a lot of musicians lived there ,ff and on, including bob dylan richie havens, van morrison. they call the company woodstock ventures. they started looking for a place for the festival. they could not find a place in woodstock that was large enough. they found an industrial park in the town of wallkill. they started advertising. creating art installations and everything was going smoothly. the locals found that what they were doing and it wasn't going to be a 50,000 person festival after all. the town of wallkill rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival. that left woodstock ventures with about four weeks to find another location. when they came to this property, it was a perfect shape, perfect size for the rockt would be a gt launching pan and put them in front of a lot of people. they hoped to make some money performing. signed up musician and it lowered another. there was a snowball effect, a few of the most major names, the stones and the beatles, were not there. host: one of thered out how to get along, not let the tensions around, the lack of water and lack of food, they

gonna be a transformation >> they agree to meet a third time, and this time it's going to be a van morrison at madison square garden. >> we went to the concert together and all she kept asking was, was for wine, but at van morrison concerts, once the concert starts, they don't serve alcohol. >> that was a dreadful night. there was no alcohol that night, so i actually had to talk to him. sometimes you get tired of pretending and fake laughing all night, so that was rough. it's emotionally draining to do this. >> and some people go to have a drink afterwards, and then again, dr. younan remembers drinking a last half a glass of wine. >> so what's the next thing you remember? >> waking up in the hotel, and then there was a message left by american express. they said there was excessive charges on your credit card, it was close to $100,000 on a place called robert's steakhouse. can you please call us? >> scores has a steakhouse called robert's, and robert's is the name that shows up on your credit card. >> you had $100,000 of charges. did they tell you on one, two, or three nights? >> yeah, they

and a lot of musicians lived there, off and on, including bob dylan, the band, richie havens, van morrison. the organizers called the company woodst

bohemian community and a lot of musicians lived there off and on including bob dylan, the band, van morrison. the organizers called their company woodstock ventures and started looking for a place for their festival. they couldn't find a place in woodstock that was large enough. they found a property that might work but that fell through. out of desperation they found an industrial park in the town of wallkill. they started building. they started advertising. they built the stage. they had artists creating art installations and everything was going smoothly until the locals caught wind of what they were doing and it wasn't going to be a 50,000-person folk festival after all of what they were promised. and the town of wallkill basically rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival. that left woodstock ventures with about four weeks to find another location. and when they came to this property, it was a perfect shape, perfect size for the type of rock festival they wanted to have and the rest is history. >> background on woodstock. as you look at the names of the people who performed, janice joplin

and a lot of musicians lived there, off and on, including bob dylan, the band, richie havens, van morrison. the organizers called the company woodstock ventures and they started looking for a place for the festival. they couldn't find a place in woodstock that was large enough. they found a property that might have worked, down the road from woodstock, but that fell through. out of desperation, they found an industrial park near middletown, new york. it was fairly flat. kind of uninteresting land, but it had good transportation access. they started building, started advertising. they built the stage. they had artists creating art installations and everything was going smoothly until the locals caught wind of what they were doing and it wasn't going to be a 50,000 person folk festival after all, what they were promised. jimi hendrix had been booked, and a number of non-folk bands were booked, prominently. the town basically rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival. and that left woodstock ventures with about four weeks to find another location. that is when they came in contact with max. max