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Midwest Monster Peace Jubilee & Music Festival, Benton, Tennessee 1973

Authored By John Nicholson October 21, 2020

Just less than a month ahead of Labor Day weekend 1973, the Midwest Monster Peace Jubilee and Music Festival was billed as a "family-friendly" event to feature ex-Beatle Paul McCartney's new band, Wings, Dr. Billy Graham and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at a venue just a few miles north of Benton, Tennessee. The bands booked were a fine two-day bill Ballin' Jack, Barnstorm, Beck, Bogert and Appice, Black Oak Arkansas, Buddy Miles, Canned Heat, Deodato, Dr. Hook, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Edgar Winter, Freddie King, Iggy and The Stooges, Joe Walsh, Michael Quatro, Muddy Waters, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roberta...

Christmas on Earth Continued, London 1967

Authored By John Nicholson September 18, 2020

A truly spectacular event in London in 1967. “Christmas on Earth Continued” was advertised to be one long party, featuring a lot of great bands. It gets sadly remembered as the last major show Syd Barrett played with Pink Floyd. Apparently, he ended the set dazed and motionless onstage, his arms hanging limp at his sides. Hey, I feel like that most days, man! The full line-up was; Eric Burdon & The Animals, Jeffrey Shaw and The Plastic Circus, John Peel, Paper Blitz Tissue, Pink Floyd, Sam Gopal Dream, Soft Machine, The Graham Bond Organisation, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The...

Roskilde Festival 1974

Authored By John Nicholson January 14, 2020

The Roskilde Festival began in 1971 and still happens every year. It is one of Europe’s biggest festivals and also one of the most cool. Here’s a thing. All profits since 1971 have gone to a foundation which distributes them to humanitarian causes. Isn’t that fantastic? In an era which lost its idealism quite quickly, for Roskilde it wasn’t about making money, wasn’t about exploiting the fans for as much cash as possible and that is a truly beautiful thing. Spread across three days, a lot of local Danish bands would play, but with a few bigger UK acts headlining...

Mississippi River Festival

Authored By John Nicholson May 20, 2019

The Mississippi River Festival was a summer outdoor concert series held from 1969-1980 on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois. The Festival was notable due to its central midwest location, the natural ambience of its outdoor venue and some of the biggest bands of the day. It wasn’t a festival as such, more a headliner and maybe a support act. It began as a partnership promoting regional cooperation in the realm of the performing arts. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville invited the St. Louis Symphony to establish residence on campus and to offer a summer season. To host...

Isle of Wight and Atlanta Pop Festival - Triple Live Album

Authored By Johnny Blogger September 09, 2015

This is a great triple live album. released in 1971 it serves as a great sampler for the bands of that era which regularly played on the festival circuit. With4 sides recorded at Isle of Wight and2 at Atlanta, the breadth of music from folk to crushing heavy rock, is amazing. At the time it [...]

Woodstock - A Dream Goes On Forever

Authored By Johnny Blogger September 07, 2015

CHAPTER ONE If you've seen the Woodstock movie, you'll have seen Michael Lang, one of the guys who helped put Woodstock on. A forever hipster riding a horse or a motorbike, with wild hair and one of those beatific smiles that suggest he's permanently stoned. In 1969 he seemed like a new type of business [...]

Big Rock Pow-Wow '69

Authored By Johnny Blogger September 02, 2015

Big Rock Pow-Wow '69 took place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 23, 24, and 25, 1969, at the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation in West Hollywood, Florida. Other artists who performed at the festival included Grateful Dead, Johnny Winter, Sweetwater, Joe South, Aum, NRBQ, Rhinoceros, Muddy Waters, and the Youngbloods. A band called Sun Countryplayed [...]

Los Angeles Pop Festival 1968

Authored By Johnny Blogger August 31, 2015

The Los Angeles Pop Festival was held at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in California. The dates of the festival were December 22 and 23, 1968. It was also called a Christmas Happening. Despite extensive research I can't find out much about this gig. It was one of the earliest to be held in a [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 5

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 06, 2015

As volunteers started cleaning up the media swung into gear, quickly painting it as a 'nightmare' in the New York Times. They called the fans 'lemmings' and asked what sort of culture could create such a colossal mess? But the trouble with taking that angle was this: it didn't sell. People felt good about Woodstock, [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 4

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 05, 2015

As the rain came down and turned the whole site into a quagmire, the dirt that had covered the main electricity cables was washed away, leaving them exposed. Gradually the insulation on those cables got worn away by the ceaseless trudging of the masses. So now there were thousands of wet people set to be [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 3

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 04, 2015

The Woodstock festival was due to start on the Friday, but by Thursday of that week, traffic was in gridlock. On the quiet, Lang et al had begun to expect 200,000 to attend because they knew that big fests in 69 were pulling those kinda numbers. Besides, all roads were jammed from midweek onwards. But [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 2

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 03, 2015

This new quartet of businessmen - Lang, Kornfeld, Roseman and Roberts - were worried. They were worried that they might not get enough people to their festival. Crazy, huh? They genuinely hoped to get a mere 50,000 there and wereconcerned that might not be be possible because there had been very few big festivals in [...]

History of the Woodstock Festival - part 1

Authored By Johnny Blogger July 02, 2015

If you've seen the Woodstock movie, you'll have seen Michael Lang, one of the guys who helped put Woodstock on. A forever hipster riding a horse or a motorbike, with wild hair and one of those beatific smiles that suggest he's permanently stoned. In 1970 he seemed like a new type of business dude who [...]

New Orleans Pop Festival 1969

Authored By Johnny Blogger June 12, 2015

Happening just two weeks after Woodstock, the New Orleans Pop Festival 1969is often called Louisiana's Woodstock. But then many festivals around that time were keen to cast themselves in the counterculture glow of the upstate New York zeitgeist. Promoter Steve Kapelow said we expect 15,000 - 20,000 in light of advance ticket sales, but we [...]

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980

Authored By Johnny Blogger May 26, 2015

Donington Monsters Of Rock 1980 - A motor-racing track in Leicestershire might not be the most inspiring venue in the world, but it played host to anyone who is anyone in hard rock and metal for a decade and a half. It is, of course, Castle Donington Raceway and the event is the Monsters Of [...]

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