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Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding: Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Historic Performances Recorded Live at Monterey (Reprise MS2029)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 5 October 1970

CHILLING. EVERY note sends raw, nervous bundles of uncertainty racing through your head. Reprise, which originally planned this album to capitalize on the festival furore ...

Rock Festivals: Sometimes You Can Even Hear The Music

Overview by Mike Jahn, New York Times, 11 July 1971

"EVERYONE'S SAYING the music's for free" — that's the line from a recent rock album by singer David Crosby. But there have been signs that ...

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Jesse Colin Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service: Woodstock Remembered: KGB stages a rock festival

Report by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1972

SUNDAY’S KGB "Charity Ball" was important for one reason: the concert proved that people in large numbers can still come together for an event and ...

Funkadelic, Mandrill, Osibisa, Rare Earth: Black 'Woodstock': A Violent Fiasco

Report by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973

IT COULD have been the biggest event of the summer. For many of us trapped in the iron heart of the city, it promised to ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Final Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

Memoir by Al Aronowitz, Circus, 29 September 1977

I HAD TO talk Miles into going to Jimi's funeral with me. ...

The Beat, Fleetwood Mac: The US Festival: Us & Them

Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 25 September 1982

That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...

1967, The Summer of Love: There Was a Brief Moment When the Sun Really Shone

Memoir by Judith Sims, Los Angeles Times, 2 August 1987

I'LL GET right to the point: 1967 was one of the best years of my life. ...

By the Time I Got Back to Woodstock

Essay by Steve Turner, The Independent, 4 August 1990

TO SALLY GROSSMAN, the living room of her Bearsville home near Woodstock in New York State is nothing extraordinary. It has an old fireplace, some ...

The Who: Woodstock

Review and Interview by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, July 1994

WOOSTOCK BEGAN ON A GOLF course. Three years before they were to be responsible for Governor John Rockefeller declaring the Woodstock Festival area "a state ...

Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (MCA)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1994

MORE THAN Hendrix the space bluesman or rock song performer, Woodstock spotlights Jimi the jammer, and his seemingly infinite inventiveness in the loosely structured format ...

Blues Traveler, Jane's Addiction, Metallica, Porno for Pyros: Lollapalooza, H.O.R.D.E. and ENIT: 3 Tribes

Report and Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 13 June 1996

LOLLAPALOOZA is the "alternative" tour, and H.O.R.D.E. a neo-hippie haven. Is there room for the ENIT Festival, the weirdest of them all? ...

Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, The Who: Monterey International Pop Festival

Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998

Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...

The Rolling Stones: Altamont: An Eyewitness Account

Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, November 1999

The Rosy Apocalypse ALTAMONT, 6th December, 1969. The name itself is fraught with menace – its flinty suggestive syllables (altar-mountain-tumult) reinforcing biblical overtones. ("The ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 1)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 24 June 2000

IT WASN'T YOUR typical ribbon cutting. Gazillionaire Paul Allen smashed a Stratocaster made of unflavored green rock candy, designed especially for the occasion by glass ...

Jimi Hendrix: Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 2)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 26 July 2000

SHORTLY BEFORE BO Diddley began his set at the Experience Music Project celebration, Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding approached him with greetings from a ...

The Big Chill Festival

Report by Sheryl Garratt, The Observer, 26 August 2001

IT'S A WARM Sunday afternoon, and I'm stretched out on the grass watching white clouds blow across blue sky, while Norman Jay plays some of ...

Band, The, Beatles, The, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones, The, Paul Simon, Spinal Tap, Talking Heads, Who, The, Dexter Gordon: 25 Essential Music DVDs

Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004

1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...

Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock

Film/DVD/TV Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 22 September 2005

FOR ONCE, "legendary" really is the word. The performance by Jimi Hendrix and his band that closed Woodstock in 1969 has been cited as one ...

Audio Bullys: Electric Gardens festival: Mount Ephraim, Kent

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 9 August 2006

IT MAY BE a reaction to the vacuum left by the dormant Glastonbury, but there has been an unprecedented explosion in small-scale boutique festivals this ...

Woodstock's 40th Anniversary: An Interview with Michael Wadleigh

Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2009

FORTY SUMMERS AGO, a small group of young, long-haired American hippie capitalists were finalising plans to stage an ambitious outdoor music and arts festival in ...