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on March 11, 2015 at 7:26 AM, updated March 11, 2015 at 7:30 AM
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The top 10 front women of all-time: From Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard to Janis Joplin | AL.com
Posted: March 17, 2015 by Kimberly Weiss in Other Music NewsTags: Alabama Shakes, Ann Wilson, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Blondie, Brittany Howard, Chrissie Hynde, Courtney Love, Debbie Harry, Fleetwood Mac, Front-women, Grace Slick, Gwen Stefani, Heart, Hole, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Jett, Matt Wake, No Doubt, Pretenders, Stevie Nicks, The Runaways, Top 10
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Ever noticed how many successful male rock-singers sound a lot like chicks?What Jimi Hendrix and (almost) every performer at Woodstock was paid | Dangerous Minds
Posted: March 13, 2015 by Kimberly Weiss in Non-Local Bands, Other Music NewsTags: Arlo Guthrie, Artist Payments, Blood Sweat and Tears, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Dangerous Minds, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, Richie Havens, Santana, Sha Na Na, Sly and the Family Stone, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, The Band, The Who, Ultimate Guitar, Woodstock
Most rock fans know which bands distinguished themselves at the Woodstock festival, properly styled the “Woodstock Music & Art Fair,” in August 1969—Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, CSNY—but less well known are the various fees that producers John Roberts and Joel Rosenman paid to each individual artist. By that reckoning, Santana was a bargain and Blood, Sweat & Tears might have been just a touch overpaid, no offense to that fine combo.
UltimateGuitar.com found this great chart—it lists the fees for every act with the exception of Bert Sommer and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band: (more…)
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