Había que enfrentar a toda la comunidad y apoyar a
los jóvenes que solo querían escuchar a sus ídolos. Max Yasgur se decidió, por convicción o dinero, a alquilar su
granja a los jóvenes neoyorquinos para que hicieran su festival de rock. ¿La respuesta?
Más de 300.000 jóvenes llegaron a la granja, en Bethel, a presenciar uno de los festivales musicales más
importantes de todos los tiempos. Algunos lugareños vendían el agua a los
turistas, otros amenazaron a Yasgur con
quemarlo. Max Yasgur moriría cuatro
años después. En el video Max se
dirige a los jóvenes de Woodstock. En
el vocabulario mammoth job
Max B. Yasgur (1919 –1973) was an American farmer, best known as
the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel,
New York, at which the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair was
held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.
After Saugerties and Wallkill
declined to provide a venue for the festival, Yasgur leased one of his farm's fields for a fee that festival
sponsors said was $10,000. Soon afterward he began to receive both threatening
and supporting phone calls (which could not be placed without the assistance of
an operator because the community of White
Lake, New York, where the telephone exchange was located, still utilized
manual switching). Some of the calls threatened to burn him out. However, the
helpful calls outnumbered the threatening ones. Opposition to the festival
began soon after the festival's relocation to Bethel was announced. Signs were erected around town, saying,
"Stop Max's Hippie Music
Festival. No 150,000 hippies here. Buy no milk."
