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"Woodstock was beads and colors and flowers and sunshine and beautiful people"
Lovin' Spoonful's
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"Two years before Woodstock, the most people I'd played to was 300 in a bar. It was hard getting the attention of such a
crowd. Even so, when I finally did "With A Little Help From My Friends," we got through to them. And right as I finished, this huge black cloud came up and just poured on everything for hours."
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"Three million people to me, or even half a million people, constitute just a nice, big, large
spirit."
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"I thought to myself, 'Oh, God, they're going to kill me. I'm not going out there first."
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"They landed on the moon on my birthday, July 20, and the next month we were at the meeting of the tribes. I was really peaking on mescaline before I went on. I remember praying, 'Lord, help me to stay in tune and in time.' The music made the people move like leaves in a field."
Santana
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Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart
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"It was the worst we ever played. It was pretty chaotic. People were screaming that the stage was collapsing. Jerry Garcia was getting shocked every time he touched his guitar."
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"You saw musicians getting soaked by the rain. It brought everyone down to a common reality. That was the most precious thing about the festival. The egos all melted away."
Jack Casady,
The Jefferson Airplane
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"You could shake off the mud, the music would fade, but you could never forget the emotion."
Gary Proud NYS
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"I was a total unknown. I had this really nervous cough that sounded like I was dying of tuberculosis. Joan Baez sent me a cup of hot tea from the "star" tent. After Woodstock, I got to do every festival, and I became a 'festival queen.'"
Melanie
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"The helicopter had to take us there in two trips because I was a lot heavier then. My manager brought five roast chickens. Janis Joplin had finished up all the bagels. We made a little campfire behind the stage and at two in the morning those chickens came in handy."
Leslie West
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"This was "Gone With The Wind" of our generation."
Alvin Lee
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"There was a certain glow about the Sixties, a certain naivete and exploration that doesn't sexist anymore."
Graham Nash
"Stealing a pick-up truck with Jimi Hendrix was one of the high points of my life."
Neil Young remembering his ride across the Woodstock site with Jimi Hendrix on the hood of a "borrowed" pickup truck
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"Every time I touched my instrument, I got a shock. The stage was wet, and the electricity was coming through me. I was conducting! Touching the guitar and the microphone was nearly fatal. There was a great big blue spark about the size of a baseball, and I got lifted off my feet and sent back eight or ten feet to my amplifier."
Bob Weir
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"A whole new
minority group. There's lots and lots and lots of us, more than anybody
ever thought before. We used to think of ourselves as little clumps of
weirdos." Janis Joplin
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"All these hippies wandering about thinking the world was going to be different from that day on. As a cynical English
arsehole, I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them, trying to make them realize that nothing had changed and nothing was going to change. Not only that, what they thought was an alternative society was basically a field full of six-foot-deep mud laced with LSD. If that was the world they wanted to live in, then fuck the lot of them."
"Woodstock changed me and I hated it. I didn't at all like Haight-Ashbury. I didn't like fucking Abbie Hoffman. I didn't like Timothy Leary, and I didn't like Woodstock."
- Pete Townshend
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