1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The story about Woodstock, 2 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: the real story, the death, the destruction, the downright disaster 3 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 1: movie that the three days supposed festival of peace, love 4 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: and communalism really was is so complex that we needed 5 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: two episodes to properly tell it. If you're just getting 6 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: hip to this now, I suggest you hip pause and 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: go back to the last episode of Disgraceland, Part one 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: of the Woodstock Story, where we discuss the violent rock 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: and roll festival foundations of Woodstock, the hypocritical hippie extortion 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: that allowed the show to go on, the cunning and 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: confidence of producer Michael Lang, the surge of hundreds of 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: thousands of fans, the near immediate declaration of disaster by 13 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: the State of New York, and the ominous signs of 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: death and destruction on the horizon. In this episode, into 15 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 1: the deaths of two concertgoers, bad acid, near chaos, and 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: near death on an unimaginable scale. Woodstock's legacy and great 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: music the Who, Joe Cocker and Jimmy Hendricks name a few, 18 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: again great music, Unlike that music. I played few at 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: the top of the show that wasn't great music that 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: was a preset loop from my melotron called swatch out 21 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: MK one. I played you that loop because I can't 22 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: afford the rights in the year twenty five twenty five 23 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: by Zager and Evans. And why would I play you 24 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: that specific slice of futuro cheese? Could I afford it? 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on 26 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: the morning of August eighteenth, nineteen sixty nine, And that 27 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 1: was the day Jimmy Hendrix took the stage at Woodstock, 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: turning in an electrifying performance that would seal Woodstock as 29 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: the culture defining moment that it was. On this episode 30 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: brown acid, bad vibes, death, destruction, in the disaster movie 31 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: that was Woodstock. I'm Jake Brennan in. 32 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: This his disgraceland. 33 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: August fifteenth, nineteen sixty nine, Woodstock Aquarian Exposition, Bethel, New York. 34 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 1: Jasker's farm. Peace and love were not going to save them. 35 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: Smith and Wesson were Max Yasker, owner of the thriving 36 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: and pastoral dairy farm, Michael Lang and Woodstock Ventures were 37 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: hosting their three day music festival. On was hiding in 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: his farm stands office. He his son and one of 39 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: the workers on his dairy farm were fully armed shotguns 40 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: with enough shells to keep a small army held at 41 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: bay until hopefully this god forsaken festival mess he'd gotten 42 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: him and his family in two blew over. They were 43 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: coming to take his land, take his home, using the 44 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: chaos of the festival as covered a pillage, and God 45 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: help him rape the land and the life he'd spent 46 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: thirty three years building since taking over the farm from 47 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: his father. They were modern day vikings, set to maraud 48 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: and kill his family, steal the valuables in cash he 49 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: had on sight, and make off into the night. Like 50 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: the low down bandits they were. Max Yascar wasn't going 51 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: down without a fight. As soon as the call came 52 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: that a carpetbagging set of MC outlaws were making their 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: way with their bikes through the backed up festival traffic 54 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: to Max's home to conduct a violent raid. Max went 55 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: to work. He barricaded himself in with all the firepower 56 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: he could find in his office, with his son and 57 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: a local employee to beat back the violent bikers. It 58 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: made for a sleepless, if on eventful night, and the 59 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: motorcycle Club raiders never rid. It must have been a 60 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: prank call a false warning, one of the many forms 61 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: of local harassment Max and his family had to endure 62 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: since agreeing to host the festival, and back at the 63 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: festival site, things weren't any less tense. Bad LSD was 64 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: making the rounds. Kids were suffering drug induced psychotic episodes. 65 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: So far was under control, but if word didn't spread 66 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: fast and not take the brown acid, then mass psychosis 67 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: for hundreds of thousands of teenagers and ensuing riots lay 68 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: on the horizon. Improbably Hugh Romney and his hippie hog 69 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: Farmers were enlisted to help solve this very dangerous problem. 70 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: A mud stained hippie kid stumbled into the hog farm 71 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: of special medical tent, the tent known as Big pink 72 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: On Cots all around were fellow acid had psychonauts, bad 73 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: trippers way in outer space, some limp and catatonic, some 74 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: crazed and mumbling in tongues. Hog Farmers treated them as 75 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: only they knew how as they were expected to do 76 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: as was their job, part of the reason Michael Lang 77 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: had hired them, and they applied cold water to the 78 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: heads the kids on bad acid for others, for the 79 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: ones freaking the fuck out, for the ones caught in 80 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: some terrible time loop or a psychic pattern they couldn't break. 81 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 1: For the ones screaming and thrashing around, the hog farmers 82 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: provided extra attention. They held them gently and talcked them down. 83 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: And the mud stained kid was in a bad way. 84 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: He kept mumbling Miami Beach, nineteen ninety four. Joyce, Miami Beach, 85 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. Choyce, Miami Beach, nineteen ninety four. Choyce. 86 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,239 Speaker 1: He was caught in one of those bad loops, trapped 87 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: inside of himself, a carnival horror show of fears and regret, 88 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: visions of the future and not good ones. Hugh Rodney, 89 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 1: head hog farmer, could see it in the kid's eyes 90 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: Miami Beach, nineteen ninety four. Choice Rodney grabbed the boy 91 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: gently with both hands by his cheeks. Tune into your 92 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: third eye, man, Romney advised him. And Rodney asked his 93 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: where he came from, and brought the muddy tripper down 94 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: to earth, led him do a cot, told him to 95 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: sit awhile, and then when he was well, Romney pointed 96 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: to the next lost soul wandering through the door. See him. 97 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: He pointed at the new patient who just wandered in himself, 98 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: blitzed on acid in a bad way. Romney then looked 99 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: at the mud stained boy he'd successfully talked down from 100 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: the bad trip and applied the finishing touch he gave 101 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: the bad tripper purpose, gave him a distraction, gave him 102 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: a reason to believe in himself and to take control 103 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: of his situation. Romney told the boy he was now okay. 104 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: He nodded again to the new patient who just wandered 105 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: into the medical tent, and told the mud stained boy quote, 106 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: now you're the doctor, take over. That was how things 107 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: worked in the Big Pink. The medical Tent was a 108 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: peace and love psychedelics mass unit, but it wasn't all bad. 109 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: To assist bass player Rick Danko of the band, a 110 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: dude who knew all about another Big Pink came through 111 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: and posted up with an acoustic tar. He strummed and 112 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: sang softly to help chill out the kids who were 113 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: having a tough time on their trips. It was a 114 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: moment of genuine good will, like many others from that weekend, 115 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: that were necessary to help offset the destruction taking place. 116 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: Words spread of the various disasters, most were untrue, Abby 117 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: Hoffman spiked the water supply with brown acid. Richard Nixon 118 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: called him the National Guard. The Hell's Angels have taken 119 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,679 Speaker 1: Yasker's wife hostage, but some were true, like the story 120 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: about the young concertgoer who went to bed on that 121 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: first night of the festival in his sleeping bag and 122 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: awoke to the sound of a tractor inches from his 123 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: body that then proceeded to roll right over him, crushing him, 124 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: and they airlifted him by helicopter to the local hospital. 125 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: He died of his wounds before the chopper even landed. 126 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: He was seventeen years old. His name was Ray Misick. 127 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: He was from Trenton, New Jersey. And then there was 128 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: the constant buzz about overdoses, not just bad trips from 129 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: acid from LSD, but also from heroin, opium, cocaine, mandricks 130 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: all manner of late sixties narcotics that contributed to more 131 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: than three thousand drug related incidents and overdoses, three most 132 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: seriously resulted in near death and whisked off by helicopter 133 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: to area hospitals where they were revived. So steady was 134 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: the air traffic from the concert to the area hospitals 135 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: and clinics that SOS messages concerning the drug wounded or 136 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: eventually coordinated through the United States Aerospace Command Headquarters in 137 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: Colorado Springs via the Pentagon, which eventually authorized US Army 138 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: Air Force Task Force pilots to run rescue missions in 139 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: and out of Woodstock with Huey helicopters, the same exact 140 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: kind of helicopters used to airlift the wounded out of Vietnam. 141 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 1: The drugged out and otherwise wounded Woodstock concert goers were 142 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: flown to an emergency medical facility set up by the 143 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: US government in nearby monachellit New York, for treatment and 144 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: then dispatched to local facilities for further care if necessary. 145 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: But one Woodstock attendee was not so lucky. An eighteen 146 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: year old marine him on leave taking in the peace 147 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: and love and a jack of illicit heroine that killed him. 148 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: His name was Richard Beller. He was from Holbrook, Long Island. Death, Drugs, 149 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: Destruction and great music Sly and the family. Stone went 150 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: on Wayley at three point thirty am and turned in 151 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: what to that point it was the best performance of 152 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: the concert thus far, laying waste nearly all the performers 153 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: who preceded them. Sly Stone was a soul assassin and 154 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 1: the land of stoned hippies. He and his band worked 155 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: the crowd into a delirious state with their high energy, 156 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: dirty funk. Everyday people danced to the music I Want 157 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: to Take You Higher, all infectious bangers, seemingly composed to move, 158 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: shaken and for all half a million people in one 159 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: sitting as they just had, steam was coming off of Slyzafro. 160 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: The Mammoth crowd demanded two encores, and when the band 161 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 1: left the stage at four twenty am, sly Stone had 162 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: one message for Pete Townsend about to go on next 163 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: with the Who, and the message was this follow that 164 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: motherfucker Pete Townsend was too annoyed to care. It was 165 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: late and this festival was a fucking disaster and they 166 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: sure as hell weren't getting paid enough for this bullshit. 167 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: It must be real. What this was was bullshit. This 168 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: wasn't a movement, This wasn't about peace and love. This 169 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: wasn't about a new way. This was about music for money, 170 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: and poorly planned at that. This was a new mob 171 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: trying to usurp the old mob. Meet the new boss, 172 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: same as the old boss. This was tie die in 173 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: place of starch suits. This was a new pig and 174 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: a new silk tie Paisley instead of pinstripes. Either way, 175 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: it was a lie. Might as well just call it 176 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: what it was, capitalism, but worse capitalism without efficiency. Going 177 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: on at five am? What the fuck was that about? 178 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: The Who's storm through their set with maximum power, maximum 179 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: rock and roll, maximum hre, the maximum blues, maximum R 180 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: and B. Everything was maxed, Whose volume, whose energy? Whose attitude? 181 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: And the thinly veiled contempt Pete Townsend had for this 182 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: whole frough, gayzy affair. The English guitarist was a tightly 183 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: wound ball of fairly containable violence, doing his best to 184 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: blow up the stage right there in front of half 185 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: a million confused and frightened hippies. This was not passive, 186 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: This was not placid. This was nothing like the previous 187 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 1: Woodstock performers. This wasn't Arlow Guthrie or Joe Bias or 188 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: Country Joe in the fucking fish Country Joe. Pete Townsend 189 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: heard he named his son Joseph after Joseph Stalin Americans. 190 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: The fuck was wrong with these people, But Pete wanted 191 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: to get the gig over with and get the hell 192 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: out of there, Pete stewed while he tunes Gibson SG. 193 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: Let's get this bullshit over with, he thought. In the 194 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: wings at the side of the stage, Slyly Stone wired 195 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,839 Speaker 1: out of his mind from either the set he'd just performed, 196 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: or from the white lightning acid being passed around the 197 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: Ho Chi Minh trail, or both. The sly was there 198 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: with gray Slick from Jefferson Airplane. Who is set to 199 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: take the stage even later than the Who, And of 200 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: course there was that dude who wouldn't shut the fuck up, 201 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: the big guy with the big hair and the bigger mouth, 202 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: talking white panther jive non stop Sinclair, this yippy, that 203 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: steal this concert, smoked this revolution, Brothers, Sisters, Pigs, police, 204 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. Abbie Hoffman. He reminded Pete 205 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: of a less talented, less attractive, less interesting Lenny Bruce. 206 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: He thought about how this guy's stick would play back 207 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: in London. Not even Princess Margaret would fuck this guy. 208 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: Why did the Americans pay him any mind? Whatever, it 209 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: didn't matter who was ready, The set was about to start. Finally, 210 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: Roger looked at Pete and he nodded, shot a look 211 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: at John, then peered over to Keith behind the kit, 212 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: and then Abbi Hoffman rushed the stage. He grabbed Pete's mike. 213 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: Four thousand of our brothers and sisters are being persecuted 214 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: for no more than we're doing on this hill. It's 215 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: only fair that we help out. We are the Woodstock nation, 216 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: we are one. What the fuck was this? Someone cut 217 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: the mic thankfully, Hoffman pissed, kicked the mic stand over 218 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: that did it? Fucked this guy. Pete grabbed the neck 219 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: of his guitar, swung it back like a tennis racket, 220 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: and swatted it flat into Hoffman's hairy grill. Hoffman, dazed, 221 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: stumbled for a step or two toward the front of 222 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: the stage before falling over into the crowd. He was 223 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: absorbed by the audience, who, a day and a half 224 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: into the festival, were too sleep deprived and blitzed on 225 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: acid to comprehend the violence that had just taken place 226 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: at this fugesy festival of peace. Pete wasted no time. 227 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: He looked again to Keith behind the kit, who quickly 228 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: counted the band off and into the racous set. The 229 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: Who's set, violent and unnatural as it was, was nothing 230 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: compared to the potential threat brewing for more natural causes. 231 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: English singer Joe Cocker and his backup group, The Grease Band, 232 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: took the stage round two pm on Sunday afternoon to 233 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: open the day's festivities with his brand of blue eyed 234 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: epileptic soul and enthralled the audience who'd never seen anything 235 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: like him before. The Grease Band had been touring the 236 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: US since spring, but it was as impressive an American 237 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: debut as he could have hoped for, and little did 238 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: the singer know at the time would go on to 239 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: become an iconic performance. But when his performance was done, 240 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: Joe Cocker felt it in the air, the coming rain. 241 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: The clouds moved in out of nowhere, and the temperature 242 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: took a slight, sudden drop, and the audience began to 243 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: stir uncomfortable, and Joe Cocker grabbed a bottle of something 244 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: hard and split in search of a roof in four walls. 245 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: Black clouds draped over the half a million concert goers 246 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: and gobbled up the pink afternoon sky in an instant, 247 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: and the crowd gasped on mass. No one had planned 248 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: for this for rain, if festival producer Michael Lang was nervous. 249 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: He didn't show it. He suppressed a slight grin. Perhaps 250 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: he was amused that it was learned the unexpected rain 251 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: being thrown their way was courtesy of a storm moving 252 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: up the coast called Hurricane Michael. But this was no 253 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: time to be amused. A smart stage hand screamed at 254 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: everybody and nobody in particular, Hit the power. A small 255 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: battalion of backstage roadies took to the stage with the 256 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: quickness and began covering everything with slipcovers power cables in particular, 257 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: and they all shared the same look on their faces, fear. 258 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: Another voice rang out from backstage, Kill the fucking power man, 259 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: Kill the power. Nobody was volunteering for the job. And 260 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: the wind picked up and bill into Yaskar's natural amphitheater, 261 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: lifting as much random trash as it could along the 262 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: way and sending it airborne. And the strength of the 263 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: wind was sudden and intense. The clouds grew even more black. 264 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: The vibe was beyond ominous straight fear. Hanging above festival organizers' heads, 265 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: the massive one hundred foot sound towers, huge metal and 266 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: plywood constructions holding the speakers that were used to blast 267 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: sound from the stage. They slowly creaked as they swayed, 268 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: and the wind pressed, and the towers lurched. Thunder rumbled 269 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: in the distance. The clouds got even darker. Kids on 270 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: the crowd braced themselves for a torrent from the heavens, 271 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: and the towers bent a little more. Most festival organizers 272 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: feared the worst and tried to play it cool, and 273 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: one did not kill the fucking power. Power was needed 274 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: at the moment, because there up in one of the towers. 275 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: Some kids sat high above the crowd, taking in the show, 276 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: oblivious to the twin hazards of lightning and wind and 277 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: breaking with the hippie edicts. Then let live One smart 278 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: woodstock organizer jumped on the mic and got into it 279 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: with the crowd. If you please get away from the towers, 280 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: Please clear away before someone gets hurt. And the wind 281 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: picked up again, and the towers, all of them, swayed 282 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: a little more and more kids were situated on them 283 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: than before. How had this happened? The wind picked up again, 284 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: and when it did, the towers nearly gave way. They 285 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: bent even further. If they fell all the way, it 286 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: would be certain mass destruction. Hey, get off those towers. 287 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: Get off those towers, and the kids and the towers 288 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: ignored the voice, the idiocy on the mic. The organizer 289 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: pressed for calm, let's keep it nice and cool. Just 290 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: sit down and be cool. Thunder then interrupted his plea 291 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: with a loud crack. He continued afterward, it looks like 292 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 1: we're gonna get a little bit of rain, so you 293 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: better cover up if it does. I should have a 294 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: slight power problem. Just cool it out. We'll sit here 295 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: with you. You'll be okay. Just then, thunder exploded in 296 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: the sky as just to mock the comments coming from 297 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: the stage. And that's when the organizer felt it. The 298 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: stage the slip. The whole stage had shifted under his feet. 299 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: The massive stage's foundation was slipping. Forget the towers, The 300 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: stage was about to go down in front a massive 301 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: Kids were oblivious to what was about to happen, the 302 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: stage shifting, sliding, potentially crashing down on top of them. 303 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: The stage sholted forward in a quick burst and then stopped. 304 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: The sky cracked open again with a massive thunderclapped, and 305 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: then the rain poured down. Kids in the crowd immediately 306 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: started to rejoice, dancing in the rain, sliding in the mud, 307 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: feeding off of the chaotic energy in the most peaceful 308 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: way possible. It was borderline miraculous. But how long could 309 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: it last? How long before the kids got tired, got cold, 310 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: and bolted for the exit? Backstage A volunteers sprinted for 311 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: her boss, looking for direction. How are they going to 312 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: call the crowd? How are they going to keep them 313 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: still in the rain and not stampeding each other? In 314 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: an effort to head some for dry land, she made 315 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: it past the backstage wall of dead instrument cases. Her 316 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: boss was nowhere. She ran through the small makeshift artists 317 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: VIP area, No boss around, toward where the crew serve 318 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,959 Speaker 1: themsells mushy food and warm drinks, and still no boss. 319 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: Back toward the festival command center's trailer. There in there, 320 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: he must be in there. In the trailer, she ran 321 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: toward it, in and around darting staff. She reached the trailer, 322 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: put her foot in the first metal step, and was 323 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: blasted up and back and away from the trailer and 324 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: onto her ass from the electric surge. Her boss opened 325 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 1: the door at the moment took in the scene, barely 326 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: noticing his felt volunteer she shouted to him, don't step 327 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: on the stairs, he'll get shocked. He leaped over the 328 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,959 Speaker 1: three stairs and down to the ground, and the ground 329 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: was softened. Trampled grass, long since reduced to dirt, was 330 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: now transforming into mud, and the mud was splashing away 331 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: and under it. The festival's main power feed cable was emerging. 332 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: As more and more people trounced over it. The more 333 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: the main power came cables insulation wore away, and the 334 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: more the insulation wore away from the cable, the more 335 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: it's electrical surge escaped. And the more water the flooded 336 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: the area around the cable, the more likely the chance 337 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: for the electricity to travel. At that moment, it became 338 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: very clear that five hundred thousand people were connected by 339 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: more than peace, love and music. They were now connected 340 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: by the heavens, by rain and by water, the perfect 341 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: conduit for mass electrocution. 342 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word word word. 343 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: This was it the last straw. No one planned for 344 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: the rain, and Michael Lange couldn't really flash a quickstone 345 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: smile to stop the rain, nor could he stop the 346 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: stage from slipping, And he couldn't stop those towers from 347 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: swaying and toppling over, and he especially couldn't stop electricity 348 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: from escaping the main power feed cable and transferring itself 349 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: through the wet festival grounds, in effect bar barbecuing the 350 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 1: half a million kids he'd assembled on old Man Yasker's farm. 351 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: It was all beyond his control. Planning and producing this 352 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: festival had been his life over the past several months. 353 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: His entire identity was now tied to it. It's a 354 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: glorious thing if you looked at it through the right lens. 355 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 1: Half a million kids getting along on their own, a 356 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: new generation doing it their own way, the biggest cultural 357 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: gathering in American history, most likely in so far. Despite 358 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 1: the many close calls in constant stress, there was little incident. Sure, 359 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: two kids had already died, but they would quickly be forgotten. 360 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: With the right message, the rain would stop, the kids 361 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: would settle into their own groove. Michael knew it, and 362 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: this ride he'd been on with Woodstock from a dream 363 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: to a reality, then to having the location ripped out 364 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: from under him at the last minute, to finding Yasker's farm, 365 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: just setting the show up in under thirty days, to 366 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: the extortion from Hoffman from the Cops, from the Grateful Dead, 367 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,959 Speaker 1: refusing to go on unless they're paid in advance in cash. 368 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: To Jimmy Hendrick, So at this moment was still threatening 369 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: to not perform to the massive financial debuckle that this 370 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: entire event had turned out to be. All of it, 371 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: all the problems would find a way of working themselves out, 372 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: and the glory on the other end of this thing 373 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: was immeasurable. Michael would be the guy. Michael Lang would 374 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: be the one who did something no one else had done, 375 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: and that would be worth every ounce of energy he'd 376 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: put into this thing. His business partners, John Roberts and 377 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: Joel Rossaman did not have the same utopian view of 378 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: their shared venture with Michael Lang. Forget about the hassles 379 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: and the massive financial loss, they were concerned with something 380 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: much darker. If someone didn't get the situation with the 381 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 1: electricity sorted out, they'd be seen as far worse than 382 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: financially failed festival producers. Six pm Sunday night, security, along 383 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: with the festival organizers, were hubbled around the main feeder 384 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: cable backstage. Their worse fears, it seemed, were becoming real. 385 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,479 Speaker 1: The cable's insulation had been nearly completely worn away. It 386 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: was only a matter of time, some argued, before the 387 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: electricity surge beyond the cable and was carried by the 388 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: water over the festival grounds to blast the crowd. The 389 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: kids in the crowd were jammed together, soaking wet. Mass 390 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: electrocution was most certainly an option if the cable failed 391 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: and the potential destruction and loss of human life was incalculable. 392 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 1: The options were this cut the power and the festival prematurely, 393 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: with at least eight of the weekend's promised performers yet 394 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: to play, including top drawing acts like Crosbie Stills, Nashing 395 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: Young and Jimmy Hendrix, in risked total mayhem, a full 396 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: blown riot by the upset crowd of five hundred thousand, 397 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: or waited out do nothing and hope that the main 398 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: feeder cable would not frey any further and remain intact 399 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: enough to contain the electricity. The fear from Michael Lang's 400 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: partners John Roberts and Joel rosaman was so intense that 401 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: Roberts actually began to whimper, and Rosamond dared not speak. 402 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: The two, along with the festival's master electricians and sat 403 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: in silence, contemplating the fate of a half a million souls, 404 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: and Michael Lang was nowhere to be found. This decision 405 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 1: was too heavy for him anyway, but not for Joel Rosamith. 406 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: He broke the silence by grabbing the phone and the 407 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: command center trailer backstage and ordering the sound man to 408 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: keep the power on. He then ordered the master electrician 409 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 1: to lay out all the options for him. Was there 410 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: a way to fix this without interrupting the live performances 411 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 1: and risking a riot. In the meantime, they'd ride it out, 412 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: do what everyone around them had done since the beginning 413 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: with this god forsaken festival, hold their breath and pray 414 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: that it all worked out, and their lives are on 415 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: the line, and they'd put the lives of others on 416 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: the line as well if things went horribly wrong, if 417 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of kids ended up dead on their decision, 418 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: they'd do the honorable thing. John Roberts convinced himself in 419 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: the moment if Woodstock ended in mass destruction, he would 420 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: kill himself. But that wasn't going to happen. John Roberts 421 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: and Rosamund's decision proved to be the right one. Rossa 422 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: men hadn't made the decision on a wing and a prayer, 423 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: and the master electrician had informed him that there was 424 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: a way they could reroute the power away from the 425 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: master feed cable without disrupting the power to the main stage. 426 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: And at long last it seemed like the adults were 427 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: in charge. Turns out that you can't simply be cool 428 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: and groove on each other and rely on peace and 429 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 1: love to carry the day. At a certain point need 430 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: to step up and take responsibility. Jill Rossuman was the 431 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: one who made the decision to keep the show going, 432 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: not Michael lang And, as it had been happening since 433 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: the show began two days earlier. Various responsibilities were assumed 434 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 1: and executed by those who would be considered squares as 435 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: establishment as God forbid, grown ups by some of the 436 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: more idealistic festival organizers and attendees. But they were also 437 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: the people whose actions and the tangible results of said actions, 438 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: kept the festival from turning into a full blown disaster. 439 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: There was old man Yaster, himself rock Ribbed Republican, offering 440 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: up his farm at the last minute, the ground on 441 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: which the whole festival was raised to a bunch of 442 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: war protesting long hairs. And there were the local radio 443 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: DJs who sent out the alarm when the festival food 444 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: began to run out, alerting the local farmers who responded 445 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: by donating on mass canned goods and produce. Then there 446 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: were the wives of the farmers who took it a 447 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: step further and set about boiling hundreds of thousands of 448 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: eggs to keep the crowd fed with hard boiled eggs 449 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: they donate. And there were military personnel from the US 450 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 1: government who painstakingly coordinated the food drops and medical evacuations 451 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: behind the scenes, and the scores of area doctors and 452 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: nurses who volunteered their time to help out with the 453 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: endless stream of wounded. There was even a local small 454 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: town banker, up banker who opened up his bank in 455 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: the middle of the night on a weekend to process 456 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: alone for woodstock organizer John Roberts, so that Roberts could 457 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: pay some of the headlining acts who devoid as it were, 458 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: of any generosity of spirit themselves, were refusing to go 459 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: on without getting paid in advance cash. A banker, fence, doctors, nurses, farmers, locals, 460 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: all of them quote unquote squares who generously committed themselves 461 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 1: to helping the massive stoned kids on the farm. These 462 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: weren't people down with the cause. These weren't hippies, these 463 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: weren't even kids. They were good, solid, working adults who 464 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: saw a bunch of kids who were in trouble and 465 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of young adult concert organizers who were in 466 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: over their heads and decided to help out out of 467 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: the goodness of their hearts. For no other reason. None 468 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: of these people had any invested interests in Woodstock's success 469 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: other than simply caring about the well being of their 470 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: fellow Americans, their fellow young Americans. These people weren't counterculture 471 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: anti establishment types who came to the rescue. They were 472 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: the establishment. But without these people, without these squares, without 473 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: the establishment, Woodstock, a three day festival of peace and 474 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: music and unofficial rally against the establishment, never would have 475 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: survived itself or its organizers. Which isn't to say Woodstock 476 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: wasn't supported by intensely hard working staff and volunteers, years 477 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: young people and working touring music industry adults and professionals 478 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: who believed deeply in their mission to create a one 479 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: of a kind music festival that showcased the best their 480 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: generation had to offer, because it was but hard work 481 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: and good intentions aside. Every organization is a product of 482 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: its leadership when lives are on the line. Haphazard hippie confidence, 483 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: men ramblings about peace love in a new utopian way 484 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: only go so far. It was a miracle Woodstock didn't 485 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: end in total disaster. Mercifully, the show approached its end 486 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: by Monday morning, but not without some final fireworks. At 487 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: nine am, as concertgoers slowly began to dwindle a lot 488 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: of the festival grounds to make their way home, Jimmy 489 00:28:43,560 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: Hendrix finally took the stage. Jimmy Hendrix is said at 490 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: Woodstock ended the festival. In the nineteen seventy documentary on Woodstock, 491 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: directed by Michael Wadley, the festival ends with Hendricks's version 492 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: of the Star Spangled Banner. It's an iconic moment, Jimmy 493 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: Hendrix on stage in the early morning hours, garbed in 494 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: the hippie fashion of the day, his sole power afro 495 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: barely contained by his headband, and he's playing the country's 496 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: rallying crime. But it's clearly not your father's national anthem. 497 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: This is something new, something exciting, something decidedly subversive. Hendrix's 498 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: excellent feedback driven bombastic take on the song under the 499 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: New Morning Sun at Woodstock can help but give the 500 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: impression that Woodstock was about a new day, a new way. 501 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: The imagery on screen Hammer's home the significance of the festival, 502 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: except it didn't really happen that way. Jimmy Hendrix played 503 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: the star spangled banner and then he can continued to 504 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: muddle through the rest of his set with his less 505 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: instellar band at the time, Gypsy's Sun and Rainbows the 506 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: experience or band of Gypsies they were not, and finished 507 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: it set and the Festival of Peace and Love unceremoniously 508 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: with Hey Joe, A Song About Murder. July twenty fourth, 509 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, Rome, New York, one hundred and forty 510 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: miles from Bethel and thirty years removed a new Woodstock 511 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: Griffiths Air Force Base, two hundred twenty thousand kids, Hot, 512 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: Red Hot Chili, Pepper's Ice Cube, Corn, Rage against the 513 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: Machine and Limp Biscuit topped the bill of the New 514 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: Woodstock venture by Michael Lang Woodstock ninety nine. Musically, it 515 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: has little to do with the original festival from nineteen 516 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: sixty nine. The passive folk stylings of Joan Bias, Arlo 517 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: Guthrie and Richie Havens would be booed off stage instantly 518 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: at the festival. Yet the ethos of peace and love 519 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: still exists, at least in the marketing of the Festival 520 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: of nowhere Else. But on stage, bare chested macho aggression 521 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: leads the day and you can feel it in the crowd. 522 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: At an MTV crew stand up, Carson Daley is getting heckled. 523 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: I could fuck Jennifer Love Hughett better than you could. 524 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: Someone throws water in the vj's face. The sheepishly pleads, 525 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: just tell me that wasn't your piss man, And near 526 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 1: the east stage, hundreds of people roll in the mud 527 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: behind a row of portable toilets to cool off, even 528 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: if it means writhing in human filth. And by this 529 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: point one hundred guards the Peace Patrol had quit, leaving 530 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: little internal security. Gangs of so called mud people have formed. 531 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: Dripping in the stuff, they roam the grounds and supposedly 532 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: guard the scattered public water fountains, which barely work. Unlike 533 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: the original Woodstock, Woodstock ninety nine is blatantly commercial, with 534 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: four dollars bottles of water and twelve dollars pizzas on 535 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: top of a whopping one hundred and fifty dollars ticket 536 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: price that seems normalist today in twenty twenty one, but 537 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: at night teen ninety nine, all it was seen is 538 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: exorbitant by fans in the pit body Thrash mud flies. 539 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: A dozen or so college dudes sit above on a 540 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: production trailer, more concerned with the thrashing crowd than the 541 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: band on stage, which seems as though it's a mile 542 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: away and they're chanting, show us here, Tits, show us here, tits. 543 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: Dudes in the crowd get all horned up and begin 544 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: manhandling the girls in the crowd, lifting them up as 545 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: human trophies to signal their obedience to their chanting brethren 546 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: on the trailers. The women are understandably horrified. Some oblige 547 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: and lift their shirts and bras the dudes are erupt 548 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: in approval. The girls are dropped and scurry away. At 549 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: limp Biscuit plays, the crowd goes fucking bananas for the 550 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: nookie and especially literally for the song break. Stuff in 551 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: the pit. Ribs are cracked, wrists or snapped. More women 552 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: are harassed, their clothes torn off by force. A crowd 553 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: surfer is raped all over. Glass bottles fly through the 554 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: air and shatter against skulls. The crowd turned mob tears 555 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: the siding off the media towers and camera platform, but 556 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: MTV has already abandoned the show to cover the medical ten. 557 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: It's overflowing with serious injuries, broken arms and legs, a 558 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: fractured spine. Rage against the Machine takes the stage and 559 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: figuratively proclaims to Michael Lang's Woodstock generation that subtlety is dead. 560 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: With pummeling beats and heavy rifts, they work the crowd 561 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,719 Speaker 1: into an orgy of aggression. They lyrically rail against capitalism 562 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: while playing for a hefty paycheck for what amounts to 563 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: little over an hour's worth of work only in America, 564 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: And before they leave the stage, they burned the American flag. 565 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: Perfect Woodstock ninety nine is more of a destructive mess 566 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: than its original predecessor. One person died after overheating and 567 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: collapsing during Metallica set. Police launched four rape investigations officially, 568 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: and many sexual assaults were also reported and beyond the 569 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: police record, concertgoers reported witnessing multiple gang rapes, fires, destroyed 570 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: or damaged a dozen trailers in a bus, not to 571 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: mention many of the overpriced booths and filthy porter bodies. 572 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: The booths and ATMs that weren't destroyed were broken into 573 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: How could this happen? Not at Woodstock, The entire media 574 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: gasped as it collectively clutched its pearls. The stories from 575 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: the mainstream, non rock and roll press were typically simple 576 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: minded and played off the contrast between the peace and 577 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,800 Speaker 1: love success of the original Woodstock with the destructive failure 578 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: of Woodstock ninety nine, but in reality, the two festivals 579 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 1: were very similar Woodstock. The original Woodstock was a literal disaster, 580 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: declared so on its first day by the State of 581 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: New York. Yet the lasting image of Woodstock is one 582 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,919 Speaker 1: of idyllic harmony. Woodstock was born of violence, sparked into 583 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,479 Speaker 1: existence out of Michael Lang's Mexican standoff with hillbilly armed 584 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: guards and cops from down in Florida, and there were 585 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,240 Speaker 1: fights on stage, armed black shirted Hippi Gestapo on patrol, 586 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 1: and most notably, two dead kids on record. Yet the 587 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: word on Woodstock was it was born out of and 588 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: demonstrative of, an ethos of peace. Woodstock's organizers, even Michael, 589 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: were from the beginning driven by profit. Yet the word 590 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 1: on Woodstock was it was an anti commercial venture conceived 591 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: out of communalism. But hell, even the nineteen sixties counterculture radicals, 592 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: the most anti commercial among the hippie movement, avowed Marxists 593 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 1: led by Abby Hoffman, extorted Woodstock organizers for tens of 594 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in cash. Woodstock is hailed as an 595 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: improbable organizational achievement that showed the power of young people 596 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: coming together on mass in service of a higher ideal, 597 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,760 Speaker 1: a common good. Yet festival organizers nearly mass electrocuted hundreds 598 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: of thousands of kids due to their poor planning. So 599 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: strong was their fear of this possible deadly outcome that 600 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: one organizer broke down on the scene and pledged to 601 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: kill himself. So how then did we end up with 602 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: this accepted narrative that Woodstock sixty nine was vastly different 603 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 1: than Woodstock ninety nine? How then did we wind up 604 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: believing all these years in the hippie dream in sixties idealism. 605 00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,719 Speaker 1: It's permeated our cultural power centers ever since sixty idealism, 606 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: since Woodstock has transcended politics, sports, art, academia, film, television, media, 607 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 1: and of course music. But why if Woodstock was such 608 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,959 Speaker 1: a disaster, why is its legacy so strong? Something else, 609 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,959 Speaker 1: something good, something ideal? Simple because, unlike Woodstock ninety nine, 610 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,240 Speaker 1: the original Woodstock had a better movie. Concert films don't sell, 611 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,560 Speaker 1: but Woodstock the movie sold, grossing fifty million dollars in 612 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 1: its original box office run and earning universal critical acclaim. 613 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: Why because Woodstock the movie isn't a concert film. It's 614 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 1: a love story. Actually, it's a love letter to the 615 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 1: sixties generation. At every turn, the film highlights the good 616 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: from the festival and ignores the bad or should I 617 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: say the reality. Creatively, there is no shame in that. 618 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: The director, Michael Wadley, had a point of view, and 619 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: he expressed it in the editing room, going so far 620 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: as to say so himself, saying in nineteen nine ninety four, 621 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 1: quote I saw this as a sort of back to 622 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: the land, back to the garden, beautiful event. If you 623 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: look at the film that I edited, the whole film 624 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: then created this kind of mythology. What was the real 625 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 1: Woodstock and what was the mythological unquote? The film is 626 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 1: an idealized version of the events that took place that 627 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: weekend in Bethel, New York and August in nineteen sixty nine, 628 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,359 Speaker 1: it is not what really happened. If the director were 629 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 1: to make a realistic movie about Woodstock, the film would 630 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: have been a disaster movie, because the entire weekend, on balance, 631 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,840 Speaker 1: was fraught with tension, violence, near death, actual death, chaos 632 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: and destruction peppered in. There was, of course, some great 633 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 1: music and I'm sure some good times. But this notion 634 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,880 Speaker 1: that Woodstock was a generation defining moment, so significant that 635 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: it marked actual, real change for generations to come is complete, 636 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 1: in total bullshit. Nothing changed. Soldiers remained in Vietnam for 637 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: another six years. In the next presidential election, Republican Richard 638 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: Nixon's scourge of the hippie generation was elected in the 639 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: biggest presidential landslide in modern times, winning forty nine of 640 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,879 Speaker 1: fifty states, declaring with authority what the majority of Americans 641 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,240 Speaker 1: actually felt about peace, love, and the vaunted ideals. 642 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 2: Of the sixties. 643 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 1: Nixon later resigned in disgrace. In his Republican replacement, Gerald 644 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: Ford was defeated in nineteen seventy six by Democrat Jimmy 645 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 1: Carter in what was no doubt a rebuke of Nixon's party, 646 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: but twelve years of Republican rule followed after Carter, the 647 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: first quote unquote rock and roll President. Numbers don't lie, 648 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: but films do, which is why the legacy of Woodstock 649 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 1: the baby Boomers the sixties is so strong. It's why 650 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: after two disastrous festivals Woodstock sixty nine and ninety nine, 651 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: not to even mention the rainy blip on the cultural 652 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,240 Speaker 1: radar that was Woodstock ninety four, which was essentially Allowa 653 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,320 Speaker 1: to loose a knockoff. Michael Lang was once again given 654 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,240 Speaker 1: the opportunity to produce yet another Woodstock in twenty nineteen, 655 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: but alas that effort completely failed, good old hippie planning 656 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: finally caught up to Woodstock, which is a shame. It 657 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: would have been great to go on up to the country, 658 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: pay two hundred and fifty dollars for a ticket, six 659 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,240 Speaker 1: bucks for a bottle of water in a twenty spot 660 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,960 Speaker 1: for some shitty pizza to see. Imagine dragons and the 661 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: Luminears pump out some uninspired nowhere rock jams on a 662 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: stage a million miles away under the blistering sun. I'm joking, 663 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: of course, festivals don't interest me. I'm a bigger fan 664 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:32,680 Speaker 1: of the movies, not love stories, disaster movies. The bigger, 665 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 1: more violent, destructive and disgraceful, the better, you know. 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