The Road to Woodstock (34 page)

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

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.

7.
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
.

12.
AUGUST
17, 1969

HGW interview with SG; Joel Makower interview with MY;
RS
89; HGW interview with BW;
RS
69; HGW interview with Joyce Mitchell;
WSOOL
; RE interview with Leo Lyons;
THR
sp; David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb,
Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby
(New York: Doubleday, 1988); Payne: Charles Cross,
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
(New York: Hyperion, 2005); Joel Makower interview with Tom Law; HGW interview with ML.

13.
THE AFTERMATH

HGW interview with PT; HGW interview with CO; HGW interview with ML; HGW interview with PS;
WSOOL
; “A 19-Hour Concert Brings Quiet Back to Max Yasgur’s Cows,”
New York Times
, August 18, 1969; HGW interview with SG; HGW interview with RP; “Nightmare in the Catskills,”
New York Times
, August 19, 1969; “Woodstock Farmer Asks Another Fest,”
Wayne
( N.J.)
Today,
August 19, 1969; HGW interview with Artie Ripp; HGW interview with AK; HGW interview with LMB; “Morning After at Bethel,”
New York Times
; August 20, 1969; “Happening in Bethel,”
Boston Globe
, August 19, 1969; “Aftermath at Bethel: Garbage & Creditors,” by Al Aronowitz,
New York Post
, August 19, 1969; Joel Makower interview with Joel Rosenman; HGW interview with Joyce Mitchell.

EPILOGUE

“Carlos Santana,”
Mojo
, November 2008; Joel Makower interview with AH; “Woodstock 25 Years Later” by Greil Marcus,
Interview
, August 1994; Brian Hassett blog, January 20, 2009; “Woodstock Without the Mud,” by Gail Collins,
New York Times
, January 21, 2009.