tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post3045086663411138682..comments2024-03-05T07:03:57.707-05:00Comments on Rock n Roll Graffiti: Goose Lake Festival reassessedSteve Seymourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944900666172771578noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-70172718477241247752014-02-23T13:50:33.937-05:002014-02-23T13:50:33.937-05:00Wow, what a trip! A half a dozen of my friends or ...Wow, what a trip! A half a dozen of my friends or so and I drove over from Flint and we were there too. It's really unfortunate that we don't ever have any concerts or festivals like this anymore. I mean look at all the great names that were there, not just a few, but a whole bunch. Can't add anything more to what's already been said, you've all covered it all so well. Sure miss the good old days. Goose Lake forever! UncleScrogeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11197980935460736451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-37399899283052599192014-02-06T06:12:16.788-05:002014-02-06T06:12:16.788-05:00Anybody have pictures?..email them to gberghof@com...Anybody have pictures?..email them to gberghof@comcast.net...I want to do a book.I was there w/my friends Don and Mike from Pittsburgh Pa..We drove in Don's HS grad gift..a beautiful Purple Dodge Dart Demon 340 Duster...I lost my virginity there to a buxom lady named Jackie...Thanks Jack..Pinky,squirrel,you still on the planet..Don was so wacked on speed he ran for hours...In the tent with Jackie with bikers circling the tent outside...We gave a guy named Rick a ride home to Shadyside,(Pittsburgh) and he paid us with generous samplings from his golf ball sized Opium ball...loved that..anybody ever smoke Keef?..Loved that too..anybody that wants to write again it's gberghof@comcast.net...my name is JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-51493911880712389252013-03-14T19:18:17.304-04:002013-03-14T19:18:17.304-04:00Even though I'm now 65 years young I remember ...Even though I'm now 65 years young I remember Goose Lake like it was yesterday. A week earlier I had the time of my life at Wadena Rock Fest in Iowa. Seven of my best friends and I took off for Toronto to go to see the Plastic Ono Band. We crossed the bridge at Detroit, were stopped at the Canadian side as undesirables, then pulled over on the American side of the bridge and watched nervously as the border police went through our van for over an hour looking for drugs. Frustrated at not finding anything, the police then brought us into a little trailer, one at a time, and stripped us naked (checking every orifice imaginable). Finally they gave up! We drove to the nearest rest stop, figured out how to get to Goose Lake and dropped the tabs of acid we had stashed in the hubcap<br />of the van. We arrived (tripping) early on that hot Friday afternoon. I remember the folks running the festival were really cool: My friend Allan Smith and I didn't have enough money to buy tickets so they gave us a job working hauling ice blocks to food stands. After riding in the back of the ice truck delivering ice for a few hours someone thanked us for our hard work, gave us some food coupons, and let us walk in and find our friends. The most vivid memory I had of the three days was during Mountain's set when a fan climbed onto the stage and Felix Pappalardi<br />tried to knock the fan off the stage. The fan grabbed Pappalardi's bass as he fell and I remember roadies leaping into the audience and bringing Felix's bass back to the stage. Goose Lake was a great experience! It ranks second to Wadena the week before as the greatest rock'nroll experience of my life. Forty-two years later I teach art at a private high school in Hawaii and have discovered that the former headmaster of our school had been at Goose Lake and the man I stand next to in our church choir had been to BOTH Wadena and Goose Lake. As they say, "Small World, Big Island!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-58753668014586591352012-12-18T21:19:22.942-05:002012-12-18T21:19:22.942-05:00I was parked in my 67 chevelle convertible just do...I was parked in my 67 chevelle convertible just down from the giant slide. I remember being naked with about a hundred other people male and female playing with a frisbe in waist high water out in the Lake. I remember the old people from the lake out in they`re rowboats watchin us. We we`re so buzzed. Best time of my life!bob from taylor,minoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-56669093191297547822012-10-15T12:59:52.965-04:002012-10-15T12:59:52.965-04:00Each festival of that era had an impact on those w...Each festival of that era had an impact on those who attended. Goose Lake fans might find some familiar chords in this article: <br /><br />http://likethedew.com/2012/03/04/we-can-all-join-in-how-rock-festivals-helped-change-america/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-31341781598224692142012-08-06T20:35:42.108-04:002012-08-06T20:35:42.108-04:00I had just graduated from High School in Illinois....I had just graduated from High School in Illinois. Went to Kickapoo Creek instead of going to my graduation, then hitched up Goose Lake. Had a blast at both, 17 years old and taking advantage of the time before starting college in the fall. Lots of great music, and friends, and yeah, drugs. Good times. <br />Leslie (now living in Oregon)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-3862348616000774042012-04-24T19:35:48.524-04:002012-04-24T19:35:48.524-04:00I was 17 and also living in Detroit. The schoolbus...I was 17 and also living in Detroit. The schoolbus mentioned above belonged to John Martin, director of Open City and manager of the Norman James Blues Band that was one of the local opening acts. The bus was also carrying the band and it's equipment. I was one of the equipment slaves.<br />I don't remember the bus breaking down or much of anything else other than spending much time in the White Panther Party tent after consuming nearly every drug I had ever heard of. I also recall picking up several bags of weed off the ground after nearly everybody had left then hitch-hiking to Flint with some girls I met there. In all the whole thing was pretty much a giant blur to me.bobbybluzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08355601246081826871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-3298053241600178692012-04-21T17:17:52.101-04:002012-04-21T17:17:52.101-04:00Lived in Detroit on Canfield near Wayne State. I s...Lived in Detroit on Canfield near Wayne State. I signed up with Open City to work in the food tent. A group of us traveled there on an old schoolbus. It broke down on the way there so I hook up with a cute girl an walked a ways up the interstate. The minute she put her thumb to hitchhike we got pick-up by a car load of kids heading to the Festival. We didn't have tickets but just sat on the hood of a car and drove right in with no problem. My cousin and I designed some Goose Lake t-shirts and managed to sell out all that we printed. Wow wonder if any of them are still out there? Music,Drugs,Naked people,<br />Giant slide,remember it all. One friend of mine tripped all night Sat. but never moved from holding onto the antenne of a friends car. He's still a car nut to this day.lol What a fantastic weekend it was. I also remember the Sagatuck Festival and still have a flyer from it along with some old Grande Ballroom and Fillmore postcards. Vividly remember Procal Harem playing "Shine on Brightly", while a lightning strom brewed all around us for a totally awesome light show. All good times I'll never forget. Peace, Love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-5062627144550170682012-03-27T07:53:30.247-04:002012-03-27T07:53:30.247-04:00Hash, Chocolate Mescaline and a hit of blotter aci...Hash, Chocolate Mescaline and a hit of blotter acid. I was there amongst Iggy Pop and all, sort of. I saw God. That experience has stayed with me to this day and formed the life I've lived. I'm grateful for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-43835819360634196562012-03-24T00:15:46.708-04:002012-03-24T00:15:46.708-04:00A special moment in time. Weed, Music, Women and W...A special moment in time. Weed, Music, Women and Wine. Life was so good and innocent then. I miss it...2dogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06712478447719649130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-2131437205111524872012-01-10T00:35:15.240-05:002012-01-10T00:35:15.240-05:00If ya weren't there, ya weren't. Where to ...If ya weren't there, ya weren't. Where to start... Pushing Jeff Alexander's car the last mile with mine to get there. The sign inside the entrance that said 'Bomb Weed'. It wasn't, money wasted. Boons farm apple wine. Blotter Acid, Great Hash!!! Can you say NO2? Bathing nude in the "lake".<br /> I think that it was Iggy who brought out the joint rolled out of a newspaper. I wasn't close enough to the stage to get a toke. As a senior in HS from Wyandotte it was quite enlightening. Meth? Heroin? I was already hip to that scene and never saw any of that shit go down. A dope fest? Fuckin'"A" right. <br />Sigh, watching a gal stir a vat of oatmeal standing there nude [her, not me].<br /> Open City? Yeah, the blotter acid was WAY beyond anything I had ever encountered before. Not a bad freak out, something far different that to this day I can't really describe. Just something that I wouldn't care to repeat again but it is a part of the memories that constitute me.<br /> Do it again pushing Sixty? Fuck yeah, in a heartbeat. No acid this time though, alas, I've gotten too old. As for the other madness?<br /> Sigh, all those foxy babes ain't so hot anymore. I suspect that if we all knew what we do today it would have been one drug-fueled orgy, just don't tell your kids/grandkids that!!!<br />I'm not fried, but I'm an...<br /> Old HippieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-89679535197088499212012-01-09T16:06:00.472-05:002012-01-09T16:06:00.472-05:00i arrived at Gooselake via old VW van along with 3...i arrived at Gooselake via old VW van along with 3 friends. We arrived early as we ddn't have tickets. We camped outside the fence for two night prior to the start of the concert. I remember a wine jug being passed around at a huge bonfire. Hits of acid and whatever were being put into it and I don't remember much after that. Next. I remember lining the fence and we all counted to three and then hundreds of us scaled the fence even though there were mounted security on the other side who at first tired to stop us then gave up as there were too many of us. The concert music was great. I remember waking up one morning over by the lake and there were many skinning dipping and getting a fresh bath. Lots of drugs, good music but personally saw no violence. Greatest time of my life. My son found a bootleg video cd of Goose Lake rock festival. It is really pretty good and very similar to what was produced at Woodstock. I here estimates of over 200,000 people were there. Personally, I think it was over 300,000. There were those there that had attended Woodstock and though this was much better. It rocked!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-88401631090176437532011-09-06T14:58:12.190-04:002011-09-06T14:58:12.190-04:00Went to Goose Lake with two buddies. Was back from...Went to Goose Lake with two buddies. Was back from Nam and looking for excitement. Saw most everything you would expect at a typical rock festival. Woke up one morning with a lot of people yelling near where we were camped.....naked people washing up in the lake. We bought bottles of Boone's Farm wine from some industrious guys (wish I had thought of it!!!) and we got hooked on drinking that crap from then on. We also bought what we thought was some good weed, but I think most of it was Kentucky 31 grass clippings. Saw a girl riding naked on the back of a Harley......never could get my girl friend to do that. Think I remember someone jumping, or falling, off a light pole somewhere up near the stage and the guy on stage saying something like, "Don't worry. That kid just busted his ass. He's not hurt." Looked pretty bad from where I was, but who the hell knows. Things were a little cloudy. Had a great time and remember we had to leave early to drive back to Cincinnati so we could go back to work at General Electric on Monday. Pissed me off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-62498843602400400352011-07-29T16:00:07.270-04:002011-07-29T16:00:07.270-04:00Jefferson Airplane was not at Goose Lake. They wer...Jefferson Airplane was not at Goose Lake. They were at the one a year earlier, in New York.<br /><br /><br /><br />JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-10445618645674523352011-07-24T18:39:46.095-04:002011-07-24T18:39:46.095-04:00I was 19, I won 2 tickets (poker Chips) on radio s...I was 19, I won 2 tickets (poker Chips) on radio station WABX. My girl friend and I went with her sister and her boy friend.We live in Monroe Mi. about a hour away from Jackson. It was a great weekend that i can remember. Stayed high the whole weekend.Had our tent close to the lake and I remember a cop on his horse getting stuck in the mud. I ran and found some other cops they had to use their horses to pull the cops horse out. The music was great the people were great. It was the only place where you could sit on the toilet take a shit and watch a good looking bitch shower awesome. I went on line and got 4 tickets to add to my chip collection. I'll nver forget goose lake, oh by the way today is my 60th birthday so that was 41 years ago wow,,almarks19noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-76141205671089195962011-06-28T16:02:40.890-04:002011-06-28T16:02:40.890-04:00It was my 18th birthday and one of my most poignan...It was my 18th birthday and one of my most poignant memories was sitting there in the beautiful night with beautiful people all around while Chicago was playing "Colour My World" ... I'll never forget it and will love you all forever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-15914701819016612652011-06-21T22:36:36.480-04:002011-06-21T22:36:36.480-04:00Hey, I was there, now is the time for all of us to...Hey, I was there, now is the time for all of us to awaken again. Let us take back our country. Trust me, it is time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-60747617541734871112011-06-03T17:07:24.476-04:002011-06-03T17:07:24.476-04:00Wow Buccaneer must have been really tripping......Wow Buccaneer must have been really tripping... I don't remember Airplane even being at Goose Lake!alaskajoe7https://www.blogger.com/profile/04117172568419723826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-34504562375244337472011-05-09T23:42:04.683-04:002011-05-09T23:42:04.683-04:00Saturday afternoon I was tripping my 19 year old b...Saturday afternoon I was tripping my 19 year old brains out in the heat and dust (which was the dustiest dust I've ever encountered). The people next to us offered me a sip of Boone's Farm (which I'd never had before) and I could feel the coldness washing the dust out of my throat. I'll always remember that moment. That and Mountain closing the evening!rondolcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776045354474652699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-81501713203119369832011-03-28T23:46:57.867-04:002011-03-28T23:46:57.867-04:00Went with the redhead of my dreams (at that time) ...Went with the redhead of my dreams (at that time) We were right next to the stage trippin' our brains out when the Airplane came on. Kids were throwing pills onto the stage, Grace picked one up and said "A white, who likes whites?" and threw it back into the crowd. The next one she said "I'll do this!" and popped it. Lisa and crawled under the stage where we found a trapdoor, opened it and Jorma Kaukonen, close enough to touch looked down and gave us the Thumbs UP. I was about 5 feet from Grace, IN HEAVEN !! After about 15 minutes or so Jorma looked at us and pointed down with his finger, so we ducked down and crawled back out. Amazing!!!! Hugh Goetz p.s. the readhead was Connie VanderHave aka Lisa Montage.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573665118259741449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-58985882791740892632011-03-16T23:53:24.852-04:002011-03-16T23:53:24.852-04:00Yes, I was there. I remember working in the food t...Yes, I was there. I remember working in the food tent giving away food like corn on the cob. Fond memories of listening to Jethro Tull looking up at the stars in the sky. Always told people that i never made it to Woodstock, but went to Michigan's version at Goose Lake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-47383999156486902732010-12-17T23:10:23.821-05:002010-12-17T23:10:23.821-05:00It was a great experience for sure (as much as I r...It was a great experience for sure (as much as I remember anyway LOL) I had the chance to go as a high school student but with the negative press my parents were very hesitant especially my dad. He kept bringing up his concerns and I would argue against them. Finally he said he was worried someone would slip heroin in coffee and I knew I had him! I told him I promise not to drink any coffee while I was there and I was off!<br />I remember running the gauntlet of cop cars on the way in. They pulled over 2 cars in front of us and 3 behind but we made it in. Got into the gate and went to the information booth. Asked where we could pitch a tent. The cute girl behind the counter said she had no idea but some good opium coming to the booth in minute and in my mind the concert was on!<br />Great music alot of high people (including me) Came home with my dad's family tent trashed as they told us to then in a parking lot with oiled sand.<br />Great memories love the site here!<br />Alaska Joe (originally from Saginaw)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-66162692347759145472010-12-02T17:52:31.372-05:002010-12-02T17:52:31.372-05:00WHAT A GREAT EVENT!!!!!!!!!! THE SITE, THE MUSIC, ...WHAT A GREAT EVENT!!!!!!!!!! THE SITE, THE MUSIC, THE ORGANIZERS, THE COPS, IT ALL WAS COOL. ACTUALLY EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT "EXCEPT" THE GUY WHO FELL OUT OF ONE OF THE LIGHT TOWERS AND WAS TAKEN AWAY IN AN AMBULANCE. I WATCHED HIM JUMP AND IT WAS NO ACCIDENT, HE WAS JUST TOO HIGH, IN "BOTH" SENSE OF THE WORD. SURE MISS THOSE DAYS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-86871176828846480302010-11-16T19:25:38.288-05:002010-11-16T19:25:38.288-05:00As far as skinny-dipping, I met a friend's bos...As far as skinny-dipping, I met a friend's boss who told me he was on the camera crew there and basically he ended up filming just that. Kids in the water. Apparently the director was William Dear (Harry And The Hendersons), so I'm guessing a lot of film footage could still exist. I'm looking for audio recordings from the festival, too.Jim Thompsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656403.post-77019455331582144672010-09-12T19:52:22.114-04:002010-09-12T19:52:22.114-04:00i was there i was 17 years old itook a whole hit o...i was there i was 17 years old itook a whole hit of clinical 4 way acid we got pulled over on the way in and other friends who were caravaning in other cars thought we were arrested some how miraculouslly we were let go and not caught with all kinds of drugs on us ithink they let us slide cause we were all young those were special times and i always felt we kinda got ripped off on goose lake as far as the notority woodstock got all the press but it was awesome !!!!!robert gibkinoreply@blogger.com