Richie Havens just sang live, on our local (right-wing) TV morning news.

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It's not a Fox affilliate, but a station owned by one family, and you can tell they are ultra-patriotic and pro-Bush, pro-Schwarz., pro-Jerry Sanders all that. Anyway, Richie Havens is in town for a concert, and he showed up on KUSI here. They interviewed him for a few minutes, mostly talking about Woodstock. He said he couldn't get into Woodstock because the roads were backed up with traffic, but a farmer on a nearby farm gave him a helicopter ride into the venue. He played there for 2 hours and 45 minutes, much longer than he expected, and played every song he knew at that time.
Then he sang the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" accompanying himself on guitar, and there was another guitarist with him who did not sing. At the end he did just a couple of lines from "The End" but changed it to "And in the end, the love you sing, is equal to the love you" and I think his last word was "gain" but I'm not sure. Then they went to a commercial break, and when they came back he sang "Maggie's Farm" by Bob Dylan, but the newscast was over so we only got to see about 1 minute of it before they went to another commercial.

[Zomby Woof]

1. Are you in San Diego?

I spent a few months in San Diego (where I am originally from, actually) last fall, and the hotel I stayed at played that damn station every morning in the breakfast room. Pablum for the fascist masses. :puke:

Anyway, cool about Havens! :thumbsup:

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2. Yep! The station that is willing to donate 6 hours to the arrival of an

aircraft carrier. And the time they christened the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan - they showed nothing else the entire day.

[kwassa]

3. I saw him sing at Woodstock

He was first up. The first day of concert was supposed to be twelve hours and went sixteen hours.

It didn't get really wierd until the early morning hours, like listening to Baez go on about her husband in jail while it was pouring rain on us, about 3 a.m.

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4. Well, you're very lucky!

[JackBeck]

5. His version of "Here Comes the Sun" is our wedding song. n/t