Woodstock Music & Arts Fair

The Woodstock Music & Arts Fair, most commonly referred to as "Woodstock" occurred from August 15-18, 1969 on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. During the rainy weekend, 32 acts performed for almost half a million attendees, even into the early hours of the morning. See the complete schedule here.

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Sad music news

It has been a sad couple of days in music news.

Dick Clark via

Levon Helm via

Dick Clark passed away Wednesday and Levon Helm passed away just hours ago after his battle with cancer.
 I blogged about The Band here in December

The Band

The Band is definitely one of my favorite bands. I could watch The Last Waltz over and over again and never get sick of it.

I bought myself this t-shirt a few years ago, and it is now a staple in my "casual days" wardrobe.

Some of my favorite album covers from The Band: 

Music from Big Pink (1968)

Stage Fright (1970)

Jericho (1993) 

 The house on the Jericho cover is "Big Pink," the namesake of the band's debut album.  It is a house in West Saugerties, New York near Woodstock.  Bob Dylan wrote and played what came to be known as "The Basement Tapes" in the house, which is a private residence today.

During the summer of 2011, I spent a large portion of my time at work looking through old UA Corollas and look at what I found:

If only I had been a student in the fall of 1970!