woodstock

Cost of Living – 1969Average income (1 person) was....... $ 6,500.00

A new house cost approx............... $ 40,000.00

A gallon of gas cost....................................$ .30

A Fillmore concert poster........................ $ 1.25

A new car cost approx...................... $ 2,000.00

A gallon of milk cost................................ $ 1.10

A loaf of bread cost................................... $ .20

A concert ticket to the greatest concert of all time sold for $6.00 per day in advance.

*No money, not much anyway, was received that day "at the door". Two weeks before the festival, after months of work, they were informed by the town fathers they couldn't have the festival at the original site. So they had 2 weeks to do an impossible job, getting another site ready. The fences weren't even up. And the utter chaos was not expected. Three times the amount of people! So early on the first day, they got on the loud speakers and told the kids that were swarming in that it was a FREE concert. It took the promoter 10 years to pay off debts incurred that weekend, but he did it!

In 2009 this would cost $140.00 each day, or $420.00 for the 3 day event

Woodstock was put on by Michael Lang (center)

Joan Baez The Band Blood, Sweat & Tears The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Canned Heat Joe Cocker Country Joe McDonald and The Fish Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills, & Nash The Grateful Dead Arlo Guthrie Tim Hardin The Keef Hartley Band Richie Havens Jimi Hendrix Incredible String Band *Iron Butterfly Jefferson Airplane Janis Joplin

Melanie Mountain Quill Santana John Sebastian Sha-Na-Na Ravi Shankar Sly & The Family Stone Bert Sommer Sweetwater Ten Years After The Who Johnny Winter #Neil Young # Neil Young performed a few songs with Crosby, Stills, & Nash and later joined their group.* Iron Butterfly was scheduled, but didn't perform because they got stuck at the airport and couldn't make it to the site.

Performers at Woodstock in August 1969

SETTING UP THE STAGE

HIWAY 17B

500,000 PEOPLE

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Owner of the

Farm where

Woodstock

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stood on the stage of the original Woodstock concert on the morning of the 2nd day and announced...." What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" He was at Woodstock as a member of an entertainment/ activist commune known as the Hog Farm, who took on the task of feeding the concert attendees.

1969

1999

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JOE COCKERWITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

THE WHOPINBALL WIZARD

JIMI HENDRIX

PURPLE

HAZE

BATH HOUSE

SANTANA

SOULSACRIFICE

COUNTRY JOE McDONALD

FEEL LIKE I’MFIXIN TO DIE RAG

MEMORIAL TO WOODSTOCK – BETHEL, NY