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Woodstock Remembered: Carlos Santana on the Spiritual Vibe of the Fest

"Woodstock signified the coming together of all the tribes," he recalls

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Woodstock Remembered: Mountain Guitarist Leslie West on Playing the Fest

"When we flew over in the helicopter, it felt like something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

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Woodstock Remembered: John Sebastian on the Sun, Fun and Tie-Dye

"I consider Woodstock one of my lousiest performances," says Lovin’ Spoonful founder

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Woodstock Remembered: ‘It Was Magical!’ Says Singer-Songwriter Melanie

"For a year afterward, every time I sang 'Candles in the Rain,' the song I wrote about Woodstock, people would start lighting candles"

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Woodstock Remembered: Richie Havens on Opening the Fest of ‘People Just Being...

"It was the first expression of the first global-minded generation born on the planet," singer-songwriter recalled

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Woodstock Remembered: Bob Weir on Why the Fest Mattered to the Grateful Dead

"The significance for me was that the new music that was evolving during the previous years had come of age there," founding member of Grateful Dead says

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Woodstock Remembered: Robbie Robertson on Feeling ‘Proud’ to Be Part of the...

The Band thought the whole idea of the Woodstock festival was exciting because of what it stood for. The promoters were telling everybody that it was a show of hands for people who felt a certain way...

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Woodstock Remembered: Baron Wolman on Photographing the Legendary Fest

50 years later, Rolling Stone's first chief photographer discusses festival highlights, escaping the mud and playing the cowbell

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Graham Nash on Woodstock: ‘It Was Both Primeval and Futuristic’

It was only CSNY's second gig, and they were playing to a crowd of 400,000

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Joan Baez Looks Back at Woodstock: ‘It Was the Eye of the Hurricane’

In this unpublished interview from 2009, Baez remembers traveling to the festival on a helicopter with Janis Joplin and avoiding all the food backstage for fear it had been laced with LSD

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