Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life
This reviewer couldn't put it down - in fact, read it twice before writing this review. If you've ever dreamed of being at Woodstock or even if you were there, the author Elliot Tiber will take you back.
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Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life
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His father was a roofer. Tiber attended a Brooklyn yeshiva. In , while Tiber was attending college, his parents bought a dilapidated boarding house in White Lake, which is located at the intersection of Route 55 and 17B , a major intersection in White Lake, which is in the town of Bethel, New York.
The area, part of the Borscht Belt , was in decline in the s, and his parents struggled to meet their mortgage payments. The property was soon expanded into a motel.
Tiber chose to live in New York City and spend his weekends with his parents in Bethel. After graduating from college, Tiber got an apartment in Greenwich Village and became a display designer and decorator at the W. Sloane department store on New York's Fifth Avenue.
Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber
He also painted murals at upscale New York apartment buildings. Tiber is gay, and he lived what he describes as a double life, pretending to be straight during his weekends helping his parents in Bethel, while living an openly gay life in New York City. The book describes the difficulties and traumas experienced by gays in the s and s. He describes being beaten up and robbed by youths who targeted him because of his homosexuality.
Hudson is described as lying nude and comatose at an upscale party, where he was subjected to sexual acts by guests.
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Gays tended to quietly accept their fate at the time, Tiber says, but that all changed after the Stonewall riots , which occurred at a bar in Greenwich Village on June 28, Tiber describes being present at the Stonewall bar as the riots commenced, and he describes the experience as a liberating one that changed his life. Tiber became president of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce, and he unsuccessfully sought a New York City clientele by inviting an acting troupe to the motel, and establishing an "underground cinema.
Every year, Tiber sponsored a rock festival at which six to ten local bands would perform. As head of the chamber of commerce, he had the authority to grant himself an official town permit allowing him to conduct the annual music and arts festival. When Tiber learned that the town of Walkill had decided not to allow the Woodstock festival to be held there, Tiber telephoned Woodstock organizer Michael Lang and told him that he had a valid permit to hold a rock festival, and fifteen acres to hold it in.
Lang flew over immediately in a helicopter and met with him.
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Lang was unimpressed with the motel property, so, according to Tiber's account, he told him about Yasgur's farm, which was located nearby, and drove with him to meet with Yasgur. The book describes how the El Monaco became the headquarters for the Woodstock organizers, and how Tiber became the exclusive ticket agent for the festival and held a press conference at the motel.
He describes in detail the strong opposition to the festival from local residents, some of whom created a human wall to try to stop young people from coming to the festival. Tiber claims in the book that he was approached on several occasions by underworld characters, some of whom made threats, and that he and his parents had to physically fend them off, with the help of a transvestite named Velma.
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He also describes rowing out into the middle of White Lake, near the festival site, to pay off underworld characters. Tiber was only able to come to the festival once, during which he had an LSD trip, and describes how the entire experience of Woodstock changed his life.
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