Lang returned in 1994 with some of his original business partners to unite new rock bands with boomer legends for Woodstock’s 25th anniversary, which lured a respectable 300,000-plus people to Saugerties, New York and went relatively smoothly. Five years later, the disastrous Woodstock ‘99 in...
And a song that gets stuck in your head is, in many respects, well-written. Pop music is not a genre, per se, but rather a category of music that is popular at the time. Therefore, depending on trends, several different genres can be found in the Top 40: pop, rock, hip-hop, R...
Crosby Stills and Nash (1969):David Crosby (the Byrds), Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield) and Graham Nash (the Hollies) had only just released this new supergroup's debut when they played their first gig – at Woodstock. Everybody there apparently bought this 10-song album, which went to...
drugs was glorified in many ways by bands like The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead,Jimi Hendrix, and Pink Floyd. This music became known as “acid rock” (Szatmary 1996). The music fashioned the ideas of peace and love along with it a dark trend. San Francisco was bursting with ...
Crosby Stills and Nash (1969):David Crosby (the Byrds), Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield) and Graham Nash (the Hollies) had only just released this new supergroup's debut when they played their first gig – at Woodstock. Everybody there apparently bought this 10-song album, which went to...
If most music festivals simply seem to self-propagate in every mid-size city across the country, drafting at random from a pre-approved pool of bands, many of these artist-run events are honest attempts to break the stasis. “It’s this cut-and-paste arms race of headliners,” ...
Marcell Williams met Matthews backstage. She even reveals that it was my older brother that turned her onto the band in 1994 in the first place. (I can attest; he was an early adopter of many bands that became my favorites, too.) “I fell madly in love with Dave at that first SPAC...
I would put up so many of these songs, 'Tonight,' 'Ecstasy,' [with] the most incredible pop songs [by other artists]. I don't want anyone to get angry with me, but I put [those songs] on the level of 'Go All the Way,' with being so incredible. I would want people to ...
is the perfect venue for many festivals and events. At the annual Waterfront Blues Festival, held every Fourth of July weekend, boat owners get the best seat in the house, bobbing on the river while listening to the blues bands onstage. Plenty of people show up on foot for the great vib...
Chaos. [Laughs] We had a long day the day before doing an Andy Williams television special. We got out of L.A. very late and got into the Woodstock mess. It wasn’t all bad, really. Logistically, it was hard. How do we get in here? All of the roads are closed. How do we ge...