Woodstock 50 LLC. From a strictly business standpoint, Woodstock 50 was operated by Greg Peck and Susan Cronin, who hired Lang as a producer to avoid a conflict of interest with his other company, Woodstock Ventures, which owns the rights to the name. Peck, whose background is in hotels, ...
“We had a few friends at CBS Records like a young college rep in the northern part of NY state, named John Sykes* [who] really helped launch the Platinum single, ‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’ to number 11 in the Billboard Top 100. But at the same time, we had a lot more ...
In 2001, Loverboy enlisted Ken “Spider” Sinnaeve, a longtime friend of Smith’s from Winnipeg to step in as their new bassist. He was the “natural guy” for the job, the singer said, detailing how Smith had also given his friend a lot of his equipment over the years as periodic g...
Santana's Woodstock-era emergence was keyed by a collaborative mixture of Latin-tinged rock styles. Later, Santana's core members scattered as the band's namesake guitarist took things in a jazzier direction. Carlos Santana then made a huge, guest-packed comeback in the late '90s, before get...
Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Michael Lang died at the age of 77 on Jan. 8 from a rare form of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Lang served as the organizer of the Woodstock, as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill-fated Woodstock '99. ...
Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Michael Lang died at the age of 77 on Jan. 8 from a rare form of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Lang served as the organizer of the Woodstock, as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill-fated Woodstock '99. ...
Santana's Woodstock-era emergence was keyed by a collaborative mixture of Latin-tinged rock styles. Later, Santana's core members scattered as the band's namesake guitarist took things in a jazzier direction. Carlos Santana then made a huge, guest-packed comeback in the late '90s, before get...
Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Michael Lang died at the age of 77 on Jan. 8 from a rare form of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Lang served as the organizer of the Woodstock, as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill-fated Woodstock '99. ...
Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Michael Lang died at the age of 77 on Jan. 8 from a rare form of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Lang served as the organizer of the Woodstock, as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill-fated Woodstock '99. ...
Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Michael Lang died at the age of 77 on Jan. 8 from a rare form of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Lang served as the organizer of the Woodstock, as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill-fated Woodstock '99. ...