In this unpublished interview from 2009, Baez remembers traveling to the festival on a helicopter with Janis Joplin and avoiding all the food backstage for fear it had been laced with LSD
It was only CSNY's second gig, and they were playing to a crowd of 400,000
50 years later, Rolling Stone's first chief photographer discusses festival highlights, escaping the mud and playing the cowbell
The Band thought the whole idea of the Woodstock festival was exciting because of what it […]
"The significance for me was that the new music that was evolving during the previous years had come of age there," founding member of Grateful Dead says
"It was the first expression of the first global-minded generation born on the planet," singer-songwriter recalled
"For a year afterward, every time I sang 'Candles in the Rain,' the song I wrote about Woodstock, people would start lighting candles"
"I consider Woodstock one of my lousiest performances," says Lovin’ Spoonful founder
"When we flew over in the helicopter, it felt like something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
"Woodstock signified the coming together of all the tribes," he recalls
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