Here's How Much Woodstock Performers Got Paid 50 Y

Here's How Much Woodstock Performers Got Paid 50 Years Ago — and Who's the Richest Star Now

Jimi Hendrix: $18,000

Blood, Sweat & Tears: $15,000

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joan Baez: $10,000 Each

Jefferson Airplane, The Band, Janis Joplin: $7,500 Each

Richie Havens, Sly & the Family Stone, Canned Heat, The Who: $6,000 – $7,000 Each

Arlo Guthrie, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: $5,000 Each

The Grateful Dead: $2,500

Here’s the rest of the low end of the payscale at Woodstock in 1969, according to Variety:

• Ravi Shankar: $4,500
• Johnny Winter: $3,750
• Ten Years After: $3,250
• Country Joe and the Fish: $2,500
• Incredible String Band: $2,250
• Mountain: $2,000
• Tim Hardin: $2,000
• Joe Cocker: $1,375
• Sweetwater: $1,250
• John Sebastian: $1,000
• Melanie: $750
• Santana: $750
• Sha Na Na: $700
• Keef Hartley: $500
• Quill: $375

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