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Authored By Johnny Blogger July 19, 2015

John Nicholson - Writer of the Nick Guymer Crime Series Teesside Steal is set in Teesside and North Yorkshire and is the first in the Nick Guymer series of mysteries. A story of upbringing, inheritance and UEFA Cup football.....

Teesside Steal by John Nicholson

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Authored By John Nicholson July 19, 2015

John Nicholson - Writer of the Nick Guymer Crime Series Teesside Steal is set in Teesside and North Yorkshire and is the first in the Nick Guymer series of mysteries. A story of upbringing, inheritance and UEFA Cup football.....

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 5

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 06, 2015

As volunteers started cleaning up the media swung into gear, quickly painting it as a 'nightmare' in the New York Times. They called the fans 'lemmings' and asked what sort of culture could create such a colossal mess? But the trouble with taking that angle was this: it didn't sell. People felt good about Woodstock, [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 4

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 05, 2015

As the rain came down and turned the whole site into a quagmire, the dirt that had covered the main electricity cables was washed away, leaving them exposed. Gradually the insulation on those cables got worn away by the ceaseless trudging of the masses. So now there were thousands of wet people set to be [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 3

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 04, 2015

The Woodstock festival was due to start on the Friday, but by Thursday of that week, traffic was in gridlock. On the quiet, Lang et al had begun to expect 200,000 to attend because they knew that big fests in 69 were pulling those kinda numbers. Besides, all roads were jammed from midweek onwards. But [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 2

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 03, 2015

This new quartet of businessmen - Lang, Kornfeld, Roseman and Roberts - were worried. They were worried that they might not get enough people to their festival. Crazy, huh? They genuinely hoped to get a mere 50,000 there and wereconcerned that might not be be possible because there had been very few big festivals in [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 1

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 02, 2015

If you've seen the Woodstock movie, you'll have seen Michael Lang, one of the guys who helped put Woodstock on. A forever hipster riding a horse or a motorbike, with wild hair and one of those beatific smiles that suggest he's permanently stoned. In 1970 he seemed like a new type of business dude who [...]

Live at the Fillmore East - Part 4

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 22, 2015

1970 saw the Fillmore East really peak as a venue and a series of legendary shows by the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and Jefferson Airplane cemented its place in rock n roll history, preserved sonically forever. As 1971 dawned, the business of rock was growing fast. Fees for performers were getting high quickly and [...]

Live at the Fillmore East - part 3

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 21, 2015

1969 was a momentous year for the Fillmore and for its owner Bill Graham, after a difficult start, it quickly became the place to play for every major rock band. By the end of January, Led Zeppelin had played their first shows in support of Iron Butterfly and just days before Jethro Tull had done [...]

Live At The Fillmore East - Part 2

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 18, 2015

Opening night at the Fillmore was a big occasion. A lot of the industry heavyweights came out for the show such as Jac Holzman, head honcho at Elektra records. The place was packed to the rafters. The critics came out in force to see this new rock venue. The early show went off smoothly. As [...]

Live at the Fillmore East - Part1

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 17, 2015

It was only open for just over three years but for those years it was the place to play, not just on the East Coast but across the whole of America. A legend in its own lifetime, it played host to the great and good at the cutting edge of the new rock n roll. [...]

The Remarkable Roy Harper

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 16, 2015

His admirers and collaborators have included Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Dave Gilmour, Ian Anderson, Paul McCartney and Kate Bush. His fingerpicking acoustic style is as recognisable as Jimmy Page's bow. He's written some of the most beautiful and uniquely English electric folk. He has recorded without a break of any length of time for more [...]

Forgotten But Fantastic - The Blues Project

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 15, 2015

They weren't active for more than a couple of years - or at least not meaningfully - but for a short-time, this Greenwich Village blues and jam band were touted as New York's Grateful Dead. It didn't last for long, but they enjoyed a short but brilliant period in the mid-1960s that left one awesome [...]

New Orleans Pop Festival 1969

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 12, 2015

Happening just two weeks after Woodstock, the New Orleans Pop Festival 1969is often called Louisiana's Woodstock. But then many festivals around that time were keen to cast themselves in the counterculture glow of the upstate New York zeitgeist. Promoter Steve Kapelow said we expect 15,000 - 20,000 in light of advance ticket sales, but we [...]

Instruments of Rock - The Hammond Organ

Johnny's History Of Rock

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 02, 2015

The Hammond Organ - From 'Green Onions', 'Itchycoo Park' and 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' to Radiohead and the White Stripes, the Hammond Organ is one of rock's most unique and treasured sounds. Here, we take a look at the history of the instrument and celebrate some of its greatest exponents. Laurens Hammond had a [...]

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