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    Taking Woodstock
    Taking Woodstock
    Taking Woodstock
    Audiobook6 hours

    Taking Woodstock

    Written by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte

    Narrated by Jim Frangione

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who was instrumental in arranging the site for the original Woodstock Concert. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet somehow managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 28, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Inn-and witnessed the riot that would galvanize the American gay movement and enable him to take stock of his own lifestyle. And on July 15, when Elliot learned that the Woodstock Concert promoters were unable to stage the show in Wallkill, he offered to find them a new venue. Soon he was swept up in a vortex that would change his life forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 14, 2009
    ISBN9781440760556
    Taking Woodstock

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    • 4/5
      Not for the prudish or homophobic.But so long as you don't belong to either of those two groups, this book appeals.Many of the anecdotes beg disbelief and, of course, since most of the players are deceased, there's no real fact checking to be done but Tiber's story is an aspect of Woodstock that hasn't been previously explored.How and why The Woodstock Music & Art Festival ended up 50 miles from Woodstock is yet another piece in the improbable, nay, impossible event that took place nonetheless.As a baby boomer who was 7 years old at the time, my knowledge of Woodstock was woefully lacking and Tiber's book is an intriguing, if at times appalling, introduction.