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People  -  Photo by Jim Marshall

Crowd

Stage

Joe Cocker on stage

  Alvin Lee and his personal manager Dee Anthony

  Ric Lee on the left, talking to Chip Monck

Woodstock 1969: Three hours of steady rain, dropped five inches of water, and during the summer downpour, there were real fears that some of the artists would get electrocuted, if they attempted to perform on stage. Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After was warned of this distinct possibility, as it was still raining when the bands turn to go on came. “Oh come on, if I get electrocuted at Woodstock, we’ll sell lots of records,” Alvin said

       Color Photos of Ten Years After courtesy of Herb Staehr

Photo by George Pericharos

Photographer: Dan Garson

 

Alvin Lee & Ten Years After at Woodstock, August 15, 1969   Photo by Joseph Sia                   "woodstock 69" Summer Pop Festivals - A Photo Review by Joseph Sia - published February 1970   Joseph J. Sia Photographer  Born: December 12, 1945, Bronx, N.Y. Died: Age 57, April 21, 2003  Joe was a resident of Fairfield for 38 years and had been living in Stratford for the last two years. Joe attended Mt. St. Michael’s High School, Bronx, N.Y., and graduated from Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, in 1970.  Joe was a world renowned photographer. His first published photograph was of Joe Cocker on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1969. In the past four decades Joe’s photos have appeared in over 120 magazines and books worldwide including two of his own: "Woodstock ’69" and "Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated History Of Rock & Roll". His photos have been used in every form of printed and electronic media and on many televised documentaries.   - contribution by Christoph Müller -

 

For The Love Of Movies: Mark Rosenthal’s Summer Of Love                        By Raquel B. Pidal As an eighteen year old college student, Mark heard about a weekend long music festival in upstate New York and decided to go. “I’m one of the few people who actually bought tickets to Woodstock,” he laughs. “ I was so thrilled to hear about it that I bought tickets. They were $18.00 for the weekend, which back then was an enormous sum of money. When I got there, I quickly hid them, because I realized that if you were truly into the “Woodstock Spirit” you wouldn’t even have bought tickets. “Not only was I at Woodstock, not only did I buy tickets, but I was actually at the exact spot when they decided it was going to be a free concert,” he adds. He and his two friends arrived a day early, and because they had come unprepared, without tents or sleeping bags, they lived out of the car. On Friday morning, Mark was walking towards the concert field and spotted a group of men, with giant rolls of chain link fence, frantically trying to put up the fence before the crowds grew. ”I had my ticket in my hand, as I stepped up, I saw one guy with a beard, turn to the other and say “Fuck It” it’s a free concert. Don’t put up the fence”. So I quickly took the ticket and hid it in my pocket, because everyone was cheering”. Mark also recalls, there were beautiful full – colour programs printed for “Woodstock” that nobody knew about”. You were suppose to get one as you entered the gates and handed them your ticket. But when they decided not to put up the fences, they left boxes of them lying around. I stuck one in my car. I had about twenty of them. A year later, I cut them up and made a college for my dorm room wall, thinking, “Oh Well”, it’s just Hippie-Stuff”. I think today, if I had my twenty copies”, he pauses; “I always kill myself about it”.   A year later, Mark transferred to St. Andrew’s University in Scotland, his walls covered in cut-up “Woodstock Programs”. The documentary film “Woodstock” had just been released in  theatres, and Mark told his friends, that he had attended the concert, so they went to see the film. “That movie made me realize that I have an amazing Woodstock story, says Mark. “On the last night, after the rain storm, it was freezing. You would huddle around people who had made fires, and since they’d burn trash, there was a horrible stench over the whole place. We were standing with these guys from New Jersey, and one of them had a watermelon. Food was so scarce, so we urged  him to cut it up. This one kid was passing around a hash pipe and said, No – I’m going to give this watermelon to Alvin Lee”. Alvin Lee was the lead singer of this British Blues Band, called Ten Years After. “What are you talking about? Are you crazy? The stage is a million miles away! He hoisted the watermelon onto his shoulder and walked off into the night”. Mark remembered this story as he watched the “Woodstock Documentary” for when they showed the clip of “Ten Years After” playing, a watermelon rolled across the stage and hit Alvin Lee’s feet. Alvin Lee picked it up, held it up for the crowd to see, and left the stage. I was sitting there in the theatre audience watching this going, “Wait a minute, this is  a dream I had?” That’s what happened to that watermelon !!!

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