Monthly Archives: August 2009

Hendrix closes it up

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
10:11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 1969 Jimi Hendrix just finished the Aquarian Exposition with an unbelievable performance. He played many of his well-known songs, as well as stuff like “Villanova Junction.” But best of all was his performance of “Purple Haze,” which started with an impromptu cover of the national anthem. He weaved his guitar feed in [...]
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The Band … playing bad

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
12:06 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 1969 The rain was cleaned up a while back, and the skies cleared pretty well. It did, however, drive plenty of people away from the site. Now we’re looking at about 250,000 people again. Still a lot, of course. Right now the Band is onstage. I love the Band, but they don’t [...]
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2 Sunday storms

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
4:32 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, 1969 Right now we’re experiencing a terrible, terrible storm at Max Yasgur’s field. I’m talking bad. The rain started just after Joe Cocker’s set, and hasn’t stopped; in fact, it’s only grown in tenacity. Onstage the announcer was ordering people down from the sound towers, as the wind is blowing tremendously [...]
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Disaster area

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
1:35 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, 1969 Joe Cocker – a young English singer who recorded the Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends,” will perform first today, sometime around 3 p.m. Right now people are gathering their lunches and bathing in the pond. Max Yasgur has been awake all weekend, pacing around and moving his milk [...]
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Saturday ends with flurry

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
9:56 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, 1969 The Jefferson Airplane have wrapped up their set and the sun is now high in the sky. It’s day three of the Aquarian Festival, and currently we’re only finished day two. If that makes sense. A run of the biggest acts of the day went through the night. We had Creedence Clearwater, [...]
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The Dead sound dead

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
12:49 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, 1969 As we reach the third day of the Aquarian Exposition, we’re seeing no end in sight. Still a bunch of acts to go before this second day ends. The Grateful Dead started about an hour and a half late, and right now they haven’t sounded too great. A lot of [...]
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Canned Heat and some loud bellows

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
8:28 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 1969 Finished up the story for tomorrow. Right now on stage is Canned Heat, a hard rock band with real bellow and hard guitar. Their lead singer is The Bear. Real big dude. A man ran onstage, but the Bear just hugged up and lit up his cigarette. Real peaceful. Crowd really [...]
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Santana out of sight

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
6:24 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 1969 Santana, or Carlos Santana, really rocked today at the Aquarian. Brought a lot of good vibes to the festival. The 22-year-old can wail. It’s about time for me to grab some food, take my shower dip in the pond with the other nudes and start writing my story for the morning [...]
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Bad things surfacing

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
5:14 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 1969 A young band, Santana, is starting up their set on stage. The guitarist, Carlos Santana, is 22. Mustache aside, he looks like a kid. There’s a lot of bad stuff floating around. Bad acid, bad water, bad sandwiches. Peanut butter and jelly are being made up at the top of the [...]
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Freak outs, nudity now appearing

By Timothy Malcolm | Published: August 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
3:58 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 1969 John Sebastian just played a real nice set of soothing folk and singing music. He closed with “Younger Generation,” a nice tune. I got some word that there’s been some freak outs, and people are being checked on in tents toward the back. Everyone is real cool, though: Nurses are stroking [...]
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