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  • August 08, 2024

    Crosby, Stills, and Nash debut at Woodstock 1969

    By Nicole Kaplan
    Crosby, Stills, and Nash debut at Woodstock 1969

    Nearly 500,000 hippies attended the 1969 Woodstock music festival. It was declared a national disaster area, food and clothes were flown in, people took care of and fed each other, and it worked.

    Woodstock was the ultimate gathering of the tribes, and the closest the hippies had come to achieving and perfecting the hippie ideal.
    The hippies had proven to the world that a half a million people could come together for 3 days of peace and music without violence, guns, police, or riots.

    Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young played on day 3 of Woodstock from 3:30-5am. This performance was the second time they ever played live in front of an audience.
    Not only was their performance at Woodstock a magical one, it catapulted them as a group to stardom. 

    Over 50 years later we are still celebrating Woodstock as a cultural and musical phenomenon.
  • July 01, 2024

    Meet The Beatles!

    By Nicole Kaplan
    Meet The Beatles!

    While Elvis changed the face of rock and roll, The Beatles revolutionized it.

    When The Beatles arrived in America in 1964, they caused a sensation unlike anything seen before in the music industry.
    Their impact was immediate and far reaching, forever changing the landscape of popular music.

    Transformed from suit wearing harmonizers in 1963, to flower power idealists in 1969, they mirrored the era’s early hopes and bitter fade out. Their ambition and desire to evolve ushered in the great rock revolution of the 1960's. 

    The Beatles will forever be remembered as one of the greatest bands of all time.
  • June 07, 2024

    Summer of Love

    By Nicole Kaplan
    Summer of Love

    In 1967 the "summer of love" arrived under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, magic mushrooms, and marijuana.

    The summer of love was the start of the music led flower power philosophy that was spreading around the world. Peace, (free) love and music. Flower children left their parents and their lives back home in search of something better happening somewhere else.

    The focus of the psychedelic movement started in the small San Francisco neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.

  • May 06, 2024

    What do the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols mean?

    By Nicole Kaplan
    What do the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols mean?

    The album "Led Zeppelin 4" is technically untitled.
    There is no catalogue number, no band name, no title, just a mysterious picture on the cover. The only way to know the contents inside was to buy the album. Led Zeppelin 4 was only identified by 4 symbols symbolizing the identity of each band member. 

    With no mention of Zeppelin's name on the album, Jimmy Page insisted that "the music would speak for itself" and the album would be officially titled by the four symbols together.

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