1994: Woodstock '94 on Winston Farm near Saugerties, New York Held on the 25th anniversary of Woodstock, this massive music festivalpromised "2 More Days of Peace and Music."What it delivered was expensive tickets, corporate sponsorships, gate-crashing, overcrowding, three confirmed deaths, multi...
and from the Highway Patrol; that the Stones provide some 100 security officers who had had experience at Woodstock; that the raceway be re-imbursed for any costs incurred
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The shock rocker and his band emerged from the Nine Inch Nails shadow in 1995 with their darkly disturbing cover of Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” as part of theSmells Like Childrenalbum. Then, a year later in 1996, they started a three-album run that would place them amongst the rock worl...
Joe doesn’t like to talk about that period. “What did you do for that year and a half, Joe?” I asked. Joe was sitting in a loge seat in the empty Garden looking frighteningly pale, sweating a morbid sweat, and jiggling his right foot, which rested on his left knee. The concert...
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In the last few years, the ease of home recording has increased exponentially to the point where every 17 year old with an acoustic guitar and a laptop is now a “band” (I will make fun of these kids forever, but I am happy that they exist. I wonder if their children will unearth...
Maddy entered her fourteen-year-old’s bedroom, bracing herself for what she might find. When she opened the door to his room, she was aghast. “How do you plan to complete this?” she asked looking at the clothes on the floor, and the dirty windows of her son’s bedroom smeared wit...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s electrifying directorial debut,Summer of Soul, must surely rank among the greatest concert films of all time. Restoring 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival to its rightful place as a cultural moment every bit as historic as Woodstock, Questlove unearths scintillating foo...
gems in a working life in which he retired at 49 is about as likely as learning in a few years that Billy Carter, Jimmy's brother, invented the Internet, thought up Twitter, and did both theoretical and initial lab work resulting in three Nobel Prizes in Physics over a 20-year period....