"who's michael lang? i have no idea who michael lang is." "tell him i'm from the neighborhood." "ok, have him come up." i went up and artie was, you know, charming and funny and we became instant friends like we'd known each other all our lives. during the early part of the fall, we were talking late into the night, every night, about these ideas of producing concerts. artie was a studio guy, not really very familiar with the rock scene and hadn't been out at concerts. so i would drag him out to see shows and get him into sort of the right frame of mind. it also had occurred to me along the way that woodstock was becoming a mecca for musicians but there was no place to record. people would have to go into the city to do their albums, and it seemed that was the perfect answer. build a recording studio in woodstock. we could come and spend time in the country and record at your leisure. so we proceeded to try and put that together. so we were following these two paths and i hired a local realtor, jim young, to help me look for sites for this idea of a festival which, according to

>> is michael lang. >> the worst part? >> what's the worst part about running one of these?lical storms and bad acid trips, not enough food and angry band managers, he was the impossibly young promoter holding it all together. >> where are you going to go from here? i mean, are you going to do another one? >> if it works. >> okay, folks, we'll try to get this underway. >> 50 years later. >> hold on, hey, hey, hold on. >> he's determined to repeat his magic. >> we're not going to turn this into a free for all. >> but just like '69, first, he has to convince a few towns folk, not to fear big crowds or music they don't understand. (vo) the ant mindlessly marches on. carrying up to 50 times its body weight. it never questions the tasks at hand. but this year, there's a more thrilling path to follow. (father) kids... ...change of plans! (vo) defy the laws of human nature... ...at the summer of audi sales event get exceptional offers now! summer's not the time for making bucket lists. bookers know summer is for booking it. (chime, slam, chime) like booking a beachside resort and o

michael lang was one of the organizers of the woodstock. >> it's always importantaco promote pee, and music is ay great bring people together. a lot of t things that came out of the '60s, came to sort of our awarenesses. really the advent of sort of concern about the plan conservation, grew out of that era. ♪ ♪ >> brown: idealism was still in the air, two years after the so- called "summer of love." but, says todd gitlin, author "" the sixties: year of rage, days of hope," so was something else. >> it was a show of cheerful defiance. leers show we can triumph ov war. real america. and what happened subently was that rebellion became the dominant >> brown: what began as a ticketed concert, with promoter0 estimating 50 attendees, quickly evolved into something very different-- a free and free-form festival, with a ss of humanity, stoked by an incredible line-up of some of the '60s biggest rock stars: janis joplin. sae ana. sly and mily stone. and many, many more. mostly helictered in, after the roads were clogged and unpassable. they, too, g

michael lang is one of the woodstock founders >> i hope for something like what happened but certainly in tho nand and built for 200,000. we told people 50. >> reporter: a half million people showed up that weekend. as seen in the academy award winning documentary "woodstock," they saw some legendary performances credence ♪ born on the bayou the who. and a virtual unknown named carlos santana ♪ but town after town had turned lang and his partners away a month before woodstock was to begin, they had no place to hold it until an up state dairy farmer from bethal offered his place to rent. the cost $50,000 >> max was heaven. max was really the savior of woodstock. >> reporter: a republican and a supporter of the vietnam war but also a believer in an america where everyone fit in. >> a half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music. >> reporter: it really did feel like the dawn of a new age harry smith, nbc news, new york. > "nigly news" for this friday i'm peter alexander. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watchi

this guy michael lang came in and we became friends instantly. he didn't have money so i supported him for a year and half and one night we were shooting pool, we were playing bumper pool and i was on the 40th floor and i looked out over -- it was the highest residential building at that time and you could look at over the whole city. michael said you are tainted. you don't go to concerts anymore. i said michael, i've been doing this since 1956 and i've seen so many concerts, i've played so many clubs. i see so many concerts. i'm in the studio all the time and i write and you don't do that stuff. your way of getting connected to music is to go see it. mine is to make it. went --d, what if we what if we took it broadway theater and had -- just made it to theater and had -- just made it free? we'll use my money because you don't have any. when we run out of money, we will close it down. we will try to get the biggest acts we can and make it free. he said well, i started to work on a thing in miami called miami pop but what happened is it rained and

publicized money and venue issues had critics predicting this announcement for months organizer michael langeinal woodstock, hold rolling stone that he was disappointed to pull the plug he blames early creative disputes with financial backers for derailing the event. we have been doing stories for days leading up to that. artist after artist was pulling out. it was starting to get that fire festival vibe. >> all the signs were there. >>> well, when we come backs, a florida family's backyard surprise u e tcngeay dayoarwahi "rltoy. always a catch. like somehow you wind up getting less. but now that i book at hilton.com, and i get all these great perks. i got to select my room from the floor plan... very nice... i know, i'm good at picking stuff. free wi-fi... laptop by the pool is a bold choice... and the price match guarantee. how do you know all of this? are you like some magical hilton fairy? it's just here on the hilton app. just available to the public, so... book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. if you find a lower rate, we match it and give you 25% off that stay. l

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. >> love hanging out with michael lang lang.ward, richie. >> he set the tone for the weekend. >> a a half million people on tn hillside of bethel in new york. >> this went on all the way over there. >> that's half the crowd. >> reporter: the music is remarkable. >> the official photographer, henry at the ring side seat. >> reporter: janice joplin. >> it kind of shows the lighting stand and the speaker stand that if you deflect it in a sun glasses. >> that's the picture that the magazine ran full page. >> reporter: henry was asleep in his car when he heard jimmy henrik's name announced from the stage. >> i ran from the back stairs from the stage photographing jimmy henrick's. jimmy's version of "a star bangle banner." >> i thought why ais he playing it. >> wait a minute, he's taking it back for us, that's our song, too. >> reporter: woodstock, three days of peace, love and music. for three days, the crowd barely budged. to many, it was a dream come true. >> everybody felt the same way about life and the government and the war tha

anniversary of this monumental mega gig sparked hopes of a repeat festival by the original pro moteer michael langough, the bethel center of the arts which sits on the actual woodstock grounds will do its own thing with a series of shows. >> i think in the end, we focused on bringing back alumni and being true to the demo that i think was important for us and created a great package for us. >> those celebrating the milestone say they hope the message of peace and music will live on, no matter where you are. >> i think folks can celebrate woodstock spirit any place any time they want. >> in bethel, new york, laura ingle, fox news. jon: british man sets the new cycling speed record, sort of. neil campbell was able to hit 174 miles-an-hour. here's how he did it. a portia pulled -- a porsche pulled him along on a custom made bike and once they were going fast enough, it released him allowing campbell to break the record with his own power. the previous record was nearly 167 miles-an-hour. and that's how fox reports this sunday august 18th of 2019. i'm jon scott. thanks for joining us. see you again ne

anniversary of this monumental mega gig sparked hopes of a repeat festival by the original promoter, michael langt site fell through, the bethel was center for the arts which sits on the actual woodstock grounds will do its own thing with a series of shows . >> i think in the end, we focused on bringing back alumni, and being true to the demo that was important for us. and it created a great package for folks . >> folks celebrating the milestone say they hope the message of peace and music will live on no matter where you are . >> i think folks can celebrate the woodstock spirit anyplace, anytime they want . >> in bethel, new york, laura ingle, fox news. >>> ktvu fox2 news is coming up next. doctors are supposed to take care of patients and help them live healthily but a northbay doctor is in jail tonight facing murder charges. why the doctor is being held criminally responsible for the overdose deaths. plus. >>> nothing brings a community gather like food. >> the new open air market in the bayview that is about way more than about tasty foods. >>> watch masterchef and spin the wheel tonight on f

and i follow michael lang as he tried to make it happen again and stage this massive concert and paidrtists who in the end kept it and we got no concert. but i think it's a statement on where we've come but the hope that we can hang on to. >> bill is such a story teller and he really does it justice. please watch, you guys. catch cnn's special report tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. that's it for us. "inside politics" with the great john king starts right now. >> thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. an israeli official says congresswoman rashida tlaib must hate israel more than she loves her grandmother. this after she asked for permission to see family in the palestinian territories and then says never mind when israel says yes. >>> plus, a new complication in the china challenge. the white house okays a major arms sale to taiwan, something

. >> is michael lange. >> the worst part. >> the worst part about running one of them?i don't know. i don't know. >> through biblical storms and bad acid trips. >> kids are hungry you got to feed them. >> not enough food and angry band managers. he was the impossibly young promoter holding it all together. >> where are you going from here? another one. >> if it works. >> okay, folks try to get this under way. >> 50 years later. >> hold on. hey, hold on. >> he is determined to repeat his magic. >> bill is joining us now. the plan for a 2019 wood stock concert didn't exactly pan out. what happened. >> yeah, it was amazing sort of mirror image to what happened in '69. lawsuits and lost permits and disaster after disasters. the difference is there were $30 million on the line this time around for the likes of jay-z and miley cyrus and in the end couldn't find a home. there was no maxey azger to miraculously give them a farm with a plont to go to give are get it together. it's one dwraes note to how we followed this. we went in search of what was the spirit? what was about i

that's michael lang again on his motorcycle, one of the two key organizers of the woodstock festival. look at him soaking it in there. nudity, though, it's interesting. most of it is shared nudity. meade's point seems kind of selective to me. what's not selective, the thing you see over and over, is women and babies. you look everywhere for signs of men taking care of children. and you don't see it. women's basic role is have sex, conceive, and then maybe some nudity there. but taking care of children. meade's point is really well taken. and you can see why it would sink in. the other thing that she does is really build on this idea that the '60s revolution wasn't real. just like woodstock is a fantasy land. she says, we were told that the '60s was about the reconfiguration of masculinity. you've heard me talk about it. she's saying, nuh-uh, don't be fooled by unisex clothes, don't be fooled by long hair, don't be fooled by the beatles. nothing really changed. all those things she says are just hip camouflage for the same old sexism, the same set of power relations that existed before