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[crowd murmuring]
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It looks like we're going to get a little bit of rain,
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so you better cover up.
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Everybody who's in the back, please move back!
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Please move back.
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We have to get away from these towers.
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[wind blowing]
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Put the mike stands down on the floor. Cover all the equipment.
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[Joel Rosenman] We were all in our mid-20s.
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We had created something that was much bigger than we had anticipated.
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I see it.
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[over speakers] All of you up on the towers, please come down.
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You are making it very, very dangerous.
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[wind blowing]
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All right, everybody, just sit down, wrap yourself up.
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We're going to have to ride it out.
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[John Morris] Everything that could possibly go wrong was happening.
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I mean, it was all hell breaking loose.
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[inaudible]
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[Morris over speaker] Hold on to your neighbor, man.
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And let's think hard to get rid of it, please.
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[shouting] No rain!
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No rain!
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No rain!
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[crowd chanting] No rain!
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[Susan Reynolds] When you think about it,
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it could have been an absolute disaster.
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[thunder rumbling, rain pouring]
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[Baron Wolman] And I just kept thinking,
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"Which direction is this thing going to go?"
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[man over speaker] Try to keep yourself comfortable.
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It's gonna blow through.
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["Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman playing]
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♪ Call out the instigator ♪
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♪ Because there's something in the air ♪
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♪ We got to get together sooner or later ♪
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♪ Because the revolution's here ♪
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♪ And you know it's right... ♪
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[Reynolds] We did not plan ahead,
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we did not plan where we were going to stay,
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we didn't think about food.
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It was just, like, "Hey, this sounds like fun.
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Let's get in the car and go."
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♪ We have got to get it together ♪
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♪ We have got to get it together now ♪
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[Peter Beren] We would pack as many hitchhikers as we could in the car,
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sitting on top of each other.
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And as we got closer,
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there would be people walking on foot like pilgrims.
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It looked like a pilgrimage.
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[Laureen Starobin] We were looking for answers.
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We were looking for other people that felt the same way as we did.
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♪ ...and houses ♪
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♪ Because there's something in the air ♪
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[Jon Jaboolian] No matter where you looked, you saw people.
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It was like a field with people growing in it.
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I had never, never seen that many people in my life
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in one place at one time.
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♪ And you know it's right ♪
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[Paul George] My feeling was, this is what we've been talking about,
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this is what we've been aiming for, this kind of freedom.
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[Starobin] If 400,000 people could get together
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and have absolutely no violence, absolutely no conflict,
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I felt like if we could bring all that love back into society,
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we could change the world.
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♪ We have got to get it together ♪
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[cheering]
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♪ We have got to get it together now ♪
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["I'll Take Manhattan" by Bobby Hackett playing]
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[horns honking]
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[John Roberts] I grew up in New York City,
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and I came from a wealthy family.
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My mother died when I was young,
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so when I was 21,
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I inherited about a quarter of a million dollars.
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That was quite a bit of money in those days.
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I had a job down on Wall Street doing research.
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[Rosenman] When I met John, I had just gotten out of law school
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and was playing with a band down in the Village
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and at the clubs on Second and Third Avenue,
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but I was starting to get a little frayed at the edges.
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Neither one of us, I think, was really on a career path
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that we knew was the right one.
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[Roberts] Joel and I met playing golf. We hit it off.
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And we thought we'd go into business together,
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investing this money that I had.
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[announcer] The denture cleanser you've hoped for is here at last.
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Start using new effervescent Polident tablets today.
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[Joel Makower] John's grandfather founded the Block Drug Company,
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the maker of Poligrip and Polident.
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That fortune was the source of the seed money
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for a recording studio in Midtown Manhattan,
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Mediasound, which for John and Joel,
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actually turned into their first successful venture.
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It was because of Mediasound that John and Joel
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met Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld.
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[man] How much do those matches sell for?
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Sixty-five cents for the roll.
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[Makower] Michael had a head shop in Miami, in Coconut Grove,
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the center of the hippie culture down there.
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[man] Right there, is that a pipe?
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Yeah, it's a Turkish water pipe.
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With two hoses.
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[Makower] In 1968, he moved to Woodstock, New York,
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about 100 miles north of New York City,
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and was introduced to Artie Kornfeld,
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who was a vice president at Capitol Records.
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[Roberts] They called us in early 1969,
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and said, "We're very interested in building a recording studio
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in Woodstock, New York.
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We know that you and Joel
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were involved in building one in New York City.
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Would you meet with us?"
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We said, "Sure!"
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[Rosenman] When we met them, they were quite different from us,
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meaning a lot of fringe, a lot of buckskin,
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and a great deal of hair.
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John and I were making an effort to look like businessmen at the time.
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[laughing] So, we couldn't have represented
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more distant ends of the spectrum.
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[Roberts] What Artie said was, basically,
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Woodstock was a center for artists,
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and that a recording studio there would have a natural constituency,
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and it would be a success.
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[Rosenman] As we were looking through the proposal that they'd given us,
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we noticed an idea for an opening day party,
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where musicians who lived in the area,
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Tim Hardin, John Sebastian, Bob Dylan,
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would perform.
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I said, "The idea of having a concert with those stars...
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I mean, why don't we skip the studio idea and just do a big concert?
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We could make a fortune."
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So, in late January, 1969, the four of us shook hands,
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and started brainstorming what Woodstock could be.
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[reporter] To the hippie youth of today,
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this is part of their real world.
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This is the atmosphere at the Monterey Pop Festival.
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The music is frantic, the sounds are wild, and the mind is free.
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[Bob Hite singing] ♪ I rolled and I tumbled ♪
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♪ I cried the whole night long ♪
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[Bob Spitz] Outdoor rock festivals were a pretty new concept at the time.
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They had begun in 1967 with Monterey Pop.
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And by 1968, '69,
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there had been a few festivals scattered around the country.
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Michael Lang was the only one of the four
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that had any experience in the concert business.
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In 1968, he had helped produce a festival in Miami
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that was a huge disaster.
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It was held at a racetrack, had very little atmosphere,
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it rained, there were a lot of lawsuits afterwards.
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The festival never really came off.
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But Michael knew that this is what he wanted to do.
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And he had this idea of taking the festival out of the racetrack,
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and putting it in a bucolic place.
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[Lang] I had been thinking about doing a series of concerts in Woodstock.
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And I always thought if you could dream it up, you could put it together.
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And this was a chance to make, you know, a dream come true.
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[Rosenman] Michael and Artie had optioned a property in Woodstock,
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but it was far too small, it was just ten acres.
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So, that didn't work out.
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A property in Saugerties didn't work out.
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And then John and I found a piece of property
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that was in Wallkill
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that was being turned into an industrial park.
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It didn't knock you out visually, but it was available.
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[Makower] Michael hated it.
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It was everything he didn't want.
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Just a flat, barren piece of land
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that had no trees, no soul.
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[Lang] You know how some pastoral scenes are beautiful and calming
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and make you feel comfortable, at peace?
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This was completely the opposite.
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But we needed to get going, we needed a site,
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and I felt that we could transform it into something
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more spiritual and special.
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["Embryonic Journey" by Jefferson Airplane playing]
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[Spitz] The town signed off on the festival as a...
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Kind of a music and arts fair
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where kids would walk around and look at art
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and hear some music in the background.
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And "An Aquarian Exposition," which is what they called Woodstock,
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had some kind of mystical feel to it.
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[Rosenman] Michael suggested that, like Monterey,
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we should have a crafts village and an art exhibition
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alongside the music.
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We all loved it!
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It was such a natural add-on to what we were thinking about.
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We wanted to make it like visiting another world,
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like visiting the world you were dreaming about
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if you were a young person.
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This shining place that you could go to
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and feel that you weren't a misfit,
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or that you weren't on the wrong side of a debate,
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or that you weren't under the suspicious eye of the authorities.
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[Makower] For the generation that was coming of age
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in the late '60s,
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everything was up for grabs.
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Young people were rejecting the status quo,
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whether it was your parents or whether it was your community
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or the business establishment.
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This counterculture, as it was called,
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influenced music, it influenced art,
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and it certainly influenced the way people dressed.
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But clearly, politics was at the center of the counterculture,
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because the one thing that affected everybody
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was the war in Vietnam.
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Last week's casualty figures in the Vietnam War, released today,
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showed 299 Americans killed, 355...
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[George] I remember watching the news in, you know, 1968,
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and asking my father, "Why are we fighting in Vietnam?"
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And his answer was always, "Because they're communists."
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I didn't find that satisfactory.
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[artillery fires]
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[George] My father had been in World War II in Europe,
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in the Signal Corps.
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He always made clear that he thought the Army was a great experience,
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and everybody should do it.
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He just had a very positive view of serving one's country that way.
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And he did support the war in Vietnam.
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["The Pusher" by Steppenwolf playing]
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-[gun firing] -[people talking over radio]
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[Reynolds] The men of World War II just assumed that their sons
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would also be soldiers.
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That's how you became a man. You grew up, you served your country.
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So, my older brother Jim signed up for the Naval Reserves.
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I remember the day that he went to Vietnam,
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and being terrified.
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[Michael Lindsey] When I was 18, I had to register for the draft.
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I was in college, so I got a deferment.
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But there was always that thing in the back of your mind.
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You knew that they were just one step behind you.
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If you were in college,
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you'd better hope that you had all your money straightened out
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and grades were good and everything else,
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because if you dropped out, you were going to Vietnam.
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[Beren] When I was 20 years old, I was faced with a draft physical.
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I'm putting down that I'm a bedwetter,
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that I'm a homosexual, that I'm a communist.
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I think there were 14 things in all that I had written down.
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So they escorted me over to the psychiatrist.
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He just said, "Kid, I'm gonna give you one year
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to straighten yourself out,"
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and he gave me a deferment for 12 months.
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[Rick Dills] There's no way to describe how terrifying it was
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to be a 17-year-old,
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knowing that the Vietnam War was your fate.
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I wasn't alone in any way
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in transitioning from being personally afraid of the war
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to being politically opposed to it.
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[crowd chanting] You kill people!
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You kill people! You kill people!
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[chanting continues]
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[shouting, clapping]
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[Beren] I participated in a couple of marches on Washington,
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anti-war rallies.
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The war was insane.
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You know, an insane conflict that made everybody crazy,
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whether you were fighting the war or fighting against it.
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[crowd chanting] Hell, no, we won't go!
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["Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane playing]
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♪ Look what's happening Out in the streets ♪
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-♪ Got a revolution ♪ -♪ Got to revolution ♪
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♪ Hey, I'm dancing down the street ♪
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-♪ Got a revolution ♪ -♪ Got to revolution ♪
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♪ Oh, ain't it amazing All the people that I meet? ♪
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♪ Got a revolution ♪
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[shouting]
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[reporter] This is a CBS News Special Report...
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[Beren] And then, on top of everything else,
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Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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was shot to death by an assassin late today
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as he stood on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
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[Lindsey] When Martin Luther King was killed,
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I knew a lot of people who just felt, we have to do things differently,
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because the way the establishment have done things
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has led to this.
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[George] By the time I got to be 16,
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I was really questioning the way society is structured.
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I objected to racism.
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I objected to inequality, consumerism, and poverty.
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I objected to the war in Vietnam.
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[Robert Kennedy] One thing is clear in this year of 1968,
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and that is that the American people want no more Vietnams.
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[audience applauds]
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[Lindsey] Of course, we had hope for Bobby Kennedy.
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He seemed to be one of us in a lot of ways.
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We really felt that he was finally going to be able
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to change things.
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[Reynolds] I mean, he was out there espousing peace,
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and, you know, fighting against poverty and racism,
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and all the things that we believed in and wanted so deeply.
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He was our voice.
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[Beren] In June of 1968, I was leaving a bar in my hometown.
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I turned on the radio.
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[reporter on radio] The senator is lying with his eyes closed,
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absolutely unmoving,
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blood underneath his head.
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[Beren] I heard the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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as it unfolded in real time.
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And it just completely undid me.
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[Frank Mankiewicz] Senator Robert Francis Kennedy
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died at 1:44 a.m. today,
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June 6, 1968.
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[Starobin] The shock of it was...
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It was just devastating, absolutely devastating.
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Martin Luther King and then Bobby Kennedy.
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You know, all these peacemakers.
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[Jaboolian] It was like, "Oh, this is what we do.
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This is what we do."
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You know, as soon as somebody tries to speak out,
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and they're too forceful,
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this big machine, whatever the hell it is, is gonna shut them up.
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The only thing that we took solace in was music,
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and there was a lot of politically conscious music
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that we were listening to.
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You know, like Buffalo Springfield.
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[singing] ♪ There's something happening here ♪
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♪ What it is ain't exactly clear ♪
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♪ There's a man with a gun over there ♪
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♪ Telling me I got to beware ♪
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♪ I think it's time we stop ♪
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♪ Children, what's that sound ♪
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♪ Everybody look what's going down ♪
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[Starobin] When I was so disillusioned with everybody else's thinking,
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I could escape into my music.
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It was such a comfort to me.
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You know, I hadn't met a lot of people at that time
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that felt like I did.
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But when I listened to music, those people were there.
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♪ Young people speaking their minds ♪
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♪ Getting so much resistance from behind ♪
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[Reynolds] We couldn't wait for Saturdays,
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when we could go buy the latest record
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and then come home and literally lay on the floor
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and play it over and over and over.
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My father hated the music.
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[laughing] He was always clamping his hands over his ears and just...
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He'd say, "Damn hippies!"
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[singing] ♪ Come gather 'round, people Wherever you roam ♪
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♪ And admit that the waters around you have grown ♪
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♪ And accept it that soon... ♪
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[Lindsey] Dylan's song "The Times They Are-A-Changin'"
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basically said to our parents' generation,
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"Get out of the new way if you can't lend a hand."
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[singing] ♪ You better start swimming Or you'll sink like a stone ♪
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♪ For the times They are a-changin' ♪
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[Lindsey] Music had our ideas.
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For my generation, that was the thing.
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Especially our political views.
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[singing] ♪ It ain't me, it ain't me ♪
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♪ I ain't no military son ♪
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♪ It ain't me, it ain't me ♪
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♪ I ain't no fortunate one ♪
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[Donald Goldmacher] Music was terribly important to us.
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I came to the San Francisco Bay Area in June '67,
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and there was music everywhere.
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There were free concerts going on in Golden Gate Park,
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with all of these bands.
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I got to see Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane,
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and the Dead, free.
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It really was amazing.
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[music playing in background]
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[Beren] Music and lyrics became our tribal drum.
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So, we had a kind of a secret communication going
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in the river of music that flowed through us.
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["Dear Mr. Fantasy" playing]
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[Beren] You know, it was a... wild liberation.
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It was Dionysian.
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And drugs played a big part in that.
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[Steve Winwood singing] ♪ Something to make us all happy ♪
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[George] We smoked a lot of pot and did a fair amount of acid.
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You know, the society that we're rebelling against,
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they don't want us smoking pot.
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[laughing] Must be a good reason to smoke pot.
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[Katherine Daye] The more that we as a generation
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saw that what had been rammed down our throats was false,
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it was false, it was a lie,
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the more it freed us up to experiment.
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I mean, we had free love.
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The pill allowed us to just go to a party and be with somebody.
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We just reveled in having that much freedom
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and that much ability to piss off your old man.
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[Ronald Reagan] Movies were shown on two screens
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at the opposite ends of the gymnasium.
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They consisted of color sequences
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that gave the appearance of different-colored liquids
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spreading across the screen.
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Sexual misconduct was blatant.
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The smell of marijuana was prevalent all over the entire building.
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["Dear Mr. Fantasy" continues]
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[Lindsey] By 1969, it really did feel like we were finally winning
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some kind of cultural war against the establishment.
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You know, this is how we lived,
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and if you didn't like it, too bad.
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We were seeing that America wasn't what we were taught it was,
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and when you stop looking at it that way
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and you start trying to figure it out for yourself,
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then... it changes your life forever.
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["Grazing in the Grass" by Willie Mitchell playing]
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[Makower] Once they got the permits they needed from the town of Wallkill,
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the first thing that John and Joel and Michael and Artie did
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was to assemble a core team to help produce the festival.
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There was Stan Goldstein who had worked with Michael on Miami Pop.
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There was John Morris who had experience booking acts,
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Chip Monck, whose role was stage design and lighting,
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Bill Hanley, one of the pioneers of event production sound.
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These were guys who knew how to put together an event.
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Stan called his friend Mel Lawrence to be the director of operations.
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[Mel Lawrence] My mission was to plan
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for all of the functions of the festival
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aside from the actual show.
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Everything from fences to food to transportation
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to fire access, lines of communication,
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security, water, sewerage... You know this, that.
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I made a checklist that blew everybody's minds.
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[Stan Goldstein] One specific thing was toilets.
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We knew we'd have to have a lot of them.
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No one knew how many.
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So, I began going to events with a stopwatch and clipboard.
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Madison Square Garden, baseball stadiums...
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Any place that there were a lot of people.
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And I timed them, going in and coming out, and going in and coming out.
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And I took all the information I gathered,
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multiplied by the size of the crowd we thought we might have,
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and came up with outrageous numbers of johns.
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Tens of thousands, just...
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Impossible numbers.
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So, we lined up as many as we could get.
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[Morris] I was in charge of the booking,
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and Creedence was the first band that we booked.
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And then we got Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, and Ten Years After.
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We didn't get the Stones or Dylan or The Doors,
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but we booked a lot of the acts we wanted to,
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including The Who and Jimi Hendrix.
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[David Crosby] We had just started planning our first tour
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as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,
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when we heard that Hendrix was going to play it,
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and The Who, and Sly, and Airplane, The Band, the Grateful Dead...
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You know, everybody that we thought was cool.
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[Spitz] They needed to get the word out about the festival.
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They had a channel to do that, through the alternative press.
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There was the Berkeley Barb and the Rat and The Village Voice,
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and word about the festival poured out, not just to New York,
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where they thought they would draw the most people from,
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but all across the United States.
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Woodstock was on everybody's lips.
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[Daye] Tom and I subscribed to Rolling Stone magazine,
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and long about, oh, early May,
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I started seeing these ads for a three-day festival
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with all these bands that we loved.
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And I said, "Tom! You wanna go to this?"
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[radio announcer] For tickets and information,
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write to Woodstock Music and Art Fair...
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[Goldmacher] We heard it on the radio.
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They were describing this happening-to-be
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and that people were coming from all corners of the United States,
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and, apparently, abroad as well.
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[Susie Kaufman] I was hanging out at the fountain
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in Washington Square, with my guys,
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who were all musicians,
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and then all of a sudden, tickets were being made available.
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You could buy one day, two days, or three.
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And jeez, three days!
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"Wow! That means staying there over...
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Wow, what an adventure that would be!
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We gotta do this!"
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[Spitz] It was early June,
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so they started to build at the Wallkill site.
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They brought in electricity,
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they started to lay the groundwork for a stage,
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and they hired a couple of hundred kids to help out.
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And these kids, they didn't look like anybody else in this town.
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[Rosenman] They were a little suspicious about us,
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but we just forged ahead.
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All that did was, I guess, sound the rallying cry
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for what called itself
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the Concerned Citizens Committee of Wallkill.
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[Roberts] They didn't like the looks of the people
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who were working on the site.
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They didn't like long hair, rock music,
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and all that that implied to them.
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We really tried to practice good community relations,
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but the Concerned Citizens had the wind up.
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[Spitz] Wallkill was a pretty conservative place.
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The way they saw it, these were kids who smoked dope,
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who had casual sex...
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They didn't want these hippies in their town.
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[Rosenman] John and I were having dinner in New York City
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when the town of Wallkill passed an ordinance
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saying you can't have a gathering of more than 5,000 people.
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Essentially, it just legislated
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the possibility of a festival on this property
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out of existence.
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But we had already sold so many tickets,
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and hired so many bands,
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we couldn't turn back at that point.
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[Roberts] It was like being on a rollercoaster
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that had just crested the rise,
501
00:28:35,421 --> 00:28:37,882
you know, before that first enormous plunge.
502
00:28:38,485 --> 00:28:40,653
I contemplated the abyss
503
00:28:40,737 --> 00:28:44,616
of a total wipeout and thought,
504
00:28:44,665 --> 00:28:47,209
"Let's not declare bankruptcy, let's throw this festival."
505
00:28:48,044 --> 00:28:52,673
♪ I'm going up the country Baby, don't you wanna go? ♪
506
00:28:54,140 --> 00:28:58,478
♪ I'm going up the country Baby, don't you wanna go? ♪
507
00:29:00,019 --> 00:29:01,646
♪ I'm going to some place... ♪
508
00:29:01,729 --> 00:29:05,733
[Makower] It was the first week of July, about five weeks out,
509
00:29:06,368 --> 00:29:09,663
so there was a mad scramble to find a new site.
510
00:29:10,338 --> 00:29:12,298
They drove around Upstate New York
511
00:29:12,382 --> 00:29:14,843
talking to local people, real estate brokers,
512
00:29:14,925 --> 00:29:16,426
anyone who would listen.
513
00:29:17,386 --> 00:29:18,303
[Lawrence] Michael and I,
514
00:29:18,387 --> 00:29:21,390
we must have looked for a week or maybe ten days,
515
00:29:22,025 --> 00:29:25,737
renting helicopters and going here and going there.
516
00:29:26,278 --> 00:29:28,739
And then we meet Max Yasgur.
517
00:29:29,657 --> 00:29:33,744
[Spitz] Max was a farmer. And he was very successful.
518
00:29:34,086 --> 00:29:38,799
His dairy supplied almost everybody in that area with milk.
519
00:29:39,358 --> 00:29:41,444
Everybody knew Max Yasgur.
520
00:29:42,570 --> 00:29:46,115
[John Conway] Yasgur was a, you know... He was a law-and-order Republican,
521
00:29:46,447 --> 00:29:48,032
but, you know, he also believed
522
00:29:48,115 --> 00:29:50,576
in personal freedom and freedom of expression,
523
00:29:50,625 --> 00:29:53,086
and that's what he hung his hat on.
524
00:29:54,164 --> 00:29:56,917
[Lang] We went to see Max, and we just hit it off.
525
00:29:57,125 --> 00:29:59,485
I think he liked the fact that we were doing something
526
00:29:59,485 --> 00:30:03,114
in the face of a lot of adversity and that we believed in.
527
00:30:04,529 --> 00:30:08,408
[Lawrence] Max takes us to the top of this hill, and there it is!
528
00:30:08,535 --> 00:30:10,621
A natural amphitheater.
529
00:30:11,288 --> 00:30:14,583
Michael and I looked at each other, "This is it!"
530
00:30:16,177 --> 00:30:18,555
[Spitz] This was exactly what they were looking for,
531
00:30:18,854 --> 00:30:22,066
and they made a deal with Max right there on the spot.
532
00:30:35,587 --> 00:30:37,756
[Roberts] Joel and I went up to get some kind of a handle
533
00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:39,507
on the town politics.
534
00:30:39,757 --> 00:30:41,967
[chuckles] We sure didn't want to get into the same problem there
535
00:30:42,051 --> 00:30:43,469
as we had in Wallkill.
536
00:30:46,073 --> 00:30:49,743
[Rosenman] We were asked to fill out our attendance expectations
537
00:30:49,824 --> 00:30:51,534
on the permit application.
538
00:30:52,077 --> 00:30:54,496
We used Monterey Pop's record,
539
00:30:54,547 --> 00:30:57,884
28,000 people a day, or something like that,
540
00:30:57,967 --> 00:31:00,219
as the baseline.
541
00:31:01,105 --> 00:31:03,398
We multiplied it times two, and said, you know,
542
00:31:03,482 --> 00:31:06,360
"In our wildest dreams, this is what we're hoping for."
543
00:31:07,350 --> 00:31:10,645
And within a couple of days, we got our permits.
544
00:31:12,790 --> 00:31:15,292
[Miriam Yasgur] A sign was erected near our house,
545
00:31:15,409 --> 00:31:17,036
and it said something like,
546
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,123
"Don't buy Yasgur's milk, he loves the hippies."
547
00:31:20,222 --> 00:31:23,308
And I thought to myself, "You don't know Max,
548
00:31:23,392 --> 00:31:25,394
because we're going to have a festival."
549
00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:28,553
[radio announcer] The Woodstock Music and Art Fair,
550
00:31:28,611 --> 00:31:31,155
the three-day Aquarian Exposition,
551
00:31:31,239 --> 00:31:33,449
will be held at White Lake,
552
00:31:33,534 --> 00:31:36,203
in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York.
553
00:31:36,286 --> 00:31:39,498
And on Friday, August 15, you'll hear and see...
554
00:31:39,596 --> 00:31:41,765
Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie,
555
00:31:41,849 --> 00:31:45,769
Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, the Incredible String Band...
556
00:31:45,854 --> 00:31:48,022
["Wasn't Born to Follow" by the Byrds playing]
557
00:31:49,732 --> 00:31:52,277
[Roberts] Everyone felt excited
558
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:53,862
about the possibilities of the new site,
559
00:31:54,614 --> 00:31:56,073
but there was a lot to be done.
560
00:31:58,242 --> 00:32:00,036
[Rosenman] We had to start all over again
561
00:32:00,093 --> 00:32:04,139
to construct what we had built in several months in Wallkill
562
00:32:04,221 --> 00:32:05,764
in less than four weeks.
563
00:32:06,849 --> 00:32:08,184
[Roberts] The half a million at the old site
564
00:32:08,267 --> 00:32:09,935
was all down the drain, right?
565
00:32:10,489 --> 00:32:13,075
And we have to put another $800,000 into this one.
566
00:32:13,579 --> 00:32:17,666
Building a stage, getting the lights and the sound system up, fences.
567
00:32:17,750 --> 00:32:18,876
Food concessions.
568
00:32:19,012 --> 00:32:21,556
Portable toilets... I mean, it was extraordinary.
569
00:32:22,099 --> 00:32:25,060
And Joel and I had never done any of this before.
570
00:32:26,891 --> 00:32:29,102
[Rosenman] But because of ticket sales,
571
00:32:29,154 --> 00:32:31,990
we actually felt that we were gonna turn a profit.
572
00:32:33,033 --> 00:32:35,494
[Spitz] They knew by this time that there were going to be
573
00:32:35,577 --> 00:32:37,913
more than just 50,000 people.
574
00:32:38,703 --> 00:32:41,998
Ticket sales looked like it was going to be closer to 100,000.
575
00:32:42,082 --> 00:32:44,751
And with 100,000 stoned-out kids,
576
00:32:44,852 --> 00:32:47,313
they knew that there could be some difficulties.
577
00:32:49,806 --> 00:32:53,351
[reporter] There's been some trouble at a few of the pop festivals.
578
00:32:53,435 --> 00:32:55,562
What do you think brings that about?
579
00:32:55,665 --> 00:32:57,709
Why will it happen at one place and not another?
580
00:32:58,168 --> 00:32:59,669
[Paul Butterfield] You know, I really don't know.
581
00:32:59,717 --> 00:33:02,303
Like, in Miami, they broke down the fence,
582
00:33:02,386 --> 00:33:05,222
and they had a lot of fights.
583
00:33:05,339 --> 00:33:07,382
[reporter] Do you think it has anything to do with the size of the audience?
584
00:33:07,466 --> 00:33:09,968
I think it has to do a little bit with the size.
585
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:13,824
It has more to do with the way the festival is organized.
586
00:33:15,112 --> 00:33:16,989
[Wes Pomeroy] To see what was really happening,
587
00:33:17,073 --> 00:33:20,242
we sent people to almost all the major rock festivals that summer.
588
00:33:20,913 --> 00:33:22,206
They went to Atlanta,
589
00:33:23,082 --> 00:33:24,625
they went to Denver,
590
00:33:25,976 --> 00:33:27,770
and they went to Newport.
591
00:33:28,882 --> 00:33:30,884
And every one, there were problems.
592
00:33:31,426 --> 00:33:33,178
They had tear gas used in Denver,
593
00:33:33,261 --> 00:33:36,473
they had violence in Los Angeles County.
594
00:33:37,412 --> 00:33:39,915
So, back in New York, they kept insisting
595
00:33:40,046 --> 00:33:43,091
that they needed to have security people for safety.
596
00:33:44,344 --> 00:33:48,223
I told John that all the cops in the world weren't going to prevent violence.
597
00:33:48,804 --> 00:33:51,932
It had to depend upon building the kind of expectation
598
00:33:52,015 --> 00:33:54,685
and the feeling of this event we're gonna have
599
00:33:54,734 --> 00:33:56,820
so that people didn't want to hurt each other.
600
00:33:58,488 --> 00:34:01,908
[Goldstein] We also knew that there would be a lot of drugs around
601
00:34:02,294 --> 00:34:05,639
and there would be a lot of people who couldn't handle whatever it was
602
00:34:05,639 --> 00:34:07,600
that they were going to take,
603
00:34:07,683 --> 00:34:10,811
and that that had to be dealt with as well.
604
00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,594
-[gong rings] -Hi, there.
605
00:34:13,695 --> 00:34:15,447
My name is Hugh Romney
606
00:34:15,530 --> 00:34:17,074
and I'm going through a series of changes
607
00:34:17,157 --> 00:34:20,452
in this fur room at the Electric Circus store.
608
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,714
What is essentially on the front of my brain
609
00:34:23,797 --> 00:34:25,841
is this Hog Farm poster,
610
00:34:25,925 --> 00:34:28,177
which we're gonna be moving all around the country.
611
00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:30,471
"We" being a commune.
612
00:34:31,645 --> 00:34:35,816
[Rosenman] Stanley Goldstein suggested that we look to this...
613
00:34:36,443 --> 00:34:39,655
[laughing] This commune called the Hog Farm,
614
00:34:39,737 --> 00:34:41,447
and that we should bring
615
00:34:41,531 --> 00:34:44,450
as many of these folks to the festival as we can,
616
00:34:44,551 --> 00:34:47,178
and have them handle our security.
617
00:34:48,638 --> 00:34:51,975
So, he went and met with a fellow named Hugh Romney,
618
00:34:52,058 --> 00:34:54,185
also known as Wavy Gravy.
619
00:34:54,933 --> 00:34:57,728
[Wavy Gravy] We'd been driving around the country, putting on these shows.
620
00:34:57,811 --> 00:35:01,857
We had a certain skill with working with large crowds.
621
00:35:02,958 --> 00:35:04,501
We were a-happening.
622
00:35:04,584 --> 00:35:06,544
[guitar playing, bell clanging]
623
00:35:07,003 --> 00:35:09,380
So, Stan Goldstein showed up and says,
624
00:35:09,432 --> 00:35:13,519
"How would you guys like to do this music festival in New York State?"
625
00:35:13,602 --> 00:35:15,438
And we said, "Well,
626
00:35:15,849 --> 00:35:17,434
it sounds like a good time,
627
00:35:17,517 --> 00:35:20,145
but we're gonna be in New Mexico."
628
00:35:20,575 --> 00:35:25,997
And he says, "That's all right, we'll fly you in in an Astrojet."
629
00:35:26,924 --> 00:35:31,596
And indeed, 85 of us boarded this American Airlines Astrojet
630
00:35:31,711 --> 00:35:33,213
going to Woodstock.
631
00:35:34,732 --> 00:35:36,859
[Tom Law] We all arrived at the Albuquerque airport
632
00:35:36,943 --> 00:35:39,570
and loaded up a couple of sets of teepee poles
633
00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:42,289
and flew off to New York.
634
00:35:43,863 --> 00:35:47,951
[Wavy Gravy laughing] The stewardesses locked themselves in a little room,
635
00:35:48,034 --> 00:35:50,078
and we just took over the plane.
636
00:35:50,179 --> 00:35:51,764
["Apricot Brandy" by Rhinoceros playing]
637
00:35:54,350 --> 00:35:57,770
[Wavy Gravy] We got to New York City, piled off the aircraft,
638
00:35:58,146 --> 00:36:00,231
and there was the press.
639
00:36:02,032 --> 00:36:04,451
What is the Hog Farm going to be doing in Woodstock?
640
00:36:04,536 --> 00:36:09,040
Well, the Hog Farm is a many-sided, multi...
641
00:36:09,124 --> 00:36:12,377
We're a kind of a family, a huge expanded family.
642
00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:13,920
And we could do any number of things,
643
00:36:14,052 --> 00:36:16,180
because each one of us is gonna do a different thing.
644
00:36:16,263 --> 00:36:18,432
But mostly we're just gonna try and be groovy,
645
00:36:18,515 --> 00:36:20,809
and spread that grooviness through everybody.
646
00:36:20,892 --> 00:36:23,102
Well, the Hog Farm has been hassled by security people,
647
00:36:23,186 --> 00:36:24,729
and they're calling you security people,
648
00:36:24,778 --> 00:36:27,531
so how do you feel about the, you know, the name?
649
00:36:27,614 --> 00:36:30,451
Well, I feel secure. I don't know what "security people" means.
650
00:36:30,552 --> 00:36:32,762
I never was called a security person before.
651
00:36:32,846 --> 00:36:33,930
In fact, you're the first person
652
00:36:34,048 --> 00:36:37,092
that's ever called me that. How do you feel? [laughs]
653
00:36:37,176 --> 00:36:38,802
Well, I feel...
654
00:36:38,891 --> 00:36:41,352
-Do you feel secure? -[all laughing]
655
00:36:42,144 --> 00:36:44,522
[Roberts] There was a picture in the Post the next day.
656
00:36:44,583 --> 00:36:48,003
My father called and said, "Nice cops you've hired."
657
00:36:48,086 --> 00:36:50,255
He thought that I was really out of my mind,
658
00:36:50,373 --> 00:36:51,749
to be involved in this thing.
659
00:37:02,481 --> 00:37:04,149
[kids shouting]
660
00:37:14,218 --> 00:37:16,637
[Marion Vassmer] We're a small town, we'll never have all those people here.
661
00:37:16,721 --> 00:37:19,307
They'll never... They'll never be here, you know.
662
00:37:19,390 --> 00:37:20,808
I didn't believe it.
663
00:37:25,288 --> 00:37:26,873
[Arthur Vassmer] That's all you heard on the radio.
664
00:37:26,956 --> 00:37:29,626
"Woodstock, town of Bethel, Woodstock..." You know?
665
00:37:29,661 --> 00:37:31,204
And ha-ha, we're all laughing, you know?
666
00:37:31,288 --> 00:37:32,581
And a guy come to me, he says, "Look out,
667
00:37:32,664 --> 00:37:34,416
this might be something bigger than you thought."
668
00:37:35,473 --> 00:37:36,766
I've been here all my life, you know?
669
00:37:36,850 --> 00:37:38,810
They're talking about hundreds of thousands of people,
670
00:37:38,928 --> 00:37:41,348
and so on and so forth. We never saw that in this town.
671
00:37:52,466 --> 00:37:54,718
[Debra Conway] There was a certain backlash,
672
00:37:54,789 --> 00:37:58,168
but mostly, you know, it was kind of a daily little buzz
673
00:37:58,251 --> 00:37:59,711
from the locals.
674
00:38:02,974 --> 00:38:04,309
[Louis Ratner] We started to hear rumors
675
00:38:04,409 --> 00:38:06,203
that this thing was more or less out of hand
676
00:38:06,286 --> 00:38:09,498
because no one knew the amount of tickets that were sold.
677
00:38:10,573 --> 00:38:15,995
One time they said 25,000, and then it was... It was 150,000,
678
00:38:16,097 --> 00:38:17,974
and then they don't know,
679
00:38:18,057 --> 00:38:20,351
and it got to a point where...
680
00:38:20,433 --> 00:38:22,560
you started to get a little worried about it.
681
00:38:42,896 --> 00:38:44,481
[Morris] It was early August
682
00:38:44,616 --> 00:38:48,411
and we were about a week out from the beginning of the festival,
683
00:38:49,744 --> 00:38:52,163
when, all of a sudden, people started showing up.
684
00:38:52,789 --> 00:38:54,874
[people chattering]
685
00:38:59,836 --> 00:39:00,963
[Miriam Yasgur] About a week before,
686
00:39:01,046 --> 00:39:04,550
they started showing up in small groups and camping and so on,
687
00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:07,393
and the thing that Max and I were trying to figure out is,
688
00:39:07,477 --> 00:39:10,021
they hadn't gotten the fence around the field.
689
00:39:11,995 --> 00:39:14,456
And we thought, "Boy, they'd better rush and do that
690
00:39:14,574 --> 00:39:16,701
if they want to sell tickets to this thing."
691
00:39:28,022 --> 00:39:29,023
[Rosenman] In that last week,
692
00:39:29,071 --> 00:39:32,533
if you saw what was going on, you were immediately aware
693
00:39:32,616 --> 00:39:35,119
that it couldn't possibly be finished in time.
694
00:39:36,171 --> 00:39:40,133
On Monday, everything was in a state of preparation
695
00:39:40,165 --> 00:39:42,126
roughly on target for a festival
696
00:39:42,209 --> 00:39:43,877
to be thrown some time in November,
697
00:39:44,554 --> 00:39:48,016
and not for one that was supposed to begin in four days.
698
00:39:49,190 --> 00:39:51,234
Let's clear the road, please!
699
00:39:52,152 --> 00:39:55,238
[Beren] We showed up three days before the festival opened,
700
00:39:55,370 --> 00:39:58,331
because that's what we were supposed to do as food handlers.
701
00:39:58,956 --> 00:40:01,000
It was thrown together at the last minute,
702
00:40:01,051 --> 00:40:04,179
so we had to build our own food stands before we manned them.
703
00:40:05,811 --> 00:40:09,732
[Roberts] We had spoken to a lot of different food concession people,
704
00:40:09,814 --> 00:40:12,192
and all of them, the legitimate guys,
705
00:40:12,275 --> 00:40:15,028
went by the wayside when we lost Wallkill.
706
00:40:15,838 --> 00:40:18,925
What was left was an outfit called Food for Love.
707
00:40:20,373 --> 00:40:22,500
There were three of them, three guys.
708
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,586
I think one of them had some kind of food catering experience.
709
00:40:26,468 --> 00:40:28,095
I don't think the other two did.
710
00:40:29,657 --> 00:40:32,159
But we didn't have any alternative.
711
00:40:35,328 --> 00:40:36,663
[Rosenman] I think it was Tuesday,
712
00:40:36,746 --> 00:40:38,540
the construction foreman tells us,
713
00:40:38,623 --> 00:40:41,167
"We just don't have enough time to finish everything.
714
00:40:41,302 --> 00:40:43,679
So, which would you like to have us finish,
715
00:40:43,763 --> 00:40:47,516
the gates and the fences, or the stage?
716
00:40:48,065 --> 00:40:51,235
We don't have enough men and material to do both."
717
00:40:52,612 --> 00:40:56,199
I remember thinking, "If we don't have gates and fences,
718
00:40:56,745 --> 00:40:59,372
then we're not gonna collect tickets.
719
00:40:59,388 --> 00:41:01,473
We'll be bankrupt.
720
00:41:02,683 --> 00:41:05,269
And if we don't have a stage, we'll be in jail.
721
00:41:05,393 --> 00:41:09,063
[laughing] Because there will be 100,000 kids running around
722
00:41:09,143 --> 00:41:11,687
with nothing to do, for three days."
723
00:41:12,605 --> 00:41:14,106
So, that was the answer.
724
00:41:14,190 --> 00:41:16,025
The answer was, "Build the stage."
725
00:41:18,652 --> 00:41:20,321
[welding torch buzzing]
726
00:41:21,005 --> 00:41:22,715
[Ticia Agri] I'd go there in the middle of the night
727
00:41:22,799 --> 00:41:24,801
and people were building the stage.
728
00:41:25,641 --> 00:41:27,893
It was going 24 hours.
729
00:41:29,263 --> 00:41:30,890
[Monck] There was obviously so much to do,
730
00:41:30,973 --> 00:41:33,643
and so little time in which to do it,
731
00:41:34,368 --> 00:41:38,080
we had all come to realize that all of our individual jobs
732
00:41:38,163 --> 00:41:39,998
were going to be left somewhat undone.
733
00:41:40,874 --> 00:41:42,334
So, we all kind of banded together
734
00:41:42,417 --> 00:41:46,380
into one, sort of, SWAT team trying to run around and finish.
735
00:41:53,569 --> 00:41:55,696
["You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by the Byrds playing]
736
00:41:55,780 --> 00:42:00,869
[George] I quit my job at the restaurant in Ocean City with no notice. [laughs]
737
00:42:00,951 --> 00:42:03,745
I just told them that I wouldn't be in anymore.
738
00:42:04,349 --> 00:42:05,350
And they said, "Why?"
739
00:42:05,434 --> 00:42:07,519
And I said, "Well, I'm going to Woodstock."
740
00:42:10,042 --> 00:42:12,420
[Daye] We didn't get on the road till around noon,
741
00:42:13,087 --> 00:42:15,756
and by the time we got to within,
742
00:42:15,765 --> 00:42:19,101
I don't know, miles of Bethel,
743
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,366
the traffic was just, you know, crawling.
744
00:42:24,177 --> 00:42:28,222
The folks on the road, the people who lived there,
745
00:42:28,306 --> 00:42:30,975
one would think that they would throw things at us.
746
00:42:31,056 --> 00:42:34,225
No! They just welcomed us.
747
00:42:38,939 --> 00:42:42,442
[Kaufman] Never before in my life
748
00:42:43,083 --> 00:42:47,671
did I feel so much anticipation.
749
00:42:48,506 --> 00:42:50,800
[laughing] This is going to be so cool!
750
00:42:51,174 --> 00:42:52,842
♪ My bride's gonna come ♪
751
00:42:52,926 --> 00:42:56,405
♪ Oh, ho, are we gonna fly ♪
752
00:42:56,405 --> 00:42:59,283
♪ Down in the easy chair? ♪
753
00:43:00,993 --> 00:43:04,496
[Starobin] We were at a dead standstill for hours.
754
00:43:04,871 --> 00:43:06,914
People just got out and sat on their cars
755
00:43:06,998 --> 00:43:10,334
and started talking to each other, getting to know each other.
756
00:43:11,101 --> 00:43:16,523
You know, starting long conversations about politics and about music.
757
00:43:16,982 --> 00:43:20,527
Before long, we felt like we had hundreds of best friends.
758
00:43:24,218 --> 00:43:25,719
[Arthur Vassmer] We were sitting on the back porch
759
00:43:25,803 --> 00:43:28,555
and, my God, the traffic, all of a sudden, it started.
760
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:30,474
And I'm telling you, it never let up.
761
00:43:31,179 --> 00:43:33,848
We just opened the one door. But you couldn't let them in.
762
00:43:33,932 --> 00:43:35,225
It was impossible.
763
00:43:35,309 --> 00:43:38,020
And we let 40 or 50 people at a time,
764
00:43:38,103 --> 00:43:40,105
they'd get their groceries or whatever they needed,
765
00:43:40,189 --> 00:43:41,524
let them out the back,
766
00:43:42,024 --> 00:43:44,777
and then open up the door, let another 50 in.
767
00:43:45,248 --> 00:43:48,000
And these people, some of them walked four and five, six miles.
768
00:43:48,084 --> 00:43:50,419
"Where's the Woodstock? Where's the Woodstock?"
769
00:43:53,261 --> 00:43:55,930
[reporter] This sight is hard to believe.
770
00:43:55,997 --> 00:43:57,666
We're over White Lake,
771
00:43:57,749 --> 00:44:00,627
in the midst of this music festival encampment.
772
00:44:01,033 --> 00:44:03,703
We're up over the trees now, we're coming in over...
773
00:44:03,786 --> 00:44:07,373
[Joe Tinkelman] We were on the state highway, and cars were stopping.
774
00:44:07,425 --> 00:44:10,470
And we realized that this was parking for the concert,
775
00:44:10,885 --> 00:44:13,179
so we got out of the car and started walking,
776
00:44:13,263 --> 00:44:18,059
and we saw people setting up lawn chairs to watch this spectacle.
777
00:44:19,152 --> 00:44:22,405
[laughing] It looked like this whole part of New York State
778
00:44:22,476 --> 00:44:25,605
was just being turned upside down by this event.
779
00:44:26,708 --> 00:44:29,085
[reporter] The traffic is terrible.
780
00:44:29,168 --> 00:44:30,920
It is backed up from White Lake
781
00:44:31,057 --> 00:44:33,601
right back through on the Quickway past Monticello,
782
00:44:33,684 --> 00:44:37,688
and there's no place to park, everything is full.
783
00:44:39,602 --> 00:44:40,978
[Reynolds] They were announcing on the radio
784
00:44:41,062 --> 00:44:45,232
that you couldn't get there, and, you know, "Don't go."
785
00:44:45,273 --> 00:44:47,567
[laughing] They were saying, "Don't go, don't go!
786
00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:50,194
You can't get in, it's already overcrowded,
787
00:44:50,338 --> 00:44:53,341
and they're shutting it down, and turn around and go home."
788
00:44:54,258 --> 00:44:56,552
[laughing] Nobody was turning around.
789
00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:00,729
It sort of increased our desire, more than anything.
790
00:45:01,101 --> 00:45:03,728
Like, one way or another, we'll get there.
791
00:45:07,752 --> 00:45:10,505
["Get Together" by the Youngbloods playing]
792
00:45:15,723 --> 00:45:17,642
[people chattering]
793
00:45:22,902 --> 00:45:26,030
♪ Love is but a song to sing ♪
794
00:45:27,658 --> 00:45:29,452
♪ Fear's the way we die... ♪
795
00:45:29,505 --> 00:45:32,174
[Lindsey] As you walked in, it hit you.
796
00:45:32,258 --> 00:45:34,677
Suddenly, it just all came into view at once.
797
00:45:37,481 --> 00:45:41,735
This whole enormous bowl full of people.
798
00:45:42,939 --> 00:45:44,357
It was mind-boggling.
799
00:45:47,540 --> 00:45:51,043
[Rosenman] Coming over the hill and feeling the energy of that crowd
800
00:45:51,173 --> 00:45:53,008
is something that I'll never forget.
801
00:45:53,801 --> 00:45:56,094
There was so much power in it.
802
00:45:57,431 --> 00:46:01,101
♪ Come on, people now Smile on your brother ♪
803
00:46:01,182 --> 00:46:03,309
♪ Everybody get together ♪
804
00:46:03,392 --> 00:46:06,854
♪ Try to love one another right now ♪
805
00:46:07,020 --> 00:46:08,647
[Starobin] It was indescribable,
806
00:46:09,147 --> 00:46:13,485
the feeling that came over me of warmth,
807
00:46:13,552 --> 00:46:17,598
and, "Oh, my God, there are this many people in the world
808
00:46:17,718 --> 00:46:19,470
that think like I think."
809
00:46:19,935 --> 00:46:22,437
[laughing] "There are all these people here!"
810
00:46:22,521 --> 00:46:25,816
I never knew there were that many people in the world.
811
00:46:27,536 --> 00:46:29,496
["Get Together" continues]
812
00:46:30,586 --> 00:46:33,923
[Reynolds] Once we got there, the fences were just trampled.
813
00:46:34,131 --> 00:46:38,678
We walked up that hill, and we saw, you know, all these people.
814
00:46:39,295 --> 00:46:42,590
Our age, looked like us. Dressed like us.
815
00:46:42,688 --> 00:46:44,273
You know, us.
816
00:46:46,277 --> 00:46:48,404
I mean, it was just... It was...
817
00:46:48,487 --> 00:46:51,782
It was like, you know, meeting your brothers and sisters.
818
00:46:52,948 --> 00:46:54,450
It was really beautiful.
819
00:46:56,593 --> 00:47:00,347
♪ Come on, people now Smile on your brother ♪
820
00:47:00,432 --> 00:47:02,601
♪ Everybody get together ♪
821
00:47:02,684 --> 00:47:06,355
♪ Try to love one another right now ♪
822
00:47:06,945 --> 00:47:08,780
♪ Right now ♪
823
00:47:09,364 --> 00:47:12,159
♪ Right now ♪
824
00:47:14,377 --> 00:47:17,046
[Morris on speaker] We'll be getting our show on in about five minutes.
825
00:47:17,129 --> 00:47:20,723
Just keep cool and relax. We'll be with you as soon as we can.
826
00:47:20,723 --> 00:47:23,059
-Thank you. -[all cheering]
827
00:47:23,142 --> 00:47:26,270
Do you realize that half of these people don't have tickets,
828
00:47:26,355 --> 00:47:29,149
and there are people five miles away sitting on a highway with tickets
829
00:47:29,233 --> 00:47:31,360
who have driven 2,000 or 3,000 miles?
830
00:47:31,494 --> 00:47:33,288
Whatever has to be done to make it right,
831
00:47:33,371 --> 00:47:35,081
-this is wrong. -[man] Yeah.
832
00:47:35,497 --> 00:47:38,250
[Roberts] It was obvious we were in deep shit.
833
00:47:39,168 --> 00:47:40,919
After having worked that afternoon,
834
00:47:41,004 --> 00:47:43,590
trying to organize people to put the fences up,
835
00:47:43,673 --> 00:47:45,300
and actually pounding in posts myself,
836
00:47:45,939 --> 00:47:47,608
I realized it wasn't going to happen.
837
00:47:48,317 --> 00:47:52,070
We weren't going to be able to ring about a mile of perimeter.
838
00:47:53,835 --> 00:47:54,919
[Morris] What are you going to tell
839
00:47:55,032 --> 00:47:56,909
a few hundred thousand people who are sitting in your field
840
00:47:56,992 --> 00:47:58,660
when you're supposed to be collecting money from them?
841
00:47:58,744 --> 00:48:00,704
"Go back out and come back in when we get the tickets
842
00:48:00,756 --> 00:48:02,716
and we finish the fences and the rest of it"?
843
00:48:03,049 --> 00:48:06,178
You are now giving the world's greatest three-day freebie.
844
00:48:07,017 --> 00:48:07,976
That's what it is.
845
00:48:08,060 --> 00:48:09,561
-No, there's a way to do it. -There is no way.
846
00:48:09,619 --> 00:48:11,120
[Morris] Artie came up with,
847
00:48:11,204 --> 00:48:12,872
"Can't we get a whole bunch of girls,
848
00:48:12,955 --> 00:48:15,917
and put them in diaphanous gowns and give them collection baskets,
849
00:48:16,043 --> 00:48:17,378
and send them out into the audience?"
850
00:48:18,420 --> 00:48:21,382
It was the most ludicrous thing I had ever heard in my life.
851
00:48:22,885 --> 00:48:25,137
[Roberts] As a business venture, it was dead.
852
00:48:25,892 --> 00:48:30,355
And I don't know why, but sort of a curious calm overcame us,
853
00:48:30,451 --> 00:48:32,704
and it seemed like the gates
854
00:48:32,787 --> 00:48:36,457
just weren't really what was important here anymore.
855
00:48:36,873 --> 00:48:38,791
[Morris on speaker] It's a free concert from now on.
856
00:48:38,875 --> 00:48:40,167
[crowd cheering]
857
00:48:40,749 --> 00:48:43,544
That doesn't mean that anything goes.
858
00:48:43,627 --> 00:48:47,047
What that means is, we're gonna put the music up here for free.
859
00:48:48,092 --> 00:48:50,636
What it means is that the people who are backing this thing,
860
00:48:50,723 --> 00:48:53,267
who put up the money for it, are gonna take a bit of a bath.
861
00:48:53,684 --> 00:48:55,811
A big bath. That's no hype.
862
00:48:55,846 --> 00:48:57,764
That's truth. They're gonna get hurt.
863
00:48:58,723 --> 00:49:02,269
But what it means is that these people have it in their heads
864
00:49:03,214 --> 00:49:06,426
that your welfare is a hell of a lot more important,
865
00:49:06,561 --> 00:49:08,271
and the music is... than the dollar.
866
00:49:08,355 --> 00:49:10,649
[crowd cheering and applauding]
867
00:49:14,693 --> 00:49:17,696
[Beren] The roar that went up from that crowd was incredible.
868
00:49:19,592 --> 00:49:23,721
Despite its roots in trying to be a capitalist enterprise,
869
00:49:23,805 --> 00:49:25,390
the concert was liberated.
870
00:49:25,472 --> 00:49:26,765
-[coins clinking] -[people chattering]
871
00:49:26,848 --> 00:49:29,518
You don't even have to bother bringing your tickets or anything,
872
00:49:29,597 --> 00:49:31,391
because they aren't going to collect them.
873
00:49:31,891 --> 00:49:33,351
There's no way they can.
874
00:49:34,143 --> 00:49:35,770
They got a fence that's like half up,
875
00:49:35,868 --> 00:49:37,996
and there are people just sitting in that field.
876
00:49:38,079 --> 00:49:39,414
It's really beautiful.
877
00:49:40,083 --> 00:49:42,502
[man on speaker] We're still waiting for the arrival of group one.
878
00:49:42,585 --> 00:49:44,254
Now, please bear with us.
879
00:49:44,337 --> 00:49:45,755
Due to the traffic problems,
880
00:49:45,839 --> 00:49:48,425
we're going to have to start a little later.
881
00:49:48,508 --> 00:49:51,386
[Morris] The bands were all in different hotels,
882
00:49:51,482 --> 00:49:53,568
and if you tried to drive down to the site,
883
00:49:53,651 --> 00:49:55,695
it would take you six hours to do it.
884
00:49:56,407 --> 00:49:58,784
It became obvious that we needed helicopters.
885
00:50:00,002 --> 00:50:02,421
But then, Richie Havens showed up,
886
00:50:02,754 --> 00:50:05,632
and it was like, "Richie, please go on now."
887
00:50:06,133 --> 00:50:08,677
And he said, "I'm not scheduled to go on till later."
888
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,471
I said, "Richie, we don't have anybody else."
889
00:50:12,695 --> 00:50:14,822
[Richie Havens] I actually was afraid to go on first,
890
00:50:14,901 --> 00:50:18,946
basically because I knew the concert was late
891
00:50:19,030 --> 00:50:21,282
and I didn't want to get beer cans thrown at me.
892
00:50:21,874 --> 00:50:23,542
You know, "Don't do this to me.
893
00:50:23,625 --> 00:50:26,628
Don't put me in front of your problem like this," you know?
894
00:50:26,712 --> 00:50:28,672
"My bass player isn't even here."
895
00:50:29,256 --> 00:50:32,593
But I went on, you know, and it was beautiful.
896
00:50:33,237 --> 00:50:36,741
[singing] ♪ Hey, look yonder Tell me what's that you see ♪
897
00:50:36,857 --> 00:50:39,985
♪ Marching to the fields of Concord? ♪
898
00:50:40,866 --> 00:50:44,995
♪ Looks like Handsome Johnny With his flintlock in his hand ♪
899
00:50:45,128 --> 00:50:47,296
♪ Marching to the Concord war ♪
900
00:50:48,131 --> 00:50:51,175
♪ Hey, marching to the Concord war ♪
901
00:50:52,553 --> 00:50:55,681
[Beren] Once the festival started, we opened the food stands.
902
00:50:55,731 --> 00:50:59,568
And a throng of people came running up the hill.
903
00:50:59,943 --> 00:51:02,779
There were too many people, too many arms reaching out,
904
00:51:02,862 --> 00:51:05,240
so we just started handing out hamburgers.
905
00:51:06,048 --> 00:51:09,009
And people began to shower us with joints.
906
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:14,517
I had one in each pocket, one in my ear, and I was smoking two at a time.
907
00:51:15,599 --> 00:51:17,059
I got really high.
908
00:51:18,144 --> 00:51:20,646
[audience cheering]
909
00:51:20,748 --> 00:51:23,376
[Havens] I was onstage for something like two hours
910
00:51:23,459 --> 00:51:25,420
because nobody else was there to go on.
911
00:51:25,876 --> 00:51:29,254
[chuckles] I did about four or five encores, you know,
912
00:51:29,337 --> 00:51:30,338
until I had nothing else to sing.
913
00:51:30,473 --> 00:51:33,601
And then "Freedom" was created right there on the stage.
914
00:51:33,684 --> 00:51:36,103
That's how "Freedom" was created, onstage.
915
00:51:36,156 --> 00:51:39,034
It was the last thing I could think of to sing.
916
00:51:39,576 --> 00:51:40,366
I made it up.
917
00:51:40,366 --> 00:51:42,618
[playing opening to "Freedom"]
918
00:51:51,898 --> 00:51:54,484
[Carol Green] I remember hearing Richie Havens
919
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:56,606
playing "Freedom."
920
00:51:57,732 --> 00:51:59,442
I was way up on the hill,
921
00:51:59,526 --> 00:52:02,570
and I heard it, and I was transported.
922
00:52:03,197 --> 00:52:06,450
[Havens singing] ♪ Freedom, freedom ♪
923
00:52:06,553 --> 00:52:09,681
♪ Freedom, freedom ♪
924
00:52:09,794 --> 00:52:11,379
[George] It's a good word to use.
925
00:52:11,921 --> 00:52:14,924
It wasn't just the freedom of being able to smoke a joint,
926
00:52:15,026 --> 00:52:18,988
it was the freedom of being able to be who you were.
927
00:52:19,072 --> 00:52:21,991
Not feeling that somebody was going to judge you
928
00:52:22,073 --> 00:52:23,282
or threaten you.
929
00:52:23,908 --> 00:52:26,911
So, yeah, freedom on a lot of levels.
930
00:52:28,127 --> 00:52:30,838
-["Freedom" continues] -[audience clapping to rhythm]
931
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,676
[Agri] I left the backstage area and I went into the crowd,
932
00:52:36,810 --> 00:52:39,646
and I went up, and I got in the middle of the crowd,
933
00:52:39,729 --> 00:52:42,774
and that was like, "Wow, look what we've done.
934
00:52:43,275 --> 00:52:46,570
We actually pulled it off, and it's happening."
935
00:52:47,372 --> 00:52:48,707
[Morris on speaker] What better way to start
936
00:52:48,791 --> 00:52:50,709
than with the beautiful Richie Havens?
937
00:52:50,794 --> 00:52:53,129
[Morris] The audience reaction was just wonderful.
938
00:52:53,213 --> 00:52:56,132
It just brought the spirit right up and you felt,
939
00:52:56,213 --> 00:52:58,632
"Okay, this is going to work. We're going to be okay."
940
00:52:59,857 --> 00:53:03,903
And then, thank God, we got the helicopter rotation working,
941
00:53:04,570 --> 00:53:06,322
and started to get people in.
942
00:53:06,405 --> 00:53:10,368
[man on speaker] We apologize for the noise of the choppity-choppity,
943
00:53:10,449 --> 00:53:13,452
but it seems there are a few cars blocking the road,
944
00:53:13,536 --> 00:53:15,454
so we're flying everybody in.
945
00:53:16,349 --> 00:53:19,102
[Spitz] Once the artists started arriving,
946
00:53:19,185 --> 00:53:21,646
the first band to go on was Sweetwater,
947
00:53:22,531 --> 00:53:25,534
followed by the acoustic acts.
948
00:53:25,570 --> 00:53:28,156
[Sweetwater playing "What's Wrong"]
949
00:53:35,604 --> 00:53:37,397
[strumming opening to "Joe Hill"]
950
00:53:37,522 --> 00:53:39,233
[crowd cheering]
951
00:53:41,893 --> 00:53:48,065
[singing] ♪ I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night ♪
952
00:53:48,163 --> 00:53:52,042
♪ Alive as you and me ♪
953
00:53:52,834 --> 00:53:56,421
[Barnard Collier] It was after midnight, and in fact, it was starting to rain.
954
00:53:57,722 --> 00:54:02,686
All through the crowd, there were matches and cigarette lighters and candles,
955
00:54:02,736 --> 00:54:04,571
and it looked like fireflies.
956
00:54:07,074 --> 00:54:08,617
[Chris Moore] The field was illuminated.
957
00:54:09,284 --> 00:54:13,413
Not as bright as the blue light on Joan Baez on the stage,
958
00:54:13,549 --> 00:54:17,511
but the immediate impact was the size of that crowd.
959
00:54:17,557 --> 00:54:19,142
["Joe Hill" continues]
960
00:54:19,226 --> 00:54:22,104
[Moore] There was nothing in that field but human beings.
961
00:54:23,397 --> 00:54:25,524
-[song ends] -[crowd cheers]
962
00:54:27,402 --> 00:54:30,446
[Morris] Joan Baez was just wonderful.
963
00:54:31,121 --> 00:54:33,332
She ended that night in a drizzle.
964
00:54:34,666 --> 00:54:37,252
I looked out in the field and saw all these people,
965
00:54:37,301 --> 00:54:39,803
and it was like, "Let's go to sleep."
966
00:54:41,557 --> 00:54:43,642
[Morris on speaker] Maybe the best thing for everybody to do,
967
00:54:43,726 --> 00:54:46,979
unless you have a tent or someplace specific to go to,
968
00:54:47,646 --> 00:54:50,899
is carve yourself out a piece of territory,
969
00:54:51,751 --> 00:54:55,629
say goodnight to your neighbor, and say thank you to yourself
970
00:54:55,711 --> 00:54:58,547
for making this the most peaceful, most pleasant day
971
00:54:58,630 --> 00:55:00,674
anybody's ever had in this kind of music.
972
00:55:02,425 --> 00:55:03,968
[motorcycle engines revving]
973
00:55:04,052 --> 00:55:05,595
[Roberts] Joel and I got on the Hondas.
974
00:55:05,947 --> 00:55:07,532
And we rode up to a hill
975
00:55:07,616 --> 00:55:11,453
that was, you know, maybe a mile away from the stage.
976
00:55:12,619 --> 00:55:14,621
And in the distance, you could see hundreds,
977
00:55:14,704 --> 00:55:16,498
thousands of little campfires.
978
00:55:17,256 --> 00:55:20,884
It was like an army at rest before an enormous battle the next day.
979
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:23,938
It was really beautiful.
980
00:55:25,190 --> 00:55:27,025
That moment will stay with me forever.
981
00:55:34,924 --> 00:55:36,926
[crowd cheering]
982
00:55:37,009 --> 00:55:39,011
[man on microphone] I guess the reason we're here is music.
983
00:55:39,095 --> 00:55:42,014
So, let's have some music. Ladies and gentlemen, Quill!
984
00:55:42,095 --> 00:55:43,805
[playing "Waiting for You"]
985
00:55:48,395 --> 00:55:50,105
[band vocalizing]
986
00:55:52,943 --> 00:55:55,779
[Lindsey] The first day of the festival, there were a lot of people there.
987
00:55:56,129 --> 00:55:58,965
Maybe 250,000, 300,000 people.
988
00:55:59,048 --> 00:56:00,842
That was the folk day.
989
00:56:01,467 --> 00:56:03,969
The second day of the concert was the rock 'n' roll day.
990
00:56:04,595 --> 00:56:06,138
That's when everyone showed up.
991
00:56:06,807 --> 00:56:11,103
They wanted to see The Who, Airplane, the Dead, later that night.
992
00:56:11,744 --> 00:56:14,997
So, the crowd grew by about a hundred thousand.
993
00:56:16,956 --> 00:56:18,666
[Dills] Holy shit, this thing
994
00:56:18,749 --> 00:56:21,752
is way beyond what we ever could've imagined.
995
00:56:22,882 --> 00:56:26,761
We just felt like we were going to get crushed up against the stage,
996
00:56:26,857 --> 00:56:28,567
and we didn't really want that.
997
00:56:28,651 --> 00:56:32,029
So, like a lot of people, we just decided to go out exploring,
998
00:56:32,112 --> 00:56:34,364
walking around to see what was going on.
999
00:56:36,949 --> 00:56:41,036
[Beren] On the periphery of the crowd was a two-lane highway of people,
1000
00:56:41,429 --> 00:56:44,432
and it never stopped moving for the entire festival.
1001
00:56:45,058 --> 00:56:48,729
People were going to the food stands, they were coming from the bathroom.
1002
00:56:48,812 --> 00:56:50,981
They were going God knows where.
1003
00:56:53,190 --> 00:56:56,944
[George] If you just started wandering, you'd come across all kinds of stuff.
1004
00:56:57,627 --> 00:56:59,629
["Buzzin' Fly" by Tim Buckley playing]
1005
00:56:59,713 --> 00:57:03,717
[George] A lot of it was like just walking the boardwalk and seeing the sights
1006
00:57:03,799 --> 00:57:05,509
and taking in the scene.
1007
00:57:17,579 --> 00:57:20,040
[Dills] Walking around, I remember thinking,
1008
00:57:20,123 --> 00:57:22,626
"Holy shit, there are a lot of breasts here."
1009
00:57:23,877 --> 00:57:27,881
Most of the nudity I'd seen previously was in Playboy,
1010
00:57:29,135 --> 00:57:32,180
and small bits on a hot date,
1011
00:57:32,279 --> 00:57:34,657
but, you know, really not much.
1012
00:57:34,740 --> 00:57:37,284
And there were a lot of people, girls and guys,
1013
00:57:37,368 --> 00:57:41,997
who were very, very open with their lack of clothing.
1014
00:57:43,251 --> 00:57:45,128
Especially down by the water.
1015
00:57:47,981 --> 00:57:51,276
[Starobin] The good thing about skinny dipping is we all went in.
1016
00:57:51,354 --> 00:57:54,274
Fat, skinny, it didn't matter.
1017
00:57:54,357 --> 00:57:56,526
Nobody looked, nobody cared.
1018
00:57:58,028 --> 00:58:00,948
It was just plain fun.
1019
00:58:04,508 --> 00:58:05,676
[George] I was 17.
1020
00:58:05,761 --> 00:58:08,138
Normally, my jaw would be on the floor, staring,
1021
00:58:08,889 --> 00:58:13,643
but when everything, to a certain extent, is beyond belief to begin with,
1022
00:58:13,724 --> 00:58:15,100
nothing surprises you.
1023
00:58:19,290 --> 00:58:22,543
There was kind of a path in the woods
1024
00:58:22,626 --> 00:58:25,545
where people had all kinds of different shops set up.
1025
00:58:26,416 --> 00:58:29,169
They were selling, you know, musical stuff,
1026
00:58:29,252 --> 00:58:32,464
and things like beads and crafts that they had made.
1027
00:58:33,098 --> 00:58:38,854
Hand-tie-dyed clothing, blown-glass pipes, and stuff like that.
1028
00:58:39,704 --> 00:58:43,416
Kind of head shops in the woods, that sort of thing.
1029
00:58:44,623 --> 00:58:48,752
There was one table set up where they were just selling pot. [chuckles]
1030
00:58:48,836 --> 00:58:50,462
We were well supplied.
1031
00:58:52,981 --> 00:58:55,191
[Starobin] Saturday was kind of a day
1032
00:58:55,243 --> 00:58:58,287
where, you know, we walked like a couple of miles,
1033
00:58:58,371 --> 00:58:59,914
checking things out.
1034
00:59:00,992 --> 00:59:05,705
There was so much happening that that was almost as interesting
1035
00:59:05,803 --> 00:59:07,638
as seeing the music.
1036
00:59:10,140 --> 00:59:12,726
[Jaboolian] Just to the other side, it was a wooded area.
1037
00:59:13,602 --> 00:59:15,812
Well, that's where the Hog Farm was set up.
1038
00:59:16,813 --> 00:59:18,398
This was commune life.
1039
00:59:18,857 --> 00:59:22,652
You know, I had heard about it, but I had never seen it in action.
1040
00:59:24,836 --> 00:59:28,506
[Jahanara Romney] We had been living in a group for years by then,
1041
00:59:28,589 --> 00:59:32,051
and it was quite an amazing experiment.
1042
00:59:32,628 --> 00:59:35,202
You know, the understanding that the people around me
1043
00:59:35,202 --> 00:59:38,288
are all part of the same spirit.
1044
00:59:39,915 --> 00:59:42,000
[Henry Diltz] There was, like, a couple hundred of them
1045
00:59:42,494 --> 00:59:44,871
with all these kids running around.
1046
00:59:45,713 --> 00:59:48,174
They had teepees and yurts, you know,
1047
00:59:48,257 --> 00:59:52,136
and all these various little, you know, dwellings.
1048
00:59:54,307 --> 00:59:58,394
[Daye] A whole bunch of them came on all these exotic buses
1049
00:59:58,509 --> 01:00:00,344
that they had painted up.
1050
01:00:00,904 --> 01:00:02,447
It was magical.
1051
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,117
[music playing in distance]
1052
01:00:06,832 --> 01:00:09,168
[Jaboolian] And the Hog Farm had built a small stage.
1053
01:00:09,251 --> 01:00:11,462
And there was music there as well.
1054
01:00:11,595 --> 01:00:13,556
I didn't realize that at first.
1055
01:00:14,765 --> 01:00:18,769
[George] There was always some kind of musical jam going on over there.
1056
01:00:18,821 --> 01:00:20,614
[playing blues tune]
1057
01:00:21,026 --> 01:00:23,194
[George] Away from the actual concert,
1058
01:00:23,570 --> 01:00:28,033
the Hog Farm was kind of a center of gravity for the festival.
1059
01:00:31,130 --> 01:00:35,051
[Rosenman] The Hog Farm turned out to be an interesting choice for security.
1060
01:00:35,806 --> 01:00:38,642
They didn't call themselves a police force,
1061
01:00:39,267 --> 01:00:41,770
they called themselves a "please force."
1062
01:00:42,703 --> 01:00:47,124
They substituted, "Hey, you do this," with, "Would you please do this?"
1063
01:00:47,207 --> 01:00:49,793
Or, "Would it be all right with you if..." And so forth.
1064
01:00:49,876 --> 01:00:52,462
Keep back, keep back now, let them through.
1065
01:00:52,794 --> 01:00:55,046
Everything's got room to flow here.
1066
01:00:56,475 --> 01:00:59,186
[plays "Que Sera Sera" on kazoo]
1067
01:00:59,978 --> 01:01:03,607
[Wavy Gravy] The "please" chiefs were myself and Tom Law.
1068
01:01:04,104 --> 01:01:05,481
We turned it into fun.
1069
01:01:05,948 --> 01:01:08,117
Oh, yes. [hums through kazoo]
1070
01:01:09,159 --> 01:01:12,204
[Roberts] They gave a nice flavor to the festival.
1071
01:01:12,256 --> 01:01:14,091
We paid them $18,000.
1072
01:01:14,550 --> 01:01:16,009
I remember that.
1073
01:01:16,143 --> 01:01:17,895
[Rosenman] I don't remember paying them anything.
1074
01:01:18,437 --> 01:01:19,688
I thought we just chartered the jet.
1075
01:01:20,279 --> 01:01:23,282
[Roberts] Maybe that's what that cost. Maybe that's where the 18 grand went.
1076
01:01:23,365 --> 01:01:25,158
[Rosenman] They did it just because they wanted to be there,
1077
01:01:25,277 --> 01:01:27,112
and because they felt that they could be useful.
1078
01:01:27,195 --> 01:01:28,572
They were really nice people.
1079
01:01:29,197 --> 01:01:30,741
[Country Joe McDonald singing] ♪ One, two, three ♪
1080
01:01:30,839 --> 01:01:32,591
♪ What are we fighting for? ♪
1081
01:01:32,674 --> 01:01:35,135
♪ Don't ask me I don't give a damn ♪
1082
01:01:35,218 --> 01:01:37,220
♪ The next stop is Vietnam ♪
1083
01:01:37,272 --> 01:01:40,358
[Starobin] In the afternoon, I kind of wandered back to the concert.
1084
01:01:40,935 --> 01:01:46,357
I was determined I was not going to miss all these incredible people.
1085
01:01:47,072 --> 01:01:49,408
[singing] ♪ Now come on, mothers Throughout the land ♪
1086
01:01:49,491 --> 01:01:51,619
♪ Pack your boys off to Vietnam ♪
1087
01:01:51,753 --> 01:01:53,880
[Debra Conway] My boyfriend was draft age.
1088
01:01:54,506 --> 01:01:58,760
And, you know, we had this future planned out
1089
01:01:58,842 --> 01:02:01,804
and it certainly didn't include him coming home in a body bag.
1090
01:02:02,739 --> 01:02:05,367
And so, you know, when Country Joe McDonald got up
1091
01:02:05,447 --> 01:02:06,907
on Saturday afternoon,
1092
01:02:06,991 --> 01:02:08,742
we were right there with him.
1093
01:02:09,535 --> 01:02:13,747
[singing] ♪ And it's five, six, seven Open up the pearly gates ♪
1094
01:02:13,802 --> 01:02:16,638
♪ Well, I ain't no time to wonder why ♪
1095
01:02:16,753 --> 01:02:18,630
♪ Whoopee, we're all goin' to die! ♪
1096
01:02:18,714 --> 01:02:21,091
-All right! -[crowd cheering]
1097
01:02:22,392 --> 01:02:24,686
[Reynolds] We were 400,000 kids on a hillside
1098
01:02:24,769 --> 01:02:27,105
who all were vehemently against the war.
1099
01:02:27,202 --> 01:02:30,956
And, you know, for me, it was like, "These are our people!" [chuckles]
1100
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:32,417
"We found our people!"
1101
01:02:33,042 --> 01:02:34,711
[cheering continues]
1102
01:02:38,847 --> 01:02:40,390
[reporter] Are you enjoying the festival?
1103
01:02:40,476 --> 01:02:42,936
[woman] Yeah, it's out of sight. [laughs] It's beautiful.
1104
01:02:43,479 --> 01:02:46,356
[reporter] Why did you come to the festival?
1105
01:02:46,523 --> 01:02:49,193
To see the best music in the world, man. [chuckles]
1106
01:02:49,276 --> 01:02:51,320
["Soul Sacrifice" by Santana playing]
1107
01:02:54,587 --> 01:02:57,590
[Moore] The only bored moment I had that weekend
1108
01:02:57,624 --> 01:03:01,628
was when Santana was about to appear, and I didn't know who Santana was.
1109
01:03:02,347 --> 01:03:05,058
And Santana woke me up.
1110
01:03:06,365 --> 01:03:08,992
["Soul Sacrifice" continues]
1111
01:03:10,244 --> 01:03:12,871
[Jaboolian] You got... You got drawn into this music.
1112
01:03:13,823 --> 01:03:18,411
The song was "Soul Sacrifice," which most of us had never heard before.
1113
01:03:20,719 --> 01:03:22,805
[Santana plays guitar solo]
1114
01:03:29,173 --> 01:03:32,676
[Beren] Listening to it, I felt like we had gone from civilization
1115
01:03:33,667 --> 01:03:35,919
to some place where there were no rules.
1116
01:03:37,413 --> 01:03:41,375
And some people took the freedom to extreme places.
1117
01:03:44,185 --> 01:03:46,145
[Goldmacher] People were there to have a good time
1118
01:03:46,227 --> 01:03:47,770
and they were doing it.
1119
01:03:48,062 --> 01:03:49,856
Now, it meant a lot of drugs.
1120
01:03:50,950 --> 01:03:55,037
It was mostly marijuana, hashish, and LSD.
1121
01:03:57,957 --> 01:04:00,209
[Collier] One girl told me that just standing still,
1122
01:04:00,293 --> 01:04:01,836
she was getting stoned.
1123
01:04:01,935 --> 01:04:06,773
And my guess was that within a thousand feet of the stage,
1124
01:04:07,350 --> 01:04:08,935
everybody was stoned.
1125
01:04:11,905 --> 01:04:13,198
["Soul Sacrifice" fades]
1126
01:04:14,449 --> 01:04:17,869
[Goldstein] There were a lot of people who took a lot of drugs
1127
01:04:18,292 --> 01:04:20,628
in very strenuous circumstances
1128
01:04:21,305 --> 01:04:24,600
and were incapable of dealing with that.
1129
01:04:25,683 --> 01:04:28,311
The freak-out tents were oases.
1130
01:04:29,562 --> 01:04:33,775
[Goldmacher] Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm were taking care of bad trips.
1131
01:04:34,150 --> 01:04:37,862
Freak-out tents had been set up where people could lie down,
1132
01:04:37,963 --> 01:04:40,173
and folks from the Hog Farm were in there, you know,
1133
01:04:40,257 --> 01:04:42,217
just holding people's hands
1134
01:04:42,298 --> 01:04:45,343
and just really being able to guide them through it.
1135
01:04:46,937 --> 01:04:48,772
[Wavy Gravy] We're telling them, "You know,
1136
01:04:48,856 --> 01:04:51,734
it's going to be cool, man, it's going to wear off.
1137
01:04:51,785 --> 01:04:54,413
You took a little acid, and it's gonna wear off."
1138
01:04:54,913 --> 01:04:57,708
And then when somebody was near normal to rock 'n' roll,
1139
01:04:57,787 --> 01:04:58,746
we said, "Hold it.
1140
01:04:58,830 --> 01:05:01,625
Now, you see that brother coming through the door?
1141
01:05:01,625 --> 01:05:03,419
That was you three hours ago.
1142
01:05:03,502 --> 01:05:05,171
Now you go and help them out."
1143
01:05:05,898 --> 01:05:09,693
And that's the way the scene regenerated itself.
1144
01:05:13,362 --> 01:05:16,407
[Spitz] They always knew that there were going to be medical problems,
1145
01:05:16,491 --> 01:05:20,036
and they had prepared themselves as best they could.
1146
01:05:21,223 --> 01:05:26,394
But like everything else at the festival, they were woefully understaffed,
1147
01:05:27,803 --> 01:05:31,515
and an emergency situation was developing.
1148
01:05:31,549 --> 01:05:33,802
[man on speaker] We need a doctor or a medic, please,
1149
01:05:33,885 --> 01:05:37,764
over on this side of the stage, please, at your earliest convenience.
1150
01:05:38,661 --> 01:05:41,914
[Goldmacher] One of our people came rushing up to me and said,
1151
01:05:41,965 --> 01:05:43,550
"We're out of medical supplies."
1152
01:05:44,509 --> 01:05:46,970
And I said, "You've got to be kidding."
1153
01:05:47,763 --> 01:05:51,100
All the panoply of medical situations you could encounter
1154
01:05:51,183 --> 01:05:53,727
will happen during the course of 72 hours.
1155
01:05:54,186 --> 01:05:57,606
It's just what happens in a city of 400,000 people.
1156
01:05:58,539 --> 01:06:00,875
This is a medical disaster in the making.
1157
01:06:00,958 --> 01:06:02,501
[siren blaring]
1158
01:06:05,254 --> 01:06:07,047
[Goldstein] Leaving aside for the moment
1159
01:06:07,131 --> 01:06:10,634
those people who were diabetics who needed insulin and so forth,
1160
01:06:10,942 --> 01:06:12,819
the casualties were mounting.
1161
01:06:18,658 --> 01:06:20,952
[Morris] We got a call from the governor's chief of staff
1162
01:06:21,035 --> 01:06:22,995
telling us that Rockefeller was considering
1163
01:06:23,078 --> 01:06:25,080
sending in the National Guard.
1164
01:06:26,891 --> 01:06:28,476
[Spitz] Nelson Rockefeller's office,
1165
01:06:28,559 --> 01:06:30,102
he was the governor at the time,
1166
01:06:30,186 --> 01:06:34,148
was in pretty constant communication with the festival people,
1167
01:06:34,648 --> 01:06:38,360
and Rockefeller was always threatening to send in the troops.
1168
01:06:40,545 --> 01:06:42,130
[Morris] They said it was a danger to the community,
1169
01:06:42,214 --> 01:06:43,382
it was a danger to public health,
1170
01:06:43,465 --> 01:06:45,884
it was a danger to any damn thing they could think of.
1171
01:06:45,966 --> 01:06:47,300
They wanted to get rid of it.
1172
01:06:47,384 --> 01:06:48,677
And they were stupid enough to believe
1173
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,680
they could mobilize the National Guard and move these kids out.
1174
01:06:52,641 --> 01:06:54,935
And I kept saying, "There's only one way to do this,
1175
01:06:55,018 --> 01:06:56,311
and that's play it through."
1176
01:06:57,642 --> 01:07:00,603
In the end, there was an assistant to the governor who got it,
1177
01:07:01,082 --> 01:07:03,042
and he said, "What can we do?"
1178
01:07:06,585 --> 01:07:10,756
[Barbara Erskine Miller] Why are there Army helicopters flying overhead?
1179
01:07:11,676 --> 01:07:14,929
You know, it looked like what I saw on the news every night
1180
01:07:15,013 --> 01:07:18,391
in, you know, the pictures from Vietnam.
1181
01:07:20,368 --> 01:07:23,413
[Dills] Seeing that they were military helicopters
1182
01:07:23,495 --> 01:07:25,080
was very disconcerting.
1183
01:07:25,664 --> 01:07:28,375
We didn't know really why they were flying in.
1184
01:07:28,459 --> 01:07:33,213
You know, is this the start of a militarization to close this thing down?
1185
01:07:35,358 --> 01:07:39,236
[Morris] I was standing onstage, and I could see these Hueys coming in.
1186
01:07:39,738 --> 01:07:41,740
There were three or four of them in a row.
1187
01:07:42,363 --> 01:07:44,782
And all I said was, "Ladies and gentlemen,
1188
01:07:44,865 --> 01:07:46,492
the United States Army."
1189
01:07:47,258 --> 01:07:50,011
[Morris on speaker] The United States Army has lent us some medical teams.
1190
01:07:51,014 --> 01:07:55,519
There are 45 doctors who are here without pay
1191
01:07:56,142 --> 01:07:58,144
because they dig what this is into.
1192
01:07:58,812 --> 01:08:01,606
They are with us, man. They are not against us, they are with us.
1193
01:08:01,706 --> 01:08:04,126
They're here to give us all a hand and help us.
1194
01:08:08,921 --> 01:08:10,089
[Morris] That sound system
1195
01:08:10,172 --> 01:08:12,883
was the only source of communication we had with the audience.
1196
01:08:12,935 --> 01:08:15,354
[man on speaker] Elliot from Harvard, the hitchhikers you picked up
1197
01:08:15,437 --> 01:08:16,438
need the pills from your car.
1198
01:08:16,554 --> 01:08:19,390
Please go to the information station right away.
1199
01:08:19,473 --> 01:08:22,893
[Morris] What started happening was people would bring messages to backstage.
1200
01:08:22,995 --> 01:08:25,664
And we did as many of them as we could in between performances.
1201
01:08:25,746 --> 01:08:29,500
[man on speaker] Sidney McGee, please come immediately to backstage right.
1202
01:08:30,042 --> 01:08:33,254
I understand your wife is having a baby. Congratulations.
1203
01:08:34,672 --> 01:08:37,842
Wheat Germ, Holly has your bag with your medicine.
1204
01:08:37,941 --> 01:08:40,903
Please meet at the information booth as soon as you can, please.
1205
01:08:41,620 --> 01:08:44,081
[Morris] The information booth became a center.
1206
01:08:44,331 --> 01:08:46,125
And we just said to people,
1207
01:08:46,242 --> 01:08:48,453
"If you're looking for somebody, you got to go up there."
1208
01:08:50,205 --> 01:08:52,582
[Jaboolian] Everybody would put messages on it.
1209
01:08:52,848 --> 01:08:56,193
So, if you're looking for somebody, or you're trying to get a ride home,
1210
01:08:56,193 --> 01:08:59,279
or whatever, you could stick stuff up on there.
1211
01:08:59,655 --> 01:09:02,366
[man on speaker] Larry Alexander, Cousin Al is sick.
1212
01:09:02,825 --> 01:09:05,161
Meet near the information center.
1213
01:09:05,878 --> 01:09:08,339
[Roberts] We took a lot of phone calls from worried parents,
1214
01:09:08,422 --> 01:09:10,132
wondering what was happening up there.
1215
01:09:10,633 --> 01:09:12,301
And, you know, if it was like, "Call home,"
1216
01:09:12,384 --> 01:09:14,094
we'd relay it to the stage.
1217
01:09:14,177 --> 01:09:16,179
[man on speaker] Helen Savage, please call your father
1218
01:09:16,261 --> 01:09:19,055
at the Motel Glory in Woodridge.
1219
01:09:20,181 --> 01:09:23,560
[Dills] I definitely wondered if my parents were watching
1220
01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:24,911
and what they thought.
1221
01:09:26,039 --> 01:09:28,708
Because after Friday, I'd had no contact
1222
01:09:28,791 --> 01:09:30,877
with anybody from the outside world.
1223
01:09:31,545 --> 01:09:32,713
[man on speaker] The Daily News,
1224
01:09:33,547 --> 01:09:35,382
in rather large headlines,
1225
01:09:35,466 --> 01:09:38,177
"Traffic Uptight at Hippiefest."
1226
01:09:38,843 --> 01:09:42,263
[George] The stage announcements really became our news radio.
1227
01:09:42,695 --> 01:09:46,032
How we found out what the outside world was paying attention to.
1228
01:09:46,576 --> 01:09:49,162
And they would've thought it was an utter disaster,
1229
01:09:49,662 --> 01:09:52,332
from what they were seeing in the news and stuff.
1230
01:10:12,135 --> 01:10:14,429
[Rosenman] The world expects this to explode.
1231
01:10:15,430 --> 01:10:17,723
And I remember thinking to myself, "This is perfect."
1232
01:10:17,806 --> 01:10:19,349
Because there's nothing kids like better
1233
01:10:19,433 --> 01:10:22,394
than to disappoint what the world thinks they're going to do.
1234
01:10:22,768 --> 01:10:25,980
[man on speaker] Ladies and gentlemen, Keef Hartley.
1235
01:10:26,872 --> 01:10:29,207
["Spanish Fly" by Keef Hartley Band playing]
1236
01:10:39,142 --> 01:10:42,061
[Reynolds] Late afternoon, the sun came out, and it was hot.
1237
01:10:42,521 --> 01:10:45,858
And we walked around a bit because we got hungry.
1238
01:10:46,824 --> 01:10:49,410
And we quickly discovered there was no food.
1239
01:10:49,702 --> 01:10:53,372
All the booths were out of food. There was nothing.
1240
01:10:55,132 --> 01:10:56,675
[Beren] We ran out of food.
1241
01:10:57,125 --> 01:11:01,087
Delivery trucks could not get through the traffic jams,
1242
01:11:01,137 --> 01:11:02,597
so there was no more food.
1243
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,725
No soda, no burgers, no hot dogs, no nothing.
1244
01:11:07,366 --> 01:11:09,327
And then word spread very fast.
1245
01:11:10,947 --> 01:11:13,074
[Spitz] Sure, there was a sanitation crisis,
1246
01:11:13,157 --> 01:11:14,617
and there was a medical crisis,
1247
01:11:14,700 --> 01:11:16,494
but when the food started to go,
1248
01:11:16,543 --> 01:11:21,298
the producers knew that this could turn into an even more immense problem.
1249
01:11:22,475 --> 01:11:25,019
But something really incredible happened.
1250
01:11:25,478 --> 01:11:27,730
The people of White Lake and Bethel
1251
01:11:27,811 --> 01:11:29,729
literally went in their pantries.
1252
01:11:29,813 --> 01:11:32,899
Anything that was in the refrigerator, anything that was in the freezer,
1253
01:11:33,004 --> 01:11:36,382
anything that was in the house, they contributed.
1254
01:11:37,132 --> 01:11:38,758
[man] We got word over WVOS
1255
01:11:38,842 --> 01:11:41,803
that a lot of kids didn't have anything to eat.
1256
01:11:42,478 --> 01:11:46,899
Stuff was taken over to the school, and they flew it to the site.
1257
01:11:48,067 --> 01:11:49,652
I have a 19-year-old myself,
1258
01:11:49,735 --> 01:11:53,781
I felt that we got to give them a fair shake here.
1259
01:11:54,204 --> 01:11:55,998
Kids are hungry, you got to feed them.
1260
01:11:57,967 --> 01:12:00,720
[John Conway] Those helicopters were going over constantly.
1261
01:12:01,012 --> 01:12:04,807
And also a lot of the neighbors were involved
1262
01:12:04,890 --> 01:12:08,936
in efforts to make sandwiches and get them to the helicopters.
1263
01:12:10,437 --> 01:12:12,355
[Gordon Winarick] It was on the radio, "Bring whatever you can."
1264
01:12:12,490 --> 01:12:15,242
And I decided we'll just send eggs, because it's an egg area.
1265
01:12:15,534 --> 01:12:17,244
I tapped people for donations.
1266
01:12:17,346 --> 01:12:19,264
I said, "Look, give me cases of eggs."
1267
01:12:20,057 --> 01:12:22,434
So, we hard-boiled hundreds of thousands of eggs.
1268
01:12:24,675 --> 01:12:27,637
[Leni Binder] We would never have said, "We don't want any part of you, leave.
1269
01:12:27,739 --> 01:12:29,407
I don't care if you're hungry or starving."
1270
01:12:29,491 --> 01:12:31,826
That was not our communities.
1271
01:12:32,283 --> 01:12:34,994
Maybe we were hicks, but we did go,
1272
01:12:35,078 --> 01:12:37,747
as the Bible says, welcome the stranger.
1273
01:12:38,424 --> 01:12:40,801
They were hungry. We fed them.
1274
01:12:42,545 --> 01:12:46,299
[Romney] Helicopters came in with anything people wanted to donate.
1275
01:12:46,856 --> 01:12:49,192
Like little bags of picnic supplies,
1276
01:12:49,275 --> 01:12:52,821
or green beans, even a tiny can of olives.
1277
01:12:52,904 --> 01:12:55,949
[chuckling] You know, I just... "Yes! Bring it on!
1278
01:12:55,963 --> 01:12:59,800
We can take it and make it into food for the masses."
1279
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,806
[Daye] The Hog Farm had set up this huge kitchen,
1280
01:13:04,889 --> 01:13:07,684
and they were boiling brown rice
1281
01:13:07,767 --> 01:13:09,602
and frying up vegetables,
1282
01:13:09,686 --> 01:13:11,855
and it was fabulous.
1283
01:13:19,923 --> 01:13:22,468
[Jaboolian] I found out about the Hog Farm serving food
1284
01:13:22,549 --> 01:13:24,342
from the guy that sat next to me.
1285
01:13:24,718 --> 01:13:26,553
He says, "Yeah, man, they got free food up there.
1286
01:13:26,635 --> 01:13:29,096
You just go up there and get in line."
1287
01:13:32,489 --> 01:13:35,658
[Dills] I and one of my friends offer to help,
1288
01:13:37,078 --> 01:13:39,372
and they just put us on a pot,
1289
01:13:39,456 --> 01:13:41,625
and we scooped it for people.
1290
01:13:43,627 --> 01:13:45,587
It was kind of cool to feel like, "Wow,
1291
01:13:45,670 --> 01:13:49,299
I'm helpless here, as are most of these people,
1292
01:13:49,397 --> 01:13:51,983
but there are people who are taking care of us,
1293
01:13:52,859 --> 01:13:55,987
and in a sense, we're taking care of each other."
1294
01:13:58,367 --> 01:13:59,701
[Bill Ward] People were good to one another.
1295
01:13:59,785 --> 01:14:01,745
I would see... I would see people
1296
01:14:01,826 --> 01:14:03,702
passing around a Coke or something,
1297
01:14:03,786 --> 01:14:05,663
other people were sharing their food.
1298
01:14:08,267 --> 01:14:10,060
[Starobin] Everybody around us had something,
1299
01:14:10,143 --> 01:14:12,145
and we just passed everything around.
1300
01:14:12,395 --> 01:14:14,939
It was like the loaves and the fishes, it really was.
1301
01:14:17,167 --> 01:14:20,420
[George] This was actually kind of a functioning city
1302
01:14:20,503 --> 01:14:22,422
out in the middle of nowhere,
1303
01:14:22,757 --> 01:14:27,762
and we realized that it was functioning because of people pulling together.
1304
01:14:29,636 --> 01:14:32,930
It just had this feeling that, "This was ours.
1305
01:14:33,014 --> 01:14:34,724
This was the new city.
1306
01:14:34,807 --> 01:14:38,436
This was the alternative city, and it worked."
1307
01:14:44,335 --> 01:14:46,796
["Woodstock Boogie" by Canned Heat playing]
1308
01:14:52,526 --> 01:14:54,778
[Morris] Saturday afternoon, the show was good.
1309
01:14:55,696 --> 01:14:58,281
But Saturday night, we really came up to speed
1310
01:14:58,365 --> 01:14:59,700
when the sun went down.
1311
01:15:00,367 --> 01:15:04,162
[singing] ♪ Well, the little red rooster Told the little brown hen ♪
1312
01:15:04,329 --> 01:15:06,873
♪ "Meet you at the barn About a half past ten" ♪
1313
01:15:06,973 --> 01:15:09,058
♪ Sing a last little boogie... ♪
1314
01:15:10,101 --> 01:15:12,770
[Morris] I guess we got to a point where we felt more comfortable,
1315
01:15:13,105 --> 01:15:17,151
and maybe we were proving to the press and the outside world
1316
01:15:17,234 --> 01:15:20,404
that we knew what we were doing, and that this was special,
1317
01:15:20,487 --> 01:15:21,864
that there was some kind of magic here.
1318
01:15:21,947 --> 01:15:24,158
And I would say that probably gave us the second wind.
1319
01:15:24,825 --> 01:15:26,243
["Woodstock Boogie" continues]
1320
01:15:26,344 --> 01:15:28,180
[George] I was sort of in a daze.
1321
01:15:28,430 --> 01:15:32,768
You'd been listening, watching music starting in the afternoon
1322
01:15:32,850 --> 01:15:34,769
and going pretty much all through the night.
1323
01:15:35,060 --> 01:15:37,605
There's no way you couldn't get oversaturated
1324
01:15:37,938 --> 01:15:39,940
with the stimulus.
1325
01:15:40,024 --> 01:15:41,567
[singing] ♪ I want to take you higher ♪
1326
01:15:41,665 --> 01:15:43,000
[crowd] ♪ Higher ♪
1327
01:15:43,250 --> 01:15:44,418
♪ I want to take you higher ♪
1328
01:15:44,502 --> 01:15:47,797
[George] For me, the most memorable performance that night
1329
01:15:48,422 --> 01:15:49,673
was Sly and the Family Stone.
1330
01:15:49,757 --> 01:15:51,091
[Sly singing] ♪ I want to take you higher ♪
1331
01:15:51,174 --> 01:15:53,885
[George] The music, yes, but the crowd
1332
01:15:53,968 --> 01:15:57,597
and just feeling this incredible electricity.
1333
01:15:58,699 --> 01:16:00,576
I mean, it was the middle of the night,
1334
01:16:00,660 --> 01:16:02,662
and everybody was up dancing.
1335
01:16:03,786 --> 01:16:06,288
It was just a pulsing hillside
1336
01:16:06,372 --> 01:16:08,165
of hundreds of thousands of people.
1337
01:16:12,227 --> 01:16:13,895
[singing] ♪ I want to take you higher ♪
1338
01:16:13,979 --> 01:16:15,522
♪ Higher ♪
1339
01:16:15,605 --> 01:16:17,148
♪ I want to take you higher ♪
1340
01:16:17,231 --> 01:16:18,858
♪ Higher ♪
1341
01:16:18,941 --> 01:16:20,317
["My Generation" by The Who playing]
1342
01:16:23,071 --> 01:16:25,657
[Diltz] I was in front of the stage, shooting it, you know, taking pictures.
1343
01:16:26,507 --> 01:16:30,386
Roger Daltrey up there, with fringe on his cape flying around.
1344
01:16:30,887 --> 01:16:32,555
And he'd twirl that microphone around,
1345
01:16:32,638 --> 01:16:34,140
and, you know, he would just miss the floor,
1346
01:16:34,223 --> 01:16:36,017
and then it would come arcing through the air,
1347
01:16:36,067 --> 01:16:37,819
and he'd grab it just in time,
1348
01:16:38,194 --> 01:16:39,195
you know, to get into...
1349
01:16:39,279 --> 01:16:41,573
[Diltz singing] ♪ "Talkin' 'bout my generation" ♪
1350
01:16:42,650 --> 01:16:44,861
And then there was Townshend leaping in the air,
1351
01:16:44,944 --> 01:16:47,363
and doing his splits, and landing on stage.
1352
01:16:47,462 --> 01:16:49,672
[Daltrey singing] ♪ And don't try to dig What, what, what we all say ♪
1353
01:16:49,756 --> 01:16:52,634
♪ Talking 'bout my generation ♪
1354
01:16:52,717 --> 01:16:54,177
[Carol Green] "Talkin' 'bout my generation,"
1355
01:16:54,260 --> 01:16:55,803
and that was my generation.
1356
01:16:56,929 --> 01:17:00,849
When they sang that song, they, you know, elicited this clarion call,
1357
01:17:00,933 --> 01:17:03,393
and we went, "Rock and roll!"
1358
01:17:03,493 --> 01:17:06,120
♪ This is my generation, baby ♪
1359
01:17:06,464 --> 01:17:07,757
["My Generation" concludes]
1360
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:09,425
[crowd cheers and applauds]
1361
01:17:10,843 --> 01:17:13,137
[Diltz] The Who was absolutely fantastic,
1362
01:17:15,055 --> 01:17:17,724
and they were still playing as the dawn came up.
1363
01:17:17,857 --> 01:17:19,359
["Naked Eye" playing]
1364
01:17:31,043 --> 01:17:32,753
["Naked Eye" fades]
1365
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,897
All right, friends, you have seen the heavy groups.
1366
01:17:39,981 --> 01:17:42,775
Now you will see morning maniac music.
1367
01:17:42,824 --> 01:17:44,659
Believe me, yeah.
1368
01:17:45,118 --> 01:17:47,120
-It's the new dawn. -[cheering]
1369
01:17:47,255 --> 01:17:49,132
["The Other Side of This Life" by Jefferson Airplane playing]
1370
01:17:49,215 --> 01:17:52,719
The regular guys and Nicky Hopkins.
1371
01:17:52,801 --> 01:17:57,139
["The Other Side of Life" continues]
1372
01:17:57,398 --> 01:17:59,066
[Paul Kantner] I could barely remember our performance,
1373
01:17:59,150 --> 01:18:00,943
because it was 6:30 in the morning.
1374
01:18:01,565 --> 01:18:04,026
We just went out and played as best we could.
1375
01:18:04,484 --> 01:18:06,778
We were pretty burned, though, by the time we got onstage.
1376
01:18:06,912 --> 01:18:08,330
Good morning, people!
1377
01:18:08,413 --> 01:18:10,874
[Kantner] And we could see there was a lot of people just asleep.
1378
01:18:11,658 --> 01:18:14,786
And the fires were starting to go out, and people were crashing.
1379
01:18:17,777 --> 01:18:21,197
[Lawrence] I was walking around, and everybody was sleeping.
1380
01:18:21,318 --> 01:18:25,239
I mean, people were horizontal all over the place, you know?
1381
01:18:26,743 --> 01:18:28,495
It looked like after a big party.
1382
01:18:28,578 --> 01:18:30,831
["Sunday Morning" by the Velvet Underground playing]
1383
01:18:31,994 --> 01:18:35,498
♪ Sunday morning ♪
1384
01:18:36,641 --> 01:18:40,103
♪ Brings the dawn in ♪
1385
01:18:40,929 --> 01:18:44,266
♪ It's just a restless feeling ♪
1386
01:18:45,433 --> 01:18:47,644
♪ By my side ♪
1387
01:18:49,289 --> 01:18:53,543
♪ Watch out, the world's behind you... ♪
1388
01:18:54,377 --> 01:18:55,670
[Wavy Gravy on speaker] Good morning.
1389
01:18:56,251 --> 01:18:59,212
What we have in mind is breakfast in bed
1390
01:18:59,296 --> 01:19:01,006
for 400,000.
1391
01:19:03,141 --> 01:19:06,478
Now, it's not going to be steak and eggs or anything,
1392
01:19:07,447 --> 01:19:10,491
but it's gonna be good food, and we're gonna get it to you.
1393
01:19:10,950 --> 01:19:12,744
We're all feeding each other.
1394
01:19:13,201 --> 01:19:14,828
[crowd cheering]
1395
01:19:15,245 --> 01:19:17,664
[Wavy Gravy] We must be in heaven, man!
1396
01:19:19,433 --> 01:19:21,435
[Romney] What we served was plain raw oats
1397
01:19:21,517 --> 01:19:23,686
with honey and powdered milk mixed up,
1398
01:19:24,228 --> 01:19:26,189
'cause there wasn't any time to toast oats.
1399
01:19:26,324 --> 01:19:27,659
[chuckling] And, you know, it was just...
1400
01:19:27,742 --> 01:19:29,828
We threw nuts and seeds and raisins in it.
1401
01:19:32,037 --> 01:19:34,373
And I think we had ten serving stations,
1402
01:19:34,456 --> 01:19:37,251
and the lines of people in front of each of the serving stations
1403
01:19:37,301 --> 01:19:39,053
were as long as you could see.
1404
01:19:42,564 --> 01:19:45,233
The Yasgurs supplied us with milk and yogurt.
1405
01:19:45,817 --> 01:19:48,236
And it was just like a gift from an angel.
1406
01:19:48,661 --> 01:19:51,956
♪ Sunday morning ♪
1407
01:19:52,996 --> 01:19:54,872
♪ Sunday morning ♪
1408
01:19:54,956 --> 01:19:56,374
["Sunday Morning" fades]
1409
01:19:57,261 --> 01:19:59,180
[Morris on speaker] We have a gentleman with us.
1410
01:20:00,264 --> 01:20:03,809
It's the gentleman upon whose farm we are, Mr. Max Yasgur.
1411
01:20:03,842 --> 01:20:05,427
[crowd cheers and applauds]
1412
01:20:06,561 --> 01:20:09,856
[Morris] In the early afternoon, Max came down to the stage,
1413
01:20:10,565 --> 01:20:12,692
and he said, "I'd like to speak to the crowd."
1414
01:20:13,043 --> 01:20:16,004
And I said, "I think the crowd would very much like to meet you."
1415
01:20:17,289 --> 01:20:18,540
[Max Yasgur] Is this on?
1416
01:20:25,562 --> 01:20:28,190
I'm a farmer, I don't know...
1417
01:20:28,324 --> 01:20:30,201
[crowd cheering and applauding]
1418
01:20:33,078 --> 01:20:36,665
I don't know how to speak to 20 people at one time,
1419
01:20:36,715 --> 01:20:38,884
let alone a crowd like this.
1420
01:20:41,095 --> 01:20:45,307
But I think you people have proven something to the world.
1421
01:20:45,924 --> 01:20:49,845
Not only to the town of Bethel, or Sullivan County, or New York State,
1422
01:20:49,895 --> 01:20:52,314
you've proven something to the world.
1423
01:20:52,706 --> 01:20:55,584
The important thing that you're proving to the world
1424
01:20:56,229 --> 01:20:59,816
is that a half a million kids, and I call you kids
1425
01:20:59,899 --> 01:21:02,485
because I have children that are older than you are,
1426
01:21:02,718 --> 01:21:06,138
a half a million young people can get together
1427
01:21:06,221 --> 01:21:09,016
and have three days of fun and music,
1428
01:21:09,279 --> 01:21:11,698
and have nothing but fun and music.
1429
01:21:11,782 --> 01:21:13,534
And God bless you for it.
1430
01:21:13,617 --> 01:21:15,286
[crowd cheering and applauding]
1431
01:21:17,319 --> 01:21:19,362
[Dills] It was an affirmation, you know,
1432
01:21:19,446 --> 01:21:23,867
that instead of being angry, that he was that positive about us.
1433
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:28,263
And I'm sure that his fields were just destroyed.
1434
01:21:28,731 --> 01:21:31,901
But if a conservative Upstate New York farmer
1435
01:21:32,193 --> 01:21:36,155
could feel that way, well, that was pretty cool.
1436
01:21:37,614 --> 01:21:40,909
In that moment, I realized, being in the middle of it,
1437
01:21:40,992 --> 01:21:44,829
that not only was Woodstock bigger than we ever could have imagined,
1438
01:21:45,723 --> 01:21:48,392
but it was symbolically even bigger.
1439
01:21:52,613 --> 01:21:54,740
[crowd cheering, clapping rhythmically]
1440
01:21:55,366 --> 01:21:58,035
[man on speaker] Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Joe Cocker.
1441
01:21:58,087 --> 01:21:59,421
Let's go for Sunday!
1442
01:21:59,505 --> 01:22:01,465
[Joe Cocker] Yes, yes, well, good afternoon.
1443
01:22:01,548 --> 01:22:06,262
And this title just about puts this all into focus.
1444
01:22:06,345 --> 01:22:08,889
It's called "With a Little Help From My Friends."
1445
01:22:08,971 --> 01:22:11,014
["With a Little Help From My Friends" playing]
1446
01:22:11,780 --> 01:22:17,577
[singing] ♪ What would you do If I sang out of tune ♪
1447
01:22:18,540 --> 01:22:22,043
♪ Would you stand up And walk out on me ♪
1448
01:22:24,295 --> 01:22:29,883
♪ Lend me your ears And I'll sing you a song ♪
1449
01:22:31,649 --> 01:22:35,194
♪ I will try not to sing out of key ♪
1450
01:22:36,112 --> 01:22:37,989
♪ Oh, baby, I get by ♪
1451
01:22:38,074 --> 01:22:40,994
[backing singers] ♪ By with a little help from my friends ♪
1452
01:22:41,369 --> 01:22:43,163
[Cocker singing] ♪ All I need is my brother ♪
1453
01:22:43,245 --> 01:22:46,582
[singers] ♪ By with a little help from my friends ♪
1454
01:22:47,558 --> 01:22:50,144
[Cocker singing] ♪ Yeah, tell you I'm gonna try a way ♪
1455
01:22:50,227 --> 01:22:53,272
[singers] ♪ By with a little help from my friends ♪
1456
01:22:53,355 --> 01:22:56,191
[Dills] I really liked what Joe Cocker was singing about,
1457
01:22:56,606 --> 01:23:00,568
because in one sense, I had 450,000 friends.
1458
01:23:11,398 --> 01:23:12,816
[Joe Cocker] When we got into "Little Help,"
1459
01:23:12,900 --> 01:23:16,945
I just felt that we'd really caught a massive consciousness
1460
01:23:16,995 --> 01:23:18,079
in the crowd.
1461
01:23:19,330 --> 01:23:21,082
It was a powerful feeling.
1462
01:23:21,166 --> 01:23:22,750
[crowd cheering and applauding]
1463
01:23:22,833 --> 01:23:24,626
[man on speaker] That's Joe Cocker!
1464
01:23:26,170 --> 01:23:29,298
[Cocker] And then somebody yelled at me, "Joe, look over your shoulder."
1465
01:23:31,941 --> 01:23:33,610
[Morris] It was hot as could be.
1466
01:23:34,068 --> 01:23:37,363
And you look up in the sky behind the audience,
1467
01:23:37,447 --> 01:23:41,326
and you can see these black clouds like Armageddon coming at you.
1468
01:23:41,409 --> 01:23:43,119
It looks like we're going to get a little bit of rain,
1469
01:23:43,203 --> 01:23:44,454
so you better cover up.
1470
01:23:45,872 --> 01:23:48,416
All of you up in the towers, please come down.
1471
01:23:48,808 --> 01:23:50,810
You're making it very, very dangerous.
1472
01:23:51,269 --> 01:23:53,271
[Collier] Hanging on these big light stands
1473
01:23:53,353 --> 01:23:55,021
were a bunch of kids who had used them
1474
01:23:55,104 --> 01:23:56,981
to get a better perch to watch the show from.
1475
01:23:57,815 --> 01:24:00,735
People screamed, "Come down, get down from there!"
1476
01:24:02,362 --> 01:24:05,031
[Morris on speaker] All right, everybody, just sit down, wrap yourself up.
1477
01:24:05,406 --> 01:24:06,991
We're gonna have to have to ride it out.
1478
01:24:08,844 --> 01:24:11,138
Jody, get off the stage.
1479
01:24:12,890 --> 01:24:14,100
Get off the stage.
1480
01:24:14,976 --> 01:24:16,477
[wind gusting]
1481
01:24:18,312 --> 01:24:20,481
[Morris] I mean, all hell started breaking loose.
1482
01:24:21,190 --> 01:24:24,026
And then, Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish
1483
01:24:24,124 --> 01:24:25,292
grabbed a mike.
1484
01:24:25,375 --> 01:24:28,545
No rain, no rain, no rain!
1485
01:24:28,630 --> 01:24:32,884
[Melton and crowd] No rain, no rain, no rain, no rain!
1486
01:24:32,968 --> 01:24:37,222
No rain, no rain, no rain, no rain, no rain!
1487
01:24:40,282 --> 01:24:42,159
[thunder claps]
1488
01:24:42,534 --> 01:24:43,660
[Law] And then it hit.
1489
01:24:44,036 --> 01:24:47,581
It hit like a major, you know, country storm.
1490
01:24:48,041 --> 01:24:51,961
It was not a tornado, but it had that kind of feel to it.
1491
01:24:52,228 --> 01:24:53,229
[thunder rumbling]
1492
01:24:53,313 --> 01:24:55,732
[Law] Everyone scrambled to cover equipment.
1493
01:24:55,815 --> 01:24:59,194
I mean, there was a billion volts of equipment.
1494
01:24:59,275 --> 01:25:02,362
You wouldn't believe the amount of electrical energy
1495
01:25:02,445 --> 01:25:04,697
on the stage and in those towers.
1496
01:25:05,907 --> 01:25:08,117
[Rosenman] During the storm, I learned
1497
01:25:08,218 --> 01:25:11,429
that 50,000-volt cables had become unearthed.
1498
01:25:12,095 --> 01:25:15,014
Then we could have a mass electrocution.
1499
01:25:16,516 --> 01:25:18,476
Fortunately, that didn't happen.
1500
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:21,688
[rain pattering, thunder rumbling]
1501
01:25:23,232 --> 01:25:26,777
[Vic Wells] There were a lot of people who had plastic and blankets.
1502
01:25:26,876 --> 01:25:28,753
Of course, the blankets got soaked.
1503
01:25:29,295 --> 01:25:31,589
You know, you either just covered up,
1504
01:25:31,663 --> 01:25:35,333
or you just held your head up and enjoyed it.
1505
01:25:48,206 --> 01:25:51,042
[Starobin] The outside world thought it was a disaster area.
1506
01:25:51,811 --> 01:25:53,646
Well, that's not what we thought.
1507
01:25:55,023 --> 01:25:59,235
And so, people started playing in the mud like children.
1508
01:26:00,150 --> 01:26:02,277
It was like they were six years old,
1509
01:26:02,695 --> 01:26:05,281
going down a waterslide in their front yard.
1510
01:26:20,269 --> 01:26:23,439
[James Salzer] After the rain, the crowd really thinned out.
1511
01:26:24,358 --> 01:26:27,486
I guess, a lot of people just wanted to get back home.
1512
01:26:32,173 --> 01:26:34,300
[Debra Conway] I had to go to work the next day.
1513
01:26:34,384 --> 01:26:36,427
So, you know, like a lot of people,
1514
01:26:36,511 --> 01:26:40,181
we hiked back to where the car was and went home.
1515
01:26:44,846 --> 01:26:46,598
[Spitz] For everybody at the festival,
1516
01:26:46,706 --> 01:26:50,126
battling the elements was a constant struggle.
1517
01:26:50,334 --> 01:26:53,004
They were plagued by weather from the get-go.
1518
01:26:53,711 --> 01:26:56,922
Then after the Sunday storm, the site was a mess.
1519
01:26:57,262 --> 01:26:58,888
But the festival went on.
1520
01:26:58,972 --> 01:27:01,099
[Country Joe and the Fish playing "Rock and Soul Music"]
1521
01:27:01,182 --> 01:27:02,559
Marijuana!
1522
01:27:02,898 --> 01:27:05,067
[Spitz] Country Joe and the Fish was first up.
1523
01:27:11,202 --> 01:27:13,997
[Spitz] There were a lot of great performances that night.
1524
01:27:14,079 --> 01:27:16,874
But I think the one that really stood out for most people
1525
01:27:16,971 --> 01:27:18,598
was Crosby, Stills & Nash,
1526
01:27:18,973 --> 01:27:22,018
because it was their first time they had ever performed together.
1527
01:27:22,104 --> 01:27:23,564
[man on speaker] Crosby, Stills and Nash.
1528
01:27:23,648 --> 01:27:25,107
[playing "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"]
1529
01:27:25,191 --> 01:27:27,026
[Crosby] I remember being terrified.
1530
01:27:27,609 --> 01:27:30,654
Nobody had seen us get up and sing harmony together.
1531
01:27:30,737 --> 01:27:34,282
Nobody had seen it, this was it. This was the first time.
1532
01:27:34,714 --> 01:27:37,550
[singing] ♪ It's getting to the point ♪
1533
01:27:37,967 --> 01:27:42,138
♪ Where I'm no fun anymore ♪
1534
01:27:43,272 --> 01:27:48,945
[Daye] There were moments where the music was so mesmerizing,
1535
01:27:49,033 --> 01:27:52,203
so internalized,
1536
01:27:52,664 --> 01:27:56,126
that I became the music I was listening to.
1537
01:27:57,178 --> 01:28:00,849
I remember sitting in the mud listening to Crosby, Stills & Nash,
1538
01:28:00,932 --> 01:28:03,601
looking at the sheer beauty of the night sky,
1539
01:28:04,302 --> 01:28:07,221
wrapped in a blanket of music.
1540
01:28:08,157 --> 01:28:11,827
It was the feeling of oneness with it all.
1541
01:28:12,167 --> 01:28:13,918
["Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" ends]
1542
01:28:15,837 --> 01:28:18,298
["Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix playing]
1543
01:28:29,604 --> 01:28:31,898
[Wavy Gravy] The last morning of the festival,
1544
01:28:32,289 --> 01:28:35,667
I'm wandering through people rising up out of the mud.
1545
01:28:35,918 --> 01:28:38,795
And this amazing music suddenly...
1546
01:28:38,928 --> 01:28:40,221
[blows air]
1547
01:28:40,304 --> 01:28:44,141
It was Jimi Hendrix just filling my ears
1548
01:28:44,225 --> 01:28:48,479
with the wonder of the national anthem.
1549
01:28:55,663 --> 01:28:57,081
[playing improvisational riff]
1550
01:28:59,540 --> 01:29:02,125
[Collier] I was backstage writing up some notes,
1551
01:29:02,677 --> 01:29:07,223
when suddenly, into my head stabbed this sound.
1552
01:29:08,355 --> 01:29:09,690
[continuing riff]
1553
01:29:12,569 --> 01:29:15,697
[Collier] It sounded exactly like rockets, missiles,
1554
01:29:15,780 --> 01:29:17,615
and bombs bursting in air.
1555
01:29:17,715 --> 01:29:19,383
[Hendrix continuing riff]
1556
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:22,428
I'd never heard anything like that in my life.
1557
01:29:24,298 --> 01:29:26,467
[Hendrix resumes melody of "Star Spangled Banner"]
1558
01:29:30,267 --> 01:29:32,352
[Law] We're at the most peaceful gathering
1559
01:29:32,453 --> 01:29:35,205
that was probably happening on the planet at the time.
1560
01:29:35,289 --> 01:29:37,499
And he hooked us up with Vietnam.
1561
01:29:38,708 --> 01:29:43,379
It was the devastation and the brutality and the insanity.
1562
01:29:43,515 --> 01:29:45,183
[riff continuing]
1563
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:48,886
[Law] That was a quintessential piece of art.
1564
01:29:49,970 --> 01:29:52,473
[playing pedal effects and whammy bar]
1565
01:29:52,993 --> 01:29:54,703
["Star Spangled Banner" melody resumes]
1566
01:30:03,675 --> 01:30:05,468
[holding chord, chord feeding back]
1567
01:30:06,344 --> 01:30:09,264
[Green] There was an essence that is indescribable.
1568
01:30:09,314 --> 01:30:11,108
You can feel it in your body,
1569
01:30:11,191 --> 01:30:13,318
you can feel it right here in your heart,
1570
01:30:13,734 --> 01:30:15,945
when you know that this is life.
1571
01:30:16,028 --> 01:30:17,446
This is the essence of life.
1572
01:30:18,825 --> 01:30:21,619
He had it and he gave it to us.
1573
01:30:22,053 --> 01:30:23,972
[modulating tone with whammy bar]
1574
01:30:26,474 --> 01:30:28,184
[playing pedal effects]
1575
01:30:32,603 --> 01:30:33,688
[song pausing]
1576
01:30:34,230 --> 01:30:35,857
[concluding "Star Spangled Banner"]
1577
01:30:35,940 --> 01:30:37,567
[Diltz] Everybody was so still.
1578
01:30:38,500 --> 01:30:40,210
Most of the crowd had left.
1579
01:30:43,005 --> 01:30:46,133
I was onstage. I was shooting right next to him.
1580
01:30:46,675 --> 01:30:49,094
Just... God, it was just a moment, you know,
1581
01:30:49,178 --> 01:30:50,971
that was just wonderful.
1582
01:30:51,054 --> 01:30:52,598
It's his guitar ringing out.
1583
01:30:52,697 --> 01:30:54,491
[Hendrix playing riff, pedal effects]
1584
01:30:57,993 --> 01:31:00,412
[Diltz] And then suddenly, it was all over.
1585
01:31:00,496 --> 01:31:02,080
["Star Spangled Banner" fades]
1586
01:31:09,588 --> 01:31:14,301
[Morris] The site looked like Civil War pictures of battlefields.
1587
01:31:15,946 --> 01:31:19,533
I was terrified I might find somebody dead.
1588
01:31:21,705 --> 01:31:24,083
And so I walked all of the site.
1589
01:31:24,613 --> 01:31:27,741
And it stank, it really stank.
1590
01:31:28,723 --> 01:31:31,268
There were just a few people wandering around.
1591
01:31:31,768 --> 01:31:34,938
Nobody injured, nobody dead. A great relief.
1592
01:31:36,107 --> 01:31:37,775
And then we started the cleanup.
1593
01:31:39,858 --> 01:31:42,236
[Diltz] What was left behind was this incredible sea
1594
01:31:42,337 --> 01:31:45,924
of soggy, wet sleeping bags and cardboard boxes
1595
01:31:46,008 --> 01:31:49,428
and tents that were all, you know, knocked down and trampled on.
1596
01:31:49,761 --> 01:31:52,055
All this flotsam and jetsam.
1597
01:31:52,139 --> 01:31:54,308
["Highway Anxiety" by William Tyler playing]
1598
01:31:55,684 --> 01:31:58,687
[George] We stayed for a while, helping clean up trash.
1599
01:32:01,039 --> 01:32:03,750
There were a lot of people out there helping clean up.
1600
01:32:08,963 --> 01:32:11,341
[Starobin] We so did not want to leave.
1601
01:32:11,983 --> 01:32:15,403
We kind of sensed that, you know,
1602
01:32:15,487 --> 01:32:17,906
we could change the world for three days,
1603
01:32:18,404 --> 01:32:20,782
but the rest of the world wasn't with us,
1604
01:32:20,948 --> 01:32:24,660
and we knew that it was going to be a real culture shock
1605
01:32:24,660 --> 01:32:26,704
coming back into society.
1606
01:32:27,748 --> 01:32:33,337
[reporter] More than 350,000 people came looking for peace and music.
1607
01:32:33,436 --> 01:32:36,397
Many said they learned a lot about themselves
1608
01:32:36,480 --> 01:32:39,275
and learned a lot about getting along together
1609
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:40,653
and priorities.
1610
01:32:41,028 --> 01:32:44,866
And for most, that alone makes it all worthwhile.
1611
01:32:47,549 --> 01:32:52,304
[Wavy Gravy] We realized that we were part of this amazing event
1612
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,016
that nothing like it ever was before.
1613
01:32:57,018 --> 01:33:01,939
[Law] The festival became a symbol of intelligence and humanity
1614
01:33:02,039 --> 01:33:06,752
and cooperation and love and affection.
1615
01:33:08,003 --> 01:33:11,173
It was the start of a phenomenal change
1616
01:33:11,256 --> 01:33:13,008
in a lot of people's lives.
1617
01:33:14,883 --> 01:33:18,178
[Max Yasgur] When I realized, Friday night and Saturday morning,
1618
01:33:18,278 --> 01:33:21,573
that we were getting up close to the half-a-million mark,
1619
01:33:22,159 --> 01:33:25,412
and there was a sea of people here,
1620
01:33:25,496 --> 01:33:27,248
I became quite apprehensive.
1621
01:33:29,166 --> 01:33:32,086
Thoughts flashed through my mind
1622
01:33:32,183 --> 01:33:35,562
of some other problems that they have had throughout the country.
1623
01:33:36,271 --> 01:33:38,439
And these kids,
1624
01:33:38,525 --> 01:33:41,486
these young people made me feel guilty today,
1625
01:33:41,987 --> 01:33:43,530
because there were no problems.
1626
01:33:44,329 --> 01:33:47,582
They proved to me, and they proved to the whole world
1627
01:33:47,667 --> 01:33:49,168
that they didn't come up for any problems.
1628
01:33:49,252 --> 01:33:51,963
They came up for exactly what they said they were coming up for,
1629
01:33:52,095 --> 01:33:54,014
for three days of music and peace.
1630
01:33:56,433 --> 01:34:00,854
[Daye] It was a mark in cosmic time.
1631
01:34:01,397 --> 01:34:03,190
I have no doubt about that.
1632
01:34:04,273 --> 01:34:06,650
I'm not saying it never happened before
1633
01:34:06,734 --> 01:34:08,902
or that it couldn't happen in the future.
1634
01:34:09,255 --> 01:34:13,843
But that, that stopped the clocks for three days.
1635
01:34:16,514 --> 01:34:20,060
[George] I felt like I had finally gotten to fully experience
1636
01:34:20,140 --> 01:34:23,602
what I was hoping the counterculture meant.
1637
01:34:25,869 --> 01:34:28,205
Woodstock was a very powerful confirmation
1638
01:34:28,286 --> 01:34:30,580
that, "Yeah, this is what you're looking for,
1639
01:34:30,664 --> 01:34:32,999
and that you're headed in the right direction."
1640
01:34:37,521 --> 01:34:39,773
[Starobin] Everyone looking after one another,
1641
01:34:39,856 --> 01:34:41,775
everybody caring about one another.
1642
01:34:42,608 --> 01:34:44,944
I mean, once I experienced that,
1643
01:34:45,653 --> 01:34:50,032
I made it the basis for the whole rest of my life.
1644
01:34:58,767 --> 01:35:02,438
[Rosenman] At Woodstock, we tried to let the audience know,
1645
01:35:02,523 --> 01:35:04,900
in every way that we could,
1646
01:35:04,984 --> 01:35:07,027
that we believed in them.
1647
01:35:07,951 --> 01:35:10,954
That inside them was a loving nature,
1648
01:35:11,454 --> 01:35:15,250
a decency, and a fineness of spirit.
1649
01:35:17,011 --> 01:35:18,471
You can forget it sometimes,
1650
01:35:18,555 --> 01:35:22,392
but very few of us want to be other than that.
1651
01:35:24,558 --> 01:35:25,893
You just need the opportunity.
1652
01:35:25,976 --> 01:35:27,770
[cheering and applauding]
1653
01:35:41,923 --> 01:35:43,966
["Catch the Wind" by Donovan playing]
1654
01:35:49,826 --> 01:35:55,498
♪ In the chilly hours And minutes of uncertainty ♪
1655
01:35:55,958 --> 01:36:00,212
♪ I want to be in the warm heart ♪
1656
01:36:00,308 --> 01:36:03,395
♪ Of your loving mind ♪
1657
01:36:05,857 --> 01:36:09,235
♪ To feel you all around me ♪
1658
01:36:09,651 --> 01:36:13,822
♪ And to take your hand along the sand ♪
1659
01:36:14,296 --> 01:36:19,175
♪ Ah, but I may as well try And catch the wind ♪
1660
01:36:22,054 --> 01:36:25,224
♪ When sundown pales the sky ♪
1661
01:36:25,892 --> 01:36:30,104
♪ I want to hide a while Behind your smile ♪
1662
01:36:30,312 --> 01:36:35,567
♪ And everywhere I'd look Your eyes I'd find ♪
1663
01:36:38,046 --> 01:36:44,302
♪ For me to love you now Would be the sweetest thing ♪
1664
01:36:44,387 --> 01:36:46,263
♪ 'Twould make me sing ♪
1665
01:36:46,347 --> 01:36:51,435
♪ Ah, but I may as well try And catch the wind ♪
1666
01:36:54,576 --> 01:36:56,537
[vocalizing]
1667
01:37:06,188 --> 01:37:09,984
♪ When rain has hung the leaves with tears ♪
1668
01:37:10,444 --> 01:37:14,239
♪ I want you near to kill my fears ♪
1669
01:37:14,611 --> 01:37:18,866
♪ To help me to leave all my blues behind... ♪
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