#michaellang

[mysteries-of-history]

RIP to the original #Woodstock 1969 organizer/promoter #MichaelLang who, at the age of 24, and against impossible odds, pulled off the first and most historic outdoor #music #festival ever.

In a sea of 600,000 muddy, hungry, wet young people, somehow no one was seriously injured or died during the three-day festival. That's otherwise unheard of in most cities that size and smaller.

I had just turned 2 years old the week before the festival. Growing up in western Mass. my hometown was only about an hour drive to the location of the festival. Growing up, I heard many stories from the hippies all around me - especially a number of our teachers in grade school. Say what you want about the hippies, they had a huge positive impact on my life.

The 'true hippies' original agenda was the pursuit of a simple, peaceful, compassionate, happy, self-sustaining, healthy and humble lifestyle filled with music, arts, meditation, books, social gatherings, organic farming, and yeah, some pot-smoking and occasional LSD 'sessions.'

For the most part, 'hippies' did not drink alcohol - it was frowned upon in many settings and groups of socially-conscious, educated young people at the time. In fact, abstinence from alcohol was a central value of the hippie lifestyle, and still is today.

One of my teachers, Ms. Myers, was one of the original, true-to-spirit hippie girls - not simply a tag-along who wanted to be popular and party. Ms. Myers was probably no older than 23 or 24 (at the time I'm thinking of - circa 1973-74), very pretty with shoulder-length, straight blond hair that glistened in the sunlight. But most memorable were her big blue eyes and gorgeous white teeth.

She not only left an impression with her attractiveness, but more so with her personality - happy, smiling, loving, calm and collected, and obviously committed to her kids, as if we were her own children.

That generation; basically the baby boomers, who turned on and understood what they wanted from life, people, their country and the world - and who truly wanted to help make the world a better place, left us with so many good things that it would take considerable time and ink to fetter it all out. Just a few are music and arts, organic food, spiritualism, yoga, meditation, activism, civics, inclusion, legalization, and of course - festivals.

Ms. Myers was a shining example of the best of her generation - one that sought out and celebrated the best of and from and for humanity, and thus their own lives and those of all children.

She told us about her Woodstock story. In fact, she had gone with a couple of friends, including one of the janitors at school. I remember she said a long section of the interstate thru-way had been closed by the New York state police because of the amount of traffic trying to get to the Woodstock fest.

I remember her talking in front of the class about all of the people who were parking their cars on the side of the highway and walking once the word got out that the interstate was closed and traffic wasn't going anywhere.

The janitor, I never forgot, gave her a piggy-back the rest of the way when she was unable to continue walking. I was jealous I guess because he got to be her hero that day - at Woodstock. The original Woodstock. The one cultural event almost everyone - despite their age - has heard of.

Despite popular urban tales, however, the festival was held in #Bethel, NY, not Woodstock, NY. Lang had originally booked the festival for the Woodstock location, and promoted it as such, but when the location was changed at the last minute, Lang, and his crew, somehow pulled it off again.

Even though the festival was a financial failure - due to the crashing of the gates from the hundreds of thousands who flocked to the site from all across the northeast - it is still considered the best outdoor festival ever held - in the world. That record seems to still hold today despite the fact that there have been hundreds of outdoor music festivals since the original Woodstock.

If you've never seen the festival movie Woodstock, definitely see it. Look out especially for performances from Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, The Who, Richie Havens, Sly, and Ravi Shankar.

My personal favorite moment of the festival footage is Santana's performance of "Soul Sacrafice" that went on for some eight minutes of blazing, impossibly-fast, brilliant and other-worldly performances by the individual band members, including the 19-year-old drummer Michael Shrieve.

Carlos Santana, who was completely tearing it up, said years later in an interview that he was tripping on mescaline and that's why he is making so many faces because he was trying to hold on to the guitar which he said was (but it wasn't) melting, moving, and falling on his hands. For real?

It's hard to believe watching (or even just listening) to the performance. That captivating, electrically-charged and unified performance made Santana. At the time, Santana was a relatively unknown band from San Francisco. Woodstock minted many historic music acts.

Thank you to the original hippie promoter Michael Lang and may he rest in peace. And may his vision of the perfect music festival be present wherever it seeds and grows. RIP.

[art-now-usa]

'Ontario Evening', Michael Lang

Acrylic Seascape painting

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Ontario-Evening/420242/1911588/view

[indierockcafe]

RIP to the original #Woodstock 1969 organizer/promoter #MichaelLang who, at the age of 24, and against impossible odds, pulled off the first and most historic outdoor #music #festival ever. In a sea of a half-million muddy, hungry, wet young people, somehow no one was seriously injured or died during the three-day fest. That's otherwise unheard of in most big cities that size and smaller. I had just turned 2 years old the week before the festival. Growing up in western Mass. my hometown was only about an hour's drive to the location of the festival. Growing up, I heard many stories from the hippies all around me - especially a number of our teachers in grade school. Say what you want about the hippies, they had a huge positive impact on my life. The 'true hippies' original agenda was the pursuit of a simple, peaceful, compassionate, happy, self-sustaining, healthy and humble lifestyle filled with music, arts, meditation, books, social gatherings, organic farming, and yeah, some pot-smoking and occasional LSD 'sessions.' For the most part, 'hippies' did not drink alcohol - it was frowned upon in many settings and groups of socially-conscious, educated young people at the time. In fact, abstinence from alcohol was a central value of the hippie lifestyle, and still is today. One of my teachers, Ms. Myers, was one of the original, true-to-spirit hippie girls - not simply a tag-along who wanted to be popular and party. Ms. Myers was probably no older than 23 or 24 (at the time I'm thinking of - circa 1973-74), very pretty with shoulder-length, straight blond hair that glistened in the sunlight. But most memorable were her big blue eyes and gorgeous white teeth. She not only left an impression with her attractiveness, but more so with her personality - happy, smiling, loving, calm and collected, and obviously committed to her kids, as if we were her own children. That generation; basically the baby boomers, who turned on and understood what they wanted from life, people, their country and the world - and who truly wanted to help make the world a better place, left us with so many good things that it would take considerable time and ink to fetter it all out. Just a few are music and arts, organic food, spiritualism, yoga, meditation, activism, civics, inclusion, legalization, and of course - festivals. Ms. Myers was a shining example of the best of her generation - one that sought out and celebrated the best of and from and for humanity, and thus their own lives and those of all children. She told us about her Woodstock story. In fact, she had gone with a couple of friends, including one of the janitors at school. I remember she said a long section of the interstate thru-way had been closed by the New York state police because of the amount of traffic trying to get to the Woodstock fest. I remember her talking in front of the class about all of the people who were parking their cars on the side of the highway and walking once the word got out that the interstate was closed and traffic wasn't going anywhere. The janitor, I never forgot, gave her a piggy-back the rest of the way when she was unable to continue walking. I was jealous I guess because he got to be her hero that day - at Woodstock. The original Woodstock. The one cultural event almost everyone - despite their age - has heard of. Despite popular urban tales, however, the festival was held in #Bethel, NY, not Woodstock, NY. Lang had originally booked the festival for the Woodstock location, and promoted it as such, but when the location was changed at the last minute, Lang, and his crew, somehow pulled it off again. Even though the festival was a financial failure - due to the crashing of the gates from the hundreds of thousands who flocked to the site from all across the northeast - it is still considered the best outdoor festival ever held - in the world. That record seems to still hold today despite the fact that there have been hundreds of outdoor music festivals since the original Woodstock. If you've never seen the festival movie Woodstock, definitely see it. Look out especially for performances from Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, The Who, Richie Havens, Sly, and Ravi Shankar. My personal favorite moment of the festival footage is Santana's performance of "Soul Sacrafice" that went on for some eight minutes of blazing, impossibly-fast, brilliant and other-worldly performances by the individual band members, including the 19-year-old drummer Michael Shrieve. Carlos Santana, who was completely tearing it up, said years later in an interview that he was tripping on mescaline and that's why he is making so many faces because he was trying to hold on to the guitar which he said was (but it wasn't) melting, moving, and falling on his hands. For real? It's hard to believe watching (or even just listening) to the performance. That captivating, electrically-charged and unified performance made Santana. At the time, Santana was a relatively unknown band from San Francisco. Woodstock minted many historic music acts. Thank you to the original hippie promoter Michael Lang and may he rest in peace. And may his vision of the perfect music festival be present wherever it seeds and grows. RIP.

[greymodelagency]

RIP Mike Lang founder of Woodstock Festival #fightforfreedomalways • @elliott_landy_photography My photo of Mike Lang (center) on stage the first day of the ’69 Woodstock Festival was used by the NY Times in today’s obituary. It was taken just before Richie Havens, the first to perform, went on stage. I imagine that Michael and the other two were wondering how they were possibly going to do this concert under the circumstances, but what happened was beyond anyone’s imagination. 📸 Michael Lang, creator of Woodstock Festival 1969, NY © Elliott Landy #MichaelLang #Woodstock #woodstockfestival #bethel #3daysofpeaceandmusic #peacesign #music #musicfestivals #woodstockgeneration #sixtiesmusic #rocknroll #elliottlandy #elliottlandyphotography #musicphotography #woodstockphotos #woodstockfestivalphotos #peace #love (at Woodstock) https://www.instagram.com/greymodelagency/p/CYqoA8ErQ6G/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dangerofmusic]

https://realdangerofmusic.com/2022/01/10/e-morto-michael-lang-visionario-ideatore-del-festival-di-woodstock/ #woodstockfilmfestival #woodstockmusicfestival #michaellang #woodstockfestival @woodstock @espacoculturalwoodstock #jimihendrix #neilyoung #csny #janisjoplin #thewho #joanbaez #joecocker #cannedheat #hippy #3days #3dayspeaceandmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CYj1pp9LIUj/?utm_medium=tumblr

[artbookdap]

We will miss Michael Lang, who changed history with the Woodstock music festival.⁠ ⁠ Details here are from 'Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music,' published by @reelartpress⁠ ⁠ More via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #michaellang #ripmichaellang @woodstockbook #woodstock https://www.instagram.com/artbook/p/CYjg-sXLW6Z/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jlokensky]

With Woodstock Festivalco-producer, Michael Lang (right) and photographer, Henry Diltz (left). #michaellang #henrydiltz #woodstock (at Morrison Hotel Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD-AC3AFszD/?igshid=4g0tcupep2jg

[ocavalheirodatristefigura]

O preço vou ajeitar agora 😅 De:R$69,90 Por:R$53,82 Resenha da Editora O Festival de Woodstock, de 1969, é uma referência cultural norte-americana e mundial, e nenhum outro livro captura o ambiente, a música e as maquinações dos bastidores com mais brilho e fidelidade do que a obra de Michael Lang, um best-seller do New York Times. A estrada para Woodstock chega ao Brasil na efeméride dos 50 anos do festival, contando tudo o que você precisa saber sobre os três dias mais famosos na história da música. Lang revive a mágica para a geração que presenciou tudo aquilo... e também para as gerações seguintes. . . #woodstock #1969 #bestseller #Books #instaloja #livros #michaellang (em Sebo itinerante O Cavalheiro da triste figura) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCW1olfgXsW/?igshid=1kqckeoc2z0f1

[ftndaily]

#transfernews 📝 #DoneDeal: #WerderBremen have signed full-back #MichaelLang from #BorussiaMönchengladbach on-loan for the season. 🌐 Follow @ftndaily for the latest transfer news 🔄📰 #ftn #transfermarket #transferwindow #transfertalk #transfers #footballtransfer #footballtransfers #soccertransfers #footballnews #soccernews #svwerderbremen #lang #monchengladbach #allthebest https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wLsgMAhHL/?igshid=bbc8g9tjft4s

[dondidonde]

#michaellang #woodstock #woodstock3daysofpeaceandmusic #booksigned #rizzolibooks #henrydiltz 7/11/19 @woodstock (at Rizzoli Bookstore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzzXN7jHtO5/?igshid=1kr76e6hren90

[art-now-usa]

'Madness', Michael Lang

a Cubist Painting

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Madness/420242/1912791/view

[bensci-blog1]

Part V: Creative “Make” Challenge

Part 2: Creative Person Investigation

I looked more into Michael Lang. He is a music producer and has worked with many record companies but what he is most well known for is creating Woodstock, the music festival. I noticed that he saw an opportunity and wanted to create something that would bring together a mass group of the youth at the time. This was extremely creative because he produced a concert from nothing to host one of the biggest festivals still to date. 

[marvelpyt]

“Strákarnir okkar komu saman í dag og æfðu saman undir kvöld í blíðskapar veðri. 

Landsliðið leikur eins og kunnugt er gríðarlega mikilvægan leik við Króatíu á sunnudaginn og er undirbúningur fyrir leikinn hafinn af krafti.Mikið verður æft næstu daga og munum við birta myndir, viðtöl og annað efni á samfélagsmiðlum KSÍ á næstu dögum.

#fyririsland

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Icelandic national team training tonight (5/5). A big game next Sunday against Croatia and the preparation has begun.We will post images, interviews and other cool stuff in the coming day´s on our social media channels.Stay tuned.“

[dangerofmusic]

https://dangerofmusic.com/2019/07/31/e-ufficiale-levento-celebrativo-woodstock-50-e-stato-annullato/ @woodstock @thewoodstockxp #woodstock69 #woodstock50 #woodstock1969 #woodstockfestival1969 #woodstock2019 #michaellang (presso Roma - San Basilio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0mUAwxBbAp/?igshid=e4022y6iudko

[artbookdap]

"On the weekend of August 15–17, 1969, our Woodstock festival became the second largest city in New York State," Michael Lang writes in Reel Art Press's remarkable new fiftieth-anniversary publication, ‘Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music.’ "I later heard that some Hare Krishnas who were there compared the crowd to the multitudes in India who flock to the banks of the Ganges to ritualistically bathe in sacred waters. Stephen Stills quipped that the size of the crowd was like a combination of the Macedonian Army and the 12 Tribes of Israel. When musicians flew over the gathering in a helicopter, they were gobsmacked to see the massive audience below… It was the crowd that became the most important element for everyone. No one could have imagined what it would be like to be among 500 thousand people.” @reelartpress @michael_scott_lang_ #michaellang #woodstock @woodstock @woodstockbook #3daysofpeace&music #peace #hippie https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Oo5E-DPEt/?igshid=8xoajl6tpnr5