A Look Back by Leonard Buschel –
August 6, 1969 – “Do you want to go to Woodstock?” Joe asks.
“Well, we sure can’t go back to Atlantic City to do our radio show, might as well get out of Philly. It starts in a week. We’ll go a couple days early and get tickets there. We can scope out a good place to camp near the lake. We can take our rods to do some fishing. Maybe can catch some bass and throw them on the Coleman”. Bethel, New York was about 3 and a half hours from Philly. We asked my brother if he wanted to go, but he was a little fed up with rock n’ roll at that point. And so began part two of a very thrilling summer.
That June, my brother Bruce, best friend, Joe D. and I had begun doing a radio show on the Jersey Shore. We found a country and western station that went off the air at midnight and the owner agreed to let us do a show from midnight to 2am during the week and midnight to 4am on the weekends. All we had to do was sell some advertising to pay for the studio, hire a licensed engineer and keep our listeners entertained. There were no rock stations on that late along the South Jersey shore. I had a good record collection to get us started. My university, well actually, Philadelphia Community College was located in the defunct Snellenberg’s department store downtown, with four working elevators. Around the corner on Market Street, was Jerry’s Records – all albums $2.99. Every time a new Beatles, Dylan or Led Zepplin record came out, there were lines around the block with people passing hash pipes back and forth. We also had a contact at Columbia records who was giving us everything he could…dozens of albums a week, new and old.
