One design innovation – which I’m pretty sure was Bud’s idea – was a huge shallow ramp at the back of the stage. This was wide enough and solid enough to back up two big trucks onto, side by side. That was so the roadies for the outgoing band could be derigging and loading their truck at the same time as the incoming band’s roadies could be unloading theirs and setting up. Bud’s intention was to avoid one of the biggest problems that Woodstock had (apart from the deluge), by reducing the interminable delays between acts.
So it wasn’t the lack of access to the stage that caused all the delays between acts at IOW1970. That’s a different story.
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