Peace, love and lots of trash: The mythology of Woodstock is all well and good, but there was an unruly human side to the festival, too.
"... Overwhelmed and underprepared, the promoters declared that Woodstock was a free festival and welcomed the hordes that they couldn’t have turned back anyway. And as hundreds of thousands of people continued to arrive, the music and mythologizing began, along with the rain, the mud, the giddy sensation of being part of an unexpected multitude, the forecasts of disaster, the helicopter overflights to get musicians and food in and medical emergencies out, the uneven stage performances, the random and mostly friendly encounters, the lengthy set changes filled with urgent announcements, the waves of euphoria and discomfort, the sheer implausibility of the whole event. As a music critic, I have been to dozens of festivals since then, and none have been so makeshift, so precarious or so revelatory. ..."
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“One of the most important motivations for me going to this thing was to take pictures. I was caught up in all that music, but I was caught up more in photography.”
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