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Originally tickets were sold by mail and through magazine ads, with plans to sell more at the door. Over 100,000 tickets were sold, but people started arriving several days early, before the fence and ticket gates were completed; faced with the choice between completing the stage and completing the fence, the promoters decided to get the stage in order and call it a free concert. With such an open invitation in place, over 500,000 people are believed to have shown up. Then [[It Got Worse]]. Woodstock was a giant catastrophe: The bands couldn't get to the concert and had to be flown in. Food and other facilities were ostensibly planned for 50,000 (even though the aforementioned 100,000 tickets had been sold), but city councilmen and others noted that the provisions weren't even sufficient for that number, leading to the National Guard airlifting in food and water by helicopter. There was lots of rain and a giant storm struck, shutting it down for hours and two people accidentally died<ref> plus one from a burst appendix, but that probably would have happened anyway</ref>.
But at the same time the festival was noted for its sense of peace. Not a single fight broke out during the three days. People were getting along and showing love to each other. Not only that, but the roster of bands were great. These included [[
The festival was filmed and turned into a documentary. It is regarded as one of the best documentaries and concert films ever. Not only because of the performances, but also as the main focus was the festival itself. It really portrays the atmosphere and the feelings there. It was also one of [[Martin Scorsese]]'s first works (he was an editor for it).
Woodstock was the swan song for [[The Sixties]]. It showed the dream of peace and understanding as working, combined with great music. But not long after, an attempt at a West Coast equivalent, a free concert at the Altamont Speedway headed up by [[
In media depictions of Woodstock, fictional or otherwise, the [[Nostalgia Filter]] will be operating at full power. Characters flashing back to Woodstock will have all been Bohemian hippies, despite a large number of ordinary joes and returning [[The Vietnam War|Vietnam]] vets. Traffic jams and overpriced concessions (while they lasted) will be replaced by camping out in vans and everybody sharing out of a sense of peace and love. The filthy conditions will be either ignored or romanticized as free-spirited youth playing in the mud. The music will be [[Nothing but Hits]], despite the lineup consisting of five or six headliners and dozens of forgettable and not-yet-famous bands.
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