There have been reports of heart attacks, strokes and other deaths associated with LSD use, but many of these users also had other recreational drugs in their systems, so the role of LSD was inconclusive. The real physical damage associated with LSD comes from what can happen when someone ...
Amonth beforeWoodstock50 was announced, the festival was already in deep trouble. Last December,Michael Lang, the co-founder of the original 1969 event who had become its bemused-hippie symbol in subsequent decades, was in talks with an upstate New York racetrack for a fest that would mark t...
There have been reports of heart attacks, strokes and other deaths associated with LSD use, but many of these users also had other recreational drugs in their systems, so the role of LSD was inconclusive. The real physical damage associated with LSD comes from what can happen when someone ...
Gone were the days when hits such as "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" generated a crackling wave of electricity among the Woodstock generation, who eagerly tapped into the group's raw fusion. Both as a solo artist and with his trusted band, Carlos Santana had spent the 1970s ...
By 1969, MLK had fallen to a sniper's bullet and Sly and the Family Stone were one of the biggest bands in America and playing Woodstock. The expectation that followed, politically and personally - one that "Sly Lives!" suggests stalks black artists in particular - saw Stone (and his ba...
1969. The Manson murders occurred about two weeks later, and a weekafterthe murders was the legendaryWoodstock festival. The facts of the case and the identities of the killers became public knowledge later in the fall of 1969, something that has been interpreted again and again as the symboli...
Santana (1969):Timing was everything. Santana's self-titled debut arrived not long after the mostly unknown band had taken the stage at Woodstock and, with “Soul Sacrifice,” quickly creating one of the event's signature moments. 'Santana' shot to No. 4 on the Billboard chart, powered ...
“I think with the festival, the political climate was there and the musical climate was there to make these things occur,” Perloff said. “May have it occurred five years later? Probably. But if Woodstock and Monterey Pop wouldn’t have been on film, they would’ve been lost to history...
Santana (1969):Timing was everything. Santana's self-titled debut arrived not long after the mostly unknown band had taken the stage at Woodstock and, with “Soul Sacrifice,” quickly creating one of the event's signature moments. 'Santana' shot to No. 4 on the Billboard chart, powered ...
The originalWoodstock, which took place in August of 1969, was an important weekend for the counterculture movement, and featured performances from some of the biggest musical acts at the time. Organized by Michael Lang, it was meant to be three days of "peace and music," and while its ini...