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The three surviving members of Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock band, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, recently reunited for the first time since 1988. Bassist Billy Cox and percussionists Gerardo Velez and Juma Sultan, ...
In mid-August 1969, an estimated 500,000 people made the trek to Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Starting on a Friday and continuing on through the morning of August 18, the ...
Jimi Hendrix got his start as a professional musician playing backing guitar for big-name acts like Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, and The Isley Brothers. In the mid-1960s, Hendrix began to form ...
One of the most powerful, searing renditions of the national anthem ever recorded, Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Woodstock anthem, almost never happened. In his memoir ...
Check out Pandora's "The Sounds of Woodstock 1969" playlist to listen to the music of the moment. When most classic rock fans think of the original Woodstock festival, held a half-century ago in ...
It was 50 years ago when Sha Na Na opened for Jimi Hendrix at a music festival called Woodstock during the summer of 1969 — you might have heard of it. Sha Na Na co-founder and drummer Jocko ...
“Kiss The Sky-The Jimi Hendrix Re-experience” with special guest Juma Sultan of Hendrix’s Woodstock band takes place on Saturday, May 13, at 8 p.m. at the Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St., Woodstock ...
On This Day in 1970, The Jimi Hendrix Experience Played Their Final Show in Front of a Hostile Crowd
Despite being at the height of their fame, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was booed as they walked on stage for their final show on September 6, 1970. The band’s leader and namesake didn’t mind. He was ...
Billy Cox held down low-end at two of rock's all-time dimension-melting gigs: Jimi Hendrix's 1969 Woodstock set and Hendrix's New Year's 1970 concert, the latter released as live album "Band of Gypsys ...
SEATTLE — Fifty years ago, Jimi Hendrix played an iconic rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at the legendary Woodstock music festival. Travel back in time by seeing the white 1968 Stratocaster ...
As the rare active rock critic who attended the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, I spent two weeks in July touring upstate New York with my wife, hoping no one would try to interview me about it. It ...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg invoked Aaron Copland. The chief justice countered with Jimi Hendrix. The high court's generational divide was on display Wednesday as the justices heard arguments about ...
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