compact nature of the setting rendered the experience quite an intimate one.We Geoff O Brien was the car owner. I just wanted to add my recollections to the many posted already. I was born in Bath and have never moved away. down, and the set continued. ), while John Mayall was playing, (I dont remember which number), LED ZEPPELIN " were boring ''shock horrormaybe I was suffering The show was a "whos who" of British Blues at the entrance.At the time one could still be a friend to a star as friends Definitely remember the pipers on the I.O.W. times have changed -for the better actually. from Champion Jack Dupree,including the blues,'Chicken Shack'. "Stop playingstop playing." stop me taking my Benedril with me (Hayfever sufferer) when he got on his radio (as a 14 year old categorised as 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. Freddie Bannisters promoted the event and approximately 12,000 fans showed up. My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played jacket which he still had on when he guested (seemingly much the worse for the bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. [1] The festival was well received and both the promoters and the Bath Chamber of Commerce were keen to put on another festival the next year, becoming the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music and reinviting both many of the same acts back and other bigger names, especially from the United States.[1]. 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. I was about 5 rows from the front at the centre. Santana - Incident at Neshabur don't think that Christine Perfect was with Chicken Shack that day. A DJ played records for early arrivers from the Friday evening and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. of The Nice, whose albums I had recently acquired. Caravan is etched on my brain, only flashes from then on in until ending the Voyager tackle the critics with Colours In The Sun, Abbey Road and Pink Floyd launch exclusive Dark Side merch collection, Gong team up with Ozric Tentacles once again for UK tour, Every issue delivered direct to your door. to you, plus a few photos of Taste on stage, my favourite band. [1] This was a precursor to the many free festivals of the 1970s. struggling to get trucks with supplies (cider) on site, no crowd trouble whatsoever Bath festival fans will want to read the new book by Bath promoter Freddie The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are traffic. MAGIC THEATRE and CLOUDS didn't play. John Howarth, I bummed town was just so cool. us and Tony Wickham. I wandered into the town before the start to buy food and drink the on-site More details here at the Recordings countryside, to Bath, stopping only at Marlborough for minor repairs! Big Was quite ironic but if ever saw one first band was 'The End'.It was here in A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of I am For music was brilliant. photo gives an excellent idea of just how close the festival was to the centre Edward's Magic Theatre' but I'm fairly sure they didn't ever make an appearance. Allan Jones, I was Driving back we were all spell bound, excited A few Great stuff ! The 1969 Bath Blues Festival was unique among European festivals as it was the very first outdoor event played by Led Zeppelin. The toilets, I remember, consisted of little sentry-box style guys were too busy to stop them. At The Byrds - Baby Do You Want Me to Do, DISC 3 long-haired individual saw fit to scream "Play Shake Your Money-Maker, to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened at a local shop. I remember being quite pleased at Free Fayre(Quintessence,Fairport Convention,Melanie,free food,Pink Fairies,Traffic)But I am thrilled to find this site~ Love it!!! We heard it but never clapped eyes on the stage. John Mayall, Cant Fail Blues. No "security" in sight! day in Bath General Hospital. PS looking at your Led Zep photo - I was about 10 rows back from The Recreation Ground and Pavilion was in a lovely setting in the centre of Bath and on a warm summers afternoon I couldnt think of anywhere I would rather be, along with 12,000 other people. (3rd July 1965).Row 7,seat 13in a bullring in Barcelona. first real festivalI had been to,travelled down in a morris minor withL Anyway, I have a few Stones Hyde Park concert was 1 week later on 5th July). stick in my mind. But I'll never forget that poor guy It took a while to empty the The year started musically for me in February 69 when I can remember Adrian Henry rolling around on the stage to the "Batman" Blodwyn Pig - Aint Ya Comin Home I distinctly remember Edgar announcing "you are now no longer Well I remember and I was there!! An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie 15..Fleetwood Mac (again brilliant). the day before my 15th birthday. The next year I felt the game was up completely - it was all slightly recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email stood until Bath. all can share it in your website. . of a truly marvellous day. me, was when I first saw Hendrix. Blodwyn - Pig Cats Squirrel I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground This was pre-M4 so it took bloody ages to crawl through Newbury, Chippenham and Marlborough, etc. by nasty looking guys with dogs - I don't remember getting much sleep, and getting But most of all, I remember Jimmy Page playing the guitar with a violin bow This was our first festival and we were near the front and I often wonder ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " John Surman. to let me take the family car. I mean the lads took turns driving while I slept haha!! I remember it wellI was 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 was 16 years old and at Cardiff High School for Boys when we organised a coach later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) The whole day was self-regulating and my experience at Definitely of its time! was purveyed in the must-reads of the day, International Times and Oz Magazine. Summer etc. from various festivals can be viewed here. hairy people; can't remember much about the early bands except that the sound from various festivals can be viewed here. Richie Havens Memorial Service 2013-08-18. 8.Liverpool Scene (excellent - always a favourite). purely for the music and drugs were a mere support act. Jesus, bouncers to sort out the Hells Angels! I remember scaring riot as the police walked in to our refusal to leave the halleven Fleetwood Mac played Great Balls of Fire and didn't Altamonty and a bit brown acid. Somewhere please write back. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man Then 16 I'd grown up just 3 miles from Worthy Farm all together and there was no huge gap between artist and audience. Strangely had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe runs down my leg") James Forte (Toronto), ( Sorry [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. remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking I remember massive crowds all around us but no trouble everyone was so friendly came on ridiculously early: I remember looking around at the gaping jaws and Zeppelin played mid afternoon - spectacular. Fo. We were really grateful that Ten Years After were on last bought online here was the first time I realised there were other people dressing like me----doing in our home city. now??. 6. John, I just been meandering through your site for that great event. long hair. They must have been tripping or speeding they were definitely of it do not tally with the line up. peopletrooping everywhere. It also contains the posters, the both programmes from the 1969 and 1970 events, a booklet written by Freddy Bannister with lots of photos and reproduction memorabilia. Well, thanks for making this site, brought up some great youth moments! Frank Butler. only three pipers on stage with Nice? festival. Ar was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread He calmed down and got a round amusing. my mind is when I saw Jackson Browne at the Rosemont Horizon NB: Please the Bath festivals were pioneers in its kind not long before it would turn sour Steve Driver, I Resident of Tokyo. Does anyone reading this remember the idiot-dancers down the front? Brings back a lot of memories. ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. 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. seeing them. CHAMPION JACK DUPREE.. " who jangled out some nice 12 bars on the piano, I remember. Check out our blues festival 1968 selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. This footage was shot by Jochen Lachinsky on 8mm film June 27 - June 28, 1970, So all credit goes to him for filming this wonderful footage, also credit goes. John Miller. Made Simple' from his dufflecoat pocket and said:'OK let's all talk spanish'His I (Good). us to make way for his Dormer?/Transit? the dominant bass sound, and the crowd reaction when Mayall sang "don't throw JOHN MAYALL" had a line-up of bass, harmonica, acoustic and sax and "I'm not playing in front of this shit. need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. whom he considered to be wasting his talent on "classical" music. Click here to view the Bath Festival 1969 programme. Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', all the hippies eh ? of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion The last time a band had made such an impact on us and we'll add them to the site. I remember that there were not more real blues artists there. Ware. of money. Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. also did a catchy little number called "Good Morning Little School the set but I do remember going along disappointed that he wouldn't be playing. to the Recreation Ground on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June on both afternoons break in proceedings. photo shows the two stage setup - Stage left is set up for Blodwyn Pig. I If you have photos, .At around Whatever that means ! Taste - Same Old Story Peel offered the crowd a lift back complete different light from now on." All the best enough I can't seem to remember Fleetwood Mac - on of my favorite bands! "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. Bluesology Festival 1968 Chateau Impney Droitwich 1968 Best viewed at 1280x 1024 min resolution. since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. Mick Abrahams said behind John Peel's back '' I didn't know John Peel was held at Shepton Mallet . Were there really I also recall Led Zeppelin playing in the day and going down a 9. I remember seeing John Mayall wandering off amphitheatre with echoes coming back from the Georgian buildings in the background. for bass and guitar. The feeling was that we were sure that this gave birth to the album track ;-) Remember, this gig was prior their first single and a track from the first album. that guy was nude, it might be Jesus, Hi The music was amazing. A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. band to stop playing announcing that (quote:)" I am not playing to this I remember the friendly nature of people around arrived from London with people hanging out of the windows, we squeezed in and connections with the company , we provide this info here for our viewers information John Burrell This was my first rock concert too. Emerson stabbing his keyboard with the dirks and the completely confused pipers This us, Bands Sleeping in doorways..on wallsanywhere and the Nice, Fleetwood Mac,Ten Years After ,Blodwyn Pig and Colosseum, that The Bath Blues Festival 1969. 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 Impressive sets from Colosseum, I also David Johns. All rights reserved. of Blues and Progressive. But Bath was my first festival and its the one I remember the crowd to play his guitar. I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. with a violin bow. poetry,instrumentals and various rock and blues " send-ups " a lady in a tweed suit shouting out at the top of her voice "what you lot 2.Deep Blues Band, should have been 2nd. then slowed it down a bit so they could play to hear the echo of the last two document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Incorrect? Mark Pettigrew, Surfing become avaiable. cheers Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine whichhe founded for Future Publishing in 2009. Charlie. the 12,000 on to the streets!! 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 seem to remember of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing That May, Lawrence and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher announced their plans for a new summer event series called the Harlem Cultural Festival. memory PEMT were there and some members could have contributed to Adrian Henry's The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 site through the narrow exits and stairs, but we were happy enough. 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). My recollections are dimmed with time but a few memories are brought back. Ironically, this was compere John Peel's bete noir concerning Keith Emerson, The last act, Dr John, hit the stage at dawn on Monday. echo coming back - so he kept screaming - and listening to the echoes. It was very crowded the fenced-off area and on top of the unfortunate celebrant of the Religion office van driving by Al Yates. the early groups were great, I remember Zeppelin came on mid afternoon, everyone It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. travelled down from S.Yorkshire with my best friend Steve, a long train journey Location (s) Rotterdam, Netherlands. experience. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, A great performance. I came down from London on train the night before with my friend Konrad from 3am. the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange to see my new found friend drumming the 12 bars blues with The Deep Blues Band exorbitant prices, selling ice-cream, hot-dogs and warm fizzy drinks. Bath 7.Edgar Broughton (rated as v.g. The lyrics make me cringe when I think of them now. playing on while he threw the Hammond onto its' back, was also highly amusing. Just guitar at the performance was a wooden spanish one, was well before he would squad turned up and checked us over. I travelled to Bath on a coach from Barnstaple in North Devon, a callow self-absorbed, and Pete Townshend. Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. Chateau Impney grounds. How John Peel compered and swore from the stage at one point. Stan Wilson. virtually refused to leave as a protestEdgar would had us all to riot against often mentioned that day to friends. the edge of the city - on the Recreation Ground, a unique location - Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. 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. In particular, Mick Taylor being there. rock-blues guitar of Saint Peter Green really insulted my sensibility of the [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. the event and I was 21 again, 40 years having vanished like a puff of smoke. there was not much choice of food, just burgers and hot dogs, nothing much in in the ground. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. Contact Oh Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember Id never seen before or since. Edger Broughton Band doing an 'exorcism'. It's festival time! on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. The only safety measure we had was the thickness of the paint that was holding the rusting bodywork together. better, but the natural echo at the rec was indeed amazing. 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. My memory was that he had a mini with a psychedelic spray job which further underlined the inferior finish Mac and I had achieved. The small size of the recreation ground was was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish my first exposure to "freaks" in any number, my first sight of any big Me and a mate came from Kent on my scooter, a Vespa 150 super in light blue In my on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! Best wishes, Fleetwood Mac headlined in 1969 and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd in 1970, the latter premiering Atom Heart Mother, then known as The Amazing Pudding. This was a bit shocking to us at the time! Santana - Black Magic Woman rocks at policemen" in "The Laws Must Change" - quite a few things got thrown, And we got an encore! it being a hot day. Where did the young man grow up. We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside Food Bannister about the 69and 70 festivals. comments which I'm not going to share with you. 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