Woodstock’s Real Standout Performance: ‘No One Was as Exciting as Them’

Woodstock’s real standout performance: ‘No one was as exciting as them’

Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original 1969 festival in Upstate New York was playing a very different sound, blending funk, R&B and psychedelic soul.

10 Of The Most Powerful Performances At Woodstock - That Eric Alper

Woodstock was not simply a music festival. It was a moment, a movement, and a muddy miracle of sound and spirit. Held in August 1969 on a dairy farm, it became the most famous gathering of music lovers in history. The artists who stepped onto that stage did more than perform—they changed the weather, the […] The post 10 Of The Most Powerful Performances At Woodstock appeared first on That Eric Alper.

The Lemon Twigs Bring Blistering “Real Rock” to Woodstock

Downstairs in the Bearsville Theater, there’s a short corridor decorated in fitting fashion: framed album covers of all the Bearsville Records releases from the 1970s adorn the hallway. It recalls an era when Todd Rundgren was one of rock’s most in-demand producers and bands from all over the world were flocking to the state-of-the-art Bearsville Studio in Woodstock to make rock LPs full of tasty guitar riffs and hooky, harmonic choruses. If The…