Posted on 02/06/08
Not your grandparents' Woodstock
BETHEL, N.Y. -- Did you know it rained during the Woodstock Festival in 1969? You did? Okay. Well, then, did you know that the original site for the weekend-long concert was Wallkill, N.Y., but when townsfolk there freaked out about an impending invasion of hippies, organizers moved the show here to Bethel, about an hour's drive away? Hmm, you knew that too? Okay, how about the music: I'll bet you never heard that Jimi Hendrix improvised a blazing solo version of The Star Spangled Banner on his electric guitar.
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