Four very different young men founded Woodstock. John Roberts and Joel Roseman, two venture capitalists, were looking to invest their money into something. They put this want ad into the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, “Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities.” Of the many responses they received one of them was from Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld.

In need of seed money for a festival and recording studio Lang and Kornfeld’s manager had come across the ad. Kornfeld was a vice president at Capital Records. Lang was, at that time, a manager of a rock band. Their manager advised them to contact Roberts and Roseman.

The four partners meet and discussed ideas. Originally, they had planned a recording studio in Woodstock, a small town in the Catskills Mountains that had become a rock center when musician Bob Dylan and a rock group called The Band settled their. They decided to promote

Yasgur was a huge diary farm. He owned a 600-acre farm in Bethel, New York, and he agreed to lease this land to the corporation.

In March, after final plans were made, the four partners formed a corporation called Woodstock Ventures Incorporated.

The day before the concert they tried one last time to put a stop to it. The people of Bethel built a human barricade across route 17B. However, they were unsuccessful in their attempt.

Woodstock had an impact on the not just the crowd, but the performers also. As Woodstock received more and more public attention it helped increase the audience for rock. This concert eventually turned rock and roll from teenage cult to mainstream institution (Brinkley-Roger). Rock was now a bigger and better business than ever before (Mcleese).

The lack of planning gave Woodstock the potential for disaster. Volunteers from inside and outside the festival helped relieve any possible problems. Helicopters were used to fly in food, doctors, medical supplies, and even music acts scheduled to appear (Encarta). A free kitchen was also set up to fed hundreds of people.

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