"Wavy Gravy the legendary figure of the counterculture movement who emceed Woodstock, clowned for the Grateful Dead and ran a pig for president against Richard Nixon before co-founding a local summer camp and an international nonprofit turns 90 on Friday."
"A Berkeley resident since the late 1970s, he is scheduled to attend a documentary screening of Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie Friday night at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, and will be honored Saturday at a 90th birthday party and benefit concert at the Masonic."
"I met him at Woodstock and he introduced himself as Hugh when I volunteered at the field hospital on Sunday am. He asked me to ride around in a makeshift ambulance with my cousin Jimmy, riding in the back of a rented UHaul pick up truck with two army cots and pick up people experiencing bad acid trips, bringing them back to Wavy where he took over and helped people get down from the bad high they were having."
"The line I remember from him was All I learned in the '60s was that you can't get snot off suede.' I was at Wavy's birthday party at the Wetlands in NYC 1997. The Zen Tricksters with Jonny Dworks speed of light show was unforgettable"
Wavy Gravy, a counterculture figure known for emceeing Woodstock, clowing for the Grateful Dead, and running a pig for president against Richard Nixon, turns 90. He co-founded a local summer camp and an international nonprofit and has lived in Berkeley since the late 1970s. He is scheduled to attend a documentary screening of Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie in San Francisco and will be honored at a 90th birthday party and benefit concert at the Masonic. Readers shared personal memories describing his hands-on help during Woodstock, his stage presence as an MC, and his memorable sayings and performances, reflecting lasting fascination with his blend of pranks, protests, music, and charity.
Read at www.berkeleyside.org
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