See Joni Mitchell play 'Woodstock' at the site of the original festival in 1998
, who toured very infrequently throughout the 1980s and 1990s and would essentially retire from the road in 2000. She was supposed to play the original Woodstock in 1969, but her manager David Geffen worried that the chaos of the event would make it impossible for her to make a planned appearance on thethe following day. She was a new artist then and he felt that national TV exposure was far more valuable than playing a single concert.
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and the Jefferson Airplane managed to play Woodstock and make Cavettt, and you can see from the expression on Joni Mitchell’s face that was crushed to have missed out on all the fun. Not long afterwards, she wrote her classic song “Woodstock” about the festival even though she wasn’t there. It was covered by CSNY on their 1970 LP, and here’s footage of Joni finally visiting Bethel Woods in 1998 where she, of course, sang the song.
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