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History of the Woodstock Festival - part 2

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 03, 2015

This new quartet of businessmen - Lang, Kornfeld, Roseman and Roberts - were worried. They were worried that they might not get enough people to their festival. Crazy, huh? They genuinely hoped to get a mere 50,000 there and wereconcerned that might not be be possible because there had been very few big festivals in [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 1

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 02, 2015

If you've seen the Woodstock movie, you'll have seen Michael Lang, one of the guys who helped put Woodstock on. A forever hipster riding a horse or a motorbike, with wild hair and one of those beatific smiles that suggest he's permanently stoned. In 1970 he seemed like a new type of business dude who [...]

Live at the Fillmore East - Part 4

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 22, 2015

1970 saw the Fillmore East really peak as a venue and a series of legendary shows by the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and Jefferson Airplane cemented its place in rock n roll history, preserved sonically forever. As 1971 dawned, the business of rock was growing fast. Fees for performers were getting high quickly and [...]

Live at the Fillmore East - part 3

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 21, 2015

1969 was a momentous year for the Fillmore and for its owner Bill Graham, after a difficult start, it quickly became the place to play for every major rock band. By the end of January, Led Zeppelin had played their first shows in support of Iron Butterfly and just days before Jethro Tull had done [...]

Live At The Fillmore East - Part 2

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 18, 2015

Opening night at the Fillmore was a big occasion. A lot of the industry heavyweights came out for the show such as Jac Holzman, head honcho at Elektra records. The place was packed to the rafters. The critics came out in force to see this new rock venue. The early show went off smoothly. As [...]

Live at the Fillmore East - Part1

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 17, 2015

It was only open for just over three years but for those years it was the place to play, not just on the East Coast but across the whole of America. A legend in its own lifetime, it played host to the great and good at the cutting edge of the new rock n roll. [...]

The Remarkable Roy Harper

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 16, 2015

His admirers and collaborators have included Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Dave Gilmour, Ian Anderson, Paul McCartney and Kate Bush. His fingerpicking acoustic style is as recognisable as Jimmy Page's bow. He's written some of the most beautiful and uniquely English electric folk. He has recorded without a break of any length of time for more [...]

Forgotten But Fantastic - The Blues Project

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 15, 2015

They weren't active for more than a couple of years - or at least not meaningfully - but for a short-time, this Greenwich Village blues and jam band were touted as New York's Grateful Dead. It didn't last for long, but they enjoyed a short but brilliant period in the mid-1960s that left one awesome [...]

New Orleans Pop Festival 1969

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 12, 2015

Happening just two weeks after Woodstock, the New Orleans Pop Festival 1969is often called Louisiana's Woodstock. But then many festivals around that time were keen to cast themselves in the counterculture glow of the upstate New York zeitgeist. Promoter Steve Kapelow said we expect 15,000 - 20,000 in light of advance ticket sales, but we [...]

Instruments of Rock - The Hammond Organ

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 02, 2015

The Hammond Organ - From 'Green Onions', 'Itchycoo Park' and 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' to Radiohead and the White Stripes, the Hammond Organ is one of rock's most unique and treasured sounds. Here, we take a look at the history of the instrument and celebrate some of its greatest exponents. Laurens Hammond had a [...]

Capricorn Records

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 02, 2015

Capricorn Records was formed in 1969 in Georgia by brothers Phil and Alan Walden and their friend Frank Fenter, Capricorn Records was the label without which the Southern Rock genre would not exist. But as well as giving the world one awesome band in the Allman Brothers and several other really good ones like the [...]

Rickenbacker

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 27, 2015

There is no more beautiful sound in pop than the jangling, sad sunshine of a well played 12-string. And the Rickenbacker is the undisputed queen of those guitars. It is truly one of the instruments of rock. John Lennon began a love affair with Rickenbacker guitars in 1960, when he bought a six-string Model 325 [...]

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 26, 2015

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980 - A motor-racing track in Leicestershire might not be the most inspiring venue in the world, but it played host to anyone who is anyone in hard rock and metal for a decade and a half. It is, of course, Castle Donington Raceway and the event is the Monsters Of [...]

The Moog Synthesiser

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 26, 2015

Robert Moog was already making Theremins in the early Sixties when he began developing the technologies that would become the Moog synthesiser. Meanwhile, a composer and music teacher at Hofstra University in Long Island called Herbert Deutsch was fiddling around with Theremins - he built his own from Moog's design in 1962 - as he [...]

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 25, 2015

Without writing a very large book it would be impossible to do full justice to the polymath and restless creative genius-cum-polymath that is Mr. Todd Rundgren. No one in the history of popular music has achieved quite so much in so many styles and areas of the music business. A brilliant producer, a visionary when [...]

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