Notable Detroit area bands performing included Bob Seger, the MC5, The Stooges, Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder, Brownsville Station, Savage Grace, Third Power and SRC. ..news from the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. I threw a fit because I wanted to see my beloved Jefferson Airplane. Johnny Winter was present but did not perform as his equipment did not show up in time. He had no special privilages. I was at the Saturday show-lot of B groupsBB King, Biff Rose, Tim Buckley, Butterfield Blues Band, also, American Dream, Jefferson Airplane. People were sitting in huge speakers. With a combination of shifting wind and re-thrown canisters, tear gas suddenly swept over the crowd. It seems she was placed in the rotation directly after Mother Earth featuring Tracy Nelson and the crowd wasnt ready to hear her mild act. Listen on Spotify: Playlist inc. Its lineup included, besides jazz, Friday evening appearances by rock groups Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull. Santana Jefferson Airplane Janis Little Richard loved every minute Beg to disagree about one thing we had a contact high all weekend. Ive done a separate blog entries for each one and festival title is a link you can find out more them. There were restrooms and showers every 500 feet, medical staff, motorcycle and dune buggy trails, a lake with a beach,[2] and also the "longest slide in the world". One night there was a break in from some non-paying fans the Iron Butterfly Army, that came through the fence opposite the stage and marched across the inner field and melded into the stage crowd. Total attendance of about 45,000. Lang was the world famous main organizer of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, held in Bethel, New York. Hitched a ride to Castor & Cottman in Philly as bud was nowhere to be found. The kind Cop obliged! 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. Crowds didnt storm the site to make it a free festival. They even let us tent camp on the track greenspace overnight. Is your name Mark? Great story! Summer of Soul (.Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Directed by Questlove. Wow, cool. James Brown was among those who appeared Sunday afternoon, followed in the evening by Johnny Winter, Herbie Hancock, B. Savoy Brown, Joe Cocker[3] and Alice Cooper[5] were announced acts that did not perform due to contractual problems. Remus, MI. 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I actually have met one person later in life that was also at AC 69 and stories flew and were remolded by both of our memories. One thing for sure is that it all ended on the evening of Sunday, August 3, 1969, with Janis Joplin joining Little Richard onstage for a memorably rockin finale. Anniversary coming up. 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 . Forty nine years eleven months ago I was asked to be Security Chief at Palm Beach Pop Fest. It looked groovy. Little Richard captured the crowd. WHAT IS TRAFFIC JAM'IN? The 2022 Festival of Lights is set for Saturday, December 3rd, 2022. And Santana and Chicago, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, FZ and the Mothers, Janice..Everyone!!!! He decided before returning to England to leave the Beatles permanently. https://www.tshaonline.org, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-international-pop-festival-1969. 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. [8], There were 160 arrests of those leaving after the event, mostly on drug charges. About Janis performance, Rolling Stone in her obit not much more than a year later called it one of her finest performances. Seeing Zappa and The Mothers for the first time. accessed January 18, 2023, As it happened, they never got further than the great Thruway Jam, so its just as well I didnt ride along. Hahaha! The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969 in Bethel, New York. [2], Before the festival, concerned local officials sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the event, but a judge denied the request. Luckily the old van made it back to toronto. I also was there for one of the greatest experiences of my life. Yes.I say little richard closed Sunday night.standing on his piano!!!!! Good times. That was it other than many hours of amazing classic music. With Dorinda Drake, Barbara Bland-Acosta, Darryl Lewis, Ethel Beatty. July 8 - 9, 2023 . 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 grassy area was called the greens, and as tailored as they were, the ACR people let us camp there two nights in a row, Bless them. But I went to this with a friend from the Associated Press and got a birds eye view. As others have noted, there was camping there and it was a colorful scene. Masters of ceremonies were Teegarden & Van Winkle, who also performed. There wasnt organized camping but we set up camp along with our car right outside the race track. We were 15. Live Music Venue. If youre a newBest Classic Bandsreader, wed be grateful if you would Like ourFacebookpage and/or bookmark ourHome page. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. 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. Before I left somebody gave me a pill, said it was synthetic mescaline, the only street pill Ive ever taken. Anyone remember that? The only major problem occurred when the Nices use of bagpipers caused the stage to collapse. General, VIP, and Lodging on sale now at winterwondergrass.com . Johnny Winter did play, Rollin and Tumblin for one. The festival lost money, but was generally considered a success by those who attended. God I wish there was visual documentation of this monumental musical event! Did Gram Parsons play at that show, then?? Out came the joints. He is still performing today (somewhat mellowed since then) and lives in Austin, TX. Crosby was long gone from The Byrds by 1969. I camped there as well as hundreds of others. Apparently she was annoyed that she didnt have a captive audience and tested us by singing one verse over again. [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 festival will take place March 31-April 2nd, 2023, at Palisades Tahoe. And a buton. Stayed 36 hours but ran out of brain cells. Outside of Michigan maybe no-one has ever heard of Goose Lake, but it was A Big Deal. DJ John Peel. That definitely did not happen at the Atlantic City Pop Festival, although Little RIchard did join Janis onstage, I was there and handed out free watermelon . Music 5K Vendors Contact TRAFFIC JAM'IN 2022 JULY 8 & 9. I remember seeing these 5, in this order. It was so Wow. I was there all 3 days and as a drummer I was in heaven. There was pot; there was liquor; there was some nudity; and there was some sleeping bag love-ins. Ditto for the Moody Blues. Its been a long time but what I recall was that Joni Mitchell followed Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth and they rocked out. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. 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. 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. Rented a room in AC but never used it. 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. Watch as Santa arrives at the Depot on a firetruck, enjoy breakfast with Santa, or find him around town for photos! The promoters stupidly put her in between high-energy rock bands. A drought of rain and grass made it miserable except for the music. 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. 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. Afterwards, the announcer said, Johnny wants it, Janis wants it, and the Fudge wants one. The festival proved very popular, selling out all 30,000 tickets in the first week, surprising both the townsfolk and the promoters. Handy Memorial Concert. The Who definitely did not play at Atlantic City. Well not really because it didnt happen. When my boyfriend started talking about doing it all over again and heading to Woodstock, I just flat-out said no way!. They went to the concert, while Janet and I chose to laze on the beach. We started to weave our way out to go home. The Turtles / Spanky And Our Gang Amazing show and weekend! I was standing about 20 feet from them while Crosby was screaming this is a f-n pop festival! In the middle of nowhere somewhere around London Ontario, he yelled stop this is where Im going. The crowd was very noisy, so she walked off the stage during her first song, which was slow. 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 . 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". 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. Then walked off stage. Interesting little window on big history. Discover the best Music events in your area and online The Chambers Brothers and Janis Joplin were amazing beyond words. "[8], Despite some problems, "most fans and musicians recall a sunny attitude surrounding the weekend". The Wikipedia listing of groups is wrong it doesnt have The Looking Glass who had the hit song Brandy. Sponsors About Gallery Car Show Music 5K Vendors Contact . The Texas festival was held only two weeks after the legendary Woodstock festival in . From a 2009 Palm Beach Post article:Then-Palm Beach County Sheriff Bill Heidtman vowed to make life miserable for the free-loving, pot-smoking, anti-establishment youngsters who were coming to the Palm Beach Pop Festival. Great story, but Richie Havens did not play the AC Pop Festival. Thank you!! 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. I remember it raining while Janis was performing and she stepped into a puddle and got shocked. He opened the bag which had about 2 bushels of grass wrapped in smaller bags and nothing else. 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 . YES! In August 1969, a groundbreaking rock festival took place, one of the best ever, witnessed by many thousands of people and featuring an amazing cast of diverse bands. It was (paraphrasing) that people were crawling around under the stage and that there were many wires under there. 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