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Articles tagged "woodstock"Music ReviewJefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experienceby Lana Cooper[23.Oct.09] :. Jefferson Airplane is a lot like Woodstock itself: rightfully iconic, yet slightly overrated. Fittingly, their live performance at the festival is forever enshrined on this two disc set. Books ReviewBy the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution of 1969by Michael E. Ross[22.Sep.09] :. Pollock sees Woodstock as an index to where the culture had already been going, and where, given enormous social, political and economic forces at work in America, it was already destined to go.  Film ReviewTaking Woodstockby Cynthia Fuchs[28.Aug.09] :. The Ang Lee take on Woodstock never gets much beyond these clichés: hippies took drugs, rain made mud, the music was great and crowds were huge. NewsThe Woodstock of Ang Lee’s mindby Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][21.Aug.09] :. Woodstock, the concert, is not exactly front and center of director Ang Lee’s comic history, “Taking Woodstock.” The movie, in theaters Aug 28, is about how the iconic rock show...  Culture FeatureThree Days, Forty Years, Six Discsby Justin Cober-Lake[16.Aug.09] :. It's the enticing performances of the smaller acts -- and not the explosions of the big ones -- that made Woodstock such a singular event.  NewsSex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll—Woodstock left its mark on baby boomers everywhereby Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][14.Aug.09] :. Memories of Woodstock, the rock-‘n’-roll festival he helped create, haunt Artie Kornfeld still: the cops opening fire on the crowd of stunned hippies, body parts flying everywhere, the... Back to the garden: 40 years after, Woodstock remains a unique journeyby Tom Tolan [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][12.Aug.09] :. John Carnes, a friend of my sister’s who was at the Woodstock music festival with me 40 years ago, witnessed a scene that symbolized for him what that seminal 1960s happening was all about. A... 40th anniversary of Woodstock brings raft of new booksby Bill Bleyer [Newsday (MCT)][11.Aug.09] :. Do aging baby boomers need a major nostalgia fix for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock? Publishers must think so — they’re bringing out a raft of new books on the world-famous music... 40 years later, Woodstock, or at least its legend, rocks onby Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)][10.Aug.09] :. NEW YORK — The mythology of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair overtook its reality years ago. Mountain’s Leslie West jokes, “If you count all the people now that say they were... A milestone for a musical and cultural landmarkby Walter Tunis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][10.Aug.09] :. In his 2005 memoir “Searching for the Sound,” Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead outlined his observations on the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair not as one of its participants but as an... Pot, Skinny-Dipping, and Freedom Rock: Woodstock and the Year of the Outdoor Music Festival (Part 2)by Rob Kirkpatrick[5.Aug.09] :. PopMatters presents the second part of a chapter on Woodstock from Kirkpatrick's recent book 1969: The Year Everything Changed. Part two covers Woodstock appearances by the Who, the Band, Jimi Hendrix and more. Pot, Skinny-Dipping, and Freedom Rock: Woodstock and the Year of the Outdoor Music Festival (Part 1)by Rob Kirkpatrick[3.Aug.09] :. Today and Wednesday, PopMatters is presenting a chapter on Woodstock from Kirkpatrick's recent book 1969: The Year Everything Changed. Part one covers the run-up to the festival as well as those early sets by the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. Two books about Woodstock bring readers back to Yasgur’s farmby Howard Cohen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][29.Jul.09] :. If you think the media saturation on Michael Jackson’s death is outre, you should prepare for the gates of pop culture to burst in mid-August as the 40th anniversary of Woodstock... Woodstock at 40: Celebrate fest’s B-day with books, concerts & new filmby Jonathan Takiff [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)][16.Jul.09] :. Several outdoor, multi-day music festivals were held in the summer of ‘69. All were celebrating a seismic explosion in conscious rock — music spirited by the Beatles, Bob Dylan and... Remastered and reissued, these are the albums that started it allby Walter Tunis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][19.Jun.09] :. “WOODSTOCK: MUSIC FROM THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK AND MORE” “WOODSTOCK 2” ——— Woodstock — the event, the myth, the hype, all of it — celebrates... A tip of a mud-caked beer bottle to Bonnaroo, Woodstock and the restby Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][15.Jun.09] :. This Sunday morning, 75,000-some rock fans are waking up in a field in rural Tennessee. Most will be caked in mud with a sunburn underneath, direly hung over, constipated from what doctors commonly... DVD box sets: Norman Lear, Woodstock and Jack Lemmonby Bruce Dancis [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][8.Jun.09] :. This week we’re looking at DVD box sets about a path-breaking TV producer, a memorable rock festival and one of America’s most beloved actors. (List prices are included, but significant... New ‘Woodstock’ DVD lets fans have a virtual festivalby Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)][8.Jun.09] :. Imagine reliving the Woodstock festival by popping the Oscar-winning documentary of the same name into your Blu-ray DVD player, then syncing it with those of other nostalgia-seekers around the world... |
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