European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 19 k a Ion cent Tifis Rhine Wallora have told of the a massive Finger of Stone jutting out into i hazardous Bend on us a Golderg hatred 3 Siren Sang poignant melodies Hldi Abbot of the Turing ships to on the Rocky Shoals below h h at Sujune might the Siren was doing a brisk business in Rock some of whom music of Ted the Bobu Uriah and it was the Best lineup of the year and the looked like Good the Sun i thought heard promoter Werner Kuhls it Only Rains Here four when he invited i Eprea to have a look at his new july the presence of Wheatfield up there should have made me listen More what re really said was that there Wen Only tour Days a year when it was not sunny at All his com Sunrise has put a Tot of Money into Bull new stage and backstage area i Hope they i get wet Fri their new every body else and it was a dark and Stormy the Ilcy grew steadily More i drove Down the Rhine from Wiesbaden to a Scenic Little Loisl trap lying at the foot the to a Long line of Many of them with Green were parked close by the face of the cuff their Laden with blankets and picnic Cool were making their Way up the lion Lute foot would that i had joined them parked on solid but i had left my Boob Home and it seemed better to be parked nearer the the up4hemountaln also strewn with delivered me into the hands of a Farmers wife with a 2mark parking place in her sloping it was about id music would Start at the vibe a inside the Amphitheater were not Woods Tock on the it was two gis shouting at each other across 10 rows of Stone benches find any yet How about some Oke if Yuwa Tapay or the tight pack of hustlers with silly haircuts fling across the Damp one saying to his mate lets keep Lookin for it i want some action to his tone of voice would have served Gergory Peck Well in a the magic of such As it was Cen tired on stepping into new realities and not just spending some time hustling dope and ducks at Rock festival and then going Back on the flight line monday the vibes at the Loreley reminded me of a Hare Kelsh mom ind Wildra Mckage of if tsetse arid mag Lune on Aslund fat Don Attoul f showed Ruitt Nickel and be look Back for As the emt Wurt listed up with far the Grey sky let those a few heavenward glances and a rustling of Thrett of Ohhi and Ihen came half an hard Nua Rabi Geates Uhd Oiw to and the already Kernp was que wkly turned into i did i want to be part of the Midnight i had 6 vision of mass conf hundreds of cars spinning wheels and splat Long mud in a Moonlight demolition Derby atop the Scenic i could seethe flashing Landing lights of the medevac choppers coming in the Gre predawn coming too late to help As the in Stant junkyard with its helpless population slipped off the Rock and plummeted into the laughing Gullet of father Rhine i went out to move the and it was already too the gentlest motion of the wheels dug trenches under the there was a 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