Co-founding the 1990s stoner metal band Kyuss, drummer Brant Bjork revealed the early influences he dubbed "low desert punk" that shaped their heady hard rock.
Marianne Faithfull, who died on Thursday at 78, “seemed to touch all the moments,” helping define the look of the 1960s with ...
engaged in drug smuggling as a “hippie mafia,” and in 1970 helped arrange a Jimi Hendrix concert in Hawaii. The show was included in director Chuck Wein’s 1972 semidocumentary “Rainbow ...
The film, directed by Chuck Wein, a protege of Andy Warhol, evolved into a quasi documentary about mysticism, surfing and drugs, climaxing with a Jimi Hendrix concert at the base of the Haleakala ...
A direct descendent of the work of Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Iron Butterfly, and other hard rock acts, this fresh sound was more muscular than the deeply blues-inflected work of those above and had a more ...
(To Everything There Is a Season) (1965)" by The Byrds is an iconic hippie anthem from the late ... All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Bob Dylan wrote "All Along The Watchtower," but Jimi ...
But goddamn, that performance footage. Jimi Hendrix's scorching rendition of the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ will still singe your eyebrows. Unrelenting, emotional, and visceral in a way that will ...
The weekend was a landmark event in the evolution of psychedelic music and is largely recognized as the first to bring together what would be called the "hippie" movement. 1968 - The Jimi Hendrix ...
“Ruby Tuesday” has been long alleged to be about a groupie, but according to guitarist Keith Richards, it was about his then-girlfriend Linda Keith, who had broken his heart after leaving him for Jimi ...
Had he not died tragically at 31, there's no telling what virtuoso Chicago guitarist Terry Kath would have gone on to do with ...