After receiving several requests for sources for info on Woodstock, I have decided to put the resources that I know of in this here page for my brothers and sisters. (: Peace :)
Festival! - The Book of American Music Celebrations; Jerry Hopkins (pictures by Jim Marshall and Baron Wolman, Collier/Macmillan Books, 1970 191pp. Woodstock - Songs and Photos; Warner Brothers Music, 1970 96pp. Catalog number 2071 Woodstock Two; Warner Brothers Music, 1970(? - no date printed) 64pp. Woodstock 69 - Summer Pop Festivals (A Photo Review); Joseph J. Sia, Scholastic Book Services 1970 128pp., Cat No.1618 The Age of Rock 2 ; Eisen, Jonathan, Random House NY 1970 The Sixties; Lynda Rosen Obst and Robert Kingsbury, Random House/Rolling Stone 1977 317pp. ISBN: 0-394-40687-1 ISBN: 0-394-73239-1(pbk.) Woodstock Festival Remembered; Jean Young and Michael Lang, Ballentine Books 1979 178pp. ISBN: 0-345-28003-2 Aquarius Uprising; Robert Santelli, Delta Publishing 1980 ISBN: 0-0440-50956-4 20 Years of Rolling Stone - What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been; Edited by Jann S. Wenner, Straight Arrow/Friendly Press 1987 464pp. ISBN: 0-914919-10-5 Barefoot in Babylon; John Spitz, WW Norton & Co. 1989, 515 pp. ISBN: 0-393-30644-5 (pbk) Woodstock: The Summer of Our Lives; Joel Curry 1989 Woodstock: The Oral History (book and aud cassettes); Joel Makower Dolphin/Double Day 1989 ISBN: 0-385-24716-8 --- ISBN: 0-385-24717-6(pbk) Young Men With Unlimited Capital; Joel Rosenman 1989 The 60s; Blake Bailey 1992 The Story of Rock: Smash Hits and Superstars; Alan Dister, Discoveries Harry N. Abrams,Inc., Publishers 1992, ISBN 0-8109-2831-0 (pbk) Woodstock 1969 - The First Festival; Elliot Landy, Square Books, 1994 144pp. ISBN: 0-916290-74-3 Woodstock Vision - The Spirit of a Generation; Elliot Landy, LandyVision, 1994 128pp. ISBN: 0-9625073-4-2 (pbk.) Knock On Woodstock; Elliot Tiber, Festival Books, 1994 267pp. ISBN: 0-9641806-1-8 I Want To Take You Higher - The Psychadelic Era 1965 1969 (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum), Edited by James Henke and Parke Puterbaugh, Essays by Charles Perry and Barry Miles, Chronicle Books ISBN: 0-8118-1700-8 (pbk) ISBN:0-8118-1725-3 (hc) Woodstock; Dale Bell, Michael Wiese Productions, 1999 ISBN: 0-94-118871-X (pbk) Remembering Woodstock; Edited by Andy Bennett, Ashgate Publishing, 2004 ISBN: 0 7546 0713 5 (hbk) ISBN: 0 7546 0714 3 (pbk) Woodstock - An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair; James E. Perone, Greenwood Press, 2005 ISBN: 0-313-33057-3 (hbk)
Young Man With Unlimited Capital; Wall Street Journal - Capital To Invest section of Classifieds Feb 1 - 10, 1967. 346 Policemen Quit Music Festival; New York Times Aug 15 1969 p.22 200,000 Thronging To Rock Festival Jam Roads Upstate; New York Times Aug 16 1969 pp.1 and 31 200,000 Youth Jam Hamlet in Catskills for Rock Festival; The Plain Dealer (Ohio) Aug 16 1969 p.3B 300,000 at Folk-Rock Fair Camp Out in a Sea of Mud; New York Times Aug 17 1969 pp.1 and 80 -- !!!!! Famous Article Mentioned in the Woodstock Soundtrack !!!!! Offstage Shows Are 'Out of Sight' at Music Festival; New York Times Aug 17 1969 p.80 Promoter Baffled That Festival Drew Such a Big Crowd; New York Times Aug 17 1969 p.80 300,000 at Rock Fest Place Town in Crisis; The Plain Dealer (Ohio) Aug 17 1969 pp.1 and 12 Year of the Commune; Newsweek Aug 18 1969 pp.89-90 -- On the Hog Farmers and other Hippie Communities Bethel Pilgrims Smoke 'Grass' And Take Some LSD to 'Groove'; New York Times Aug 18 1969 p.25 Fair's Financers Calls It 'Success'; New York Times Aug 18 1969 p.25 Farmer With Soul: Max Yasgur; New York Times Aug 18 1969 p.25 Generation Gap Bridged as Monticello Residents Aid Courteous Festival Patrons; New York Times Aug 18 1969 p.25 Nightmare in the Catskills; New York Times Aug 18 1969 p.34 Rock Audience Moves to Dusk-to-Dawn Rhythms; New York Times Aug 18 1969 p.25 Tired Rock Fans Begin Exodus From Music Fair; New York Times Aug 18 1969 pp.1 and 25 2 Heights Men Paint Art Fair as 'Groovy' Fete; The Plain Dealer (Ohio) Aug 18 1969 p.??? 19-Hour Concert Ends Bethel Fair; New York Times Aug 19 1969 pp.1 and 34 Morning After Bethel; New York Times Aug 19 1969 p.42 Bethel Farmers Call Fair a Plot 'to Avoid the Law'; New York Times Aug 20 1969 p.37 Rock Fair to Return to Bethel; New York Times Aug 22 1969p.37 Rolling Stone Aug 23,1969 p.?? -- Mentions that the festival is movig from Wallkill to White Lake Age of Aquarius; Newsweek Aug 25, 1969 p.88 -- General overview of the festival (usual stuff about who set it up, problems encounters and the aftermath of it all) Why There Can't Be Another Woodstock, Thomas Berry; Look Aug 25, 1969, pp. 28,30 The Big Woodstock Rock Trip; Time Magazine Aug 29, 1969 pp.14B-22 Time Aug 29, 1969 pp. 32-33 -- General overview Woodstock: Peace Mecca; Billboard Aug 30, 1969 pp.1 and 10 A Whole Minority Group; Newsweek Sept 1 1969 pp.20-22A Rolling Stone Sept 20, 1969 p.1,16-30 -- 2 different articles. -- Nice first-hand accounts on the actual events at Woodstock. -- Strangely enough, is also appears that there were two different pressings of this magazine. Woodstock Music Festival - Special Edition; Life 1969 -- Lots of B/W & Color photos + interviews from one of the doctors & good ol' Max Yasgur. The other articles within are also pretty good. Look Dec 30, 1969 -- Articles on Woodstock and the Hippies I Remember, I Remeber (The Wondrous Woodstock Fair); MAD, Apr 1970 --- Funny poem recalling the festival --- Read the poem HERE Why There Can't Be Another Woodstock; Look August 25, 1970 pp.28-30 Max Yasgur, Woodstock Patron (Death Takes The Father Of Woodstock); Rolling Stone, March 15, 1973 p. 10 The Woodstock Music Festival; Goldmine August 28, 1987 pp.28,78 The Sixites; Newsweek 1987 (special insert) ******************* Rolling Stone Aug 24, 1989 p.62-90 -- THE article to read. Nice info and also has interviews with some of the musicians who played at Woodstock (for example, Santana, Bob Wier (Grateful Dead), Jefferson Airplane, Melanie, John Sebatian, and a few others) ******************* 20th Anniversary Special - Where Are They Now?; Life August 1989 p.20-24,29-32,34-38,40-45 Relix, August 1989 - Woodstock - A 25th Commemorative; Special publication of The Times Herald-Record 1994, 64 pages Woodstock -- Then, Now, When and How; Interview Magazine July 7 1994 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Best Woodstock Sites; Yahoo Internet Life, Aug 1999, p.163 - Mentions this site as one of the top two sites devoted to the original Woodstock !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woodstock Movie Program - this was handed out at the premier of the movie. Contains lots of pictures and poetry (48 pp). Woodstock 25th Aniv. CD-ROM, Time-Warner Interactive, Cat No. MPC 20062 ISBN 1-57251-049-8 Creation of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival - DDE (Digital Disc Entertainment) 1996(?) Cat No. DDE-036. approx 70 minutes (same as video of same title) Elliot Landy's Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation, Panasonic Interactive Media 1997, Cat No. FZ-SP0008 Westwood One '25th Anniversary Woodstock Special', Show #94-33 (3 CD) *great interviews in this set, was hosted by Dennis Hopper (misprint on the CD says Dennis Hooper and was set to air the week of Aug. 8, 1994. All the CDs Videos: Woodstock, Warner Bros Home Video Cat Nos. 1015 and 1016 (some packaged separately and titled 'Woodstock I' and 'Woodstock II' others are packaged in single 2 tape slip cover. Catalog numbers are for the separated videos.) Woodstock - Directors Cut, Warner Bros Home Video - Cat No. 13549 (219 min.) Woodstock - The Lost Performances, Warner Bros Home Video - Cat No. 12202 (69 min!) contains: The Band The Weight, Joe Cocker Let's Go Get Stoned, Canned Heat Going Up The Country, Paul Butterfield Drifting Blues, Arlo Guthrie Walking Down The Line, Blood Sweat & Tears More & More, Country Joe McDonald Rockin' Around The World, John Sebastian Darling Be Home Soon, Sly & The Family Stone Love City, Tim Hardin If I Were A Carpenter, Melanie Birthday of the Sun, Joan Baez We Shall Overcome, Crosby Still & Nash Marrakesh Express, Janis Joplin Work Me Lord, Richie Havens Strawberry Fields Forever Creation of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival - Birth of a Generation, Virtue Films 1994, Westlake Video, 1995 cat no. WS 1969 (60 min.) Jimi Hendrix: The Movie, Warner Bros Home Video (1973) - Cat No. 11267 (102 min.) Janis - The Way She Was A Film, MCA Home Video (1974) - Cat No. 80080 (96 min.) Viva Santana, CMV Enterprises/CBS Music Video Enterprises - Cat No. 19V 49007 (82 min.) Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, BMG Video (Japan - 1992) Cat No. BVVP-1001 (55 min.) contains: Message To Love, Fire, Izabella, Red House, Jam Back At The House, Voodoo Chile, Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, Woodstock Improvisation, Villanova Junction, Hear My Train A'Comin' !!!!INCREDIBLE!!!! This movie is GREAT!!! They did a great job in restoring the colors to the original vivid hues that were being worn at the time. They have addition crowd footage that is also as great. Try to get ahold of your own copy today!!! Check out www.bmgjapan.com for details. I picked mine up at a record show. Make sure you get the VHS format otherwise you will have a very expensive video that you can't watch because it is in the Euro or Japanese format. Woodstock Diaries; Direct Video Distribution Ltd. - Cat No. B000067A82 *** WARNING *** THIS IS IN PAL FORMAT AND IS REGION 2 CODED. THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON MOST DVD PLAYERS SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES *** Wonderful, wonderful addition to any collection. 3 Hours of mostly unreleased footage. At one time, I had a list of all the songs on this DVD, however my region-free DVD player went on the fritz and I haven't watched it in a while. I found this list in a review and believe that it is pretty close to being, if not completely, accurate. Set List: Friday August 15th 1969. Richie Havens, I Can`t Make It Anymore. Country Joe McDonald, Fixin` To Die. John Sebastian, Rainbows All Over Your Blues. Incredible String Band, When You Find Out Who You Are. Bert Sommers, Jennifer. Tim Hardin, If I Were a Carpenter. Ravi Shankar, Evening Raga. Arlo Guthrie, Walkin` Down The Line. Joan Baez, Drug Store Truck Drivin` Man, Sir Galahad. Saturday August 16th 1969. Quill, Waiting For You. Santana, Soul Sacrifice. Canned Heat, Leaving This Town. Mountain, Southbound Train. Sly & The Family Stone, Love City. Janis Joplin, Try (Just A Little Bit Harder), Ball & Chain. The Who, My Generation. Jefferson Airplane, Somebody To Love, White Rabbit. Sunday August 17th 1969. Joe Cocker, Let`s Go Get Stoned. Country Joe & The Fish, (Thing Called) Love. Ten Years After, I`m Going Home. The Band, The Weight. Johnny Winter, Mean Town Blues. Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Black Bird. Paul Butterfield, Everything Gonna Be Alright. Sha Na Na, Duke Of Earl. Jimi Hendrix, Star Spangled Banner, Woodstock Improvisation, Villanova Junction. Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock; Experience Hendrix 2005 - Cat No. B0005283-09 2 DVDs - Great DVD, improving on the already impressive previous release. One nice feature is the 2nd disc titled 'A Second Look' which contains B&W footage of the majority of the concert. It was filmed by a college student, Albert Goodman, who basically borrowed a new fangled open-reel video recorder and set it up on the side of the stage. Makes it feel like you were right there... with a slight case of B&W vision. :)
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