@PabloCruise hope mom is home soon. Been thru the similar events…
On a brighter note….Led Zeppelin … I remember this as if it was yesterday
It is August 15, 1969
I am 16 years old and as a guitarist, was in a 5 piece rock band with a few guys a little older than I. We played all of the same typical rock music of the era and Zeppelin included. Woodstock was happening this same Friday, Saturday and Sunday…. 3 days of peace, love & music as it was billed. My friends and I had bought tickets to see Led Zeppelin this night at Asbury Park Convention Hall. My friend Billy had driven his 1949 Cadillac, frankly just another 20 year old car at the time, to Asbury Park with all of us. That back seat was huge
As we’re waiting on the boardwalk for a few hours the news of the Woodstock party is spreading quickly. Traffic is a nightmare, the concert is now free, hundreds of thousands attend hippie fest, it was going to become THE place to be.
My friends are saying we should go to NY to attend the Woodstock show. I was the voice of reason and said to them, “ the New York State Thruway is closed…who is going to drive almost 3 hours and get nowhere…BESIDES, WE PAID $.4.50 for the seats?” I don’t really want to just give them away. That $4.50 was a good part of my high school era paycheck.
Crazy but is is still only 4:30pm and they are itching to go… my mother would have screamed at me for days if I had gone to Woodstock and then never been able to let her know I was there for days. Remember the huge crowds and jammed up services
My suggestion eventually won out. We went into this small theater and saw Led Zeppelin perform the entire 1st album and then some. Jimmy page played his guitar bent over from the waste about 50 degrees all night long. Every song was remarkable. The violin bow across the strings in Dazed and Confused…the echo-rec sound delays, original tape style delay. Robert Plants amazing range… Bonham drum solos were next level and John Paul Jones litterally climbing on top of one of the Marshall amp stacks playing from the top. Freakin’ awesome
I remember 1 odd thing about this ….the announcer comes and and says”. Ladies and gentlemen… LED ZEPPELIN…LED ZEPPELIN “. Crowd is wild and the girl 2 rows behind us vomits loudly and youcan hear the effluent running down the aisle
GREAT SHOW!!!
55 YEARS later… I feel like this just happened