Lesson 5 Flashcards
Promoter with the Fillmore West/East
Bill Graham
Ex-Harvard Professor turned LSD drug “guru”
Max Yasgur
San Francisco-based FM “underground” disc jockey
Tom Donahue
Owner of the farm that was site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival
Max Yasgur
Promoter for both the Rolling Stones and The Beatles in the late 1960s
Allen Klein
Poet who became the primary artistic spokesperson for the Beat moment
Allen Ginsberg
Janis Joplin
Big Brother and the Holding Company
John Phillips
The Mamas and the Papas
David Crosby
The Byrds
Stephen Stills
The Buffalo Springfield
Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin
John Sebastian
The Lovin’ Spoonful
Jerry Garcia
The Grateful Dead
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
Eric Clapton
Cream
John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Purple Haze”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
“Piece of My Heart”
Big Brother and the Holding Company
“Fixin-To-Die Rag”
Country Joe McDonald
“Strawberry Fields Forever”
The Beatles
“Sunshine of Your Love”
Cream
“Light My Fire”
The Doors
“White Rabbit”
Jefferson Airplane
People who abandoned materialism in search of enlightenment and honest expression of feelings
Beats
A 3-day peaceful gathering of approximately 400,000 in August 1969
Woodstock
Site of the largest rock festival ever (Aug 1970)
Isle of Wight
Site of a free concert staged by The Rolling Stones in December 1969 that was marked by violence from the Hell’s Angels
Altamont
The district of San Francisco that was a center for the 60s hippie movement
Haight-Ashbury
Site of a major international pop-rock festival in 1967
Montery
