the following is a cnn special report. ♪ >> almost exactly 50 years ago a former army paratrooper from seattle walked on to a plywood stage on this field and played an old song in a new way.

america would never be the same. you can see it in the oscar-winning documentary about the time that jimi hendrix ended woodstock it was only monday morning and a thousand dazed individuals were on what looked like a battlefield, but this is the opposite. it was a peacefield and 50 years later, it is hippie hallowed ground, because right here in the middle of the cold civil war nearly half a million people came together for three days. peace, love and music. sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. >> hold on to the neighbor, man. >> it should have been a humanitarian disaster, but that

weekend held enough human connection to shape generations. >> what do we want? when do we want it? >> and 50 years later, still so much hung rer for harmony, but festivals are an industry now, and with so many messages on so many stages, could a woodstock ever happen again? >> are you in charge of the whole thing? and what are the odds of pulling this off? >> well, you know, we don't give up easily. >> well, this, this is a quest to find out. it is a journey across america and music and generations to ask those who were there what really happened. >> what was your state of mind walking on the stage? >> we were stoned out of our gourds. >> to ask how much of our values

changed at 69. >> well, you wanted to pi is, s your parents off and go naked in the mud. >> do you think that this crowd with change the world? >> i'm bill weir, and this is "woodstock at 50." ♪ well i came upon a child of god he was walking along the road ♪ ♪ i asked him where are you going and this he told me ♪ >> there were around half a million stories at woodstock. >> i will tell you my woodstock story. >> let's start with three. >> pretty girls, long leg, short dress and tan and blond and nice girl. >> first up, david crosby. he is in the rock and roll hall

of fame twice. ♪ going to get back to the land ♪ ♪ and set my soul free >> walking in the mud barefoot, and she cuts her foot, badly. a piece of glass in the mud. she is standing there on one leg like a stork holding her other foot and bleeding quite a bit. and people around her are going, oh, my god, what do we do? and okay, over here is the new york state trooper, and he is looking like a photograph out of a book. he had just came on duty, and his pants have a sharp crease in them, and his shoes are mirror clean, shiny. >> you have to remember the backdrop here. after the horrors of 1968, vietnam is roiling and tensions are boiling and hippies and cops are on opposite sides, but for some reason not here. >> he immediately walks into the

mud, picks the girl up, and gets the blood and the mud all over him, ander ka him, and carries the girl gently to his car with her bleeding all over him and lays her in the back seat of the car gently, and then 14 hippies pushed that police cruiser out of the mud. and you know, that worked for me. >> half a million kids, right, and not one umbrella. nobody brought food. >> this is john fogerty. >> this is credence. >> my wife named this beautiful dog. ♪ i see a bad moon arising >> in 1969, his band credence clearwater revival had three hits on the charts and promised a prime spot, but like

everything else at woodstock, the schedule went off of the rails. >> by the time we hit the stage it was 2:30 in the morning. ♪ born on the bayou >> and people were asleep. i went up to the mic and i actually said something like, well, we are playing our hearts out for you up here, and we sure hope that you are enjoying this. ♪ i put a spell on you >> and actually a fellow out of the darkness and his lighter comes on, and i see this lighter going like that, and i hear him say, don't worry about it, john, we are with ya! well, he was anyway. so i played the whole rest of the woodstock concert for that guy guy. >> my woodstock experience is what was going on all around us. >> and this is bobby.

>> damp, moist, body odor, camping, cooking, pa chchoili o >> and after she embraces in a pink bedspread found in the mud, they unwittingly end up on the cover of the triple album. years later the bedspread fell apart, but the boyfriend? it turned out to be a keeper, nick and bobbie married 48 years. >> i like to think that our longevity, our love for each other is symbolic of what went on at the woodstock concert amidst all of that chaos. there was an underlying feeling of love and peace and goodwill. >> yes. >> i think it is a nice thing to be remembered for. >> it is very peaceful. >> see. just three out of half a million

stories that show why out of countless concerts woodstock gets a golden anniversary. >> there was a cooperative spirit. there was a generosity to each other. >> how do you account for that? was this just this cosmos fluke? >> well, if i knew i would bottle it, and spread it around and rub it in my hair at night. ♪ it is going to be a long time gone ♪ >> but if the woodstock document documentary is any indication, the one guy who should know the recipe. >> mike, what is the worst part of running one of these things. >> mike lang. >> what is the worst part of running on them? >> i don't know. >> through biblical storms and bad acid trips. >> the kids are hungry, and you

have to feed them. >> out of food and angry band managers, he was the young promoter impossibly holding it together. >> are you going to do another one? >> if it works. >> folk, all right. let's get this under way. >> 50 years later. >> hold on, hey, hey, hey, hold on. >> he is determined to repeat the magic. >> we are not going to turn this into a free for all. >> and just like 1969 he has to convince the townsfolk not to fear big crowds or music they don't understand.

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♪ >> it is bonneroo weekend in manchester, tennessee. like coachella, lollapalooza and countless other, this festival is going to draw tens of thousands of music fans into the sun. but i wonder how many modern festivalgoers know that they owe the fun to a small town conservative farmer. ♪ yes we've got to get ourselves

back ♪ >> and this man said no way hippies will camp out in my hay, and so i bought a storybook that i found in a shop window in woodstock, and the unwashed dirty girls and boys. one farmer did not think the same. max yazger was his name. titled "max said yes." because in hindsight, the patron saint of this whole deal might be the open-minded farmer with the last-minute land. you see, they were selling tickets and booking bands, the group of hippies could not find a home. >> they said there might be sex, and these gorgeous skinny guys might come get their daughters.

so get them out of town quick. >> the people in the town were scared, and that is how we got kicked out. so they felt that they were going to be invaded by this horde of hippies and rape our cows and god knows what. >> he looked everywhere and found his field of dream, and max said yes, thanks to a backfiring nudge from max's neighbors. >> they got up one morning and someone had erected a sign right outside of the farm said don't by yazmer's milk, they love hippies. and he looked at his wife and he said, we are going to have a festival, aren't we. max said, we are going to have a festival. if not for that sign there might not have been a farm or wood ostock. >> when he is introduced into the woodstock film. >> this gentleman upon whose

farm we are on, mr. max yazger. >> he gets as much love as janis joplin. >> half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music and i god bless you for it. but having a little over a month preparing for 200,000 turned out to be a blessing in disguise. >> 35 days there were people working around the clock. if you are looking at the movies and the photographs and lots of the images captured from the time, there were people working around the clock night and day to make this thing happen. >> losing their original site and finding the farm forced one of history's great lessons in improve. >> the guy who designed the

bridge saying, what kind of load do we need, and he said, well, how much does jimi hendrix weigh? how much does a typical groupie weigh? >> years later we cringe, but woodstock would not be woodstock unless the fences come down. and the tickets turned worthless. >> i was on the stage. >> i have never seen anything like this, man. >> when a runner runs up on the stage, and he says, the fences are down. >> he says look out for the fence, too, and you have to look after the fence. >> i see michael looking into the middle distance and then say i think that we have a free festival. and i said, this guy is a

genius. >> by saturday, they were the third largest city in new york and they were nearly out of food. enter this guy. >> i am wavy gravy icon flower geezer of the era. >> wavy gravy was part of a commune as part of the hog farm coming in to teach city kids how to camp, but with the locals they were a hippie phenom. >> jim mcclean, please go to the hospital as soon as possible. >> i never announced a band at woodstock, but only life support announcements and like the most famous one. good morning, what we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000. we are all feeding each other. we must be in heaven, man.

>> while there were plenty of people who saw muddy hippies as threat to good american society, they were outnumbered by capitalists who saw that new crowd as customers. they said, hey, what if we sold breakfast in bed to 400,000? what if we created a tye dyed industrial complex that is going to be worth $31 billion in the next couple of years. but how does the modern woodstock simulator compare? how can woodstock 50 ever compete? >> you have huge names. jay jay-z, chance the rapper, imagine grap perdragons. >> and m >> i am licking my chops, but i

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and my three friends and i had to pull over and we said, well, we will just walk the rest of the way. i believe it is about ten miles. >> spring of '69, childhood pal pals heard about a concert and then they saw it at a record star. >> some of the bands started to filter into the conversation and it is like, oh, my goodness. >> yeah, the who, credence, and jimi hendrix. >> so you came up just hoping that you could get in? >> yeah, i guess. we were stupid teenagers and we went for three days and we didn't have anything at all. we just had the clothes that we were wearing. >> when we got there friday afternoon, it was still so uncertain about what was happening that we actually hid in the woods to smoke a joint. >> what the boys didn't know is

that michael lange built woodstock with a very specific festival with security. >> people were trying to get in without paying and they had police there to spread tear gas to prevent it, but we felt this is a statement to make as a counter churl and have the world function as we hoped it could or would. >> they tried to hire a few off duty new york city police to have the please force. there were t-shirts with the please force and peace symbols and they were going to be the security. >> that attitude combined with the overwhelming crowd forced an experiment. what would happen if the security treated drug use not as a scrooge to be stopped, but inevitable force to be managed.

>> by the second day, my press camp was turned into the second drug freakout ward. >> your name is bob. guess what, bob, you have taken a little acid, a little lsd and it is going to wear off. thank you. now, when he was down and comfortable and ready to rock 'n' roll, we said, hold it. you see that sister coming through the door with the toes in nose, well, that was you. so now you are the doctor, so take over. >> they said it is going to go on and for three hours, and about two hours and 45 minutes we dropped the drugs, and it is time to report. and now they are kicking it. go back, and go back. oh, okay. so we are going, and we are starting to playing music and having fun and it happened three

times. >> we were sitting there waiting for the next band to come on in between, and there was chipmunk with the voice "don't eat the brown acid." >> and you may proceed and take it with as many grains of salt as you wish. >> chipmunk was hired to build the stage but in a pinch. >> call the hotel glory in woodridge. >> became the voice of woodstock god. >> and he is not simply too good. >> the undercurrent of the fear in that, but it was really taking it. i tried to make it as light as possible. like a couple of idiots, we had taken something, and feeling a little strange, and then i looked at carl and i said what color is that? and he said brown. and i thought, am going to die,

this is the end of the time. >> and he said, the browns acid was not poisonous, but it was just strange. and so there was only one fatal by a camper who was unwittingly run over by a farmer on a tractor. >> on this day of bonneroo, a medical condition is blamed, but modern security is a lot different than the please force of '69. you were saying that this year they are crack down more? >> yeah, for sure. you have to wear clear backpacks to come in and they are confiscating way more things and giving way more citations. >> this generation lives in america still trying to figure out the right amount of wrong with opioids and fentanyl and heroin are shattering many

communities cannabis is legal in most communities and micro lsd is making a trendy come back. >> last night we saw an e & m artist who was making a bass drop to target those people on acid, because it helps to target their trip. >> we were told that these psychedelic drugs would allow us to expand our mind and use more of our brain capacity, and obviously, we were wrong and i stopped all of that nonsense. 44 years now. >> just a year over woodstock, jimi hendrix would overdose, and from janis joplin to keith moon, addiction would take over so much of that talent on the stage. there is no telling how much of

that fate would manage, but there is no doubt that there was a feeling of better feeling through chemistry. >> it was camaraderie that came with you when you came off of into that crowd. >> that camaraderie must be why there was no mass casualty or mass arrests. >> and one other thing, pot. whether we like it or not, folks, it is a great -- >> it is a crowd controller. >> and it is a great thing that the same crowd was not drinking beer. so, you have to pick your intoxicants carefully. >> so coming up, a lesson in how to picking the wrong intoxicant can kill the buzz and sour the harmonies. [ music: "i am" by club yoko plays ]

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♪ come on all of you big strong men ♪ ♪ uncle sam needs your help again ♪ ♪ got himself in a terrible jam ♪ ♪ way down yonder in vietnam >> when i walked out on stage, you had to turn your head to take in the whole periphery of the audience.

>> day two of woodstock. the crowd is now 400,000 deep and waiting to be entertained. but santana is stuck in traffic, and that is when the organizers spot the lead singer of a psychedelic band out of berkeley called country joe and the fish, and they ask him to go solo. >> i said, well, i guess so. i mean, i don't have a guitar so they went and found a guitar and i said, i don't have a guitar strap. so they cut a piece of rope, and they said, go out to do something. so i went out and i did something. >> at first, no one paid attention until he decided to play the rebellious cheer and dark anthem that had them banned from the "ed sullivan show." >> give me a f, give me a u and

give me a k and what does that spell? >> perfect for a crowd worried about nixon and the draft. ♪ come on you big strong men ♪ uncle needs your help again >> the woodstock stage was supposed to be politics-free. >> we weren't going to have people make political stages from the stage, and the strongest political statement that we could make is if it worked. >> when abbey hoffman tried to storm the mic and shout slogans for justice in the who set, pete townsend bonked him off of the stage. >> and he shouted out remember the chicago 7, and pete townsend is standing right behind him and pick up the guitar and turn it over and go boop. right in the back of the neck. >> and it is one, two, three, what are we fighting for. >> but country joe's sing along

f-bomb resonated somehow, and when it made the movie, it became a protest song of the ages ages. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you. >> there is nothing more powerful than that expletive to express our frustration and our anger. >> i know that i am not going to cry to you about the mother -- >> and a few when childish gambino played bonneroo, but none more than america fighting afghanistan, and maybe it is because america has been fighting longer than some of them have been alive. nowadays people are more worried about being shot here than over there. >> and childish gambino is talking about violence in

america, and does that resonate? do you think that a song can change society? >> yes. >> for sure. >> it could be powerful, because today with the social media, and we are all connected. >> do you think that the crowd can change the world this is. >> yes. there is over 100,000 people, and why not. >> and the people at woodstock thought the same thing and look at what happened in the 50 years since. >> but this is our time now. >> you have to love their passion. the vibe here is so infectious, it can change your life. >> we just got engaged. >> what? congratulations. that is fantastic, and bring it in here. >> but it is obvious that at a modern festival, it is a lot easier to get the kids to fall in love and party than to get them registered to vote. >> there are about 80,000 people here and we want to interact with at least 80% of that.

>> we live in a age of politics and war and that is why everybody is here to get away from that. >> and kayden and connor are kids of my best friend, and they want to come here, but for most people it is to get away from all of this, and it is a diversion of the messy world. >> i think that we did help to change the world. it is slower than we thought, but i think that music of the times helped the people get what it was that they wanted to get out to people who really mattered. the first earth day was the year of woodstock. civil rights, human right, women's rights and all of those movements began in earnest in that generation. >> but can he keep it going in the 21st century? >> woodstock officials are now telling us, they are going to appeal.

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thank you. we needed that. this is our second gig.

>> this is the second time -- >> at 3:35 monday morning. >> we were scared. >> and rock's super group played the second gig. ♪ it is getting to the point ♪ where i'm no fun anymore >> crosby stills and nash was an instant smash. ♪ i am yours ♪ you are mine >> because they could write and harmonize like angels. ♪ silent night ♪ holy night ♪ shepherds quake >> at the 2018 lighting of the national christmas tree they played their last gig. ♪ christ the savior is born >> the harmony was gone. they have not spoken since.

>> what does it say that the guys that gave us the most beautiful harmonies ever don't speak to each other anymore? >> well, we do, but we are just not speaking to david. >> we were all horrible to each other. many times. all of us. unanimously. me probably more than anybody. >> it was not easy. big ego and no brains. >> remember my name. >> this is the first interview that we ever did. >> this is cameron crow's raw new portrait of david crosby. >> a friend of mine gave me a shot of heroin for the first time, and after that, you are trying to catch it and you never get back there, ever. >> and among the poignant moments a visit to joni mitchell's home where they made music for the first time. ♪ our house >> and graham nash moved in and wrote this song. >> i have to say it breaks my heart that you don't talk to graham nash.

>> probably breaks mine a little, too. ♪ teach your children well >> so do we teach our children that the same things that broke up this band killed the spirit of woodstock? ego and money, competition and addiction? is there no fixing human nature? >> the worst thing they did to all of them and none of them are talking about it is me turning into a junkie right in front of him. >> while all of his peers died too young. >> nearly a year ago he walked away from a drug rehabilitation center. >> he survived heroin and a texas prison. >> i get up every day. it is nice. >> and this is where he is most content at home with his wife jan. >> it is the family. >> but unable to find peace, love and music with stills, nash and young even though the four of them have sold 50 million albums combined. ♪ by the time we got the

woodstock ♪ ♪ we were half a million strong ♪ >> but at age 77, he found new bands and he is on track to put out five albums in five years and like a lot of boomers, he is trying to figure out how the write the end of the song. ♪ i have been thinking about dying and how to do it well ♪ >> and in the burs of the creativity that you had, you are singing about death. do you think about how you want to be remembered? >> not so much. the songs will do that. they are the best i can do. that is the weird thing, everybody is scared to talk about it, and the question is what are you going to do with it? how do you spend that two weeks or that ten years? i got that figured out. family, music. ♪ yeah we've got to get ourselves back to the garden ♪ >> it is the only thing that i can do. >> do you think that if he came

around that you would welcome him back if he apologized. >> no. if you break that silver chord of a friendship metaphorically, then it breaks. i don't want david in my life. ♪ remember what we said stand by each other ♪ >> and we cs & n will never play again. >> that is so sad. >> it is a loss of the music, but that is the way it is. ♪ don't let the past remind us of what we are not now ♪ >> that is for me a little heartbreaking microcosm of what happened since woodstock if the four guys who gave us these incredible harmonies cannot exist conflict-free, what hope is there for the rest of us? >> always remember those four guys were in conflict long before woodstock and long after

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towers. everybody move back. >> when producers set out to capture woodstock on film. >> watch those towers. >> they had no idea it would be part concert, part disaster movie. >> keep your eyes on the towers. >> when the storm came on sunday right after joe cocker. joe turned around as he came off stage and saw this huge black cloud coming and he said oh, my god, did i do that? and then it hit. there were lots of those kinds of moments that are dramatic and you just have to have faith that you're going to get through them. >> so maybe it's fitting that half a century later ominous clouds are building over little

vernon, new york. >> okay, folks. we'll try to get this under way. >> i have the original papers that were served. there's no diagram. >> because of the seriousness of this -- >> where the fate of a modern woodstock has once again come down to this. >> all this money you're talking about, all the professionals, and you couldn't have documentation -- >> there's a binder of documentation. >> hold on. hey, hey. hold on. >> arguing over the rock vision of michael lang. woodstock 50 has paid 32 million up front dollars for the likes of jay-z, dead & company, and miley cyrus. >> where are they going to go? >> they go home. that's part of -- >> but in a repeat of '69, every day brings disaster.

>> we can't speak to that. >> permits denied. >> it's absolutely -- >> hey, hey. come on. >> we can make a determination tonight. >> partners lost. suits filed. and another scramble to find another field of dreams with days to go. o'. >> and what are your ofds actually pulling this off? >> we don't give up easily. i think we're going to do it. >> he's dogged by memories of woodstock '99 when love-ins turned to mosh pits, arson, and accusations of sexual assault. a more recent debacle known as fyre festival also fuels the skeptics. >> they're soaking wet. >> as seen in the dueling netflix and hulu documentaries, promoter billy mcfarlane promised a luxury festival with supermodels and a caribbean paradise. >> an absolute disaster. >> but delivered cheese sandwiches and chaos. and was sent to prison.

woodstock 50 has the good sense not to sell tickets without a venue. but their last gasp is a failing racino north of the original woodstock owned by a billionaire just trying to salvage his investment. >> you don't want it, you like your little sleepy town, i understand. it's a beautiful town. >> promoters insist they can pull it off safely. but the town decides their last-minute application is sloppy and incomplete. >> i couldn't help but smile ironically talking to one of the guys who's against you who was worried about if it rains. what's going to happen if it rains. >> you'll get wet. >> did you see the original one? >> it's just odd that they would take this position. >> is there any more max yasgurs left in the world? >> not here. >> as artists pull out one by

one, there will be one more stab ate free concert over 300 miles away in maryland. before finally admitting woodstock 50 is dead. ♪ you just know that so many of the kids that left this field muddy and happy thought they were going to change the world. but then what happened? one aging hippy i met blames charles manson, says after that horror show no one would ever pick up a long-haired hitchhiker again. another hippy i made in woodstock blames disco and says that once everybody started growing their hair long you could no longer tell the cool people from the bad.

>> i like what you got there, man. you couldn't buy it for anything. >> everybody there seemed to have almost a religious belief in peace and love and harmony. and yet we've had 50 years of war and class warfare -- >> a couple of thousand years of war. look at it the other way around. this was a brief blast of light in thousands of years of darkness. look at it as a brief glimpse at what we could have. >> well, i certainly was not a hippy back in 1969. i think deep in my heart i'm one now. ♪ yeah >> but for nick and bobby urkuli, the couple from the cover of the triple album, for them woodstock was more than just a glimpse of love. >> she complements me tremendously. i wouldn't be who i am today if it weren't for my wife.

that's for sure. ♪ need a little time >> when he watched his girlfriend the nurse attend to a stranger on a bad trip -- >> the girls wrapped their arms around him and took him with us. >> -- he knew she was special. that stranger left a paper butterfly. and 50 years later it is part of a tableau that stirs them like it was yesterday. >> i see our picture, a couple in love, in the full frame of the picture to the right on the ground covered in army blanket is our marine, vietnam vet, corky. he's the piece. he's sleeping. and on the other side is the butterfly. that's hope. and i hope that this generation and future generations get that same feeling from that picture. there's always hope, no matter how chaotic. if you have love and peace and trust, there's always hope.

♪ roll on >> we must be in heaven, man! ♪ that road on ♪ bends round the creek we'll be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. >> there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. >> we like to call them tastefully smutty. >> a group that's never had any problems saying how they feel, u2. >> what are your dreams? >> to rule the world. >> michael jackson is the man of the '80s. >> music to a beat and talk. it's rap music. ♪ i might as well speak my mind ♪ >> heavy metal. it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authority. and adolescent boys love it. >> this weird beastly

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