THIS IS WHAT AEROSMITH HAD TO SAY ABOUT THEIR HEADLINING PERFORMANCE AT WOODSTOCK '94!!!
" It poured like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Summer thunderstorm in a catskill cattle pasture with 350.000 mud people satnding on it. Aerosmith was supposed to play at midnight, but midnight came and went. We got the word to go on at 1:15. Time to take the bull by the bag. We formed a circle around Joey's drums and Steven yelled : "Wake up Kids" and we began "Eat the Rich". we got our first look at the humongous crowd, lit by orange glow by the light towers. "Toys in the Attic","Fever","F.I.N.E" and "Rag Doll" while the rain came down. Steven, working at the unprotected front of the stage, was wetter than wet. Then we deployed "Crying", "Crazy", "Monkey On My Back", "Mama Kin" and "Shut Up And Dance"
Two in the morning rain stops. Joe Perry takes over and telecasts some blues and "Walk On Down". Next the four songs that build the climax of our show. The set -list taped to the stage floor reads: Janie, Elevator, Dude and Sweet emotion. You fill in the blanks Tom starts "Sweet Emotion" with some Bass Guitar, Brad's rhythm guitar is an emergency telegram. During 15 months of touring Get A Grip around the planet we'd been playing some old Zeppelin licks near the end of our set. At Woodstock this went off like a grenade. the big crowd exploded as we walked off and didn't stop until the encores. At Woodstock we added John lennon's "Come Together" to "Dream On" ( We saw a hundred thousand lighters fired up at the opening chords), "Living on the Edge" and"Walk this "Way".
At 3:30 on Sunday morning we waved goodnight. Back at the deserted artists compound, we were nearly blown away by the massive post - concert fireworks launched from the hill above us. Up in the black sky, giant erupting poppies. Wild sunflowers of fire a hundred feet above our heads. We took it personally.
Leaving the sleeping city of rock an hour later, someone looked at the thousands of tents clustered on the hillsides like refugees and murmured something about Hutus and Tutsis. The ferry down the dark and empty Hudson River at dawn was like crossing to Avalon. a big watch - fire blazed on the dock at Red Hook. An hour later we rode the western winds home, too tired to speak much that morning, but everyone was psyched. It didn't even seem real. HAD AEROSMITH HEADLINED SATURDAY NIGHT AT WOODSTOCK '94????DREAM ON......"