Woostock

Undergoing the plans to Woodstock Music and Art Fair were four men all in their early to mid-twenties: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfled, and Michael Lang. John Roberts who was the financial backer, was an heir to a drugstore and to the toothpaste company fortune. While playing golf Roberts met soon to be good friend and roommate Joel Rosenman. During their stay as roommates the two often scrambled up ideas of what the future held for the two. Basically in another world was Artie Kornfled an upbeat vice president at Capitol Records. Michael Lang, a manager for local bands, had already produced one of the biggest rock festivals, a two-day Miami pop festival, attracting 40,000 people in 1968. Making Lang the most qualified of the four young men. Lang needed to work with somebody to realize his ambitions that somebody would be Kornfeld. A meeting was set up between Lang and Kornfled, immediate

Workers ended up getting paid overtime for doing a job in six weeks that should have taken six months. Since the venue was set, nothing could be done except sit and wait for the people to come. And did they ever come, causing one of the greatest traffic jams in New York history. In order to reach Woodstock, crowds of people were crawling over cars finding any possible way to reach their destination. Saturday was unreal, more people then ever expected showed up, over 450,000. Not prepared for the certain condition only 13 cops were reserved, each was told not to make any arrest for drugs, to avoid a riot. With those instructions, the bands played on and the people smoked on. Sunday was greeted with a tremendous amount of rain causing technical difficulties, not bothering fans, as they continued to parade in the rain, many nude. Monday, a mere 40,000 was left; do to people returning home for jobs and back to a normal lifestyle. Consequently, they missed Jimi Hendrix breath taking performance of the National Anthem, which was performed in a way never before heard this captured the eyes and ears of those who remained.

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