THANK YOU ONCE again to Lee Brackstone and Angus Cargill at Faber, and to Jonny Geller for making this book happen. Likewise to Ben Schafer at Da Capo and to Dan Kirschen at ICM. Thank you additionally to Ian Bahrami, Amber Morris, Beth Wright, and Julie Ford. Also to Kevin Freeborn for his perfect Woodstock map.
Thank you to my darling wife, Natalie, for her unwavering love and support, and to all our offspring: Jake, Fred, Nat, George, and Freddie.
My gratitude to the following for granting interviews—most specifically for this book, a handful for my earlier Band biography Across the Great Divide, or for older magazine pieces about Levon Helm, Todd Rundgren, Van Morrison, Tim Hardin, and Mercury Rev: the late Al Aronowitz, Paula Batson, Stan Beinstein, Karl Berger, Warren Bernhardt, Steve Bernstein, Graham “Monk” Blackburn, David Boyle, Harvey Brooks, Bebe Buell, Gabe Butterfield, Liz Butterfield, Larry Campbell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jim Colegrove, John Byrne Cooke, Peter Coyote, Marshall Crenshaw, Norma Cross, Arline Cunningham, David Dalton, the late Rick Danko, Jonathan Donahue, Bruce Dorfman, Robbie Dupree, Mike Ephron, Billy Faier, Simon Felice, Paul Fishkin, Tony Fletcher, Michael Friedman, Amos Garrett, Holly George-Warren, Jon Gershen, Milton Glaser, Barry Goldberg, Danny Goldberg, Sally Grossman, JoHanna Hall, the late Levon Helm, Richard Heppner, John Holbrook, Brian Hollander, Lucinda Hoyt, Garth Hudson, Aaron “Professor Louie” Hurwitz, Ian Kimmet, Al Kooper, Daniel Kramer, Elliott Landy, Michael Lang, James Lasdun, Ronnie Lyons, Sean “Grasshopper” Mackowiak, Fern Malkine, Ken Mansfield, Mary Martin, Beverley Martyn, David McDonald, Mark McKenna, Valma Merians, Van Morrison, Paul Mozian, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Lynne Naso, John Niven, Barbara O’Brien, Eddy Offord, Larry Packer, Christopher Parker, Graham Parker, D. A. Pennebaker, John Platania, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Reid, Robbie Robertson, Jim Rooney, Todd Rundgren, Ed Sanders, Dean Schambach, Daoud Shaw, Jules Shear, “Disco” Linda Sheldon, John Simon, Patti Smith, John Storyk, Kasim Sulton, Jonathan Taplin, Ted Templeman, Libby Titus, the late Artie Traum, Happy Traum, Jane Traum, Martha Velez, Peter Walker, Jim Weider, Jeremy Wilber, Linda Wortman, and Peter Yarrow.
In addition, my thanks to all the following:
To Ian Worpole—for providing the perfect base in Woodstock.
To Edward Helmore and Alastair Bates—for their gracious hospitality in New York.
To Ian Kimmet—who supported (and amused) me throughout my research.
To David Boyle, John Byrne Cooke, Jon Gershen, Douglas Gilbert, Bob Gruen, Ian Kimmet, Dan Kramer, Lisa Law, Elliott Landy, Monique Paturel, John Scheele, John Simon, Shep Siegel, Art Sperl, and Getty/Michael Ochs Archives for providing the wonderful images.
To Fern Malkine—who generously shared her archive of Woodstock history.
To JoAnn Margolis—for her meticulous assistance at the Woodstock Historical Society.
To Clinton Heylin—the ultimate Dylan fact-checker.
To Paul Smart and Weston Blelock—Woodstock experts who generously shared contacts and suggestions.
To Fred Goodman and James Motluk—for helping to shape my thoughts about Albert Grossman.
To Johnny Black—for sharing the transcripts of his interviews about Jimi Hendrix’s “kidnapping.”
To Pete Frame—for sending the family tree to end all family trees.
To Holger Petersen and Nick Bollinger—for their interviews with Bobby Charles.
To Edward Helmore (again)—for the transcript of his interview with Sally Grossman.
To Gayle Jamison—for her hospitality on Ohayo Mountain Road.
To Charlie Boxer—for sending Ezra Titus’s stories.
To George Slater—for some impeccable transcriptions.
And to all those who provided assistance, encouragement, and/or simple favors along the way: Kerry Adamson, Keith Altham, June Harris Barsalona, Dean Biddle, Loraine Alterman Boyle, Beth Bradford, Eve Brandstein, Bonnie Brooks, Tim Broun, Peter Stone Brown, Val Brown, Martin Colyer, Ted Cummings, John and Jan Cuneo, Ben Edmonds, Steve Farina, Martha Frankel, Mick Gold, John Griffin, Craig Harris, Will Hermes, Ken Hunt, Nicholas Jennings, Gordena Jesson, Duncan Jordan, Harvey Kubernik, Michael Naso, Joe Pickering, Simon Reynolds, Henry Scott-Irvine, Pal Shazar, David Simpson, Jim Sullivan, Alana Tyson, Julia Wrenn, and Dusty Wright.
To my colleagues at Rock’s Backpages for bearing with me through the research and writing: Mark Pringle, Tony Keys, Paul Kelly, and Kate Allen.
Finally to all the good friends made in Woodstock over many years: Mark and Maria Larson, Richard and Parveneh Holloway, Ian and April Worpole, Barry and April Price, Scott and Sari Grand-staff, Paul and Liza Mones, Ras T and family, Nic Harcourt, Abba Roland, Dennis Collins, and too many more to mention.