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Los Angeles Pop Festival 1968

Authored By Johnny Blogger August 31, 2015

The Los Angeles Pop Festival was held at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in California. The dates of the festival were December 22 and 23, 1968. It was also called a Christmas Happening. Despite extensive research I can't find out much about this gig. It was one of the earliest to be held in a [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 5

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 06, 2015

As volunteers started cleaning up the media swung into gear, quickly painting it as a 'nightmare' in the New York Times. They called the fans 'lemmings' and asked what sort of culture could create such a colossal mess? But the trouble with taking that angle was this: it didn't sell. People felt good about Woodstock, [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 4

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 05, 2015

As the rain came down and turned the whole site into a quagmire, the dirt that had covered the main electricity cables was washed away, leaving them exposed. Gradually the insulation on those cables got worn away by the ceaseless trudging of the masses. So now there were thousands of wet people set to be [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 3

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 04, 2015

The Woodstock festival was due to start on the Friday, but by Thursday of that week, traffic was in gridlock. On the quiet, Lang et al had begun to expect 200,000 to attend because they knew that big fests in 69 were pulling those kinda numbers. Besides, all roads were jammed from midweek onwards. But [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 2

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 03, 2015

This new quartet of businessmen - Lang, Kornfeld, Roseman and Roberts - were worried. They were worried that they might not get enough people to their festival. Crazy, huh? They genuinely hoped to get a mere 50,000 there and wereconcerned that might not be be possible because there had been very few big festivals in [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 1

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 02, 2015

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 1970 he seemed like a new type of business dude who [...]

New Orleans Pop Festival 1969

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 12, 2015

Happening just two weeks after Woodstock, the New Orleans Pop Festival 1969is often called Louisiana's Woodstock. But then many festivals around that time were keen to cast themselves in the counterculture glow of the upstate New York zeitgeist. Promoter Steve Kapelow said we expect 15,000 - 20,000 in light of advance ticket sales, but we [...]

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 26, 2015

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980 - A motor-racing track in Leicestershire might not be the most inspiring venue in the world, but it played host to anyone who is anyone in hard rock and metal for a decade and a half. It is, of course, Castle Donington Raceway and the event is the Monsters Of [...]

Glastonbury Festival 1971

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 19, 2015

Glastonbury Festival 1971 - When Noel Gallagher called the decision to book Jay-Z for Glasto "wrong" he was right, but for the wrong reasons, if you see what we mean. Noel reckoned the festival should be about guitar bands, not hip-hop, which is a point of view - albeit one contrary to the eclectic origins [...]

Knebworth Festival 1985

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 16, 2015

1985. Deep Purple are back - and so is rock at Knebworth. 1980 had seen Santana and the Beach Boys play at the Hertfordshire pile, then came two years of jazz / blues - including Ella, BB and Dizzy - before a couple of years of the Christian Greenbelt Festival including, erm, Cliff Richard. Fortunately, [...]

Atlanta Pop Festival 1970

Authored By Johnny Blogger April 05, 2015

2015 is the 45th anniversary of 1970's legendary Atlanta Pop Festival. The 1969 festival held at Atlanta Speedway track had been a huge success but this time 200,000 people flocked to Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia for a huge line-up of top rock bands. Why was it called a pop festival? There was nothing pop [...]

Lost Great Records: Badger: One Live Badger 1973

Authored By Johnny Blogger April 01, 2015

Badger looked to have all the credentials to be a big progressive rock band. They had an ex-member of Yes in Tony Kaye; a gatefold album by album art maestro Roger Dean for their debut (naturally, it came with a pop-up badger); profound song titles such as 'Wheel of Fortune' and 'Wind Of Change' and [...]

Bath Festival Of Blues And Progressive Music 1970

Authored By Johnny Blogger April 01, 2015

When they played the Bath Festival of Blues in 1969 , about 12,000 saw Led Zeppelin. By the 1970, the foursome had seen their UK popularity surge, and over 150,000 came to Shepton Mallet on the 27th and 28th of June 1970 for the Bath Festival Of Blues And Progressive Music. And a hell of [...]

The Seattle Pop Festival 1969

Authored By Johnny Blogger March 14, 2015

Also in 1969, The Seattle Pop Festival was held 25-27 July at Gold Creek Park, Woodenville, Washington. It was $6 for one day, $15 for all three. Bands playing included Chuck Berry, Black Snake, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Chicago Transit Authority, Albert Collins, Crome Syrcus, Bo Diddley, The Doors, Floating Bridge, The Flock, The Flying [...]

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