I am looking forward to seeing this film. I was interviewed
for it. I hope they used my interview. It was a great experience and I wrote
about it in my book, Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie.
-Otto
From the Sedalia Democrat;
Resurrected after 40 years, the infamous Ozark Music
Festival will live again July 19 and 20 with an 84-minute film premiere created
by Jeff Lujin, owner of Dustbin Film LLC in Independence.
“The Ozark Music Festival: 3 Days of Sodom and Gomorrah”
will be shown at Convention Hall at Liberty Park in two different screenings
Saturday evening July 19 and a Sunday July 20 matinee.
The rock n’ roll festival that brought in bands such as
Aerosmith, The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd and REO Speedwagon, blindsided Sedalia at
the time with approximately 180,000 to 200,000 rowdy fans pouring into town.
Fans ran amok while drugs flowed, crimes were committed and one man lost his
life during the festival.
Lujin, formerly of Sedalia and a 1989 Sacred Heart High
School graduate, has been working on the documentary for six years.
“Well it wasn’t what I expected,” Lujin said of making the
film. “I initially started out six years ago thinking that we’d be done for the
35th anniversary, that it would be a short film and it’s turned into a sort of
an epic. We’ve interviewed over 200 people and are pretty sure we’ve found
every scrap of film that can be found out there. I’m pretty certain that I’m
the world’s biggest expert on the Ozark Music Festival.”
Lujin, 43, became involved with creating the film because a
friend sent him an undercover Missouri State Highway Patrol report about the
event six years ago.
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