Taking Woodstock

Name: Taking Woodstock
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Elliot Tiber
ISBN: 9781440760556

Author: Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte

Narrator: Jim Frangione

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/14/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nev

I watched the movie adaptation of the book back when it came out in 2009. At the time I don’t think I was aware that it was based on a memoir. While the movie (from what I can remember) is much more focused on the struggling motel and Elliot volunteering his town after hearing that the Woodstock fes......more

Goodreads review by Erin

I saw the movie without knowing there was a book on which it was based, so the night after I saw it, I downloaded the book to my Kindle. It was enjoyable but not what I was expecting. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the Woodstock chapters, so there's that. The first half of the book, th......more

Goodreads review by Chuck

This book was totally fascinating, however I can understand many of the negative reviews. Many thought it would be about the glamour of Woodstock which it is not. It is not about Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Grateful Dead and all of the dozens of other musicians wit......more

Goodreads review by Justin

I finished this bad boy up in a few hours after the massive comedown of "The Idiot" and found it a nice chaser - a necessary palliative to what was easily one of the darkest novels I've ever read. Tiber is every bit the old-school Brooklyn-born hustler, and structures this story like a sitcom, reple......more