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Transcripts For CSPAN3 History Bookshelf Michael Lang The Road To Woodstock 20240714

Going to talke amongst ourselves for you guys to listen and think of questions, because we will have time for questions at the end. Im going to go through a little back story with michael, because like many people who were not at the festival, my impressions of woodstock were based on the film that came out in march of 1970. I come to find out when we started working together on the real story there was a whole lot more to it than what we got to see in that wonderful film. So we are going to talk about that. [indiscernible] [laughter] some people dont realize, but woodstock was not michaels first festival. He was living in brooklyn in new york city and ended spending time in the west village and getting involved in the music scene, then found his way to coconut grove, florida in 1966. Q tell us about what the scene was like there, and what took you there. Growing up, i never had a clear understanding of where i wanted to go with my life. That is probably still true. I was at nyu and i ....

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