No Woodstock for me! I remember Lothar and the Hand People. I've done a separate blog entries for each one and festival title is a link you can find out more them. They had a lot of rock and blues acts that year and they had a lot of people like me who arrived with no money and no tickets. Also, there was a trememdous amount of trash in the racetrack building under the seats. AC was the better festival in almost every way, including musically. Then came Joni Mitchell (who I wanted to hear) but the crowd was still buzzing and wasnt ready for soft sound. At night, many of the performers joined the campers and played without charge. Includes more tracks from the whole festival, not just the documentary movie. Tim Buckley blew my mind. And Santana and Chicago, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, FZ and the Mothers, Janice..Everyone!!!! There wasnt organized camping but we set up camp along with our car right outside the race track. She then announced that no one was listening and left the stage. the jonie story is true! Od 10 let se vnuju hudb, he na kytaru a poslechu hudby. . I missed AC, got within a few miles of Woodstock. Miles definitely did not play Atlantic City. Second was Woodstock,which ended 53 years ago today. He thanked me for my interest and told me that it had been one of his most enjoyable weekends. It was a great weekend and all of these people whod made all of these friends over the weekend could be heard calling out See you at Woodstock as they parted. She was swallowing from a bottle of bourbon and I was astounded at how elderly and dissipated she looked. This is often considered the first modern rock festival in Britain. RM2EHXXY5 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair Presents An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, N.Y. 3 Days of Peace & Music August 15, 16, 17 1969 poster for the legendary music festival designed by Arnold Skolnick featuring a white dove resting on a guitar neck. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-international-pop-festival-1969. Yes, thats correct, I remember Johnny Winter played last. We looked at each other and said why drive hours in this rain- it is raining so hard lets just party here at the house, exactly what we did. Held August 30 through September 1, 1969, at the Dallas International Motor Speedway in Lewisville, the event was produced in part by Angus Wynne III of Wynne Entertainment. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform, but declined to play shortly before their scheduled appearance due to the increasing violence at the venue. With his amazing voice he instructed the crowd to stay calm to cover their faces with whatever they had (like a jacket or t-shirt) etc. Interest in the Texas International Pop Festival remained years after the event. To be ONE with 70,000 on their feet waving the Peace sign for Janis was unforgettable. But nothing was as bad as the foretellers of doom had predicted. [Vancouver Sun], San Jose State University football practice field. Bullfrog Lake Music Festival 1969 Jefferson Airplane Event Flyer . LOL Good time, good people GREAT MUSIC!! B.B. Aside from its two popular US events in Vegas and Orlando, this fairytale carnival experience has also visited Puerto Rico, Mexico and the UK. 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. To get to Woodstockwe took a bus from NY to Bethel. 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 bands were the best.got to meet Paul butterfield,It was close to my home. Attendance. Im guessing the poster is yours, too, Jeff? The festival was wildly successful with an estimated audience of 400,000 attending and is since regarded as a key moment in music history . And of course he played it at Woodstock two weeks later. DJ John Peel. So yeah for 50 minuets he played an incredible set of progressive rock. DISCLAIMER (Im 75, so my memory could certainly be faulty. Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Young Rascals, Vanilla Fudge, Brooklyn Bridge, Neil Diamond, and many others were to attend. 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. Maybe somebody else reminded me of him. Best weekend of my life!!! 2022 5K Title Sponsor. Is that what they were? Because I wasnt supposed to be there( I was 17 and grounded) I didnt make Woodstock. I was broken hearted when she walked off. I was invited to ride along with some friends who were loading their Chevy station wagon to go up to some other rock concert, some place called Woodstock. I also took some silent footage but I have no idea what happened to it. Of course it WAS 48 years ago! When the festival was first being put together,Led Zeppelin was still gaining momentum. Last time I drove a hitchhiker across the border. Go figure. 200,000. Zappa, Creedence and Buckley did though. My memories are of great shows by Santanta, CTA, CCR and the Chambers Bros. No- Hendrix was not there. The most memorable part for me was CREEDENCE Clearwater Revival and Hugh Masekala. They can throw all the festivals they want now but like the music of the time itself, they will NEVER be able to recreate the ACPF or Woodstock. 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. Due to the excessive summer heat, water trucks periodically doused those on the ground; the rest of us baked. When my boyfriend started talking about doing it all over again and heading to Woodstock, I just flat-out said no way!. It looked groovy. 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. Thats exactly how I remember it too, Alby. Some major groups that wanted to perform could not get in to play. : 3 Days of Peace and Music. 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 . (Photo by Owen Franken/Corbis via Getty Images) It was a 3 day event that captured the spirit of the times: Woodstock. 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. They surveyed the lot of us then asked, You havent got any marijuana in, there do you? Oh no, sirs! But I went to this with a friend from the Associated Press and got a birds eye view. About Janis performance, Rolling Stone in her obit not much more than a year later called it one of her finest performances. This year the number of attendees over the two day festival is expected to exceed 10,000. They even let us tent camp on the track greenspace overnight. I often tell people that it was probably better than Woodstock, because many of the same people were there, and the sound system worked, plus I had a seat with some protection form the rain. Learn how your comment data is processed. I was there for all 3 days. Ticket prices were $6 per day, or $15 for all three days (Fri, Sat, Sun). Only shaky, amateur-shot 8mm silent-film clips are found on YouTube. Price range $. [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. 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.. Also, my future wife (who I hadnt met yet) got stuck in the traffic going to Woodstock and turned around and went home. The line-up was likely Spirit, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Taj Mahal, interspersed with anti-war speeches. Festival lineup (2023): deadmau5 & Kaskade, Eric Prydz, Charlotte de Witte, Armin van Buuren, Excision, Porter Robinson, Grimes. All in all, a real orange sunshine event! We had the best time of our lives. (I missed the one flight out to go see LefZeppelen @ Torontos ROCKPILE [stayed 4 Hendrix]. 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. 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? I told my Mum I wanted to go to Woodstock 2 weeks later, and she saidNo more LSD festivals for you!! With a combination of shifting wind and re-thrown canisters, tear gas suddenly swept over the crowd. She tried her best rocker but couldnt get the crowd with her so she said I cant do this and walked off. She was still pretty unknown and was upset that the audience wasnt really listening to her. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. Had a great time. accessed January 18, 2023, And Joni Mitchell didnt write a song about it even if she did play at AC Pop (briefly; see below), unlike Woodstock. TICKETS & INFO. I was a bit nave and didnt know I should have gotten there a day or two early. -. It was a great weekend. This Michigan Festival will have fine art, fine craft, crafts, film, homegrown products and antique/collectibles exhibitors, and no food booths. RM 2GA89M4 - Saugerties, New York. Actually, Joni was improperly put in mid-afternoon after some rock bands. Crystal Grand Music Theatre: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States: Aug 25, 2022 . Jeff has also served on the Nominating Committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and as a consultant to the Grammys. Its lineup included, besides jazz, Friday evening appearances by rock groups Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull. Still have their record, but admittedly they were better live. At least though I had seen a few songs at AC. Previous Post Beatles Say Legalize Grass Next Post 1969 Seattle Pop Festival. King, and Led Zeppelin. I was interested in electronic musical instruments and they showed up with a theramin and a synthesizer. In fact, apart from McGuinn I dont know that any of the original members were still in the band at that point. Its NO wonder why Woodstock became so huge. The initial attitude of the "young, hip police force"[2] toward the fans in attendance was to "leave them alone", at least when they were inside the festival grounds. Anyway, the best festival I have ever been to. Dunesville Music Festival - July 22-24. LSD festivals! BTW, Santana was announced as the Santana Blues Band , not Santa Ana. A Texas Historical Marker commemorating the event was erected near the site of the festival in 2010. If Joni had been there she would probably have complained about the mud and how late thr festivalt was running at Woodstock. [9] Jackson County sheriff Charles Southworth estimated that "75% of the youths were on drugs"[9], Extensive newspaper coverage concentrated on the open drug sales and use at the festival. Sorry, Cheryl, but Jimi Hendrix wasnt on stage or anywhere near Atlantic City that weekend. Music was first rate. It was so late that I missed the last train to the suburbs (Media, PA). 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? Absolutely one of the best weekends of my life! 2022 Traffic Jam'In Title Sponsor . All three bands came out on stage and jammed. Get more details. In the August heat! Needles to say our reserved tickets were useless; I recall reading about it later and the authorities didnt know what to make of it. . No trees inside, no shade, Fourth of July in Georgia. My absolute favorite musician at the time was Janis and I snuck round back of the stage when she was waiting to perform. The Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival took place in 1969 and attracted about 30,000 people at a time when outdoor concerts were still a rarity and the prospect of so many young hippies gathered in . Thank you. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. Well not really because it didnt happen. Your email address will not be published. I wanted to see The Moody Blues scheduled for Sunday night. Handy Memorial Concert. 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. Before I left somebody gave me a pill, said it was synthetic mescaline, the only street pill Ive ever taken. The celebration of Gwich'in food, culture and music runs July 29 to Aug. 1 at Midway Lake in the Richardson Mountains about 30 kilometres outside of Fort McPherson. Rented a room in AC but never used it. Lother and the Hand People were the second band that weekend they followed Aum. But it definitely happened. 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 Goose Lake International Music Festival was the creation of Richard Songer, who in his mid-30s in 1970 bought about 350 acres of farmland to create Goose Lake Park, a "place for the young . He is still performing today (somewhat mellowed since then) and lives in Austin, TX. This was the 2nd year for the festival, with the first, the Newport Pop Festival, had been held in Costa Mesa, CA. I had come down from our seats to the stage area at night for Janis Joplin and stayed for Little Richard who closed out Saturday night (80% sure about the night). That said, we had a fabulous weekend, one of many fabulous weekends (and weekdays) of one memorable year, thanks to one memorable relationship that ended for all those reasons that first loves end. Thanks for the memories. But she wasnt being booed, just ignored, so she left the stage in tears after about 3 or 4 songs. Best line up ever. We went by motorcycle but I recall the pileup of cars at AC International in Pomonawe got through it simply because we were on cycles. Chris Gray, The Forgotten Festival: The 1969 Texas International Pop Festival, Houston Press (http://www.houstonpress.com/2009-09-03/music/the-forgotten-festival/), accessed November 27, 2011. It was History. I had an ss396 and we averaged 90 mph the whole way. I remember it raining while Janis was performing and she stepped into a puddle and got shocked. Frank Zappa was upset and played a 50 instrumental. Thanks for your comment. 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