WOODSTOCK .

Performing artists and sequence of events.

Friday, August 15

The day, which officially began at 5:08 p.m. with Richie Havens, featured folk artists.

• Richie Havens (opened the festival - performed 7 encores)

  1. High Flyin' Bird

  2. I Can't Make It Anymore

  3. With A Little Help

  4. Strawberry Fields Forever

  5. Hey Jude

  6. I Had A Woman

  7. Handsome Johnny

  8. Freedom

• Swami Satchidananda

• Country Joe McDonald, played separate set from his band, The Fish

  1. I Find Myself Missing You

  2. Rockin' All Around The World

  3. Flyin' High All Over the World

  4. Seen A Rocket

  5. Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die Rag

• John Sebastian

  1. How Have You Been

  2. Rainbows All Over Your Blues

  3. I Had A Dream

  4. Darlin' Be Home Soon

  5. Younger Generation

• Sweetwater

  1. What's Wrong

  2. Motherless Child

  3. Look Out

  4. For Pete's Sake

  5. Day Song

  6. Crystal Spider

  7. Two Worlds

  8. Why Oh Why

• Incredible String Band

  1. Invocation

  2. The Letter

  3. This Moment

  4. When You Find Out Who You Are

• Bert Sommer

  1. Jennifer

  2. The Road To Travel

  3. I Wondered Where You Be

  4. She's Gone

  5. Things Are Going my Way

  6. And When It's Over

  7. Jeanette

  8. America

  9. A Note That Read

  10. Smile

• Tim Hardin, an hour long set

  1. If I Were A Carpenter

  2. Misty Roses

• Ravi Shankar, with a 5-song set, played through the rain

  1. Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital

  2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal

  3. Raga Manj Kmahaj

  4. Iap Jor

  5. Dhun In Kaharwa Tal

• Melanie

  1. Beautiful People

  2. Birthday of The Sun

• Arlo Guthrie

  1. Coming Into Los Angeles

  2. Walking Down the Line

  3. Amazing Grace

• Joan Baez

  1. Oh Happy Day

  2. The Last Thing On My Mind

  3. I Shall Be Released

  4. Joe Hill

  5. Sweet Sir Galahad

  6. Hickory Wind

  7. Drug Store Truck Driving Man

  8. I Live One Day At A Time

  9. Sweet Sunny South

  10. Warm and Tender Love

  11. Swing Low Sweet Chariot

  12. We Shall Overcome

source: Arthur Levy, annotator of the expanded editions of the 12 Joan Baez CDs on Vanguard

Jay Underwood got most of the bands to perform and was also on stage for many of the songs.

Saturday, August 16

The day opened at 12:15 pm, and featured some of the event's biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners.

• Quill, forty minute set of four songs

  1. They Live the Life

  2. BBY

  3. Waitin' For You

  4. Jam

• Keef Hartley Band

  1. Spanish Fly

  2. Believe In You

  3. Rock Me Baby

  4. Medley

  5. Leavin' Trunk

  6. Halfbreed

  7. Just To Cry

  8. Sinnin' For You

• Santana

  1. Waiting

  2. You Just Don't Care

  3. Savior

  4. Jingo

  5. Persuasion

  6. Soul Sacrifice

  7. Fried Neckbones

• Canned Heat

  1. A Change Is Gonna Come/Leaving This Town

  2. Going Up The Country

  3. Let's Work Together

  4. Woodstock Boogie

• Mountain, hour-long set including Jack Bruce's "Theme For An Imaginary Western"

  1. Blood of the Sun

  2. Stormy Monday

  3. Long Red

  4. Who Am I But You And The Sun

  5. Beside The Sea

  6. For Yasgur's Farm (then untitled)

  7. You and Me

  8. Theme For An Imaginary Western

  9. Waiting To Take You Away

  10. Dreams of Milk and Honey

  11. Blind Man

  12. Blue Suede Shoes

  13. Southbound Train

• Janis Joplin (Performed 2 encores; Piece of My Heart and Ball and Chain).

  1. Raise Your Hand

  2. As Good As You've Been To This World

  3. To Love Somebody

  4. Summertime

  5. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)

  6. Kosmic Blues

  7. Can't Turn you Loose

  8. Work Me Lord

  9. Piece of My Heart

  10. Ball and Chain

• Sly & the Family Stone started at 1:30 am

  1. Chip Monck Intro/M’Lady

  2. Sing A Simple Song

  3. You Can Make It If You Try

  4. Everyday People

  5. Dance To The Music

  6. I Want To Take You Higher

  7. Love City

  8. Stand!

• Grateful Dead

  1. St. Stephen

  2. Mama Tried

  3. Dark Star/High Time

  4. Turn On Your Love Light

• Creedence Clearwater Revival

  1. Born on the Bayou

  2. Green River

  3. Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)

  4. Commotion

  5. Bootleg

  6. Bad Moon Rising

  7. Proud Mary

  8. I Put A Spell On You

  9. Night Time is the Right Time

  10. Keep On Choogin'

  11. Suzy Q

• The Who began at 3 a.m., kicking off a long, 24-song set including Tommy

  1. Heaven and Hell

  2. I Can't Explain

  3. It's a Boy

  4. 1921

  5. Amazing Journey

  6. Sparks

  7. Eyesight to the Blind

  8. Christmas

  9. Tommy Can You Hear Me?

  10. Acid Queen

  11. Pinball Wizard

  12. Abbie Hoffman Incident (see above section)

  13. Fiddle About

  14. There's a Doctor

  15. Go to the Mirror

  16. Smash the Mirror

  17. I'm Free

  18. Tommy's Holiday Camp

  19. We're Not Gonna Take It

  20. See Me, Feel Me

  21. Summertime Blues

  22. Shakin' All Over

  23. My Generation

  24. Naked Eye

• Jefferson Airplane began at 8 a.m. with an eight-song set, capping off the overnight marathon.

  1. Volunteers

  2. Somebody To Love

  3. The Other Side of This Life

  4. Plastic Fantastic Lover

  5. Saturday Afternoon/Won't You Try

  6. Eskimo Blue Day

  7. Uncle Sam's Blues

  8. White Rabbit

Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18

Joe Cocker was the first act on the last officially-booked day (Sunday); he opened up for the day's booked acts at 2 PM. The day's events ultimately drove the schedule nine hours late. By dawn, the concert was continuing in spite of attendees' having left, returning to the workweek and their other weekday obligations.

• Joe Cocker

  1. Delta Lady

  2. Some Things Goin' On

  3. Let's Go Get Stoned

  4. I Shall Be Released

  5. With A Little Help From My Friends

• After Joe Cocker's set, a storm disrupted the events for several hours.

• Country Joe and the Fish resumed the concert around 6 p.m.

  1. Rock and Soul Music

  2. Thing Called Love

  3. Love Machine

  4. Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

• Ten Years After

  1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

  2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes

  3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always

  4. Hear Me Calling

  5. I'm Going Home

• The Band - Set list confirmed via Levon Helm's book "This Wheel's On Fire"

  1. Chest Fever

  2. Tears of Rage

  3. We Can Talk

  4. Don't You Tell Henry

  5. Don't Do It

  6. Ain't No More Cane

  7. Long Black Veil

  8. This Wheels On Fire

  9. I Shall Be Released

  10. The Weight

  11. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever

• Blood, Sweat & Tears ushered in the midnight hour with five songs.

  1. More and More

  2. I Love You Baby More Than You Ever Know

  3. Spinning Wheel

  4. I Stand Accused

  5. Something Coming On

• Johnny Winter featuring Edgar Winter, his brother, on two songs.

  1. Mama, Talk to Your Daughter

  2. To Tell the Truth

  3. Johnny B. Goode

  4. Six Feet In the Ground

  5. Leland Mississippi Blues/Rock Me Baby

  6. Mean Mistreater

  7. I Can't Stand It (With Edgar Winter)

  8. Tobacco Road (With Edgar Winter)

  9. Mean Town Blues

• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young began around 3 a.m. with separate acoustic and electric sets.

  • Acoustic Set

  1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

  2. Blackbird

  3. Helplessly Hoping

  4. Guinnevere

  5. Marrakesh Express

  6. 4 + 20

  7. Mr. Soul

  8. Wonderin'

  9. You Don't Have To Cry

  • Electric Set

  1. Pre-Road Downs

  2. Long Time Gone

  3. Bluebird

  4. Sea of Madness

  5. Wooden Ships

  6. Find the Cost of Freedom

  7. 49 Bye-Byes

• Paul Butterfield Blues Band

  1. Everything's Gonna Be Alright

  2. Driftin'

  3. Born Under A Bad Sign

  4. Morning Sunrise

  5. Love March

• Sha-Na-Na

  1. Na Na Theme

  2. Jakety Jak

  3. Teen Angel

  4. Jailhouse Rock

  5. Wipe Out

  6. Who Wrote the Book of Love

  7. Duke of Earl

  8. At the Hop

  9. Na Na Theme

• Jimi Hendrix had insisted on being the final performer of the festival and was scheduled to perform at midnight. Due to various delays, he did not take the stage until 9 A.M. on Monday morning. The crowd, estimated at over 500,000 at its peak, is reported to have been no larger than 80,000 when his performance began. His set lasted two hours -- the longest of his career -- and featured seventeen songs, concluding with "Hey Joe"; it was one of the most photogenic and talented performances, but it played to a relatively empty field. The full list of Hendrix's Woodstock performance repertoire follows:

  1. Message to Love

  2. Hear My Train A Comin'

  3. Spanish Castle Magic

  4. Red House

  5. Mastermind

  6. Lover Man

  7. Foxy Lady

  8. Jam Back At The House

  9. Izabella

  10. Gypsy Woman

  11. Fire

  12. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Stepping Stone

  13. Star Spangled Banner

  14. Purple Haze

  15. Woodstock Improvisation

  16. Villanova Junction

  17. Hey Joe

Refused invitations

• The promoters contacted John Lennon, requesting for The Beatles to perform. Lennon said that he couldn't get the Beatles, but offered to play with his Plastic Ono Band. The promoters turned this down.

• The Doors were considered as a potential performing band, but cancelled at the last moment. Contrary to popular belief that this was related in some fashion to lead singer Jim Morrison's arrest for indecent exposure while performing earlier that year, the cancellation was most likely due to Morrison's known and vocal distaste for performing in large outdoor venues. There also was a widely spread legend that Morrison, in a fit of paranoia, was fearful that someone would take a shot at him while he was onstage. Drummer John Densmore attended and can be seen on the side of the stage during Joe Cocker's set.

• Led Zeppelin were asked to perform, but refused after they were offered a gig with higher pay. The band later deeply regretted not performing, a possible reason why they accepted an offering at the Texas Pop Festival, held a short time after.

• Jethro Tull refused to perform, claiming that it wouldn't be a big deal.

• The Moody Blues for unknown reasons declined to perform. They later regretted not performing. They were however promoted as being a performer on the third day on early posters that stated the site being Wallkill.

• Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation to perform at Woodstock, which they later regretted. Lead singer Tommy James stated later, "We could have just kicked ourselves. We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me. So we passed, and we realized what we'd missed a couple of days later."

• The Clarence White-era Byrds were given an opportunity to play, but refused to do so after a melee during their performance at the Atlanta Pop Festival earlier that summer.

• Bob Dylan was in negotiations to play, however he had to pull out as his son was taken ill. He also was unhappy about the number of the hippies piling up outside his house near the originally planned site. He would go on to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival several weeks later.

• Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention Quote: "A lot of mud at Woodstock. We were invited to play there, we turned it down" - FZ. Citation: "Class of the 20th Century", U.S. network television special in serial format, circa 1995.

The film

A documentary film, Woodstock, directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by Martin Scorsese, was released in 1970. It received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film has been deemed culturally significant by the United States Library of Congress. In 1994, the "director's cut" was released; it included performances by Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin, who were not in the original version of the film.