I worked at the Pizza Inn restaurant that was across the street from the stadium (it was a Lum's before it became a Pizza Inn and I don't know what's there now). Richie Havens came in and ate there after he performed. I remember the girl who waited on his table said he was very laid back and pleasant. We were really busy the entire weekend, but when the storm hit on Sunday, we got slammed! It was the only time I remember that we ever closed early -- basically because we were out of just about everything. Among the last few people to get in the door were s a couple of members of the Outlaws and some of their crew. By that time, we were making pizzas out of dough that had just been mixed a short time earlier and hadn't had time to rise (we used to make up big tubs of dough the night before or early in the morning, and let it rise for several hours before we used it). No one was complaining though. I remember we talked to some of the guys from the crew and they were defending Winter and the other act that wouldn't take the stage after the storm. They felt it would have been really dangerous. I think the guys from the band were among the very few people in the place that night that weren't either stoned or really drunk.
I remember Montros, Pure Prairie League and the Nitty Gritty Dirt band, but didn't remember ZZ Top was there. It seemed that most of the bands were either on their way up, past their peak, or were kind of niche acts. Didn't Golden Earring cancel out a week or two before the show, with Montros being brought in to replace them?
I also remember that it seemed like the administration wanted to make sure very quickly that nothing like the festival was ever repeated. There were stories in the local papers that most of the tickets weren't sold on campus, which was supposed to mean that students weren't very interested. They made a big issue of the fact that a lot more tickets were sold to students for any home football game than were sold for the festival.
