Gus Van Sant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Who?
Jimmy Durante?
He'd be on stage, you know, between the jazz acts.
Oh.
You know, and the jazz, the comic comedian club or the jazz clubs were, you know, partly like comedy.
And then the beatniks weren't even, they were maybe listening to the jazz, but they didn't seem to figure into the.
Love the one you're with, yes.
Lyrics to Jefferson Airplane or something.
Stephen Stills, okay.
I think, maybe with Buffalo Springfield.
Something like that.
I was on my way.
I was 16.
No.
You were going to go to Woodstock?
Yeah, but I had a job in New York, and I couldn't leave until Friday afternoon, and by Friday afternoon, it was a national... It was a disaster area, and the...
The forces, you know, the president was flying in food and water because, and we were still going to go.
My friend and I were going to hop in a car and drive to Woodstock, which was only a couple of hours from Connecticut.
Yeah, 16.
No, they said you're not going there.