it said, get on board. we re leaving town. and i want to love you, i want to love you for so long oh, yeah you realize, this is janis joplin before she was known, before she had ever done her first album, before she had ever done her first single. looking out at the rain sun came along, honey it s just music at its freshest. it s music that is just being born. and the audience is like and i said, oh, whoa, whoa, well honey this can t be, b-b-b-babe, but now, no, no, no, yeah
down where the sun never shines, down in the woods where the wood vine twine i was working for the new york times in the catskills. and there were just a couple of us going up there. as we went north of the city, we began to run into traffic jams. i finally said to a cop, what the hell is going on? he says, i don t know, there are thousands of people here, and they re all going to some farm. and it was, of course, woodstock. i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they weren t alone. a lot of people who in their hometown or in their family felt isolated realized they weren t. the townspeople, quite frankly, were terrified at the prospect of the hippie arrival. i was apprehensive. this little hamlet has a population of under 100 people.
looking out at the rain mm-mmm, oh the best festival that i ve played pretty much ever is monterey pop festival. just looking out at the rain monterey hit like lightning. popular music was changing and had become something different, and it was a whole new generation of people that wanted to march with it. it said, get on board. we re leaving town. and i want to love you, i want to love you for so long oh, yeah you realize, this is janis joplin before she was known, before she had ever done her first album, before she had ever done her first single. looking out at the rain
just looking out at the rain monterey hit like lightning. popular music was changing and had become something different, and it was a whole new generation of people that wanted to march with it. it said, get on board. we re leaving town. and i want to love you, i want to love you for so long oh, yeah you realize, this is janis joplin before she was known, before she had ever done her first album, before she had ever done her first single. looking out at the rain sun came along, honey it s just music at its freshest. it s music that is just being born. and the audience is like and i said, oh, whoa, whoa,
they may be, as they say, coming here to build the foundations for a new society in this nation. or they may be becoming like the woolly mammoth, to find their own extinction. down where the wood vines twine, that s where i meet my love down where the sun never shines, down in the woods where the wood vine twine i was working for the new york times in the catskills. and there were just a couple of us going up there. as we went north of the city, we began to run into traffic jams. i finally said to a cop, what the hell is going on? he says, i don t know, there are thousands of people here, and they re all going to some farm. and it was, of course, woodstock. i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they weren t alone.