A collaborative creative content project from 

J. Michael Loughran and Alan“Chip”Green, Jr.

 Realize a greater appreciation for the real Woodstock 

And it’s legendary past of musical arts.  Discover the power of innovation that helped to shape today’s music industry.

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue, is 60 miles from the site of which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark festival usurped the name, Woodstock was already the artsy town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident; already a key location in the '60s folk-rock landscape. 

The names themselves are legendary. Dylan, Helm, Joplin, Sebastian, Yarrow, Butterfield, Smith, Rundgren and of course tens more of important and iconic figures who delivered music to the world deriving from the Woodstock folk music scene during the tumultuous era of the 1960’s.

Central to the narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, the visionary cantankerous businessman and talent agent, who created an unprecedented musical epicenter of its time. Grossman, the one time night club and festival innovator set out to prove that folk and music in general could not only be lucrative but created wholly new ways of working with talent. Artists flocked to him for his aggressive unprecedented approach to talent management.

The documentary explores Grosman’s personal fiefdom in Bearsville, NY - a hamlet of Woodstock, connected by the legendary thoroughfare Tinker Street, where he built studios, restaurants, and his own record label that turned out perhaps some of the most notable musical tracks of all time. 

We re-visit and examine Woodstock's community of young, brilliant, though often dysfunctional musicians, scheming agents, and opportunistic bohemians hippies drawn to the area by the solitude of its mountain presence and for the love of music, recording and fame. We explore the fascinating interactions of people who came together to create original music and video arts; people who made decisions - both business and artistic - that set them apart and made them legendary; people that were both emblematic of their times and avant garde. 

One such artist, recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Todd Rundgren, who was attracted to Grossman (or vice-versa). Rundgren’s time in Bearsville was marked by significant musical and video innovation amidst professional creative intrigue, and at many times artistic chaos.

Intertwined in the story are those idiosyncratic experiences and the blossoming stature of Rundgren, Grossman’s one-time in-house engineer, and his 40 plus years reign as producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who dramatically changed the landscape of music engineering, production and video arts. From his own catalog of music spanning over 30 albums, Rundgren bounced between the worlds of producer and always-evolving recording artist.

His storied career resulted him in producing one of the best selling albums of all time, Meat Loaf’s, Bat Out of Hell, and his vocation is ingrained in shaping the musical interests and iconic album releases for artists such as, Hall & Oates, The Tubes, The Psychedelic Furs and Cheap Trick among a plethora of other musicians.

Dive deep into the creation of the modern music industry

Discover Tinker Street first hand. Historians, musicologists and family that were there to provide unique insight into the innovations and the emotions of key events in American music history. Not nostalgia - it’s the relevant facts through a modern lens.

Though the buildings eventually filled with new generations of aspiring artists, the legends of Tinker Street resound and have been collected into a unique documentary film. Perspectives and video footage have been culled from those who were there and their legacies, and synthesized with both known and never-before-seen images that capture a place and time too important to American culture to be forgotten. Additionally, we’ll hear the music in its original context, for a first time look at the real history that unfolded from the small Woodstock passage known as Tinker Street. 

Focusing on the legendary innovators who intertwined with so many of America’s most important contributors to Folk, Pop and Rock Music in the 20th Century and beyond.  Experience a socio-cultural historical journey to Woodstock, the town everyone thinks they know but whose real stories have yet to be told - even amongst the community - notwithstanding, the World!