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from woodstock posted in music by crabapple
In the summer of love, 1969, a pretty cool dairy farmer named Max Yasgur agreed to let half a million hippies on his 600-acre farm for three days (Aug 15-18) of a concert named Woodstock. He was not a hippie, but he recognized the need to bridge the generation gap.
He was paid $50,000 for the land rental, but was ostracized by his community for dealing with "flower children."
When some folks were trying to sell water at the festival, Max put up a sign that said "Free Water," gathered up all his dairy bottles, filled them with water, and gave them away.
Oh, and three days of 500,000 people gathering to listen to music, do drugs, and dance naked in the rain was a fairly significant event as well.
view full location details...clear lake plane crash
from buddy holly, ritchie valens, big bopper posted in music by crabapple
About one quarter of a mile west of the intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue, five miles (8 km) north of Clear Lake, there is a monument depicting a steel guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of each of the three performers (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper) and the pilot (Roger Peterson) that died when their plane crashed on February 3, 1959.
The entrance to the crash site is marked by a large plasma-cut steel copy of Holly's signature glasses.
A road originating near The Surf Ballroom and extending north past the west of the crash site is now known as Buddy Holly Place.
view full location details...the surf ballroom
from buddy holly, ritchie valens, the big bopper posted in music by crabapple
On February 2, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper played their last performance here as part of the "Winter Dance Party Tour".
That night, they went to nearby Mason City to catch a plane to the Fargo airport to play a show in Moorhead. A 21-year-old pilot had agreed to fly them to Fargo for $36 a piece. Their plane crashed less than six miles from the airport.
This later became known as "The Day the Music Died," which is also a popular song by Don McLean, who drove his Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry.
On September 6, 2011, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
view full location details...beatles-platz
from the beatles posted in music by crabapple
At the corner of Reeperbahn and Große Freiheit streets in St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg is a plaza dedicated to the Beatles time in Hamburg. Black and circular to symbolically represent a vinyl record, the plaza is 29 m (95 ft) in diameter. Surrounding the plaza are steel outline structures to represent John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and a combined Pete Best/Ringo Starr drummer. The structure was completed on September 1, 2008
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from bob dylan posted in music by crabapple
Opened in 1958, the Gaslight Cafe was a beat and folk music hangout in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The Gaslight (or "The Village Gaslight") was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of a performance to earn money.
Numerous musicians, poets and comedians made their way through the Gaslight. Bob Dylan recorded a performance "Live at The Gaslight 1962" that was released in 2005.
According to the Folk Music Encyclopedia: "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. So then the audience couldn't applaud; they had to snap their fingers instead."
The Gaslight closed its doors in 1971.