Woodstock quedó en la mente de la gente, y aunque a
miles de kilómetros de distancia, y sin conocer demasiado, parece “el” evento
de la música popular, el rock, los hippies, y la libertad. Woodstock tuvo lugar en 1969 y asistieron 400.000 personas. Entre otros
artistas estuvieron Joan Baez, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix. Para saber: un
poco sobre Bethel, New York, donde tuvo lugar Woodstock. El video de Jimi Hendrix tocando el himno
Woodstock was a music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an
audience of more than 400,000. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New
York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock.
Over the sometimes rainy
weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment
in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger
counterculture generation.
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts.
Roberts and Rosenman financed the
project. Lang had some experience as
a promoter.
In April 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival became the
first act to sign a contract for the event, agreeing to play for $10,000.
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| Woodstock, 15 de agosto de 1969 |
Woodstock was designed as a profit-making venture. It famously became a
"free concert" only after the event drew hundreds of thousands more
people than the organizers had prepared for. Tickets for the three-day event
cost $18 in advance and $24 at the gate (equivalent to about $120 and $160 today.
Ticket sales were limited to record stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post Office located
in Midtown Manhattan. Around 186,000
advance tickets were sold, and the organizers anticipated approximately 200,000
festival-goers would turn up.
Jimi Hendrix was the last act to perform at the festival. Because
of the rain delays that Sunday, when Hendrix
finally took the stage it was 8:30 Monday morning. The audience, which had
peaked at an estimated 400,000 during the festival, was now reduced to about
30,000 by that point; many of them merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his
performance.
Although the
festival was remarkably peaceful given the number of people and the conditions
involved, there were two recorded fatalities: one from insulin usage, and
another caused in an accident when a tractor ran over an attendee sleeping in a
nearby hayfield.
Declined invitations or missed connections
Bob Dylan
Simon &
Garfunkel
Led Zeppelin
Frank Zappa
The Doors
Joni Mitchell
The Rolling
Stones
Para saber
The Town of Bethel was brought to the world's attention in 1969
when nearly 500,000 people gathered at Max
Yasgur's Farm for "Three Days of Peace and Music". The
documentary made about Woodstock
released in 1970 showed interviews with numerous Bethel residents, including Art
Vassmer, co-owner of Vassmers General
Store in Kauneonga Lake. A movie called Taking
Woodstock was released in August 2009 based on the book of the same title
by Elliot Tiber, whose parents owned
the nearby El Monaco Motel in White Lake and played a pivotal role in
bringing the Woodstock nation to Bethel.
Jimi Hendrix - National Anthem U.S.A (Woodstock 1969)
Al final del video Jimi Hendrix corrige al entrevistador, su performance del himno “no
fue poco ortodoxa, fue bonita.” El periodista le recuerda que sirvió en la 101
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