What's amazing is how brief the classic hippie era was. It started around '65 and its apex was Woodstock in August '69, a mere four years later. From there it was all downhill with Altamont, Isle of Wight and the deaths of the movement's principal musical icons. As such, it only ...
From rocking Mods of the ‘60s to rock gods of the ‘70s, the Who closed out the latter decade with both tragedy (the death of drummer Keith Moon in 1978; the trampling deaths of 11 fans before a Cincinnati concert in 1979) and triumph (the film version of the ambitious story-album ...
At theblues festival,Fredrikaand her entourage moved into a shaded area under a tree in front of me where I could observe the activity around her. A number of people showed up to take group pictures with her. A white guy that I hadn’t noticed before and a black lady suddenly appeared ...
riots, sexual assaults and even deaths come to mind when Woodstock ’99 is brought up. It all seems to exist in the shadow of the name Limp Bizkit, however, lumping all the problems under the word "disaster."
On Dec. 3, 1979, 11 people were killed when an impatient crowd of 8,000 fans, who had been waiting outside for hours for a show by The Who, turned into a panicked stampede upon being allowed into the venue. The band were not told of the deaths until after the show, and they wer...
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Extreme heat, shortage of supplies, overcrowding and aggressive music doesn’t exactly make for three days of peace and love. Instead, riots, sexual assaults and even deaths come to mind when Woodstock ’99 is brought up. But for all the problems and all the causes of the problems that ev...
America’s allies,Uncle Samwas defeated and then, in defeat, betrayed the people America had claimed to be there to protect. The deaths of 58,318 American and a quarter-million South Vietnamese troops looms over the whole of the era. It was a war wrongly begun, conducted and concluded....
That led to Woodstock, which was held at Max Yasguar’s farm in the Bethel, New York area from Aug. 15 to 18, 1969. The show attracted the cream of that era’s musicians, but was overwhelmed by the sheer number of attendees, estimated at 400,000. Traffic backed up and eventually,....