You’re touring with Rod Stewart this summer. Any songs you hope to play with him?
He wants me to do some things he’s done with Jeff Beck. I don’t know if I’m comfortable doing that. I want to do something like Otis Redding’s version of “Daytripper” he did in 1967 at the Olympia. Maybe some Ben E. King, too. He’s got the voice for it. He can do anything he wants. It’s just a matter of willingness. I like to take people out of their comfort zones, myself included, because that’s where the chills are.
You famously went onstage at Woodstock after taking a ton of mescaline. Just how much did you take?
Looking back, it was bordering on foolishness because it can seem so scary. Imagine performing up there on LSD or mescaline or peyote. It was hard for me to even remember anything until I saw the video of it.
Was that the last time you went onstage that messed up?
No, that continued for a few more years. I told God, “I’ll never do that again” because I was so scared. But he forgave me for breaking that promise. I did learn some things from all that. Once in a while, woman and man have to purge themselves from the plastic layers of illusion.