Well, howdy there internet people, Let's Bow again. So tonight we're going to talk about the

60s and music. And Woodstock, mainly Woodstock, what it was, what it was meant to be, what it became,

why it's viewed as an icon and this cultural moment.

You know, we see it looking back because of the way it gets portrayed in movies and how it all gets

blended together as everything by decades.

We see it as the summer of love and and that's what it was, right?

No. Summer of Love was two years before on the other side of the country.

That was San Francisco, Hayden Ashbury.

1969, Hayden Ashbury. 1969 was when some enterprising individuals attempted to package that movement,

package the flower children,

turn them into a product, capitalize on it.

Woodstock was set out to be a money-making venture.

That's what it was. It was a concert.

It wasn't intended to be a free concert. Tickets were sold.

The ticket price wasn't cheap. In today's money, it'd be about $150 a ticket.

Woodstock wasn't held in Woodstock.

The town of Woodstock was one of the initial locations that they were considering it fell through, but they kept that name because that name was

associated with Bob Dylan, who lived in Woodstock.

The concert was 70 miles away. They kept that name to keep that association even though Bob Dylan was never actually going to play there.

The concert itself was just an unmitigated disaster.

It really was.

They had planned for roughly 50,000 people.

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