6/30/07 Bethel Woods Center For The Arts, Bethel, NY

Back in 1969, you couldn't get Bob Dylan anywhere near the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival which was held in the little village of Bethel, some 60 miles from Woodstock, New York. Hippies, pilgrims and vagrants were climbing on his roof, so he moved his family to some hidden mountain on the other side of Woodstock and while the festival in Bethel was happening went as far away as he could get to the Isle of Wight. Unbeknownst to most, there actually was a music festival in the town of Woodstock that summer where a little-known Irish refugee named Van Morrison performed who had moved into a house just down the road from Dylan's, but that's another story.

And so 38 years later Bob Dylan finally came to Bethel, to perform at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a sort of impressive summer shed built on what once was Yasgur's Farm, the site of Woodstock on some tiny country road.

On the ride in we tried to figure out if the ponds were the ponds. What once were fields now were parking lots, …