dude... so i've finally met someone who actually was at theWoodstock Festival in 1969 ... we partied last night with some friends and it came out that Tom Mullen, a quiet unassuming obvious old hippie, was there... he recalls it as "we were just hanging around and we heard about this concert so we went to it ..."
he remembers hearing the "FISH" call out... but we asked asked if he was naked and he just smiles and says "probably".... i asked him about the rain... (kind of a test question) ... he just looked down kind of said drearily remembering and says, "yeah... it rained a lot." :)
for the record.... he didn't really remember Hendrix or Joplin ... but he remembered Joe Cocker. (Which in fact when I look up the hisotry in Wiki was the opening act the third day at 2:00 PM... right before Country Joe and the Fish.)
Later, Tom - this counter revolutionary living remnant of Americana past, tells me he was also a biker (he mentioned San Bernardino, CA) and did some hanging out with the "Angels" but "never got his colors" he shamefully admits.
He remembers this writer that liked to hang out with "the Angels" at the time.... says he was writing a book. His name was Hunter S. Thompson but didn't think much him at the time.... "he was just a writer" is all he says.
I quizzed him with all I knew and he seems straight up. I'll quiz him more tonight and this weekend over a Margarita and whatever (and whoever) else shows up. If he wasn't so non-chalant about it and didn't actually look like a remnant hippie/biker type of guy, I probably wouldn't believe him.
Which conviences me even more, that all the hippies settled down in Austin and then the best of them moved on finally to Wimberley.
:)
Should be fun :)
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