Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Photo Finish (Everyday People Edition)

 


Then we saw the blanket--“Oh my lord, that’s us!”

--Nick Ercoline, unaware for an entire year until the album came out that photographer Burk Uzzle had snapped a picture of him and his girlfriend--later his wife--Bobbi at some point during the famous 1969 three-day music festival. Bobbi Ercoline, 73, died last week after a year-long illness. 




14 comments:

  1. Two people who said they were at Woodstock and could actually prove it.

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    1. Mitchell, it's odd that nobody ever claims to have been at Altamont.

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  2. Hi, Kirk!

    That's an amazing story, good buddy. I was not aware that the couple on the cover of the Woodstock album was identified shortly after its release. As someone who was the same age, 19, and who there in spirit, it means a lot to me to find out who they were and to know that girlfriend/wife Bobbi died last week. I wish the couple would have been able to remain together twenty-one more years so that they could have celebrated the 75th anniversary of Woodstock and perhaps made a pilgrimage. But NO! The Reaper had other plans.

    Rambling on in the predawn darkness, it makes me sad to think that, one by one, the hopeful, idealistic youth of the Woodstock era, kids who believed they could make a difference and spoke truth to power by means of their lifestyle, their politics and their music, are leaving this world, a world that seems to be pushing back hard against all they held dear. (See Florida, where the rotting fish on the beaches are mixed with the remains of progressive educators, LGBTIQA+ rights advocates and woke individuals of every stripe.)

    I hope your week is off to a great start, good buddy Kirk. Here's to Stormy weather ahead for someone we all know and loathe.

    That's all I got.

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    1. Shady, they weren't all idealistic. Donald Trump was 23 in 1969, and wasn't at Woodstock.

      He ended up covered in mud anyway.

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  3. For some reason I smiled as I read this.Unlike for many, there is photographic proof that they were at Woodstock.

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    1. Andrew, it's too bad they didn't have selfies back then. We'd have an easier time sorting fact from fiction.

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    1. Debra, to paraphrase Shakespeare, some have iconography thrust upon them.

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  5. I don't think I know anyone that was at Woodstock.

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    1. Mike, you know anyone who was stuck in traffic on their way TO Woodstock?

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  6. Wow! They're legendary! Pictures are indeed important proof. :)

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    1. In the days, before Photoshop, yeah, Lux, they were important proof.

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  7. Wonderful photo and wonderful album. RIP Bobbi.

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