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  1. 1. Mai 2017 · The cliché goes that if you remember the 60s then you weren’t really there, but what we can be certain of is that these Top 10 60s Gigs not only took place, but all played a part in defining the...

    • Woodstock Ventures
    • Where Was Woodstock?
    • Woodstock Becomes A Free Concert
    • The Masses Arrive
    • The Audience
    • Safety and Security Issues
    • Wavy Gravy and The Hog Farm
    • Woodstock Performers
    • Legacy of Woodstock
    • Sources

    The Woodstock Music Festival was the brainchild of four men, all age 27 or younger, looking for an investment opportunity: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang. Lang had organized the successful Miami Music Festival in 1968 and Kornfeld was the youngest vice president at Capitol Records. Roberts and Rosenman were New Yorkent...

    The initial plan for Woodstock called for the event to be held at Howard Mills Industrial Park in Wallkill, New York. Wallkill town officials got spooked, however, and backed out of the deal, passing a law that eliminated any possibility of holding the concert on their turf. Woodstock Ventures explored a few other venues, but none panned out. Final...

    With a venue and talent secured, the partners turned to logistics. Fencing, entrance gates and ticket booths needed to be set up and a performers’ pavilion, concession stands, bathroom facilities and medical tents built. But by the time people started arriving a couple days ahead of the concert, the fencing, gates and ticket booths still weren’t re...

    Originally, about 50,000 people were expected. But by August 13, at least that number were already camped out on location and over 100,000 tickets pre-sold. As an estimated one million people descended on Woodstock, its organizers scrambled to add more facilities. Highways and local roads came to a standstill and many concert-goers simply abandoned...

    The Woodstock audience was diverse and a reflection of the rapidly-changing times. Some were hippies who felt alienated by a society steeped in materialism. In 1969, the country was deep into the controversial Vietnam War, a conflict that many young people vehemently opposed. It was also the era of the civil rights movement, a period of great prote...

    Volunteer doctors, EMTs and nurses manned Woodstock’s medical tent. Most injuries were minor such as food poisoning and wounded bare feet. It’s widely reported eight women experienced miscarriages. One teenager died after being run over by a tractor. Another person died a drug-related death. Security was limited since off-duty police officers were ...

    To pick up the slack and help create a safe festival ground, Woodstock Ventures turned to the Hog Farm, a communal pig farm in New Mexico. Its leader, known as Wavy Gravy, threatened to douse people who got out of line with seltzer water or hurl pies at them. The Hog Farm also set up a children’s playground, a free food kitchen and a tent to assist...

    Thirty-two musicians, a combination of local and world-famous talent, performed at Woodstock. Around 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 15, Richie Havenstook the stage and played a 45-minute set. Havens was followed by an unscheduled blessing by yoga guru Sri Swami Satchidananda. The other performers on day one were: 1. Bert Sommer 2. Sweetwater 3. Melani...

    Woodstock officially ended on Monday, August 18, after Hendrix left the stage. Leaving Woodstock wasn’t much easier than getting there. Roads and highways quickly became jammed again as festival-goers made their way home. Cleaning up the venue was a mammoth task and required several days, many bulldozers and tens of thousands of dollars. In 2006, B...

    1969 Fast Facts: Woodstock. Fox News Entertainment. Acts that Almost Made it to Woodstock. CBS News. Farmer is Little Known Despite His Historic Role. Poughkeepsie Journal. Interview with the Organisers of Woodstock Festival. The Telegraph. The Sixties and Woodstock Festival History. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

  2. 12. Juni 2017 · Our chronological countdown of 50 greatest concerts of the last 50 years, including Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix.

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  3. 22. Sept. 2005 · Rock 'n' Roll Timeline from 1960 through 1969. The '60s was a time of change for popular music. New styles emerged, surf rock, folk rock, psychedelic rock, the Motown sound, the "British Invasion" and more.

  4. Popular Music from the 1960s, Genres including The British Invasion, Motown/R& B, Surf Rock and Psychedelic Rock, Roots Rock and Hard Rock, Folk Rock and Protest Music, Acappella and top songs and artists from each year

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  5. 1. Jan. 2015 · You say you want a revolution? Look no further than the 1960s. The decade of political protest, sexual liberation, psychedelic drugs, eyebrow-raising fashions and sweet, sweet music.

  6. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, guitarist Keith Richards, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts.