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I know I slept in a pile of velour under the stage at one time.

I had a trailer down at the lake

which was my lighting booth for Newport, about a 40-footer.

We slept in the back of the tractor trailer on the floor.

If you could call it sleeping ,

it was a few hours, if that, every night.

Some of the guys in the band , I think, actually went back

to whatever facilities they had for performers to stay at.

But I figured , as long as I was there, I was gonna, you know, just sort of dive in .

(CH UCKLI NG) I might as well just stay dirty, and be part of it all , yeah .

When you see the brown acid announcement,

you can tell by my fingernails and the color of my hands that, you know,

we didn't get anywhere close to any water.

I did not, for the record ,

I did not go and swim naked in the lake. Period .

I think skinny-dipping is just beautiful if you want to do it, if you can do it.

But some people can't

because their environment made them , you know, feel that it's wrong .

LISA LA W: We had discussions about

how we were gonna feed these people that were coming .

And we were out scrounging around some aluminum pots and this and that,

and I looked at the whole scene

and I said , "We don't need to scrounge."

The Hog Farm was able to get bushels and bushels of brown rice.

Now, that's what they served at the food booths.

I ended up buying 1 60, 000 paper plates, forks, knives and spoons

and about 30, 000 paper cups.

And it's a good thing I did , because they all went.

Everything went.

So that's how I figured that we fed between 1 60, 000 to 1 90, 000 people

at the Hog Farm free kitchen .

They would come up and we were frantically trying to keep things going ,

and someone would just stick a hot dog in your mouth .

That was about, maybe one or two hot dogs

(CH UCKLI NG) was about what we ate that whole time.

But we didn't care, because we knew it was something fantastic.

LANG: At one point, the "Food for Love" guys, who were our concessionaires,

were running low on hamburgers.

So they raised the prices from a quarter to a dollar,

and that displeased a bunch of people, so they went up and burned them down .

Now, there's a guy up there, some hamburger guy,

that had his stand burned down last night,

but he's still got a little stuff left,

and for you people that still believe that capitalism isn 't that weird,

you might help him out and buy a couple of hamburgers.

So I went around , making sure that there was enough food

for the cooks to use,

and then I would check on the medical tents.

I was trying to get some rest in that tent,

there was a couple of other people in there with me.

At which point,

one of the medical personnel came around .

The nurses came around and said , "Anybody want a shot?" "Okay."

So they gave us this really painful vitamin B shot

right in the ass.

And I tried to explain , "I can't, my arms. . ."

He just gave me a shot of B 1 2.

Oh , Jesus, God , did that hurt!

But it helped , you know.

(LAUG H I NG) Don't know what it helped with , but it definitely helped something .

I felt great.

(LAUG H I NG)

There was a performers' pavilion .

Then , all of a sudden , all that went to hell ,

because they needed it for emergency, you know.

I had to stand up to one of the older producers

and say that we had to have the crew tent,

which was where we were supposed to eat.

We had to convert it into a hospital, we had no choice.

A lot of kids in town didn't have anything to eat.

Word went out that everybody should contribute food .

We went over to the park

and the village permitted them to camp there.

A police car went up the street here with a loudspeaker

and told the kids to come up there.

We fed them Saturday night, all day Sunday.

MAN 1: Ifyou got food, feed other people.

Bugsy, to the pink and white tent. Keep feeding each other...

Pretty soon , everybody was taking care of everybody else,

and that's what Woodstock was about.

...and ifyou're too tired to chew, pass it on.