Black Hero, Bethel, NY (2026)

08/18/2019

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WHEN THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND: JIMI HENDRIX..
Jimi Hendrix was Woodstock's highest-paid performer, earning $18,000 (roughly $125,000 in 2019 dollars, accounting for inflation). Creedence Clearwater Revival, the first act booked, received $10,000. The Who received $6250 (although another report has them receiving $11,200) and Joe Cocker made a relatively paltry $1375. Sha Na Na got $750, while Quill was the most economic booking at $375. . .
On Aug. 18, 1969, legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the stage at the Woodstock, N.Y., Music Festival and embarked upon an uninterrupted set lasting nearly two hours, one of the longest performances of his career. It concluded with a long medley that included the solo performance of the Star Spangled Banner that would become emblematic not only of Woodstock, but of the 1960s themselves.
All pictures by Allan Koss.

08/17/2019

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ABOUT THE MESCALINE TRIP OF CARLOS SANTANA ON STAGE..
Many artists claim that the drinks backstage at Woodstock were spiked with L*D. But Carlos Santana was one of the many performers who wanted to be stoned at the show, and he made sure to arrive with some mescaline on hand. "When we first got there, around eleven in the morning, they told us we weren't going on until eight," he told Rolling Stone in 1989. "So I said, 'Hey, I think I'll take some psychedelics, and by the time I'm coming down, it'll be time to go onstage and I'll feel fine.'..
Because of the traffic situation, some of the bands scheduled to play were missing. In response, the organizers of the concert had to frantically figure out how to rearrange the schedule, they needed a band to fill the next slot, and that band was Santana. Carlos and the rest of the band were approached by the organizers, and they were told that if they didn’t get onstage immediately to play that they would lose their spot in the festival. Carlos Santana was only beginning his mescaline trip, literally praying that the Lord would keep him in tune as he began to hallucinate. He watched as his Red Gibson SG morphed into a slithering snake in his hands, yet his hands magically kept performing, as if through divine intervention or pure hypnotism. And the crowd was eating it up...
The band played for 45 minutes at Woodstock that day. And when it was all over, the crowd was ecstatic. As the band began to inch towards the exit, Bill Graham rushed over and stopped them. He motioned for them to look out into the crowd. “Savor this moment” he softly uttered to the band.The members of Santana took in the view, utterly astonished at what was happening...
This was the last time that Santana was ever going to be anonymous. This same band would go on to sell over 90 million albums. They would win 8 Grammy awards. And they’d be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
All photographs by Baron Wolman.

08/16/2019

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ABOUT WOODSTOCK ATTENDANTS..
Woodstock Festival was conceived as a celebration of music, peace, and love. Following this spirit, virtually no reports of violence ever came out of the festival. When those in attendance used telephones to place long-distance calls back to home, local switchboard operators were amazed that all of them said "thank you." Lou Yank, the chief of police in nearby Monticello, declared them "the most courteous, considerate, and well-behaved group of kids I have ever been in contact with in my 24 years of police work." The only real impropriety came as a result of concession food shortages, driving some attendees to loot nearby farmland for corn and produce. . .
In an era without personal cellular, it was almost impossible to communicate with another of the 400.000 souls attending the festival. To try and facilitate important messages, a member of the Woodstock production staff named Edward "Chip" Monck took to the microphone to deliver announcements between performances, alerting the crowd to unattended children or to notify people where to find help like: "Kenny Irwin, please go to the information booth for your insulin," or "Paul Andrews, Mike needs his pills and will meet you where he did yesterday." . .
On the other hand, Woodstock has a well-earned reputation for being a trip in more ways than one. Drug use was pervasive and seemingly inescapable. In 2009, the Who's John Entwistle told Billboard that he decided to drink a bourbon and Coke and realized that someone had spiked the ice with acid. The use of psychedelic drugs was estimated to have resulted in 25 "freak-outs" every hour the first night of the festival; emergency medical staff and members of a commune known as the Hog Farm sat with attendees until the drugs wore off.
All pictures by Jim Marshall.

08/15/2019

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ABOUT THOSE WHO COULD HAVE PLAYED AT WOODSTOCK... BUT DIDN ́T..
Many artists and bands were contacted to play at Woodstock, but only some of them finally completed the line-up of thirty-two acts performed over the course of the four days, participating in what quickly became a defining moment in the counter-cultural movement of the era. Nearly three dozen acts performed over the course of four days, ranging from the Grateful Dead to the Who to Jimi Hendrix, who closed out the show. . .
Between those who declined the invitation, or somehow missed to confirm their performance, are included: Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, The Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, The Byrds, Chicago, Frank Zappa, The Doors, Free, Joni Mitchell, Lighthouse, Jethro Tull, The Rolling Stones, and even The Beatles!..
All photographs by Henry Diltz
@ Bethel, New York

08/14/2019

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ABOUT THE OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL..
Richie Havens opened the Woodstock Festival, even though he wasn’t scheduled to go on until later in the evening. Havens stepped in and played at 5:15pm on the first day of Woodstock, after it was discovered that most of the artists slated to perform were still stuck in the record setting traffic jam trying to get into the festival. . .
The traffic leading into the event was so awful that Sweetwater, which was due to open the festival, didn't make their scheduled start, so Richie Havens went on instead. The band was airlifted to the grounds by helicopter so they could go on second. A number of other performers also traveled by air to circumvent the traffic issues. . .
Right after Haven ́s performance, the guru Swami Satchidananda sat on stage on a white bedspread surrounded by microphones. ''The whole world is watching you,'' he said to the crowd. ''The entire world is going to know what the American youth can do for humanity. America is helping everybody in the material field, but the time has come for America to help the whole world spiritually also.''..
Did you know that Richie Havens’ ashes were spread over the Woodstock site following his death in 2013?
All pictures by John Dominis

08/13/2019

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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL..
Curiously, here was no official Woodstock merchandise at the woodstock festival, even a single t-shirt. The only memorabilia to mark the day were the official Woodstock festival programs...and most of those were thrown away, still in the boxes they came in. . .
Woodstock became a free event on the very first day although it was not intended to ben an altruistic venture given production costs of the festival. One day's admission was $7; attending all three (which stretched into early Monday morning due to rain and technical delays) was $18. Days before the scheduled start, people began to show up to Bethel although the infrastructure was still incomplete: fences still needed to be erected and ticket booths set up. With no practical way of turning away crowds, the partners decided to make it a free event for people who had not purchased one of the 100,000 tickets that had been pre-sold. . .
So of the 400,000 who ultimately attended the festival, 300,000 were never charged an admission fee. The festival was so underprepared that the United States Army had to airlift in food, water, medicine, doctors – even bands for the weekend!
All photographs by Ken Regan.
@ Bethel, New York

08/12/2019

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1. ABOUT THE VENUE
Woodstock festival didn’t actually take place in Woodstock. The festival was conceived in early 1969 by Artie Kornfeld, Michael Lang, Joel Rosenman, and John Roberts. In January of that year, the four men formed the company Woodstock Ventures, named for the New York town that Kornfeld and Lang were scouting to build a recording studio in. Woodstock had long been known as an artists' retreat about two hours north of New York City, and even has its own "Artists Cemetery" for a variety of creative types. .
The original site of the festival was intended to be at Howard Mills Industrial Park in Wallkill, near Middletown, New York, but Wallkill residents shot the idea down, fearing that an influx of visitors—possibly under the influence of alcohol or drugs—would be potentially problematic. Wallkill banned Woodstock from taking place there just a month before its scheduled August 15 start date. Instead, they found Sullivan County dairy farmer Max Yasgur, who agreed to allow them to have their festival on his property in the Town of Bethel, New York. .
Yasgur's farm was a functioning site of business, which meant that the incoming crowds were going to be displacing the cattle usually present on site. His workers tried to corral them into a fenced area, but so many people ran over the barrier and set up campgrounds that they decided to just let the cows wander and mingle with attendees. One of Yasgur's employees, George Peavey, told United Press International that the cows and music fans "seem to be getting along together fine."
All photo credits: Elliot Landy

06/22/2019

‘When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.’ ~

06/21/2019

, photoshoot in New York, 1977.
Photo credits: Lynn Goldsmith.

06/20/2019

selfie at Taj Majal, India, 1966.

06/19/2019

‘In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.’ ~
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06/18/2019

‘People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bu****it. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.’ ~

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