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At 8/14/2009 6:02 PM ,
Mitch said...
This is the original commercial for Woodstock as written by Pete Fornatale...
"The Woodstock Music and Art Fair is a three-day Aquarian exposition at White Lake in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. Friday, August 15, you'll hear and see Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, the Incredible String Band, Ravi Shankar, and Sweetwater.
"Then on Saturday, August 16, it's Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater, the Grateful Dead, Keef Hartley, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Mountain, Santana, and the Who--the hottest group on the scene right now.
"Sunday, August 17, the Band; Jeff Beck; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Iron Butterfly; Joe Cocker; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Jimi Hendrix; the Moody Blues; Johnny Winter; and that's not all. Tickets are available by mail or at your local ticket agency for any one day at $7.00, two days at $14.00, and for all three days, just $18.00. A special two-day ticket is available by mail for only $13.00.
"For tickets and information, you can write the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Box 996, Radio City Station, New York, one-zero-zero-one-nine, or phone Murray Hill 7-0700. M-U-seven-zero-seven-zero-zero. Remember, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is being held at White Lake in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York.
"They've had their hassles, but it looks like everything's gonna be okay."
( some last line...huh ) BUT....
By the time we got to Woodstock … 40 years later....it has become a museum piece
The 450,000 hippies, peaceniks and music lovers who flocked to the Woodstock festival four decades ago envisioned many strange and wonderful things.
They imagined world peace, an end to the Vietnam war, free love and legal drugs. But one thing even the most hardcore stoners probably never thought was that the muddy field they were partying on would one day become a museum devoted to their antics.
The Bethel Woods Centre for the Arts now stands on the beautiful green hillside, surrounded by rolling fields and woods. A gleaming new museum, barely a year old, has been built on the same fields that hosted what became the most famous music concert ever held. Inside the museum artifacts from the festival are preserved. Hippy T-shirts, music posters and even a piece of the original fence that surrounded the concert are displayed.
At 8/17/2009 9:26 PM ,
Rob said...
Where's Sly ? & Country Joe?
I heard that the 'new box set' has many performances that weren't in the original movie or album.
Fornatle was great . The glory days of FM was just another in a long list of 60s wonders. Glad we were part of it..
In the early yrs (if memory serves me)Dave Herman was my morning man followed by Fornatle , then Scot Muni. What says you KUP?
BTW, doesn't FM stand for: 'Forever Music'. LOL
"Originally launched on Oct. 31, 1967, WNEW-FM is considered the first free-form progressive rock station in the nation. It quickly went on to become both an institution and a piece of radio history for which it is remembered today. The station rocked New York City for three decades breaking some of the biggest artists of all time."
To many who grew up in the 60s and 70s, WNEW-FM remains to this day the embodiment of the times, turmoil and tunes of those eras in New York City.
Try this link , for all you hardcore radio buffs
http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/nycfmhistory2.html
At 9/13/2009 12:20 PM ,
Rob said...
See the new movie - Taking Woodstock
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