Summary
As the 40th anniversary of Woodstock arrives in mid-August, everyone who was there -- or thinks he was -- will tell of dropping acid for a ride with the Jefferson Airplane, skinny-dipping in communal baths with 400,000 nubile neighbors and waking up to Jimi Hendrix strangling "The Star Spangled Banner" out of his electric guitar for the finale of the three-day festival of music, mud and bad brown acid.
New Yorker Michael Lang, who in the '60s owned a head shop in Coconut Grove, Fla., and who created the Woodstock warmup Miami Pop Festival in May 1968, helped shape the Woodstock Music and Art Fair through persistence, charisma and Herculean organizational savvy. He proves to be a brilliant, amusing raconteur in "The Road to Woodstock," in which he recounts how the festival came together.See the full content of this document
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Books Take Readers Back with Memories of Woodstock
The book's detail-laden flashbacks from organizers and performers such as hippie goddess Melanie, a newcomer who had no idea what she was getting into;...
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