4 Years in Nashville, Right time, Right Place
Woodstock traffic, Photo by James M Shelley, 8/16/69 Just a little more about me. Everyone was into music the summer I graduated high school, and somehow it was easy to find amazing music without trying. I happened to be in NYC the weekend Woodstock happened, but backed out because the traffic was impossible from the city. I just tossed off that decision not knowing what I was missing til later. (Mud, and more mud, I know) I saw Hair on Broadway that weekend, and all the music and shocking dayglo boobs and penis' therein. That summer Mountain and Quicksilver did a show at the Jacksonville Beach Coliseum, a podunky beach town back then, about a 20 minute drive from my house. An amazing show. I also started college in Nashville, where you could not escape the music business if you tried. Vanderbilt was a great place to see some of the best bands in the world right on our own campus. Everyone came through Nashville to record and do the biz, so we had our pick for our concert series.
