From Wikipedia: Throughout much of the festival, a crowd gathered outside the venue and demonstrated against having to pay to hear the acts. According to the sources, Led Zeppelin stole the show. 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. Richard Songer, Russ Gibb, Tom Wright. 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 . I let my part=timers at Wawa go to Woodstock and the tradeoff was my going to AC. Record store owner Dave Bernath remembered, "The band would literally hit their last note, say 'thank you' and 'goodbye,' they spun around and the next band started within a minute in seconds! Activities, Vendors, and More! Tickets cost 18/6. YES! I do remember some Kat in some kind of Indian garb in the stands on some acid who was gonna jump off but said he wasnt that f***ked up! It didnt close the Interstate due to people trying to get to the fest. 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. Larry (The Mole) Taylor - bass. Music Highlights from Traffic Jam'In . It was the only performance photo I took, unfortunately. Detroit rock historian David A. Carson wrote that "drugs took center stage"[9] at Goose Lake, and that the park was "reminiscent of Attica" because of the barbed wire topped perimeter fence. That's the way it should be! A bit outside the track, there was an area that you set up your tent and parked your car right next to it. As in the booing business exaggerated. Then came Joni Mitchell (who I wanted to hear) but the crowd was still buzzing and wasnt ready for soft sound. 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. The paying ticketholders were in the stands but these new invaders were able to go right up to the stage the party had moved on to the infield and the ticketholders came down to party too. .and finally, the last festival of the 1960s. Thanks. Im English was working at Shelburne Hotel on the Boardwalk and one of the guys had a car. When Zappa ventured into some jazz-tinged material that was unfamiliar to many of us, some of the crowd sitting near by us got pretty rowdy and booed him. (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 missed one on ebay last week one of the best ones Ive ever seen too. I saw mention here of a group called AUM. I got so burnt. I stayed mostly by the stage. In the evening both CCR and Jefferson Airplane played by the speakers werent working and John Fogerty was ramming his guitar them and the sound didnt improve. Green Lake Township, MI. I remember the 2:00 a.m. freak express conga line that snake throught to campers outside the gates at night. Is your name Mark? It was an amazing weekend of music. Before I left somebody gave me a pill, said it was synthetic mescaline, the only street pill Ive ever taken. To be ONE with 70,000 on their feet waving the Peace sign for Janis was unforgettable. The bands were the best.got to meet Paul butterfield,It was close to my home. I think they should have been on stage closing out the show officially . Absolutely one of the best weekends of my life! Both Joe Cocker and Santana (mistakenly introduced as the Santa Ana Blues Band) played AC before their big Woodstock breakthroughs, and other giants of rock who would make it to Woodstock Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band warmed up there first. 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. I remember a lot of woo woo sounds and not what I considered real music at the time. The guy who has slides needs to dig them up and share, man, share!! AMAZING. Standing ovations for all! I was there with a friend! 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. Priceless! Maybe at another festival but not that one. 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. Astrologers, painters, artists, craftsmen, and leather workers; sellers of incense, T-shirts, jewelry, and candles; and food vendors all peddled their wares. Saturdays schedule mixed jazz acts such as Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck with others including John Mayall and Sly & the Family Stone. Anyway, the best festival I have ever been to. 3 thoughts on "1969 Midwest Rock Festival" Julie says: August 9, 2019 at 8:07 am . I was standing about 20 feet from them while Crosby was screaming this is a f-n pop festival! I have told many people about AC FESTIVAL not a single person ever heard of it. It was just as hot out as it was at Woodstock that weekend. Includes more tracks from the whole festival, not just the documentary movie. It was Lennons first-ever public rock performance without one or more of the Beatles since meeting Paul McCartney in 1957. [3] To keep gate crashers out, the site was surrounded by a high chain-link fence topped by barbed wire. I was still recovering from that experience 2 weeks later when Woodstock went off. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. 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. Music 5K Vendors Contact TRAFFIC JAM'IN 2022 JULY 8 & 9. Grass Lake 119 North Lake Street Grass Lake, MI 49240. The festival proved very popular, selling out all 30,000 tickets in the first week, surprising both the townsfolk and the promoters. Saw two people I went to school with . But lucky me, I did get to see the other decade defining event. On the second day the battle between gatecrashers outside the stadium and the police suddenly affected those inside. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Lovegrass Music Festival is a completely FREE event! His Sunday performance with Buddy Miles, Eric Burdon, and several others lasted more than two hours. Then people booed. 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. With a combination of shifting wind and re-thrown canisters, tear gas suddenly swept over the crowd. Being a little inebriated most of the time, I remember only bits and pieces of it at age 19. 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. She was still pretty unknown and was upset that the audience wasnt really listening to her. Lang was . She seemed very uninterested in performing. He is still performing today (somewhat mellowed since then) and lives in Austin, TX. DISCLAIMER (Im 75, so my memory could certainly be faulty. Consequently, music enthusiasts from all over the United States, and from numerous foreign countries, poured into Lewisville to pay the admission fee of $6.50 a day. I also took some silent footage but I have no idea what happened to it. I have always been able to watch this performance in my head. Dont worry if youve never heard of it. I hitchhiked up from the Baltimore area and it must have been on Saturday as I remember Credence performing as well as the Jefferson Airplane sound and light show. 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 . 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. 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. On August 15th, I finished training and started a weeks leave. He opened the bag which had about 2 bushels of grass wrapped in smaller bags and nothing else. At night, many of the performers joined the campers and played without charge. Not so sure. The Turtles / Spanky And Our Gang The New York City Parks Department and Maxwell House co-sponsored the series. 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. I was there and it was so much better than Woodstock,in retrospect because it was manageable,we bought water for 9 dollars a bottle.Got to met Paul Butterfield.Did they announce about Woodstock ? The Chambers Brothers were a last-minute substitute. But she wasnt being booed, just ignored, so she left the stage in tears after about 3 or 4 songs. [5], Those who attended were provided free campsites, free parking and free firewood. Two weeks later I and some of the same friends went up to Woodstock with even less success. His first book was 'Got a Revolution! Its lineup included, besides jazz, Friday evening appearances by rock groups Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull. Joe Cocker was even more animated than at Woodstock The Byrds played without Crosby. B. Had to walk home in the middle of the night as no one would give me a ride. The weekend of the AC Pop Festival, I was in Basic Training at Ft. Bragg. RM 2GA89M4 - Saugerties, New York. "It was the festival of no sleep," Baton Rouge native Paul Waguespack says. The community was outraged, and determined that this sort of debacle wouldnt happen again. We had tickets, but it was so crowded that we could not get down to the seats where my friends were who had come earlier that day. 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? Apparently she was annoyed that she didnt have a captive audience and tested us by singing one verse over again. After he retrieved his long duffle bag from the back seat I reached over to close the door and he said wait, this is for you. Original 1st printing 81/2 x 11 concert/event flyer for the first Bullfrog Lake Music Festival, held near Estacada (Clackamas County), OR from 7/4-6/1969. 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. The 2022 Festival of Lights is set for Saturday, December 3rd, 2022. Dunesville Music Festival - July 22-24. Lother and the Hand People were the second band that weekend they followed Aum. Tickets for the W.C. July 25, 26, & 27, 1969 State Fair Park, Milwaukee, WI. BTW, Santana was announced as the Santana Blues Band , not Santa Ana. It also pinpoints a time frame relative to Woodstock. I wanted to see The Moody Blues scheduled for Sunday night. Bands that did perform: The Doors,Them, AliceCooper, Rockin Foo, J Geils Band, Peter, River, Truth, The Bumps, and Zu. 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. Wed made a hand-painted, very colorful sign that said Atlantic City or Bust and hung it above the truck cab. 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. Slept at the race track. Weird how everyone remembers Woodstock instead: must be the much-shown film. Out came the joints. Hiawatha Music Festival - July 22-24. King said he was playing for the 1st time in 13 years broke into tears when he felt MASSIVE love! LOL Good time, good people GREAT MUSIC!! Due to the excessive summer heat, water trucks periodically doused those on the ground; the rest of us baked. 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. [1] There was heavy security at the festival, [2] and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. 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. Photo from Duane Blalock. Circumstances dictated the change. [2] Many Canadian rock fans were turned back at border crossings and were unable to attend. WHAT IS TRAFFIC JAM'IN? This event will also include: silent auction, petting zoo, military exibits, 3 local museums will be open. Bruce Gowers, Director of 100s of Music Videos Including Queens Bohemian Rhapsody, Dies, Joni Mitchells Court and Spark: A Significant Pivot, Muhammad Ali: Greatest Showman of a Generation, Kenny Loggins Announces Final Tour, This Is It, Reggie Young: The Prolific Guitar Great Youve Probably Never Heard Of, Bangles Susanna Hoffs Upcoming First Novel, This Bird Has Flown, Coming to Screen, Bob Weirs Ace Revisited: It Sounds Like a Dead Album Because It Is One, Watch Keith Richards Sing Happy From the Rolling Stones GRRR Live! 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As billed, the Carlos Santana Blues Band (2 wks later, the short name was carved in stone, & history!) Also, my future wife (who I hadnt met yet) got stuck in the traffic going to Woodstock and turned around and went home. Related: Listings for 100s of upcoming classic rock festivals. Guessing you meant Tim Buckley. A band from Michigan, Grand Funk Railroad, was allowed to perform only after the members agreed to play free and pay their own expenses. I was one of the fools who climbed the light towers ! If I remember correctly, she followed Procol Harum , with Robin Trower . May love and peace follow you for all your lives! A ticket for all three shows cost $15 (or single days for $6) and allowed the holder either a seat in the stands or the right to roam the open field in front of the stage. Yea it was the best no rip off at Woodstock we paid 9 dollars for water.Mud AND SHIT MIX WAS TOUGH. When they led them all to the front entrance the leader, a guy carrying an American flag with a peace flag on the staff below it, stepped up and called to the security people at the front Were coming in!. But Johnny Winters would have played (AGAIN) that year! Procol Harum kind of made up for it. He had no special privilages. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Woodstock, the iconic festival that rocked New York, took place the weekend of August 15-18, 1969. LSD festivals! The festival was hosted and promoted by Tony Lawrence, a New York night club singer. Notts County Football Ground, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. thats because David Crosby left The Byrds 2 years earlier. It was jammed with people. Josephits been a while since you posted, but I can fill in some blanks about AUM. 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. This is an aerial photo of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on 600 acres of cow pasture leased from a farmer at White Lake in Bethel, Sullivan County, N.Y., in Aug. 1969. The crowd was transfixed never having heard such a shocking take on the national anthem. He came out wearing white and played the Star Spangled Banner. People in the messy field at the Woodstock Music Festival, New York, US, August 1969. Laycock mentioned the performances of Frost, Savage Grace, Chicago, The Flock, Jethro Tull, John Sebastian, Faces, Ten Years After, Mountain and The Flying Burrito Brothers as particularly memorable. Exactly what happened I remember it well, True, age was heckled and booed to tears everyone wanted to hear rock&roll, Not sure what you mean by age was heckled.. Nobody chased me but I soon got mixed up and ended up near the detroit-windsor border where I picked up a hitchhiker wearing Army fatigues. 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). Tangerine Dream performed at this festival, but is not listed on the poster. He is also the co-author of 'Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.,' with Howard Kaylan. I remember Carlos Santana coming onstage with the band and said This is our second gigthe program says Santana Rock Blues Band.just call us Santanayoull hear from us.but I cant remember the songs CTA(Chicago) played..also Iron Butterfly played In Gadda Da Vida for 35 minutes.it was 19 minutes on the album..fantastic piece,,,,great writing. Really fantastic. . I collect sixties posters and this one is truly rare. It was fortunate that the fence that had been erected to keep the crowd from the field was torn down by the crowd on Friday night. Sorry, Cheryl, but Jimi Hendrix wasnt on stage or anywhere near Atlantic City that weekend. It could be almost as rare as the Altamont poster. Attendance was approximately 300,000. During the Zappa set, he stopped and made an announcement. Great memories that summer! I threw a fit because I wanted to see my beloved Jefferson Airplane. I remember it raining while Janis was performing and she stepped into a puddle and got shocked. The cops that pulled us over somewhere in NY thought so too. She was swallowing from a bottle of bourbon and I was astounded at how elderly and dissipated she looked. Seeing Zappa and The Mothers for the first time. 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. When the festival was first being put together,Led Zeppelin was still gaining momentum. A drought of rain and grass made it miserable except for the music. Festival lineup (2023): deadmau5 & Kaskade, Eric Prydz, Charlotte de Witte, Armin van Buuren, Excision, Porter Robinson, Grimes. The next night after Mike Bloomfield and Harvey Mandel jammed with Canned Heat, both were offered Vestine's spot in the band's line-up, which Mandel accepted) Line-up: (July 29, 1969 - May 1970) Bob (The Bear) Hite - vocals, harp. To get to Woodstockwe took a bus from NY to Bethel. I particularly remember Joe Cockers performance what a trip. 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 . At least though I had seen a few songs at AC. December 3, 2022 | 8:00 AM-8:00 PM. I was there and she walked off the stage for sure. I was there, too and remember Joni very well. Big mistake asking her to follow them. Go figure. Talk of law suits against Valley State College seeking liability for property damage was bandied about, and, eventually, an ordinance was presented to the City Council that sought greater authority to control such events as the Devonshire Downs Newport 69 Pop Music Festival.. Those were the days! Thanks! No one died. This epic festival is looked on fondly by an entire generation and became a legend of US counter-culture. He decided before returning to England to leave the Beatles permanently. Lothar and the Hand People did a great version of Danny and the Juniors hit At the Hop. [9] He was acquitted in December 1971. street vendors and fireworks, live music, artisan booths, food trucks, lake activities, and so much more! Songer teamed up with experienced Detroit disc jockey and promoter, Russ Gibb,[3] and his associate, Tom Wright, to help plan the festival. TICKETS . Janis Joplin, Sam and Dave, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Canned Heat, the Grass Roots, B. TICKETS & INFO. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. 1970. May 4, 2022. I loved Dr. John (the Night Tripper) singing Mannish Boy and being in awe of Janis Joplin in her hot pink outfit! 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. I specifically remember Credence Clearwater and Jefferson Airplane. Ishmon Bracey, and Wild Child Butler. BB King came out to a bit of a lukewarm reception and even some boos because in his 3 piece suit some probably considered him the man (in the negative sense). Some major groups that wanted to perform could not get in to play. I remember being on the track when Jefferson Airplane was moving their equipment and also that Inagadadevita that just kept going. People climbed up the very tall stadium flagpoles and stuck there heads in the very, very large stadium speakers. Also other data will not be shared with third person. It had been many years since I paid any attention to the music scene but it brought back memories. Outside of Michigan maybe no-one has ever heard of Goose Lake, but it was A Big Deal. 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? 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. I remember Joni Mitchell walking off the stage. The Goose Lake International Music Festival held August 7-9, 1970 in Leoni Township, Michigan, "was one of the largest music events of its era", [1] and featured many of the top rock music bands of the period. Mark your calendars (and prep your lift tickets) for the free Thursday Kickoff Show, at the base of Palisades Ski Resort in the Plaza, followed by a weekend of music, brews, and mountains with bluegrass and . Crosby, Stills & Nash were originally on the lineup but ended up as a no-show, Nash supposedly had polyps on tonsils (but sang at Woodstock two weeks later). Thanks for this article. Attended by some 100,000+ people. B.B. In November 69, I got a free trip to Vietnam. 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