What a summer it was in 1969... I was working as a DJ at a Toronto radio station (CHFH) ...went to 1 1/2 days of "Woodstock Music and Art Fair" in August... (That's all the time I could get off.. don't remember too much about it except that it was WET, WET, WET!!! Oh, and Sly and the Family Stone played there!)
This is ME shortly before they put a coal sack on stage...
...and it turned out to be Yoko Ono in a sack!
She then proceeded to scream from the "BAG" for about half an hour as the sun went down!
She was so terrible (not just bad) that I went backstage... because that was the only place you couldn't hear her screaming!!!!
While I was waiting for her to be finished, Little Richard walked by and hit on me!!!!! (P.S. I said NO!)
Then.. the next summer it was off to the Strawberry Fields Motorcycle Races and Rock Concert at Mosport Park motor speedway N.E. of Toronto, where I saw Sly and the Family Stone AGAIN... but this time I was friends with the sound booth guy and THIS is what I saw from the booth with a set of headphones plugged in!!!!!
Then... that Christmas... it was off to Vancouver for a few short years before going back to Ontario, and getting... (as my father said) "...A REAL JOB!"
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On a side note: I ran into Sly in Toronto a few years later and invited him to a party that all the local rounders went to... but after about ten minutes... he said he had to split... 'and go out to pick up some girls!'
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On June 9, 2025, Stone died at his home in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, at the age of 82!
