How much did woodstock cost

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Ad Choices. Skip to Main Content. Woodstock: How much were original artists paid in ? Updated: Sep. Published: Mar. By Geoff Herbert gherbert syracuse. Santana on stage at the Woodstock festival in The first thing the Woodstock organisers needed to do was to sign a big enough name to attract interest. In April , the first booking came: Creedence Clearwater Revival. Many festivalgoers abandoned their vehicles miles from the festival because the traffic jams were so bad, and trudged on foot to the site.

Traffic jams on the road to the Woodstock festival. A crowd of , people required gargantuan amounts of food. And what if we didn't draw the crowds we projected? Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now. An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. Please try again later. Check here if you would like to receive subscription offers and other promotions via email from TIME group companies.

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At the time of Woodstock, he was the biggest milk producer in Sullivan County. Though the famous Woodstock logo — designed by artist Arnold Skolnick — featured a dove perched on the neck of a blue and green cartoon guitar, it was originally a catbird sitting atop a flute.

Skolnick was a major jazz head. Boston rockers Quill, who also played the real festival, opened the show.

The Woodstock sound system was engineered by Bill Hanley, a sonic innovator and proud recipient of a prestigious Parnelli Award. Hanley built special speaker columns on the hills and set up 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on 70ft towers. Top equipment manufacturers Altec designed up to 15 marine ply cabinets, weighing in at around half a ton each, at 6ft tall, 4ft deep and a yard wide. The tweeters were made up of four 2-Cell and two Cell Altec Horns.

There was an average wait of two hours to make a phone call. On the first day alone, over half a million long-distance calls were made. The traffic jam on the main road leading into the site was 17 miles long. Initial attendance figures were estimated at 60,, but more than , people actually attended the festival, while a further , never made it to the site.

Given the volume of traffic, it took an insane eight hours for commuters to drive the 98 miles from New York City to Bethel.