My most recent CD purchase (2 weeks ago) was the entire Jefferson Airplane set (“Morning Maniac Music”). I never get tired of listening to Jack Casady play bass guitar.
My brother, a deserter from the Army, was picked up by the FBI on his way to Woodstock. I think he was glad to stop running …. but couldn’t it have been on the way back from Woodstock???
Half a million “defined a generation”, as we’ve been told for 40 years. Twice that many in Denver for the 1992 World Youth Day, on the other hand, was so much chopped liver.
My buddies and I were working at the coke ovens at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Buffalo during the summer of ’69 when we heard that a lot of great bands would be playing at Woodstock. We hopped into a friend’s VW and headed off to Woodstock not knowing what to expect. By the time we got there the organizers were declaring that it was now a free concert. As I sat on the back of my friend’s VW in a long line of traffic a motorcycle came by with a beautiful girl riding on the back. When she got to the back of the VW she looked at me and said, “you’re a Scorpio.” The motorcycle zoomed off. “Wow, how’d she know”, I said. My buddies assured me that she was blowing the minds of one out of every twelve guys.
I suddenly feel old. 🙂
My most recent CD purchase (2 weeks ago) was the entire Jefferson Airplane set (“Morning Maniac Music”). I never get tired of listening to Jack Casady play bass guitar.
My brother, a deserter from the Army, was picked up by the FBI on his way to Woodstock. I think he was glad to stop running …. but couldn’t it have been on the way back from Woodstock???
I was there for the start but left the second day – no food, shelter and mud everywhere. Guess I just wasn’t hip(pie) enough!
It’s salutary to see how the beautiful people have turned into their parents.
Half a million “defined a generation”, as we’ve been told for 40 years. Twice that many in Denver for the 1992 World Youth Day, on the other hand, was so much chopped liver.
119 service men were killed in Nam while the band(s) played on.
Correction. The KIA figure is 109.
My buddies and I were working at the coke ovens at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Buffalo during the summer of ’69 when we heard that a lot of great bands would be playing at Woodstock. We hopped into a friend’s VW and headed off to Woodstock not knowing what to expect. By the time we got there the organizers were declaring that it was now a free concert. As I sat on the back of my friend’s VW in a long line of traffic a motorcycle came by with a beautiful girl riding on the back. When she got to the back of the VW she looked at me and said, “you’re a Scorpio.” The motorcycle zoomed off. “Wow, how’d she know”, I said. My buddies assured me that she was blowing the minds of one out of every twelve guys.