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Mostly, it just involved a perpetual state of waiting, which didnt do much for Daltreys anxiety issues.
Three days of peace and love?
Do me a favor.
It was crazy even before we arrived.
Pete [Townshend] spent several hours in the traffic jams.
Other artists didnt make it at all.
The whole place was chaos, Daltrey writes.
Everyone all just hanging around and waiting their turn to go to the site.
And we waited and waited and waited.
And waiting some more.
An audience of half a million didnt exactly help.
Even the ice cubes had been done.
Thats how they got me.
A nice cup of hallucinogenic tea.
But it was chaos.
The monitors kept breaking.
The sound was shit.
We were all battling the elements and ourselves.
But hey, at least he got a great story out of it and a small measure of immortality.
