i wanted to see janis joplin. i wanted to see jimi hendrix, sly and the family stone. it was mostly musical. we rented a cargo van and drove up in the cargo van, not knowing that the windshield wipers didn't work. we were driving in that pouring rain with no windshield wipers. we pulled over on the side of the road. we opened up the back door and we became friends. we saw them afterwards. it was just a wonderful experience. >> >> linda, thanks for the call. i have to ask you one question. there has been talk about having an anniversary woodstock. that has not come together. why is it difficult 50 years later? >> >> i don't know. i really don't know. would i have gone now? i don't think i would've gone now. i would like to see it on tv. i wouldn't have gone. >> >> linda, thank you. >> >> i think another thing that emerges from the people who were there, something i think in memory we don't understand about the 60's. a lot of people marched against the war, a lot of people marched against racial injustice. it was a relatively small minority of the baby boom generation it

janis joplin, jimi henrix, the grateful dead, jefferson airplanes.re already headline bands. but some people really emerged at that concert or became famous to a far larger crowd. richie havens was not a well-known figure though he was prominent in the new york area. santana was not a well-known band. when santana got up there, himself, and played that guitar, suddenly that band erupted and became an iconic figure in the rock scene.. for some bands there was a breakthrough moment. for some it was a validation. for some it wasn't the best show they ever played.id turn on but the music really did turn o. a generation and really exposede millions of people eventually to the film in particular to bands they didn't know about before that time. >> john is joining us from hanover, maryland. good morning, john. >> caller: good morning. >> go ahead with your memory from woodstock. you were there? start >> caller: well, yes, i was. my memory is what started it and what started it, it was like a spiritual awakening.yo and it started from the whole land.u sic ho

i wanted to see janis joplin. hendrix,to see jimi sly and the family stone. it was mostly musical. we rented a cargo van and drove van, not knowing that the windshield wipers didn't work. we were driving in that pouring rain with no windshield wipers. we pit was a relatively small minority of the baby boom generation itself. most baby boomers never marched, they never protested. they weren't political people. many baby boomers did feel they were a par did feel they were a part of did feel they were a part of other two guys tr parents they were going to the other guys house to sleep over. out, he said are you sure you've got enough toilet paper? us for beer.nown we just took this 10 miles. you should of got what you wanted. were not hurting for money. we work in the concession stand. us forre really bugging the beer. you don't like to be laughing at kids people, 15-year-old have beer and adults couldn't get their own. the best part was joe cocker. we had never heard of them. we just sat there in all of joe cocker. was the best of everybody that was there. expected a disaster. nothin

i said yeah, well if we took it outside, michael, suppose we had hendrix and joplin and all these people. comedy would come? how many would come? he said 50,000. i said 100,000. my wife said more than 300,000. i swear to god, i looked up that terrorists and i saw the field off that terrace and saw that field. i had seen it before. i had seen it the year before. they rode in the book, michael didn't say a word. >> did all the talking. i talked him into the $250,000. >> location, location, location. >> we were always going to college woodstock even though there was not enough land to have it in. i had the band at capitol. richie was living up there, everyone was up in woodstock or coconut grove, florida or sausalito in california. that was the way it was. location, michael did a stupid thing. he built a site can walk hill with no permit from the town. that wiped out the budget. i didn't even think i was going to sell tickets. i was shocked. when it was all over, we were one million in debt. it cost $2.4 million. the initial budget was 250,000. michael went 600% over budget, i went 60% over

and i said, yeah, i said, well, if we took it outside, michael, suppose we had hendricks and joplin and all these people, how many people would come. michael said, oh, about 50,000. and i said, no, there would have to be 100,000. and my wife said, there will be more than 300,000, just like that. and i swear to god, i looked off that terrace and i actually saw that field. that's when i'm interviewed in the movie, everybody says you spaced out. i said, of course, i was spaced out. i was looking at a dream that came true. and i had seen it a year before. we talked about it for four or five months and then we met john and joel and they wrote in the book, michael didn't say a word, artie did all the talking. and i talked them into the 250 grand. that was the start. >> location, location, location. >> we were always going to call the woodstock, even though there was no land big enough to have it in only because our friends lived there. i had the band at capitol. they lived there. richie was living up there. everybody was living up in woodstock or in coconut grove, florida, or in sausalito, ca

i said if we took it outside, and suppose we had hendrix and joplin and all of these people, and how many would come, and he said, 50,000. and i said, no, 100,000. and my wife said, no, there would be more than 300,000 just like that. and i swear to god i looked off of that terrace and i actually saw that field. that is why when i am interviewed in the movie they said were you spaced out and i said, yes, because i had seen a dream coming true, and i had seen it before, because we had talked about it for four or five month, and so then we met mike and joel, and i talked them into the 250 grand and that is the story. >> and the location, location, location. >> we were going to call it woodstock, even though there was no land big enough in woodstock to have it in. and i had the big bands there, and friends of capitol up there, and richie was living up there in woodstock or coconut grove, california or salsolito, california. and michael ran an ad, but i was able to bring in ticket, and i didn't think that we should sell tickets and i was shocked. we still went when it was all over we wer

supposedly i had hendrix and joplin and all these people. how many people do you think will come? he said 50,000. >> my wife said there will be more than 300,000 and i swear to god and i looked out that terrace and i actually saw the field and when i was interviewed, i was looking at the field. i was looking at a dream that came true. i had seen it a year before because we talked about it for four or five months and we met john and joel. they wrote in the book, artie did all of the talking and i talked him into the 250 grand and that was the start, you know? >> location, location, location. >> we were always going to call it woodstock only because our friends were there, and i had the band at capitol and they were there. albert grossman was one of my best friends and richey was living there and everyone was in woodstock or coconut grove florida or sausalito in california, and that's just the way it was, you know? >> michael did a stupid thing and he went out and build a site with no permit from the town. so that wiped out the whole budget and so i ran the ad that brought in a mill

beatles everybody loves the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and chan is joplin and iron butterfly rolling stones the doors spree once everybody love the supremes. gotch jimi hendrix. and all the base housing you can walk into court or are you sure. being cranked out on one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear carlos santana perhaps is coming out of another stereo so definitely the rock n roll. i swim through the main hobby as teenagers with music them into the woods and one thing led to another we tried to form a band and. we were very young back then maybe 12 years old and i played guitar but i took a classical guitar and put steel strings on it they cut my finger tips and the bass player simply removed 2 strings from a classical guitar leaving just for. our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons which he cut to size and then covered with glossy paper. this is one of the . it is one of the members of the band the radar's was a carpenter a cabinet maker a very good craftsman undergoing i was 14 when i arrived here and my

and i want to love you, i want to love you for so long ♪ ♪ oh, yeah >> you realize, this is janis joplinlooking 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 ♪ ♪ why, oh, why, people, tell me why love, honey, why love ♪ ♪ was like, was like a ball and a chain ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> everything was love and peace and music. and the policeman who was in charge brought flowers out to his men, and he said, "don't bust anybody." >> monterey was that hippie dream come true. >> culture was changing. the hippie movement, it was swaying the mainstream. >> this is where the youngsters come to buy their clothes. and not just the youngsters. it's the young adults and the men who are 40, 50 and even 60 years old. >> in the middle class, pot is going middle class and spreading like prohibition liquor. as more and more citizens get zonked out of their minds, the drug cult enters the bloodstream into american

. >> janice joplin was found dead last night. cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. >> jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s were sad? music because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock 'n' roll as we understood it in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> there will never be another beatles, never. ♪ >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try ♪ >> for so long you waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the music they came up with individually would be that good. >> i don't no longer have, oh, the beatles need an album. you and paul bette

but as far as the treacherous travel goes, anyone driving on 44 from joplin to springfield, heading back's where temperatures are cold enough that we'll have slick spots there. i'm sure school delays there. and 70, towards kansas city, columbia could have slick spots. under a winter weather advisory including central missouri. and the forecast isn't for that of traditional snow, only getting an inch or so in missouri. sliding into illinois. later this storm will duck to the southeast. we are going to get some rain, talking about the super bowl forecast heading down to miami. it looks like rain late today. a chance of rain friday. then a really nice weekend in south florida including on sunday for the big game. the actual forecast for today, miami, 78 and sunny. no complaints there but we will see rain late in the day. tampa, no problems in the northeast. a little chilly this morning so bundle up. this afternoon is fine. there's that snow in st. louis. a sneak peek for tomorrow, rinse and repeat. so we will clear out. there's a good reason why the super bowl is in miami often. >> i was go

i wanted to see janice joplin, i wanted to see jimmy hendrix, sly and the family stone.mostly musical. about ten of us rented a cargo van and we drove up in the cargo van, not knowing at the time that the windshield wipers didn't work. so we were driving in that pouring rain with no windshield wipers. we pulled over on the side of the road, another van pulled over. we opened up the back doors and we became friends because they were from queens. so we saw them after woodstock. it was just a wonderful, wonderful experience. >> linda, thanks for the call from howell, new jersey. linda, i have to ask you one question, because there had been talk of trying to have an anniversary woodstock 50 years later. that has not come together. why? why so difficult to capture the moment again 50 years later? >> caller: i don't know. i really don't know. would i have gone now? i don't think i would have gone now. just i would like to see it on tv but i wouldn't have gone. i don't know why. >> linda, thank you. david farber? >> i think another thing that emerges from the people who were th

some will move to joplin and spr springfield, missouri, but nothing too bad.he dallas area by about noon today you should be about all clear. houston, afternoon showers and storms. this is at 6:00 p.m., are the rain towards texarkana, and then tomorrow morning, new orleans into areas of southern mississippi will get some of that, and we'll have a little bit of snow possible in areas of missouri, and nthen tomorrow during the day, atlanta and florida. the east coast looks gorgeous, no problems at all. mid-40s, pretty mild for this time of year, not quite as warm as yesterday. all the troublesome weather is in the middle of the country. remember i was saying yesterday, the weekend storm would miss and be off the coast. a fewer have closer to the northeast. i'll break that down and show you. >> the snow could be in the forecast. >> you have to wait about 25 minutes from now. >> you are going to revise your forecast, basically is what you're saying. >> that's how we stay in business. >> keep us guessing, thanks, bill. >>> still ahead, more revelations from john bo

you have a town meeting in joplin or the southwest corner of the state of missouri and you sense the i've done that and frankly a lot of my colleagues thought i was crazy. i did most of my town halls in places where people didn't like me very much. so, you know, but you get points for going and you get points for trying and you get points for showing up. but no question, their phones right now -- we probably ought to -- in fact i'll try to do some work on that. they keep track of their phones. and their phones are jammed. the question is -- >> but the office landlines, they keep track. >> correct. everybody keeps track of how many calls they're getting. you have to be very careful when you have a moment like this that you have adequate voicemail space for everyone. if you call and can't leave a message, it's frustrating. i would get a tally every morning what was the total calls yesterday, how many yea, how many nay on the subjects when the phones lit up like immigration, like the aca. i guarantee you they're doing a tally right now. it would be interesting to find out how many peopl