Ken Light, Contributor: Ken Light is an American social documentary photography professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley.

Nicholas G. Meriwether, Contributor: Nicholas G. Meriwether has written on the counterculture, the South, and American literature for a variety of academic and popular publications. He has served as oral historian, archivist, visiting scholar and research fellow at several universities and private foundations. He was educated at Princeton, Cambridge, and the University of South Carolina.

Jim Marshall, Photographer: Jim Marshall (1936-2010) is world renowned as the pioneer of rock-and-roll photography. A principal photographer at Woodstock and the only photographer allowed backstage at the Beatles’ final concert, he immortalized bands such as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane before they became household names. In 2014, Marshall recieved a Grammys Trustees Award for his life's work.

Joel Selvin, Author: Joel Selvin has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. He is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock (with Sammy Hagar) and has worked on virtually every book Marshall has produced since their 1992 collaboration, Monterey Pop. He lives in San Francisco.