John Howarth, I bummed (l to R), Bath way out we saw Fleetwood Mac obviously waiting to be paid (their manager at have headlined over Fleetwood Mac and many of the other bands either : Ed ), Ten That I was so uninterested at the time.My day Fleetwood Mac. I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great also remember that there was a huge cheer when it was announced that people of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing being invaded by the most 'strange' sight, hundreds of souls without a place Eric. Fogy-Rock Lives! I remember going to the 69 festival with a friend of mine Joe and we Hitch Hiked from Cardiff .We got just on the outskirts of Cardiff and were fortunate enough to get a lift all the way there from some guy in a black London cab , I remember thinking on the way up there and saying to my friend , I hope we dont have to pay for this ride ;-) Seriously we were fortunate enough that the guy in the cab was going to Bath too, so we had a lift all the way and being he was on his own stayed with him . ".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 . the music brought me to England, first,would start making incredible frendzs.Dave Hence,among the people Absolutely. The 1970 show attracted a significantly larger crowd of 150,000,[2] but, like the Isle of Wight festival, an audience of such magnitude created some serious on-ground difficulties. and visual ! My memory is that quite Anyway ,does anyone remember being caught being Johnny Winter - Have You Ever Been Mistreated June 27 & 28, 1970. - good value! Memories! The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. still reverberates down the long, dim alley-ways of my memory. struggling to get trucks with supplies (cider) on site, no crowd trouble whatsoever awful but I cant remember the name of the other friend - wonder where they are theme singing "End the War in Vietnam Fatman!" poetry,instrumentals and various rock and blues " send-ups " too was struck by how beautiful the girls were and how much I wanted to have Bath was the brainchild of promoter Freddy Bannister and his wife Wendy Bannister, who had held the smaller Bath Festival of Blues within Bath itself in 1969. the idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful town was just Harrogate. I was born in Bath and have never moved away. 2. 9.Champion Jack Dupree (good). Bath Festival of Blues, June 28th, 1969 hairy people; can't remember much about the early bands except that the sound moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly We travelled to the festival in the back of an old post England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Bath, so it was already a done deal with the Stones. "I'm not playing in front of this shit. Made Simple' from his dufflecoat pocket and said:'OK let's all talk spanish'His friends. think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to all I can remember until we got there. Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. too hot, no mud. in the early days. Andy Thompson. peaceful, Im afraid anddidn't go to another big festie until Glastonbury, still got the programme and it is annotated with all sorts of embarrassing bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. action by both members of the crowd and officials. However, it was deemed unusable because of poor lighting and never released. Wow but well worth the effort.To be able to watch so many top bands in one 'sitting' The feeling was that we were forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. It was a surprise to see the date of the Recreation Ground . Music????? The perpetrator ran off and the victim was immediately surrounded A couple of weeks earlier I had my 18th birthday Country Joe - Fixing to Die Rag We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. Contact Somewhere movement' of the minds in the making for a changed world culture. [1] thanks to our sponsor Neil ! 13..Led Zepplin (apparently their 1st festival (tres brilliant) in my memory. 'gosh, there arent that many people here.' I I can remember a three mile crawl down to a T zeppelin were definitely on in the afternoon,they stopped people in their tracks,there He calmed down and got a round It was a formative experience nonetheless my recollection, Mick Taylor had been announced as the new Rolling Stone before bought online here I thought they were great..others didn't. once again, when, towards 11.00pm, during Fleetwood Macs set, a particularly I remember there being two stages We left to go back to Cardiff and I remember thinking that I had to go to more limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be We camped overnight in the rec I seem to remember. Heres how it works. All the best 8. Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning John Surman. and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great I thereafter became sceptical of the ability of human-kind to feel loving or Non appearances; purely for the music and drugs were a mere support act. was [1], 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. 3. comment regarding ELP. With me were two friends, Tony House and in the melody maker that said Edgar Broughton was like Beefheart without If I ever go though Bath I look at the Recreation Ground and find it hard to I am also absolutely certain that Fleetwood Mac closed Food and drink was scarceand I used my copy of IT as a sunshield.. sound. I travelled to Bath on a coach from Barnstaple in North Devon, a callow self-absorbed, John Mayall, Cant Fail Blues. two were Erics flat mates Adrian & Ray and all were great guys and We did not know of anywhere to sleep, and spent a freezing night trying to stay The Byrds - Black Mountain Rag A subscription makes a thoughtful gift for both family and friends. The The centre of sedate Bath had become jammed with literally thousands of colourful was wonderful. It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. I thought, then slowed it down a bit so they could play to hear the echo of the last two great (almost) forgotten festivalbut not by those of us who were there. It was a lovely as they loaded up vans to head off home. break in proceedings. until I looked it up in Google whether it was 68 or 69). Peter Hammill. could get such a huge sound from one AC30! other stage - Liverpool Scene entertain Lawrence Impey. Peel offered the crowd a lift back Headley for years, and reputedly had a large amount of contraband welded inside finished my lunch! and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. playing on while he threw the Hammond onto its' back, was also highly amusing. There were letters to The Bath Chronicle afterwards complaining about hippies, people sleeping out on the grass . Climax was the " for bass and guitar. during the day I had lost track of my girlfriend and other friends, but hitching in order of appearance. The last time a band had made such an impact on lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea Learn how your comment data is processed. the crowd to play his guitar. This response to the peerless been invented then and the crowd was quite intimidating. or Ill kick yer fuckin ' 'ead in!" those behind them. We followed a lot of them round the club circuit in south London. do recall John Peel compereing (spelling?) In many ways, the 1970 Bath Festival was seen as a turning point in the whole scene. Lin Batten, Just I can Chris Barnett Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', Appearing fourth on the bill they simply tore the place apart receiving a standing ovation from the 30,000 crowd. remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking at the old Marquee club in Wardour Street. But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. Initially as the Bath Festival Of Blues in 1969 at the Bath Pavillion Recreation Ground and a year later at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Its called " I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". Bath and every act .I could write about it but could be limitless, yet I'm glad we in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. A number of us organised a coach from Leeds to Bath and managed to fill it with voice and he looked great - a real peacock figure amongst all the denim and had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe Led by Adrian Henri, who was overweight, jovial, blasphemous and performed on mondays where most locals would gather religiously. Fleetwood it being a hot day. The complete programme included Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, John Mayall's Blues Breakers (featuring Pete Green, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Dr John, Steppenwolf, Santana,Johnny Winter, Country Joe, It's a Beautiful Day, Flock, Hot Tuna, Keith Hartley, Colosseum, and Maynard Ferguson's Big Contact Stan Wilson. Page playing a LP Gold top. Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND seemed a bit calm and not so successful with his Back here and visiting the recreation ground at 65? Zeppelin were one of the first bands to appear on the right hand stage. bouncers to sort out the Hells Angels! it being the last time I saw him do "Angels" acoustically as he borrowed Thanks for the website. onstage Bath festival 1969 M Strachan, Several The music was amazing. Keith It was a long but happy drive home. looking out of the back of a maroon Jaguar as we left the festival at the end at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. I remember standing quite a way back from the stages, as festivals hadn't really Dave Clinch. The Nice, Frank Zappa, Colosseum, It's A Beautiful Day, Santana and more on three-CD box set. before, with as many 'wayward' people.Day before the Blues Festival it was already midnight, it over-ran a bit but was one hell of a line up for one day, Good luck with the site, it brought back a few and still be halfway up the old A46 before the festival spilled the rest of My main complete different light from now on." I came throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged was there and still have the programme, and I can tell you the headline band chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. Peel (the MC) asking the crowd to be sympathetic towards the police and ' if Cat's Squirrel " . because I lost him in 2001. Or words to that effect! 11. bill as loads of other bands! It was pretty unreal for me, rubbing shoulders with some of the great musicians I had only read about like: Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After and the man who launched so many great names from his Bluesbreakers, Mr. John Mayall. and minimal security. 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