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"The shelf of books about Woodstock is groaning, but Lang's is the best fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a backstage pass to an iconic event."--New York Post
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"The shelf of books about Woodstock is groaning, but Lang's is the best fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a backstage pass to an iconic event."--New York Post
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Woodstock has always fascinated me. I was just coming up to my 17th birthday when it took place and so should have been aware of it- but wasn't.
It was only retrospectively through articles, photographs and books such as this that I became aware of the Woodstock legacy and got into the music.
This is a fascinating insight into just how the festival was achieved. The most fascinating thing about it is the organisational skills that had to go into it and how everything seemed to hang in the balance until the very last minute. Ironically the organisers, who boasted being part of an American counter-culture had to almost become part of the establishment to make the thing happen at all.
Certainly today something as higgledy-piggledy as the Woodstock festival wouldn't be allowed to take place thanks to the glorious introduction of health and safety which makes going out of your own front door fraught with dangers.
Woodstock was from a different age - an age when youth on both sides of the Atlantic were flexing their muscles and seeing just how far they could push the establishment. This is a fascinating book that gives an insight into the politics of the times. It also shows an immense will by so many people to make Woodstock happen against all the odds. The financial side of things was frightening and the scale of what was achieved is almost mind boggling. Using his own experiences alongside flashback interviews with many artists and festival organisers, Michael Lang has created what must be the ultimate history of the great festival.
When you realise just what it took to put the event on and the conditions it was held in it is easy to see why some of the music wasn't exactly spot on. The fact that so many young people overcame so many obstacles and problems gives a whole new view on Woodstock and shows us that it didn't just happen because a group of hippies took residence in a field and decided to enjoy "a happening."
It is also a wonderful expose of greed and squabbling being ultimately overcome by togetherness. Three cheers for the vision of Michael Lang and the support of middle class, middle aged Max Yasgur on whose farm the event took place.
It was only retrospectively through articles, photographs and books such as this that I became aware of the Woodstock legacy and got into the music.
This is a fascinating insight into just how the festival was achieved. The most fascinating thing about it is the organisational skills that had to go into it and how everything seemed to hang in the balance until the very last minute. Ironically the organisers, who boasted being part of an American counter-culture had to almost become part of the establishment to make the thing happen at all.
Certainly today something as higgledy-piggledy as the Woodstock festival wouldn't be allowed to take place thanks to the glorious introduction of health and safety which makes going out of your own front door fraught with dangers.
Woodstock was from a different age - an age when youth on both sides of the Atlantic were flexing their muscles and seeing just how far they could push the establishment. This is a fascinating book that gives an insight into the politics of the times. It also shows an immense will by so many people to make Woodstock happen against all the odds. The financial side of things was frightening and the scale of what was achieved is almost mind boggling. Using his own experiences alongside flashback interviews with many artists and festival organisers, Michael Lang has created what must be the ultimate history of the great festival.
When you realise just what it took to put the event on and the conditions it was held in it is easy to see why some of the music wasn't exactly spot on. The fact that so many young people overcame so many obstacles and problems gives a whole new view on Woodstock and shows us that it didn't just happen because a group of hippies took residence in a field and decided to enjoy "a happening."
It is also a wonderful expose of greed and squabbling being ultimately overcome by togetherness. Three cheers for the vision of Michael Lang and the support of middle class, middle aged Max Yasgur on whose farm the event took place.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Loved this book. Well written, factual, a pleasant trip back to an era of hope and joy...and creativity - before we were utterly consumed by materialism.
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