's hands

1200
01:04:44,984 --> 01:04:48,298
and just really being able
to guide them through it.

1201
01:04:49,851 --> 01:04:51,922
We're telling them,
"You know, it's,

1202
01:04:51,957 --> 01:04:54,338
"it's going to be cool, man,
it's going to wear off.

1203
01:04:54,373 --> 01:04:57,031
You took a little acid,
and it's gonna wear off."

1204
01:04:57,065 --> 01:05:00,034
And then when somebody was
near normal to rock 'n' roll,

1205
01:05:00,068 --> 01:05:01,483
we said, "Hold it.

1206
01:05:01,518 --> 01:05:04,659
"Now, you see that brother
coming through the door?

1207
01:05:04,693 --> 01:05:06,523
"That was you three hours ago.

1208
01:05:06,557 --> 01:05:08,870
Now you go and help them out."

1209
01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:13,944
And that's the way the scene
regenerated itself.

1210
01:05:16,050 --> 01:05:19,398
They always knew that there
were going to be medical problems,

1211
01:05:19,432 --> 01:05:23,643
and they had prepared themselves
as best they could.

1212
01:05:23,678 --> 01:05:26,992
But like everything else
at the festival,

1213
01:05:27,026 --> 01:05:30,685
they were woefully understaffed,

1214
01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:34,240
and an emergency situation
was developing.

1215
01:05:34,275 --> 01:05:36,725
We need a doctor or a medic, please,

1216
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,624
over on this side of the stage,
please,

1217
01:05:38,658 --> 01:05:40,695
at your earliest convenience.

1218
01:05:40,729 --> 01:05:44,975
One of our people
came rushing up to me and said,

1219
01:05:45,010 --> 01:05:47,460
"We're out of medical supplies."

1220
01:05:47,495 --> 01:05:50,601
And I said,
"You've got to be kidding."

1221
01:05:50,636 --> 01:05:54,295
All the panoply of medical
situations you could encounter

1222
01:05:54,329 --> 01:05:57,091
will happen during the course
of 72 hours.

1223
01:05:57,125 --> 01:06:01,474
It's just what happens
in a city of 400,000 people.

1224
01:06:01,509 --> 01:06:04,443
This is a medical disaster
in the making.

1225
01:06:07,308 --> 01:06:10,000
Leaving aside for the moment

1226
01:06:10,035 --> 01:06:13,659
those people who were diabetics
who needed insulin and so forth,

1227
01:06:13,693 --> 01:06:16,006
the casualties were mounting.

1228
01:06:21,322 --> 01:06:23,910
We got a call from
the governor's chief of staff

1229
01:06:23,945 --> 01:06:26,085
telling us that
Rockefeller was considering

1230
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,675
sending in the National Guard.

1231
01:06:29,709 --> 01:06:31,401
Nelson Rockefeller's office...

1232
01:06:31,435 --> 01:06:33,334
he was the governor
at the time...

1233
01:06:33,368 --> 01:06:35,612
was in pretty constant
communication

1234
01:06:35,646 --> 01:06:37,476
with the festival people,

1235
01:06:37,510 --> 01:06:39,616
and Rockefeller
was always threatening

1236
01:06:39,650 --> 01:06:43,171
to send in the troops.

1237
01:06:43,206 --> 01:06:44,873
They said it was a danger to the community,

1238
01:06:44,897 --> 01:06:46,554
it was a danger
to public health,

1239
01:06:46,588 --> 01:06:48,763
it was a danger to any
damn thing they could think of.

1240
01:06:48,797 --> 01:06:50,282
They wanted to get rid of it.

1241
01:06:50,316 --> 01:06:51,604
And they were stupid enough
to believe

1242
01:06:51,628 --> 01:06:53,319
they could mobilize
the National Guard

1243
01:06:53,354 --> 01:06:54,562
and move these kids out.

1244
01:06:54,596 --> 01:06:56,288
And I kept saying,

1245
01:06:56,322 --> 01:06:58,083
"There's only one way
to do this,

1246
01:06:58,117 --> 01:07:00,257
and that's play it through."

1247
01:07:00,292 --> 01:07:02,132
In the end, there was
an assistant to the governor

1248
01:07:02,156 --> 01:07:03,743
who got it,

1249
01:07:03,778 --> 01:07:06,953
and he said, "What can we do?"

1250
01:07:09,301 --> 01:07:14,064
Why are there
Army helicopters flying overhead?

1251
01:07:14,099 --> 01:07:17,723
You know, it looked like what
I saw on the news every night

1252
01:07:17,757 --> 01:07:22,728
in, you know,
the pictures from Vietnam.

1253
01:07:22,762 --> 01:07:26,352
Seeing that they were military helicopters

1254
01:07:26,387 --> 01:07:28,113
was very disconcerting.

1255
01:07:28,147 --> 01:07:30,908
We didn't know really
why they were flying in.

1256
01:07:30,943 --> 01:07:34,222
You know, is this the start
of a militarization

1257
01:07:34,257 --> 01:07:37,605
to close this thing down?

1258
01:07:37,639 --> 01:07:39,710
I was standing onstage,

1259
01:07:39,745 --> 01:07:42,437
and I could see these Hueys
coming in.

1260
01:07:42,472 --> 01:07:45,130
There were three or four of them
in a row.

1261
01:07:45,164 --> 01:07:48,029
And all I said was,
"Ladies and gentlemen,

1262
01:07:48,064 --> 01:07:50,100
the United States Army."

1263
01:07:50,135 --> 01:07:52,768
The United States
Army has lent us some medical teams.

1264
01:07:52,792 --> 01:07:58,833
There are 45 doctors
who are here without pay

1265
01:07:58,867 --> 01:08:01,318
because they dig
what this is into.

1266
01:08:01,353 --> 01:08:02,630
They are with us, man.

1267
01:08:02,664 --> 01:08:04,839
They are not against us,
they are with us.

1268
01:08:04,873 --> 01:08:07,738
They're here to give us all
a hand and help us.

1269
01:08:11,087 --> 01:08:14,331
That sound system was
the only source of communication

1270
01:08:14,366 --> 01:08:15,677
we had with the audience.

1271
01:08:15,712 --> 01:08:16,792
Elliot from Harvard,

1272
01:08:16,816 --> 01:08:17,828
the hitchhikers you picked up

1273
01:08:17,852 --> 01:08:19,129
need the pills from your car.

1274
01:08:19,164 --> 01:08:22,270
Please go to the
information station right away.

1275
01:08:22,305 --> 01:08:23,661
What started happening was,

1276
01:08:23,685 --> 01:08:26,136
people would bring messages
to backstage.

1277
01:08:26,171 --> 01:08:27,458
And we did as many of them
as we could

1278
01:08:27,482 --> 01:08:28,725
in between performances.

1279
01:08:28,759 --> 01:08:30,071
Sidney McGee,

1280
01:08:30,106 --> 01:08:32,349
please come immediately
to backstage right.

1281
01:08:32,384 --> 01:08:34,834
I understand
your wife is having a baby.

1282
01:08:34,869 --> 01:08:36,146
Congratulations.

1283
01:08:36,181 --> 01:08:38,079
Wheat Germ,

1284
01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:40,668
Holly has your bag
with your medicine.

1285
01:08:40,702 --> 01:08:42,152
Please meet
at the information booth

1286
01:08:42,187 --> 01:08:43,636
as soon as you can, please.

1287
01:08:43,671 --> 01:08:47,192
The information booth became a center.

1288
01:08:47,226 --> 01:08:48,883
And we just said to people,

1289
01:08:48,917 --> 01:08:52,852
"If you're looking for somebody,
you got to go up there."

1290
01:08:52,887 --> 01:08:56,028
Everybody would put messages on it.

1291
01:08:56,062 --> 01:08:57,547
So if you're looking
for somebody,

1292
01:08:57,581 --> 01:08:59,135
or you're trying to get
a ride home,

1293
01:08:59,169 --> 01:09:00,515
or, or whatever,

1294
01:09:00,550 --> 01:09:03,173
you could stick stuff up
on there.

1295
01:09:03,208 --> 01:09:05,658
Larry Alexander,
Cousin Al is sick.

1296
01:09:05,693 --> 01:09:07,902
Meet near
the information center.

1297
01:09:07,936 --> 01:09:09,800
We took a lot of phone calls

1298
01:09:09,835 --> 01:09:11,147
from worried parents,

1299
01:09:11,181 --> 01:09:13,287
wondering what was happening
up there.

1300
01:09:13,321 --> 01:09:15,185
And, you know,
if it was, like, "Call home,"

1301
01:09:15,220 --> 01:09:16,807
we'd relay it to the stage.

1302
01:09:16,842 --> 01:09:18,188
Helen Savage,

1303
01:09:18,223 --> 01:09:19,396
please call your father

1304
01:09:19,431 --> 01:09:22,227
at the Motel Glory in Woodridge.

1305
01:09:22,261 --> 01:09:26,438
I definitely wondered
if my parents were watching

1306
01:09:26,472 --> 01:09:28,474
and what they thought.

1307
01:09:28,509 --> 01:09:31,684
Because after Friday,
I'd had no contact

1308
01:09:31,719 --> 01:09:34,100
with anybody
from the outside world.

1309
01:09:34,135 --> 01:09:35,654
The Daily News,

1310
01:09:35,688 --> 01:09:38,588
in rather large headlines,

1311
01:09:38,622 --> 01:09:41,729
"Traffic Uptight at Hippiefest."

1312
01:09:41,763 --> 01:09:42,947
The stage announcements

1313
01:09:42,971 --> 01:09:45,595
really became our news radio.

1314
01:09:45,629 --> 01:09:47,079
How we found out

1315
01:09:47,113 --> 01:09:49,288
what the outside world
was paying attention to.

1316
01:09:49,323 --> 01:09:52,671
And they would've thought
it was an utter disaster,

1317
01:09:52,705 --> 01:09:56,019
from what they were seeing
in the news and stuff.

1318
01:10:14,969 --> 01:10:18,179
The world expects this to explode.

1319
01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:21,389
And I remember thinking
to myself, "This is perfect."

1320
01:10:21,424 --> 01:10:23,744
Because there's nothing kids
like better than to disappoint

1321
01:10:23,771 --> 01:10:26,118
what the world thinks
they're going to do.

1322
01:10:26,152 --> 01:10:29,811
Ladies and gentlemen, Keef Hartley.

1323
01:10:42,755 --> 01:10:45,413
Late afternoon,
the sun came out, and it was hot.

1324
01:10:45,448 --> 01:10:49,037
And we walked around a bit,
because we got hungry.

1325
01:10:49,072 --> 01:10:52,662
And we quickly discovered
there was no food.

1326
01:10:52,696 --> 01:10:55,285
All the booths were out of food.

1327
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,356
There was nothing.

1328
01:10:57,391 --> 01:10:59,910
We ran out of food.

1329
01:10:59,945 --> 01:11:04,294
Delivery trucks could not get
through the traffic jams,

1330
01:11:04,329 --> 01:11:05,606
so there was no more food.

1331
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:09,713
No soda, no burgers,
no hot dogs, no nothing.

1332
01:11:09,748 --> 01:11:13,234
And then word spread very fast.

1333
01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:15,995
Sure,
there was a sanitation crisis,

1334
01:11:16,030 --> 01:11:17,756
and there was a medical crisis,

1335
01:11:17,790 --> 01:11:19,689
but when the food started to go,

1336
01:11:19,723 --> 01:11:21,518
the producers knew
that this could turn

1337
01:11:21,553 --> 01:11:24,763
into an even more immense
problem.

1338
01:11:24,797 --> 01:11:28,491
But something really incredible
happened.

1339
01:11:28,525 --> 01:11:30,631
The people of White Lake
and Bethel

1340
01:11:30,665 --> 01:11:32,598
literally went
in their pantries.

1341
01:11:32,633 --> 01:11:34,428
Anything that was
in the refrigerator,

1342
01:11:34,462 --> 01:11:35,774
anything that was
in the freezer,

1343
01:11:35,808 --> 01:11:38,259
anything that was in the house,

1344
01:11:38,294 --> 01:11:39,502
they contributed.

1345
01:11:39,536 --> 01:11:43,057
We got word over WVOS

1346
01:11:43,091 --> 01:11:45,197
that a lot of kids didn't have
anything to eat.

1347
01:11:45,231 --> 01:11:46,854
Stuff was taken over
to the school,

1348
01:11:46,888 --> 01:11:49,753
and they flew it to the,
to the site.

1349
01:11:49,788 --> 01:11:52,342
I have a 19-year-old myself,

1350
01:11:52,377 --> 01:11:57,071
I felt that we got to
give them a, a fair shake here.

1351
01:11:57,105 --> 01:12:00,626
Kids are hungry,
you got to feed them.

1352
01:12:00,661 --> 01:12:04,906
Those helicopters were going over constantly.

1353
01:12:04,941 --> 01:12:07,737
And also a lot of the neighbors
were involved

1354
01:12:07,771 --> 01:12:09,186
in efforts to make sandwiches

1355
01:12:09,221 --> 01:12:13,225
and get them to the,
to the helicopters.

1356
01:12:13,259 --> 01:12:15,168
It was on the radio,
"Bring whatever you can."

1357
01:12:15,192 --> 01:12:17,333
And I decided,
we'll just send eggs,

1358
01:12:17,367 --> 01:12:19,369
because it's an egg area.

1359
01:12:19,404 --> 01:12:20,715
I tapped people for donations.

1360
01:12:20,750 --> 01:12:23,028
I said, "Look,
give me cases of eggs."

1361
01:12:23,062 --> 01:12:26,894
So we hard-boiled hundreds
of thousands of eggs.

1362
01:12:26,928 --> 01:12:28,285
We would never have said,

1363
01:12:28,309 --> 01:12:30,000
"We don't want any part of you,
leave.

1364
01:12:30,035 --> 01:12:32,348
I don't care
if you're hungry or starving."

1365
01:12:32,382 --> 01:12:35,868
That was not our communities.

1366
01:12:35,903 --> 01:12:37,905
Maybe we were hicks,
but we did go,

1367
01:12:37,939 --> 01:12:41,322
as the Bible says,
welcome the stranger.

1368
01:12:41,357 --> 01:12:42,599
They were hungry.

1369
01:12:42,634 --> 01:12:44,083
We fed them.

1370
01:12:45,568 --> 01:12:46,776
Helicopters came in

1371
01:12:46,810 --> 01:12:49,710
with anything
people wanted to donate.

1372
01:12:49,744 --> 01:12:51,988
Like little bags
of picnic supplies

1373
01:12:52,022 --> 01:12:55,716
or green beans...
even a tiny can of olives.

1374
01:12:55,750 --> 01:12:57,614
You know, I just, "Yes!

1375
01:12:57,649 --> 01:12:59,236
"Bring it on!

1376
01:12:59,271 --> 01:13:04,380
We can take it and make it
into food for the masses."

1377
01:13:04,414 --> 01:13:07,624
The Hog Farm had set up this huge kitchen,

1378
01:13:07,659 --> 01:13:10,524
and they were boiling brown rice

1379
01:13:10,558 --> 01:13:12,215
and frying up vegetables,

1380
01:13:12,249 --> 01:13:14,666
and it was fabulous.

1381
01:13:21,466 --> 01:13:25,159
I found out about the Hog Farm serving food

1382
01:13:25,193 --> 01:13:27,368
from the guy that sat next
to me.

1383
01:13:27,403 --> 01:13:30,198
He says, "Yeah, man,
they got free food up there.

1384
01:13:30,233 --> 01:13:32,511
You just, just go up there
and get in line."

1385
01:13:34,444 --> 01:13:39,035
I and one of my friends offer to help,

1386
01:13:39,069 --> 01:13:42,176
and they just put us on a pot,

1387
01:13:42,210 --> 01:13:44,903
and we, we scooped it
for people.

1388
01:13:46,283 --> 01:13:48,389
It was kind of cool to feel
like, "Wow,

1389
01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:52,082
"I'm helpless here,
as are most of these people,

1390
01:13:52,117 --> 01:13:55,051
"but there are people
who are taking care of us,

1391
01:13:55,085 --> 01:13:59,711
and in a sense, we're
taking care of each other."

1392
01:13:59,745 --> 01:14:02,265
People were good to one another.

1393
01:14:02,299 --> 01:14:05,233
I would see,
I would see people

1394
01:14:05,268 --> 01:14:06,821
passing around a Coke
or something;

1395
01:14:06,856 --> 01:14:09,306
other people were sharing
their food.

1396
01:14:10,653 --> 01:14:12,793
Everybody around us had something,

1397
01:14:12,827 --> 01:14:15,036
and we just passed everything
around.

1398
01:14:15,071 --> 01:14:16,831
It was like the loaves
and the fishes,

1399
01:14:16,866 --> 01:14:19,109
it really was.

1400
01:14:19,144 --> 01:14:23,528
This was actually kind of a functioning city

1401
01:14:23,562 --> 01:14:25,771
out in the middle of nowhere,

1402
01:14:25,806 --> 01:14:27,808
and we realized
that it was functioning

1403
01:14:27,842 --> 01:14:32,019
because of people
pulling together.

1404
01:14:32,053 --> 01:14:36,023
It just had this feeling
that, "This was ours.

1405
01:14:36,057 --> 01:14:37,783
"This was the new city.

1406
01:14:37,818 --> 01:14:41,442
This was the alternative city,
and it worked."

1407
01:14:55,421 --> 01:14:58,252
Saturday afternoon,
the show was good.

1408
01:14:58,286 --> 01:15:01,427
But Saturday night,
we really came up to speed

1409
01:15:01,462 --> 01:15:03,153
when the sun went down.

1410
01:15:03,188 --> 01:15:07,054
♪ Well, the little red rooster
told the little brown hen ♪

1411
01:15:07,088 --> 01:15:09,815
♪ "Meet you at the barn
about a half past ten" ♪

1412
01:15:09,850 --> 01:15:11,748
♪ Sing a last
little boogie... ♪

1413
01:15:11,783 --> 01:15:15,718
I guess we got to a point
where we felt more comfortable,

1414
01:15:15,752 --> 01:15:18,686
and maybe we were proving

1415
01:15:18,721 --> 01:15:20,041
to the press
and the outside world

1416
01:15:20,067 --> 01:15:21,931
that we knew what we were doing,

1417
01:15:21,965 --> 01:15:23,208
and that this was special,

1418
01:15:23,242 --> 01:15:24,968
that there was
some kind of magic here.

1419
01:15:25,003 --> 01:15:27,695
And I would say that probably
gave us the second wind.

1420
01:15:29,248 --> 01:15:31,354
I was sort of in a daze.

1421
01:15:31,388 --> 01:15:33,770
You'd been listening,
watching music

1422
01:15:33,805 --> 01:15:35,531
starting in the afternoon

1423
01:15:35,565 --> 01:15:38,016
and going pretty much
all through the night.

1424
01:15:38,050 --> 01:15:40,777
There's no way
you couldn't get oversaturated

1425
01:15:40,812 --> 01:15:42,848
with the stimulus.

1426
01:15:42,883 --> 01:15:44,470
♪ I want to take you higher

1427
01:15:44,505 --> 01:15:45,920
♪ Higher

1428
01:15:45,955 --> 01:15:47,001
♪ I want to take you higher

1429
01:15:47,025 --> 01:15:48,405
For me,

1430
01:15:48,440 --> 01:15:51,167
the most memorable performance
that night

1431
01:15:51,201 --> 01:15:52,548
was Sly and the Family Stone.

1432
01:15:52,582 --> 01:15:54,273
♪ I want to take you higher

1433
01:15:54,308 --> 01:15:56,586
The music, yes,
but the, the crowd

1434
01:15:56,621 --> 01:16:01,384
and just feeling
this incredible electricity.

1435
01:16:01,418 --> 01:16:03,593
I mean,
it was the middle of the night,

1436
01:16:03,628 --> 01:16:06,596
and everybody was up dancing.

1437
01:16:06,631 --> 01:16:09,185
It was just a pulsing hillside

1438
01:16:09,219 --> 01:16:12,084
of hundreds of thousands
of people.

1439
01:16:15,191 --> 01:16:16,779
♪ I want to take you higher

1440
01:16:16,813 --> 01:16:18,263
♪ Higher

1441
01:16:18,297 --> 01:16:19,954
♪ I want to take you higher

1442
01:16:19,989 --> 01:16:21,749
♪ Higher

1443
01:16:24,614 --> 01:16:26,374
I was in front of the stage,

1444
01:16:26,409 --> 01:16:28,618
shooting it,
you know, taking pictures.

1445
01:16:28,653 --> 01:16:30,275
Roger Daltrey, up there,

1446
01:16:30,309 --> 01:16:34,003
with fringe on his cape
flying around.

1447
01:16:34,037 --> 01:16:35,625
And he'd twirl that microphone
around,

1448
01:16:35,660 --> 01:16:37,385
and, you know,
he would just miss the floor,

1449
01:16:37,420 --> 01:16:39,156
and then it would come arcing
through the air,

1450
01:16:39,180 --> 01:16:40,734
and he'd grab it just in time,

1451
01:16:40,768 --> 01:16:42,114
you know, to get into,

1452
01:16:42,149 --> 01:16:45,324
"Talkin' 'bout my generation."

1453
01:16:45,359 --> 01:16:46,992
And then there was Townshend
leaping in the air,

1454
01:16:47,016 --> 01:16:49,777
and doing his splits,
and landing on stage.

1455
01:16:49,812 --> 01:16:52,193
♪ And don't try to dig what,
what, what we all say ♪

1456
01:16:52,228 --> 01:16:54,299
♪ Talking 'bout my generation

1457
01:16:54,333 --> 01:16:56,784
"Talkin' 'bout my generation,"

1458
01:16:56,819 --> 01:16:59,684
and that was my generation.

1459
01:16:59,718 --> 01:17:01,030
When they sang that song,

1460
01:17:01,064 --> 01:17:03,860
they, you know,
elicited this clarion call,

1461
01:17:03,895 --> 01:17:05,241
and we went,
"Rock and roll!"

1462
01:17:05,275 --> 01:17:09,072
♪ This is my generation, baby

1463
01:17:13,663 --> 01:17:18,081
The Who was absolutely fantastic,

1464
01:17:18,116 --> 01:17:20,566
and they were still playing
as the dawn came up.

1465
01:17:40,379 --> 01:17:42,554
All right, friends,
you have seen the heavy groups.

1466
01:17:42,588 --> 01:17:45,868
Now you will see
morning maniac music.

1467
01:17:45,902 --> 01:17:47,870
Believe me, yeah.

1468
01:17:47,904 --> 01:17:49,872
It's the new dawn.

1469
01:17:52,115 --> 01:17:55,878
The regular guys
and Nicky Hopkins.

1470
01:18:00,261 --> 01:18:01,549
I could barely remember our performance,

1471
01:18:01,573 --> 01:18:04,058
because it was 6:30
in the morning.

1472
01:18:04,093 --> 01:18:06,992
We just went out
and played as best we could.

1473
01:18:07,027 --> 01:18:09,108
We were pretty burned, though,
by the time we got onstage.

1474
01:18:09,132 --> 01:18:10,858
Good morning, people!

1475
01:18:10,893 --> 01:18:13,516
And we could see there
was a lot of people just asleep.

1476
01:18:13,550 --> 01:18:16,277
And the fires were starting
to go out,

1477
01:18:16,312 --> 01:18:18,935
and people were crashing.

1478
01:18:21,075 --> 01:18:23,422
I was walking around,
and everybody was sleeping.

1479
01:18:23,457 --> 01:18:29,152
I mean, people were horizontal
all over the place, you know?

1480
01:18:29,187 --> 01:18:31,154
It looked like after
a big party.

1481
01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:38,196
♪ Sunday morning

1482
01:18:38,230 --> 01:18:42,821
♪ Brings the dawn in

1483
01:18:42,856 --> 01:18:47,170
♪ It's just a restless feeling

1484
01:18:47,205 --> 01:18:52,279
♪ By my side

1485
01:18:52,313 --> 01:18:57,974
♪ Watch out,
the world's behind you ♪

1486
01:18:58,009 --> 01:18:59,365
Good morning.

1487
01:18:59,389 --> 01:19:02,185
What we have in mind
is breakfast in bed

1488
01:19:02,220 --> 01:19:05,810
for 400,000.

1489
01:19:05,844 --> 01:19:10,090
Now, it's not going to be
steak and eggs or anything,

1490
01:19:10,124 --> 01:19:13,887
but it's gonna be good food,
and we're gonna get it to you.

1491
01:19:13,921 --> 01:19:16,096
We're all feeding each other.

1492
01:19:18,339 --> 01:19:22,274
We must be in heaven, man!

1493
01:19:22,309 --> 01:19:24,207
What we served was plain raw oats

1494
01:19:24,242 --> 01:19:27,038
with honey
and powdered milk mixed up,

1495
01:19:27,072 --> 01:19:29,247
'cause it wasn't any time
to toast oats.

1496
01:19:29,281 --> 01:19:31,007
And, you know, it was just,

1497
01:19:31,042 --> 01:19:34,562
we threw nuts and seeds
and raisins in it.

1498
01:19:34,597 --> 01:19:37,358
And I think we had
ten serving stations,

1499
01:19:37,393 --> 01:19:40,189
and the lines of people in front
of each of the serving stations

1500
01:19:40,223 --> 01:19:42,225
were as long as you could see.

1501
01:19:45,366 --> 01:19:48,128
The Yasgurs supplied us
with milk and yogurt.

1502
01:19:48,162 --> 01:19:51,648
And it was just like a gift
from an angel.

1503
01:19:51,683 --> 01:19:54,928
♪ Sunday morning

1504
01:19:54,962 --> 01:19:57,862
♪ Sunday morning

1505
01:20:00,312 --> 01:20:03,143
We have a gentleman with us.

1506
01:20:03,177 --> 01:20:04,938
It's the gentleman
upon whose farm we are,

1507
01:20:04,972 --> 01:20:06,491
Mr. Max Yasgur.

1508
01:20:09,632 --> 01:20:13,498
In the early afternoon,
Max came down to the stage,

1509
01:20:13,532 --> 01:20:15,062
and he said, "I'd like to speak
to the crowd."

1510
01:20:15,086 --> 01:20:16,535
And I said,

1511
01:20:16,570 --> 01:20:20,194
"I think the crowd would
very much like to meet you."

1512
01:20:20,229 --> 01:20:21,817
Is this on?

1513
01:20:28,409 --> 01:20:31,102
I'm a farmer, I don't know...

1514
01:20:35,796 --> 01:20:39,455
I don't know how to speak
to 20 people at one time,

1515
01:20:39,489 --> 01:20:41,802
let alone a crowd like this.

1516
01:20:43,769 --> 01:20:48,878
But I think you people have
proven something to the world.

1517
01:20:48,913 --> 01:20:50,776
Not only to town of Bethel,

1518
01:20:50,811 --> 01:20:52,606
or Sullivan County,
or New York state,

1519
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,988
you've proven something
to the world.

1520
01:20:55,022 --> 01:20:59,509
The important thing
that you've proven to the world

1521
01:20:59,544 --> 01:21:02,685
is that a half a million kids...
and I call you kids,

1522
01:21:02,719 --> 01:21:05,619
because I have children
that are older than you are...

1523
01:21:05,653 --> 01:21:08,829
a half a million young people
can get together

1524
01:21:08,864 --> 01:21:12,212
and have three days
of fun and music,

1525
01:21:12,246 --> 01:21:14,559
and have nothing
but fun and music.

1526
01:21:14,593 --> 01:21:16,595
And I God bless you for it.

1527
01:21:20,151 --> 01:21:22,084
It was an affirmation, you know,

1528
01:21:22,118 --> 01:21:24,086
that instead of being angry,

1529
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:27,434
that he was that positive
about us.

1530
01:21:27,468 --> 01:21:31,403
And I'm sure that his fields
were just destroyed.

1531
01:21:31,438 --> 01:21:35,131
But if a conservative
Upstate New York farmer

1532
01:21:35,166 --> 01:21:36,236
could feel that way,

1533
01:21:36,270 --> 01:21:38,894
well, that was pretty cool.

1534
01:21:38,928 --> 01:21:43,553
In that moment, I realized,
being in the middle of it,

1535
01:21:43,588 --> 01:21:46,039
that not only was Woodstock
bigger

1536
01:21:46,073 --> 01:21:47,833
than we ever could have
imagined,

1537
01:21:47,868 --> 01:21:52,700
but it was symbolically
even bigger.

1538
01:21:57,982 --> 01:22:00,916
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Joe Cocker.

1539
01:22:00,950 --> 01:22:02,331
Let's go for Sunday!

1540
01:22:02,365 --> 01:22:04,057
Yes, yes, well,
good afternoon.

1541
01:22:04,091 --> 01:22:08,889
And this title just about
puts this all into focus.

1542
01:22:08,924 --> 01:22:11,616
It's called "With a Little Help
From My Friends."

1543
01:22:14,619 --> 01:22:21,039
♪ What would you do
if I sang out of tune ♪

1544
01:22:21,074 --> 01:22:27,045
♪ Would you stand up
and walk out on me ♪

1545
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:34,080
♪ Lend me your ears
and I'll sing you a song ♪

1546
01:22:34,535 --> 01:22:38,332
♪ I will try not to sing
out of key ♪

1547
01:22:38,367 --> 01:22:40,990
♪ Oh, baby, I get by

1548
01:22:41,025 --> 01:22:44,166
♪ By with a little help from my friends ♪

1549
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:45,788
♪ All I need is my brother

1550
01:22:45,822 --> 01:22:48,998
♪ By with a little help from my friends ♪

1551
01:22:49,033 --> 01:22:52,760
♪ Yeah, tell you,
I'm gonna try a way ♪

1552
01:22:52,795 --> 01:22:56,868
♪ By with a little help from my friends ♪

1553
01:22:56,902 --> 01:22:59,053
I really liked what
Joe Cocker was singing about,

1554
01:22:59,077 --> 01:23:04,048
because in one sense,
I had 450,000 friends.

1555
01:23:13,747 --> 01:23:16,094
When we got into "Little Help,"

1556
01:23:16,129 --> 01:23:20,029
I just felt that we'd really
caught a massive consciousness

1557
01:23:20,064 --> 01:23:22,273
in the crowd.

1558
01:23:22,307 --> 01:23:24,068
It was a powerful feeling.

1559
01:23:25,517 --> 01:23:28,382
That's Joe Cocker!

1560
01:23:28,417 --> 01:23:33,008
And then somebody yelled at me,
"Joe, look over your shoulder."

1561
01:23:35,079 --> 01:23:36,839
It was hot as could be.

1562
01:23:36,873 --> 01:23:39,876
And you look up in the sky
behind the audience,

1563
01:23:39,911 --> 01:23:42,500
and you can see
these black clouds

1564
01:23:42,534 --> 01:23:44,433
like Armageddon coming at you.

1565
01:23:44,467 --> 01:23:45,997
It looks like we're going
to get a bit of rain,

1566
01:23:46,021 --> 01:23:48,644
so you better cover up.

1567
01:23:48,678 --> 01:23:52,441
All of you up in the towers,
please come down.

1568
01:23:52,475 --> 01:23:53,866
You're making it
very, very dangerous.

1569
01:23:53,890 --> 01:23:56,203
Hanging on these big light stands

1570
01:23:56,238 --> 01:23:57,825
were a bunch of kids
who had used them

1571
01:23:57,860 --> 01:23:59,793
to get a better perch
to watch the show from.

1572
01:23:59,827 --> 01:24:05,040
People screamed, "Come down,
get down from there!"

1573
01:24:05,074 --> 01:24:07,811
All right, everybody,
just sit down, wrap yourself up.

1574
01:24:07,835 --> 01:24:11,287
We're gonna have to have
to ride it out.

1575
01:24:11,322 --> 01:24:15,912
Jody, get off the stage.

1576
01:24:15,947 --> 01:24:17,914
Get off the stage.

1577
01:24:20,158 --> 01:24:24,680
I mean,
all hell started breaking loose.

1578
01:24:24,714 --> 01:24:26,958
And then, Barry Melton
of Country Joe and the Fish

1579
01:24:26,992 --> 01:24:28,408
grabbed a mic.

1580
01:24:28,442 --> 01:24:31,204
No rain, no rain, no rain!

1581
01:24:31,238 --> 01:24:36,726
No rain,
no rain, no rain, no rain!

1582
01:24:36,761 --> 01:24:43,761
No rain, no rain, no rain,
no rain, no rain!

1583
01:24:45,459 --> 01:24:46,840
And then it hit.

1584
01:24:46,874 --> 01:24:51,258
It hit like a major,
you know, country storm.

1585
01:24:51,293 --> 01:24:55,090
It was not a tornado, but
it had that kind of feel to it.

1586
01:24:56,505 --> 01:24:58,541
Everyone scrambled
to cover equipment.

1587
01:24:58,576 --> 01:25:03,063
I mean, there was a billion
volts of equipment.

1588
01:25:03,098 --> 01:25:05,238
You wouldn't believe the amount
of electrical energy

1589
01:25:05,272 --> 01:25:07,999
on the stage
and in those towers.

1590
01:25:08,033 --> 01:25:10,864
During the storm, I learned

1591
01:25:10,898 --> 01:25:14,937
that 50,000-volt cables
had become unearthed.

1592
01:25:14,971 --> 01:25:18,630
Then we could have
a mass electrocution.

1593
01:25:18,665 --> 01:25:21,323
Fortunately, that didn't happen.

1594
01:25:26,017 --> 01:25:29,917
There were a lot of
people who had plastic and blankets.

1595
01:25:29,952 --> 01:25:31,609
Of course,
the blankets got soaked.

1596
01:25:31,643 --> 01:25:34,508
You know,
you either just covered up,

1597
01:25:34,543 --> 01:25:39,789
or you just held your head up
and enjoyed it.

1598
01:25:50,835 --> 01:25:53,803
The outside world
thought it was a disaster area.

1599
01:25:53,838 --> 01:25:57,186
Well, that's not
what we thought.

1600
01:25:57,221 --> 01:26:01,915
And so people started playing
in the mud like children.

1601
01:26:01,949 --> 01:26:04,814
It was like
they were six years old,

1602
01:26:04,849 --> 01:26:09,164
going down a waterslide
in their front yard.

1603
01:26:23,005 --> 01:26:26,871
After the rain,
the crowd really thinned out.

1604
01:26:26,905 --> 01:26:32,842
I guess a lot of people
just wanted to get back home.

1605
01:26:34,948 --> 01:26:36,950
I had to go to work the next day.

1606
01:26:36,984 --> 01:26:39,332
So, you know,
like a lot of people,

1607
01:26:39,366 --> 01:26:41,506
we hiked back to where
the car was

1608
01:26:41,541 --> 01:26:44,026
and went home.

1609
01:26:46,718 --> 01:26:49,514
For everybody at the festival,

1610
01:26:49,549 --> 01:26:53,138
battling the elements
was a constant struggle.

1611
01:26:53,173 --> 01:26:56,107
They were plagued by weather
from the get-go.

1612
01:26:56,141 --> 01:26:59,869
Then after the Sunday storm,
the site was a mess.

1613
01:26:59,904 --> 01:27:02,389
But the festival went on.

1614
01:27:04,046 --> 01:27:05,185
Marijuana!

1615
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:07,739
Country Joe and the Fish was first up.

1616
01:27:13,918 --> 01:27:16,817
There were a lot of great
performances that night.

1617
01:27:16,852 --> 01:27:19,475
But I think the one that really
stood out for most people

1618
01:27:19,510 --> 01:27:21,339
was Crosby, Stills, and Nash,

1619
01:27:21,374 --> 01:27:23,479
because it was their first time

1620
01:27:23,514 --> 01:27:24,860
they had ever performed
together.

1621
01:27:24,894 --> 01:27:26,448
...Stills, and Nash.

1622
01:27:27,932 --> 01:27:30,279
I remember being terrified.

1623
01:27:30,314 --> 01:27:33,489
Nobody had seen us get up
and sing harmony together.

1624
01:27:33,524 --> 01:27:35,284
Nobody had seen it,
this was it.

1625
01:27:35,319 --> 01:27:37,700
This was the first time.

1626
01:27:37,735 --> 01:27:40,634
♪ It's getting to the point

1627
01:27:40,669 --> 01:27:45,294
♪ Where I'm no fun anymore

1628
01:27:45,329 --> 01:27:52,128
There were moments where
the music was so mesmerizing,

1629
01:27:52,163 --> 01:27:54,786
so internalized,

1630
01:27:54,821 --> 01:27:59,308
that I became
the music I was listening to.

1631
01:27:59,343 --> 01:28:01,517
I remember sitting in the mud

1632
01:28:01,552 --> 01:28:03,726
listening to Crosby, Stills,
and Nash,

1633
01:28:03,761 --> 01:28:06,557
looking at the sheer beauty
of the night sky,

1634
01:28:06,591 --> 01:28:11,044
wrapped in a blanket of music.

1635
01:28:11,078 --> 01:28:14,737
It was the feeling of oneness
with it all.

1636
01:28:32,376 --> 01:28:35,033
The last morning of the festival,

1637
01:28:35,068 --> 01:28:38,727
I'm wandering through people
rising up out of the mud.

1638
01:28:38,761 --> 01:28:41,730
And this amazing music,
suddenly...

1639
01:28:43,973 --> 01:28:47,011
It was Jimi Hendrix just filling
my ears

1640
01:28:47,045 --> 01:28:51,395
with the wonder
of the national anthem.

1641
01:29:00,956 --> 01:29:05,478
I was backstage writing up some notes,

1642
01:29:05,512 --> 01:29:11,276
when suddenly, into my head
stabbed this sound.

1643
01:29:14,245 --> 01:29:19,250
It sounded exactly
like rockets, missiles,

1644
01:29:19,284 --> 01:29:20,527
and bombs bursting in air.

1645
01:29:22,702 --> 01:29:26,982
I'd never heard anything
like that in my life.

1646
01:29:32,850 --> 01:29:35,266
We're at the most peaceful gathering

1647
01:29:35,300 --> 01:29:38,096
that was probably happening
on the planet at the time.

1648
01:29:38,131 --> 01:29:41,237
And he hooked us up
with Vietnam.

1649
01:29:41,272 --> 01:29:46,346
It was the devastation and
the brutality and the insanity.

1650
01:29:50,074 --> 01:29:52,594
That was a quintessential piece
of art.

1651
01:30:09,369 --> 01:30:11,889
There was an essence that is indescribable.

1652
01:30:11,923 --> 01:30:13,960
You can feel it in your body,

1653
01:30:13,994 --> 01:30:16,549
you can feel it right here
in your heart,

1654
01:30:16,583 --> 01:30:18,654
when you know that this is life.

1655
01:30:18,689 --> 01:30:21,381
This is the essence of life.

1656
01:30:21,416 --> 01:30:25,109
He had it, and he gave it to us.

1657
01:30:38,950 --> 01:30:41,056
Everybody was so still.

1658
01:30:41,090 --> 01:30:45,543
Most of the crowd had left.

1659
01:30:45,578 --> 01:30:47,131
I was onstage.

1660
01:30:47,165 --> 01:30:49,236
I was shooting right next
to him.

1661
01:30:49,271 --> 01:30:51,929
Just, God, it was just a moment,
you know,

1662
01:30:51,963 --> 01:30:53,758
that was just wonderful.

1663
01:30:53,793 --> 01:30:55,277
It's his guitar ringing out.

1664
01:31:01,007 --> 01:31:03,630
And then suddenly,
it was all over.

1665
01:31:12,363 --> 01:31:18,714
The site looked like Civil
War pictures of battlefields.

1666
01:31:18,749 --> 01:31:23,443
I was terrified
I might find somebody dead.

1667
01:31:23,478 --> 01:31:27,447
And so I walked all of the site.

1668
01:31:27,482 --> 01:31:31,278
And it stank, it really stank.

1669
01:31:31,313 --> 01:31:34,454
There were just a few people
wandering around.

1670
01:31:34,489 --> 01:31:35,766
Nobody injured, nobody dead.

1671
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:38,631
A great relief.

1672
01:31:38,665 --> 01:31:42,255
And then we started
the cleanup.

1673
01:31:42,289 --> 01:31:44,982
What was left behind was this incredible sea

1674
01:31:45,016 --> 01:31:49,262
of soggy, wet sleeping bags
and cardboard boxes

1675
01:31:49,296 --> 01:31:50,746
and tents that were all,
you know,

1676
01:31:50,781 --> 01:31:52,610
knocked down and trampled on.

1677
01:31:52,645 --> 01:31:56,959
All this flotsam and jetsam.

1678
01:31:58,202 --> 01:31:59,893
We stayed for a while,

1679
01:31:59,928 --> 01:32:02,206
helping clean up trash.

1680
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:08,143
There were a lot of people
out there helping clean up.

1681
01:32:11,111 --> 01:32:14,667
We so did not want to leave.

1682
01:32:14,701 --> 01:32:18,187
We kind of sensed
that, you know,

1683
01:32:18,222 --> 01:32:20,983
we could change the world
for three days,

1684
01:32:21,018 --> 01:32:23,572
but the rest of the world
wasn't with us,

1685
01:32:23,607 --> 01:32:27,576
and we knew that it was going
to be a real culture shock

1686
01:32:27,611 --> 01:32:30,303
coming back into society.

1687
01:32:30,337 --> 01:32:35,998
More than 350,000 people
came looking for peace and music.

1688
01:32:36,033 --> 01:32:39,346
Many said they learned a lot
about themselves

1689
01:32:39,381 --> 01:32:42,487
and learned a lot
about getting along together

1690
01:32:42,522 --> 01:32:43,972
and priorities.

1691
01:32:44,006 --> 01:32:47,700
And for most, that alone
makes it all worthwhile.

1692
01:32:50,530 --> 01:32:55,673
We realized that we
were part of this amazing event

1693
01:32:55,708 --> 01:32:59,677
that nothing like it
ever was before.

1694
01:32:59,712 --> 01:33:04,682
The festival became a symbol
of intelligence and humanity

1695
01:33:04,717 --> 01:33:09,860
and cooperation and love
and affection.

1696
01:33:09,894 --> 01:33:14,036
It was the start
of a phenomenal change

1697
01:33:14,071 --> 01:33:17,488
in a lot of people's lives.

1698
01:33:17,522 --> 01:33:21,009
When I realized,
Friday night and Saturday morning,

1699
01:33:21,043 --> 01:33:24,875
that we were getting up close
to the half-a-million mark,

1700
01:33:24,909 --> 01:33:28,568
and there was a sea of people
here,

1701
01:33:28,603 --> 01:33:30,812
I became
quite apprehensive.

1702
01:33:30,846 --> 01:33:32,227
Uh...

1703
01:33:32,261 --> 01:33:35,023
Thoughts flashed
through my mind

1704
01:33:35,057 --> 01:33:39,372
of some other problems that they
have had throughout the country.

1705
01:33:39,406 --> 01:33:41,305
And these kids,

1706
01:33:41,339 --> 01:33:44,688
these young people
made me feel guilty today,

1707
01:33:44,722 --> 01:33:46,275
because there were no problems.

1708
01:33:46,310 --> 01:33:50,383
They proved to me, and they
proved to the whole world

1709
01:33:50,417 --> 01:33:51,878
that they didn't come up
for any problems.

1710
01:33:51,902 --> 01:33:53,351
They came up

1711
01:33:53,386 --> 01:33:54,846
for exactly what they said
they were coming up for,

1712
01:33:54,870 --> 01:33:57,942
for three days
of music and peace.

1713
01:33:57,977 --> 01:34:04,293
It was a mark in cosmic time.

1714
01:34:04,328 --> 01:34:06,882
I have no doubt about that.

1715
01:34:06,917 --> 01:34:09,298
I'm not saying
it never happened before

1716
01:34:09,333 --> 01:34:12,129
or that it couldn't happen
in the future.

1717
01:34:12,163 --> 01:34:18,894
But that, that stopped
the clocks for three days.

1718
01:34:18,929 --> 01:34:22,967
I felt like I had finally
gotten to fully experience

1719
01:34:23,002 --> 01:34:28,593
what I was hoping
the counterculture meant.

1720
01:34:28,628 --> 01:34:31,251
Woodstock was
a very powerful confirmation

1721
01:34:31,286 --> 01:34:33,426
that, "Yeah, this is
what you're looking for,

1722
01:34:33,460 --> 01:34:38,189
and that you're headed
in the right direction."

1723
01:34:40,433 --> 01:34:42,435
Everyone looking after one another,

1724
01:34:42,469 --> 01:34:44,644
everybody caring
about one another.

1725
01:34:44,679 --> 01:34:48,406
I mean, once I experienced that,

1726
01:34:48,441 --> 01:34:53,273
I made it the basis
for the whole rest of my life.

1727
01:35:01,385 --> 01:35:05,251
At Woodstock,
we tried to let the audience know,

1728
01:35:05,285 --> 01:35:06,977
in every way that we could,

1729
01:35:07,011 --> 01:35:09,807
that we believed in them.

1730
01:35:09,842 --> 01:35:13,638
That inside them
was a loving nature,

1731
01:35:13,673 --> 01:35:19,092
a decency,
and a fineness of spirit.

1732
01:35:19,127 --> 01:35:21,198
You can forget it sometimes,

1733
01:35:21,232 --> 01:35:27,169
but very few of us
want to be other than that.

1734
01:35:27,204 --> 01:35:29,206
You just need the opportunity.

1735
01:35:52,574 --> 01:35:58,545
♪ In the chilly hours
and minutes of uncertainty ♪

1736
01:35:58,580 --> 01:36:05,580
♪ I want to be in the warm heart
of your loving mind ♪

1737
01:36:07,900 --> 01:36:12,318
♪ To feel you all around me

1738
01:36:12,352 --> 01:36:16,805
♪ And to take your hand
along the sand ♪

1739
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:23,840
♪ Ah, but I may as well try
and catch the wind ♪

1740
01:36:24,848 --> 01:36:29,335
♪ When sundown pales the sky

1741
01:36:29,369 --> 01:36:32,407
♪ I want to hide a while
behind your smile ♪

1742
01:36:32,441 --> 01:36:38,689
♪ And everywhere I'd look,
your eyes I'd find ♪

1743
01:36:41,657 --> 01:36:47,871
♪ For me to love you now
would be the sweetest thing ♪

1744
01:36:47,905 --> 01:36:49,527
♪ 'Twould make me sing

1745
01:36:49,562 --> 01:36:56,562
♪ Ah, but I may as well try
and catch the wind ♪

1746
01:37:09,409 --> 01:37:12,412
♪ When rain has hung the leaves
with tears ♪

1747
01:37:12,447 --> 01:37:17,348
♪ I want you near
to kill my fears ♪

1748
01:37:17,383 --> 01:37:21,559
♪ To help me to leave
all my blues behind... ♪