On Thursday, Richard Grayson went to the Seaside Summer Concert Series at Asser Levy/Seaside Park and came back with a fascinating report and a reminiscence about his summer of 1969. The rest with pictures is at his blog, DUMBO Books of Brooklyn.
We joined thousands of the borough's other ex-rockers and alter kockers
for Brooklyn's Salute to the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock, with
Creedence Clearwater Revisited, John Sebastian, and Mountain featuring
Leslie West and Corky Lang.
Our friends Linda and Howie drove up to go to Woodstock with some pals, but if we remember correctly, they were freaked out by the traffic on the Quickway and so appalled by the mud and lack of bathrooms, they left after the first day.
In the fall of 1969, we were in group therapy sessions run by our psychiatrist, Dr. Abbott Lippman, on Albemarle Road off Coney Island Avenue. John, one of the kids in the group had been to Woodstock, and whenever there were long silences in group therapy or someone said something Dr. Lippman thought was irrelevant or self-deluding, he'd turn to John and say, "So, John, was there much mud at Woodstock?"