Life - Woodstock at 50 - 2019

JOAN BAEZ TOOK THE STAGE after one a.m. Clarion-voiced (and clearheaded—she was one of the few artists there who steered clear o ...

DESPITE THE UNCOOPERATIVE weather and the general chaos, the joy was palpable in the massive amphitheater, especially when the m ...

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IN THE SPIRIT OF CREATIVE freedom, it was pretty much “each to his own” when it came to expressing oneself at Woodstock. In this ...

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ONE KIND OF PEACE CAME IN the form of sleep, wherever one could find it. On Saturday, the music began shortly after noon and con ...

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would only inflame the situation. What seemed to save the day was an overwhelming communal spirit—the mass of humanity, some sur ...

unfortunately, it’s one of the festival’s forgotten acts: Though the Woodstock documentary cameras were rolling, the footage cou ...

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attention to me,” McDonald recalled. “I was just Muzak or something. I knew my job was just to go up and kill time. But after [a ...

Midway through, McDonald stoked the audience to an even higher pitch. “Listen, people, I don’t know how you expect to ever stop ...

ou can’t take your eyes off him. One of the Woodstock documentary film’s most compelling sequences is a dynamic drum solo during ...

Woodstock film, showcases the electri- fying stick work of 20-year-old drum- mer Michael Shrieve. Santana wrapped up the gig wit ...

THE GREAT SONGWRITER AND troubadour John Sebastian was not scheduled to play Woodstock, but he agreed to step in to fill a gap i ...

THE REVOLUTIONARY GARB OF some attendees provided side entertainment, even if some kids were, in reality, just hippies-for- a-we ...

AFTER WOODSTOCK: Hartley made sev- eral albums with his band and a couple of solo efforts, then drifted out of the music busines ...

Canned Heat had nearly cancelled their appearance entirely. Two days before the festival, guitarist Henry Vestine clashed with b ...

which was sabotaged by weather and technical problems. For one thing, the Dead’s equipment was exceptionally heavy, which strain ...

performed just five songs: “St. Stephen,” “Mama Tried,” “Dark Star,” “High Time,” and “Turn On Your Lovelight,” a finale that tu ...