Video: 'Complete Woodstock Video/audio footage' (116 clips; Aug. 16-17, 1969, represented in clips 27-78)

(Saturday, August 16, 1969, 12:15 p.m.-Sunday, August 17, 1969, 9:40 a.m. EDT; during Woodstock) — 14 acts, including The Who, performed today at The “Woodstock Music & Art Fair,” a music festival billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Sullivan County, New York, near the town of Bethel in the Catskill Mountains.

Widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation, some 32 acts performed outdoors through the late morning of Aug. 18, 1969. The audience peaked at an estimated 400,000.

Quill opened the second day of the event, performing “They Live the Life” and three other songs. Quill’s set was followed with performances by Country Joe McDonald, Santana, John B. Sebastian, The Keef Hartley Band, The Incredible String Band, Canned Heat, Mountain, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, The Who and Jefferson Airplane.

The event was captured in the Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary film Woodstock and the accompanying soundtrack album.