what s that spell. perfect for a crowd angry at nixon and worried about the draft. well, come on all of you big strong men. while the war touched everything in 69, the woodstock stage was supposed to be politics free. we weren t going to have people making political speeches from the stage, the strongest political statement we could make was that if it worked. would abby hoffman tried to storm the mike in the middle of the who set, pete townsend got him off stage with his guitar. he shouted out, remember the chicago 7, and pete townsend standing right behind him and i saw him pick his guitar up, turn it over and go boop, right in the back of the neck. and it s one, two, three, what are we fighting for but country joe s sing along f bomb resonated show.