If you have a hankering to travel back to the counter-cultural press and its close connections with Donovan, Dylan, Moon Dog and other music figures of the late 1960s, click on the audio file below for the latest episode of “This Day In New Haven History” on WNHH radio.
You’ll encounter a discussion about New Haven’s View From The Bottom, a local underground radical weekly that lasted one brief but glorious year, 1969 to 1970. Back on Oct. 2, 1969, Mitch Kapor, a 20-year-old Yale University student and music programmer for Yale’s radio station, was recommending Moon Dog’s new Columbia Record: “Mostly known for his ultra-strange appearance, the album is not half bad.”
Who knew that the Mitch of his “Sing Along With Mitch” music review column would grow up to become the Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1 – 2‑3 and, later, the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
In that day’s column, Mitch tells us that the release of the Beatles’ Get Back has been delayed until Christmas to catch those seasonal sales, that a bootleg recording of Bob Dylan and his Band in Woodstock has surfaced in L.A.; and, locally, that Donovan will be appearing at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford later in the month. Click on the audio file to hear the whole episode.
