Nice, you guys are kind of near Woodstock? The Black Crowes recorded one of their best albums at the Levon Helm studio there.
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No shortage of talent in and around Woodstock!
Albert Grossman and his studio in Bearsville (west of Woodstock) saw a lot of big names come through. I was aware of some of them being there. Meatloaf in particular as he trashed a dive bar's cigarette machine one night... a place I'd been a few times.
Skip, a friend in those days, witnessed it happen.
Todd Rundgren
The Band
R.E.M.
Dave Matthews Band
Phish
Patti Smith
Steely Dan
The Pretenders
The Isley Brothers
The Rolling Stones
Natalie Merchant
Joe Jackson
Meatloaf
These folks lived in or nearby Woodstock at one time or another: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Paul Butterfield, Jimi Hendrix, Natalie Merchant,
Marshall Crenshaw, Robbie Dupree, and David Bowie (with his wife Iman). Henry Paul (Outlaws and Henry Paul Band) grew up in Hurley... I road my bicycle by his family's home regularly and my youngest brother was friends with his sister.
Roger McGuinn will be dropping by the area regularly when he's in the NE doing gigs... his sister in law is my aunt, the one who just moved up near me after her house in FL was destroyed by the hurricanes. My aunt has socialized, traveled and gone on tour with Roger and his wife for 40+ years. I still chuckle to think my parents were hanging around with him when in FL...
MY PARENTS hanging out with one of the guys the Momas and Popas immortalized in Creeque Alley with the lyrics "McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher But that's what they were aimin' at."
This clip was filmed while he was on the same tour that had him in Poughkeepsie doing WPDH's 25th anniversary show in 1991 at The Chance. He played in Woodstock the next year (or was it two?).
