My life changed along with everyone else's when the Beatles hit the USA.
I grew up with them, evolved with them, dropped acid with them,
and I have never given up my membership to
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Many artists have influenced me;
The Motown Sound, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Donovan, and
Bruuuuuuce Springsteen.

I have always loved rock, and I have always loved folk music,
with Pete Seeger, Woody and Arlo Guthrie remaining favorites.

Two Women must also be mentioned,
Joni Mitchell and The True Madonna of Music, Joan Baez.

Queen

Harry Chapin

Bruuuuce!

Little Steven

And then there was Woodstock!

Me at woodstock '69

i was 22 and my best friend Bonnie and i had left NJ to head to Calif in early summer of '69.
once there we found out about the Woodstock Festival.so we hopped back in our VW minivan and hit the road back to NY!
we got there early enough in the week to get into the site, and parked the bus on some local guys property for the weekend.
set up a base camp near the HOG FARM and headed into our future.
in the words of our beloved ARLO GUTHRIE, "MAN, ALOTTA FREAKS!"
it was ~FaR oUt~!
the world has never been the same and neither have we!
we wanted things to change.
i remember sitting in the field waiting for the bands to start
and someone started making peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches
and we'd take a bite and pass it on. food was getting rare,
and the stands that were set up were such a hassle to get to cause you had to walk over so many people,
it was hardly worth tryin. when you got up there the line was killer anyway, so we just all shared food!
i have many stories of that weekend.
fell in love a thousand times with guys who would walk by and we'd lock eye contact and keep walking.
it was constant connecting. walking by and touching or looking deep at each others eyes and
moving onto the next person to share with as they walked by.
there was a purity of the spirit there. a genuine sharing of soul. my life changed there,
i quit smoking cigarettes on an acid trip,
we paid $5 to a farmer with a tractor to tow our van out of the mud after Woodstock ended,
and we made it into the movie!
right after SHA NA NA and before Joe Cocker!
we're doing YOGA with Tom Law (i'm the one with the headband on)!
THANKS TOM!

This is us in the Woodstock movie. i'm in the yellow top just as the video begins!

Check out some of my photos from Woodstock '69 HERE

Click on the aerial for Lisa Law's exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute!

My biggest story on Woodstock is that I was admiring a girl there
for days thinking she was so cool.
(In the movie, she has on the fringed halter and short skirt
that's dancing wildly with Fantuzzi, the guy with the big hair waving his arms around).
Anyway, I thought she was the coolest and at one point,
she entered into a camp I was at.
I offered her one of my Kool cigarettes.
She said 'I don't smoke cigarettes'.
I thought 'WOW! I want to be more cool like her'.
I was on acid at the time and it really made an impact!
So...that's when I quit smoking!!!
On an acid trip at Woodstock!

PEACE

The saddest day of my life was the night of December 8, 1980. I have never recovered from the loss of John Lennon, I lost a friend and mentor. I Was There...i grew up with the Beatles in the 60s. running to the store as soon as the new albums came out. dropping ACID when they dropped ACID,going to Gurus when they went to the Gurus. when JOHN and YOKO left the group and became 2 Virgins i was there with them...they fasted for Peace on Thanksgiving,i fasted for Peace with them.it was magik. i was in NY and so were they. On Dec.8,1980 i was at home here in California. the bulletin came on TV that Monday night and i gasped in pain, my heart stopped. SHOT? JOHN? HE CAN'T BE...GONE. i spent the next days travelling to NYC on my own pilgrimage,to the scene of the CRIME. to the 10 minutes of silence in Central Park that following Sunday. 400,000 of us in the park,the bandstand was decorated with XMAS greens in garland and the portrait of JOHN in his NY Tshirt. it was a gift from YOKO. that brillance of the worldwide 10 minutes of silence, in NYC! IMAGINE IT! it was HOLY. the temperature was -10 degrees that day because of the wind chill. BUT IT WAS HOLY. the sky was cloudy and when the silence broke with huge speakers blasting IMAGINE the sun actually came thru the clouds. i still cry when i hear songs from Double Fantasy. the best part of the experience was when YOKO in her incredible artistic wisdom, gave us all a great gift. On Valentines Day, 2 months after JOHN died,YOKO sent Barbara Walters a thank you for the fans. it was played on 20/20 that night. it was the 1st view we had of the video WOMAN. this was before VCRs, before MTV. that video was such a healing gift to us then. and how YOKO was able to put those pictures of JOHN together that soon after JOHN'S death i will never know. the mark of an artist. JOHNS picture lying looking up for the IMAGINE cover turning into (many of you will not know this) JOHN'S picture lying on the slab in the morgue. that picture was stolen by a photographer for the Enquirer and appeared on their cover the following week. it's chilling. i was there, i'm still there, i will always be there. WITH YOU IN THE WORK, JOHN AND YOKO. Give Peace a Chance... LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED,that's my philosophy and i'm sticking to it :-)