in the summer of 1969 a music festival
peace and love organically came together
well there’s a little more to the story
than that
welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
counting down the five most interesting
things that we could learn about the
iconic Woodstock Music and Art Fair I
think you people have proven something
to the world
number five one month before Woodstock
Wallkill banned the hippies Woodstock
took place over four days but the
concert itself was not held in Woodstock
and this was because locals in Woodstock
New York initially rejected the proposed
location and so the promoters then
selected a nearby wallkill as potential
spot however in early July 1969 the town
passed a law that required an official
permit for crowds of over 5,000 of
course the festival was destined to be
much larger than that with organizers
saying there would be 50,000 concert
goers I’ve never seen anything like this
man
skeptical across the board the Wallkill
Zoning Board officially rejected the
concerts permit applications on July
15th leaving the promoters in search of
someone anyone that had the means and
opportunity to play host there’s a lot
of joy in music mr. e Oscar and we’d
love to bring that joy to your beautiful
farm and they found the guy in dairy
farmer max Yasgur a half a million young
people can get together and have three
days of fun and music and have nothing
but fun and music
I got one support number for the
promoters lied to give people what they
wanted he’s got a permit he’s the
president of the Chamber of Commerce
because of that you want to drown
thousands of kids in a swamp since
locals anticipated maybe 50,000 people
the promoters had to fib about their
true intentions in order to execute a
larger plan they were actually hoping to
sell 200,000 tickets you could say that
they lied about actually knowing how to
pull it all off – they had some
experience in promoting music festivals
before but nothing of the scale had ever
been done the publicity they received
from getting kicked out of Wallkill
helped them sell 186 thousand tickets in
presale but the late venue change just
didn’t give them enough time to
reorganize three days before the event
they decided that they had time and
resources to either finish building the
stage or to build fences and ticket
booths they went with the former and
that’s when it became a free concert
that 400,000 people showed up to it’s a
free concert from now on that doesn’t
mean that anything goes what that means
is we’re gonna put the music up here for
free number three this hippie love fest
involved a lot of money so even though
it became free Woodstock was initially
born out of capitalism more than out of
peace and love a couple of entrepreneurs
Joel Rosenman and John P Roberts
connected with some music insiders named
Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld and
hatched the pie-in-the-sky concert idea
as a money-making venture what are the
cost of one of they think the orchard
tickets cost between $18 and $24 or
roughly 115 and 160 in today’s dollars
and they sold about 1.8 million dollars
worth of them that left them with about
a 1.2 million dollar shortfall though
from what I read in the papers mr.
Roberts you’ve already spent a million
dollars in Wallkill and you’ve only got
until the 15th till your festival peace
and love is expensive and the artists
certainly didn’t play for free either
with the talent budget reaching nearly
$200,000 in fact Hendrix was the
highest-paid musician at 18,000 dollars
it took over a decade for Robertson
Rosenman to get out of debt because of
the concert insanely Woodstock didn’t
have any official merchandise for sale
no hats no hoodies no frisbees nothing
buttscratcher buttscratcher get your
butt scratcher here number 2 the weekend
created 400,000 hungry hungry hippies
putting upstate communities in an uproar
at this major hippie invasion given the
chaos and confusion that went into
setting up Woodstock the organizers had
a lot on their plate as for the actual
plates of attendees hungry I’m starving
well the promoters had some explaining
to do when the entire operation was
literally devoid of food by nightfall of
opening day try to get the people fed I
would say it’s one of the main
objectives we have right now all these
young fellows here they’ve got to be fed
and they’re gonna get hungry locals had
to volunteer to make pickle sandwiches
due to the complete lack of food I made
5,000 sandwiches Oh Wilma don’t
exaggerate we made for commercial the
Air Force airlifted in 10,000 sandwiches
some enterprising folks set up makeshift
booths in the woods there wasn’t a whole
lot of food there but what there was was
shared by all a lack of food may have
been a blessing in disguise actually
since the portable toilet situation was
nowhere near adequate amazingly despite
the negligence Woodstock remained pretty
chill and there were no reports of
violence aside from one report of some
vigilantes burning down the booth of a
price coucher overnight number one
thanks to rain delays Jimi Hendrix
performed at 8:30 a.m. as the closing
act of Woodstock Jimi Hendrix played to
a unique and vastly diminished crowd on
Monday August 18 1969
and considering the 8:30 a.m. start time
well not everybody was there so to speak
in fact the audience had dwindled down
to right around 30,000 a fraction of the
400,000 that once filled the makeshift
venue
and while the late guitarist is
considered a rock legend today everybody
stuck around to get experienced yet
those who remained got to see one of the
most iconic live performances in rock
history and one of the most defining
moments of the decade as Hendrix played
a full two hours leading up to a
distorted rendition of the star-spangled
banner so which of these facts surprised
you the most and do you know anyone who
attended Woodstock or how about
Woodstock 99 for more far-out top 10s
and shirtless top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com again
you
peace and love organically came together
well there’s a little more to the story
than that
welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
counting down the five most interesting
things that we could learn about the
iconic Woodstock Music and Art Fair I
think you people have proven something
to the world
number five one month before Woodstock
Wallkill banned the hippies Woodstock
took place over four days but the
concert itself was not held in Woodstock
and this was because locals in Woodstock
New York initially rejected the proposed
location and so the promoters then
selected a nearby wallkill as potential
spot however in early July 1969 the town
passed a law that required an official
permit for crowds of over 5,000 of
course the festival was destined to be
much larger than that with organizers
saying there would be 50,000 concert
goers I’ve never seen anything like this
man
skeptical across the board the Wallkill
Zoning Board officially rejected the
concerts permit applications on July
15th leaving the promoters in search of
someone anyone that had the means and
opportunity to play host there’s a lot
of joy in music mr. e Oscar and we’d
love to bring that joy to your beautiful
farm and they found the guy in dairy
farmer max Yasgur a half a million young
people can get together and have three
days of fun and music and have nothing
but fun and music
I got one support number for the
promoters lied to give people what they
wanted he’s got a permit he’s the
president of the Chamber of Commerce
because of that you want to drown
thousands of kids in a swamp since
locals anticipated maybe 50,000 people
the promoters had to fib about their
true intentions in order to execute a
larger plan they were actually hoping to
sell 200,000 tickets you could say that
they lied about actually knowing how to
pull it all off – they had some
experience in promoting music festivals
before but nothing of the scale had ever
been done the publicity they received
from getting kicked out of Wallkill
helped them sell 186 thousand tickets in
presale but the late venue change just
didn’t give them enough time to
reorganize three days before the event
they decided that they had time and
resources to either finish building the
stage or to build fences and ticket
booths they went with the former and
that’s when it became a free concert
that 400,000 people showed up to it’s a
free concert from now on that doesn’t
mean that anything goes what that means
is we’re gonna put the music up here for
free number three this hippie love fest
involved a lot of money so even though
it became free Woodstock was initially
born out of capitalism more than out of
peace and love a couple of entrepreneurs
Joel Rosenman and John P Roberts
connected with some music insiders named
Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld and
hatched the pie-in-the-sky concert idea
as a money-making venture what are the
cost of one of they think the orchard
tickets cost between $18 and $24 or
roughly 115 and 160 in today’s dollars
and they sold about 1.8 million dollars
worth of them that left them with about
a 1.2 million dollar shortfall though
from what I read in the papers mr.
Roberts you’ve already spent a million
dollars in Wallkill and you’ve only got
until the 15th till your festival peace
and love is expensive and the artists
certainly didn’t play for free either
with the talent budget reaching nearly
$200,000 in fact Hendrix was the
highest-paid musician at 18,000 dollars
it took over a decade for Robertson
Rosenman to get out of debt because of
the concert insanely Woodstock didn’t
have any official merchandise for sale
no hats no hoodies no frisbees nothing
buttscratcher buttscratcher get your
butt scratcher here number 2 the weekend
created 400,000 hungry hungry hippies
putting upstate communities in an uproar
at this major hippie invasion given the
chaos and confusion that went into
setting up Woodstock the organizers had
a lot on their plate as for the actual
plates of attendees hungry I’m starving
well the promoters had some explaining
to do when the entire operation was
literally devoid of food by nightfall of
opening day try to get the people fed I
would say it’s one of the main
objectives we have right now all these
young fellows here they’ve got to be fed
and they’re gonna get hungry locals had
to volunteer to make pickle sandwiches
due to the complete lack of food I made
5,000 sandwiches Oh Wilma don’t
exaggerate we made for commercial the
Air Force airlifted in 10,000 sandwiches
some enterprising folks set up makeshift
booths in the woods there wasn’t a whole
lot of food there but what there was was
shared by all a lack of food may have
been a blessing in disguise actually
since the portable toilet situation was
nowhere near adequate amazingly despite
the negligence Woodstock remained pretty
chill and there were no reports of
violence aside from one report of some
vigilantes burning down the booth of a
price coucher overnight number one
thanks to rain delays Jimi Hendrix
performed at 8:30 a.m. as the closing
act of Woodstock Jimi Hendrix played to
a unique and vastly diminished crowd on
Monday August 18 1969
and considering the 8:30 a.m. start time
well not everybody was there so to speak
in fact the audience had dwindled down
to right around 30,000 a fraction of the
400,000 that once filled the makeshift
venue
and while the late guitarist is
considered a rock legend today everybody
stuck around to get experienced yet
those who remained got to see one of the
most iconic live performances in rock
history and one of the most defining
moments of the decade as Hendrix played
a full two hours leading up to a
distorted rendition of the star-spangled
banner so which of these facts surprised
you the most and do you know anyone who
attended Woodstock or how about
Woodstock 99 for more far-out top 10s
and shirtless top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com again
you
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