“You hope things will be running like clockwork but at festivals in those days, particularly inaugural festivals, they never were and they certainly weren’t at Woodstock,” Daltrey continues. And we waited and waited and waited.”Īt around 7 p.m., the Who was finally beckoned to drive to the backstage area, only to sit on their asses for ten more hours. Everyone all just hanging around and waiting their turn to go to the site. “The destination we arrived at was a little different … the musicians had the rooms and the roadies and technicians slept in the corridors. The whole place was chaos,” Daltrey writes. Pete spent several hours in the traffic jams. “Three days of peace and love? Do me a favor. Mostly, it just involved a perpetual state of waiting, which didn’t do much for Daltrey’s anxiety issues. Kibblewhite, Woodstock may have been an undeniably seminal 20th-century event, but it wasn’t much fun for the bands that participated. But if you’re still suffering from a case of FOMO because you never got to drop a tab of acid and see Jimi Hendrix, Santana, and Creedence Clearwater Revival perform on a mud-soaked stage for hours on end, perhaps the Who’s Roger Daltrey might change your mind - because despite performing a headlining set at the festival with one of the most popular bands in the world, he still had a pretty shitty time.Īccording to Daltrey’s new memoir, Thanks a Lot Mr. The legend of Woodstock continues to bewitch music aficionados nearly a half-century after that fateful August 1969 weekend, even if its “peace and love” reputation has come under some scrutiny in the years that followed. Photo: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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