36 years ago today...
the greatest meeting of musical minds met on a farm in New York. It was Woodstock. Three days of peace, love and rock and roll.
The preformers were: Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Tim Hardin, Incredible String Band, Ravi Shankar, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, Bert Sommer, Sweetwater, Quill, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Grateful Dead, Keef Hartley Band, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Crosby, Stills & Nash (&Young), Santana, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Mountain, Melanie, Sha-Na-Na, John Sebastian, Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Three of us piled into Wayne's yellow 1967 Plymouth Convertible and were gonna crash the party! At 14, I was the youngest of the trio and I think Gib was only 15. So Wayne would have done all the driving. We might have had $20 between us. Of course in 1969, $20 probably would have been enough gas money for the round trip!
We made it as far as Johnson City, TN about 100 miles up the road. We visited with Gib's cousin whose side of the family got the looks. She had a friend come over and it was a pretty cool night. Not Woodstock but not bad for three teenagers in Tn.
posted by OpinionatedSOBinTN at 5:06 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Ron, I've been following your adventure from time to time for the last few months. Since I'm almost 57 I'm curious about your decision to end the blog. I'll go back in the archive when I can & see if I can find anything.
Mostly I wanted to thank you for sharing things here. We are all affected differently by things and I enjoy reading other's takes on the world. Good luck!
Don
Hello Don..
The very name of the blog suggested that it would end on or near the fateful day I passed "over the hill."
I was dared by friends (that lovingly call me the most 'opionated s.o.b.' they've ever met) to turn the spotlight on myself with this blog. So I did. Like everyone else I guess, I have smoothed over things in my past to become the person I am today. This has allowed me to dig into some of those caves and deal with what's there.
Thanks for reading Don and all the others that visit daily. This has been more of a challenge than I thought it would be. But fun none the less.
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