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It was 1966 and my friend Cecily and I decided, that
instead of being nerdy doofuses, we were gonna be hippies, because we read
about it in the San Francisco Chronicle. So we got sandals and clothes and
stuff, and we were hippies. No one our school was hippies except for us. So
we had to get the right music, and we didn't have any sources to tell us what
was cool or anything, there was nothing that they played on the radio. So
we decided we were just gonna go to the store; the record store still had
those little booths where you could listen to the records and stuff, and we
each going to pick out one record based purely on the cover. So she picked
out Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's "Freak Out", and
I got the first Tim Buckley album, just called "Tim Buckley", and
we really liked them both. We were just thrilled with our purchases! (laughter)
So they were having this festival, this music festival up on Mount Tamalpais,
and all these acts were gonna be there, like The Doors were supposed to show
up but I don't think they ever played. Sons of Champlain, Tim Buckley, Jefferson
Airplane, Captain Beefheart; it was the Magic Mountain Music Festival. The
Hell's Angels had it all kind of blocked-in, whatever that amphitheatre up
there is called; that Greek theatre up on Mount Tamalpais. The had Hell's
Angels on bikes blocking the road off. You had to take special shuttle buses
to go up there, so anyway we went up there and there weren't that many people
there. They had a small stage, and we see Tim Buckley backstage, and we just
wander over there and say "Hey, we're really big fans!" (laughter)
We were totally into Tim Buckley. I made him a special bead necklace, and
I see Tim Buckley and give him my special bead necklace, and Cecily takes
the picture. And then we were like (laughter) totally jazzed! And then the
next album he puts out; which is the one where he's got like the bottle cap
in his eye? "Goodbye and Hello"? He's wearing the necklace that
I gave him at the festival! (laughter) I was even more stoked!
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