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How it came together, and the contracts signed for the music festival, and how it was arranged. This is about an hour. I always wanted to be baseball player, but i always loved music. My mother always had on Benny Goodman or the lombardos, and not guy lombardo, but the two brothers, and they both had bands, and who were the two guys with the big bands . Anyway. She listened to the big band music and my uncle always listened to jazz, and this is my influences. Was your mother a pianist . No, my m...

You could see it in the oscar winning documentary, by the time jimi hendrix ended woodstock, it was monday morning, and only a few thousand dazed and dirty souls remained on what looked like a civil war battlefield. But it was just the opposite. This was a peace field, and 50 years later, it is hippy hallowed ground. Because right here in the middle of a cold civil war, nearly half a Million People came together for three days, peace, love and music, sex, drugs, and rock n roll. Hold on to your ...

Farm we are on, mr. max yazger. >> he gets as much love as janis joplin. >> half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music and i god bless you for it. but having a little over a month preparing for 200,000 turned out to be a blessing in disguise. >> 35 days there were people working around the clock. if you are looking at the movies and the photographs and lots of the images captured from the time, there were people working ar...

Back ♪ >> and this man said no way hippies will camp out in my hay, and so i bought a storybook that i found in a shop window in woodstock, and the unwashed dirty girls and boys. one farmer did not think the same. max yazger was his name. titled "max said yes." because in hindsight, the patron saint of this whole deal might be the open-minded farmer with the last-minute land. you see, they were selling tickets and booking bands, the group of hippies could not find a home. >> they said there mi...

♪ >> the first farmer said theres no way ill let hippies hang out in my hay so i brought a storybook. the dirt, the noise, unwashed dirty girls and boys. one farmer did not think the same. and max yazger was his name. titled "max said yes." because in hindsight, the patron saint of this whole deal might be the open minded farmer with the last minute land. see, they were selling tickets and booking bands, michael lang and his band of hippies couldnt find a home. >> we had sacks, you know, we mi...

People were scared, and thats why we got kicked out of walk hill. they were going to be invaded by hoards of hippies who were going to rape our cows and horde our chickens. god knows what. >> the field of dreams, max said yes, thanks to a backfiring nudge from maxs neighbors. >> he got up one morning and someone had erected a sign on the highway right outside their farm that says dont by yazgers milk, he loves the hippies and mary and his wife looked at her husband and said were going to have a ...