Remembering Woodstock ; What was it like being at the concert of the century?Sylvia Anderson
What kind of country do you live in where a major candidate in a Presidential primary openly advocates for doubling the size of America’s illegal detention centers and increasing the use of torture? Obama, you won the fucking election. Everyone despises Bush and his administration — they spen...
And then the guy that started the whole thing, the fat guy, stood on his head for a minute or so and then walked off. And then the ones I was talking about, described to you, he wouldn’t let us touch him for about two or three minutes. Like, “Don’t touch him, he’s going...
was home to just a handful of multi-day music festivals. Today, there are over 800 festivals in the U.S. alone, with 32 million people attending them each year. What drove this massive growth? Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music Advertised as “three days of peace and music,” ...
by the end of the movie, I was deeply in love. “Trish” took me immediately back to her apartment where we made muddy, Woodstockian love for over a week (at that time I was “living” in my 1964 Pontiac Tempest for 6 months of “on-the-road,” cross-country misadventure)… until...
I was a young buck, only 16, smoking cigarettes outside and waiting for headliners Les Georges Leningrad to come on when my friend sent me a stern text from the belly of the beast: “Dude. Come in.” So I curiously re-entered my favorite church basement to find six airtight musicians...
The long hauls had their good moments, however. On a Saturday in August of 2019 we were in the car for 12+ hours on what was the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. SiriusXM’s Classic Vinyl channel played the music of artists who played at Woodstock, mixed in with stories of those who wer...
One of the greatest lessons in ending well came for me personally when my mom passed away. Her name was Ashby, and the word that best describes who she was and how she walked through the world is ‘grace’. There was nothing Asbhy loved more than what she liked to call a “good vis...
If you are 72 or older, you will need to take required minimum distributions from your 401(k) account each year. "You don't have to touch the 401(k) until you are 72," says Morgan Hill, CEO of Hill & Hill Financial in Woodstock, Georgia. If you stay on the job past age 72 an...
You may like:This Louisville-based beatboxer was ranked in the top 5 in the nation The plastic ground cloth would end up keeping them out of the mud — at least for the first night of Woodstock. As Shankar played on stage and the Kentucky girls drifted off to sleep, the first...