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I think the two seminal events from 1 969

were the moon landing and Woodstock, one could say.

And they were both such romantic, improbable,

glorious, innocent events in some sense.

We were in Bethel .

By that point, we took over a small motel for a while.

I got us a television so we could watch the moon landing.

WADLEIGH: I certainly remember where I was.

I was making a mountain-climbing film at the time, way out in the mountains,

and I came out of the mountains

just in time to see the guys landing on the moon .

And we were in a bar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming .

And , God ! We'd go out and look up at the real moon

and look at the TV and think, "Oh , my God !

"Isn't this just remarkable?"

NEIL ARMSTRONG ON RADIO: That's one small step for man,

one giant leap for mankind.

BUZZ ALDRIN ON RADIO: That looks beautiful from here, Neil.

STALLINGS: Being this group of conspiracy-theory,

counterculture, nothing-is-what-you-see people,

no one believed it was happening.

And I had gotten them the television to watch a thing that

they felt was being done in a sound studio.

But that was kind of wonderful , too.

WADLEIGH: And then just a little while later,

there I was, standing on the stage at Woodstock.

And I remember when each day the New York Times banner came in ,

and we got the biggest...

We got as much width as the moon landing got, right.

And of course, it's a famous story that the New York Times

carefully analyzes whether you're worth the whole width or not.

Well , we got the whole width .

And I just remember,

for me, standing there looking at the moon and so on

and standing there looking at all those people

and those incredible musicians.

And isn 't it interesting that, equally, we have not had another Woodstock

and we have not had another moon landing.

And maybe, again, the economics of it all and the dream

and the idealism and so on that drove both events, I would say,

maybe now with money being so much tighter

and with calculation being so much tighter,

it's harder to launch those kind of idealistic endeavors.

But, boy, were they great.