by Michael Lang
JOEL ROSENMAN (Woodstock Ventures partner) is the president of JR Capital, a venture-capital firm based in New York City.
HUGH ROMNEY (Hog Farm), better known as Wavy Gravy, founded and runs Camp Winnarainbow for children in Northern California.
CARLOS SANTANA (performer) continues to record and perform.
JOHN SEBASTIAN (performer) lives in Woodstock, New York, and continues to perform and record.
PENNY STALLINGS (assistant to Mel Lawrence) splits her time between Los Angeles and New Orleans. She is currently creating apps from her books Rock ’n’ Roll Confidential and Flesh and Fantasy for the Apple iPhone and iTouch.
PARRY TEASDALE (festivalgoer and videographer), following the festival, was a founder of Videofreex, a group of video artists and documentary filmmakers. He has since edited local newspapers in Woodstock and Chatham, New York.
TRAIN released one album, Costumed Cuties, on Vanguard in 1970. Garland Jeffries, who is based in New York, continues to perform and record as a solo artist. Don Keider has performed and recorded with a number of artists, including Rick James, and currently lives in North Carolina, where he plays vibes with a band called Pale Blue. Bob Lenox lives in Berlin, where he records and performs avant-garde music and performance art.
BILL WARD (grounds designer), now retired from the University of Miami art department, lives in Fort Pierce, Florida, where he chairs the art in public places committee in St. Lucie County. He ran his last sports car race in 2007 and now spends his time restoring a ’58 Lotus 7 and making small wood and clay sculptures.
MAX YASGUR (dairy farmer) died of a heart attack in 1973.
MIRIAM YASGUR (Max Yasgur’s wife and partner) lives in Florida.
THE MUSIC: WOODSTOCK’S COMPLETE SET LISTS
Compiled by Andy Zax
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
RICHIE HAVENS
From the Prison > Get Together > From the Prison
I’m a Stranger Here
High Flying Bird
I Can’t Make It Anymore
With a Little Help from My Friends
Handsome Johnny
Strawberry Fields Forever
Freedom (Motherless Child) and outro
SWEETWATER
Motherless Child
Look Out
For Pete’s Sake
What’s Wrong
Crystal Spider
Two Worlds
Why Oh Why
Let the Sunshine In
Oh Happy Day
Day Song
BERT SOMMER
Jennifer
The Road to Travel
I Wondered Where You’d Be
She’s Gone
Things Are Going My Way
And When It’s Over
Jeanette
America
A Note That Read
Smile
TIM HARDIN
How Can We Hang on to a Dream
Susan
If I Were a Carpenter
Reason to Believe
You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
Speak Like a Child
Snow White Lady
Blue on My Ceiling
Sing a Song of Freedom
Misty Roses
RAVI SHANKAR
Raga Puriya-Danashri/Gat in Sawaritai
Ravi talks
Tabla Solo in Jhaptal
Ravi talks
Raga Manj Kmahaj
MELANIE
Close to It All
Momma Momma
Beautiful People
Animal Crackers
Mr. Tambourine Man
Tuning My Guitar
Birthday of the Sun
ARLO GUTHRIE
Coming Into Los Angeles
Wheel of Fortune
Walking Down the Line
Arlo speech: Exodus
Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep
Every Hand in the Land
Amazing Grace
JOAN BAEZ
Oh Happy Day
Last Thing on My Mind
Joe Hill
Sweet Sir Galahad
Hickory Wind
Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man
One Day at a Time
Why Was I Tempted to Roam
Let Me Wrap You in My Warm and Tender Love
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
We Shall Overcome
DAY TWO: SATURDAY, AUGUST 16
QUILL
They Live the Life
That’s How I Eat
Driftin’
Waiting for You
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD
Janis
Donovan’s Reef
Heartaches by the Number
Ring of Fire
Tennessee Stud
Rocking All Over the World
Flying All the Way
Seen a Rocket
Fish Cheer/I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag (encore)
SANTANA
Waiting
Evil Ways
You Just Don’t Care
Savor
Jingo
Persuasion
Soul Sacrifice
Fried Neckbones
JOHN SEBASTIAN
How Have You Been
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
I Had a Dream
Darlin’ Be Home Soon
Younger Generation
KEEF HARTLEY BAND
Spanish Fly
She’s Gone
Too Much Thinkin’
Believe in You
Halfbreed Medley: Sinnin’ for You (intro)/Leaving Trunk/Just to Cry/Sinnin’ for You
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
Invocation (spoken word)
The Letter
Gather ’Round
This Moment
Come with Me
When You Find Out Who You Are
CANNED HEAT
I’m Her Man
Going Up the Country
A Change Is Gonna Come/Leaving This Town
(I Know My Baby?)
Woodstock Boogie
On the Road Again
MOUNTAIN
Blood of the Sun
Stormy Monday
Theme from an Imaginary Western
Long Red
For Yasgur’s Farm
Beside the Sea
Waiting to Take You Away
Dreams of Milk and Honey
Southbound Train
GRATEFUL DEAD
Saint Stephen
Mama Tried
Dark Star
High Time
Turn on Your Lovelight
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Born on the Bayou
Green River
Ninety-Nine and a Half
Bootleg
Commotion
Bad Moon Rising
Proud Mary
I Put a Spell on You
Night Time Is the Right Time
Keep on Chooglin’
Suzie Q
JANIS JOPLIN
Raise Your Hand
As Good as You’ve Been to This World
To Love Somebody
Summertime
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) Cosmic Blues
I Can’t Turn You Loose (Snooky Flowers)
Work Me Lord
Piece of My Heart
Ball and Chain
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
M’Lady
Sing a Simple Song
You Can Make It If You Try
Everyday People
Dance to the Music
Music Lover
I Want to Take You Higher
Love City
Stand
THE WHO
Heaven and Hell
I Can’t Explain
It’s a Boy
1921
Amazing Journey
Sparks
Eyesight to the Blind
Christmas
Tommy Can You Hear Me?
; Acid Queen
Pinball Wizard
Do You Think It’s Alright
Fiddle About
There’s a Doctor I’ve Found
Go to the Mirror Boy
Smash the Mirror
I’m Free
Tommy’s Holiday Camp
We’re Not Gonna Take It
See Me, Feel Me
Listening to You
Summertime Blues
Shakin’ All Over
My Generation
Naked Eye
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
The Other Side of This Life
Somebody to Love
3/5ths of a Mile in 10 Seconds
Won’t You Try/Saturday Afternoon
Eskimo Blue Day
Plastic Fantastic Lover
Wooden Ships
Uncle Sam’s Blues
Volunteers
The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
Come Back Baby
White Rabbit
The House at Pooneil Corners
DAY THREE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17
THE GREASE BAND (WITHOUT JOE COCKER)
jam
40,000 Headmen
JOE COCKER AND THE GREASE BAND
Dear Landlord
Something’s Coming On
Do I Still Figure in Your Life
Feelin’ Alright
Just Like a Woman
Let’s Go Get Stoned
I Don’t Need No Doctor
I Shall Be Released
Hitchcock Railway
Something to Say
With a Little Help from My Friends
COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH
Rock and Soul Music
Love
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine Sing Sing Sing
Summer Dresses
Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife
Silver and Gold
Maria
The Love Machine
Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I’m a Nut)
short jam
Crystal Blues
Rock and Soul Music (reprise)
The Fish Cheer
I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag
TEN YEARS AFTER
Spoonful
Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
Hobbit
I Just Can’t Keep from Crying Sometimes
Help Me
I’m Goin’ Home
THE BAND
Chest Fever
Don’t Do It
Tears of Rage
We Can Talk About It Now
Long Black Veil
Don’t You Tell Henry
Ain’t No More Cane
This Wheel’s On Fire
I Shall Be Released
The Weight
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
JOHNNY WINTER
Talk to Your Daughter/Six Feet in the Ground
Leland Mississippi Blues
Mean Town Blues
Mean Mistreater
I Can’t Stand It
Tobacco Road
Tell the Truth
Johnny B. Goode
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
More and More
Just One Smile
Something’s Coming On
More Than You’ll Ever Know
Spinning Wheel
Sometimes in Winter
Smiling Phases
God Bless the Child
And When I Die
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Blackbird
Helplessly Hoping
Guinnevere
Marrakesh Express
Four and Twenty
Mr. Soul
I’m Wonderin’
You Don’t Have to Cry
Pre-Road Downs
Long Time Gone
Bluebird Revisited
Sea of Madness
Wooden Ships
Find the Cost of Freedom
49 Bye-Byes
PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND
Born Under a Bad Sign
No Amount of Loving
Driftin’ and Driftin’
Morning Sunrise
All in a Day
Love March
Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
SHA NA NA
Get a Job
Come Go with Me
Silhouettes
Teen Angel
Her Latest Flame
Wipeout
Who Wrote the Book of Love
Little Darling
At the Hop
Duke of Earl
Get a Job (reprise)
JIMI HENDRIX
Message to Love
Hear My Train a Comin’
Spanish Castle Magic
Red House
Mastermind
Lover Man
Foxey Lady
Jam Back at the House
Izabella
Gypsy Woman
Fire
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
The Star-Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Woodstock Improvisation
Villanova Junction
Hey Joe
SOURCES
Michael Lang was the primary source of information for The Road to Woodstock. All additional sources for specific quotes are listed below, chronologically within each chapter for which the material was drawn. (Each source is abbreviated after first mention.)
2. THE GROVE
Holly George-Warren [HGW] interview with Don Keider [DK]; HGW interview with Stan Goldstein [SG]; Abbie Hoffman [AH] interviewed by Joel Makower for his book Woodstock: The Oral History (New York: Doubleday, 1989) © Joel Makower, all rights reserved for this and all Makower attributions; Henry Llach interview with Ric O’Barry; “Flower Children Strangely Mannerly: Reporter Rubs Elbows with Weirdos,” Fort Lauderdale News, May 19, 1968; Mitch Mitchell, www.rockprophecy.com; Noel Redding and Carol Appleby, Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (New York: Da Capo, 1996); Eddie Kramer, www.rockprophecy.com.
3. WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK
Alf Evers, Woodstock: History of an American Town (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1987); Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986); HGW interview with Jeremy Wilber; HGW interview with Gilles Malkine [GM]; Barney Hoskyns, Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (New York: Hyperion, 1993); Sid Griffin, Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes (London: Jawbone, 2007); HGW interview with DK; HGW interview with Artie Kornfeld [AK]; Joel Makower interview with AK; Joel Rosenman, John Roberts, and Robert Pilpel, Young Men with Unlimited Capital [YMWUC] (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974); Joel Makower interview with Joel Rosenman.
4. WALLKILL
“Woodstock Studios Set,” Billboard magazine, July 5, 1969; HGW interview with SG; HGW interview with Mel Lawrence [ML]; HGW interview with Chip Monck [CM]; Joel Makower interview with Chris Langhart; HGW interview with Joyce Mitchell; YMWUC; HGW interview with Penny Stallings [PS]; HGW interview with Bill Ward [BW]; HGW interview with Ticia Bernuth Agri [TBA]; Joel Makower interview with Wes Pomeroy [WP].
5. NEW YORK CITY
HGW interview with ML; HGW interview with Joyce Mitchell; Joel Makower interview with John Morris; HGW interview with Lee Mackler Blumer [LMB]; HGW interview with Jane Friedman [JF].
6. DOWNTOWN
Joel Makower interview with AH; HGW interview with Roz Payne [RP]; HGW interview with TBA; “Public Notice and Statement of Intent,” Times Herald-Record [THR], June 19, 1969; HGW interview with LMB; HGW interview with JF; HGW interview with SG; HGW interview with Hugh Romney [HR]; “Woodstock: Mud, Music, & Magic,” reported by the Record staff, written by Mark Pittman with Stephen Israel, Times Herald-Record special publication [THR sp], August 12, 1989; HGW interview with AK; “Editorial,” THR, June 27, 1969, used with permission.
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. YASGUR’S FARM
“Show Will Go On, Rock Fete Promoters Boast,” THR, July 15, 1969; “Festival Seen Moving to Sullivan,” Kingston Freeman, July 19, 1969; “Aquarian Expo Wins A-OK from Bethel Boards,” THR, July 22, 1969; “Businessmen Throw Weight Behind Exposition,” THR, July 31, 1969; “Rock at Woodstock,” by Jane Stuart, Hackensack, N.J., Record Call, July 27, 1969; “Rock Fete Readies Bethel Site; Few Protest,” THR, July 24, 1969; HGW interview with ML; HGW interview with SG; HGW interview with PS; HGW interview with TBA; Joel Makower interview with Miriam Yasgur [MY]; Joel Makower interview with John Roberts; Joel Makower interview with Joel Rosenman.
8. BETHEL
Joel Makower interview with WP; Joel Makower interview with John Roberts; Joel Makower interview with HR; “Members of the Hog Farm,” New York Post, August 7, 1969; HGW interview with SG; Joel Makower interview with Lisa Law; “Woodstock…Well, Dylan Likes the Name,” by Al Aronowitz, New York Post, August 11, 1969; HGW interview with Alan Douglas [AD]; HGW interview with Dale Bell [DB]; Henry Diltz quoted in Jack Curry, Woodstock: The Summer of Our Lives [WSOOL] (New York: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989); HGW interview with PS; HGW interview with BW.
9. AUGUST 13–14, 1969
Joel Makower interview with WP; HGW interview with LMB; HGW interview with RP; HGW interview with CM; HGW interview with SG; Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation [WN] (New York: Vintage Books, 1969); HGW interview with AK; HGW interview with Joyce Mitchell; HGW interview with DB; HGW interview with Parry Teasdale [PT]; HGW interview with Rob Kennedy [RK]; Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out [BGP] (New York: Doubleday, 1992); “Thousands Rolling In for Woodstock Rock,” Washington Post, August 14, 1969.
10. AUGUST 15, 1969
Richie Havens with Steve Davidowitz, They Can’t Hide Us Anymore (New York: Spike, 1999); HGW interview with CM; HGW interview with Joyce Mitchell; Joel Makower interview with WP; HGW interview with RK; “The Woodstock Festival,” by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone [RS 69], September 20, 1969; email from Jonathan Gould to HGW; HGW interview with PS; HGW interview with AK; Joel Makower interview with John Morris; WSOOL; HGW interview with Christine Oliveira [CO]; Joel Makower interview with AH; Rona Elliot [RE] interview with Alex del Zoppo; RE interview with Fred Herrera; Ellen Sander, Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973); HGW interview with GM; “Rock Time in the Mountains,” by Al Aronowitz, New York Post, August 16, 1969; “Woodstock Remembered,” Rolling Stone [RS 89], August 24, 1989; Joel Makower interview with John Morris.
11. AUGUST 16, 1969
HGW interview with ML; WN; Joel Makower interview with MY; THR sp; HGW interview with SG; “The Politics of Rock: Movement vs. Groovement,” by Tom Smucker, Fusion, October 17, 1969; HGW interview with BW; HGW interview with GM; HGW interview with CO; Joel Makower interview with AH; HGW interview with PT; Joel Makower interview with HR; HGW interview with PS; HGW interview with RP; “300,000 at Folk-Rock Fair Camp Out in Sea of Mud,” New York Times, August 17, 1969; WSOOL; HGW interview with JF; BGP; HGW interview with Gregg Rolie; HGW interview with Michael Shrieve; HGW interview with AD; Sander, Trips; Rock Scully with David Dalton, Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead (New York: Little, Brown, 1996); “Woodstock Remembered,” Rolling Stone, August 24, 1989; Blair Jackson, Garcia: An American Life (New York: Viking, 1998); HGW interview with Stu Cook; HGW interview with Jocko Marcellino; WSOOL; Mark Wilkerson, Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend (London: Omnibus Press, 2008); BGP.