Name:	terryl greene
City/State:	chattanooga, tn.
Date:	Mon Sep 20 2004
Wrote... Time...Time...Time has come today...I can still the hear chamber brothers....What a great time..Me and two friends of mine hitched down from chattanooga....our first ride was with a real cool head in a grey VW..He said jump in..lets go to atlanta...then he aked if we were holding...or had a stash...we said sure thing man..he said break it out..so we did and got really ripped...We thought.. we had it made... Only too be let out on the side of the road in dalton..he said I've got to get my girlfriend..see ya at the festival...which was not cool..being stoned on I-75...Our next ride was with a business man in a Impala...a young guy in his mid 20's..he said..hey guys got a stash?...We said..no way man..so he said try this...he reached underneath his seat and pulled out a spay can of bactine..dissinfectent spray...then he sprayed some in his hand and sorted it...wow..we all got on board passed around the can and broke out our stash as well....lol..anyway.finally made it to byron 3 rides later...The first thing I remember were the outlaws breaking the fences down..and screaming...It's a free festival..We all jumped up and down and were real happy..till it set in that we just spent $14 bucks at sexie sadies for our tickets...The outlaws were a real drag..they blocked the only road into the festival..begging for free beer...they even took away my friends mirror sunglasses....of course they did say thanks...lol..anyway,Radar a great band from atlanta opened the festival....I think The Allmans played next....but that's when the orange sunshine started coming on...all I could do was laugh....it was my first trip...then the rain started..and we all ran for cover...I was really messed up..we ran into some girls our band had met in daytona the week before...they gave me a piece of watermelon to hold on too...I knew the melon was real...I had doubts about me....later some guy wanted to give some squash cake....it was wrapped in foil...I tasted it and said man..it taste just like chocolate cake..he said hey man it is....squashed chocolate cake....lol...anyway...as the acid wore off I went back in..and heard The chambers brothers...then poco..I remember Richey Furray saying...hey were scared shitless....then they broke into..you better think twice..wowow,,Poco was so good....Then Jimi came on...I was a little dissapointed...it seemed to me that jimi was singing out of key...or maybe it was me..At that time I was shivering...thinking it was the acid..then some guy said..hey man your sitting on a bag of ice...lol...Later fireworks dropped like bombs...the crowd sort of scattered..trying to avoid being burn't..then jimi flew out in a copter....lee michaels and frosty came out...they were great...after a while I went back to the campsite....can't remember much else....except maybe drug alley...the heat..naked hippies...lomg lines in the few portapoddies....and the long ride home..peace