Rock & Roll Birthdays

too larry

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  • 1941 Robert Hunter, American lyricist and singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead)
The Dead would not have been the Dead without Robert.

 

too larry

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1947Mick Fleetwood, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way), born in London, England

I'm really rushed, and don't have but a minute, but let me tell you a story. The summer of 1972, Mamma, Sister and I were on vacation in the mountains of NC. Sister was between jr and sr year of high school. I would have been 11. Anyway we kept hearing ads on the radio for the Peach tree festival, a big 3 day rock concert in Rockingham NC. Sister talked Mamma into us going. We picked up a couple of hitch hikers along the way.

Lots of bands were staying at the hotel we were in, including Fleetwood Mac. Mick Fleetwood walked by our room, and looked in the little window over the door. He is a tall mofo. It's so high up there wasn't a curtain on it. {also saw 3 dog night, and lots more I can't think of at the moment}

I didn't go in the show, but Rockingham is so small you could hear the whole thing from the hotel. Also my first exposure to hippies, including a few hundred naked ones bathing in a green looking pond.

 
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