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Shortly after getting back from APL98 in Roma , they invited me - even had a friend with a van - to spend a "Day in the Garden" at the original site of WoodStock . The Bethel farm location does provide a remarkable natural bowl .
This is the only mega outdoor concert I`ve been to and I was blown away by the teknology .
Lew is standing in this picture , but it
illustrates the frustratingly low CGA resolution of my early Casio QV10 .
Notice that the whole stage is like a giant boombox with flanking walls
of woofers . two satelite midrangeTweeters are suspended on 10m poles , 50m
or more from the stage .
The sound was CD clarity awsome .
Right after they invited me , It got mentioned @ J.StB&G that Mike Rathke who plays with
Lou Reed The crowd control was hi tek too . The first couple
of rows were standing on the steel plate base of the restraining fence -
supplying our own ballast making the fence immovable . The edge of the stage
, 3m away , was a rather attractive , but splintery looking steeply sloping
wood skirt ending about thigh high from the ground . The NYPD could learn
something about professional , non obtrusive crowd control . See my notes on
Kahlid Muhammed`s "Million" Youth March in Harlem , SAT.SEP,980905 . . would be playing at the WoodStock
thing . I told Mike I`d be there .
When Mike and Lou started playing , I worked my way to within a row or
so of the stage . My ego felt stroked to be in a 30k crowd listening to a
bar bud . Managed to make eye contact with Mike - mainly by wearing my White Hat standing over the
shoulder a girl who was good at making herself noticed - and exchange
expressions .
Mike may not work very many hours , but when he works , he earns every
pfennig . World Class .
Walls of woofers & 1 of 2 midrangeTweeters on poles . Concession tents
ghost over rim of bowl . Note how the whole stage is like a giant Erector
Set . It apparently can be disassembled , trucked to the next site and
reassembled from one weekend to the next .
Fleet Bank even had Satellite
linked AutoTellerMachines .
I`d never seen these 6 wheeled
AllTerrainVehicles before either .
Peter Townsend closed the show
with a massed gospel choir - must have been 2 busloads - a sonic
spectacular .
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