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 WOODSTOCK KPBX SPECIAL PROGRAMMING Check back soon for details WHERE WAS THE SPR STAFF DURING THE SUMMER OF LOVE? Charles Schlesinger (CHAS): I was officially banned by a judge from being in the county...part of my pre-trial release agreement for a spot of trouble that I got into. The following year was very different. I wound up living about 3/4 mile down the road from Max Yasgur’s farm. If you have ever watched the movie Woodstock, there were two horses in the beginning of the movie; they were mine. And, there was an all-metal road trailer at the beginning; that was mine, too. So, instead of attending Woodstock, I jumped bail for a few weeks and went to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. I still have an original t-shirt, framed with an original ticket, that I didn’t get to use. Verne Windham: I was a member of the 26th Army Band on Staten Island, but had finagled a month at a music camp in Binghamton NY with the New York Woodwind Quintet. I was even technically on military duty! We knew there was this hippie gathering 40 miles away, but between my decrepit old Volvo’s unreliability and our intense rehearsing, didn’t have the guts to go. After that I’ve tried to remember the lesson to “just do it.” As an afterward, the next week we drove back to NYC in that old Volvo 544, barely limping in to NJ at 40 miles an hour on a 100 degree day. We dropped off the oboist, all of us exhausted, hungry and broke. Because she didn’t have a full meal prepared, the oboist’s uptight mother refused to give us anything to eat—not even a spoonful of peanut butter. It was 180 degrees counter to the Woodstock Spirit. From that I tried to learn the lesson to never let pride get in the way of charity. John Johnson: I was getting ready for my first year of college buoyed by the successful moon landing and the indisputalbe generational vibe from rock festivals...I was ready to conquer the world! Jerry Olson: In August 1969, I was working a couple summer jobs (grill jockey and lawn mower repair - not at the same place!) and getting ready to go off as a freshman to the University of Cincinnati...Go Bearcats! Nancy Roth: “Oh gosh, I was probably home nursing a baby.”
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