Who Didn’t Play Woodstock?

Who Didn’t Play Woodstock?

“Woodstock was a legend-making moment for a number of the participants, including Santana and Crosby Stills and Nash — both of whom could look back to the 1969 festival as a launching pad for the legendary careers that followed. Still, for all of its famous participants, the number of people who didn’t perform — and the reasons they chose to skip this epic event — has come to hold just as much intrigue. Here are 10 of the more memorable stars who didn’t play Woodstock, and why …” Read More: 10 Rock Stars Who Didn’t Play Woodstock – And...

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The Flowering of the Hippies

The Flowering of the Hippies

“The hippie “scene” on Haight Street in San Francisco was so very visual that photographers came from everywhere to shoot it, reporters came from everywhere to write it up with speed, and opportunists came from everywhere to exploit its drug addiction, its sexual possibility, and its political or social ferment. Prospective hippies came from everywhere for one “summer of love” or maybe longer, some older folk to indulge their latent hippie tendencies, and the police to contain, survey, or arrest “…. Read more about the history of the hippies, straight off of San Francisco’s Haight St. in The Atlantic’s September 1967 issue...

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Grandpa Woodstock

Grandpa Woodstock

ā€œI spread peace and love, that’s what I doā€- Allyn Richardson, aka The Grandpa of Woodstock. This man epitomizes the spirit of ā€˜69. Read more about him via The New York Times here!...

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