Tim Dodson:  

It was June 6, 1969. It was 6 ... 9 ... 69 and I made it... graduated that is from FHS in good old Fairfax, VA. I don't remember much about the day except thinking: thank goodness that's over! I immediately got on a plane and spent the summer of 69 just like Bryan Adams song: playing guitar, INHALING (unlike Bill Clinton), and meeting what were called "flower children" back then. I learned what the summer of 69 was all about by DOING rather than reading about it. I heard Led Z e p p l i n (first album) blasting out from the windows of the dorm rooms on fraternity row at UCLA. Interestingly, when I came back to Fairfax when the summer was over, no one here had even heard of them... in fact a few months later the were the warm-up act, billed under the headliner "The WHO" at M e r r i w e a t h e r Post! The crowd loved them so much that they didn't even want "the WHO" to come onstage! An unbelievable concert and I can still hear the s w o o s h of the guitar string that shot over my head when they smashed up their equipment at the end of their set... Three different people called me and asked if I wanted to go to some concert called:W o o d s t o c k. Fortunately I had just spent the summer of 69 in L.A. and had gotten my full dose of sex, drugs, and rock n roll... I passed on W o o d s t o c k but had many more in store for me as I went to GMU for the next 4 years, finally graduating with a degree in Philosophy .... what else?! " Real life " started to s...Expand for more