Jerry Garcia and John Fogerty...on Woodstock

Jerry Garcia: “We played such a bad set at Woodstock. The weekend was great, but our set was terrible. We were all pretty smashed, and it was at night. Like we knew there were a half million people out there, but we couldn't see one of them. There were about a hundred people on stage with us, and everyone was scared that it was gonna collapse. On top of that, it was raining or wet, so that every time we touched our guitars, we'd get these electrical shocks. Blue sparks were flying out of our guitars.”

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John Fogerty: “These people [in the crowd] were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and covered with mud.

“This is the moment I will never forget as long as I live:  a quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his lighter.  And in the night I hear, ‘Don't worry about it, John.  We’re with you.’”