- Self - Interviewee: [promoter] We're going to get a whole bunch of acts together and do a big festival. And rather than do it at one site, I said, we're gonna travel the country on a private train.
- Self - Interviewee: [journalist] The idea of this festival was an ingenious one. Instead of like getting everybody from all over the continent and everywhere to come to one place, it would be like the Mountain would go to Mohammed. Like you would take this festival to the various places and it was a great idea.
- Self - Grateful Dead: It was a train full of insane people careening across the Canadian countryside, making music, night and day. And, then, occasionally, we'd get off the train and go play a concert.
- Self - Grateful Dead: There was the blues car, the country car, the folk car, whatever. You know, you could drift from car to car and get involved in any number of jams. Some of which really - really did amount to some pretty heady stuff.
- Self - Grateful Dead: I knew that this was going to be our home for the next week. You know, I said, "Wow, what an adventure." I thought, "This is really in the spirit of the music and of the times, you know, in trying new things.
- Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band: [singing] And I know that it might be true, darling, That the grass always look greener, When you're lookin' at somebody else, But, honey, you know the real thing is waiting for you at home, I saw you dig it, I had a man, he said honey, honey, you know that I love you, See, but, I got to go find myself, you know, I got to go find my life, I gotta go find myself over in Africa, or over in New York City, or over in Olema, Some place those cats are always wandering off to, I never figured exactly where it was, He was goin' somewhere, man, And I said, baby, don't you realize, You lookin' for your life over there, honey, Honey, you know where your life is? Your life's waiting like a God damn fool , right here, for you man, And one morning you're gonna wake up in Casablanca, Or one of those fancy places, honey, You gonna be freezin' to death, man, You're gonna wake up and say, Good, good, good, Lord, Good, good, good, Lord, I just went off and left that woman, In that great big huge double bed, With that great big fur rug on top of it, With those satin sheets, sayin' what am I doin' in Casablanca, man? I mean, really, man? One of these days that cats gonna wake up and say that to himself, And when he comes back home, There - just like a Capricorn that I am, I'll be standing there waiting, sayin' Baby, I knew one day, Honey, I knew, knew, knew one day, That you'd finally come home to me...
- Self - Grateful Dead: Most all of us were new to drinking at that point too. We all had been taking LSD or smoking pot or whatever. This was a new experience for a lot of us. And it worked just fine.
- Self - Interviewee: [promoter] The press picked it up and there was a movement formed in Winnipeg - and then one in Calgary. So, ticket sells were not doing very well - mainly because of the protestors. So, we lost a significant amount of money and the bands all knew it. I said, "Hey, let's carry on and party."
- Self - Buddy Guy Blues Band: I couldn't keep up with them. It was partyin' all night long and said I got to go to sleep, man. Every time I went to bed, I thought I was going to miss something and I said, well, I got to back again. As a matter of fact, I never did stay in the bed for an hour.
- Self - Grateful Dead: These people weren't looking for free music, they were looking for - trouble. They were looking for an excuse to bust cops heads. They were, you know, pathologically anti-authoritarian. I know, I'm that way myself.
- Self - Grateful Dead: This train was not for sleeping. It was for a lot of other things; but, not for sleeping.
- Self - Ian & Sylvia & The Great Speckled Bird: I think that certainly what happened on the train carried over onto the stage. Because, people just became aware of the possibilities. We ended up in Calgary doing some stuff with a lot of sort of crossovers too. I mean, it really was quite extraordinary.
- Self - The Band, Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band, Self - Grateful Dead, Self - Grateful Dead: [singing] There ain't no more cane on the Brazos, They ground it all up in molasses...
- Self - Grateful Dead: Somebody had doctored that big bottle of Canadian Club and you could see little gelcaps at the bottom floating around down there. I did my best to stay away from that. But, even so, there was more going on than - at that point - than just just alcohol. There were psychedelics involved. I don't know what kind or how much. But, that - that train was sort of buzzing down the - the rails. We achieved lift off, for sure.
- Self - Grateful Dead: [singing] Please don' t dominate the rap, Jack, If you've got nothing new to say, If you please, go back up the track, This train's got to run today...
- Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band: Alright! Alright! I'm ready man.
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- Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band: Ohhhh-yeah! You thought you'd found yourself a good girl, One who would love you and give you the world, Then you find that you've been misused, Talk to me, honey, I'll do what you choose, I want you to, Well, tell Mama, all about it, Yeah, tell Mama, what do you need, Tell your Mama, babe, what you want, Tell your Mama, babe, what you need, What do you want, What do you need, What do you want, Oh! And I'll make everything alright...
- Self - Grateful Dead: It was a truly wondrous time to be a musician. You know, people took music seriously and the prospect for music becoming more than just entertainment or diversion.