Lothar and the Hand People did a great version of Danny and the Juniors hit At the Hop. Is it a music festival? I was at the Saturday show-lot of B groupsBB King, Biff Rose, Tim Buckley, Butterfield Blues Band, also, American Dream, Jefferson Airplane. We drove from Texas. I was 17, then. So did Joni Mitchell, who famously skipped the Upstate New York gig, although she probably wished shed passed on this one too: After singing a few tunes, Mitchell complained that no one was listening to her and walked offstage in tears, never to return. As the stage stated to turn, The Byrds started their set with Turn Turn Turn . Where Woodstock stuck largely to classic rock and folk artists, AC Pop augmented that basic foundation with acts from the worlds of jazz (Hugh Masekela), soul (Booker T. and the MGs) and blues (B.B. The four of us headed for Woodstock and got as far as the NY Freeway and got stuck in traffic. Long live the 60s! Guessing you meant Tim Buckley. The line-up was likely Spirit, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Taj Mahal, interspersed with anti-war speeches. The people from outside the stadium were let in and took seats in the South Stands of the old Mile High Stadium. The festival lost money, but was generally considered a success by those who attended. Dr.John and his entourage taking the stage. I waited and waited and they never showed.so disappointed! Last time I drove a hitchhiker across the border. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. DJ John Peel. Booker T. and Little Richard (with Janis dancing on stage) were my favorite acts. Here are the ones Ive found. Inviting attendees into an EDM wonderland of neon decor and walkabout . I was able to work, catch a bus enjoy some great music and get back to go work. By the way, they were quite good. [2], The stage was built on a large, revolving turntable with two performance spaces so that the previous band could disassemble its gear and the next band set up while the current band was performing. He was just hanging out with the crowd. 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 remember that, at one point, we were rumbling down the New Jersey Turnpike when suddenly, the truck slowed, pulled to the side of the road and ground to a halt. The Texas festival was held only two weeks after the legendary Woodstock festival in Woodstock, New York. Related: Listings for 100s of upcoming classic rock festivals. Cool. October 10, 1969: Amon Duul II, Hardin & York, Keef Hartley Blues Band, Champion Jack Dupree & Shades, The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Alexis Korner & New Church, Steamhammer, Muddy Waters, Taste, Shades. What a magical weekend that was! The New York Times, which the year before had become the first mainstream newspaper to hire a full-time rock critic, initially sent just one reporter to cover the festival in August . 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? Joni didnt feel loved and walked off the stage. I camped also with three other car loads of my fraternity friends who talked me into going 2 weeks before I was being drafted into the army. I let my part=timers at Wawa go to Woodstock and the tradeoff was my going to AC. With a budget of only $120,000, the promoters booked twenty-six of the biggest names in blues, rock-and-roll, and psychedelic rock. Concert was great. Well not really because it didnt happen. Nobody said Woodstock. Questlove. As a matter of fact, the festival is so obscured in history that there remains some doubt as to who actually did and didnt perform. Click here for the 2022 events schedule Click here to be a . The bands played. Festival will be held at the Grass Lake Community Events Park; 5K Run / Walk will be held Friday, July 8th (Register here)Car Show will be held Saturday, July 9th from 12PM to 4PM (Registration is $5) Really fantastic. B. My girlfriend Sara & I left when it was announced Johnny Winter a no-show. July 8 - 9, 2023 . The weekend of the AC Pop Festival, I was in Basic Training at Ft. Bragg. Anybody with memories of the Miami Pop Festival? Though it was free, it, like the famous Woodstock festival, organizers did not intend it to be so. Paul Manson passed away on the last day of 2015, spending an even 60 years on the planet. I dropped out of college that year. Was 21 and there with 4 others. It was the only time The Doors and Led Zeppelin were on the same bill. Jeff, in your description, noting no camping took place. Also, there was a trememdous amount of trash in the racetrack building under the seats. 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. I thought it was great. I missed one on ebay last week one of the best ones Ive ever seen too. I got back to Philly by bus because I didnt want to get stuck there overnight by missing the last bus. I drove to Woodstock from Vt in my 61 Beetle which I had painted up with poster paint, done by the kids in the local rec program I was running that summer. The Electric Factory people had much experience putting on music & did a great job. Well, over the 4th of July weekend, 1969 There was the Newport Jazz Festival. I was there, too. during the concert, I saw a guy walk up to a Cop and ask for a light for his joint. Atlantic City Pop Festival Aug 1,2,3 1969.m4v. Over 20,000 attended. And yes, I still have my tickets stubs from Days 2 & 3 a little wrinkled, & Priceless! Weird how everyone remembers Woodstock instead: must be the much-shown film. It became a legendary event largely owing to the participation of Bob Dylan who had spent the previous three years in semi-retirement following a motorcycle accident. We had the best time of our lives. Summer of Soul (.Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Directed by Questlove. Best line up ever. 1969 Buffalo, New York, United States Uploaded by Zimtrim. Select from premium Woodstock Music & Art Festival 1969 of the highest quality. 2022 Traffic Jam'In Title Sponsor . With a combination of shifting wind and re-thrown canisters, tear gas suddenly swept over the crowd. Took us there on Sunday. Then people booed. I was disappointed that she left the stage though. 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. The cops were chasing a guy dressed in a Santa Claus suit. According to the sources, Led Zeppelin stole the show. Procol Harem played Thus Sprach Zarathustra w a live Moog synth unheard of at the time! It was the embodiment of the free spirit of the 1960s. This the 8mm film that w. Instead I listened to the radio all weekend and dreamed. The Wikipedia listing of groups is wrong it doesnt have The Looking Glass who had the hit song Brandy. If youre a newBest Classic Bandsreader, wed be grateful if you would Like ourFacebookpage and/or bookmark ourHome page. General, VIP, and Lodging on sale now at winterwondergrass.com . It was so Wow. Hendrix absolutely was there. As in the booing business exaggerated. The Chambers Brothers and Janis Joplin were amazing beyond words. The festival was extensively advertised through radio and newspapers and was promoted at Woodstock. I was there with a friend! My memories are of great shows by Santanta, CTA, CCR and the Chambers Bros. No- Hendrix was not there. I camped there as well as hundreds of others. When the festival was first being put together,Led Zeppelin was still gaining momentum. After The Doors played, Led Zeppelincame on. I can find very little about the festival other than it did actually happen. Please contact the event . What a great time. Unfortunately, Iron Butterfly were not the greatest musicians (the only song they could play was Inna-Gada-Da-Vida). The security guy tried to explain that if they didnt have tickets they couldnt get in and the guy interrupted him to say No, you dont understand, We here he pointed to the many many people who had gathered dont havent any tickets and were coming in or were wrecking your fucking turnstiles. The security guy could be seen getting on a phone and I was never certain whether this was a direct response to this challenge or an unrelated act, but the very tall vehicle gate to the right side of the turnstiles opened up and the whole crowd ran in behind this guy with the flags. Grass Roots, Cuff Links, Mel & Tim 12/31/1969 Detroit, MI, Eastown Theater Savage Grace, Head Over Heels, Bobby Franklin Insanity Legend: . I remember Carlos saying that as well, but I think they were actually billed as the Santa Ana Blues Band! Forty nine years eleven months ago I was asked to be Security Chief at Palm Beach Pop Fest. 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! Great story! I dont know if anyone els has mentioned this, but on the last day of the festival, on the way to my car, I saw David Peel and the Lower East Side busking outside the stadium. A drought of rain and grass made it miserable except for the music. Is your name Mark? We stayed only one night because we were completely unprepared and because of the misery factor of everything being water logged. The articles first sentence states that hippies and some of the not-so-hip took to the hills during the Memorial Day weekend to follow the Sunrise to Sunset Rock Festival as it moved from Marysville to this tiny King County community, scene of a piano drop last April. The festivals 1969 program was an experiment in fusing jazz, soul and rock music and audiences. Needles to say our reserved tickets were useless; I recall reading about it later and the authorities didnt know what to make of it. Po revoluci v kvtnu [] She was swallowing from a bottle of bourbon and I was astounded at how elderly and dissipated she looked. No further rock festivals took place at Goose Lake. What a time that was! I was standing about 20 feet from them while Crosby was screaming this is a f-n pop festival! They went to the concert, while Janet and I chose to laze on the beach. Not so sure. My dad wanted us to leave and drive back to DC. I remember being on the track when Jefferson Airplane was moving their equipment and also that Inagadadevita that just kept going. Music 5K Vendors Contact TRAFFIC JAM'IN 2022 JULY 8 & 9. 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. I have to say I always wondered who the girl with the multi colored face was on the poster and why the hell they ruined a beautiful face with such an bad design. (Photo by Owen Franken/Corbis via Getty Images) It was a 3 day event that captured the spirit of the times: Woodstock. Ive never even seen anyone mention that before, let alone any documentation. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. But for years I wondered, where was the music? Was it possible that the promoters had let millions of dollars worth of sound waves just escape? in Grass Lake, MI. No, she was mildly booed after leaving the stage. 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. Your father is not quite correct. He was on the left stage where Joplin performed. Held in Harlem at Mount Morris (now Marcus Garvey) Park, it was a self-consciously urban affair, a concert series rather than a one-off, and already in its third year. Some major groups that wanted to perform could not get in to play. And he knew of no bootlegs, which certainly would have emerged by now. Handy Memorial Concert in the Mid-South Coliseum on Sunday June 8th. Im Penny, and I was with Bruce back then. The Texas International Pop Festival was the first major rock festival in Texas. I wish now I had gone. He left behind a legion of friends across . AMAZING. Before she left the stage she said, I just sang the same verse twice and no one even noticed.then, she was gone! Nearly 30 years later I happened to be in a Johannesburg bar when Richie Havens and his accompianist turned up unannounced and played a set. But no one had recorded the music. Hey Jeff,I was definitely there and have lots of photos in which I was looking for Iron Butterfly, but could not find. His first book was 'Got a Revolution! Kept running into people from the neighborhood in Brooklyn. I thought it was great, except that we had to wait until after noon for the gates to open for each day. We started to weave our way out to go home. Im pretty sure that Little Richard closed the festival though, with Janis sitting in. But Johnny Winters would have played (AGAIN) that year! [6], John Laycock of the Windsor Star praised the festival, writing that "The Organization Men of Goose Lake have resurrected the spirit of Woodstock without the discomforts" and that "the giant amphitheatre was superbly equipped." James Brown was among those who appeared Sunday afternoon, followed in the evening by Johnny Winter, Herbie Hancock, B. If Joni had been there she would probably have complained about the mud and how late thr festivalt was running at Woodstock. So, kind of like the Laura Nyro scenario at Monterey, right?? When my boyfriend started talking about doing it all over again and heading to Woodstock, I just flat-out said no way!. With his father, he finds investors to buy a sleepy pizza joint at 3138 Fillmore, in the Marina District, renames it the Matrix and decorates the club with murals in a new, hip style. That's the way it should be! Some of the same bands CCR and Procol Harum stood out for me but there were so many great performances. Janis Joplin, Sam and Dave, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Canned Heat, the Grass Roots, B. And Joni Mitchell didnt write a song about it even if she did play at AC Pop (briefly; see below), unlike Woodstock. Based on your name.T.O. Did Gram Parsons play at that show, then?? The festival took place nearly one year after Woodstock, and the Goose Lake promoters set out to create a better planned event with better facilities for rock fans than Woodstock. 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. TICKETS & INFO. [2] It was projected that 60,000 fans would attend the first festival. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. 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. Favorite acts include Janis Joplin, Airplane, CCR, Santana, Joe Cocker and Booker T. & The MGs (who were supposed to be at Woodstock, but drummer Al,Jackson, Jr. refused to get on the helicopter), I also was there and Lother and the Hand People did indeed play, Was there & was excited to See Lothar play,also Aum did a nice set also. I went with girlfriend from Cape Cod on a 175 Bridgestone motorcycle and we arrived and camped on the grounds for two nights. (I dont recall seeing him.). Unfortunately, the event does not go as planned and several scheduled acts, including The Byrds and The Youngbloods, do not perform. I hardly remember anything except the Airplane, one of my all time favorite groups. (Related: 'Michigan's Woodstock' transformed Goose Lake . First time I saw real raw hippies and they struck me as pretty weird. Zappa gave the crowd the finger after most of his songs. 8-12-1994 Crowd at the opening of the concert. I could not imagine Joni Mitchell dreaming about Bomber Jet Planes Turning into Butterflies over the Jersey Shore , but regardless, it must have been a real blast for everyone lucky enough to go. As it happened, they never got further than the great Thruway Jam, so its just as well I didnt ride along. I was there as well, probably more great Bands played there in 3 days than any other festival ever. The Grass Roots is an American pop and rock band that began as the studio based brainchild of songwriting duo P.F. The Goose Lake International Music Festival was held August 7-9, 1970 at Goose Lake Park, in Leoni, Michigan. Still have my peace pin purchased at the festival for $5. I definitely remember Jimi Hendrix playing Star Spangled Banner with Janis Joplin onstage.Wild day! I was there for all 3 days. No, Im not talking about Woodstock, although that one wasnt bad either. All Rights reserved. Santana was new to me. I saw mention here of a group called AUM. King, and Led Zeppelin. I had never heard of them. [1] There was heavy security at the festival, [2] and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. And he promised to dig out fire ant colonies and relocate them at the venue. Its most likely because AC Pop was overshadowed by the events of a couple of weekends later in upstate New York. On the second day the battle between gatecrashers outside the stadium and the police suddenly affected those inside. Initially, police and local authorities were concerned about drug usage and traffic problems on nearby Interstate 35. The community was outraged, and determined that this sort of debacle wouldnt happen again. she wasnt booed off stage; she was ignored off stage because people couldnt hear her acoustic set (solo piano/vocals)i was very close to the stage when she went on and i could hardly hear her myselfunfortunately for her, she was scheduled during a part of the day with a lot of very loud bands and her sound just got lost. Before they pulled away, one said over the loud speaker, You look groovy and gave us the peace sign. Creedence Clearwater Revival was deafening, even at an outdoor racetrack. A bunch of my friends and I rented a Ryder box truck and headed down to Atlantic City from Connecticut. [3] The backstage area had a tent where 20 to 30 groupies described as "sizzlers" were available for the performers. There is no question I was very fortunate to grow up with those bands of the 60s and early 70s. Narodil jsem se 6.12.1969 v Praze a vystudoval gymnzium Ohradn a pot VE, obor Zahranin obchod. Yes I was there too ! Standing ovations for all! However, she still did a slow number, and the crowd got super noisy again, so she walked off for good. 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. My first and most favorite pop/rock festival experience. It was an amazing weekend of music. I was working the summer in AC. Had a great time. Seeing Zappa and The Mothers for the first time. and finally, the last festival of the 1960s. The few of us who did this festival and then did Woodstock had a rude shock coming.we went from the best organized rock festival in the era to one of if not the worst one two weeks later. Attendance at the festival remains unknown, but is estimated between 120,000 and 150,000. The festival attracted approximately 150,000. lol. He thanked me for my interest and told me that it had been one of his most enjoyable weekends. [2], Before the festival, concerned local officials sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the event, but a judge denied the request.
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