Wednesday, August 22, 2018

It's been 49 years...

...but this is pretty much how I remember it:






21 comments:

Amartel said...

Were you there?

The back up singers' facial expressions are hilarious.
"Will you just LOOK at this fool? SO inappropriate. Cannot even remain upright."

The Dude said...

I was. Still have my tickets. Our ride left Saturday as the rain was getting bad so we missed Hendrix. Figured we could see him any old time.

Amartel said...

Oh dear! Dead just over a year later.

Amartel said...

But you were there! And Joe Cocker was kind of there, at least corporeally.

The Dude said...

He was something. Some of the acts really stood out to me - Ravi Shankar, naturally, as he was a gifted musician, Joan Baez for her beautiful voice, Tim Hardin, the If I Was a Carpenter guy, who I thought was drunk, but it turns out he was using heroin. We were on the road before The Dead played, so I missed them, too. So it goes.

chickelit said...

I saw Joe Cocker at Woodstock ‘79 in Torino Italy, man. It was a 10 years later reunion tour, man. I still have my ticket too, man. BTW, I think I’m about 10 years younger than Sixty, man.

The Dude said...

About? How about exactly? And by exactly I mean give or take 6 months. But that's a story for another day.

windbag said...

I was six, and my parents weren't hippies, so I missed it. I missed the Allman Brothers concert in Watkins Glen, too, but when I lived there the stories were still around.

Randy Newman is a genius. That's a great video. I always liked him, and was thrilled when he did the music in Toy Story. He wrote this song, too.

AllenS said...

I went to an outdoor 3 day hippie fest in Stevens Point WI in the early 70s. That's when I figured out: "we're fucked".

ndspinelli said...

I had classmates who went. They contend Sly stole the show. Came on late[of course] at about 3a and woke the crowd up and had them dancing. A true showman.

The Dude said...

Sly was an incredible performer - you could see him work a crowd, no matter the setting. Now he is non compos mentis living north of SF due to a live-long love affair with cocaine. Shame, that, as he really had something.

deborah said...

August 1969, about a month after we landed on the moon.

The Dude said...

I got married on July 19th, 1969. Teddy drove off a bridge the day before, the moon landing was the day after. Only one of those 3 events was not a disaster.

deborah said...

lol look at the bright side, you didn't stay married 49 years.

The Dude said...

ARRGGGHHH!!!

Thanks for reminding me - that was a close thing...

deborah said...

lol you lived to tell the tale.

chickelit said...

“I got married on July 19th, 1969.”

You married Carol_Herman? I know you went to Woodstock with her because you told us that on the TY blog.

The Dude said...

I wish!

windbag said...

Also, from 1969.

deborah said...

Good pickup, windbag.

I tucked my hair up under my hat, and I went in to ask him why.

windbag said...

deborah, always loved that song.