Woodstock Picture this, about 400,000 hippies on a dairy farm in the middle of nowhere. Along with that comes over 30 bands including Janis Joplin and The Who in the line-up. In this presentatin you will learn all about the events of Woodstock in 1969. Starting off on what influenced Woodstock to happen, next on how it came to be and was put together, after you will learn about what actually happened at Woodstock, following that is what Woodstock influenced and looking back at it from the retrospect of today. “By 1969 the “hippie” movement had emerged as a group of primarily young people who not only were opposed to the Vietnam War but also wore distinctive and colorful clothing, engaged in illegal drug use and enjoyed rock and roll music.”(Woodstock)
One of them that they are known for was the largest rock festival ever the wood stock festival, on the weekend of august 15th -17th in 1969 in upstate New York. There was an estimated 450,000 people that attended the event according to the rock hall of fame. The festival was scheduled to end with The Jimi Hendrix Experience performance on the 16th but was delayed, fans waited all night for Jimi to take the stage. Finally at 7:30 in morning The Jimi Hendrix Experience takes the stage wowing their fans with an hour of play time. Jimi Hendrix’s version of the “Star Spangled Banner” became the highlight of the festival.
They were married later that year. On the departure of Chad Mitchell, the Chad Mitchell Trio floundered and, through a series of misfortunes, Denver found himself with debts of $40,000. This put a strain on the marriage, which he articulated in "Goodbye Again". Fortunately for him, Peter, Paul and Mary recorded "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" and the song became an international hit. His first solo album, Rhymes and Reasons, was released in 1969.
She takes off two days of work without pay to fly to another city to attend the concert of her favorite music group. The cost of transportation for the trip is $250. The cost of the concert ticket is $50. What is the opportunity cost of Tammie’s trip to the concert? Student Answer: 150*2 = 300 250 50 $300 + $250 + $50 Opportunity cost is $600 Instructor Explanation:$600 ($150 per day for 2 days plus $250
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942– September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite his mainstream exposure being limited to four years. He achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival after initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier
6. Autonomy- self government 8. Woodstock festival- a hippie festival in 1964 with an enormous number of people that went on for two days with many big folk and rock stars. 10. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - created as an independent federal agency to administer laws that effect the environment 12.
This is an interview that was conducted on Friday May 12, 2013 at 8:30 P.M. in Murfreesboro, TN at the home of Barry Ferguson. Barry was chosen for the interview because of his many changes in political views, his available schedule, the friendship that we have, and because he lives next door to me making it convenient. . Barry owns a title company and is also a semi-retired professional musician. When Reagan was elected in 1980 Barry had just come of Tammy Wynette’s tour and was 23 years old.
On Wednesday May 8, 2013, our senior jazz class had the opportunity of watching a fascinating documentary entitled “Make it in America” to be analyzed for our independent study unit assignment. Directed by Poull Brien, this seventy-five minute film stars Charles Bradley, Alex Everett and Jonny Santos. It follows the incredible rise of 62-year-old aspiring soul singer, Charles Bradley, whose debut album moved him from a hard life in the Brooklyn Housing Projects to Rolling Stone Magazine's top 50 albums of 2011. This essay will provide a brief summary of the movie, and will include my opinion on what I think the moral of Charles Bradley’s life story is. To begin, the documentary, “Make it in America” follows the extraordinary journey
The Cuban government, which says it has been preparing for a storm of this magnitude for the last 45 years, successfully evacuates between 1.5 and 1.9 million of its residents—more than 13 percent of its entire population—to shelters at higher ground. The entire evacuation takes 72 hours and utilizes every truck and bus available. All the shelters “have medical personnel, from the neighborhood, they also evacuated animals and veterinarians, TV sets and refrigerators “so that people aren’t reluctant to leave because people might steal their stuff,” he says.,” according to, a sociology professor at the University of New Mexico, and specialist in Latin America. (Dr. Nelson Valdes
It was August 1969 in Bethel, New York, the Woodstock festival just started and thousands of people were celebrating 3 days of “peace” at the Woodstock Festival with music centered on utopian themes of peace, free love and harmony with your surroundings, which were a reflection of the ideals of and philosophy of the hippie culture. Two weeks after the Woodstock Music Festival the band named Black Sabbath was performing for the first time under this name (Black Sabbath), playing songs categorized for the first time as a new genre called Heavy metal filled with loud guitars, heavy drumming and angry dystopian lyrics. Their working class-anger and frustration because of the post war were communicated through the vocal delivery and lyrics of Black Sabbath’s singer Ozzy Osbourne. War Pigs released in September of 1970 is the clearest example of this complain not only against the war but also against the damage that war causes and caused to many people and to the governors that only cared about money and their own interests. The following is an excerpt from War Pigs: In the