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** Around 2 and a half hours in, [[Music/TheLovinSpoonful John Sebastian]] sings a song about children (fittingly titled "Younger Generation") set to B-roll of [[ChildrenAreInnocent kids being kids around the festival]] - and [[TearJerker it sounds like he breaks down partway through]] - he asks for some AudienceParticipation or at least some moral support to see him through.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Music/TheWho's "See Me, Feel Me" ''[[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Music/TheWho's "See "[[Music/{{Tommy}} See Me, Feel Me" Me]]" ''[[CueTheSun scoring the sunrise!]]''
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** The officially sanctioned Woodstock '94 had great sets from such acts as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career-making performance by Music/NineInchNails, but it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

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** The officially sanctioned Woodstock '94 had great sets from such acts as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career-making performance by Music/NineInchNails, but it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, '99, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]]] (and that's not counting Woodstock 50 not even happening!)
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Lighting and stage designer Edward "Chip" Monck was asked to be TheHost of the '69 festival after the show started, when the organizers realized they needed someone to be an MC. Monck's calm, authoritative, almost Mid-Atlantic accented voice (he was from Massachusetts, and his father was English), plus his mustache, made him a memorable presence in the audio and film material, giving announcements about food and medical supplies, paging people, warning festivalgoers to stop climbing the lighting towers, and giving advisories about hazardous strains of LSD circulating among the crowd. Production manager John Morris ("It's a free concert from now on") and Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney ("What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000") of the Hog Farm Commune also helped with announcements and had some quotable moments as well.

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Lighting and stage designer Edward "Chip" Monck was asked to be TheHost of the '69 festival after the show started, when the organizers realized they needed someone to be an MC.serve as emcee. Monck's calm, authoritative, almost Mid-Atlantic accented voice (he was from Massachusetts, and his father was English), plus his mustache, made him a memorable presence in the audio and film material, giving announcements about food and medical supplies, paging people, warning festivalgoers to stop climbing the lighting towers, and giving advisories about hazardous strains of LSD circulating among the crowd. Production manager John Morris ("It's a free concert from now on") and Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney ("What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000") of the Hog Farm Commune also helped with announcements and had some quotable moments as well.
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** The officially sanctioned Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, but it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

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** The officially sanctioned Woodstock '94 had great sets from such acts as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making career-making performance by Music/NineInchNails, but it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]
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** Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. And they were the second-to-last act on Monday morning, wedged between the electric {{Blues}} of Paul Butterfield and a searing Music/JimiHendrix finale.[[note]]They were supposed to play Saturday, but the rain forced some reorganizing of the schedule[[/note]] Even crazier: it was Hendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!

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** Music/ShaNaNa. Music/ShaNaNa's appearance. Not just because only were they were an obscure obscure, campy doo-wop cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. And What's more, they were the second-to-last act on Monday morning, wedged between the electric {{Blues}} of Paul Butterfield and a searing Music/JimiHendrix finale.[[note]]They were supposed to play Saturday, but the rain forced some reorganizing of the schedule[[/note]] Even crazier: crazier still: it was Hendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. And they were the second-to-last act on Monday morning, wedged between the electric {{Blues}} of Paul Butterfield and a searing Music/JimiHendrix finale.[[note]]They were supposed to play Saturday, but the rain forced some reorganizing of the schedule[[/note]] Even crazier: it was Hendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!

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Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. And they were the second-to-last act on Monday morning, wedged between the electric {{Blues}} of Paul Butterfield and a searing Music/JimiHendrix finale.[[note]]They were supposed to play Saturday, but the rain forced some reorganizing of the schedule[[/note]] Even crazier: it was Hendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!
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** In a cross-festival example, the conventional wisdom that Woodstock represented the zenith of the dream of The '60s, while [[Film/GimmeShelter the Altamont concert four months later]] represented the collapse of that dream, ignores that many of the problems in Altamont were also on Woodstock - a larger-than-expected crowd that became a logistical nightmare, a major traffic jam, people suffering bad LSD trips and even deaths. The question is, Woodstock's organizers did well in key areas like medical facilities that prevented a big disaster, while Altamont lacked on support facilities and the cost-cutting corner of hiring Hell's Angels as security [[note]]The San Francisco chapter had a history of doing that well... only the Oakland chapter was hired, who were known to be more violent and not as in to the music being performed[[/note]] wound up leading to disgruntled and angry bikers becoming aggressive towards both the audience and the performers, culminating in a man being stabbed to death right in front of the stage.

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** In a cross-festival example, the conventional wisdom that Woodstock represented the zenith of the dream of The '60s, while [[Film/GimmeShelter [[Film/GimmeShelter1970 the Altamont concert four months later]] represented the collapse of that dream, ignores that many of the problems in Altamont were also on Woodstock - a larger-than-expected crowd that became a logistical nightmare, a major traffic jam, people suffering bad LSD trips and even deaths. The question is, Woodstock's organizers did well in key areas like medical facilities that prevented a big disaster, while Altamont lacked on support facilities and the cost-cutting corner of hiring Hell's Angels as security [[note]]The San Francisco chapter had a history of doing that well... only the Oakland chapter was hired, who were known to be more violent and not as in to the music being performed[[/note]] wound up leading to disgruntled and angry bikers becoming aggressive towards both the audience and the performers, culminating in a man being stabbed to death right in front of the stage.
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Lighting and stage designer Edward "Chip" Monck was asked to be TheHost of the '69 festival after the show started, when the organizers realized they needed someone to be an MC. Monck's calm, authoritative, almost Mid-Atlantic accented voice (he was from Massachusetts, and his father was English), plus his BadassMustache, made him a memorable presence in the audio and film material, giving announcements about food and medical supplies, paging people, warning festivalgoers to stop climbing the lighting towers, and giving advisories about hazardous strains of LSD circulating among the crowd. Production manager John Morris ("It's a free concert from now on") and Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney ("What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000") of the Hog Farm Commune also helped with announcements and had some quotable moments as well.

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Lighting and stage designer Edward "Chip" Monck was asked to be TheHost of the '69 festival after the show started, when the organizers realized they needed someone to be an MC. Monck's calm, authoritative, almost Mid-Atlantic accented voice (he was from Massachusetts, and his father was English), plus his BadassMustache, mustache, made him a memorable presence in the audio and film material, giving announcements about food and medical supplies, paging people, warning festivalgoers to stop climbing the lighting towers, and giving advisories about hazardous strains of LSD circulating among the crowd. Production manager John Morris ("It's a free concert from now on") and Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney ("What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000") of the Hog Farm Commune also helped with announcements and had some quotable moments as well.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: Woodstock '99 was widely criticized for [[MoneyDearBoy excessive commercialization]]. The original was also driven by pure capitalism, as the organizers were seeking to raise money to open a recording studio. It was just forced into being a free concert after so many more people than usual showed up and tore down the fences to get in (potentially starting a riot if faced with a paywall), while 30 years later exorbitant prices up-front made the commercialist nature obvious (which ''did'' start a riot, as people not willing to be price-gouged for food and drinks became a PowderKegCrowd).
** In a cross-festival example, the conventional wisdom that Woodstock represented the zenith of the dream of The '60s, while [[Film/GimmeShelter the Altamont concert four months later]] represented the collapse of that dream, ignores that many of the problems in Altamont were also on Woodstock - a larger-than-expected crowd that became a logistical nightmare, a major traffic jam, people suffering bad LSD trips and even deaths. The question is, Woodstock's organizers did well in key areas like medical facilities that prevented a big disaster, while Altamont lacked on support facilities and the cost-cutting corner of hiring Hell's Angels as security [[note]]The San Francisco chapter had a history of doing that well... only the Oakland chapter was hired, who were known to be more violent and not as in to the music being performed[[/note]] wound up leading to disgruntled and angry bikers becoming aggressive towards both the audience and the performers, culminating in a man being stabbed to death right in front of the stage.
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** Also, the nun flashing the peace sign in the documentary. Barely one second of a freeze frame, and yet the most remembered moment of the film.
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** The officially sanctioned Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

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** The officially sanctioned Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, but it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]
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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As of 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the festival, *still* Happily Married.]]

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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As as of 2019 2019]] on the 50th anniversary of the festival, *still* festival they are ''still'' Happily Married.]]
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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As of 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the festival, ''still'' Happily Married.]]

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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As of 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the festival, ''still'' *still* Happily Married.]]
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* SignatureScene: Music/JimiHendrix playing "The Star-Spangled Banner", not just for the festival or the movie, but, in some people's eyes, the entire decade of TheSixties.
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: Lighting and stage designer Edward "Chip" Monck was asked to be TheHost of the '69 festival after the show started, when the organizers realized they needed someone to be an MC. Monck's calm, authoritative, almost Mid-Atlantic accented voice (he was from Massachusetts, and his father was English), plus his BadassMustache, made him a memorable presence in the audio and film material, giving announcements about food and medical supplies, paging people, warning festivalgoers to stop climbing the lighting towers, and giving advisories about hazardous strains of LSD circulating among the crowd. Production manager John Morris ("It's a free concert from now on") and Hugh "Wavy Gravy" Romney ("What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000") of the Hog Farm Commune also helped with announcements and had some quotable moments as well.

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* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

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** Two very loosely-organized 10th anniversary shows in New York in 1979 (one at Madison Square Garden, the other at an equestrian track on Long Island) reunited a handful of the original participants (some played both shows) but got a very lukewarm reception.
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Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. Even crazier: it was Music/JimiHendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. And they were the second-to-last act on Monday morning, wedged between the electric {{Blues}} of Paul Butterfield and a searing Music/JimiHendrix finale.[[note]]They were supposed to play Saturday, but the rain forced some reorganizing of the schedule[[/note]] Even crazier: it was Music/JimiHendrix Hendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Music/ShaNaNa. Not just because they were an obscure campy cover band amid all the rock heavyweights, but they didn't even have a recording contract at the time. Even crazier: it was Music/JimiHendrix who recommended them to the festival organizers!
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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As of 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the festival, ''still'' HappilyMarried.]]

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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As of 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the festival, ''still'' HappilyMarried.Happily Married.]]
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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried.

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** The couple hugging each other wrapped in a blanket on the official album cover of the 1969 festival? Bartender/student Nick Ercoline and his fiancee, bank teller Bobbi Kelly, and [[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/couple-on-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-still-rocking-decades-later-its-us-thats-who-we-are-still as of 2016]] they are ''still'' HappilyMarried. [[https://time.com/5644827/woodstock-photo-couple/ As of 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the festival, ''still'' HappilyMarried.]]
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* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]

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* FirstInstallmentWins: While Woodstock '94 had great sets such as Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/BobDylan (a huge get for the festival, since he had famously shunned the original), Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Primus}}, and a career making performance by Music/NineInchNails, it's usually considered to be far inferior to the original, and as for Woodstock '99, '99 and 50, [[FranchiseKiller well...]]
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** The ''New York Times'' initially planned to publish an article called "[[http://woodstockpreservation.org/Gallery/NYT-PDF/17_NightmareInTheCatskills.pdf Nightmare in the Catskills]]," calling the festival a filthy, mud-soaked "social catastrophe in the making," and the participants having "little more sanity than lemmings", featuring injuries, illnesses, drug overdoses, blah blah. The on-the-scene ''Times'' reporters had sent in much more positive, even glowing reports. When they realized that their paper was going to go all gloomy and cynical on them, they marched into the office of managing editor Arthur Sulzberger and announced, "We quit!" When they explained, another article was written with a more upbeat tone. It is called "[[http://woodstockpreservation.org/Gallery/NYT-PDF/19_MorningAfterAtBethel.pdf Morning After at Bethel]]".

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** The ''New York Times'' initially planned to publish ran an article called "[[http://woodstockpreservation.org/Gallery/NYT-PDF/17_NightmareInTheCatskills.pdf Nightmare in the Catskills]]," calling the festival a filthy, mud-soaked "social catastrophe in the making," and the participants having "little more sanity than lemmings", featuring injuries, illnesses, drug overdoses, blah blah. The on-the-scene ''Times'' reporters had sent in much more positive, even glowing reports. When they realized that their paper was going to go all gloomy ignore their story and cynical on them, they marched into the office of managing that editor Arthur Sulzberger had ''ordered'' all articles about Woodstock to focus on "civilization is doomed," they marched into his office and announced, "We quit!" When they explained, another article was written with a more upbeat tone.tone cancelling out the previous one. It is called "[[http://woodstockpreservation.org/Gallery/NYT-PDF/19_MorningAfterAtBethel.pdf Morning After at Bethel]]".

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