Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for August 15th

Woodstock is 50 years old today!!!

8/15/1969 (50 years ago today) - It's the first of three days and nights of peace and music as over 400,000 get together at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, an event now regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history -- "the definitive nexus for the counterculture generation" -- where the blend of musical styles performed over the course of the festival had never happened anywhere else before, a heady mix of rock and roll, funk, folk, jazz fusion, blues, psychedelia and Latin: at the time, they called it "mind-blowing". Which indeed it was...

32 acts played over the course of a somewhat rainy weekend, and the line-up is as classic as classic can be: Jimi Hendrix -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- The Who -- Santana -- The Band -- Ten Years After -- Grateful Dead -- Joe Cocker -- Arlo Guthrie -- Jefferson Airplane -- Johnny Winter -- Canned Heat -- Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Sha Na Na -- Blood, Sweat & Tears -- Sly & The Family Stone and, yeah, we could go on...

Happy Anniversary Woodstock! Now here's what it means to "step up": The first act scheduled to perform was a band called Sweetwater, but they were essentially paralyzed in a massive traffic jam and wouldn't make it on time, so at the last second (literally) the promoters asked Richie Havens if he would go on. The rest, as they say...

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"We got to get ourselves back to the garden...", xoxo!