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US Festival San Bernadino, California 1982

Authored By Johnny Blogger February 01, 2023

In 1982, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hatched an ambitious and very expensive musical plan and committed a sizeable chunk of his sizeable fortune to a musical event, billed as the biggest thing since Woodstock, Wozniak staged a three-day concert in the mountains of San Bernardino County, in Southern California, that featured some of the day's [...]

The Trips Festival And Acid Tests

Authored By John Nicholson January 27, 2023

The Trips Festival happened on January 21-23 1966, a time when LSD was still legal. Up to about 18 ‘Acid Tests’ - a term coined by author and Merry Prankster, Ken Kesey - took place from late ‘65 to the Fall of ‘66, initially at Kesey’s ranch. But the most famous was the Trips Festival at Longshoreman’s Hall in San Francisco. Ramon Sender, a composer and artist, co-produced it with Ken Kesey and Stewart Brand. It was a three-day event that, with the help of The Merry Pranksters - a far out group of freaks and outsiders who toured the...

Weeley Festival, near Clacton-on-Sea, Essex UK 1971

Authored By Johnny Blogger January 16, 2023

Weeley Festival - It's 1971, Ted Heath is Prime Minister, Arsenal have done the Double and Britain has just gone decimal. A festival is announced for the August Bank holiday weekend in a little-known Essex town, just outside of Clacton-on-Sea. When people hear the line-up, everyone wants to go. The Weeley festival of August 27 [...]

CALIFORNIA JAM II 1978

Authored By Johnny Blogger January 11, 2023

In 1974, the first California Jam attracted a quarter of a million people and was broadcast on network TV. You still see a lot of footage from that gig - especially of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Less well-known is the Cal II in 1978. It was also filmed and broadcast on ABC. Like its [...]

Man-Pop Festival - Winnipeg 1970

Authored By Johnny Blogger December 14, 2022

On August 29, Man-Pop Festival - Winnipeg 1970, one of Winnipeg's first outdoor rock festivals, took place at the Winnipeg Stadium. ManPop was part of the youth festivities for the Manitoba Centennial celebrations. Concerts had been held across province all summer long and Man-Pop was the grand finale. The Centennial Corporation budgeted $230,000 for the [...]

The Who Live At Charlton 1974

Authored By Johnny Blogger December 04, 2022

The Who played two gigs at Charlton Athletic's football stadium in the mid-Seventies. The second, in 1976, was one of three one-day festivals hosted by the band that summer on their Who Put The Boot In tour (the other being Glasgow and Swansea). But the 1976 gig was spoiled by ticket forgery and gatecrashers, although [...]

Reading Festival 1973

Authored By Johnny Blogger November 11, 2022

The Reading And Leeds Festivals of today are the UK's longest-running events of their type, and were begat of the National Jazz And Blues Festival, which was born all the way back in 1961. Not much jazz on the bill these days and, in truth, by the early 1970s it was on the out- although [...]

Isle Of Wight Festival 1970

Authored By Johnny Blogger November 06, 2022

600,000 people on an island with a population of just 100,000. Political protesters taking the stage. Jimi, Jim, Joan, Joni and even Mungo Jerry (almost). The last weekend of August in 1970. It was, of course, the Isle of Wight Festival. It would be the third year in a row that the organisers, Fiery Creations, [...]

Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970

Authored By Johnny Blogger October 24, 2022

"Get in your car, brother, and get down with the people in Cincinnati. A gathering of the people. Celebrate the beginning rites of Summer with the spirits of the Sun, Sky, and Stars." This was the press release for the Cincinnati Pop Festival, June 1970. Apparently, brother was invited to party, but sister wasn't. Funny [...]

Monterey Pop Festival June 1967

Authored By Johnny Blogger December 22, 2021

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Crowd estimates for the festival ranged from 50,000-90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds. The fairgrounds' performance arena, where the music took place, normally had a [...]

Bickershaw Festival 1972

Authored By Johnny Blogger November 24, 2021

Bickershaw Festival - He will be forever emblazoned on the British public consciousness for the inane Beadle's About (for our US international readers, this was an Eighties TV show where the host played "hilarious" hidden camera jokes on members of the public), but Britain actually owes the late Jeremy Beadle a debt. For Jeremy was [...]

Mississippi River Festival

Authored By John Nicholson May 20, 2019

The Mississippi River Festival was a summer outdoor concert series held from 1969-1980 on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois. The Festival was notable due to its central midwest location, the natural ambience of its outdoor venue and some of the biggest bands of the day. It wasn’t a festival as such, more a headliner and maybe a support act. It began as a partnership promoting regional cooperation in the realm of the performing arts. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville invited the St. Louis Symphony to establish residence on campus and to offer a summer season. To host...

Isle of Wight and Atlanta Pop Festival - Triple Live Album

Authored By Johnny Blogger September 09, 2015

This is a great triple live album. released in 1971 it serves as a great sampler for the bands of that era which regularly played on the festival circuit. With4 sides recorded at Isle of Wight and2 at Atlanta, the breadth of music from folk to crushing heavy rock, is amazing. At the time it [...]

Woodstock - A Dream Goes On Forever

Authored By Johnny Blogger September 07, 2015

CHAPTER ONE If you've seen the Woodstock movie, you'll have seen Michael Lang, one of the guys who helped put Woodstock on. A forever hipster riding a horse or a motorbike, with wild hair and one of those beatific smiles that suggest he's permanently stoned. In 1969 he seemed like a new type of business [...]

Big Rock Pow-Wow '69

Authored By Johnny Blogger September 02, 2015

Big Rock Pow-Wow '69 took place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 23, 24, and 25, 1969, at the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation in West Hollywood, Florida. Other artists who performed at the festival included Grateful Dead, Johnny Winter, Sweetwater, Joe South, Aum, NRBQ, Rhinoceros, Muddy Waters, and the Youngbloods. A band called Sun Countryplayed [...]

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