{"id":292,"date":"2024-02-16T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:58:41","slug":"all-day-music-third-daily-dose-of-memorial-day-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"All Day Music [third daily dose of Memorial Day Adventure]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only that parking spot happened to be quite aways to the entrance and several times people shouted \u201cHey, the band\u2019s finally here!\u201d   For me I was just glad not to be driving and knowing that the rest of the day would be totally back to mellow once we were inside with the music and crowds and more than just white faces.  But I didn\u2019t realize how panicked Billy, Russell and the kids were.  They still hadn\u2019t seen another black face since Philadelphia and actually thought I was bringing them to a concentration camp for them to be executed because they couldn\u2019t hear any music where I\u2019d parked and were not at all convinced that I hadn\u2019t been duped, that this wasn\u2019t a concert, and they were being herded to their deaths.   It didn\u2019t help that this was one of the first \u201cWoodstock-like\u201d concerts I\u2019d been to which had barbed-wire fencing all around and, at the entrance, rows of cow-pen-like fences to single-herd ticket purchasers and make sure nobody got in for free.  Even at the point I\u2019m getting ready to pay, they all are imploring me to turn back because we still<\/span> couldn\u2019t hear any music.   Plus there were police dogs on leashes and Billy said one just snarled viciously.<\/p>\n

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But I kept everybody together and we all got in and we walked around a bend and there was the stage and there were thousands of people on blankets listening to music and we all found a spot and listened for each other as we played along.  Getting there though was quite the trip, me having to maintain crossing new frontiers that everybody \u2013 later \u2013 agreed were great to cross.  Russell and I haven\u2019t seen each other since 1975, but I\u2019m sure we would be as tight as if we\u2019d just crossed that frontier yesterday.*<\/p>\n

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*   That\u2019s another reason I am so sure The Movement was winning in the days before The Propaganda Campaign.   (See \u201cOpen Letter to Jack & Nick.\u201d)  Yes, the hallucinations were great but there was a reality component as well.  We really did trip and we really did form a lifelong bond.  And there was an entire counter-culture in America forming lifelong bonds, not just from tripping or smoking pot, but from sharing any sort of meaningful experiences where trust and loyalty are unquestioned.   Those were days you became friends for life even if you never saw each other again.  We believed<\/span> we had the power to change the world.  It\u2019s time to start believing all over again.<\/p>\n

P.S. It’s now the year 2023 and I’m coming out with my 2nd Ed. of these stories.  Sure enough – just saw Russell –  and we picked-up right where we left off in 1975, 48 years ago.  He’s the curator of the Harriet Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia, and we had a Voyage House Reunion with just the three of us – Mary Pennington of Santa Fe as well.<\/p>\n

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