A Festival of Festivals . I said somewhere on social media leading up to the Woodstock 50th that it should and would be experienced by people in different ways all over the world. “Friends not corporations create Woodstock.” There was no required location or situation. As Jerry Garcia said of the Beats — “… it […]
Woodstock 50th Anniversary in New York
August 23rd, 2019 · 28 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me, Woodstock
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Holy Cats! Dream-Catching at Woodstock ’94 — how it opened
June 30th, 2019 · 5 Comments · Weird Things About Me, Woodstock
Excerpt from Holy Cats! Dream-Catching at Woodstock — from Thursday evening as it was just beginning . . . It was 10 PM, the gates had just opened, and beaming faces were exuberantly discovering the field by the thousand. Fresh hay had been laid all over the natural amphitheater and it glowed like cashmere in […]
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Woodstock ’94 Concert Opening
March 31st, 2019 · 8 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales, Woodstock
. While I was stopped behind the stage carefully taking notes on the human traffic flows, I heard the promoter John Scher start talking from the stage. “Holy smoke! It must be 10:00!” I realized. “Sounds like he’s opening the show!” In the press kit they gave us at the Friar Tuck I noticed a […]
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