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   "Bill Kawalec" (billkawalec@yahoo.com) writes:   
   > "Gerry"  wrote in message   
   > news:everyday-BA5DD7.07454319082007@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com...   
   >> In article <1187508419.583794.206300@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,   
   >> fadeToblack  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I was watching Woodstock Diary and can't ID the man singing 'Drug   
   >>> Store Truck Drivin Man' with her. I like the way she told the story of   
   >>> how the FEDs were going to pick up David at their home in the hills.   
   >>   
   >> Let Google be your friend (or any other search engine of your choice). A   
   >> quick search on  found that the song   
   >> feautred Jeffrey Shurtleff. Who he? Just do a search on him and the   
   >> world is yours.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > can't always trust the credibility of what you find though;   
   > "This song has been posted by some other people under The Byrds and Gram   
   > Parsons.  It was written by Roger McGuin and Gram Parsons.  This is the   
   > version that was preformed live at Woodstock.  Different chords were used,   
   > and some of the words were changed t o make it pertain to the draft   
   > resistance and Ronald Regan."   
   >   
   > Ronald Reagan?!?!? In 1969?!?!?!?!?   
   >   
   >   
   > riiiiiiight...   
   >   
   >   
   Yes.   
      
   On the album, and presumably the real concert, he introduces the song   
   more or less like this (I may have garbled it slightly):   
      
     "Hello long tall friends of the draft resistance revolution   
      in America.  Good Evening.  I hope it stops raining.  One   
      thing about the draft resistance that is different from other   
      movements and revolutions in this country is that we have no   
      enemies.  One of the most beautiful things about it.  ANd to   
      show our hearts are in the right place, we dedicate this song   
      to the governor of California, Ronald Raygun, zap."   
      
   Obviously, if that intro wasn't enough, Ronald Reagan was the governor   
   of California at the time.   
      
   I'm not going to dig out the Byrds version to see how they change it,   
   but the version they sing at Woodstock is clearly making reference   
   to the Resistance  (that David Harris, Joan's husband at the time) was   
   part of.   
      
   He campaigned to clean up the U of C at Berkeley, that had just gone   
   through the Free Speech Movement, including making references to   
   the anti-war movement, the vietnam phase starting up in '66 when   
   he was campaigning.  He squashed the whole People's Park thing in   
   Berkeley.   
      
   Now I'm not fully sure why he got picked out in the intro, after   
   all he was "merely" a state governor, but sweet Joan lived there   
   and I think the Resistance was based there.  Apparently Reagan made   
   an early attempt at the presidency, so that might also have been a   
   factor.   
      
   We could ask Marty Jezer, but he died two years ago.   
      
     Michael   
      
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