Re: Did Jonathon Edwards play at Woodstock?

Dorgan31/1/06 3:46 AM

> "chaya" <chaya@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Ok - still don't know how I missed CCR - I was probably the only person
>> at Woodstock who wasn't stoned ...
>> But I never saw a second stage so that solves the Quill mystery.
>> csj

> Susan,
> I was there, and most of it is a fog.
> I was 16 years old.
> I remember a few highlights, but I don't remember CCR.
> On a lark, me and two of my closest friends decided to head out down the NYS
> thruway...
> We got there late because we were all too young to drive and had to
> hitchhike, so we missed most of the first day.
> Three times that day we got escorted off the road by the NYS troopers
> because you can't hitchhike on the thruway. But we persevered, and
> eventually go there.
> Luckily, it was a free concert by the time we got there, because we didn't
> have tickets or enough money to buy tickets. I have no idea what our plan
> was...
> I do remember the mud....mud everywhere...and I remember being hungry for
> three days straight...
> We came lacking transportation, tickets and money.
> Between the three of us, we probably had no more than $15 bucks, a nickel
> bag, a couple of packs of papers and a bic lighter.
> The only time I got close to the stage was during The Who's and Alvin Lee's
> set.
> Alvin Lee's playing on Going Home will always be the benchmark for me for a
> live performance.
> He flat-ass tore it up.
> Heh....I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
> Dorgan

Interesting story Bob. What were the dates for the original Woodstock
Festival. I always get confused between the concert the launch of the movie
and the dates for the OIW concert too.

Your father beat you for going to a music festival? or for not telling them
you were going?

CR


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