Manchester center, vermont in 2009. Its wonderful for us to be here in a state where we feel the spirit of woodstock still lives, and we know there is a woodstock here too. I have to say, i kind of fit all three of the criteria you mentioned about people interested in the book. I was definitely interested in the topic from a historical, musical perspective for a long time. I wish i had been there, but i was 12 years old, living in North Carolina the time, so didnt get to go. Now, i feel like i was there because of getting to spend so much time with michael and working on the book and all the incredible people that weve i have gotten to meet that worked on woodstock with michael, whose stories are also part of the book. Tonight, what we are going to do is talk a little bit amongst ourselves for you guys to listen in. Be thinking of questions because we will have time for questions at the end, after we chat for a little while. Im going to go through a little bit of back story with michae
Minutes. All right, so this next panel is a little different. The first two, in a sense. You had a military power. You had a panel. And this is what i call a disparate panel. Each of these folks represents something quite different. But the theme that brings it together is, postwar vietnam and all the different ways it has evolved. And rather than go through the tedious nature. Long introductions. Keith Washington Posts brilliant Foreign Correspondent man about town currently runs the journalism at the university of hong kong, which is worth its own panel. Right. And hong is a professor of distinction at columbia and. I can tell you, having been to one of her events just the other day, it was completely fascinating for reasons i think well get into, which is what is the nature of todays vietnam and ambassador burckhardt was not an ambassador when i first met him. He was a Junior Service officer who, unlike the rest of his people, actually talked to a reporter, which may have been the r
Minutes. All right, so this next panel is a little different. The first two, in a sense. You had a military power. You had a panel. And this is what i call a disparate panel. Each of these folks represents something quite different. But the theme that brings it together is, postwar vietnam and all the different ways it has evolved. And rather than go through the tedious nature. Long introductions. Keith Washington Posts brilliant Foreign Correspondent man about town currently runs the journalism at the university of hong kong, which is worth its own panel. Right. And hong is a professor of distinction at columbia and. I can tell you, having been to one of her events just the other day, it was completely fascinating for reasons i think well get into, which is what is the nature of todays vietnam and ambassador burckhardt was not an ambassador when i first met him. He was a Junior Service officer who, unlike the rest of his people, actually talked to a reporter, which may have been the r
Bit. A level three. The tirts of the season. The hills will see two to four. Burn the. Until 3 00 a. M. Tomorrow for the nor north. Were looking at gusts up to 50 miles an hour. Trees and power lines may go down. High concern for flooding, ill time it out for you hour by h r hour. And as she said, all the coming down. There is an area of there rain. The ruins of Fountain Grove with rain. The rain began falling in the rains might cause mud slides. Heres a view of the firestorm. It is a storm drain captured by a remote camera role beneath the regioned. Burned plastic and collapsed plastic. That i voids, such damage means potential or maybe even sink holes. Now crews that include inmates have gone storm train to storm drain imagine being a resident whose home did not burn im generally someone who doesnt get too ruffled about things. Im always just teetering on the verge of tears. Fountain grove resident susan jones is a retired police chief. Now experiencing disaster from the other side.
I just got an f from you, actually. This is overheard. applauding john doe, welcome. Thank you. Nice to see you. Good to be here. How is it that x is 40 years old as a band . We must be getting old. Its hard to imagine. Its magical. [evan] is it magical . No. laughing its astounding. Everything hurts, but its still astounding, yeah. Im really lucky. Less than you would think in the hurting part. Not a lot of bands, good bands and bad bands make it this long, right . Happens to be a good band, a great band that made it this long. You know, i appreciate that. Its just good fortune, and i think we still have some ambition. [evan] still playing. Its what we do. Its what we do. I saw cheap trick and its like, its kind of like seeing old blues guys. I saw John Lee Hooker and lightning hopkins, i saw those guys play and it is, you see cheap trick playing, its like, yeah, you look like an old blues guy now. chuckling well, the nice thing about it is its not the name, but a whole bunch of diffe