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Grace Slick Explains Why Joni Mitchell Got Woodstock All Wrong
29 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: grace slick, jefferson airplane, jomi mitchell, woodstock
(via SACRAMENTO’S K-ZAP)
Grace Slick explains why Joni Mitchell got Woodstock all wrong:
Jefferson Airplane were billed as the Saturday night headliners, but the festival was famously marred by major delayed due to a huge rainstorm in the middle of the day.
Santana was due to perform at 1pm on Saturday, but was too busy tripping on mescaline and wasn’t mentally there yet. So instead, they brought in someone else, shuffled him to 2pm and thus began a whole day of push-backs and hold-ups, eventually leading to bands playing throughout the night and Slick only hitting the stage as the sun was rising.
The only thing bands could do was surrender, and so that meant one thing: drugs. “Our road manager had a box with about 16 little segments in it, and he had different drugs in each of the little segments. And we took what we thought was cocaine — snorting it, not shooting it — snorting it backstage just before we went on,” Slick recalled as the band thought they were doing their typical routine.
They were mistaken, though, as they quickly realised that the white substance was the wrong one. “We took it out of the wrong box, and we took LSD. So, about 15 minutes into the set, we looked at each other and went, ‘Oh boy. Oops.’”
With way more people than planned for, the facilities weren’t up for the job either, meaning that there was just mass filth everywhere from leaking toilets and overflowing bins. A lack of clean water was the cherry on top, too.
“We are stardust, we are golden,” Mitchell sings on her theme tune for the event, claiming “Everywhere was a song and a celebration.” However, Mitchell wasn’t there.
“Joni Mitchell got all, you know, sugary about it and said we got to get ourselves back to the garden, and we’re stardust, and we’re golden and all that kind of stuff, which is a little bit over the top,” she said in 2019 when her own real memories were of dirt and drugs.
To her, Woodstock was as sleazy of a scene as any other chaotic festival, adding of Mitchell, “I’m surprised that her take on it was so sweet.”
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Hatebeak: The “Deathsquawk” Band with a Parrot Lead Singer
27 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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Straight Outta Wikipedia:
Hatebeak is an American death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan, featuring Waldo (b. 1991), a grey parrot. Hatebeak is reported to be the first band to have an avian vocalist. They never tour so as to not distress Waldo. Hatebeak is signed to Reptilian Records. They released the album Number of the Beak on June 26, 2015, through Reptilian Records.
The band’s sound has been described as “a jackhammer being ground in a compactor”. Aquarius Records magazine called Hatebeak “furious and blasting death metal”. Hatebeak made its second record with Caninus, a band whose lead singers were two dogs. Hatebeak’s goal is to “raise the bar for extreme music”.
Band members
- Waldo the Parrot – vocals
- Mark Sloan – guitar, bass
- Blake Harrison – drums (died 2024)
Discography
- Beak of Putrefaction split with Longmont Potion Castle (2004)
- Bird Seeds of Vengeance split with Caninus (2005)
- The Thing That Should Not Beak split with Birdflesh (2007)
- The Number of the Beak (2015)
- Birdhouse By The Cemetery split with Boar Glue (2018)
Three Incandescent 70’s Songs
11 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
Every era of music has its standards; undeniable, indispensable, and ultimately inescapable cultural markers that live down the generations.
I don’t have to remind you that “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Hotel California” and “Sweet Caroline” are as much a part of the 2020’s as they were part of the 70’s. You already know it, and so do your children–and maybe their children.
As much as classics like these deserve all the love and longevity, it’s not the thrust of this particular blog to celebrate the ubiquitous. In fact, mostly the focus here is to redirect the spotlight to the deserving but relatively overlooked songs or artists.
In the category of Songs You May Have Missed, we feature almost exclusively songs that never cracked the US Top 40 or were never singles at all.
The songs we recall here though were hits in their time, but didn’t live beyond it–or at least didn’t have the same afterlife of those universally acknowledged classics.
No mock operatic ambitions or snazzy guitar solos here. These songs have never been sung in a sports stadium.
They are just quietly devastating, tragically honest, perfectly arranged. These songs are transcendent. And, if you haven’t heard them lately, worth a fresh listen.
Roberta Flack: “If Ever I See You Again” (1978)
The 5th Dimension: “If I Could Reach You” (1972)
Aretha Franklin: “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” (1973)
The Velvet Sundown explained: What’s behind the Spotify-verified AI band controversy?
05 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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(via Euronews) By David Mouriquand
Have you heard of the band The Velvet Sundown?
They’re blowing up right now, racking up more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify – which is pretty good going for a group that formed less than two months ago.
What’s also impressive is that the prolific four-piece psych-rock outfit have already released two albums on their “Verified Artist” profile: ‘Floating On Echoes’ and ‘Dust And Silence’, which were dropped on 5 and 20 June respectively.
There are no signs of slowing down, as their new collection of “cinematic alt-pop and dreamy analogue soul” is out soon, with their third opus titled ‘Paper Sun Rebellion’ coming out on 14 July.
Vocalist and “mellotron sorcerer” Gabe Farrow, guitarist Lennie West, “bassist-synth alchemist” Milo Rains and “free-spirited percussionist” Orion ‘Rio’ Del Mar must be thrilled with their sudden rise in popularity.
At least they would be… if they were capable of human emotion.
Yep, The Velvet Sundown don’t exist. Not really.
How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren
19 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
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(via Ultimate Classic Rock) by Martin Kielty
Todd Rundgren recalled how John Lennon contacted him privately to end a public war of words that broke out in 1974.
The pair met during the ex-Beatle’s infamous “lost weekend,” a time when he was frequently drunk, stoned and out of control. It had been a disappointing experience for Rundgren, a massive fan.
“I met him at a party in the period he was drinking withHarry Nilsson and misbehaving all over Hollywood,” the guitarist and producer told the The Guardian in a recent interview…
Every Moment Has A Song 