America would never be the same. You can see it in the oscarwinning documentary about the time that jimi hendrix ended woodstock it was only monday morning and a thousand dazed individuals were on what looked like a battlefield, but this is the opposite. It was a peacefield and 50 years later, it is hippie hallowed ground, because right here in the middle of the 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 the neighbor, man. It should have been a humanitarian disaster, but that weekend held enough Human Connection to shape generations. What do we want . When do we want it . And 50 years later, still so much hung rer for harmony, but festivals are an industry now, and with so many messages on so many stages, could a woodstock ever happen again . Are you in charge of the whole thing . And what are the odds of pulling this off . Well, you know, we dont give up easily. Well, this, this is a quest to find out. It is a journey across america and music and generations to ask those who were there what really happened. What was your state of mind walking on the stage . We were stoned out of our gourds. To ask how much of our values changed at 69. Well, you wanted to pi is, s your parents off and go naked in the mud. Do you think that this crowd with change the world . Im bill weir, and this is woodstock at 50. Well i came upon a child of god he was walking along the road i asked him where are you going and this he told me there were around half a million stories at woodstock. I will tell you my woodstock story. Lets start with three. Pretty girls, long leg, short dress and tan and blond and nice girl. First up, david crosby. He is in the rock and roll hall of fame twice. Going to get back to the land and set my soul free walking in the mud barefoot, and she cuts her foot, badly. A piece of glass in the mud. She is standing there on one leg like a Stork Holding her other foot and bleeding quite a bit. And people around her are going, oh, my god, what do we do . And okay, over here is the new york state trooper, and he is looking like a photograph out of a book. He had just came on duty, and his pants have a sharp crease in them, and his shoes are mirror clean, shiny. You have to remember the backdrop here. After the horrors of 1968, vietnam is roiling and tensions are boiling and hippies and cops are on opposite sides, but for some reason not here. He immediately walks into the mud, picks the girl up, and gets the blood and the mud all over him, ander ka him, and carries the girl gently to his car with her bleeding all over him and lays her in the back seat of the car gently, and then 14 hippies pushed that Police Cruiser out of the mud. And you know, that worked for me. Half a million kids, right, and not one umbrella. Nobody brought food. This is john fogerty. This is credence. My wife named this beautiful dog. I see a bad moon arising in 1969, his band credence clearwater revival had three hits on the charts and promised a prime spot, but like Everything Else at woodstock, the schedule went off of the rails. By the time we hit the stage it was 2 30 in the morning. Born on the bayou and people were asleep. I went up to the mic and i actually said something like, well, we are playing our hearts out for you up here, and we sure hope that you are enjoying this. I put a spell on you and actually a fellow out of the darkness and his lighter comes on, and i see this lighter going like that, and i hear him say, dont worry about it, john, we are with ya well, he was anyway. So i played the whole rest of the woodstock concert for that guy guy. My woodstock experience is what was going on all around us. And this is bobby. Damp, moist, body odor, camping, cooking, pa chchoili o and after she embraces in a pink bedspread found in the mud, they unwittingly end up on the cover of the triple album. Years later the bedspread fell apart, but the boyfriend . It turned out to be a keeper, nick and bobbie married 48 years. I like to think that our longevity, our love for each other is symbolic of what went on at the woodstock concert amidst all of that chaos. There was an underlying feeling of love and peace and goodwill. Yes. I think it is a nice thing to be remembered for. It is very peaceful. See. Just three out of half a million stories that show why out of countless concerts woodstock gets a golden anniversary. There was a cooperative spirit. There was a generosity to each other. How do you account for that . Was this just this cosmos fluke . Well, if i knew i would bottle it, and spread it around and rub it in my hair at night. It is going to be a long time gone but if the woodstock document documentary is any indication, the one guy who should know the recipe. Mike, what is the worst part of running one of these things. Mike lang. What is the worst part of running on them . I dont know. Through biblical storms and bad acid trips. The kids are hungry, and you have to feed them. Out of food and angry band managers, he was the young promoter impossibly holding it together. Are you going to do another one . If it works. Folk, all right. Lets get this under way. 50 years later. Hold on, hey, hey, hey, hold on. He is determined to repeat the magic. We are not going to turn this into a free for all. And just like 1969 he has to convince the townsfolk not to fear big crowds or music they dont understand. [upbeat music] no matter how much you clean, does your house still smell stuffy . Thats because your home is filled with soft surfaces that trap odors and release them back into the room. 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So get them out of town quick. The people in the town were scared, and that is how we got kicked out. So they felt that they were going to be invaded by this horde of hippies and rape our cows and god knows what. He looked everywhere and found his field of dream, and max said yes, thanks to a backfiring nudge from maxs neighbors. They got up one morning and someone had erected a sign right outside of the farm said dont by yazmers milk, they love hippies. And he looked at his wife and he said, we are going to have a festival, arent we. Max said, we are going to have a festival. If not for that sign there might not have been a farm or wood ostock. When he is introduced into the woodstock film. This gentleman upon whose 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 around the clock night and day to make this thing happen. Losing their original site and finding the farm forced one of historys great lessons in improve. The guy who designed the bridge saying, what kind of load do we need, and he said, well, how much does jimi hendrix weigh . How much does a typical groupie weigh . Years later we cringe, but woodstock would not be woodstock unless the fences come down. And the tickets turned worthless. I was on the stage. I have never seen anything like this, man. When a runner runs up on the stage, and he says, the fences are down. He says look out for the fence, too, and you have to look after the fence. I see michael looking into the middle distance and then say i think that we have a free festival. And i said, this guy is a genius. By saturday, they were the Third Largest city in new york and they were nearly out of food. Enter this guy. I am wavy gravy icon flower geezer of the era. Wavy gravy was part of a commune as part of the hog farm coming in to teach city kids how to camp, but with the locals they were a hippie phenom. Jim mcclean, please go to the hospital as soon as possible. I never announced a band at woodstock, but only life support announcements and like the most famous one. Good morning, what we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000. We are all feeding each other. We must be in heaven, man. While there were plenty of people who saw muddy hippies as threat to Good American society, they were outnumbered by capitalists who saw that new crowd as customers. They said, hey, what if we sold breakfast in bed to 400,000 . 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This is probably not far from where they blocked the traffic and my Three Friends and i had to pull over and we said, well, we will just walk the rest of the way. I believe it is about ten miles. Spring of 69, childhood pal pals heard about a concert and then they saw it at a record star. Some of the bands started to filter into the conversation and it is like, oh, my goodness. Yeah, the who, credence, and jimi hendrix. So you came up just hoping that you could get in . Yeah, i guess. We were stupid teenagers and we went for three days and we didnt have anything at all. We just had the clothes that we were wearing. When we got there friday afternoon, it was still so uncertain about what was happening that we actually hid in the woods to smoke a joint. What the boys didnt know is that Michael Lange built woodstock with a very specific festival with security. People were trying to get in without paying and they had police there to spread tear gas to prevent it, but we felt this is a statement to make as a counter churl and have the world function as we hoped it could or would. They tried to hire a few off duty new York City Police to have the please force. There were tshirts with the please force and peace symbols and they were going to be the security. That attitude combined with the overwhelming crowd forced an experiment. What would happen if the security treated drug use not as a scrooge to be stopped, but inevitable force to be managed. By the second day, my press camp was turned into the second drug freakout ward. Your name is bob. Guess what, bob, you have taken a little acid, a little lsd and it is going to wear off. Thank you. Now, when he was down and comfortable and ready to rock n roll, we said, hold it. You see that sister coming through the door with the toes in nose, well, that was you. So now you are the doctor, so take over. They said it is going to go on and for three hours, and about two hours and 45 minutes we dropped the drugs, and it is time to report. And now they are kicking it. Go back, and go back. Oh, okay. So we are going, and we are starting to playing music and having fun and it happened three times. We were sitting there waiting for the next band to come on in between, and there was chipmunk with the voice dont eat the brown acid. And you may proceed and take it with as many grains of salt as you wish. Chipmunk was hired to build the stage but in a pinch. Call the hotel glory in woodridge. Became the voice of woodstock god. And he is not simply too good. The undercurrent of the fear in that, but it was really taking it. I tried to make it as light as possible. Like a couple of idiots, we had taken something, and feeling a little strange, and then i looked at carl and i said what color is that . And he said brown. And i thought, am going to die, this is the end of the time. And he said, the browns acid was not poisonous, but it was just strange. And so there was only one fatal by a camper who was unwittingly run over by a farmer on a tractor. On this day of bonneroo, a medical condition is blamed, but modern security is a lot different than the please force of 69. You were saying that this year they are crack down more . Yeah, for sure. You have to wear clear backpacks to come in and they are confiscating way more things and giving way more citations. This generation lives in america still trying to figure out the right amount of wrong with opioids and fentanyl and heroin are shattering many communities cannabis is legal in most communities and micro lsd is making a trendy come back. Last night we saw an e m artist who was making a bass drop to target those people on acid, because it helps to target their trip. We were told that these psychedelic drugs would allow us to expand our mind and use more of our brain capacity, and obviously, we were wrong and i stopped all of that nonsense. 44 years now. Just a year over woodstock, jimi hendrix would overdose, and from janis joplin to keith moon, addiction would take over so much of that talent on the stage. There is no telling how much of that fate would manage, but there is no doubt that there was a feeling of better feeling through chemistry. It was camaraderie that came with you when you came off of into that crowd. That camaraderie must be why there was no mass casualty or mass arrests. And one other thing, pot. Whether we like it or not, folks, it is a great it is a crowd controller. And it is a great thing that the same crowd was not drinking beer. So, you have to pick your intoxicants carefully. So coming up, a lesson in how to picking the wrong intoxicant can kill the buzz and sour the harmonies. 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