Dorin Razam-Grunfeld, Original Score By I didn’t realize that at first. Kurt Galvao I think one of them had some kind of food catering experience. Written By Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend, “Naked Eye” Courtesy Of Sanctuary Records Group Ltd. Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Susan Reynolds, Festival Attendee (voice of): We were 400,000 kids on a hillside who all were vehemently against the war, and you know for me it was like, these are our people! I think we had ten serving stations, and the lines of people in front of each of the serving stations were as long as you could see. A scene from the upcoming HBO Max documentary on Woodstock '99. The only thing that we took solace in was music, and there was a lot of politically conscious music we were listening to. Written By Donovan Leitch Anything that was in the refrigerator, anything that was in the freezer, anything that was in the house, they contributed. Jamila Ephron It’s really beautiful. The hardest parts hearing about is the deaths and the sexual assaults/rapes…it’s disturbing. Dueto the traffic problems, we’re going to have to start a little later. It was magical. We were pretty burned though, by the time we got onstage. PBS. When they sang that song, they elicited this clarion call and we went, rock and roll. I had one in each pocket, one in my ear, and I was smoking two at a time. Dola Baroni And I kept saying there’s only one way to do this, and that’s play it through. We didn’t know each other, but we were all part of it. Reelin’ In The Years And they said, “Why?” and I said, “Well, I’m going to Woodstock.”. Performed By Jefferson Airplane He had it, and he gave it to us. Especially our political views. A property in Saugerties didn’t work out. No rain! And he had this idea of taking the festival out of the racetrack and putting it in a bucolic place. They were plagued by weather from the get-go. Lisa Law Productions And jeez, three days! Bob Spitz,Writer (voice of): Once the artists started arriving, the first band to arrive was Sweetwater, followed by the acoustic acts. Before long, we felt like we had hundreds ofbest friends. Published By F.S. Wavy Gravy: The stewardesses locked themselves in a little room, and we just took over the plane. And if we don’t have a stage we’ll be in jail because there will be 100,000 kids running around with nothing to do. Presents recollections from more than forty of the film's primary crew members and festival musicians Music had our ideas. They wanted to get rid of it. And then John and I found a piece of property that was in Wallkill that was being turned into an industrial park. Barnard Collier, Journalist (voice of):Hanging on these big light stands were a bunch of kids who had used them to get a better perch to watch the show from. Morris (archival, with Kornfeld and Lang): You are now giving the world’s greatest three-day freebie. Jon Jaboolian: You got drawn into this music. This isn’t the first documentary about Woodstock ’99. Mike Eisgrau Laureen Starobin: Everybody around us had something and we just passed everything around. We didn’t get the Stones, or Dylan, or The Doors, but we booked a lot of the acts we wanted to, including The Who and Jimi Hendrix. Have you attended a glorious, mythmaking concert to mark the occasion? Mimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood. But clearly, politics was at the center of the counterculture, because the one thing that affected everybody, was the war in Vietnam, News Anchor (archival): Last week’s casualty figures in the Vietnam war, released today, showed 299 Americans killed, 355…. His dairy supplied almost everybody in that area with milk. The HBO documentary "Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage" examines that event -- described as morphing from a comedy into a horror film -- and … What experiences and stories did they carry with them to Bethel, New York that weekend, and how were they changed by three days in the muck and mire of Yasgur’s farm? Published By Emi Unart Catalogue Inc. The Mafia. Arthur Vassmer, Grocer: That’s all you heard on the radio, Woodstock, town of Bethel, Woodstock. Bell Sound, Los Angeles, Ca Performed By Tim Buckley So yeah, freedom on a lot of levels. Wade Lawrence Marching to the Concord war, hey marching to the Concord war. Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.. And you know, if it was like, “call home,” we’d relay it to the station. Tom Law, Member, Hog Farm (voice of): And then it hit. I would see, I would see people passing around a coke, or something. Laureen Starobin, Festival Attendee (voice of): The shock of it was just, devastating, absolutely devastating. Wavy Gravy: We realized that we were part of this amazing event that nothing like it ever was before. Now you take care of her.” And that’s the way the scene regenerated itself. Rick Dills Sly and the Family Stone: I want to take you higher, higher... Henry Diltz: I was in front of the stage, shooting it, you know, taking pictures. One major assertion of the documentary is that the free 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, as Gladys Knight put it, “wasn’t just about the music”—it was about community, and society, and a moment in history. But I think the one that really stood out for most people was Crosby, Stills and Nash, because it was the first time they had ever performed together. Buffalo Springfield (archival):There something happening here. Instead of showing the beautiful things about the event, this report … My bass player isn’t even here. © Jim Marshall Photography Llc 2021-07-16T08:20+0000 Roger Daltrey, up there with fringe on his cape flying around. Henry Diltz: Everybody was so still. Reporter (archival, hog farm arrival): What is the Hog Farm going to be doing at Woodstock? Henry Diltz: What was left behind was this incredible sea of soggy wet sleeping bags, and cardboard boxes and tents that were all you know, knocked down and trampled on. Joel Makower: Michael had had a head shop in Miami, in Coconut Grove, the center of activity for the hippie culture down there. Maria Esponda It was not a tornado, but it had that kind of feel to it. We used Monterey Pop’s record, 28,000 people a day, or something like that, as the baseline. Katherine Daye: The Hog Farm had set up this huge kitchen and they were boiling brown rice and frying up vegetables and. Paul George, Festival Attendee (voice of): It was a good word to use. And this amazing music, suddenly, pshh! © Barry Z Levine If you were one of the music fans who paid $150 and made the approximately hour-and-forty-minute drive from Albany to Rome in July of 1999 for the second reboot of the Woodstock festival, you might have just spent the last 22 years trying to forget that Woodstock ’99 ever happened. SOT: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the three-day Aquarian Exposition, will be held at White Lake, in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. They were really nice people. Ktvu Channel 2 News, Fox Television Stations, Llc.™ © 1968. I’m putting down that I’m a bedwetter, that I’m a homosexual, that I’m a communist. There were a lot of great performances that weekend. Paul George: The stage announcements really became our news radio. Ben Morea Radio (archival): This site is hard to believe. Published By T C F Music Publishing, Inc. (Ascap) Original title: Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage. Kron Taking Woodstock. Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. In the end there was an assistant to the governor who got it, and he said, “what can we do?”. So we had, uh a kind of secret communication going in the river of music that flowed through us. By Arrangement With Fat Possum Records, “Green Onions” Canned Heat (archival): “Rollin and Tumblin, I cried the whole night long…”. David Marks - 3rd Ear Music John Roberts, Producer (voice of):Joel and I went up to get some kind of handle on the town politics. Robert Andreano Peter Beren: We would pack as many hitchhikers as we could in the car, sitting on top of each other. Performed By Santana, “Spanish Fly” Michael Lindsey, Festival Attendee (voice of): The first day of the festival, there were a lot of people there. And then, Barry Melton of Country Joe & the Fish grabbed the mic--. Especially down by the water. Woodstock 99: Peace Love and Rage: Directed by Garret Price. You know, don’t do this to me. The book captures the performers, personalities, audience, excitement, mood, and action from the beginning——the conversion of Max Yasgur's cow pasture into the world famous iconic site all the way through three days of fun, sun, and ... Peter Beren, Festival Attendee (voice of): The roar that went up from that crowd was incredible. The documentary will be produced by Raw, the masterminds behind the Netflix documentaries Don’t F**k with Cats and Fear City: New York vs. You know, the understanding that the people around me are all part of the same spirit. Reprise Records And also a lot of the neighbors were involved in efforts to make sandwiches and get them to the helicopters. Bruno Eliard, Festival Attendee (voice of) - subtitles: I was just 20 years old, and I was passionate about music. Rick Dills: Seeing that they were military helicopters was very disconcerting. An illustrated tour of fashion trends at selected summer music festivals in the U.S. Five weeks before the festival, Max Yasgur, a dairy farmer agreed to host Woodstock on his property. Bob Spitz: Wallkill was a pretty conservative place. He was always clapping his hands over his ears and just saying, ‘”Damn hippies!”, Bob Dylan (archival):Come gather 'round people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown, and accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone…, Michael Lindsey: Dylan’s song The Times They Are A Changin’ basically said to our parents’ generation “get out of the new way if you can’t lend a hand.”. Ladies and gentlemen, Quill! Bob Spitz, Writer (voice of): They always knew that there were going to be medical problems and they had prepared themselves as best they could. This shining place that you could go to, and feel that you weren’t a misfit, or that you weren’t on the wrong side of a debate, or that you weren’t under the suspicious eye of the authorities. It’s gonna blow through. But although the film is clearly criticizing all it portrays, it can’t help but attest to the demonic talent of figures such as Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst. Paul George, Festival Attendee (voice of): I quit my job at the restaurant in Ocean City with no notice. Pennebaker Hegedus Films There was the Berkeley Barb and The Rat and the Village Voice, and word about the festival poured out, not just to New York where they thought they would draw the most people from, but all across the United States. Michael Lang, Producer (voice of):I had been thinking about doing a series of concerts in Woodstock. Ticia Agri, Festival Staff (voice of): I’d go there in the middle of the night and people were building the stage. Performed By Buffalo Springfield, “Going Up The Country” This is going to be so cool! Susan Reynolds: You know he was out there espousing peace and fighting against poverty and racism and all the things that we believed in and wanted so deeply. I came to the San Francisco Bay Area in June ’67, and there was music everywhere. You wanna go to this?’. Atlantic Records I think there were 14 things in all that I had written down. - this is the version you'll get on home video these days. The documentary plays out in a straightforward manner, detailing the desire from Woodstock creatives Michael Lang and John Schuer to do another multi-day music festival in … Perhaps Foo Fighters reopening Madison Square Garden gave you chills, or maybe you air-tromboned to the band Chicago at New Jersey’s first big comeback show (NJ.com’s review: “Enjoyment came in many forms Thursday night”). John Morris: Saturday afternoon, the show was good. So, you know, like a lot of other people, we hiked back to where the car was and went home. Kevin Peters, Dialogue Editors The Village Voice Bill Simmons, co-creator of ESPN’s documentary strand 30 for 30, is turning his attention to music documentaries for his latest project. Capitol Records I just couldn’t understand it. The infamous Woodstock 99 music festival was a literal s---show, according to a new HBO documentary. I’m not saying that it never happened before or that it couldn't happen in the future. It is backed up from White Lake right back through on the Quickway past Monticello, and there is no place to park. We’re up over the tree now. There were three or four of them in a row. Jon Jaboolian: Everybody would put messages on it. Michael Lindsey Katherine Daye, Festival Attendee (voice of): A whole bunch of them came on all these exotic busses that they had painted up. Katherine Daye (voice of): The more that we as a generation saw that what had been rammed down our throats was false - it was false, it was a lie - the more it freed us up to experiment. The atmosphere was super friendly. TFV Patreon is Here for Eve... – Listen to The Green Knight//Jungle Cruise//Woodstock 99//Shiva Baby by The Film Vault instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed. We hit it off, and uh, we thought we’d go into business together, investing this money that I had. Courtesy Of Universal Records Under License From Universal Music Enterprises, “The Pusher” Wes Pomeroy, Head of Security (voice of):To see what was really happening we sent people to almost all the major rock festivals that summer. It is true that seeing your favorite musician perform “is the most life-affirming experience,” as Dave Grohl wrote for this publication early in the pandemic. Published By Icebag Corp. (Bmi) Carolyn Macleod, Special Projects Assistant Found inside – Page 288The iconography of Woodstock remains powerful . New versions of the concert have been staged and new documentaries made about those events , notably Barbara ... You’re making it very, very dangerous. LOVE mural. Bruno Eliard (subtitles): It really was three peaceful days filled with music. Richie Havens: Suddenly it just all came into view at once. Is this the start of a militarization to close this thing down? Wavy Gravy, Founder, Hog Farm (voice of): The “please chiefs” were myself and Tom Law, we turned it into fun. As of June 2017, here's a quick rundown of the various North American releases of the Woodstock film and special features: - 1970 theatrical release (184min.) It was the devastation and the brutality and the insanity. Rick Dills: I really liked what Joe Cocker was singing about because in one sense, I had 450,000 friends. That was you three hours ago. Courtesy Of Merge Records What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me? Mel Lawrence, Director of Operations (voice of): I was walking around and everybody was sleeping. This summer has been a boon for music documentaries, and joining the fray is a new film about the infamous Woodstock 1999 festival – titled Woodstock 99: … Of course, the blankets got soaked. Barbara Bedick Does it hold up? Performed By Richie Havens, “Highway Anxiety” Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. One time they said 25,000 and then it was 50,000 and then they don’t know and it got to the point where, uh, we started to get a little worried about it. It may seem incoherent to portray attendees of Woodstock ’99 simultaneously as toxically masculine terrors and righteous anti-capitalists. Joel Rosenman: We were all in our mid-twenties. It just brought the spirit right up and you felt ‘OK, this is gonna work. Nobody had seen us get up and sing harmony together. WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, 2019 and opened in select theaters on May 24, 2019. Stage announcement: Wheat Germ: Holly has your bag with your medicine. This movie … It was mind-boggling. Glaxosmithkline Inc. It was fabulous. That’s what it is. The documentary Summer Of Soul, which opens this week, recovers previously unreleased concert recordings by artists such as Stevie … He was our voice. We got to New York City, piled off the aircraft, and there was the press. Under the poo covered white tarp is a corporate post-hippy type counting the money they made off their victims of systematic regressive behaviour and expensive H2o. Laureen Starobin: We were at a dead standstill for hours. The book includes an extensive interview with archivist Andy Zax, producer of the 2009 Rhino Records CD box set Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm. The people of White Lake and Bethel literally went in their pantries. HBO's "Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage" revisits the wreckage of a music festival revival in upstate New York, 22 years after hundreds of thousands gathered at … ‘So which would you like to have us finish, the gates and the fences or the stage? SOT (archival): To the hippie youth of today, this is part of their real world. A new documentary by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, featuring rarely-seen footage, captures the magic of an event that had long been forgotten in the shadow of … I think he liked the fact that we were doing something in the face of a lot of adversity and that we believed in. And so when Country Joe McDonald got up on Saturday afternoon, we were right there with him. Susie Kaufman, Festival Attendee (voice of): Never before in my life did I feel so much anticipation. Richard Fairbanks But that, that stopped the clocks for three days. Attendee (archival):To see the best music in the world, man. Debra Conway, Local Resident (voice of): I had to go to work the next day. Joel Rosenman: At Woodstock we tried to let the audience know, in every way that we could, that we believed in them. Rachel Lafond ROME, N.Y. – The new HBO documentary about Woodstock ’99 will be shown at Cinema Capitol at the Capitol Arts Complex in Rome on Friday, July 23, the same day it debuts on HBO Max.. The rest has been about Woodstock '69 & '94, the general music culture of the time, and they absolutely love dragging in irrelevant factors like the Clinton/Lewinski scandal and the Colombine shooting. You can forget it sometimes, but very few of us want to be other than that. There’s a man with a gun over there. They were saying, “Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go! Вудсток 99: Мир, любовь и ярость. Found insideWriter and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly, with the help of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. RCA Records They just welcomed us. I was amazed at how friendly Americans are. I remember the day he went to Vietnam, and being terrified. There are all these people here! Premiering on HBO Friday night as the first entry in Music Box, a series of documentaries produced by sports media impresario Bill Simmons and The Ringer, Woodstock … It looked like this whole part of New York State was just being turned upside down by this event. So if you’re looking for somebody or you’re trying to get a ride home or whatever, you could stick stuff up on there. But like everything else at the festival, they were woefully understaffed and an emergency situation was developing. But I think you people have proven something to the world. They’ve got a fence that’s like half up and there’s people sitting in that field. We just reveled in having that much freedom and that much ability to piss off your old man. Water bottles were sold for $4 apiece, and Scher—who is cartoonishly callous throughout the documentary—argues to this day that thirsty festivalgoers should have come prepared with cash. 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