Big Road Blues Forum Woodstock Music Festival concludes On this day in 1969, the grooviest event in music history–the Woodstock Music Festival–draws to a close after three days of peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll in upstate New York. Conceived as “Three Days of Peace and Music,” Woodstock was a product of a partnership between John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang. Their idea was to make enough money from the event to build a recording studio near the arty New York town of Woodstock. When they couldn’t find an appropriate venue in the town itself, the promoters decided to hold the festival on a 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York–some 50 miles from Woodstock–owned by Max Yasgur. By the time the weekend of the festival arrived, the group had sold a total of 186,000 tickets and expected no more than 200,000 people to show up. By Friday night, however, thousands of eager early arrivals were pushing against the entrance gates. A 25th anniversary celebration of Woodstock took place in 1994 in Saugerties, New York.
Young women can’t cope with ANY ideas that challenge their 'right-on view of the world' Some of the girls were sobbing and hugging each other, while others shrieked. The majority appeared at the very least shell-shocked. It was distress on a scale appropriate for some horrible disaster. Thankfully, however, I wasn’t in a war zone or at the scene of a pile-up - but in a school hall filled with A-level students. What had provoked such hysteria? I’d dared express an opinion that went against their accepted way of thinking. ‘Generation Snowflake’ is a fragile, thin-skinned younger generation that can’t cope with conflicting views ‘Generation Snowflake’ is the term for these teens, one that’s now used frequently in the U.S. and becoming more common here. Being faced by a roomful of weepy teenagers certainly isn’t the only example of such behaviour I could cite, but it’s the most dramatic I have experienced. It happened when I was taking part in a debate at a North London school as director of the Institute of Ideas early last year. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% MinimizeExpandClose
First Listen: Childish Gambino, 'Camp' hide captionCamp, Donald Glover's first official release under his hip-hop alias Childish Gambino, comes out Nov. 15. Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Camp, Donald Glover's first official release under his hip-hop alias Childish Gambino, comes out Nov. 15. Audio for this feature is no longer available. If Jay-Z and Kanye West are the current kings of rap, and Lil Wayne or Drake is next in line for the throne, where does that place Childish Gambino in the royal bloodline? Easy. Childish Gambino got his unusual stage name from an online "Wu-Tang Clan name generator" — he says it just felt right. On his IAMDONALD tour this year, Childish Gambino displayed his versatility, rapping while accompanied by a full band for part of the show, but also performing stand-up. If you listen to Camp on a computer, do yourself a favor and open up Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary in separate tabs. That said, it's the rapper's honesty that keeps things interesting.
Potential 'Woodstock 2019' Event Gets Financial Boost From New York State In June of 2014, Michael Lang – a key figure behind the original Woodstock festival – made big news when he announced his intentions to throw a 50th anniversary celebration for Woodstock in 2019. Little has been said about the festival since, but it appears an amphitheater built on the site of the original Woodstock is gearing up to host a 50th anniversary celebration and recently received financial help from the state of New York. While the original 1969 festival was supposed to take place in Woodstock, New York; permitting issues led organizers to move the event 43 miles outside of town to Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York. In 2006, Bethel Woods Center For The Arts opened on a campus of 2,000 acres that features a 15,000-capacity amphitheater, a museum and more intimate gallery space. The campus includes the site where the Woodstock festival took place in 1969. State officials gave the grant to Bethel Woods operators in aims of spurring tourism and economic growth.
Fuzz Club 10 Songs You Must Hear In High-Res | Promotion - TeamRock You haven't really heard your favourite music until you've heard it in High-Res… Have a scan through the libraries of the Hi-Res downloads and streams that are available from various sites and services and you will notice that there’s a lot of great music waiting to be rediscovered. Not everything has been released in Hi-Res and it’s unlikely that it ever will, simply because it costs the record producer more to do so and at present at least the demand doesn't exist for all music styles. Today the main audience consists of what might be considered hardcore music fans – and if you're reading this, that's you, basically – with a substantial back catalogue of classical material only truly matched by a ton of classic rock. When done well, remastering in Hi-Res can produce significantly better results, especially when the record company makes the effort to go back to the analogue master tapes and converts them to a Hi-Res digital files. 10 Songs You Must Hear In High-Res