Woodstock was a music concert that is regarded as one of the biggest events in music history. The woodstock concert was held on a 600 acre farm in the town of Bethel in New York. Bethel is 43 miles south-west of the town of Woodstock....so i still don't know why they called it Woodstock!!

The woodstock concert was held between the 15th and 18th of August 1969. The Woodstock Festival was put together by four business partners, who were: Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld.

These four guys got together and each put their own views forward as to what their individual sights of Woodstock would be. As the groups views started to differ, Roberts (who was one of the biggest financiers of the event) was undecided in whether or not to keep pumping the money in, or to completely pull out of the whole project. Luckily he decided to push forward with the project and they went on to create one of the biggest events in the history of rock music!

Prior to the concert, sales had amounted to approximately 186,000 tickets at a cost of around $20 per ticket (converts to approx $70 each today) but on the first day of the concert a radical group, called the UAWMF (up against the wall mother*******) cut the fences and allowed everyone in to the concert for free. Word about this spread like wildfire and people started turning up to the concert in the thousands, this caused traffic jams that were 20 miles long!

Over the 4 days of the Woodstock concert, some of the biggest names in music at the time performed and approximately half a million people attended. This amount of people caused lots of dramas, as the concert was only intended to house around 200,000 people, and things like food shortages, limited sanitation facilities, lack of places to sleep and camp, combined with lots of rain and mud, made the weekend very testing for some! but all in all, from all reports, most people had the music weekend of their lives.

SOME OF THE BIG GUNS WHO ROCKED WOODSTOCK...

• Jimi Hendrix
• Crosby Stills Nash & Young
• Joe Cocker
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Grateful Dead
• Santana
• Canned Heat
• The Who

Written By Scotty Smith

Music Connoisseur ©2008