* ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - CELEBRATE BROOKLYN *
* PROSPECT PARK BANDSHELL - FRI AUG 14 / SAT AUG 15, 2009 *
* see: THE BOWERY PRESENTS*

* SIMON CERIGO reviewed ANIMAL COLLECTIVE for artlovers way back in APRIL 2006 *
* see: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !! *
* he is also a big big fan of PANDA BEAR !! *

* it’s also the 40th ANNIVERSARY of WOODSTOCK - and our music reviewer, SIMON CERIGO was there !! *
* he says: “I was 17 and rollin’ around in the mud. high on drugs and looking for free love” - does anything ever change !! *
* SIMON says … ” legendary” San Francisco art dealer .. JACK HANLEY, with whom he recently reminisced about WOODSTOCK - at JACK’S - AUGUST 6th - NYC gallery opening, [see below for link] - agreed - that past films on the gathering - had downplayed the mud. the new documentary - seems - “to get that aspect - right.” *

* he continues .. “though I fell asleep, after partying non-stop for 3 days !! - during THE WHO - I caught all the big acts - incl SANTANA, who were totally new to me. being a hard-core music fanatic even then - I had caught the rest of the acts - the month previously - at the legendary, but not as well known, ATLANTIC CITY POP FESTIVAL. *
* SUMMER 1969 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE *

* check out: JACK HANLEY/NYC/’California Investigative Healing’ *
* organized by: KAL SPELLETICH *
* running AUG 06 - AUG 29, 2009 *
* p.s. SIMON says the opening was a nice party - good crowd and, they served up - plenty of grilled hot dogs, free flowing beer, and cupcakes !! *

FIRST POSTED On THE HOMEPAGE: FRI AUG 14, 2009