NathanSome Other Potential Reasons
Thompson also had a theory that the huge amount of drugs and booze that the concert attendees consumed may have lead to memory loss about the festival. There was one other factor that could have been the reason too. The musicians and the crowd were placed so far away from each other that they did not really ‘connect’ like in Woodstock. The Grateful Dead refused to be recorded as they probably did not want to share their music for free, which led to very few clips of the event.