Couple from iconic Woodstock photo still a couple
On Saturday, I posted about a new gallery show of Burk Uzzle's Woodstock photos, including the iconic shot seen above left. Turns out, the couple in the photo who had only met a few months before the concert are still together 40 years later. From the New York Daily News (photo Harbus for News):
(Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, now 60,) say they remember nothing of the original shot, taken by Burk Uzzle. "We weren't striking a pose," Nick says. "We were as surprised as everybody to see that photo on the album cover.""Woodstock concert's undercover lovers, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, 40 years after summer of love" (Thanks, Richard Metzger!)
They discovered it while at a friend's house listening to the album and passing around the gatefold jacket. First, Nick recognized the famous yellow butterfly staff in the left corner. "It belonged to this guy Herbie," Nick says. "We latched on to him that day because he was having a very bad experience. He was tripping pretty heavily and he had lost his friends. After I saw that staff I said, 'Hey that's our blanket.' Then I said, 'Hey, that's us.'"
Bobbi, then 20, wasn't overly impressed. "Woodstock was over and done with at that time," she says. "It didn't seem like a big deal. The only thing was that then I had to tell my mother I had gone. She didn't know. But by then, she didn't mind."
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That's heartwarming
@Trauringe: I'll have to cancel my wedding, since the link is broken =[
Thanks for shattering my dreams.
I just want to know what kind of laundry detergent they used on that comforter.
Ah bless em.
That cuts right through my cynical veneer.
What was the album?
"at a friend's house listening to the album and passing around the gatefold jacket."
Yes yes, we've all been there :-)
In a way that qualifies for that infamous comment about your parents sex lives: "too much information". I would kind of like to have that classic picture live on as a sort of anonymous archetype...
Apart from that selfish generalization... congratulations to Bobbi and Nick. Glad you were there.
FTA:
They discovered it while at a friend's house listening to the album and passing around the gatefold jacket.
Is that what they called it back then? Far out!
So awesome
#5 anonymous "What was the album?"
Uhh, If you have to ask, that means one of two things: Either you were there (at Woodstock, that is, you stoned hippie!) or you were born after 1980...LOL...Which is it?
Along with the puffy visage of the old folks, the blanket on the right just screams "Cocoon"!
Would be especially apt if this couple were Reagan Democrats: SNL's proverbial "pod people". LOL!
Did I click Cute Overload by accident? ;D
ADORABLE!!!
Ah, those hippies and their loose moral values, destroying the institution of marriage!
it's OK! it's "opposite" marriage!
Too bad no one linked to this article in the comments section of the previous article.
;)
It's a great story!
French audio-mashup supremo DJ Zebra used them on the artwork of 'Bootstock':
"a concept mix created, mixed and produced by DJ Zebra in June 2009, for the Woodstock Festival 40th anniversary. The original songs and sounds come from the “Woodstock” album and movie, and some studio recordings."
http://djzebra.free.fr/Bootstock.html
Wow! amazing! are you still "stoned"? cheers!