Pacific Grove man remembers the concert of a lifetime
(WorldNews Music)

MONTEREY >> Patrick Cotter was a recent high school graduate in Bethesda, Maryland in August 1969. It was a time of change and social upheaval in the world, the nation and at home for the 18-year old whose parents had just split weeks before. That summer, the Vietnam War raged on, the gay rights movement was born of the Stonewall Riots, the names Charles Manson and Sharon Tate would forever become intertwined, and Neil Armstrong took man’s first steps on the moon. Cotter, meanwhile, was dealing with personal change while working at his grandfather’s hardware store. Cotter heard about a concert coming up in New York state with a lineup that included big names, among them one...