Bearsville Theater

This was the time that I discovered the thrill of seeing music live, too.

Of course, there were national acts at the Civic Center and The Chance, Bearsville Theater and the Clearwater Festival, but even more important was seeing local acts, like Como Zoo and Go Van Go at the Rhinecliffe Hotel, or my personal favorite, Perfect Thyroid at God knows how many random venues, like the Accord train station.

These acts, loading in their own gear and seemingly making noise just for the sheer joy of it, made me realize that music was not something reserved for the rock stars on MTV.

It was for regular people, too.

We went last year.

We paid a lot of money for Elvis Costello tickets at Bearsville Theater here-

Oh, lovely

... uh, in Bearsville, Woodstock, and we were so excited, and we got there and we learned that it was standing room the whole show.

We did, we did the Bolton Center.

Uh, we did the Bitter End in July, and the Bearsville Theater.

And the reason for the Bitter End was they basically came up on Bleecker Street.

The Cafe Wha? was in that area, and, uh, they have that album live at the Cafe Wha?.