Remembering Woodstock: Graham Nash : Rolling Stone

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Graham Nash

Backstage was totally chaotic. There was so much dope that it's very hard to remember anything. Whenever the three or four of us would get together, especially with the Airplane and the Grateful Dead and Sebastian, it was just nonsense. Woodstock was only our second gig, but we weren't afraid of the crowd. We were more concerned with our peers. I think Stephen [Stills] and I were a little nervous that Hendrix and the Band and Blood, Sweat and Tears were there. And I think Neil [Young] was nervous about playing with us. Neil's not in control when he's with us — not in the way he likes to be. And so I think that made him a little nervous. I don't really know why he didn't chose to be in the movie. To this day, a lot of people think that it was just CSN that did Woodstock, but in fact it was the four of us.

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