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...secret of our success was time," says Finkel. "We began planning six months ahead and devoted our full time to it for two months, trying to cover all the bases." In contrast to the 1969 Woodstock festival, Summer Jam had a whopping stage (100 ft. by 60 ft. by 12 ft.) completed three weeks before the show. The electrical wires were all put underground, the 1,000 portable toilets were in place a week early, and the 100,000 gal. of bottled water arrived days in advance of the crowds. Koplik and Finkel also laid on five helicopters for constant...
...rock's erratic past. Most of the kids just wanted to lie back in the grass, smoke dope, drink wine and be free of worry about being busted-or about being harassed by any adult authority. Then, too, many of them were younger brothers and sisters of the Woodstock generation, eager to live up to the stories they have heard for years about that great communal event...
...provided the background music for the cinematic murder at Altamont, the song that Jagger described: "Something strange always seems to happen every time we play that song." They played this song, to a crowd that had been pushed, shoved, and compressed into a solid mass of seething tensions. Remember Woodstock? Remember Altamont. And get out of there...
...when he says we face the worst time of our history. Perhaps there will be nothing about this age to be nostalgic about, so the spirit of an age that has characterized past decades will have to be created artificially. Watkins Glen was a programmed attempt to recreate a Woodstock, but the atmosphere of Woodstock, the greatness of that celebration, was complete spontaneity. No one knew what to expect, and it is impossible to package and sell the unpredictable. Watkins Glen went like clockwork. It even rained on time. Because of the precision, there could be no spirit of Watkins...
Remember the Maine, remember Woodstock, "re-mem-mem, re-mem-a-member...