Third Stone Rocker's Blog – August 2014 Archive (1)

Led Zeppelin opted out of Woodstock for Asbury Park, New Jersey

Article by Jean Mikle @jeanmikle

 It was Saturday, Aug. 16, 1969, and at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York, hundreds of thousands of people clustered on a mud-covered field for Day Two of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. The lineup that day included some of the biggest bands in the land: Canned Heat, Mountain, Sly and the Family Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead and The Who all played,…