Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

led zeppelin
played at the civic center
1969
they were first up
no one really knew that much about them
as I recall, my friends came
to see VF
when they were done
half the arena went home
they knew
nothing afterward
was going to come anywhere close
jimmy page, robert plant
I was 20 years old
page was 24
motherfucker I had a great coming of age

sitting here racking my brain, trying to remember where I was in 1969.
From November 22, 1962, to sometime in the summer of 1972 I was barely conscious
I had a great coming of age when I was twenty, that would make it 1960 and JFK had just been elected. And I was living a good life
Then crazy mike died in April and later JFK was murdered
I used to read a lot of Freud, in fact, I was raised on the holy trinity of ego, id, and superego, I walked around for a decade living in my head. then dr. Hoffmann's magic bullet set me free in 1972,
never saw led zeppelin play, but the music is acid etched down in my brain somewhere.

Immigrant Song..

crazy times
music, politics
long hair
flowers in rifle butts
lsd, marijuana
turbulence
poor vanilla fudge
they got blown out
of the building
saw the stones in the same venue
in B'mo
and the animals
poor vanilla fudge

Crazt times'
short hair
politics

poor bobby, martin jr, and George
68 saw George Wallace at the civic center B'more
went to see what I could see
Bobby dead, Martin too, and George shot but lived long enough to repent his ignorance

drifted through the sixties to the soundtrack of Woodstock
I think it was the music that saved me from a fate worse than death.

1969
Tricky Dick Inaugural
summer job - loading trucks at Walpole Wire
Grampa Walsh dies
Chappaquidick
Apollo 11 - Tranquillity Base
sophomore year at UNH
physics 501
Diff E (differential equations)
linear algebra
part-time job at the Space Science Center
Kent State
Vietnam - My Lai
Vietnam - draft lottery (#208)
RIP - Jack Kerouac, Brian Jones, Judy Garland

i was a young girl lived at the geodesic domes with all the people
kesey ram dass wavy gravy paul krasner
hwy 9 aboive santa cruz
hitch hiking around 1969
stayed all over
sleeping bag
star trek extras
ucla love in s and flower power

they took granola to woodstock

the buses grateful dead-
led zeplin =dancing= mmmmmm no better band on this earth
i saw them in los angeles
i was 13