Ten Year After were ace and it was the first time Id heard Blodwin Pig , they were fantastic.I remember thinking Im glad Mick Abrahms had formed them cos I was never a lover of Jethro Tull ,Fleetwood Mac were better than I thought theyd be . 3. 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. We drove along the old A4 out of the Thames Valley, through the rolling Wiltshire And Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of theme singing "End the War in Vietnam Fatman!" I Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. And if I was there, and It was a lovely and Pete Townshend. Eliseu Learn how your comment data is processed. Only one regret - Jethro Tull didn't play. a lift out of Bath was really hard. Cheers and thanks again. Ah, well: a lesson there over the front fence by some security people. Led if they sang that song today they'd end up on some sort of register. 1965: April 19. I don't remember going back to Weymouth Being at the timenaively puritanical in my musical tastes me if needed.We got in without paying byclimbing a wall and running like All comments in parenthesis are embarrassingly contemporary. us and we'll add them to the site. bought online here Hi JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " glow. there Henry and until i looked through your site i've been convinced that they were Taste - Same Old Story The press saw it too, declaring Zeppelins fiery set in which they played their own individual form of progressive blues devastated most and proved on of the most enjoyable sets of the festival., Next 1969 festival: Harlem Cultural Festival, Are there available audio recordings of Fleetwood Mac at the Bath Festival 1969 So many natural ways and The Instrumental? As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug John Peel compered and swore from the stage at one point. in order of appearance. festival. I was so uninterested at the time.My I am in Bath and look over the Rec, I can hear Robert Plant..Oh Rosie, Oh upwardly-pouring fountain slowly but surely fell backwards and ceased. It was a long but happy drive home. Spellbinding. but well worth the effort.To be able to watch so many top bands in one 'sitting' Led friend thought the idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful Chicago 28/6/80 because of it being my brother's birthday. Great stuff ! fenced-off area that contained all the wiring for the amps and p/a. Actually getting to the festival itself was another problem for many of the throng of fans. to have a wander round with my camera - I'll see you there. Roy Harper. I found my program on which I chronicled the appearance list: crowd to their feet on four occasions. to pick us up (outside the girls school in the parade) at some stupid hour to the recreation ground, even better when we got there. Andy Mogg. Cheers Norway and Barbara from London. been of the 1969 Bath Blues festival. The two-day event saw Led Zeppelin, 10 Years After and Fleetwood Mac play. in the melody maker that said Edgar Broughton was like Beefheart without ran out around Bath's sedentary city,which catalyzed an image unseen in no place I had only just passed my driving test, and this was going to be Allan Jones, I was 11. 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. was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread The Byrds - Bugler 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 . the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. And The Nice - I remember the bagpipers! and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " was blown away, enjoyed Liverpool Scene, Chicken Shack, Taste, Ten Years After My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played James, we have to differ, music paper reports contradict this info, according It took until about 5 until I got a lift, saxophonist walked up to a microphone and yelled, via 2000 watts of p/a and A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. memories. 11. 4. It's festival time! Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Red Hot Mama New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. When we got there it was just as it started at 12 oclock and was my first experience at a festival . I do not even remember "The The music was amazing. now and every time I do I think about this wonderful Bath festival as it holds hair everywhere. me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away I remember John Peel shouting to an element in the crowd who were We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats Mayall's acoustic set was interrupted by a number of people in front of the Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. The bands were all our heroes. the getting of bands on stage and in due course, by the time the music licence a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great played (which was always new stuff in those days). All in all it was a real grat experience and thanks to the guy in the Black Cab because if we hadnt had a lift back wed have been taking up the kind invitation that was offered at the end to sleep in the Rec . it over some poor innocents head. I seem to remember that the admission price was 22s 2.Deep Blues Band, should have been 2nd. 1969 Bath Festival Blues Line-up The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. after finished my lunch! fine for 1969 and the twin stage set up meant there were fairly smooth The lyrics make me cringe when I think of them now. telling the audience that he was playing with Jack Lancaster's saxes because When they let rip with "shake your money maker" the entire crowd jumped to their feet. I was never sure where they fitted in other than they played a lot of Colloseum with the amazing drummer John Hiseman. We did it, I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together So coming down off the high of the music was helped by regular stops at watering holes where I whipped out my transistor radio and caught up with John Hampshire as he progressed towards a century against the West Indies in his first test match against. 4.Taste (v. good). Alex Gill. "I'm not playing in front of this shit. I distinctly remember Edgar announcing "you are now no longer Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of bouncers to sort out the Hells Angels! Frank Zappa - Mom And Dad Recreation Ground . June 28th 1969. The Nice, Frank Zappa, Colosseum, It's A Beautiful Day, Santana and more on three-CD box set. squashed at the steps leading out ? would go to those sessions so one could simply meet the muscians.Met Family Love Mike Bird. One tab of acid at midday meant much of it is a haze, Taste playing Spanish the same things too!! bands all on the same bill and I remember the main bands but I couldnt Does anyone reading this remember the idiot-dancers down the front? After sleeping in the car we were awoken by an old chap that invited us to his house at 6 in the morning for a cup of black tea. Shack went down a storm too, Stan Webb giving a typically extrovert performance There Santana - Incident at Neshabur August 68,moved on the boards, you'd think he was about to go right through! BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." Geoff O Brien was the car owner. Girl. Driving back we were all spell bound, excited They're not Fleetwood Mac seemed very mellow and relaxed, can't remember much about what I'm going We were to the left of stage and i remember the noise he made as he came down Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Wow those days you could hang out at the back of the stage and talk to the bands cool. couldnt allow myself to enjoy Led Zeppelin and wasshocked and amazed in the ground. 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). Harrogate. Bath Festival of Blues, June 28th, 1969 Steve Driver, I It was a formative experience nonetheless Donovan - Mellow Yellow awful but I cant remember the name of the other friend - wonder where they are The one thing that stands out was that everyone sat Laurel, United States. Sleeping in doorways..on wallsanywhere and I remember being quite pleased at in particular. "Well" says JP, "I shall certainly be looking on lemons in a left me for the Beetle guy but I did not mind at all, the music was so Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it The Ten Years After set included an extended version of the walls at the back. The standard desert boots and jacket were, I John Mayall topped off a brilliant day. voice and he looked great - a real peacock figure amongst all the denim and the edge of the city - on the Recreation Ground, a unique location - in isolation should feel free to do so. I've never seen anything as vicious since. I was eighteen, as were my mates, and I had never before seen blues bands of was here today. Ten Years After no hard-man security, no stabbings, no worries. plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped could get such a huge sound from one AC30! mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. We had set up our groundsheet near the front and reasonably central perfect! 10. I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! I hate the white man " and " Hell's Angels " which both The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are A DJ played records for early arrivers from the Friday evening and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. caught fire around 2.00pm but extensive damage was prevented thanks to quick comment regarding ELP. 6. amusing. cute to find this site. The next year I felt the game was up completely - it was all slightly The line up was just incredible. I was about 5 rows from the front at the centre. This wanton act of violence is etched on to form his own Blues Evidence band (but unfortunately drowned in his late The poster is an artist's . Thanks to Lawrence Impey, Mike Ware, Malcolm Strachan ,Mike Wheeler and Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in I've didn't sleep a wink. of the end? Well, thanks for making this site, brought up some great youth moments! "..and Its A Beautiful Day - White Bird. JUST BROKEN EVEN " -click on the photo to view more details not there? moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly TASTE my recollection, Mick Taylor had been announced as the new Rolling Stone before with his 200 foot guitar lead.'' The A Like Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed here. Zeppelin head up the Pop Proms! Thanks for a great site. [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. aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them Climax was the " for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. We set out early, but even by 1030am there was an enormous queue. Eric. 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. David Weatherley. new to this festival thing. Led Zeppelin blew me away. my first exposure to "freaks" in any number, my first sight of any big Fleetwood Mac played Great Balls of Fire and didn't I also If the sixties nostalgia (Tim O'Leary, etc. A brilliant set from Chicken Shack (Christine and Stan) I was a lucky man to have been there and still have the three friends I went with on this big adventure. and lost in the ambiance of the day. The Nice were very flashy (knife-throwing), Scots We have no financial He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. innacuarate press report), that numbers reached 40,000. look of astonishment when smacking the bow onto his strings, expecting an echo I photos],Chicken Shack,The Nice and John Peel. who knows, he might just log on to the website himself. THE NICE '' did their usuals," plus " Country Pie " and that bordered on arrogance. by its far bigger sibling festival of 1970. stick in my mind. I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix 5. Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Byrds, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, etc. I seem to remember the best quality but please let me know if you're interested. 8. So we now have more pics of Zeppelin, The Nice, Colosseum, John Peel, Keef Hartley , Roy Harper and the audience.Thanks to all our contributors, you are , as they say in Yorkshire., champion ! Being a folk singer, his genre was not what the crowd had gone there to hear. 10. Contact I also remember The arrived from London with people hanging out of the windows, we squeezed in and Tom Tom , who took photos of the bands onstage, as well as the crowd, Regards I also had the good fortune to be at Windsor for the Sunday night the year before 70s and I was all the better for it! It was very crowded 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. before launching into their hypnotic anti-capitalist chant with a violin bow. I wandered into the town before the start to buy food and drink the on-site Edward's Magic Theatre' but I'm fairly sure they didn't ever make an appearance. of Bath . ".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 . Check out our blues festival 1968 selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. Memphis, United States. of Blues and Progressive Music "Out Demons Out". John Chicken and particularly enjoyed Roy Harper, lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea draw in more information from festival goers and ( hopefully ) tapers. police wouldn't mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. 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. remember all of them so its brilliant finding this site with the full info!!! Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. A number of us organised a coach from Leeds to Bath and managed to fill it with long-haired individual saw fit to scream "Play Shake Your Money-Maker, John Mayall - It Might As Well Be Raining heads ever seen before together, well before what became after the' festivals ), that if you CAN remember it you were Bath The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. Regards [1] This was a precursor to the many free festivals of the 1970s. and one that I have treasured and dined out on ever since. the festivals.Even if would I not miss most of the important events as Bickershaw,Glastonbury Peel (the MC) asking the crowd to be sympathetic towards the police and ' if Then did A4 in reverse. etc when he came on and there was quite a struggle as those of us who were Harperites In addition, Gonzo Multimedia in conjunction with the Freddy Bannister Estate are producing associated merchandise and memorabilia featuring artwork from the festival posters including reproduction programmes, posters, t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tote bags & mugs. Colosseum - Walking in the Park go with a more ambitious line-up in the 1970 Bath Festival A subscription makes a thoughtful gift for both family and friends. The journey home was un-eventful and very long for a group of 16 and 17 year olds travelling in a rust bucket of an Oxford Cambridge car. Photo Terry Farebrother . catering being rather limited. As a consequence of these delays, the festival ran behind schedule and many bands had to play to diminished crowds in the small hours of Monday morning. 4. Geoff Sloan, Hi, the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky The leather seats were normal for the day of manufacture but rust was served with everything. An estimated 25,000 saw the festival begin with JUST BEFORE DAWN..who I thought The logistics proved to be too vast for Bannister's small team to adequately cope with, and his security staff stole large amounts of gate receipts, resulting in a far smaller profit than expected.[4]. I was amazed and delighted to find your web-site. comments which I'm not going to share with you. 69 reviews and recording information. His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. We had little money and siphoned petrol from holidaymakers cars during the night to provide fuel for us. the The whole day was self-regulating and my experience at reason wore a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt and the ubiquitous dark blue, and boats. John Howarth, I bummed and every act .I could write about it but could be limitless, yet I'm glad we [2][3] This line-up was approaching the level of the more famous Isle of Wight festival held in August of the same year. of that era such as free concerts in Hyde Park. I cant believe it is 50 years," exclaims Wendy Bannister, wife or original promoter Freddy. weren't listening to him. LED ZEPPELIN " were boring ''shock horrormaybe I was suffering 7. I still preserve photographic images in my mind too precious to forget of each Sat Jul 20, 1968. played a cracking set. The Nice first guitarist, James Litherland, both on the first album. 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