sanguine. “It made our career,” he said
of the festival. “We were a huge cult
band, but Woodstock cemented us to
the historical map of rock ’n’ roll.”
AFTER WOODSTOCK: The Who is, of
course, one of the dominant rock
groups in music history. The manic
and colorful Moon died from a pre-
scription drug overdose in 1978, but
the band played on—though rela-
tions between members were volatile
and there were numerous breakups,
hiatuses, and reunions. Townshend
and Daltrey became estranged but
rekindled a close friendship after
Entwistle’s death in 2002 at 57 from a
cocaine-induced heart attack. Both in
their mid-seventies they still perform
together and separately. Townshend
has also turned to writing fiction; his
debut novel, The Age of Anxiety, is due
out in November 2019.Jefferson Airplane
7–8:45 AM
Following the Who at the top of their
game would have been an unenviable
task, especially after you’ve been par-
tying for 24 hours, but the bleary-eyed
Jefferson Airplane gave it a shot. The
West Coast flower power rockers—leadsinger Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Paul
Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady,
Spencer Dryden, and guest keyboard-
ist Nicky Hopkins—did some of their
biggest hits, including “White Rabbit”
and “Somebody to Love,” along with
the haunting and apocalyptic “Wooden
Ships,” a Kantner–David Crosby–
Stephen Stills composition. By these
early morning hours, much of the
crowd was zonked out, and the band
wasn’t far behind. “We’d been up all
night and I sang the goddamned songs
with my eyes closed, sort of half asleep
and half singing,” Slick said. “We prob-
ably could have played better if we’d66 LIFE WOODSTOCK