Jefferson Airplane played far into Saturday night and Sunday morning. I remember all this like it was yeaterday. A Texas Historical Marker commemorating the event was erected near the site of the festival in 2010. RM 2GA89M4 - Saugerties, New York. GRASS LAKE Heritage Festival. It really was a matter of her following the wrong act, the crowd wasnt ready to be mellow. At some point l wound up going over one of the chain link fences which I recall being about 8 high and caught my hand on one of the barbs on top. According to the NYT, on July 6 The Newport Jazz Festival was invadedby several hundred young people who broke down a section of the 10-foot wooden fence surrounding Festival Field and engaged in a rock throwing battle with security guards. NYT Newport Jazz report. (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 was broken hearted when she walked off. Medium flatstock flyer is in near mint (A-) condition . The event, or "happening" as it might have been called back in . We chatted for an hour, what a friendly and knowledgeable guy he was, made my trip. My first and most favorite pop/rock festival experience. the jonie story is true! With a budget of only $120,000, the promoters booked twenty-six of the biggest names in blues, rock-and-roll, and psychedelic rock. She turned and smiled at me as I snapped her photo. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. Founded by. You can listen to the old AUM material online. And some of them, boys and girls getting nekkid? That concert was fantastic! 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. He threatened to herd alligators toward the crowd, gathered on a grassy field at the Palm Beach International Raceway. Ha! It seems time causes poeple to remember it differently. Remember walking in bare feet over lfields of broken glass and watching Airplane on the b&w video monitors in the racetrack clubhouse. We camped just outside the racetrack gate on the lawn next to the Garden State Parkway. The Texas International Pop Festival was the first major rock festival in Texas. The Aug. 7-9, 1970, festival brought some 200,000 members of the 1960s youth counterculture to Jackson County from all across the country. What a fun time that was! Anniversary coming up. I was standing about 20 feet from them while Crosby was screaming this is a f-n pop festival! Then walked off stage. Thanks for your comment. God I wish there was visual documentation of this monumental musical event! The appearance of John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band was not publicly known in advance. I remember being on the track when Jefferson Airplane was moving their equipment and also that Inagadadevita that just kept going. The Alfred Hitchcock movie Marnie had a brief scene with Sean Connery filmed at Atlantic City race track! [9] He was acquitted in December 1971. ,, 5 of us drove down from Toronto. Harvey (The Snake) Mandel - guitar. But no one had recorded the music. [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 Goose Lake International Music Festival held August 79, 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. I was REALLY looking forward to her singing and was so disappointed when she walked off (though she did so understandably as the crowd noise was almost unbearable at that moment) that it was the first thing I thought of for years when thinking about this concert. [4], The admission price for the three-day event was $15.00,[4] and entry tokens in the style of poker chips were sold to avoid the counterfeiting of paper tickets. Gave me one of the bags which must have weighed a few pounds. Got No Shoes, Got No Blues, a video of some of the musical acts at the festival, was also available, as well as reproductions of festival posters and programs. Many thanks for this article. I dont remember a whole lot of details about that weekend, except not getting a lot of sleep and having the climb the chainlink fence to get ineven though Id bought tickets, theyd been stolen. As in the booing business exaggerated. Tim Buckley blew my mind. I mistakenly thought since there were video monitors everewhere, that it was being videotaped!(Wrong!) He had no special privilages. 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. A journalist from the Sacramento Bee in 1969 reported that the air was hazy with marijuana smoke that was mixed with the dust kicked up by thousands of sandal-wearing youths. OK, I was just out of the Army and didnt go to Woodstock because I had to drive to California to go to school. 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. [3] To keep gate crashers out, the site was surrounded by a high chain-link fence topped by barbed wire. 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. The 3 days were awsome beyond words. Learn how your comment data is processed. The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.' I remember AUM rocking the crowd (never heard of them before or after only 3 guys) and seeing their lead guitarist jumping into the crowd in front of the stage. It was marketed as "three days of peace and music" from 32 of the most influential artists in American music. Dates have been announced for the annual Grass Lake Traffic Jam'in Festival - Mark your calendars for July 8-9th, 2022!. I saw them one other time, opening for Creedence at Fillmore East. Guessing you meant Tim Buckley. Watch as Santa arrives at the Depot on a firetruck, enjoy breakfast with Santa, or find him around town for photos! The Who definitely did not play at Atlantic City. Various bootleg albums were released from live recordings of the performances, and decades later, bootlegs surfaced as sale items on the Internet. Earthwork Harvest Gathering - September 16-18. No, I wish the poster was mine. The scheduled list of bands was even longer than the number that actually played Jethro Tull, Jeff Beck and the Bob Seger System were scheduled on Sunday, but rain canceled many of that days performances. They surveyed the lot of us then asked, You havent got any marijuana in, there do you? Oh no, sirs! Its lineup included, besides jazz, Friday evening appearances by rock groups Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull. 10 AM - 3 PM. Angry enough to want to show everyone what he could do with a guitar. thats because David Crosby left The Byrds 2 years earlier. Freddies Lake, more commonly known as the Hidden Lakes. Rt 206 to Rt 9 south. My girlfriend Sara & I left when it was announced Johnny Winter a no-show. As it happened, they never got further than the great Thruway Jam, so its just as well I didnt ride along. It was a journey packed with memorable experiences. The participation of the White Panther Party and the affiliated Serve the People (STP) Coalition added some "street credibility" to the event. Due to the tremendous support of local agencies, foundations, businesses, and individual donors coupled with the diligent efforts of our volunteer board of directors, committees and volunteers, our yearly event becomes a memorable reality, and a pure grassroots extravaganza! The next day they snake danced through the campgrounds calling together people who had no tickets. 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. LSD festivals! A tragedy that it wasnt filmed or recorded. Thanks for writing about this festival. I dont remember who most of the bands were except for a few that I had followed because I thought they were important such as Richie Havens and Frank Zappa. Bullfrog Lake Music Festival 1969 Jefferson Airplane Event Flyer . Price range $. Astrologers, painters, artists, craftsmen, and leather workers; sellers of incense, T-shirts, jewelry, and candles; and food vendors all peddled their wares. Chartered a bus in Montreal with 50 others and made great memories. Your data will be safe!Your e-mail address will not be published. Texas International Pop Festival, 1969, Some of the performers were Nina Simone, B.B. Something happened, I dont know what but I remember him getting angry. This entry belongs to the following Handbook Special Projects: We are a community-supported, non-profit organization and we humbly ask for your support because the careful and accurate recording of our history has never been more important. Appropriately enough this event was at a stock car track. Santana was new to me. Click here for the Car Show Car Show Gallery! Progressive music was just not her thing though so we wound up leaving before the Jefferson Airplane had even finished. Thank you!! BTW, Santana was announced as the Santana Blues Band , not Santa Ana. The Mothers were powerful! Woodstock was a music festival held on August 15, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000 and is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. My little brother and his friends stole most of it. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. King, Chuck Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Mongo Santamaria, and David Ruffin. And even though it occurred at the tail end of the 60s, the use of LSD and marijuana seemed much less prominent or at least less open. The Turtles / Spanky And Our Gang He asked that they please move out, because if someone happened to fry themselves he would have to stop playing for a few minutes while they fixed the short. 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. Easy to do with the hindsight of wisdom that comes with age. I think they should have been on stage closing out the show officially . No, thats not what happened. 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. Wheatland Music Festival - September 9-11. For some reason, the three-day Atlantic City, N.J., bash that took place over the first weekend of that August barely registers a blip in most accounts of rock history. 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. [1] There was heavy security at the festival, [2] and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. News articles at the time often referred to the festival as Louisiana's version of the Woodstock Music and . The crowd was transfixed never having heard such a shocking take on the national anthem. Although the promoters anticipated a crowd of over 200,000, actual attendance for the three days was more like 120,000. hot pink Janis mooned right at me. It was the embodiment of the free spirit of the 1960s. Sponsors About Gallery Car Show Music 5K Vendors Contact . I miss those times, I do. (Related: 'Michigan's Woodstock' transformed Goose Lake . . 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. Tangerine Dream performed at this festival, but is not listed on the poster. Its a real shame this festival isnt better known. Okay! The reason is that they actually were once called Santana Blues Band. I remember a lot of woo woo sounds and not what I considered real music at the time. Thanks. jeden z nejdle fungujcch DJs na R1, modertor hudebnch poad, hudebn redaktor a promotr. The Moody Blues were scheduled but werent there. I was there with my cousin.it was incredible!! I remember her saying she had just sang the same verse twice and nobody noticed. What a great time. I had never heard of them. 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. Out came the joints. At night, many of the performers joined the campers and played without charge. (Probably the same people who booed Dr. John, who was also phenomenal.) In the August heat! I left Memphis and hitchhiked back to New Jersey where I picked up a few things from my parents home and headed to Greenwich Village and then to the Newport Jazz Festival. 1969 near White Lake a hamlet of Bethel, New York. AC was the better festival in almost every way, including musically. And that was it for the Atlantic City Pop Festival of 1969, to be nearly forgotten almost immediately except by those who were there. He decided before returning to England to leave the Beatles permanently. Sorry, Cheryl, but Jimi Hendrix wasnt on stage or anywhere near Atlantic City that weekend. This epic festival is looked on fondly by an entire generation and became a legend of US counter-culture. To get to AC we took a subway to the Port Authority Terminal, got a bus to Atlantic City where there were shuttle buses to the track/festival. Page transparency See more. But even if Atlantic City didnt gin up the cultural resonance of Woodstock, on a pure musical level it was actually, in some ways, the more diverse festival. Ticket prices were $6 per day, or $15 for all three days (Fri, Sat, Sun). 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). He was on the left stage where Joplin performed. I was able to work, catch a bus enjoy some great music and get back to go work. (I dont recall seeing him.). 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. 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. I was interested in electronic musical instruments and they showed up with a theramin and a synthesizer. 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. In front of us was Jeff Buckley! Also, there was this one: the Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival a year earlier and it was organized as a free festival from the beginning. 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. NJ Transit ran buses from AC to the track and back. I got so burnt. Blues singer Mississippi Fred McDowell was never advertised yet some accounts show him as having been there. Photo from Duane Blalock. Richard Songer, Russ Gibb, Tom Wright. With Dorinda Drake, Barbara Bland-Acosta, Darryl Lewis, Ethel Beatty. His Sunday performance with Buddy Miles, Eric Burdon, and several others lasted more than two hours. This the 8mm film that w. Handy concert will be on advance sale at many Memphis locations ($2.50 to $5.00). I thought it was great, except that we had to wait until after noon for the gates to open for each day. 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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. No wonder I cant remember them. He thanked me for my interest and told me that it had been one of his most enjoyable weekends. I have no recollection of her being booed. It was unusual in the wide variety of musical acts it attracted and in its atmosphere. Hendrix wasnt there a few other Woodstock greats, but in all, it was about the same show for all 3 days complete with thunderstorms, rain & lotsa soggy people & sleeping bags! She did a couple of duets with Little Richard at the end, but no Jimi. What you need to know. 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. Festival lineup (2023): deadmau5 & Kaskade, Eric Prydz, Charlotte de Witte, Armin van Buuren, Excision, Porter Robinson, Grimes. www.grasslaketrafficjamin.com. Great story! And relatively few still photos exist. Long live the 60s! 2022 Traffic Jam'In Title Sponsor . I was there and will never forget it.. Inna godda davita went on for hours it seemed with streamers of toilet paper flying .I had a front seat to the show , I was there & have told many people that it was the Woodstock prequel but better due to the amazing lineup of artists, and most people think I am crazy because it has been largely lost to the dustbin of history. May love and peace follow you for all your lives! Well not really because it didnt happen. Largemouth bass, northern pike and tiger musky can be found in the shallow weedy area along the North shore and in the southern arm of the lake. Rushmore, Nymbus, Old Davis, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Red Grass, Green Smoke, Rubber Maze,Rising Tide, Rejoice, Sunrise, Sable, Sons of Champlin, Sounds Unlimited Blues Band, Sandy Bull, The Steve Miller Blues Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Stoned Fox, South Bay Experimental Flash, Throckmorton, Tree of Life, Weird Herald, Womb, Warren Purcell, and Zephyr Grove. I've done a separate blog entries for each one and festival title is a link you can find out more them. Joe Cocker was even more animated than at Woodstock The Byrds played without Crosby. Needles to say our reserved tickets were useless; I recall reading about it later and the authorities didnt know what to make of it. I know this cause we did it. B.B. After The Doors played, Led Zeppelincame on. 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. I was there and she walked off the stage for sure. The poster for was created by rock artist Linda Segul. Among others, Grand Funk played three nights also. I waited and waited and they never showed.so disappointed! A friend who was going to make the 500-mile drive from Ontario cancelled so went alone in my 63 Corvair Monza, arrived sometime Saturday morning. . 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 was at Atlantic City and saw Janis set. But everyone was good. Three days of little sleep, bad/no food, too much partying, in-fighting among the group of friends over paying for the van and the rest did me inwhen I got back home, I was sick for days. I was hopelessly hooked on the rock music scene from coast to coast and almost every one of my icons was there. The Denver Police were forced to employ riot tactics to protect the gates. Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. "40,000 people jammed the banks of Lake Amador to sunbathe, drink wine, smoke marijuana and listen to an all-star roster of musicians at the Gold Rush Rock Music Festival. Unfortunately, the event does not go as planned and several scheduled acts, including The Byrds and The Youngbloods, do not perform. Lang was the world famous main organizer of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, held in Bethel, New York. Questlove. 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. And yes, I still have my tickets stubs from Days 2 & 3 a little wrinkled, & Priceless! 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. Larry (The Mole) Taylor - bass. An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music, was a three-day concert (which managed to roll into a fourth day) that took place on August 15 through 18, 1969, at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel just outside White Lake, New York. The music was a cultural explosion. I also took some silent footage but I have no idea what happened to it. I particularly remember Joe Cockers performance what a trip. She was still pretty unknown and was upset that the audience wasnt really listening to her. The festival lost money, but was generally considered a success by those who attended. 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