With three partners, Lang conceived the idea of a three-day festival in New York state in 1969, but the original Woodstock succeeded more on dumb luck than on precise planning. After losing the planned site in Wallkill, New York a month before gates were scheduled to open, Lang famously d...
Proving beyond doubt that the spirit of demonic fretboard noodling is centuries old, one of the most iconic shredding moments in rock and roll history — Jimi Hendrix playing “The Star-Spangled Banner“at Woodstock — has a direct ancestor in the Romantic period. Written in 1829, here’s one...
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 ...
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 ...
My kids were amazed that there were that many Packers fans in the world! By the way, my son's name is Vincent. I think Dad would be proud. Read this story John Dingeldein Woodstock, GA, Georgia It's simple really. It was 1983 and I was 10 years old. I had just gotten spanked...
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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 ...
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...
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” ...
In 1969, my dad was deciding whether or not to go to Woodstock. You know about Woodstock? Jordan Harbinger: [00:06:10] I heard about it. Zak Dychtwald: [00:06:11] We're in Berkeley right now, so you get, you get the general vibe. A lot of those people who left ended up ...