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3 days of peace and Music 15th-17th August New York, USA at Max Yasgur’s diary farm During 1960’s : USA support South Vietnam in Vietnam War Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman and Artie Kornfeld Aim : recording a studio Michael Lang John Roberts Joel Rosenman Artie Kornfeld Expected : 50,000 people Resulted: 500,000 people (most are Hippies) Pre-order : 18 dollars At the gate : 24 dollars Overcrowded : free concerts Spent Profit Organizers :500,000 1.3 million : tickets sales dollars 2.6 million : extrafood, helicopter rentals and medical supplies 50 million : movies and record sales Water : 38000 liters Bread : 30000 loaves Marshmallow : 10000 bags Ice : 204,000 kilograms Milk : 760000 liters Richie Havens Swami Satchidananda Sweetwater Bert Sommer Tim Hardin Ravi Shankar Melanie Arlo Guthrie Joan Baez Quill Country Joe McDonald Santana John Sebastian Keef Hartley Band The Incredible String Band Canned Heat Mountain • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Grateful Dead Creedence Clearwater Revival Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band Sly & the Family Stone The Who Joe Cocker and The Grease Band Country Joe and the Fish Ten Years After The Band Johnny Winter Blood Sweat & Tears, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young Paul Butterfield ,Blues Band Sha Na Na Jimi Hendrix / Gypsy Sun &Rainbows. Supposed to held in Wallkill, New York Citizens in Wallkill : don’t want drugs and hippies in their town Expected : 50,000 but really show up 500,000 32 bands : Iron butterfly Stuck in the airport Overcrowded : climbing fence and walk without pay Food and medical supplies ran out Rain : mud, delaying performances Drug overdose 2 babies were born, 3 death Sound system Traffic jam Sweetwater : first band to open Woodstock Supposed to started at 3.00 am Delayed : stuck in traffic jam Tom Law (farmer) : let’s people do yoga exercise Heroin overdoes Ruptured appendix Ran over by a tractor Jewish Community : make a sandwiches Some attendees : bring pot to cook and share food Cut down the trees for making fire Made a custom microphone : 12,000 watt amplifier Speaker towers : 23m high Guitar String broke while playing the song “Red house” Perform only 5 strings Highest paid performer : $32,000 Santana: $1500 Quill : $375 Sha na na : $350 , (movie right $1) "I Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die Rag“ by Country Joe Macdonald http://www.funtrivia.com/submitquiz.cfm?quiz=316419 http://www.sixtiescity.com/Events/Woodstock/wstock.ht m http://www.woodstock.com/themusic.php http://abcnews.go.com/US/Woodstock/story?id=8276354& page=2. http://seniorliving.about.com/od/entertainmentrecreation /p/1969-woodstock.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article1204849/Forty-far-facts-knew-Woodstock.html