Woodstock
50 Years of Peace and Music

By: Daniel Bukszpan

“…I think you have proven something to the world, that a half a million kids can get together for three days of fun and music and nothing but fun and music, and I bless you for it.”
-Max Yasgur, owner of Yasgur’s Farm

August 2019 marks fifty years since thousands of young people spent a weekend in the rain and mud with hardly any food and no toilets and loved every minute of it. Travel back to a time and place of peace, love, and understanding with performers who rocked the crowd at the iconic concert that changed music history.

Vibrant and colorful chapters include interviews with attendees, performers, and people behind the scenes whose stories have never been told. This nostalgic, highly giftable release features beautiful, never-before-seen full-color photographs that bring the event back to life, sharing insights about how the festival is still making an impact today.

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Author & Illustrator

Daniel Bukszpan, author

Daniel Bukszpan is a freelance writer and the author of The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal and The Encyclopedia of New Wave. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Awards & Honors

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Editorial Reviews

LA Weekly

For the many of us who weren’t fortunate enough to have been there (because we weren’t born), and even for those that were, the original Woodstock Festival has become one of the most storied events in rock and popular music history. Thanks to the movie and countless campfire legends, there’s so much that we know about the festival, so many nuggets that have become rock & roll folklore.

The free love at the the free festival in the free-flowing mud. The brown acid. Hendrix’s dramatic closing set. Janis, The Who, The Dead, Joe Cocker and more, all putting in career-defining performances. There are legitimate reasons we still talk about Woodstock.

All of those things are covered in Daniel Bukszpan’s new book and, incidentally, the mere fact that books are still being written about Woodstock speaks volumes. But the real fun lies not in the frequently retold legends, but rather the nuggets that are less frequently discussed. The bands that played sets not considered legendary.

That means the people who played early on day one, such as Richie Havens, Indian yogi Swami Satchidananda, Sweetwater, Bert Sommer and Jim Hardin. We read about the nightmare that was the bathroom situation (barefoot and carefree sounds great until you have to wallow through two feet of piss-mud), and the logistical issues of getting everyone fed. We can ponder the simple fact that the Paul Butterfield Blues Band had to follow Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. And we can laugh at the fact that organizer John Morris sent a coded Fuck you message to Iron Butterfly when they demanded a helicopter from LaGuardia.

We knew so much about Woodstock but, after reading Bukszpan’s book, we know so much more.

The Washington Post

Read about the magic of Woodstock on our collective psyche

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Details

Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-531-4

Page count: 192
8 x 10

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