Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, and the coverage has been mixed. First of all, a proposed 2019 live concert crashed and burned before liftoff. Second, several essays ...
The Woodstock Music Festival took place over three days in mid-August 1969. Here are wild stories from performers at the ...
Promoter Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival didn’t pan out, and maybe that’s just as well. “Civil War re-enactors in everything but name” was one Facebook wag’s joke about its prospective attendees ...
August 15 marks the 48th anniversary of the festival concert by which all rock concerts will forever be measured. In August 1969, some 500,000 hardy souls appeared at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New ...
Jimi Hendrix was the gold standard of guitarists, and his Woodstock set was among his finest, yet he found himself looking upon a fellow performer with envy.
Fifty years ago Thursday Les Poinelli was hitch-hiking to the now storied Woodstock music festival he'd heard about on the radio -- and hopped in the car where he would meet his wife. Today he's ...
In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...
Check out Pandora's "The Sounds of Woodstock 1969" playlist to listen to the music of the moment. When most classic rock fans think of the original Woodstock festival, held a half-century ago in ...
They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. This week lots of people are trying to remember Woodstock, the legendary music festival that took place Aug. 15-18, 50 years ago. I was there, ...
WOODSTOCK >> The Tibetan Buddhist leader known as His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa told about 800 people in an Earth Day speech Wednesday that Woodstock – which he called the “land of hippies” – ...
Jimi Hendrix had barely finished playing "The Star Spangled Banner" when the myth began that Woodstock was the climax of the 1960s. It was not. The moon landing was the climax of the Sixties.