I didnt know about a lot of these that summer. But nothing was as bad as the foretellers of doom had predicted. [Vancouver Sun], San Jose State University football practice field. Handy concert will be on advance sale at many Memphis locations ($2.50 to $5.00). After The Doors played, Led Zeppelin. 8/22/1969 Nashville, TN, Centennial Park, WMAK Nashville Music Festival 8/23/1969 Los Angeles, CA, Century Plaza, Capitol Convention Chicago 8/28/1969 . RM2EHXXY5 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair Presents An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, N.Y. 3 Days of Peace & Music August 15, 16, 17 1969 poster for the legendary music festival designed by Arnold Skolnick featuring a white dove resting on a guitar neck. The seats emptied into the concourses and onto the field. Interesting little window on big history. I went on Saturday and saw Butterfield, BB, the Byrds and get thisBooker T. & the MGs. I was REALLY looking forward to her singing and was so disappointed when she walked off (though she did so understandably as the crowd noise was almost unbearable at that moment) that it was the first thing I thought of for years when thinking about this concert. B. With a combination of shifting wind and re-thrown canisters, tear gas suddenly swept over the crowd. Od 10 let se vnuju hudb, he na kytaru a poslechu hudby. 1969 Buffalo, New York, United States Uploaded by Zimtrim. Crosby, Stills & Nash were booked but canceled, supposedly because Nash had a polyp on his tonsils. Had a great time. Josephits been a while since you posted, but I can fill in some blanks about AUM. I believe 3 Dog Night was on Sunday. Good nostalgia? People in the messy field at the Woodstock Music Festival, New York, US, August 1969. Though it was free, it, like the famous Woodstock festival, organizers did not intend it to be so. Bullfrog Lake Music Festival 1969 Jefferson Airplane Event Flyer . Michigan governor William Milliken denounced the "deplorable and open sale and use of drugs" at the festival, and called for investigation and prosecution of the "drug pushers" who were present. (& Day 2, Aug 2, was my birthday! The first band was still fading out when the other band came on! Ive never even seen anyone mention that before, let alone any documentation. I collect sixties posters and this one is truly rare. King said he was playing for the 1st time in 13 years broke into tears when he felt MASSIVE love! Tickets for the W.C. Then came Joni Mitchell (who I wanted to hear) but the crowd was still buzzing and wasnt ready for soft sound. The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before Woodstock Festival. She was swallowing from a bottle of bourbon and I was astounded at how elderly and dissipated she looked. He asked that they please move out, because if someone happened to fry themselves he would have to stop playing for a few minutes while they fixed the short. (B) As some commenters have noted, although camping was supposedly prohibited, the greens areas were ideal for such, and so thousands of us camped there without complications. I remember being there on Saturday night with the girl I had been madly (and one widely) in love with since 1961 when we both in sixth grade. My Aunt and Uncle had a place in Chelsea, so I crashed at their beach house for the weekend, Or should I say, THE Weekend. I was there. I was there with my cousin. One of my favorite BCB articles yet. [3] The backstage area had a tent where 20 to 30 groupies described as "sizzlers" were available for the performers. That concert was fantastic and one I will always remember! Big mistake asking her to follow them. Related: Woodstock performers: Where are they now? The total attendance was some 300,000 people. I remember the 2:00 a.m. freak express conga line that snake throught to campers outside the gates at night. He came out wearing white and played the Star Spangled Banner. The Festival was at a drag strip outside of West Palm Beach. [9] Michigan attorney general Frank J. Kelley said "I think we have seen the first and last rock concert of that size in Michigan".[9]. This year the number of attendees over the two day festival is expected to exceed 10,000. Goose Lake Park was built on 390 acres of land,[4] with a budget of $1 million, and was billed as the "world's first permanent festival site". Varsity Stadium, at the University of Toronto, John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band wEric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White, Dorothy Morrison & the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Livingston Gym, Denison University (Granville, OH), Altamont Speedway in northern CA between Tracy and Livermore. The music was a cultural explosion. [5], The rotating stage was a success. I dropped out of college that year. Atlantic City Pop Festival Aug 1,2,3 1969.m4v. Saturdays schedule mixed jazz acts such as Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck with others including John Mayall and Sly & the Family Stone. The cops and security had a hard time getting to the infield, then he ran around in circles as they chased him, much to the amusement of the crowd. Frank Zappa was upset and played a 50 instrumental. Im Penny, and I was with Bruce back then. The Doors arrived only minutes before taking the stage and played an extended set (70 minutes instead of 45 minutes) to make up for the missing bands. (Photo by Owen Franken/Corbis via Getty Images) It was a 3 day event that captured the spirit of the times: Woodstock. Panfish tend to be numerous and stunted but are . And yes, musically historic! Does anybody remember the fire company arriving one afternoon with tanker trucks that sprayed water in the infield so us hippies could get showers? Jeff, in your description, noting no camping took place. [4], The admission price for the three-day event was $15.00,[4] and entry tokens in the style of poker chips were sold to avoid the counterfeiting of paper tickets. Jefferson Airplane played far into Saturday night and Sunday morning. The event, or "happening" as it might have been called back in . Then you look back, say your what ifs. Instead I listened to the radio all weekend and dreamed. Amazingly, they just shook their heads then let us move on. At night, many of the performers joined the campers and played without charge. I dont remember who most of the bands were except for a few that I had followed because I thought they were important such as Richie Havens and Frank Zappa. It was an amazing weekend of music. Some bad voodoo there. Among the bands playing were:BB King, The Band, Santana, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Winter, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Sweetwater, Vanilla Fudge, Hugh Masakela, Amboy Dukes, The Turtles, Biff Rose, Tony Joe White, and Celebration. The Moody Blues were scheduled but werent there. Section 107 related to Copyright and Fair Use for Non-Profit educational institutions, which permits the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), to utilize copyrighted materials to further scholarship, education, and inform the public. DJ John Peel. In November 69, I got a free trip to Vietnam. I dont remember a whole lot of details about that weekend, except not getting a lot of sleep and having the climb the chainlink fence to get ineven though Id bought tickets, theyd been stolen. I remember a lot of woo woo sounds and not what I considered real music at the time. He was just hanging out with the crowd. Enjoyed your story. TICKETS & INFO. Learn how your comment data is processed. jeden z nejdle fungujcch DJs na R1, modertor hudebnch poad, hudebn redaktor a promotr. He is formerly the editor of Goldmine, CMJ and Relix magazines, has written for dozens of other publications and has authored liner notes for more than 80 CDs. General, VIP, and Lodging on sale now at winterwondergrass.com . Performers (likely): The Ace of Cups, All Men Joy, Birth, Beggars Opera, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Boz Scaggs, Chocolate Watchband, Crabs, Crow, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Devine Madness, Denver, The Doobie Brothers, Elgin Marble, Flamin Groovies, Frumious Bandersnatch, Gentle Dance, Greater Carmichael Traveling Street Band, Glass, Mountain, High Country, Jefferson Airplane, Joy of Cooking, Last Mile, Libras, Lamb, Living Color, Linn County, Mother Ball, Morning Glory, Mad River, Mt. Biff Rose MCd. Documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. Lang was . NJ Transit ran buses from AC to the track and back. TICKETS & INFO. He was running across the roofs and hoods of the gridlocked cars. And Joni Mitchell didnt write a song about it even if she did play at AC Pop (briefly; see below), unlike Woodstock. He opened the bag which had about 2 bushels of grass wrapped in smaller bags and nothing else. Thanks for writing about this festival. The festival will take place March 31-April 2nd, 2023, at Palisades Tahoe. And relatively few still photos exist. lol. I also was told that Little Richard was the replacement for Crosby Stills and Nash by my friend that was a musician in NJ (never made it but knew a great deal about music and bands). Kev Nichols & Blue Tuesday. Of course it WAS 48 years ago! Handy Memorial Concert in the Mid-South Coliseum on Sunday June 8th. Thanks Jeff for a well written piece.I was there with a few friends for the whole gig.The music was great but the stories that happened all around you were just crazy.I smile every time something pops up about it.It was classic in many many ways. During the Zappa set, he stopped and made an announcement. Yeah but that was some instrumental. As I heard it, we had some 250,000 people at A.C. Racetrack, & the going question by Day 3 was, Are you going to Woodstock? Everyone who did likely brought someone & almost doubled the crowd! It might have given us at least a taste of what Woodstock was like for the thousands who showed up at Max Yasgurs farm two weeks later. Attended by some 100,000+ people. It was mostly the McGuinn/Clarence White show at that point (A great show at that!). I had never heard of them. B.B. We were 15. The Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival took place in 1969 and attracted about 30,000 people at a time when outdoor concerts were still a rarity and the prospect of so many young hippies gathered in . BTW, Santana was announced as the Santana Blues Band , not Santa Ana. The dates were August 1-3, 1969, and it took place at the Atlantic City Race Track, just outside of the old-school resort town on the Jersey shore (this was well before the casino era). Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP) est un groupe britannique de rock progressif [1], originaire de Croydon, Londres, en Angleterre, form en 1970 et compos de Keith Emerson (ex-Nice) aux claviers, Greg Lake (ex-King Crimson) la basse, guitare et chant et Carl Palmer (ex-Atomic Rooster) la batterie et percussions.. Avec neuf albums certifis disques d'or par la RIAA aux tats-Unis [2] et . I missed one on ebay last week one of the best ones Ive ever seen too. 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It is true that it took place on August 15, 16 and 17, 1969, and on August 18, because the music continued until that Monday morning, which actually turned the three-day festival into a four-day festival. I was there but there but theres so little written and known about this festival I thought maybe I was high and dreamed it LOL. Had a ball. At one point on the opening day, in fact, a stage announcement was made to the effect that those who were worried about being busted for drugs could chill; there were probably a few narcs among the crowd but they were unlikely to cause any problems. So we watched some of the performances from afar and some on the TV screens in the grand stand. King, Chicago Transit Authority, Tony Joe White, Spirit, Johnny Winter, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, Freddie King, and a virtually unknown British band, Led Zeppelin, all performed during the three-day festival. We chatted for an hour, what a friendly and knowledgeable guy he was, made my trip. Santana Jefferson Airplane Janis Little Richard loved every minute Beg to disagree about one thing we had a contact high all weekend. The Goose Lake International Music Festival was the creation of Richard Songer, who in his mid-30s in 1970 bought about 350 acres of farmland to create Goose Lake Park, a "place for the young . Im pretty sure that Little Richard closed the festival though, with Janis sitting in. Most of us werent even aware of what happened until it was over. Well I remember this wild weekend very well. : . A week later, Robert Wilkinson, a Los Angeles City Councilman representing Northridge, led the call for immediate inquiries to determine what can the city do to prevent another disgraceful melee such as occurred outside Devonshire Downs last week. The events promoter, Mark Robinson, along with his attorneywho happened to be his father, Mark Robinson, Sr.were hauled into an emergency session of the police commission, as was Robert Deem, the Downs manager, and Captain Al Lembke. Have fun! Photo from Duane Blalock. Forty nine years eleven months ago I was asked to be Security Chief at Palm Beach Pop Fest. Stood a few feet from Janis Joplin before she went on stage. I was there, too. Anniversary coming up. Lothar and the Hand People did a great version of Danny and the Juniors hit At the Hop. The cops that pulled us over somewhere in NY thought so too. According to the sources, Led Zeppelin stole the show. Going back we walked some, hitched a ride to the Bethel Greyhound office, slept on the sidewalk until the bus camesound like fun to you? Crosby was kicked out of the Byrds not long after Monterey pop festival for his habit of making political statements when Introducing certain songs and for joining another group on stage at Monterey after being asked or told not to by Byrds leader Roger McGuinn . Procol Harem played Thus Sprach Zarathustra w a live Moog synth unheard of at the time! [6], National and international acts performing at the festival included Faces featuring Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Ten Years After, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Mountain, John Sebastian, the James Gang featuring Joe Walsh, The Flock and The Litter.[1][2][5][7][8]. The crowd was transfixed never having heard such a shocking take on the national anthem. A New Home at the Grass Lake Farmers Market & Community Events Park The Grass Lake Farmers Market sets up on Wednesdays of each week May through October from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm. When the festival was over, we just reversed the process. Watch as Santa arrives at the Depot on a firetruck, enjoy breakfast with Santa, or find him around town for photos! The Mothers were powerful! I also have to say it was the first time that I got to see a Latin,Jazz, rock band called Santana what a great show, one time in my young life age 14 I will never forget! The gal who said Jimi H was there probably saw him at the Atlanta Pop Fest the next year, July 1970..played a killer Star Spangled Banner at midnight with fireworks resembling our flag. Chip Monck was also the announcer at Woodstock you can hear him in the movie Woodstock. A tragedy that it wasnt filmed or recorded. I couldnt convince anyone else to go but I really had to do it. Unsurprisingly, it remains the most famous music festival in rock 'n' roll history. I have slides of it! Dont worry if youve never heard of it. So yeah for 50 minuets he played an incredible set of progressive rock. It could be almost as rare as the Altamont poster. I was never aware of this festival prior to this article. Bob the bear Hite and Canned Heat always a great band live! Stayed 36 hours but ran out of brain cells. Also, there is a Procal Harum bootleg of thier entire set at A. C. Even though I was not sober I remember the late 60s contrary to the saying! Still have their record, but admittedly they were better live. I camped there as well as hundreds of others. I too was at AC Pop and it was a seminal event in my musical history I had seen AUM about 3 months earlier at the original Electric Factory in Philly, opening for Iron Butterfly I believe, so I knew of them and had purchased their Resurrection album. Largemouth bass, northern pike and tiger musky can be found in the shallow weedy area along the North shore and in the southern arm of the lake. This one-day event squeezed plenty of music and a variety of music into its 11 hours. With Dorinda Drake, Barbara Bland-Acosta, Darryl Lewis, Ethel Beatty. My dad wanted us to leave and drive back to DC. The bands played. James Head, Thanks! The New York City Parks Department and Maxwell House co-sponsored the series. Its lineup included, besides jazz, Friday evening appearances by rock groups Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull. The line-up was likely Spirit, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Taj Mahal, interspersed with anti-war speeches. Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. Best Classic Bands Editor Jeff Tamarkin has been a prolific music journalist for more than four decades. A Texas Historical Marker commemorating the event was erected near the site of the festival in 2010. The four of us headed for Woodstock and got as far as the NY Freeway and got stuck in traffic. We were stuck in that awful traffic jam on Friday night and never got within ten miles of the concert site before leaving Saturday afternoon. As the stage stated to turn, The Byrds started their set with Turn Turn Turn . Come visit the village of Grass Lake! The Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival, Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England. The Chambers Brothers and Janis Joplin were amazing beyond words. I was a bit nave and didnt know I should have gotten there a day or two early. Hendrix was the headline act for the Friday night opening, but he played so poorly supposedly from an LSD-laced drink that he returned to the stage on Sunday. What a fun time that was! Total attendance of about 45,000. Click here for the Car Show Car Show Gallery! It was History. They also tried to breach the gates and security fences. [7] Tom Wright, who was responsible for staging and logistics at the festival, including design of the revolving stage, reported that it had gone off "virtually hitch free". Discover the best Music events in your area and online Spent two or three nights, cant remember exactly, sleeping on the grass but nobody bothered me. Great story! As I was having a fag outside on the sidewalk he came through the door and I mentioned that I had heard him in AC. Some Virginia musicians I knew played there. I had come down from our seats to the stage area at night for Janis Joplin and stayed for Little Richard who closed out Saturday night (80% sure about the night). June 29 August 24, 1969: consisted of six free Sunday afternoon concerts held between June 29 and August 24. Jeff was three years old in 1969. Got No Shoes, Got No Blues, a video of some of the musical acts at the festival, was also available, as well as reproductions of festival posters and programs. I had been monitoring the news reports about Woodstock being on again off again so my buddies and I opted for AC Pop. She turned and smiled at me as I snapped her photo. According to the sources, Led Zeppelin stole the show. I called my friends to come and get me so I could go too, but they had better sense and kept me from ruining my life and going AWOL. For many years, thePhun City rock festival held at Ecclesden Common near Worthing, England from 24 July to 26 July 1970 was considered the first large-scale free festival in the UK. But what made Atlantic City so much different than Woodstock musically was its invitation to artists who did not turn up at Yasgurs Farm: Frank Zappas Mothers of Invention, The Sir Douglas Quintet, The Byrds, Tim Buckley, Three Dog Night, Buddy Miles, The Chambers Brothers, Procol Harum, Chicago [Transit Authority], Aum, Lighthouse, American Dream, Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth and Iron Butterfly all put in appearances at AC and not at Woodstock. TICKETS . I went to Woodstock too no Beatles or Jesus but they were right about the party. I (we ) were so blessed to live in these times and to have these experiences. Gave me one of the bags which must have weighed a few pounds. Summer of Soul (.Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Directed by Questlove. An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music, was a three-day concert (which managed to roll into a fourth day) that took place on August 15 through 18, 1969, at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel just outside White Lake, New York. We were all choking on some kind of powder that was in the air! Hahaha! Hazel Nerysoo is one of the . We hitched a ride with a chicken farmer to the race track. Harvey (The Snake) Mandel - guitar. Johnny Winter was present but did not perform as his equipment did not show up in time. CSN did show up at the last minute. They had a lot of rock and blues acts that year and they had a lot of people like me who arrived with no money and no tickets. If the fence had been up on Saturday there may have been injuries with the crush of people that would have likely occurred with people trying to get out of the stands onto the field to get away from the tear gas. Performers: White Fox, Snowrabbit, Deacon John and the Electric Soul Train, Whizbang, Axis, Sweetwater, Lee Michaels, Oliver, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys, Spiral Staircase, Its A Beautiful Day, Country Joe and the Fish, Byrds, Youngbloods, Canned Heat, Pot Liquor, Chicago (Transit Authority), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Santana, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin. For many, Memorial Day Weekend signifies the kick-off to summer. The 2022 Festival of Lights is set for Saturday, December 3rd, 2022. More than 25,000 young people from all over Canada and the Pacific Northwest rocked their way through the holiday weekend here peacefully. For some reason, the three-day Atlantic City, N.J., bash that took place over the first weekend of that August barely registers a blip in most accounts of rock history. May 4, 2022. Priceless! Despite a poor sound system, a lack of food, water, and restrooms, and brutal security by the Hells Angels, it was deemed a resounding success by the attendees and musicians. Thank you. Attendance. Wed like to think he knew it was the police in an unmarked car and put them in the pond on purpose since we know he didnt do drugs. B. It was a great weekend. I was there too. By the way, they were quite good. say that they were scheduled for Friday, but being a huge Steve Cropper fan, I was blown away to see them on the Saturday show. Guessing you meant Tim Buckley. Also, there was this one: the Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival a year earlier and it was organized as a free festival from the beginning. After she didnt come back is when I remember the crowd booing. [9] The festival took place at the time of the 25th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and peace groups publicized an anti-nuclear weapons message during the event. Lighthouse doing Eight Miles High. Lighthouse playing Chest Fever sent me to the moon. Attended by an estimated 200,000 fans, the festival was the largest pop concert up to that time and is considered the more famous of the two Newport Pop Festivals, possibly because of the appearance of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who got top billing. Wow, cool. She tried her best rocker but couldnt get the crowd with her so she said I cant do this and walked off. Great performances and you could wander between the grandstand and the track area in front of the stage to get a closer look every once in a while. Joe Cocker, Mothers, and some others. The Festival is held at Cooper's Lake Campground, located at 205 Currie Rd in Slippery Rock, PA, right off of I-79 Exit 99 (New Castle Rd / US Route 422), and is . No further rock festivals took place at Goose Lake. Not so sure. But I went to this with a friend from the Associated Press and got a birds eye view. He threatened to herd alligators toward the crowd, gathered on a grassy field at the Palm Beach International Raceway. I remember that. I have a home at the Jersey shore so Ive been back to the track a couple times over the years just to stand there and reminisce. Also remember Chambers Bros. must be video if that was running. Po revoluci v kvtnu [] But this article is about ATLANTIC CITY, not Atlanta. Not only are there no official recordings, there are very few photos! For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. But no one had recorded the music. Select from premium Woodstock Music & Art Festival 1969 of the highest quality. The sun beat down on the dedicated masses, who remained planted in front of the stage from 11 a.m. on Aug. 30, 1969, until 2 or 3 the morning after. It was one of the best years. Apparently she was annoyed that she didnt have a captive audience and tested us by singing one verse over again. 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