Producer of 1969's Woodstock calls it a lesson in community

A producer of the 1969 Woodstock festival says he's come to appreciate how a community can be born of difficulty.

Joel Rosenman said he was so immersed in pulling off the massive event he didn't realize people "were having the time of their life" despite a myriad of uncomfortable problems at the rural New York location.While concertgoers reveled in the music of artists including Jimi Hendrix and The Who, concertgoers also banded together to cope with food shortages, rain and more, said Rosenman.

"Adversity itself is not what gets in the way of community. In fact, from Barack's film I saw clearly that adversity can create a community," Rosenman told a TV critics meeting Tuesday.PBS' American ExperienceWith the concert's mind-boggling lineup of performers well-documented in other projects, Goodman said it wasn't the music he wanted to focus on.

It was instead how Woodstock crystalised the meaning of the counterculture, which had been seen as vague and open to caricature, he said.

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