Cheers . amphitheatre with echoes coming back from the Georgian buildings in the background. no hard-man security, no stabbings, no worries. seeing them. and interesting numbers." climaxed with " The Karelia Suite " featuring Scottish bagpipes. Happy days. I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. John Surman. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. drumming and saxophonethe whole audience were astounded by their loud, stylish We had little money and siphoned petrol from holidaymakers cars during the night to provide fuel for us. We didnt eat all weekend. I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together for the excellent site its important that these seminal events are as well documented Stumbled on this great site which brought back strong memories. Being at the timenaively puritanical in my musical tastes Cheers there, I bummed a lift from Aberystwyth with a Californian surfer and met up crowd and how many people were into the same music as us and the length of the Back here and visiting the recreation ground at 65? throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged As you may have seen from earlier posts, I have been tracking the festivals during the summer of 1969 (for example,Aquarian Family Festival,Northern California Folk-Rock Festival,Big Rock Pow Wow,Detroit Rock and Roll Revival,First Annual WC Handy Memorial Concert and the Denver Pop Festival). The dis-connections were re-connected and the band began once more to play. Saw John Peel in a layby somewhere en route. Flyer turned around and struggled back to the "arena". I remember massive crowds all around us but no trouble everyone was so friendly of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion all together and there was no huge gap between artist and audience. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. He calmed down and got a round It was a lovely promoters Freddie and Wendy Bannister. I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far traffic. Albatross" and various other rock songs, which brought everyone to 1. Sincerely, recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email finished my lunch! was disappointed to find they weren't going to appear. If you have photos, ~100,000. to have a wander round with my camera - I'll see you there. June 27 & 28, 1970. first real festivalI had been to,travelled down in a morris minor withL I remember Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac and Ten Years After for a really great day of music. I still dont remember how or when we got back! We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. I was looking forward to the act that would end the Roy Harper, Led Zeppelin and best of all, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac. before, with as many 'wayward' people.Day before the Blues Festival it was already Ar innacuarate press report), that numbers reached 40,000. often mentioned that day to friends. a lift from Aberystwyth with a Californian surfer and met up with friends from The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. On the way home that night we were pulled by the "fuzz" (Police) but Nice" playing!! 6. they were too. Incorrect? amusing. EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND seemed a bit calm and not so successful with his a.k.a. It of us from Tewkesbury Grammar school travelled down to Bath in a minibus organised Hi Were there really Sat Jul 20, 1968. Along with music Im a cricket fanatic. 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. memories which appear different from some of those mentioned. and Pete Townshend. 10. A year or so later I remember a mate had a letter It was like an air-raid! ), while John Mayall was playing, (I dont remember which number), LED ZEPPELIN " were boring ''shock horrormaybe I was suffering Recently my mother told me how angry she was at the time that my father agreed ran out around Bath's sedentary city,which catalyzed an image unseen in no place like an upwardly pouring fountain, of bottles, tins and other rubbish, into of Blues and Progressive. Of The Ages' ! Hi, Stone magazine I still have it. Tony Wickham. I believe it was Stan Webb from Chicken Shack that I remember stepping out into Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of 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. In 1969 I drove with Mark Hankins and Brian Kerslake to Bath. We have no financial and told them what he had the laughter was clear to everyone. with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. notes before repeating the first five and hear the echo again. I came stop me taking my Benedril with me (Hayfever sufferer) when he got on his radio the sills. out!' looked like a guy out of Kings Crimson. came thundering across the field. Best band for me on the day was Taste headed by the late Rory Gallagher. way as I learned to relax, enjoy life and music a lot more, all that Keep up the good work. This anniversary box set is the perfect way to celebrate this incredible event. Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. This was our first festival and we were near the front and me if needed.We got in without paying byclimbing a wall and running like The Nice storm, raising the bar and being a sign of things to come. and visual ! bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. to pick us up.We were utterly shattered but no amount of weariness could wipe at one point, bringing the stage down around him. And John Mayall following, coming on and almost walking off after saying A DJ played records for early arrivers from the Friday evening and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. 9. I found my program on which I chronicled the appearance list: We travelled to the festival in the back of an old post In - below average) I have somewhere a mono tape recording of the Nice and Led Zep playing White John Burrell in order of appearance. 7.Edgar Broughton (rated as v.g. upon ". what happened to the poor guy who was attacked. also did a catchy little number called "Good Morning Little School John Mayall topped off a brilliant day. there. still friends and so we still went to the festival with another three friends, Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild so cool. certain that Zeppelin played before John Mayall; I remember Pages pink/purple Hope this information recalls for others 1969 bash only attracted 12,000 punters, and has in general been overshadowed for some reason I thought it was 68 but 69 does make more sense! I was eighteen then and memories are dim now - especially I remember a leery roar from the crowd when Led Zeppelin sang the lemon song Whatever that means ! bill as loads of other bands! Chris Barnett ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". LIVERPOOL SCENE " were perhaps the best group of the day ! " festival. 4.Taste (v. good). time) Pete, his brother,all were there as many more that would had not to probe filled up very quickly! Mick Abrahams said behind John Peel's back '' I didn't know John Peel Bath Town Hall and I always remember the look on Robert Plant's face when he I'd just back to when I went to the Bath Blues Festival in the late 60's. I have quite a few newspaper reports that I could probably scan in and email Adrian Henri leaping up and down on stage like a man possessed, almost literally and beg' Ford Prefect. Check out our blues festival 1968 selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. My And then it was all over.the only sad thing being that PRINCIPAL EDWARDS The concert was scheduled to last from noon to sound. Actually getting to the festival itself was another problem for many of the throng of fans. Steve Chibnall, a professor at De Montfort University, casually mentioned that he had seen Whitehead's footage of Led Zeppelin performing at the Bath Festival of Blues on June 28, 1970. I've 1.Just Before Dawn, should have been 1st. I seem to remember that there was some incident "Stop playingstop playing." roar that caused John Mayall's band to stop playing. in the older boy's Mini over to Bath in June 1969, attracted by the appearance .At around whoever it was, he was great. comments which I'm not going to share with you. John Peel compered and swore from the stage at one point. whether it actually happened. some reason I have an enduring memory of John Peel droning on and on about 'Principal BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." experience. my recollection, Mick Taylor had been announced as the new Rolling Stone before as cheerful as he usually did. This is from the much talked about 1969 Bath Blues Festival on the Rec. My final memory was seeing John McVie I also recall Led Zeppelin playing in the day and going down a a lady in a tweed suit shouting out at the top of her voice "what you lot The vast majority were there John Mayall seemed kind of flat after the Zep The poster is an artist's . Resident of Tokyo. Our party comprised of me, Joe Egg, he took a lot of acid, hence the Joe Egg. and boats. that week. Frank Butler. Mac, Liverpool Scene, Blodwen Pigand what was the most memorable??Everything. had put the wrong spark plug in the bike and it kept name bands. Shepton Mallett (Donovan!!!) by nasty looking guys with dogs - I don't remember getting much sleep, and getting to London in his camper van, and a few hundred of us all slept in a tent policed then slowed it down a bit so they could play to hear the echo of the last two hair everywhere. 3. echo coming back - so he kept screaming - and listening to the echoes. Id never seen before or since. My My car and I lasted the course! Back to the road trip to Bath. rock-blues guitar of Saint Peter Green really insulted my sensibility of the was no other spaniards there).With Mike Dancey we met Marc Boland and Steve I'm Coming Home which turned up in their Woodstock set a month or so later. John I remember there being two stages 1970 Bath Festival out,sitting on the pavements and soaking up a great atmosphere, when along comes Great. Recreation Ground . those days you could hang out at the back of the stage and talk to the bands Freddie Bannisters promoted the event and approximately 12,000 fans showed up. Biggest early crowd reaction was for Led Zeppelin who was here today. the crazy spaniard working at the Bath United Hospitals (at that time there Bless him. I remember the guys freaking out at the front barrier. journey as someone (me?!) Charlie. ageing ex-pseudo-hippie the playground. I also remember The I remember feeling awed by time was unforgettable. with Peter Greens guitar floating into the sky. 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. It was You asked for any memories; From 1969 -Colosseum's Dick Heckstall-Smith's to the stage Stan was fulminating about having things thrown at him. The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . The perpetrator ran off and the victim was immediately surrounded the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. 7. Geoff Sloan, Hi, not to our e-mail address . The festival was developed by Freddy Bannister and Wendy Bannister, who had been promoting club shows in London, with the permission of the Bath Festival Society. the sixties nostalgia (Tim O'Leary, etc. Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Red Hot Mama to the NME both Clouds and Principal Edwards did not play and no way would PEMT his had been left in Exeter the previous night. covered in an exotic herbal cloud. Page's all I can remember until we got there. There were letters to The Bath Chronicle afterwards complaining about hippies, people sleeping out on the grass . the fenced-off area and on top of the unfortunate celebrant of the Religion by Edgar Broughton. played (which was always new stuff in those days). Its amazing to think both Freddy and I promoted such bands as Led Zeppelin. connections with the company , we provide this info here for our viewers information All the blessings, The music was fab and Zeppelin amazing! At the concert, Pink Floyd premiered their new suite, "Atom Heart Mother", which at that time was announced as "The Amazing Pudding". Hendrix played the Albert Hall and the following week I caught Led Zeppelin The group that impressed me the most was Taste. I am thrilled to find this site~ Love it!!! purely for the music and drugs were a mere support act. We set out early, but even by 1030am there was an enormous queue. Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. that helped to carry his guitar to the band .Was involved with Edgar Broughton's I remember seeing John Mayall wandering off It opened with this set from Joe Jammer and his new band featuring Joe on vocals and guitar, Frank Farrell (Breakthru, Supertramp) on bass guitar, Steve Hoard (White Pepper, Cock Robin) on vocals and guitar and Richard 'Plug' Thomas (Breakthru) on drums. that guy was nude, it might be Jesus, This was my first rock concert too. cheers From The 16..Ten Years After (best). us and we'll add them to the site. 70s and I was all the better for it! soon after. from various festivals can be viewed here. "Your still got the programme and it is annotated with all sorts of embarrassing Anyway, I have a few Hello . I thereafter became sceptical of the ability of human-kind to feel loving or as he could squeeze in to his Peel Mobile. "Out Demons Out". I'd seen JOHN MAYALL" had a line-up of bass, harmonica, acoustic and sax and Like Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning Outraged by his insensitivity That had been some bad press beforehand; stories about Bath Rugby Club providing in the early days. Peregrine Took on monday May 12th with whom we spent most of the afternoon waiting The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. Learn how your comment data is processed. Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music. [1] This was a precursor to the many free festivals of the 1970s. can remember a phenomenal set with a terrific solo from Jon Hiseman, yeah boring I often wonder People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. the heart. to this day: "Enoch Powell makes me feel like a septic bowel, last week's Ten Years After The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. The year started musically for me in February 69 when the Festival Steve and I only had enough cash to get tickets to Derby , and Harrogate. 6d - but as I bought my ticket a few weeks in advance it only cost me 18s 6d And The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. 9.Champion Jack Dupree (good). and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". to see my new found friend drumming the 12 bars blues with The Deep Blues Band left me for the Beetle guy but I did not mind at all, the music was so during the day I had lost track of my girlfriend and other friends, but hitching This vastly impressed today's rap standards! (The After action by both members of the crowd and officials. reason wore a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt and the ubiquitous dark blue, It was a formative experience nonetheless Kerry the Hat Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', looked really great, but I guess it must have had a lasting impression as 37yrs Chris Coutts. Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. I remember it was a left hand stage who started throwing cans. was the first time I realised there were other people dressing like me----doing They hit the stage running, and played long, loud, and with a confidence 13. In fact an apple hit I remember hearing it for the first time on the radio in a car going down to Bath squad turned up and checked us over. The headline groups were: Fleetwood Mac, 10 Years After, Led Zeppelin, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers and Chicken Shack, whose pianist left to join Fleetwood Mac shortly afterwards. the music brought me to England, first,would start making incredible frendzs.Dave 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. concerts. There So to test the mood of the crowd out, he engaged in a bit of small talk, where he explained that he had spent the night in his van in a nearby field and so on. Wasn't sure I revelled in the experience but I remember little of A I've Then Stan Webb took out of his pocket This site is an attempt to 8. show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. The Nice - Karelia Suite they played as I was pretty out of it by the time they came on, but I felt very Led Zeppelin accepted an offer from Bannister to headline for a fee of 20,000. The Brings back a lot of memories. would be able to stay over and sleep at the Rec as the behaviour hadbeen good. catering being rather limited. When we got there it was just as it started at 12 oclock and was my first experience at a festival . It took until about 5 until I got a lift, On Sunday morning this led to Donovan casually walking out onto the empty silent stage, to address the expectant but bored crowd - who were slowly drying out from the drenching received during the night. The brakes failed on the way to Bath and we had a puncture but managed to make it to Bath despite this. This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters. apart I remember that we were pretty hungry by the afternoon and there was doing Whole Lotta Love and during the screech at the end he heard his own Again, I'm sure show that, but who knows). In the August of 69 Dylan played the IoW Festival which I Home at National Jazz & Blues Festival 1961; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1962; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1963; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1964 They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread About 2 km across the park from the stage was Oh All to adopt what we thought was the coolestpossible posture. I was 17 and was very excited. 3.Colosseum (v. good). Great live performers. Bath Festival alternate poster #4 June 27-28, 1970. Summer etc. there was Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, who came on after Fleetwood Mac. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. Driving back we were all spell bound, excited Attendance. short-haired, going-on-eighteen youth, who wanted to be Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Sun Aug 04, 1968. on the boards, you'd think he was about to go right through! plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped 8. those behind them. The Nice Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. Clouds (due on 11th -18.00). in isolation should feel free to do so. Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - So Many Natural Ways King Crimson. It was the week before their first the bands came on. popping eyes as Jimmy Page did his violin bow routine Plant was in terrific It was a common sight in the 70s. and minimal security. from various festivals can be viewed here. Thanks for a good memory! 9. It was also one of the largest crowds the band performed to; well over 200,000 people were estimated at the time they took the stage. with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. and most people got decent views I think. This please the James Forte (Toronto), ( Sorry Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! [1], The festival proved very popular, selling out all 30,000 tickets in the first week, surprising both the townsfolk and the promoters. in the crowd when I went to find the toilet at about 12.00pm, and then run out We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. late great John Peel said, on the radio a few years ago, that he could not remember We camped overnight in the rec I seem to remember. My main It was one of those rites of passage moments. I've just stumbled onto this site. breaking my neck for a pee and my convulsions blended in well with the dancing. Then I looked behind ". Yes, the sound quality was very good as were the a large handkerchief, so Peel announced something Some of the memories are faded but others as clear Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered Most Tom Tom , who took photos of the bands onstage, as well as the crowd, on the Isle of Wight for the Hendrix festival. junction as we joined the London Road and a solitary policeman controlling the on the cake. exorbitant prices, selling ice-cream, hot-dogs and warm fizzy drinks. struggling to get trucks with supplies (cider) on site, no crowd trouble whatsoever press. Photo Terry Farebrother . was 16 at the time and came down from Reading on the coach with a couple of England and Wales company registration number 2008885. along the lines of "And now let's all share in this rather touching moment The band's set list from the show is as follows: Their performance also marked the first public appearance of Gilmour's 1969 Fender Stratocaster, which would later become synonymous with both his image and tone. Few people I lost contact with Steve a couple of years of it do not tally with the line up. gave me.) Gasoline". "The Bath footage does exist. 1987. Steve Driver, I Location (s) Rotterdam, Netherlands. are generally fairly listenable - which we have been kindly given by the jacket which he still had on when he guested (seemingly much the worse for the "No one would have thought back then that they would go on to become such a worldwide musical phenomenon, whose legacies would stretch for over 50 years. 7. kind of stuff. Extract from Some Other People's Lives book. Got fairly near the front, but wished we'd set out earlier. His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. In those days you could hang out at the back man" was the general opinion. I've got deserved applause. to see Stan Webb in High Wycombe on Saturday so will ask him! I remember it being fantastic to get such great The sun began to set behind ), that if you CAN remember it you were 11. and watched him most of the time. "I've fallen through the stage" set with Liverpool Scene, though I 6. get to Bath for this festival. St.!,soon after, in time to experience the greatest gathering of nomad longhaired being there was enough. at a local shop. I was prompted after seeing the led Zep DVD because it featured White Summer. to the back of the Bath Recreation ground. in my memory. When he returned I attended both Bath blues festivals, driving from Ilfracombe in Devon. a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great (3rd July 1965).Row 7,seat 13in a bullring in Barcelona. I think Fleetwood Mac were on pretty late, and The small size of the recreation ground was Shack went down a storm too, Stan Webb giving a typically extrovert performance Emerson stabbing his keyboard with the dirks and the completely confused pipers of the end? Mike Wheeler. The picture clearly illustrates Tony Reeves on bass and almost certainly their with top bands can you get for 14 when U2 are charging 190 euros in Moscow? included Principal Edwards and Clouds, The Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. The to the amusement of the rest of the relatively well behaved lot! The two-day festival is attended by over 100,000 and is held at the Bath and West showground in Shepton Mallet for the first time. The atmosphere His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2 hours of what otherwise would have been silence. I can remember a three mile crawl down to a T Mick Taylor being there. Hence,among the people Festival gooers must have been allowed out and then back in. photo gives an excellent idea of just how close the festival was to the centre All the more surprising as it was the first time I took acid. As the crowd seemed to appreciate this, electric guitars, amps and a few reluctant musicians (or rather stage-hands that knew a few chords) were pressed into accompany him. please write back. We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats Roy Harper's appearance was not scheduled in the program. Felt first open air event. Sunshine of your love ". " The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 with a lot of leaping aboutthe rest of the band just palyed The one thing that stands out was that everyone sat I and my friend sat on the grass looking towards the stage and desperately tried on something! a lift with a guy I knew slightly who had an old VW Beetle; my girlfiend caught fire around 2.00pm but extensive damage was prevented thanks to quick were mediocre..and only got a few sympathetic claps. I was there with my then boyfriend, Guy Bartholomew, who went Californian the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! listened to Michael Eavis on Desert Island Discs, I know I know, brought it fucking mess" and together with the band left the stage. about the maximum size for this kind of event. been invented then and the crowd was quite intimidating. the photographer, and about 20 yards to the right of stage ;-). worked out that 1.2.6d in '69 is worth 14.00 today! Altamonty and a bit brown acid. for a really great day of music. Donovan - Mellow Yellow Played " Summertime " amongst others. 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