John Sebastian on why Woodstock was one of his lousiest performances and why he'll never live down the outfit he was wearing JimmyDean 50thAnniversary
one of my lousiest performances, because by the time I was asked to play I was as stoned as everybody else. It had been raining, and Chip approached me: “John, we need someone to hold the stage with an acoustic instrument, because we’ve got to sweep the stage before we can even put an amp on it.” It was raining when I began to play, and à la Cecil B. DeMille, the sun came out just as I was finishing.
Rick Danko and I went over to the large white tents where Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farmers were cooling out acid casualties. The people were lying on canvas cots, and Wavy was walking around in a white outfit. Every kid who came in would go up to Wavy and say, “Here, man, please take these, and don’t let me ever see them again!” Rick and I tried to think of all the soothing songs we could play for the mentally disoriented. It was hard-core easy-listening music.
When Jimi was playing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,” my brother and I were pushing somebody’s car out of the mud and making our exit. Most of the people had gone, and it looked like a battlefield out there, like a war had gone on. I’ve spent 20 years living down the outfit I was wearing. I was really into tie-dyeing at the time, and it was basically tie-dyed Levi jeans and jacket — my Woodstock “suit of lights,” as someone once called it. I still have the jacket, but the pants were stolen out of a New York laundromat.
A version of this story was originally published in the August 24th, 1989 print edition of Rolling Stone.
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