TAKING WOODSTOCK: A TRUE STORY OF A RIOT, A CONCERT AND A LIFE FREE DOWNLOAD Elliott Tiber,Tom Monte | 296 pages | 15 Oct 2009 | Square One Publishers | 9780757003332 | English | Garden City Park, NY, United States Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life Elliot hitches a ride through the peaceful traffic jam on the back of a benevolent state trooper's motorcycle and arrives at the event. Tom also conducts workshops that focus on healing the heart and personal relationships. 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. It wasn't very long ago - late sixties - when the police would routinely raid gay bars, beating up the patrons and arresting them on trumped up charges. Coming from the pen of the guy who helped it all happen, this story is a beautiful account of true events: Elliot Tiber born Eliyahun Teichberg sharing the troubles of being born to a Jewish family that does not approve of his homosexual orientation but we see at the end, his father knows, and approves, just wanting his son to be happy financial struggles trying to keep the family motel alive, Elliot's friendship with a kind-hearted old farmer, how the magic started, unfolded, and exploded, and even a beautiful birth of a baby girl on the Yasgur farm during the event. 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. List of performances and events. Tiber tries to blame this on his parents, but I don't see him fighting the practices much. This story gives insight to the turmoil of the a Concert and a Life sixties, Viet Nam, Civil Rights and many of the dramatic cultural changes of that time for which we now take for granted and often fail to realize that those changes were earned. Community Reviews. Austriaofficially the Republic of Austriais a country of nearly 9 million people in Central Europe. Spread the love. He grows in stature throughout the book, from being a kid whose only form of close physical contact is being groped in a movie theater, through his encounters with such leading cultural figures as Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Robert Mapplethorpe, to becoming a leading Manhattan interior designer who is single-handedly able to rescue his motel, the El Monaco, from the brink of financial collapse through his own foresight and determination. Taking Woodstock. Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life should appeal to all those who have empathy with the gay cause, as well as to all those who are interested in the iconic legends of the second half of the 20th century. This book captures the spirit of a festival that changed the world and the person who made it possible. His Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet and he has to hide the truth of his partner. No one's asking for a song-by-song re-enactment of the concert, but Lee's refusal to focus even for a moment on the musical aspect of the festival starts to feel almost perverse, as if he's deliberately frustrating the audience's desire. Stonewall and the Seeds of Liberation 6. Inwhile Tiber was attending college, his parents bought a dilapidated boarding house in White Lake, which is located at the intersection of Route 55 and 17Ba major intersection in White Lake, which is in the town of Bethel, New York. View all 6 comments. This Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot the second half, anyway is about how the festival came to be and the people who made it happen. Elliot Tiber tells the story of the Woodstock music festival from his own perspective. Honestly I did think this was going to be more about one man's experience AT the concert, but I was ok to go along with the ride to read about his experience leading UP TO the concert- and how it really broke down the walls and changed his life. People reading this book for gossip about the bands, or the inside scoop on Brando or Truman Capote will be disappointed, but I found it unputdownable. Rock Hudson was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the s and a Concert and a Life. Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld is an American musician, record producer, and music executive. Chicago Tribune. I love hearing my grandparents talk about the weeks when all the hippies invaded town. Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " After graduating from college, Tiber got an apartment in Greenwich Village and became a display designer and decorator at the W. Although often cast as meek, he was actually quite athletic, as well as a military veteran. His relationship with his Dad grows, too, to one where they come to view each other with an equal degree of love and respect. How does Schreiber, looking just as he usually does except for a blond wig and a dress, play a transvestite? The spirit wins out in all respects over the flesh, though, and this tale is a triumphant and joyous one. I'm glad if Mr. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. About Elliot Tiber. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 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 how the El Monaco became the a Concert and a Life for the Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot organizers, and how Tiber became the exclusive ticket agent for Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot festival and held a press conference at the motel. View 2 comments. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the Woodstock chapters, so there's that. When Woodstock does come into the picture, it's more of the same. He also painted murals at upscale New York apartment buildings. Tiber was at the Stonewall Inn the night of the riot. His father, who was born in Austriaand his mother was from Russia. When Tiber learned that the a Concert and a Life 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. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The Village Voice. Although I was fascinated to read about how this whole hippie concert thing came together. British Board of Film Classification. Oct 07, Veronica Hudson rated it really liked it. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. At the conclusion of the book it made me a Concert and a Life to read about other perspectives from era. Retrieved February 25, Films directed by Ang Lee. I think that's fate. The screenplay concerns a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. Elliot Tiber experienced a a Concert and a Life different taste of life by contacting concert promoter Mike Lang in late and, as president of the Whit It's not a life changing book or anything but it was very enjoyable to read. He also painted murals at upscale New York apartment buildings. It was the closest community to the Woodstock Music Festival in And nestled within the silly comic anecdotes is a strong argument for how vital and important the social, spiritual and sexual experiments of the Aquarian Age were, not only for closeted homosexuals like Tiber and other societal outcasts at the time, but for everyone else that came afterwards - punks, goths, ravers, juggalos and whoever else needs to carve out their own space of freedom in the American landscape. Brando was an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements..