by Weston | Aug 3, 2009 | Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Last summer, the Blues Magoos staged a comeback, opening for the Zombies at The Fillmore, Irving Plaza, New York City. Current band members include Mike Ciliberto, Jeff Daking, Ralph Scala, Peter Stuart, and Emil “Peppy” Theilhelm. The group is best known...
by Weston | Jul 5, 2009 | Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
We heard from Jerry Moore, who’s thinking about re-forming the Jerry Moore Work Band and/or Children of God. These acts were staples on the Woodstock music scene in the late sixties and seventies. Jerry’s brother, Don Moore, was a member of Children of God...
by Weston | Jul 1, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
During the spring of 1968, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys lived on Manhattan’s lower east side. They were the house band at the Electric Circus. The way banjo player Charlie Chin tells it, Bob Smith, the keyboard player, began to promote the idea that...
by Weston | Jun 22, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
For more than 40 years, Bob Fass has hosted Radio Unnameable on Pacifica Radio’s WBAI. Fass’s show pioneered free-form radio. He has welcomed them all—the famous as well as the lesser known. Some of the former include Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, The...
by Weston | Jun 15, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Ellen McIlwaine played the Woodstock Sound-Outs during the late sixties with her group Fear Itself. Larry Packer relates in Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock” that he once saw Ellen give a “Janis Joplin-like”...
