Editing Woodstock (section)

===Lighting===
Lighting for the concert was engineered by lighting designer and technical director [[Chip Monck|E.H. Beresford "Chip" Monck]]. Monck was hired to plan and build the staging and lighting, ten weeks of work for which he was paid $7,000 (equivalent to ${{inflation|US|7000|1969|r=-3|fmt=c}} today). Much of his plan had to be scrapped when the promoters were not allowed to use the original location in [[Wallkill, Orange County, New York|Wallkill, New York]]. The stage roof that was constructed in the shorter time available was not able to support the lighting that had been rented, which wound up sitting unused underneath the stage. The only light on the stage was from spotlights.<ref name=HoustonChronicle>{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Rick |title=Chip Monck: The man who shined light on Woodstock |url=http://blog.chron.com/40yearsafter/2009/08/chip-monck-the-man-who-shined-light-on-woodstock/ |access-date=October 12, 2011 |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |date=August 18, 2009 |archive-date=October 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023032407/http://blog.chron.com/40yearsafter/2009/08/chip-monck-the-man-who-shined-light-on-woodstock/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Monck used twelve 1300 Watt [[Super Trouper (spotlight)|Super Trouper]] [[Spotlight (theatre lighting)|follow spots]] rigged on four towers around the stage. The follow spots weighed {{convert|600|lb}} each and were operated by [[spotlight operator]]s who had to climb up on the top of the {{convert|60|ft|adj=mid|m|-high}} lighting towers.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FyyqKcy_ZeMC&q=Follow+Spots+Woodstock&pg=PA278 |page=278 |title=The oral history of Woodstock |author=Joel Mankower |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9781438429755 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=May 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510133221/https://books.google.com/books?id=FyyqKcy_ZeMC&q=Follow+Spots+Woodstock&pg=PA278#v=snippet&q=Follow%20Spots%20Woodstock&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

Monck also was drafted just before the concert started as the [[master of ceremonies]] when Michael Lang noticed he had forgotten to hire one. He can be heard and seen in recordings of Woodstock making the stage announcements, including requests to "stay off the towers" and the warning about the "[[Urban legends about drugs#badlsd|brown acid]]".<ref name=HoustonChronicle/>