Drummer for Jimi Hendrix found dead Nov 13, 2008
Mitchell was a member of a later version of the Jimi Hendrix Experience that performed the closing set of the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 where Hendrix played a psychedelic version of The Star-Spangled Banner before the band launched into Purple Haze. . (MSNBC -- Music)
Others seek to take over state chief judge's job Oct 13, 2008
She also read books on the 1969 Woodstock festival and Belva Lockwood, the first woman lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, and material about jury reform, all to prepare for upcoming public appearances. That week, she'd been revising her three draft decisions on cases and reviewing those of the other six Court of Appeals judges from their September session. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
* [FILM] Ang Lees current project has a backstory of pure serendipity Oct 10, 2008
Its tentatively set for a premiere in New York on June 26, 2009 X according to several movie Web sites X near the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock festival ... Lee and Schamus felt there was a movie here, and together they went to upstate New York to visit the Yasgurs Farm site where the Woodstock festival took place. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Danny Goldberg's 'Bumping into Geniuses' Sep 19, 2008
(One of his first real writing assignments was to cover "a weekend event upstate that none of the regulars has any interest in: the Woodstock Festival.") By 1969, he had become a fixture at the legendary artists' hangout Max's Kansas City, where he would "worm my way" into a clique of influential rock critics. Today, when music journalism is at best a marginal profession, it is amazing to read about the clout critics wielded in the 70s, and the bitter animosities between the rock press and bands... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Rage Against The Machine To Play Protest Gig During Democratic National Convention Aug 15, 2008
The logo for the protest, as well as the slogan, are meant to evoke the iconic poster for the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival, which promised "3 Days of Peace and Music" and featured a white bird sitting on the neck of a guitar. The Tent State festival, in contrast, features an electric guitar being held aloft by a fist. (VHI.com -- Music News)
How can shows be improved? Aug 7, 2008
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival that continues to be a benchmark in the outdoor concert world. Already, people around Metro Moncton are speculating on who might come to the Magnetic Hill Music Festival in 2009. (Times and Transcript)
Soprano family values Aug 3, 2008
With mid-August marking the 39th anniversary of the fabled Woodstock festival, it's a good time to head upstate and see how nostalgia has been transformed into a vacation destination. Want to take great photos on your next vacation. (Yahoo News -- The Sopranos)
Rock of ages Jun 22, 2008
He sang with fierce abandon, lived with a reckless spirt, and blew everyone away at the first Woodstock festival. He became an edgy symbol of the counterculture and achieved otherworldly sounds with his guitar. (Boston Globe)
Seniors get special rates at new Woodstock museum Jun 8, 2008
"In 1969, one of the seminal events in our nation's history occurred right in our backyard, and today ... thousands of people still come from all over the world to visit the site of the Woodstock festival," said cable TV entrepreneur Alan Gerry ... The museum is "an immersive and captivating multimedia experience that combines film and interactive displays, text panels and artifacts to explore the unique experience of the Woodstock festival .." according to the Web site. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Bloggers' challenge: If you were appointed the new president of Utah State University, what would be your first order of business? Jun 7, 2008
Articles receiving the most comments in the past 72 hours. What is your natural handwriting style. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Credit-Card Use Surges, Risking Another Debt Crisis Jun 4, 2008
The $100-million Bethel Woods Center for the Arts was built to tell the story of the Sixties and the historic Woodstock Festival. Good news for recent college graduates. (Yahoo News -- U.S. Economy)
Read more... Jun 3, 2008
"The Sixties Gallery" - Visitors explore the critical drivers of the era, later expressed during the 1969 Woodstock festival: Baby Boomer Emergence, Idealism, Civil Rights, War , Personal Freedom, Questioning Authority, Protest and Activism. "The Woodstock Music and Art Fair Gallery" - The sights, sounds, people, and music of the Woodstock festival unfold in dramatic ways; highlights include: a psychedelically painted Woodstock bus; the Festival Experience, an award-winning, 11-minute,... (PNN Online)
Hadley has place in Woodstock museum Jun 3, 2008
A flower-power painted bus, Jimi Hendrix's guitar, and thousands of trinkets, treasures, mementos and leftovers from the 1969 Woodstock Festival were unveiled June 2 in a new museum that commemorates the counterculture movement of the 1960s. a Buffalo company, played a major role in creating the new Museum at Bethel Woods, N.Y.. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
Not your grandparents' Woodstock Jun 2, 2008
BETHEL, N.Y. Did you know it rained during the Woodstock Festival in 1969. You did. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Researchers Solve Stonehenge Secret Jun 2, 2008
By Chris Georg 12:12, May 31st 2008. British archaeologists have finally dug out some really hard evidence to help them solve the mystery surrounding the prehistoric circle of giant stones located in the south west of England. (eFluxMedia)
Woodstock with breathing space May 30, 2008
If the Woodstock Festival was a milestone in popular music's evolution, and a high-water mark in mass participation, the permanent exhibition commemorating it is a revolution among museums. Woodstock the Festival was conceived for Woodstock the village, which nestles in New York's Catskill Mountains. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Museum clears memory's purple haze with a little help from Jimi ... May 30, 2008
If the Woodstock Festival was a milestone in popular music's evolution, and the event a high-water mark in mass participation, the permanent exhibition commemorating it is a revolution among museums. Woodstock the festival was conceived for Woodstock the village, which is in New York's Catskill Mountains. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Taking In the Groovy New Woodstock Museum May 30, 2008
That was in August 1969, when I was one of the 400,000 or so people who converged on the place to attend something called the Woodstock festival. I had headed there that time by instinct, like a salmon swimming upstream to spawn, because I was 17 years old and anything involving guitars or hippies demanded my immediate attention. (Time.com)
Alleged Hendrix sex tape to be released May 6 May 2, 2008
Hendrix, who headlined the legendary Woodstock Festival in 1969, died of a drug overdose in 1970 at age 27 in London. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. (MSNBC -- News)
Arlo Guthrie coming to Rockport to headline Bay Chamber Concerts benefit Mar 15, 2008
That same year Guthrie appeared in the original Woodstock Festival. With songs like "Alice's Restaurant," which is too long for frequent radio airplay, "Coming into Los Angeles," which was banned from many radio stations, and the definitive rendition of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans," Guthrie is not a one-hit-wonder. (Courier Publications, ME)
Today's best bets Feb 9, 2008
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A frightened world ponders ultimate loneliness Dec 20, 2007
A similar scene takes 00004000 place in The Omega Man, the second filming of I Am Legend, when Robert Neville (played by Charlton Heston) sits in an empty theatre watching footage of the Woodstock festival and quoting the lines of an idealistic concert-goer. Serling made the most direct examination of the subject in Where Is Everybody. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
TEMPO: Michaels Christmas Concert: Dont miss Grande at Our Lady of the Mountains Friday Dec 8, 2007
After the original Woodstock Festival, he was picked up by Richie Havens. He traveled the world for three years, then opened for such music greats as Jose Feliciano, John Lee Hooker, James Taylor and many others. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Community conversations should be offered with humility Nov 27, 2007
Humility in life is such an asset, despite words from Joan Baez, the Woodstock Festival folksinger and songwriter who said: "I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it.". There are many things I like about Baez, mostly her music. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
'We don't care if we suck' Nov 26, 2007
The following year, they joined Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who and other giants of the era to perform at the Woodstock festival, which saw flower power go out in a blaze of purple-hazed glory. Around here, it feels as if musical history is etched into the landscape. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hillary bashing -- the new GOP game Nov 15, 2007
Someone born in the year of the Woodstock festival is now 38, and it's not just liberal Democrats hoping The Who go on tour next year. Normally, the party that holds the White House campaigns on their president's record. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Calls from Pakistan Nov 12, 2007
Charles Schumer had nothing to do with an effort to revive a $1 million earmark for the Woodstock festival museum in Bethel, N.Y., after it had been rejected by the full Senate. Appropriations Committee staffers on their own partially restored the proposal in the final version of a spending bill even though it had not been passed by either house. (Human Events Online)
PAK PUGILISTS BESIEGE BIDEN Nov 10, 2007
and opposi tion leader Benazir Bhutto each placed phone calls from Pakistan to Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Woodstock museum staying open Oct 30, 2007
The Woodstock festival was billed as "three days of peace and love". Aside from the drugs, mud and rain, there were career-defining performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and a myriad of others. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Peace, love, politics at Woodstock Oct 29, 2007
The museum's mission is to put into perspective the events of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War and the assassination of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, which were followed by counterculture rebellions and a burst of folk and rock creativity that culminated in the Woodstock festival. At the Woodstock concert site, where the autumnal glory of the Catskills had just reached its peak late last week, there were amazement and understanding about how a long-sought infusion of... (Boston Globe -- Nation)
Woodstock museum to open in Bethel, N.Y., next year despite loss of federal funding Oct 29, 2007
The Woodstock festival was billed as "three days of peace and love," and drew about 500,000 people to the natural amphitheater on Max Yasgur's farm. Aside from the drugs, mud and rain, there were career-defining performances by Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Janice Joplin and myriad others. (AZCentral -- News)
Woodstock Museum Becomes A Campaign Issue Oct 28, 2007
Officially it will be the Museum at Bethel Woods, and it will be focused on the Woodstock festival, the "three days of peace and music" that took place here in August 1969. But the museum has been tagged by critics with a different name: the Hippie Museum. (CBS News)
ACU Hails Defeat of Taxpayer Funding for Hippie Museum Oct 20, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene says the successful effort by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) to eliminate one million dollars of taxpayer funds for an arts center dedicated to the Woodstock Festival of 1969 is a victory over liberal hypocrisy. "The fact that this was part of a bill to fund children's health and education programs puts the lie to liberals in Congress who have fought every attempt to restrain the massive increases in... (PR Newswire)
UPDATE: Earmarxists Lose on Summer of Love Museum Oct 20, 2007
Tom Coburn (R-Ok) engineered a successful floor fight against the Clinton-Schumer $1 million earmark to support the Hippiefest museum on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Conservatives should cheer this small victory and encourage Coburn and the other earmark-fighters to keep at it. (Human Events Online)
PORK PAYBACK Oct 18, 2007
The 1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. Coburn argues that a "taxpayer-funded Woodstock flashback" cuts into the government's Education for Homeless Children and Youth grants. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Earmarks Over All Oct 18, 2007
The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, N.Y., the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival ... The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, N.Y., the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. (Townhall.com)
Earmarxists Commemorate the Hippie Summer of Love Oct 18, 2007
The Bethel Performing Arts Center, near Liberty, NY, is on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. According to its website, the museum, Through dramatic imagery, audio-visual technology and immersive interactives, this exhibition tells the story of the 1969 [Woodstock] festival and its significance in a time of unrest and change, concluding with the myth, reality, and impact of the Woodstock Festival today. (Human Events Online)
Return Ticket To Redwood City Sep 20, 2007
A New York investment group run by one of the promoters of the 1969 Woodstock festival has sued disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu for allegedly funneling $40 million in financing for a nonexistent clothing company into political campaign contributions and an "extravagant international lifestyle." ... The investors were headed by Joel Rosenman, one of the four promoters of the original Woodstock festival. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
That's Entertainment!: Forgach House presents 12th annual Variety Show at BPAC Sep 20, 2007
Born in Brooklyn, he began playing professionally at the original Woodstock Festival, which is where he met Richie Havens. He spent the next three years traveling the world with Richie s band. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
The Skinny: Computer Geeks Scoop Al Qaeda Sep 13, 2007
A company controlled by Hsu recently received $40 million from a Madison Avenue investment fund run by Joel Rosenman, one of the creators of the Woodstock festival in 1969, the Journal reports. And that money, Rosenman told investors this week, is missing. (CBS News)
Sunday's Summer of Love concert lineup Aug 31, 2007
Among the guest master of ceremonies will be Wavy Gravy, Woodstock festival producer Artie Kornfeld and poet Lenore Kandel of "The Love Book.". 9:15 a.m.. (San Francisco Chronicle)
End of the Woodstock era: Max Yasgur's farm for sale Aug 9, 2007
The 1969 Woodstock festival was held in a nearby alfalfa field, but that parcel isn't included in the sale. Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 that helped ignite a generation. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
18 minutes and 40 years later Aug 7, 2007
He looks like he just stumbled out of the Woodstock festival parking lot -- one might expect to find Guthrie in a nostalgic frame of mind. Or not. (Boston Globe)
Woodstock property for sale Aug 7, 2007
The 103-acre estate is about two miles from the site of the Woodstock festival and also includes a 7,000 square foot calving barn ... The Aug. 15-18, 1969 Woodstock festival drew more than 450,000 revelers to see performers including Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash. (AZCentral -- Business)
Brits in Northern Ireland: Mission Over Aug 2, 2007
Operation Banner began in August 1969, the same weekend that hippies were gathering in upstate New York for the Woodstock Festival. After street violence overwhelmed local police, troops wearing World War II-issue steel helmets were sent in to separate rioting factions of Protestants and Catholics. (Time.com)
I want to take you ... lower Jul 16, 2007
It is over 20 years since he went completely AWOL; 36 since he made his last masterpiece, 1971's There's A Riot Goin' On; 39 since Sly amily Stone had their first hit with 'Dance to the Music', and subsequently stole the show at the Woodstock festival with their extended, crowd-galvanising performance of 'I Want To Take You Higher. Now, 40 years after he formed the group, made up of friends and family members, that went on to change the course of popular music, Sly Stone, the Godfather of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Love fest: 40th anniversary Jul 16, 2007
McDonald became a counterculture rock star with The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag, a satirical anti-war song that became a hippie anthem after he and his band performed it at the 1969 Woodstock festival in upstate New York. DON KOHLBAUER / Union-Tribune Tijuana's David Choy and La Mesa's Briana Gomez, both 17, regard the Summer of Love as a keycultural event. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The fortnight that wasn't Jul 1, 2007
Organizers of "Live Earth," the 24-hour, seven-continent concert featuring more than 100 artists, said they expected the July 7 event would "trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis" in much the same way that the 1969 Woodstock Festival succeeded in bringing peace and love to the world. Buoyed by the success of a series of recent sequels, a collaborative of the major Hollywood studios announced the summer's "ultimate sequel," "Fantastic Spidershrek of the Caribbean Ocean's Almighty... (Boston Globe)
Hymn For My Soul| Jun 24, 2007
Quite amazing, if you recall that he was one of the star attractions at the Woodstock Festival with numbers such as 'Delta Lady' and 'Lets Get Stoned. He hit the high time in the '60s, nearly drowned in the booze and drugs in the '70s, but bounced right back in the '80s and '90s with classics such as 'You Are So Beautiful', 'You Can Leave Your Hat On', 'When The Night Comes' and 'Feels Like Forever. (iAfrica.com)
Michael Grande presents a concert for history at church Jun 22, 2007
While at the original Woodstock Festival, he was picked up by Richie Havens and toured the world for three years. Managed by the prestigious William Morris Agency and Neil Portman, Grande went on to share the stage with such greats as James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker, Jose Feliciano and many others. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
What We Believe: The Bahai Faith May 25, 2007
It all started in 1969, he said, when he was getting ready to go to the Woodstock Festival and visited his favorite bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village. As he reached for a book on a very high shelf, he recalled, a booklet fell to the floor, facing down. (North County Times)
Eric Clapton: The 'Road' less traveled Mar 16, 2007
Chris Stainton: As an original member of Joe Cocker's Grease Band, this English keyboardist performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. His other credits include albums with The Who, Spooky Tooth, Marianne Faithfull and jazz organ great Jimmy Smith. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Film on champion in fight to end slavery ready to sweep across U.S., UK Feb 10, 2007
Arlo Guthrie performed it at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. In 1970 a version by US singer Judy Collins spent 67 weeks in the UK charts. (WorldNetDaily)
Bold Vistas for Microsoft Jan 31, 2007
A trio of TV spots that broke last night are more traditional, showing vignettes of historic and personal moments of amazement, such as the Woodstock Festival, the Mercury 7 space launch and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Each ad ends with a man in an office starting his computer. (MediaWeek.com)
Jimi Hendrix name to be used on new energy beverage Jan 25, 2007
After making his debut in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival and then performing at the historic Woodstock Festival in 1969, Jimi died one year later in 1970 at the age of 27 from a drug overdose in London. Since his untimely death, Hendrix has become synonymous with the electric guitar and is credited with influencing everyone from The Who and Prince to Public Enemy and Wyclef Jean. (Actress Archives)
Rage Against the Machine Reunites for Coachella 2007 Jan 23, 2007
In a protest to the widely-criticized Woodstock festival, which was notorious for its $4 bottles of water, Coachella promoters handed out a free bottle of water to all attendees. At the point of their break-up in 2000, Rage Against the Machine had become one of the most popular political hard rock bands of all time, and certainly of the 1990s. (Playfuls.com)
