WOODSTOCK 1969 Original 3 DAY TICKET STUB Hendrix, TheWho, Joplin, The Dead,CSNY

Description: Here's an original WOODSTOCK 3 DAY ticket for August 15th-17th, 1969. This ticket is in awesome condition. It will not be the one in the photos but it will look identical except for the #. It was perfectly stored and remains unfaded and basically free of any flaws. It's possible it may show just a little aging of the card stock but almost none and has very sharp corners, edges with no creases, pin holes or anything. The authentic GLOBE COMPANY card stock has their famous watermark manufactured right into the card stock. That alone authenticates the ticket (and made them largely impossible to reproduce). Especially now, as the machines that were around back then to produce the card stock are long gone. This ticket was part of a large lot found in storage in the late 90's. Most of the thousands of tickets were never used since the gates were torn down and the show effectively became free right from the 1st day! They weren't thrown away but left in storage and over the last 40+ years, many of the tickets have been found and here is one of them. All original Woodstock tickets were printed by the GLOBE TICKET COMPANY on special presses once located in Woburn, Massachusetts, which are now long gone as they were dismantled in the mid 70's. You will notice the genuine card stock which has their famous watermark which authenticates the ticket and makes them basically impossible to reproduce (if for no other reason, the cost would be prohibitive). This ticket was meant to have been sold on-site on Saturday, but very few were ever sold as the gates were torn down on Friday and the show effectively became free right from the 1st day! Over the last 30+ years, many of the tickets have been haphazardly found and given to relatives and friends of those close to the promoters or vault company where they were originally kept after the festival. Eventually they have made their way to market and here is one of them. Here is an excerpt from a prominent Beatles website (rarebeatles.com) that touches on the ticket printing process: "Tickets, unlike massed produced commercial products, were only available regionally and in most cases are somewhat difficult to find. The printing of the tickets themselves was a fairly complex process that sometimes required many passes through various printing presses. Ticket manufacturers like Globe used to require at least 2 weeks to complete a print job. Tickets were usually printed in sheets of twelve, with the perforations already in place for each ticket. Usually the text information on the ticket would be printed first (i.e. performer name, venue, price, etc.) If the text contained more than one color, the tickets would be run through a separate time for each color. Often, the tickets would again be run separately through a "Hiedelburg"-type press for the seat numbers, row numbers and section numbers to be printed. These types of tickets can be noted for the imprint that the seat numbers leave in the ticket. If the promoter were presenting more than one show, another batch of tickets would be printed in the same way but with a different date and/or time, and some form of distinct marking to assist in recognizing it as a ticket for the other performance." TICKET IS GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC. Purchase with confidence, I deal only in vintage original items, guaranteed to be genuine. FOR GREAT SLIDE SHOWS FROM THE FESTIVAL, cut and paste the following links into your browser: https://allthatsinteresting.com/woodstock-photos#1 and: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/g14487500/woodstock-1969-crowd-photos/?slide=1ASSOCIATED PRESS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ARTICLE showing site as it is today: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/waterfall-love-woodstock-memories-50-052055569.htmlFOR A GREAT VIDEO: Go to YouTube and paste in: WOODSTOCK '69 FRIDAY Part 1Here's a great film from Jimi in Maui shortly before his death on July 30th 1970. It has minor brief missing video footage but the sound is excellent. It's one of the best concert footage of Jimi out there. Paste this into YouTube:Jimi Hendrix Experience | Live in Maui | Full Concert 1970 Here's a detailed synopsis about the festival: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a rock festival held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in Bethel, New York from August 15-18, 1969. It is arguably but very widely viewed as the most famous rock festival ever held. For many, it exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era". Many of the best-known musicians of the times appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock. Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which memorialized the event, became a major hit. The festival bears the name "Woodstock," because it was originally scheduled to take place in the town of Woodstock, in Ulster County, yet the town lacked an appropriate venue for such a large event. A site was found in the town of Wallkill. When local opposition arose, the event was almost cancelled, but Sam Yasgur persuaded his father Max to allow the concert to be held on the family's alfalfa field, located in Sullivan County, about 40 miles southwest of Woodstock. Although the show had been planned for a maximum of 200,000 attendees, over 500,000 eventually attended, most of whom did not pay admission. The highways leading to the concert were jammed with traffic. People abandoned their cars and walked for miles to the concert area. The weekend was rainy, facilities were overcrowded, and attendees shared food, alcoholic beverages, and drugs. Local residents of this modest tourist-oriented area gave blankets and food to some concertgoers. Overall, attendees were remarkably well-behaved. The festival did not initially make money for the promoters, although, thanks to record sales and proceeds from the highly regarded film of the event, it did eventually become profitable. Two people died at Woodstock: one from a heroin overdose and one from being run over by a tractor while sleeping in a nearby hayfield. Two unconfirmed births reportedly occurred at Woodstock. Among the stars of Woodstock were The Who and Jimi Hendrix. Due to arguments with the promoters about their pay, The Who didn't take stage until about 4:00 in the morning. One highlight of The Who's performance was "See Me, Feel Me", when the sun rose just as lead singer Roger Daltrey began to sing the chorus. At one point during The Who's set, political activist Abbie Hoffman interrupted the show and attempted to rally the crowd with yippie slogans, but was knocked off the stage by the swinging guitar of the band's leader, Pete Townshend, to the delight of the audience. At the conclusion of The Who's set, Townshend smashed his guitar and threw it into the crowd. This moment helped establish The Who as superstars and boosted their album Tommy to sell multi-platinum. Jimi Hendrix had a big impact with his performance, including a distorted version of "The Star Spangled Banner". The song was somewhat controversial, as the Vietnam War was underway and the sound effects that Hendrix generated with his guitar paralleled the sounds of the violence of the conflict. These two performances are held by fans as some of the greatest in rock history, though both The Who and Hendrix regarded their performances as sub-par. Woodstock's promoters were Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman. Roberts was the financer, backed by a trust fund bankroll; his friend Rosenman, a graduate of Yale Law, was an amateur guitarist. Their associates were Kornfeld, a vice-president at Capitol Records, and Michael Lang. An unlikely businessman, Lang was a light-hearted hippie who had owned a head shop and hoped to build a recording studio in the Woodstock area to serve artists such as Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, who had homes nearby. When Lang and Kornfeld presented the idea to Rosenman and Roberts, Rosenman hatched the idea of a rock concert with the same performing artists. After toying with an Age of Aquarius theme, they settled on the slogan "Three Days of Peace and Music", partly as a way to placate suspicious local officials and partly to appeal to anti-war sentiment. They hired commercial artist Arnold Skolnick to design the artwork, which incorporated a catbird design. Lang would go on to produce successor concerts in 1994 and 1999, but he did not participate in the Woodstock-named concerts of 1979 and 1989. In 1997, the site of the concert and 1,400 surrounding acres were purchased by Alan Gerry for future development as Performing Arts Center under the Gerry Foundation. In 2000, the Gerry Foundation announced that the original 38 acres of the Woodstock site were to be preserved. In 2006, a permanent commemorative museum and concert amphitheater was built. Now, a $70 million Bethel Woods Center for the Arts sits on the same famed soil. 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