Pete Fornatale remembers Woodstock

If you were a kid, like me, growing up in the 60s and listened to the mecca of rock music, WNEW-FM you certainly knew the name Pete Fornatale. And if you are are a WFUV listener in 2009 you also know the name Pete Fornatele. Widely respected rock historian and veteran disc jockey Pete helped [...]

Bert Sommer: Woodstock’s Forgotten Man

I just read the most interesting story this afternoon in, of all places, The Wall Street Journal about a singer/songwriter Bert Sommer who was one of the opening acts at Woodstock in 1969 but was left off both the movie as well as the original soundtrack.
Woodstock’s Forgotten Man
By JIM FUSILLI
The Wall Street Journal
Unless you attended [...]

Woodstock 1969 Tribute

As I mentioned last week, I am planning on posting something new and interesting from now thru the middle of August about the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
Here is the first article I found from Squidoo
The 60’s were a turbulent decade. The assassination of JFK kept us fixated on the TV for days and gave us [...]

Woodstock Festival 40th Anniversary

It was Summer 1969…I was 12 years old, at Summer camp in New Hampshire and a few weeks after the excitement of Apollo 11, I was looking at something almost as amazing…over 300,000 people at a farm in Bethel, New York celebrating 3 days of music…it was incredible…and while I wish I could have been [...]

Woodstock Festival 40th Anniversary

Lately I feel like Im one of the only people was around in 1969 when the Woodstock Festival…
according to Wikipedia:Woodstock was a music and art festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur’s 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. [...]