118-620: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair , commonly referred to as Woodstock , was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur 's dairy farm in Bethel, New York , 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock . Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival , it attracted an audience of more than 460,000. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain. It
236-697: A Linotype operator for the Berkeley Gazette in California. Lucile Fogerty taught second grade and was from Great Falls, Montana . John first attended a Catholic school, the School of the Madeleine, in Berkeley, California. In his memoir, Fortunate Son , Fogerty was critical of the school, saying when in class he was not permitted to go to the bathroom when he asked, and frequently wet himself and
354-436: A "CD collection [co-produced for Rhino by archivist Andy Zax ] that lays the '69 fest out in chronological order, from the first stage announcements to muddy farewells." The only things missing from this 38-CD edition were two Jimi Hendrix songs that his estate did not believe were up to the required standard and some of Sha Na Na 's music that missed being captured on tape. Because of various production and warehousing issues,
472-540: A 1970 revival of the festival, saying, "As far as I know, I'm going back to running a dairy farm." Yasgur died in 1973. In 1984, at the original festival site, land owners Louis Nicky and June Gelish put up a monument marker with plaques called "Peace and Music" by a local sculptor from nearby Bloomingburg , Wayne C. Saward. Attempts were made to prevent people from visiting the site. Its owners spread chicken manure, and during one anniversary, tractors and state police cars formed roadblocks. Twenty thousand people gathered at
590-415: A Generation is a documentary by Barak Goodman, produced in 2019 by PBS . It focused on Woodstock's social and political context and contained previously unseen footage supplemented by voice-over anecdotes from people at the festival. It focused more on the scenes in the crowd (and around the country) than on the stage. Creating Woodstock was directed by Mick Richards and produced in 2019. It looked at how
708-453: A New Jersey vintage guitar dealer who had formed a nonprofit corporation, the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund , to honor Johnson with a memorial marker. Fogerty subsequently funded headstones for Charlie Patton , James “Son” Thomas , Mississippi Joe Callicott , Eugene Powell, and Lonnie Pitchford , and helped with financial arrangements for numerous others. Creedence Clearwater Revival was inducted into
826-537: A book about the events behind the scenes during the production of the Woodstock Festival. Bethel voters did not re-elect Supervisor Amatucci in an election held in November 1969 because of his role in bringing the festival to the town and the upset attributed to some residents. Although accounts vary, it was decided by only a small margin of between six and fifty votes. The New York State Legislature and
944-720: A capacity of about 275,000 spectators, but has " fallow years " roughly every five years, so it is the biggest non-annual greenfield festival in the world. The oldest annual dedicated pop music festival in the world is Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands , though in other genres, there are much older ones: the Three Choirs Festival in the UK has run annually since 1719. The Queensland Music Festival, established in 1999 and headquartered in Brisbane Australia,
1062-692: A concert featuring the kind of artists known to frequent the Woodstock area, such as Bob Dylan and the Band . Kornfeld and Lang agreed to the new plan, and Woodstock Ventures was formed in January 1969. The company offices were located in an oddly decorated floor of 47 West 57th Street in Manhattan. Burt Cohen and his design group, Curtain Call Productions, oversaw the psychedelic transformation of
1180-484: A duet with Bruce Springsteen on the 1960 Everly Brothers classic "When Will I Be Loved?" In addition, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit of Eagles sang with Fogerty on a cover of Rick Nelson 's 1972 classic "Garden Party". The album was the first issued on Fogerty's own label Fortunate Son Records, which is distributed by the Verve Forecast Records unit of Universal Music Group and also handles
1298-717: A four-hour special on HBO on November 29, 2009. On November 3, 2009, Fogerty released the Royal Albert Hall DVD entitled Comin' Down The Road , named after his 1973 single, which he performed at this concert. Fogerty was also nominated for a Grammy Award at the 2010 Grammys . He was nominated for the Best Rock Solo Vocal Performance Grammy for the song "Change in the Weather", which he recorded for The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again . For his songwriting achievements, Fogerty
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#17327662467571416-507: A huge traffic jam. The town of Bethel did not enforce its codes, fearing chaos as crowds flowed to the site. Radio and television descriptions of the traffic jams eventually discouraged people from setting off to the festival. Arlo Guthrie made an announcement that was included in the film saying that the New York State Thruway was closed, although the director of the Woodstock museum said that this did not happen. To add to
1534-568: A live album of his entire Woodstock set. The album contains eleven tracks, ten of which were previously unreleased. On August 2, 2019, the Rhino/Atlantic released Woodstock – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive , a massive 38 disc, 36-hour, 432-song completists' audio box set of nearly every note played at the original 1969 Woodstock festival (including 276 songs that were previously unreleased),
1652-570: A major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort . Musical events bearing the Woodstock name were planned for anniversaries, including the 10th , 20th , 25th , 30th , 40th , and 50th . In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. In 2017, the festival site became listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Woodstock
1770-451: A manifestation for creating escapism and a seasonal cultural economy to experience ritually and collectively. Another type of music festival is the music education , often organized annually in local communities, regionally, or nationally, for the benefit of amateur musicians of all ages and grades of achievement. Entrants perform prepared pieces or songs in front of an audience which includes competitors, family and friends, and members of
1888-533: A meeting three days before the event, Rosenman was asked by the construction foremen to choose between (a) completing the fencing and ticket booths, without which Roberts and Rosenman would be facing almost certain bankruptcy after the festival, or (b) trying to complete the stage, without which it would be a weekend of half a million concert-goers with no concerts. The next morning, on Wednesday, it became clear that option (a) had disappeared. Overnight, 50,000 "early birds" had arrived and had planted themselves in front of
2006-539: A motorcyclist to get stories and pictures from the impassable crowd to the newspaper's office 35 miles (56 km) away in Middletown. The documentary film Woodstock , directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by a crew headed by Thelma Schoonmaker , was released in March 1970. Artie Kornfeld (one of the promoters of the festival) went to Fred Weintraub , an executive at Warner Bros. , and asked for money to film
2124-463: A music festival can be defined as a community event , with performances of singing and instrument playing, that is often presented with a theme such as a music genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality , locality of musicians, or holiday . Music festivals have developed as an industry which contributes to national economies. For example, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival earned $ 115 million in 2017. Music festivals can be
2242-427: A natural bowl sloping down to Filippini Pond on the land's north side. The stage would be set up at the bottom of the hill with Filippini Pond forming a backdrop. The pond became a popular skinny dipping destination. Filippini was the only landowner who refused to sign a lease for the use of his property. The organizers again told Bethel authorities that they expected no more than 50,000 people. Despite opposition from
2360-551: A revised version: "Vanz Kant Danz" (changing the lead character's name to Vanz). Another lawsuit ( Fantasy, Inc. v. Fogerty ) claimed that "The Old Man Down the Road" shared the same chorus as " Run Through the Jungle ", a song from Fogerty's days with CCR to which Fantasy Records still owned the publishing rights. Fogerty ultimately won his case when he proved that the two songs were distinct compositions and also that sounding like himself
2478-602: A self-penned rock-and-roll single: "You Don't Owe Me" b/w "Back in the Hills" (Fantasy F-710). It was a commercial flop, failing to make the US Billboard Hot 100 , though "You Don't Owe Me" was a minor hit in Canada, reaching No. 79. Fogerty thereafter abandoned the "Blue Ridge Rangers" identity, and released all his subsequent work under his own name. In early 1974, Fogerty released "Comin' Down The Road"—backed with
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#17327662467572596-503: A senseless squandering of American lives and power". On the album, Fogerty squeezed ten songs into only 34 minutes. The sale of Fantasy Records to Concord Records in 2004 ended the 30-year estrangement between Fogerty and his former label, as the new owners took steps to restore royalty rights Fogerty had given up to be released from his contract with Fantasy in the mid-1970s. In September 2005, Fogerty returned to Fantasy Records, made possible when DreamWorks Records' noncountry-music unit
2714-491: A solo album of country and western covers , on which he produced, arranged, and played all of the instruments. Despite the solo nature of the recordings, however, Fogerty elected to credit the album to The Blue Ridge Rangers—a band of which he was the only member. The eponymous The Blue Ridge Rangers was released in 1973; it spun off the top-20 hit " Jambalaya ", as well as a lesser hit in "Hearts of Stone". Fogerty, still using "The Blue Ridge Rangers" name, then released
2832-542: A supply clerk. Fogerty believes the recruiter dated the paperwork to take effect before the draft letter arrived. During his time in the Army Reserve, Fogerty attended training at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty ), Fort Knox , and Fort Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams ). He completed his active duty for training in July 1967, then served as a part-time reservist until being discharged in 1968. After Fogerty's military service,
2950-648: A taped performance from Red Rocks Amphitheater, Colorado. His most recent performance was at the Winstar in Thackerville, Oklahoma, on December 31, 2019. The remaining performances of his current tour "My 50 Year Trip" have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . While on lockdown during the pandemic in early 2020, Fogerty, accompanied by sons Shane and Tyler and daughter Kelsy, began releasing performance videos of previously released originals and covers. Under
3068-423: A tractor ran over a 17-year-old sleeping in a nearby hayfield. Births were claimed to have occurred, one in a car caught in traffic and another in hospital after an airlift by helicopter, but extensive research by a book author could not confirm any births. Several miscarriages were reported (sources range from four to eight) and over the course of the three days there were 742 drug overdoses . Max Yasgur, who owned
3186-468: A way of building a brand for a destination, creating a unique image for it and attracting visitors. For example, Lollapalooza, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival, Electric Forest, and others. While contemporary festivals are often represented as flourishing grounds for extraordinary experiences, they increasingly serve as a way to create cultural identity, lifestyle, community, belonging and self-actualisation. Furthermore, festivals are
3304-530: Is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock , blues , folk , jazz , classical music ), nationality , locality of musicians, or holiday . Music festivals are generally organized by individuals or organizations within networks of music production, typically music scenes, the music industries, or institutions of music education. Music festivals are commonly held outdoors, with tents or roofed temporary stages for
3422-412: Is frequently played on classic rock radio and at baseball games to this day, but the album led to legal problems for Fogerty. Two songs on the album, "Zanz Kant Danz" and "Mr. Greed", were believed to be attacks on Fogerty's former boss at Fantasy Records , Saul Zaentz . "Zanz Kant Danz" was about a pig that cannot dance, but would "steal your money". When Zaentz responded with a lawsuit, Fogerty issued
3540-572: Is that participants can learn from one another rather than compete. Such festivals aim to provide a friendly and supportive platform for musicians to share in the excitement of making music. For many, they provide a bridge from lessons and examinations to performing confidently in public; for a few of the top performers, they provide a pathway to further professional study of music in a college, university or conservatory. Milwaukee , Wisconsin 's 11-day event, Summerfest , promotes itself as "The World's Largest Music Festival." Operating annually since 1968,
3658-433: Is the largest music festival by land mass, as a state-wide music biennial music festival, over a three-week period during July. Lists of music festivals in: John Fogerty John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford , Stu Cook , and his brother Tom Fogerty , he founded the swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he
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3776-824: The Late Show with David Letterman . On November 17 and 18, Fogerty performed two CCR albums, Cosmo's Factory and Green River , respectively, in their entirety at the Beacon Theatre in New York City (he also played Cosmo's Factory in Atlantic City on November 20). He was also featured on the CBS coverage of the Thanksgiving Day Parade , performing several prerecorded songs. In January 2012, Fogerty's new song "Swamp Water" debuted over
3894-599: The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl , which was sold out for these shows. Though billed as Fogerty with the L.A. Philharmonic, the orchestra began the night with music by U.S. composers, and Fogerty and his band came on after intermission, playing only three songs with the orchestra. On August 31, 2009, Fogerty released The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again , a sequel to his 1973 solo debut The Blue Ridge Rangers . The album includes
4012-582: The Vietnam War ), as well as the views of the townspeople. Woodstock received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature . In 1996, the film was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry . In 1994, Woodstock: The Director's Cut was released and expanded to include Janis Joplin as well as additional performances by Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and Canned Heat not seen in
4130-660: The Vote for Change tour, playing seven of the concerts in U.S. swing states . He also appeared in a Christmas special video produced by the Australian children's group The Wiggles . Fogerty toured with John Mellencamp in the summer of 2005 and with Willie Nelson in the summer of 2006. On June 29, 2006, he played his first headlining British concert since 1972, at the Hammersmith Apollo theater in London, as part of
4248-778: The 1960s, as well as material from the Centerfield LP and the song "No Love in You" written by Michael Anderson, which Fogerty found on the Textones ' debut album Midnight Mission and he later recorded with Textones' band leader Carla Olson. John Fogerty's All-Stars was recorded in front of an audience of Warners Bros. Music employees and other invited guests at A&M Records on La Brea in Hollywood. The band included Albert Lee , Booker T. Jones , Duck Dunn , Steve Douglas , and Prairie Prince . The follow-up album to Centerfield
4366-644: The Bayou " to " Bad Moon Rising " and " Proud Mary ". John Fogerty had originally thought the band's performance was unworthy, but this album was finally released both on CD and as a double vinyl LP. In the years immediately following the festival, Woodstock co-producers John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, along with Robert Pilpel, wrote Young Men with Unlimited Capital: The Inside Story of the Legendary Woodstock Festival Told By The Two People Who Paid for It ,
4484-485: The Catskills had little more sanity than the impulses that drive the lemmings to march to their deaths in the sea. They ended in a nightmare of mud and stagnation ... What kind of culture is it that can produce so colossal a mess?" Coverage became more positive by the end of the festival, in part because the parents of concertgoers called the media and told them, based on their children's phone calls, that their reporting
4602-787: The Corner ", " Who'll Stop the Rain ", " Up Around the Bend ", " Have You Ever Seen the Rain ", " Centerfield ", " The Old Man Down the Road ", and " Rockin' All Over the World ". Fogerty was born in Berkeley, California , and grew up in El Cerrito, California , the third of five boys born to Galen Robert and Edith Lucile (Lytle) Fogerty. He is of Irish descent. His father was born in Iowa , and worked as
4720-736: The European leg of the tour. During that leg, he also performed in Sundsvall, Sweden, where 25,000 people came to see him perform at the town square. On Thanksgiving Day of 2006, Fogerty performed at halftime at the Miami Dolphins / Detroit Lions game and at the Denver Broncos / Kansas City Chiefs halftime later that evening. Fogerty was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2005, Fogerty received
4838-544: The Family Stone , Jefferson Airplane , and Johnny Winter were released separately by Legacy / SME Records , and were also collected in a box set titled The Woodstock Experience . In August 2009, Rhino / Atlantic Records issued a six-disc box set titled Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm , which included further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material. In October 2009, Joe Cocker released Live at Woodstock ,
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4956-567: The Fogerty/CCR Fantasy catalogue. On October 29, 2009, Fogerty appeared at Madison Square Garden for the first night of the celebratory 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts. Bruce Springsteen, with the E ;Street Band, called Fogerty out to play three songs with them. "Fortunate Son" was their first song, followed by "Proud Mary", and finally the duo tried their take on Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". The show aired as
5074-580: The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member B.B. King . On June 23, 2007, Fogerty appeared at Glastonbury Festival , playing an hour-long set of 17 songs, mainly CCR classics. Introducing " Who'll Stop the Rain ", Fogerty said he did not perform it at Woodstock as rumored, but wrote the song inspired by the event. Revival was released October 2, 2007. Heavily promoted by
5192-476: The Golliwogs resumed playing, releasing an album in late 1967. In 1968, they changed their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival, with John Fogerty taking his brother's place as lead singer. The band released their eponymous debut album and also had their first hit single, " Susie Q ". Many other hit singles and albums followed, beginning with " Proud Mary " and the album Bayou Country . Fogerty, as writer of
5310-598: The Poor Boys. On June 24, 2008, Fogerty made a return to the Royal Albert Hall , a venue he last played with CCR in 1971. It was the last concert on his 2008 European tour. This concert was filmed (causing staging problems that annoyed some fans) and was released in 2009. On April 16, 2009, Fogerty performed his hit "Centerfield" from center field of the new Yankee Stadium , at its opening-day festivities. On July 2, 3, and 4, 2009, Fogerty performed with
5428-447: The Rain ", " Born on the Bayou ", and " Green River ". The other two surviving members were believed to have laughed it off in disappointment. During the induction speech, Springsteen said, "As a songwriter, only a few did as much in three minutes [as John Fogerty]. He was an Old Testament, shaggy-haired prophet, a fatalist. Funny, too. He was severe, he was precise, he said what he had to say and he got out of there." Fogerty returned to
5546-540: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Fogerty refused to perform with his former bandmates and fellow inductees Stu Cook and Doug Clifford during the musical portion of the induction ceremony, citing the Zaentz lawsuit as a reason. In place of the surviving members of CCR, Fogerty recruited session musicians on drums and bass and was also joined by Bruce Springsteen and Robbie Robertson in performing three songs: " Who'll Stop
5664-464: The Town of Bethel also enacted mass gathering laws designed to prevent anymore festivals from occurring. Approximately 80 lawsuits were filed against Woodstock Ventures, primarily by farmers in the area. The movie financed settlements and paid off the $ 1.4 million of debt (equivalent to $ 11.6 million today) Roberts and Rosenman had incurred from the festival. Max Yasgur refused to rent out his farm for
5782-551: The Weather" was included in the setlist for his 2009 tour, and it was even re-recorded for that year's solo release, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again . Fogerty played CCR material again at a concert in Washington, D.C., for Vietnam veterans that took place on July 4, 1987. The show was aired on HBO . Aside from a guest appearance at the Palomino and performance at the 1986 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, this
5900-420: The acts who performed. A year later, Woodstock 2 was released as a 2-LP album. Both albums included recordings of stage announcements (many by Production Coordinator John Morris, e.g., "[We're told] that the brown acid is not specifically too good", "Hey, if you think really hard, maybe we can stop this rain") and crowd noises (i.e., the rain chant) between songs. In August 1994, a third album, Woodstock Diary
6018-447: The age of 48, survived by his second wife and six children. Tom contracted HIV from blood transfusions during surgery for a back ailment. Specifically, he died from a tuberculosis infection. John Fogerty has mentioned that the darkest moments in his life were when his brother took the record company's side in their royalties dispute, and the fact that when his brother died, the two of them were barely speaking to each other. In fact, even in
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#17327662467576136-529: The band's final album, Mardi Gras , released in April 1972, which included the band's last two singles, the 1971 hit " Sweet Hitch-Hiker ", and " Someday Never Comes ", which made it into the Billboard Top 20. Cook and Clifford told Fogerty that the fans would not accept Mardi Gras as a CCR LP, but Fogerty told them, "My voice is a unique instrument, and I will not lend it to your songs." According to
6254-614: The brothers' very last conversation with each other, Tom at one point referred to Creedence Clearwater Revival's former manager Saul Zaentz as his "best friend". Given that Zaentz had swindled the band out of millions of dollars and had just recently attempted to sue John, this revelation made it painfully difficult for John to reconcile with Tom. In the eulogy he delivered at Tom's funeral, he said: "We wanted to grow up and be musicians. I guess we achieved half of that, becoming rock 'n roll stars. We didn't necessarily grow up." Fogerty traveled to Mississippi in 1990 for inspiration, and visited
6372-508: The commercial music industry in 1997 with Blue Moon Swamp . The layoff between Zombie and Swamp had been longer than his mid-1970s to mid-1980s break. The album was much more successful than Zombie and won the Grammy for best rock album in 1997. A live album, named Premonition , of the equally successful Blue Moon Swamp tour, was released to similar acclaim and good sales in 1998. A track from Blue Moon Swamp titled "Blue Moon Nights,"
6490-522: The community, along with one or more adjudicators or judges. These adjudicators, who may be music teachers, professors, or professional performers, provide verbal and written feedback to each performer or group. The adjudicator may be someone whom they might never meet in any other way, as is the case when an adjudicator from another city is brought in to judge. They also usually receive a certificate, classified according to merit or ranking, and some may win trophies or even scholarships. The most important aspect
6608-459: The concert was engineered by lighting designer and technical director E.H. Beresford "Chip" Monck . Monck was hired to plan and build the staging and lighting, ten weeks of work for which he was paid $ 7,000 (equivalent to $ 58,000 today). Much of his plan had to be scrapped when the promoters were not allowed to use the original location in Wallkill, New York . The stage roof that was constructed in
6726-541: The course of the four days: Very few reporters from outside the immediate area were on the scene. During the first few days of the festival, national media coverage emphasized the problems. Front-page headlines in the Daily News read "Traffic Uptight at Hippiefest" and "Hippies Mired in a Sea of Mud". The New York Times ran an editorial titled "Nightmare in the Catskills", which read in part, "The dreams of marijuana and rock music that drew 300,000 fans and hippies to
6844-482: The darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his Bic, and in the night I hear, "Don't worry about it, John. We're with you." I played the rest of the show for that guy. — John Fogerty recalling Creedence Clearwater Revival 's 12:30 a.m. start time at Woodstock The festival was remarkably peaceful given the number of people and the conditions involved, although there were three recorded fatalities: two drug overdoses and another caused when
6962-615: The earliest festivals known. During the Middle Ages , festivals were often held as competitions. The music festival emerged in England in the 18th century, as an extension of urban concert life into a form of seasonal, cultural festivity, structured around a schedule of music performances, or concerts. Music festivals generally feature regular and extensive programming, than more spontaneous or improvised forms of music festivity. In traditional genres such as folk and classical music,
7080-507: The entire town of New Lebanon, New York , to shoot the film. He was initially concerned with not angering the locals, but they ended up being very welcoming and willing to help. The movie is based on Elliot Tiber , played by Demetri Martin , and his role in bringing Woodstock to Bethel, New York. The film also starred Jonathan Groff as Michael Lang , Daniel Eric Gold as Joel Rosenman, and Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton as Jake and Sonia Teichberg . Woodstock: Three Days That Defined
7198-419: The event on his 15- acre (6.1 ha ; 650,000 sq ft ; 61,000 m ) motel grounds, and had a permit for such an event. He claims to have introduced the promoters to dairy farmer Max Yasgur . Lang, however, disputes Tiber's account and says that Tiber introduced him to a realtor, who drove him to Yasgur's farm without Tiber. Sam Yasgur , Max's son, agrees with Lang's account. Yasgur's land formed
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#17327662467577316-407: The event. The chief medical officer for the event and several local residents were quoted as praising the festival goers. Middletown, New York's Times Herald-Record , the only local daily newspaper, editorialized against the law that banned the festival from Wallkill. During the festival, a rare Saturday edition was published. The paper had the only phone line running out of the site, and it used
7434-686: The festival attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, and hosts over 800 musical acts. The Woodstock Festival in 1969 drew nearly 500,000 attendees, and the Polish spin-off Przystanek Woodstock in 2014 drew 750,000 thus becoming the largest open air annual festival in Europe and the second largest in the world. In comparison, the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, attracts about 135,000 spectators each year. Glastonbury Festival has
7552-496: The festival came together, with interviews with producers clarifying some of Woodstock's myths and what it took to get many performers to attend. (Janis Joplin, for example, apparently required a personal supply of strawberries.) Two soundtrack albums were released. The first, Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More , was a 3- LP (later 2-CD) album containing a sampling of one or two songs by most of
7670-402: The festival. Artie had been turned down everywhere else, but against the express wishes of other Warner Bros. executives, Weintraub put his job on the line and gave Kornfeld $ 100,000 (equivalent to $ 830,000 today) to make the film. Woodstock helped to save Warner Bros at a time when the company was on the verge of going out of business. The book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls details the making of
7788-468: The film. Wadleigh rounded up a crew of about 100 from the New York film scene. With no money to pay the crew, he agreed to a double-or-nothing scheme, in which the crew would receive double pay if the film succeeded and nothing if it bombed. Wadleigh strove to make the film as much about the hippies as the music, listening to their feelings about compelling events contemporaneous with the festival (such as
7906-430: The gravesite of blues legend Robert Johnson . According to him, while there, he had the realization that Robert Johnson was the true spiritual owner of his own songs, no matter what businessman owned the rights to them, thus Fogerty decided to start making a new album and to perform his old CCR material regularly in concert. At this time, visiting the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church cemetery, Fogerty met Skip Henderson,
8024-482: The group. In 1964, the band signed with Fantasy Records , which, without the band's knowledge or approval, changed the band's name from the Blue Velvets to The Golliwogs . This group recorded seven singles that were not commercially successful. Fogerty received his draft notice for military service during the Vietnam War in 1966. The same day he received the notice, he went to a local United States Army Reserve recruiter, who signed him up immediately for training as
8142-424: The half-finished stage. For the rest of the weekend, concert-goers simply walked on to the site with or without tickets. The festival left Roberts and Rosenman close to financial ruin, but their ownership of the film and recording rights turned their finances around when the Academy Award-winning documentary film Woodstock was released in March 1970. The influx of people to the rural concert site in Bethel created
8260-517: The hills and had 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on 70-foot [21 m] towers. We set it up for 150,000 to 200,000 people. Of course, 500,000 showed up." ALTEC designed marine plywood cabinets that weighed half a ton apiece and stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, almost 4 feet (1.2 m) deep, and 3 feet (0.91 m) wide. Each of these enclosures carried four 15-inch (380 mm) JBL D140 loudspeakers. The tweeters consisted of 4×2-Cell & 2×10-Cell Altec Horns. Behind
8378-436: The instrumental "Ricochet". His first official solo album, John Fogerty , was released in 1975. Sales were slim and legal problems delayed a follow-up, though it yielded " Rockin' All Over the World ", a No. 27 hit for Fogerty in the United States. In 1977, the British rock band Status Quo recorded their version of "Rockin' All Over the World", which became a huge hit and made the song world-famous. Status Quo played it at
8496-1039: The label, Revival debuted at No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with sales about 65,000 copies in its first week. Revival was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album of 2008, but lost to the Foo Fighters . On February 10, 2008, Fogerty appeared with Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard on the Grammy Awards show. Along with these rock icons and his regular touring band, he played his 1973 single "Comin' Down The Road", leading into Lewis and Richard's performances of "Great Balls of Fire" and "Good Golly Miss Molly", respectively. On March 16, 2008, Fogerty kicked off an Australian tour. On March 22 in Point Nepean , Australia, surprise guest Keith Urban joined Fogerty on stage, performing two songs: "Broken Down Cowboy", off Fogerty's newest album Revival , and "Cotton Fields", from CCR's album Willy &
8614-404: The master tapes for Hoodoo sometime in the 1980s. After a hiatus of several years from the music industry, Fogerty's solo career re-emerged with 1985's Centerfield , his first album for Warner Bros. Records , which had taken co-ownership of Asylum's contract with Fogerty. Centerfield went to the top of the charts and included a top-10 hit in " The Old Man Down the Road ". The title track
8732-466: The national anthem, which became "part of the sixties Zeitgeist " after it was captured in the Woodstock film. We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn ... there were a half million people asleep. These people were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live: A quarter mile away in
8850-494: The office. From the start there were differences in approach among the four. Roberts was disciplined and knew what was needed for the venture to succeed, while the laid-back Lang saw Woodstock as a new, "relaxed" way of bringing entrepreneurs together. When Lang was unable to find a site for the concert, Roberts and Rosenman, growing increasingly concerned, took to the road and found a venue. Similar differences about financial discipline made Roberts and Rosenman wonder whether to pull
8968-531: The opening credits of the new Fox TV series The Finder . Fogerty wrote the song for the show and guest-starred in its debut episode. On November 12, 2012, Fogerty announced that he was writing his memoirs, and that the book was expected to be released in 2015. During the 2014 Veterans Days celebration, "Salute to the Troops" at the White House, Fogerty performed for many veterans. On February 21, 2015, he
9086-498: The opening of the 1985 Live Aid concert. In 1976, Fogerty finished an album called Hoodoo . A single, "You Got the Magic" backed with "Evil Thing", preceded the album's release, but it performed poorly. The album, for which covers had already been printed, was rejected by Asylum Records a few weeks before its scheduled release, and Fogerty agreed that it was not up to his usual high standards. Fogerty told Asylum Records to destroy
9204-509: The original version of the film. In 2009, the expanded 40th Anniversary Edition was released on DVD. This release marked the film's first availability on Blu-ray . Woodstock Diaries was produced by D. A. Pennebaker in 1994 as a three-part TV documentary miniseries. It was intended to commemorate Woodstock's 25th anniversary and included rare performances and interviews with many of the concert's producers, including Joel Rosenman, John Roberts and Michael Lang. Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
9322-502: The other big acts came on." Given their 12:30 am start time and omission from the Woodstock film (at Creedence frontman John Fogerty 's insistence), Creedence members have expressed bitterness over their experiences regarding the festival. Woodstock was conceived as a profit-making venture. It became a "free concert" when circumstances prevented the organizers from installing fences and ticket booths before opening day. Tickets for
9440-401: The paper's executive editor, James Reston , agreed to let him write the article as he saw fit. The eventual article dealt with issues of traffic jams and minor lawbreaking, but went on to emphasize cooperation, generosity, and the good nature of the festival goers. When the festival was over, Collier wrote another article about the exodus of fans from the festival site and the lack of violence at
9558-571: The performers. Often music festivals host other attractions such as food and merchandise vending, dance, crafts, performance art , and social or cultural activities. Many festivals are annual, or repeat at some other interval, while some are held only once. Some festivals are organized as for-profit concerts and others are benefits for a specific charitable cause . At music festivals associated with charitable causes, there may be information about social or political issues . The Pythian Games at Delphi included musical performances, and may be one of
9676-435: The plug or to continue pumping money into the project. In April 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival became the first act to sign a contract for the event, agreeing to play for $ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 83,000 in 2023). The promoters had experienced difficulty in landing big-name groups until Creedence committed to play. Creedence drummer Doug Clifford later commented: "Once Creedence signed, everyone else jumped in line and all
9794-470: The problems and difficulty in dealing with the large crowds, recent rain had created muddy roads and fields. The facilities were not adequate to provide sanitation or first aid for the number of people attending, and hundreds of thousands found themselves in a struggle against bad weather, food shortages and poor sanitation. On the morning of Sunday, August 17, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller called festival organizer John P. Roberts and told him that he
9912-481: The process of building Mediasound , a recording studio complex in Manhattan. Lang and Kornfeld's lawyer, Miles Lourie, who had done legal work on the Mediasound project, suggested that they contact Roberts and Rosenman about financing a similar but much smaller studio, Kornfeld, that Lang hoped to build in Woodstock , New York . Unpersuaded by this Studio-in-the-Woods proposal, Roberts and Rosenman counter-proposed
10030-536: The project. In early July, the Town Board passed a law requiring a permit for any gathering of over 5,000 people. The conditions upon which a permit would be issued made it impossible for the promoters to continue construction at the Wallkill site. Reports of the ban, however, turned out to be a publicity bonanza for the festival. In his 2007 book Taking Woodstock , Elliot Tiber relates that he offered to host
10148-473: The rain. By that point the audience numbers had fallen to about 30,000 from an estimated peak of 450,000. Many left during Hendrix's performance, having waited to catch a glimpse of him. Hendrix and his new band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows were introduced as the Experience , but he corrected this and added: "You could call us a Band of Gypsies". They performed a two-hour set, including his psychedelic rendition of
10266-423: The release of the box set was delayed, causing a backlash and dissatisfaction toward Rhino and Warner Music. More condensed versions — a ten disc deluxe set and a three disc or five LP sampler set — were also released. The full version was limited to a run of only 1,969 copies. Also released in 2019 was Live at Woodstock , an official album of all 11 songs played by Creedence Clearwater Revival, from " Born on
10384-486: The residents and signs proclaiming, "Buy No Milk. Stop Max's Hippy Music Festival", Bethel Town Attorney Frederick W. V. Schadt, building inspector Donald Clark and Town Supervisor Daniel Amatucci approved the festival permits, although the Bethel Town Board refused to issue the permits formally. Clark was ordered to post stop-work orders. Rosenman recalls meeting Don Clark and discussing with him how unethical it
10502-557: The search for a venue, and discovered the 300- acre (120 ha ; 0.47 sq mi ; 1.2 km ) Mills Industrial Park ( 41°28′42″N 74°21′51″W / 41.47823341524296°N 74.3641474°W / 41.47823341524296; -74.3641474 ) in the town of Wallkill, New York, which Woodstock Ventures leased for US$ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 83,000 today) in the Spring of 1969. Town officials were assured that no more than 50,000 would attend. Town residents immediately opposed
10620-408: The shorter time available was not able to support the lighting that had been rented, which wound up sitting unused underneath the stage. The only light on the stage was from spotlights. Monck used twelve 1300 Watt Super Trouper follow spots rigged on four towers around the stage. The follow spots weighed 600 pounds (270 kg) each and were operated by spotlight operators who had to climb up on
10738-415: The site in 1989 during an impromptu 20th anniversary celebration. In 1997 a community group put up a welcoming sign for visitors. Unlike Bethel, the town of Woodstock made several efforts to capitalize on its connection. Bethel's stance eventually changed and the town began to embrace the festival. Efforts were undertaken to forge a link between Bethel and Woodstock. Music festival A music festival
10856-418: The site, spoke of how nearly half a million people had spent the three days with music and peace on their minds. He stated, "If we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future". Sound for the concert was engineered by sound engineer Bill Hanley . "It worked very well", he said of the event. "I built special speaker columns on
10974-546: The songs for the band as well as lead singer and lead guitarist, felt that his musical opinions should count for more than those of the others, leading to resentments within the band. These internal rifts, and Tom's feeling that he was being taken for granted, caused Tom to leave the group in January 1971. The two other group members, bassist Cook and drummer Clifford, wanted a greater role in the band's future. Fogerty, in an attempt to keep things together, insisted Cook and Clifford share equal songwriting and vocal time on what became
11092-614: The stage were three transformers providing 2,000 amperes of current to power the amplification setup. For many years this system was collectively referred to as the Woodstock Bins . The live performances were captured on two 8-track Scully recorders in a tractor trailer backstage by Edwin Kramer and Lee Osbourne on 1-inch Scotch recording tape at 15 ips, then mixed at the Record Plant studio in New York. Lighting for
11210-587: The three-day event cost US$ 18 in advance and $ 24 at the gate (equivalent to about $ 150 and $ 200 today). Ticket sales were limited to record stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post Office located in Midtown Manhattan . Around 186,000 advance tickets were sold. The organizers had anticipated that approximately 50,000 festival-goers would turn up. The original plan
11328-402: The top of the 60-foot-high (18 m) lighting towers. Monck also was drafted just before the concert started as the master of ceremonies when Michael Lang noticed he had forgotten to hire one. He can be heard and seen in recordings of Woodstock making the stage announcements, including requests to "stay off the towers" and the warning about the " brown acid ". Thirty-two acts performed over
11446-426: The two bandmates, Fogerty gave them an ultimatum: either they would do it or Fogerty would quit immediately. They accepted Fogerty's ultimatum. The album received poor reviews, but was a commercial success, peaking at number 12 and achieving gold-record status, though it generated weaker sales than previous albums. The group disbanded shortly after the album was released. The only reunion of all four original members
11564-541: Was Eye of the Zombie in 1986, but it was significantly less successful than its predecessor. Fogerty toured behind the album, but he refused to play any CCR material. Eye of the Zombie took on a darker mood, talking about a troubled society, terrorism, and pop stars selling out. For over 20 years after the Eye of the Zombie tour ended in late 1986, Fogerty refused to play material from the album in concert. However, "Change in
11682-815: Was a featured artist for the National Hockey League stadium series game between the Los Angeles Kings and the San Jose Sharks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California . In October 2015, Fogerty published his autobiography, Fortunate Son (Little, Brown & Co.). In September 2017, Fogerty signed a new recording contract with BMG Rights Management , which will cover an upcoming album and his solo catalogue. In November 2019, Fogerty appeared on Public Broadcasting Station pledge week with "John Fogerty: My 50 Year Trip",
11800-594: Was a guitarist and bandmate in the group that eventually became CCR. Fogerty spent summer vacations at Putah Creek , near Winters, California , which became the subject of the CCR song " Green River ". While in junior high school in 1959, Fogerty formed a cover band with bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford called the Blue Velvets. The band was inspired by rock and roll pioneers, especially Little Richard and Bo Diddley . Later, Fogerty's brother Tom joined
11918-453: Was absorbed by Geffen Records , which dropped Fogerty, but continued to distribute his earlier solo albums. The first album released under the new Fantasy contract was The Long Road Home (November 2005), a compilation CD combining his CCR hits with solo material. A live CD and concert DVD were released the following year. Fogerty's touring schedule increased in the period after Deja Vu All Over Again . In October 2004, Fogerty appeared on
12036-472: Was also released in August 1994, featuring only selected recordings of Jimi Hendrix at the festival. In July 1999, MCA Records released Live at Woodstock , an expanded, double disc set featuring nearly every song of Hendrix's performance, omitting just two pieces that were sung by his rhythm guitarist Larry Lee . In June 2009, complete performances from Woodstock by Santana , Janis Joplin , Sly &
12154-457: Was at Tom Fogerty's wedding in 1980. Fogerty, Clifford, and Cook played a 45-minute set at their 20th El Cerrito high school class reunion in 1983, and Fogerty and Clifford were reunited again for a brief set at their 25th class reunion. Even early in his career, “Fogerty's attitude toward music [was] serious, practiced, even perfectionistic. He drilled his bandmates in rehearsal after rehearsal, insisting that his songs be performed his way. ...[He]
12272-491: Was for him to withhold permits which had already been authorized, and which he had in his pocket. At the end of the meeting, Inspector Clark gave him the permits. The Stop Work Order was lifted, allowing the festival to proceed pending backing by the Department of Health and Agriculture, and removal of all structures by September 1, 1969. The late change in venue did not give the festival organizers enough time to prepare. At
12390-552: Was for the festival to take place in the town of Woodstock on a site owned by Alexander Tapooz. After local residents rejected that idea, Lang and Kornfeld thought they had found another possible location at the Winston Farm in Saugerties, New York . But they were mistaken, as the landowner's attorney made clear in a brief meeting with Roberts and Rosenman. Growing alarmed at the lack of progress, Roberts and Rosenman took over
12508-483: Was forced to sit in his wet clothing. After one year, Fogerty enrolled in nearby Harding Grammar School. In his book, he stated that his parents were alcoholics and that they divorced when he was in the third or fourth grade. He later attended St. Mary's High School , then transferred to El Cerrito High School , where he met the other future members of CCR and took guitar lessons from Berkeley Folk Festival creator/producer Barry Olivier . Fogerty's older brother Tom
12626-546: Was honored as a Broadcast Music Incorporated Icon at the 58th annual BMI Pop Awards on May 18, 2010. BMI Icons are selected because of their "unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers." Fogerty began recording Wrote a Song for Everyone in 2011, which was released on Vanguard Records on May 28, 2013, his 68th birthday. The album is a collection of classics and tracks from his canon of hits performed with other artists. The album includes two new Fogerty-penned songs. On November 17, 2011, Fogerty performed on
12744-546: Was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang , Artie Kornfeld , Joel Rosenman , and John P. Roberts . Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event. Early in 1969, Roberts and Rosenman were New York City entrepreneurs who were in
12862-401: Was known for not indulging in drugs, and although John struggled with alcohol later in life he had only contempt for musicians whose habits interfered with their performances.” “Not in my band,” he writes in his memoir, Fortunate Son . “You dare not be stoned playing music around me.... When you're working, you're supposed to be working.” As CCR was coming to an end, Fogerty began working on
12980-416: Was misleading. The New York Times covered the prelude to the festival and the move from Wallkill to Bethel. Barnard Collier, who reported from the event for The New York Times , asserted that he was pressured by on-duty editors at the paper to write a misleadingly negative article about the event. According to Collier, this led to acrimonious discussions and his threat to refuse to write the article until
13098-534: Was not plagiarizing. Fogerty then countersued for attorney fees ( Fogerty v. Fantasy ). After losing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Fogerty won his case in the U.S. Supreme Court , which ruled that a trial court has discretion in awarding fees to defendants or plaintiffs. On May 31, 1985, Fogerty filmed a one-hour music and interview special for Showtime called John Fogerty's All-Stars . The setlist consisted of rhythm and blues tunes from
13216-433: Was one of the largest music festivals in history and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s . The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as a defining event for the silent and baby boomer generations. The event's significance was reinforced by a 1970 documentary film , an accompanying soundtrack album , and a song written by Joni Mitchell that became
13334-408: Was produced in 2005 as two-disc set that included all available footage of Hendrix's Woodstock performance in two different edits. The release also included a mini-documentary with members of Hendrix's band, and footage of a September 1969 news conference where he discussed his Woodstock set. Taking Woodstock was produced in 2009 by Taiwanese American filmmaker Ang Lee . Lee practically rented out
13452-418: Was released, containing music not included on the earlier two albums. Tracks from all three albums, as well as numerous additional, previously unreleased performances from the festival (but not the stage announcements and crowd noises) were reissued by Atlantic, also in August 1994, as a four compact disc box set titled Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music . An album titled Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock
13570-493: Was the first time Fogerty had performed any Creedence Clearwater Revival songs for a large audience since 1972. On May 27, 1989, he played a set of CCR material at Oakland Coliseum for the Concert Against AIDS. His backing band that night consisted of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir on guitars, Randy Jackson on bass, and Steve Jordan on drums. In 1990, his brother Tom Fogerty died of complications from AIDS at
13688-587: Was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter. CCR had nine top-10 singles and eight gold albums between 1968 and 1972, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Since CCR parted ways in 1972, Fogerty has had a successful solo career, which continues. He was listed on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Songwriters (at No. 40) and the list of 100 Greatest Singers (at No. 72). His songs include " Proud Mary ", " Bad Moon Rising ", " Fortunate Son ", " Green River ", " Down on
13806-420: Was thinking of ordering 10,000 National Guard troops to the festival site, but Roberts persuaded him not to. Sullivan County declared a state of emergency. During the festival, personnel from nearby Stewart Air Force Base helped to ensure order and air-lifted performers in and out of the site. Jimi Hendrix was the last to perform at the festival, taking the stage at 8:30 Monday morning after delays caused by
13924-530: Was used in the 2002 film The Rookie . On October 1, 1998, Fogerty was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. In 2004, Fogerty released Deja Vu All Over Again through DreamWorks Records , which had taken over distribution of Fogerty's Warner catalog. Rolling Stone wrote: "The title track is Fogerty's indictment of the Iraq War as another Vietnam ,
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