The Offspring,Insane Clown Posse,Korn,Bush,Kid Rock,Limp Bizkit,Rage Against the Machine,Metallica,Creed,Godsmack,MegadethandRed Hot Chili Pepperswere among the many rock and metal artists who performed over the three-day event. The lineup was a far-cry from the original Woodstock, which featur...
1969: Woodstock music festival Public Domain 1969: Woodstock music festival Billed as "three days of peace and music," the Woodstock music festival featured more than 30 rock bands and was attended by more than 400,000 in upstate New York. The event is widely regarded as a key turning point...
What are your main memories of playing Woodstock? 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 he...
The band, who played before Jimi Hendrix’s legendary set at Woodstock in 1969, found themselves back in demand in the late 70s, particularly when rock nostalgia spawned the TV show Happy Days and the movie Grease. In the UK, a band from Leicester called Showaddywaddy (who are still ...
album they wanted to make. He ended up financing most of the project, which was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, with such players as Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg of the E Street Band and Rundgren’s Utopia bandmates Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell and John “Willie” ...
Santana, 'Live at the Fillmore 1968' (1997) Columbia Santana, 'Live at the Fillmore 1968' (1997) Santana was still rounding into shape, personnel wise, on this pre-Woodstock recording. But the cornerstone interplay between Carlos Santana and Gregg Rolie was already in place through a set tha...
“And that’s what made the band so great; that’s why they should be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, because they could connect with an audience.” “It was the perfect stage for Freddie: the whole world” Two months later Queen began work on the album A...
1969: Woodstock music festival Billed as "three days of peace and music," the Woodstock music festival featured more than 30 rock bands and was attended by more than 400,000 in upstate New York. The event is widely regarded as a key turning point in popular music history and the countercul...
Santana, 'Live at the Fillmore 1968' (1997) Columbia Santana, 'Live at the Fillmore 1968' (1997) Santana was still rounding into shape, personnel wise, on this pre-Woodstock recording. But the cornerstone interplay between Carlos Santana and Gregg Rolie was already in place through a set tha...
“Woodstock 50 was something relating back to the original,” Lang says. “It was reminding people of what activism could actually bring. There were so many comparisons between what was going on then and now in the world. So when I booked it, it was about contemporary acts and acts from...