MEET NATALE ANDREASSI

He didn't research the era.

He lived it.

Natale Andreassi grew up in the Bronx at a time when music was loud, the streets were alive, and nobody needed a smartphone to know where the action was.

As a young man, he became immersed in rock ‘n’ roll, playing drums, performing with bands, meeting people who would become part of his story, and chasing whatever adventure came next. His life eventually took him far beyond his Bronx neighborhood, through road trips, music, relationships, Woodstock, California, Florida, and experiences that would stay with him for decades.

Then there was Woodstock.

At nineteen, Natale headed to the 1969 festival without a ticket, without a tent, and, as he remembers it, without much of a plan either. He simply followed the music and found himself in the middle of an event that would become part of American cultural history.

That's the kind of life behind 1964–1977: Thirteen Years of Sex, Drugs & Rock N Roll.

Natale doesn't present himself as a historian looking back at the 1960s and 1970s. He's the kid who was there. His memories come from the streets, stages, cars, campsites, friendships, and unexpected situations that made those thirteen years unlike anything that came before or after.

Now, at 75, he is finally putting those memories into words.

Some are funny.

Some are outrageous.

Some are difficult to believe.

But they're his.

And after all these years, Natale has decided it's time to tell them.

“I was there. I remember it. Now you can hear it from me.