Woodstock Specials

Woodstock Stars Come To Tampa

Dateline August 16, 2009
I went to a Woodstock 40th Anniversary Reunion show last night. It was here in Tampa at a place called Skippers and was put on by the local community radio station WMNF.
The idea was a bunch of local bands would “cover” all the Woodstock bands in the order that they performed at [...]

Why Jimi Hendrix Played Last

As you might remember Jimi Hendrix played last at Woodstock in 1969. He ended up playing on Monday morning to only a fraction of the 400,000 people who were actually there.
Why?
Well it was his choice. Michael Lang the promoter wanted him to play Sunday night at about midnight when plenty of people would still be [...]

Michael Lang Woodstock Promoter

All I knew about Michael Lang was what I had seen in the original movie. He seemed like a hip guy who had a Cheshire Cat smile and you problably never knew what he was really thinking when he spoke. He seemed cool in that movie. Maybe a little too cool.
But I was wrong…
I read [...]