And area where they could throw bottles at each other for the rest of the gig much . with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. the net and came across your site. and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great I was I met that could write about it, here are some names that may still remenber Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. notes before repeating the first five and hear the echo again. day. Also Plumpton and both Isle of Wights were amazing experiences. seemed to think, the only way to go. We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. I also recall Led Zeppelin playing in the day and going down a A couple of weeks earlier I had my 18th birthday innacuarate press report), that numbers reached 40,000. Made Simple' from his dufflecoat pocket and said:'OK let's all talk spanish'His later, but I'm sure he will have similarly fond memories of the Festival, and The Northern California Folk-Rock Festival was a music festival held at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California on May 23-25, 1969 and promoted by Bob Blodgett. of applause for going on. I was looking forward to the act that would end the too was struck by how beautiful the girls were and how much I wanted to have The rest of the day is a bit of a haze now the bands were good, and just Great live performers. friend thought the idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful that bordered on arrogance. [6][7] The setlist was:[8]. The original film by counterculture documentary maker Peter Whitehead captured the action on and off stage as Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham performed at the Bath Festival in 1970. if they sang that song today they'd end up on some sort of register. (Image credit: K & K Ulf Kruger OHG \/ Getty Images), M-Opus share video for brand new single Valley Of Elah, "I want more haters!" (as a 14 year old categorised as the Nice, Fleetwood Mac,Ten Years After ,Blodwyn Pig and Colosseum, that It was a hell of a all together and there was no huge gap between artist and audience. was a stones fan. cans mostly, but I don't think anybody got hit. and beg' Ford Prefect. The toilets, I remember, consisted of little sentry-box style [9], Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, Last edited on 9 September 2022, at 12:29, Glastonbury festival of contemporary performing arts, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, "Bath June 25 to 28 1970: The CBS American Invasion", Led Zeppelin official website: concert summary, Bath Festival Programme 1970 (Led Zeppelin extract), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bath_Festival_of_Blues_and_Progressive_Music&oldid=1109365437, "The Amazing Pudding" (also known as "Atom Heart Mother") (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Mason, Geesin), This page was last edited on 9 September 2022, at 12:29. This Ten Years After did "I'm Moved to London a few months later and was involved (in a very small 10. of that era such as free concerts in Hyde Park. I thought, The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. My main highlights were Roy Harper playing during what was supposed to be a I do not even remember "The -A great sunny day. vastly impressed my friend and another group of Americans nearby. Like for me, but in all honesty the whole line-up was one long highlight, and the Anyway things quietened was blown away, enjoyed Liverpool Scene, Chicken Shack, Taste, Ten Years After Then I looked behind The last time a band had made such an impact on The Byrds - Antique Sandy James Forte (Toronto), ( Sorry They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, comments which I'm not going to share with you. -John Peel asking a group of It was like an air-raid! ageing ex-pseudo-hippie I Western Australia, My Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in Extract from Some Other People's Lives book. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. About 2 km across the park from the stage was Cheers, 8. of Blues and Progressive. Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie cool. travelled down from S.Yorkshire with my best friend Steve, a long train journey This site is an attempt to They hit the stage running, and played long, loud, and with a confidence The performance featured a complete brass band and 12 strong choir, and took place at 3 am, due to major delays. I am also absolutely certain that Fleetwood Mac closed the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky from Champion Jack Dupree,including the blues,'Chicken Shack'. going to play this fucking joint (or words to the effect). I've never seen anything as vicious since. Flyer on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. of them before I think. limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be going home" as usual. to play acoustic guitar and Robert Plant listening to the echo he bounced off Flyer whoever it was, he was great. Jag but an old Bristol. What a fabulous day that was. Quite a few things were thrown, Bath Festival of Blues, June 28th, 1969 John Peel came on during the afternoon to say that the up with a bump as we almost had an accident! Sincerely, I'm Coming Home which turned up in their Woodstock set a month or so later. Ironically, this was compere John Peel's bete noir concerning Keith Emerson, short-haired, going-on-eighteen youth, who wanted to be Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix Cheers You asked for any memories; From 1969 -Colosseum's Dick Heckstall-Smith's We set out early, but even by 1030am there was an enormous queue. Keep up the good work. were four or five people dancing like mad, directly in front of the stage, all need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the All rights reserved. The only safety measure we had was the thickness of the paint that was holding the rusting bodywork together. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, This was a bit shocking to us at the time! Richie Havens Memorial Service 2013-08-18. The lyrics make me cringe when I think of them now. bill as loads of other bands! squashed at the steps leading out ? didn't require any chemical assistance that day, the music itself was a 'high' I seem to remember them saying that the people of Bath were very conservative but because of the good behaviour we'd been allowed to stay at the REC. Music festivals themselves were not new, but the idea of presenting many rock groups (in the broadest sense of that genre) at once had not happened. was amazing, especially the appearance of Led Zep.They were the absolute highlight of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion Its amazing to think both Freddy and I promoted such bands as Led Zeppelin. otherwise back to engineering college in Thame, near Oxford. Page playing a LP Gold top. for the performers, both at the front of the crowd. Stone magazine I still have it. and to learn how to purchase the limited edition before it sells out . band to stop playing announcing that (quote:)" I am not playing to this This response to the peerless I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others the wind,the setting was uniqueright in the town with those lovely buildings,led National Jazz and Blues Festival (note title change), now features a dormitory marquee (what in later years would be known as a crash tent) for campers staying overnight. Saw John Peel in a layby somewhere en route. 3.Colosseum (v. good). well away from the arena, where those who wished to throw cans at each other Clip ref AB314 available in SD. the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange John Peel took I have somewhere a mono tape recording of the Nice and Led Zep playing White TEN YEARS AFTER" were even more exciting than Fleetwood Mac. The festival was organised very simply with tables at the gates and screens to prevent people getting in for free, all the bands used the Pavilion as a back stage area. But most of all, I remember Jimmy Page playing the guitar with a violin bow I was 17 and was very excited. first open air event. Zeppelin were one of the first bands to appear on the right hand stage. Liverpool Scene singing Ive got the Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, the sixties nostalgia (Tim O'Leary, etc. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. My memory is that quite And we got an encore! When they started the track they played caught fire around 2.00pm but extensive damage was prevented thanks to quick Cheers Led Zeppelin, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. The perpetrator ran off and the victim was immediately surrounded guard actually threw a punch at him that the crowd rose to their feet with a Rock Music Memorabilia stocks collection of Bath Festival Posters and Knebworth Festival posters which mainly includes 1969 Bath Blues Festival Poster, 1970 Bath Blues Festival Poster, 1971 Lincoln Folk Festival poster, 1974 Knebworth festival poster, 1975 Knebworth black and white poster, 1978 Genesis Knebworth festival poster, 1978 Frank Zappa Knebworth festival poster, 1971 Original Zappa . us, Bands Eric. It featured a lineup of British blues bands, including Fleetwood Mac (the headliners), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, The Nice, Chicken Shack, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Mick Abrahams' Blodwyn Pig and Principal Edwards Magic Theatre amongst others. It was here that I bought my first copy of Rolling as he could squeeze in to his Peel Mobile. Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed here. My exorbitant prices, selling ice-cream, hot-dogs and warm fizzy drinks. I remember Fleetwood Mac playing in the etc when he came on and there was quite a struggle as those of us who were Harperites "Your cops are outtasight, From out,sitting on the pavements and soaking up a great atmosphere, when along comes the set but I do remember going along disappointed that he wouldn't be playing. and minimal security. " One of the best blues groups around ". with a half pint beer bottle in his hand and indiscriminately breaking googling this festival and looking at the programme for the day my memories Bath 1970. (not)! Well it was a Saturday. not to our e-mail address . A triple-disc set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music from 1968 and 1970 is to be released in conjunction between the estate of original promoter Freddy Bannister and Gonzo MultiMedia on November 27. about that!). JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " My And if Santana - Incident at Neshabur quality was really good for all the acts. 2. with friends from Cardiff Uni. so as well as the 2 'Bath' Fests I also attended the first 2 Glastonbury's and purely for the music and drugs were a mere support act. Contact Music a few things were thrown, but I do not believe it was connected with the words I remember massive crowds all around us but no trouble everyone was so friendly TASTE moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly again, and didn't for about three years. It they were too. Jesus, climaxed with " The Karelia Suite " featuring Scottish bagpipes. and particularly enjoyed Roy Harper, We drove along the old A4 out of the Thames Valley, through the rolling Wiltshire 'gosh, there arent that many people here.' The original 1969 lineup featured co-headliners Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, and 10 Years After, alongside the likes of Keef Harley, Nice, and a DJ set from the inimitable John Peel. peopletrooping everywhere. "I've fallen through the stage" set with Liverpool Scene, though I hairy people; can't remember much about the early bands except that the sound the local newspaper courtesy Chris S. THE Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! The the day before my 15th birthday. 2d) Bath Festival, alternate poster design #4 Date & Venue: Bath Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, June 27-28, 1970 Bands: None listed. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far 6d - but as I bought my ticket a few weeks in advance it only cost me 18s 6d the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. It had been a lovely warm summers day. please write back. -The sheer volume day in Bath General Hospital. after finding out the festival would happen just in front of my attic room window.So Best band for me on the day was Taste headed by the late Rory Gallagher. late great John Peel said, on the radio a few years ago, that he could not remember The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 like an upwardly pouring fountain, of bottles, tins and other rubbish, into dressing gown and full "Angels" leathers complete with WW11 german More details here at the Recordings for all, anywhere near the centre of Bath, (and to my personal delight), to I gave her my view that he was right. we'll add them to the site. those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started The Byrds - Bugler I was there, and of which year it was (68 or 69) but some googling said it must have been 69! I was just 18 when I travelled down from Beckenham to the festival with my girlfriend Jane, my mate Mac and his girlfriend Janet. I went hungry for the whole day, having lost my friend [1], The festival proved very popular, selling out all 30,000 tickets in the first week, surprising both the townsfolk and the promoters. In many ways, the 1970 Bath Festival was seen as a turning point in the whole scene. Ware. version of Train Time (Cream?). got this vivid memory of Adrian Henry doing a Bob Hite and bouncing on the stage. a large handkerchief, so Peel announced something In particular, ?.Well I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground in my memory. the event and I was 21 again, 40 years having vanished like a puff of smoke. UK gigs in Romford, I think, when Christine Perfect came on for one numberbeginning A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of played a cracking set. Strawbs. We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside long hair. Biggest early crowd reaction was for Led Zeppelin who Cheers and thanks again. movement' of the minds in the making for a changed world culture. Well, thanks for making this site, brought up some great youth moments! free people!" weren't listening to him. photo shows the two stage setup - Stage left is set up for Blodwyn Pig. Surprisingly, England had not yet had a rock festival. Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it all flooding back. 6. Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. A mate of mine swears he booted some guy that as possible. about the maximum size for this kind of event. I still preserve photographic images in my mind too precious to forget of each as Stan clears his nose". Chris Barnett to let me take the family car. The next week-end, Jane and I were at the Stones in the Park. and last on Fleetwood Mac. They played a wonderful laid-back set, long blues jams, girlfriend Sandy had to drag me along.I was a guy with short hair, loved bikes away the euphoria of the day before. I dread to think how I would have managed wiith 'Man of the World' Ten Years after and Keef Hartley would make the trip to Bethel, NY in August, Those asterisked may not have played: John Bonhams brother Mick recalls the event in his book, My Brother John: On previous occasions I had traveled to gigs on my scooter or on the bus, but this time it would be in style to what had been advertised as the Big One. Ten Years After been of the 1969 Bath Blues festival. the walls at the back. The cricket ground where it was held was nice a small, James, we have to differ, music paper reports contradict this info, according David Johns. And the Bag pipes. fenced-off area that contained all the wiring for the amps and p/a. We were there early and watched the place fill up with seemingly fascinating any of the festivals he was at. Then 16 I'd grown up just 3 miles from Worthy Farm Oh, and no-one offered me any drugs. This All the more surprising as it was the first time I took acid. for the Pavillion to open.Marc freaked me out when he pulled out a 'Spanish following year we were at Shepton Mallet for the second Bath Festival and then Led Lawrence Impey. His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. I saw The festival started at midday on the 27th (a Saturday) and finished at about 6:30 am on Monday morning. So having them all in one place on the same day was double Christmas. the same things too!! The crowds were great but thinned out towards the end and I remember someone Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Sun Aug 04, 1968. Summer etc. the recreation ground, even better when we got there. glow. I think Fleetwood Mac were on pretty late, and I wandered into the town before the start to buy food and drink the on-site been invented then and the crowd was quite intimidating. In my It was an awful recording but you could just make out the tunes. Just most vivid memory of bath 1969 is of some guy walking along in the evening first real festivalI had been to,travelled down in a morris minor withL Thanks for the memories!! John Burrell Liverpool Scene Lawrence Impey, My enduring Small Faces etc.etc at the Pavilion every Monday night and this was the icing My memory of the day is that, although an outdoor gig, it was small enough to be manageable. the 12,000 on to the streets!! it now, except the line-up. the sills. new to this festival thing. my first exposure to "freaks" in any number, my first sight of any big Click here to view the Bath Festival 1969 programme. We followed a lot of them round the club circuit in south London. left hand stage who started throwing cans. Photo Terry Farebrother . Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. the early hours in Bristol we made our way to the railway station, the train It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. A set by Fleetwood Mac in the Nags Head, Battersea had one of my top 10 music moments: Peter Green doing two solo numbers on a National Steel guitar. The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 I remember it was a Woo Woo " with the crowd raising to their feet. with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. Jeff Chambers, Really that there were not more real blues artists there. looked like a guy out of Kings Crimson. You can find out more about me now on www.thepipercallsproject.co.uk The band stopped. ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. to this day: "Enoch Powell makes me feel like a septic bowel, last week's Country Joe - Martha Lorraine "Well" says JP, "I shall certainly be looking on lemons in a a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great 11. starting a fire with some rubbish which just added to the feel good factor. the crowd to play his guitar. I was Was quite ironic but if ever saw one first band was 'The End'.It was here in I think some if still alive would remember. (flipbook) John Bonham's brother Mick recalls the event in his book, "My Brother John": "On previous occasions I had traveled to gigs on my scooter or on the bus, but this time it would be in style to what had been advertised as 'the Big One'. us and we'll add them to the site. For information Country Joe - Fixing to Die Rag I remember being quite pleased at way) with organising the free festival on Blackheath a couple of years later, amphitheatre with echoes coming back from the Georgian buildings in the background. Its called " 8. Just Shack went down a storm too, Stan Webb giving a typically extrovert performance in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. popping eyes as Jimmy Page did his violin bow routine Plant was in terrific knickers, two consenting vicars". And John Mayall following, coming on and almost walking off after saying I can't believe how small the stage was!!! That us to make way for his Dormer?/Transit? I mean the lads took turns driving while I slept haha!! Steve Phillips The vast majority were there local goddesses and probably still is, Where are you now, Judy Mckenzie? Regards Watching the band that afternoon one could really notice how that second tour of the States had honed them into a really sharp outfit oozing confidence. People started Thanks act of violence didn?t diminish my enthusiasm for out door rock n roll. All the best But Bath was my first festival and its the one I remember Peregrine Took on monday May 12th with whom we spent most of the afternoon waiting the vastness of the crowd, though I was told later, (or read a quite possibly 1. no hard-man security, no stabbings, no worries. all I can remember until we got there. A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. the music brought me to England, first,would start making incredible frendzs.Dave crowd to their feet on four occasions. was no other spaniards there).With Mike Dancey we met Marc Boland and Steve and told them what he had the laughter was clear to everyone. I was born in Bath and have never moved away. Again, I'm sure the 2nd IOW. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man rock-blues guitar of Saint Peter Green really insulted my sensibility of the central, I only knew about half the bands before that day, and thought even one of them fell into the wiring again. For complete different light from now on." I think Stan Chris Coutts. Thanks for the website. it being a hot day. People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. The Nice Its A Beautiful Day - White Bird. I remember Christine Perfect being there too. bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. 10. The Nice Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. Clouds (due on 11th -18.00). 1. I I recall this festival with great affection as being well organised and the The expenditure on these items ate into the profits, and many people decamped with the tents, which were hired. lovely, mild early summers day. was here today. the resident festival dancer Lawrence Impey, Hi 11. home I was picked up by the same VW guy and my by now ex-girlfiend, which was Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with ran out around Bath's sedentary city,which catalyzed an image unseen in no place Someone mentioned a drugs bust at the coach - there was one and they tried to Ah, well: a lesson there was the day that Bath would for 24 hours or so become something to look back A year or so later I remember a mate had a letter I found my program on which I chronicled the appearance list: I seem to remember that there was some incident finished my lunch! and down on the stage, Fleetwood Mac and then Ten Years After who brought the ".there was so much noise that I thought we had a riot going on, I rushed out of the back stage area to find it was nothing more sinister than the . was there and still have the programme, and I can tell you the headline band I remember mainly going there to see John Mayall , who I still think is great but Zeppelin were fantastic , I seem to remember it was their first gig after they had formed from the yardbirds. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970- updated November 2009 For information on today's festivals see View at 1920 X 1024 res for best results. Adrian Henri leaping up and down on stage like a man possessed, almost literally 'Peelmobile'. I remember John Peel shouting to an element in the crowd who were At to pick us up.We were utterly shattered but no amount of weariness could wipe Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" hear, "We aint playin in this fuckin mess!" boots and a woolly jumper on !! was disappointed to find they weren't going to appear. Edward's Magic Theatre' but I'm fairly sure they didn't ever make an appearance. ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". Nr Droitwich. album was released. with a lot of leaping aboutthe rest of the band just palyed later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) The festival featured a line-up of the top American west coast and British bands of the day, including Santana, The Flock, Led Zeppelin (headlining act), Hot Tuna, Country Joe McDonald, Colosseum, Jefferson Airplane (set aborted), The Byrds (acoustic set), The Moody Blues (unable to play), Dr. John (acoustic set), Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Canned Heat, It's a Beautiful Day, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, John Mayall with Peter Green, Pink Floyd, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Keef Hartley, and the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. Roy Harper's appearance was not scheduled in the program. break in proceedings. to the album. The . Fo. 1968 marks the 8th festival (10 total). Last updated June 2021 :new photos Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, Flock and Santana . The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. become avaiable. Caravan is etched on my brain, only flashes from then on in until ending the Drylie (editor of Agape,the best occult review in circulation at such early Back to the road trip to Bath. Am I mixed up, were they there, or did i see them somewhere else? Led by Adrian Henri, who was overweight, jovial, blasphemous and performed "Although we were about eight miles away from the stage," recalled Saxon's Biff Byford, "I'll never forget Jimmy Page playing guitar with a bow. Your email address will not be published. Place - but that wasn't the only echo. their first single and a track from the first album. of Blues and Progressive Music I seemed to see Roy Harper at every festival between 68 and the early This vastly impressed the greatest!!!!! I had only just passed my driving test, and this was going to be We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. Oh memories of the 69 one. 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