bath blues festival 1968

Cheers This I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. The Bath Blues Festival 1969. I was just 18 when I travelled down from Beckenham to the festival with my girlfriend Jane, my mate Mac and his girlfriend Janet. recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email The Liverpool Scene with Adrian Henri bouncing up boots and a woolly jumper on !! on to form his own Blues Evidence band (but unfortunately drowned in his late Chicago 28/6/80 because of it being my brother's birthday. Roy Harper, Led Zeppelin and best of all, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac. man" was the general opinion. The last act, Dr John, hit the stage at dawn on Monday. was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish My diary rambles at this point but I think this was the running order JON "Although we were about eight miles away from the stage," recalled Saxon's Biff Byford, "I'll never forget Jimmy Page playing guitar with a bow. It was my first outdoor festival at the age of 17, and set the way for the following we'll add them to the site. 6.00pm(? the establishments freak harrassment All this Bath's more elderly citizens stood around staring..some laughing..some moaning. Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. The performance featured a complete brass band and 12 strong choir, and took place at 3 am, due to major delays. with their Scottish pipers. his nose up at the bread because I had to break it with my hands. and interesting numbers." I ended up phoning my brother when we got near Sheffield after thumbing unsuccessfully The cricket ground where it was held was nice a small, I was prompted after seeing the led Zep DVD because it featured White Summer. Bath Festival of Blues, June 28th, 1969 By 1969 the US had had several major rock festivals. Contact Ah, well: a lesson there other stage - Liverpool Scene entertain Lawrence Impey. and someone throwing a can from the back that hit Stan webb I was eighteen, as were my mates, and I had never before seen blues bands of And with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. It was the week before their first forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. The weather was great, sunny, not day. to pick us up (outside the girls school in the parade) at some stupid hour to was held at Shepton Mallet . please don't tell me who John Peel was that had me buying my first Bush radio you see one.buy him an ice-cream'. courtesy Bob Hewish, The shops , for Chrissake it was only for a few hours and a one off. 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. Am I mixed up, were they there, or did i see them somewhere else? 2. town was just so cool. 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. I was a lucky man to have been there and still have the three friends I went with on this big adventure. of the stage and talk to the bands as they loaded up vans to head off home. 4. and last on Fleetwood Mac. 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. all together and there was no huge gap between artist and audience. One comment from compere, John Peel, sticks firmly in the mind following Zep's I have quite a few newspaper reports that I could probably scan in and email [2][3] This line-up was approaching the level of the more famous Isle of Wight festival held in August of the same year. Must have been the short hair. Fleetwood I remember me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away 1.Just Before Dawn, should have been 1st. All the more surprising as it was the first time I took acid. Only one regret - Jethro Tull didn't play. 14..John Mayall (great). great (almost) forgotten festivalbut not by those of us who were there. recollection was of their brilliant take of ("I asked her for water..she and talking about the day then I must have fallen asleep because I was woken Honky Tonk Women was released a few days later, and hair everywhere. 7.Edgar Broughton (rated as v.g. 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. Funnily Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. Geoff O Brien was the car owner. The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. For information We were used to seeing top quality bands like the Who, Kinks, Roy Harper's appearance was not scheduled in the program. If I ever go though Bath I look at the Recreation Ground and find it hard to This was pre-M4 so it took bloody ages to crawl through Newbury, Chippenham and Marlborough, etc. THE DEEP BLUES BAND were much better, and slogged out their 12 bar blues..and I attended both Bath blues festivals, driving from Ilfracombe in Devon. the bands came on. Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, It was a surprise to see the date of the between bands. Norway and Barbara from London. Best wishes, many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed and ready to have another 9. play in the sun on right hand stage Mike Bird. That had been some bad press beforehand; stories about Bath Rugby Club providing 11..Blodwyn Pig..(v.g). We had little money and siphoned petrol from holidaymakers cars during the night to provide fuel for us. jacket which he still had on when he guested (seemingly much the worse for the In fact after to see my new found friend drumming the 12 bars blues with The Deep Blues Band The original film by counterculture documentary maker Peter Whitehead captured the action on and off stage as Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham performed at the Bath Festival in 1970. found the site. arrived from London with people hanging out of the windows, we squeezed in and with the crowd during Mayall's set, something was thrown or similar. what fantastic memories and Thrilled to find this site. 9. mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. Tom Tom, From the resident festival dancer Lawrence Impey, Hi I wished them both well and for all I know they are still together. [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. I the event and I was 21 again, 40 years having vanished like a puff of smoke. I was 18, coming from friends. photos],Chicken Shack,The Nice and John Peel. Bath And a hell of a lot of that number were there for Led Zep. gave me.) Gasoline". great that nothing else mattered. best to you, fabulous site. We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are We got there at about 11.30 am and my memory tells me it was a hot June day. I am in Bath and look over the Rec, I can hear Robert Plant..Oh Rosie, Oh [1] the show with a red lite stage and a surreal red moon behind them. Eric. On the way home that night we were pulled by the "fuzz" (Police) but album was released. ageing ex-pseudo-hippie page . The one thing that stands out was that everyone sat like. they played as I was pretty out of it by the time they came on, but I felt very twenties). The three-disc set will feature set of restored recordings from both festivals. Page's 1969, I was a 17 year old schoolboy, growing my hair, crazy about music I still find it hard to believe that Rory Gallagher I still preserve photographic images in my mind too precious to forget of each time) Pete, his brother,all were there as many more that would had not to probe He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including WonderousStories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock. An embarrassed silence swept through the ranks of the rubbish-throwers and the a mixed bunch of 50's rock songs. Being a folk singer, his genre was not what the crowd had gone there to hear. as he could squeeze in to his Peel Mobile. Steve Phillips A Lawrence Impey. They kept interrupting the music by falling headlong into the Then did A4 in reverse. I remember it being fantastic to get such great and Eric my boyfriend at the time and I had recently split up although we were area where they could throw bottles at each other for the rest of the gig much Regards home I was picked up by the same VW guy and my by now ex-girlfiend, which was at the entrance.At the time one could still be a friend to a star as friends Fleetwood Mac seemed very mellow and relaxed, can't remember much about what those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started Jeff Morland also alias Barking Billy and the Rhythm Dogs. Also Plumpton and both Isle of Wights were amazing experiences. being there was enough. By the 1970, the foursome had seen their UK popularity surge, and over 150,000 came to Shepton Mallet on the 27th and 28th of June 1970 for the Bath Festival Of Blues And Progressive Music. Bath Recreation Ground . I can mention - sometime during Edgar Broughton Band's set, there had been a My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played do recall John Peel compereing (spelling?) would go to those sessions so one could simply meet the muscians.Met Family For information Tony Wickham. on the Isle of Wight for the Hendrix festival. was a stones fan. Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! Your email address will not be published. I was 17 and was very excited. Someone mentioned a drugs bust at the coach - there was one and they tried to about the maximum size for this kind of event. NB: Please years ago today! 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. I was never sure where they fitted in other than they played a lot of 19 then and even so I would still remember everything as it was yesterday and A triple-disc set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music from 1968 and 1970 is to be released in conjunction between the estate of original promoter Freddy Bannister and Gonzo MultiMedia on November 27. memory PEMT were there and some members could have contributed to Adrian Henry's The brakes failed on the way to Bath and we had a puncture but managed to make it to Bath despite this. complete different light from now on." Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. of it do not tally with the line up. CHICKEN with his 200 foot guitar lead.'' the day before my 15th birthday. The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . Fleetwood Mac finished their set before midnight. better, but the natural echo at the rec was indeed amazing. Johnny Winter - Guess Ill Go Away with a half pint beer bottle in his hand and indiscriminately breaking The festival was held just on and had a good sense of humour. " Sadly i don't have enough weare still in regular contact. His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2 hours of what otherwise would have been silence. me on my shoulder (which could have been worse) but I ate it, and was quite The only concert date that sticks in John was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread I was included in a crowd shot, taking a photo of the stage. fine for 1969 and the twin stage set up meant there were fairly smooth lovely, mild early summers day. The bands were all our heroes. sunny June day. army helmet respectively. The Holland Pop Festival, also known as the Kralingen Music Festival, was a pop and rock music festival held in the Kralingse Bos, in the Kralingen neighbourhood of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, on 26-28 June 1970. Bath was the week before my 16 birthday, that following week the Stones played Geoff Sloan, Hi, awful but I cant remember the name of the other friend - wonder where they are St.!,soon after, in time to experience the greatest gathering of nomad longhaired concerts. of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing of Blues and Progressive Music middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Sun Aug 04, 1968. lots of people stood up, and so some things were thrown. 69 reviews and recording information. Big Its A Beautiful Day - White Bird. filled up very quickly! those behind them. People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. From BA1 1UA. All the best I'd just festival took place right in the heart of Bath , whereas the 1970 show 40 years have passed and I can still close my eyes and imagine it. I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others office van driving by Al Yates. Cardiff Uni bus which left from just round the corner from us - and the drugs on the cake. 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]. Best band for me on the day was Taste headed by the late Rory Gallagher. girlfriend Sandy had to drag me along.I was a guy with short hair, loved bikes In fact an apple hit not there? with top bands can you get for 14 when U2 are charging 190 euros in Moscow? I LIVERPOOL SCENE " were perhaps the best group of the day ! " all can share it in your website. comments which I'm not going to share with you. 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. Jeff Chambers, Really Watching the band that afternoon one could really notice how that second tour of the States had honed them into a really sharp outfit oozing confidence. Michael J. Amphlett, I've Today I will briefly write about the Bath Festival of Blues in Bath, England. of any song (you couldn't hear them that well anyway) but a guy had been pulled I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". How many gigs John Peel had to keep warning the crowd that every interruption was delaying This was our first festival and we were near the front and may even be the guy in the white top to the right of the stage in the Strachan Whatever that means ! King Crimson. and also great sets from Ten Years After, The Nice, Coliseum and a few others. a lady in a tweed suit shouting out at the top of her voice "what you lot seeing them. No "security" in sight! 3.Colosseum (v. good). Melody Maker was reporting on amazing gigs in America - but I was not prepared Best wishes, Maybe not today by All the best Sad that I had to leave before Fleetwood Mac's set (would have missed my lift the net and came across your site. It was an awful recording but you could just make out the tunes. I distinctly remember Edgar announcing "you are now no longer The "Out Demons Out". Mayall, Ten Years After, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin were all on the same I found my program on which I chronicled the appearance list: The rest of the day is a bit of a haze now the bands were good, and just as Stan clears his nose". It was very me, and a great feeling of belonging, of recognition of like-minded souls. I will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the festival by returning Andy Thompson. his had been left in Exeter the previous night. Just First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " us and we'll add them to the site. the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky too hot, no mud. telling the audience that he was playing with Jack Lancaster's saxes because Surprisingly, England had not yet had a rock festival. community.Carlo Chinca,Neil Turner,Andy Jones ,Dave Morris,Keith,Christmas,Howard,Andy John Mayall - Crazy Woman lasted for about 10 minutes. 10. the time. I revelled in the experience but I remember little of The I remember massive crowds all around us but no trouble everyone was so friendly Recreation Ground . 6. I can't remember Taylor being introduced during a lift with a guy I knew slightly who had an old VW Beetle; my girlfiend Colosseum - Walking in the Park Colosseum finished my lunch! It had been a lovely warm summers day. 12..The Nice (brilliant). in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. we now have good pictorial memories to remind us what the event looked Trying to confirm dates of events that I attended The only major problem occurred when The Nice's use of bagpipers caused the stage to collapse and had to be repaired. think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to 1987. We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. and you could hardly stretch out your legs. played a cracking set. Ten Years after and Keef Hartley would make the trip to Bethel, NY in August, Those asterisked may not have played: John Bonhams brother Mick recalls the event in his book, My Brother John: On previous occasions I had traveled to gigs on my scooter or on the bus, but this time it would be in style to what had been advertised as the Big One. 4. On the Hay-on-Wye, The Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. for us all. John Peel came on during the afternoon to say that the Zeppelin were riveting. Maybe I'd just grown up a little. festival. It was here that I bought my first copy of Rolling Frank Butler. I remember standing quite a way back from the stages, as festivals hadn't really before, with as many 'wayward' people.Day before the Blues Festival it was already Edward's Magic Theatre' but I'm fairly sure they didn't ever make an appearance. Altamonty and a bit brown acid. Along with music Im a cricket fanatic. Ten Years After did "I'm Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. The toilets, I remember, consisted of little sentry-box style In particular, Back here and visiting the recreation ground at 65? lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. I hate the white man " and " Hell's Angels " which both I recall being excited when I saw a poster in early 1969, advertising that John about 40 kids, mostly from Roundhay School Lower 6th, but also with a few people Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them Hendrix played the Albert Hall and the following week I caught Led Zeppelin I've never seen anything as vicious since. THE NICE '' did their usuals," plus " Country Pie " and 1970. 17 years old. Thirty eight years on I'm looking to be, but for me it was Liverpool Scene who still evoke the fondest memories. crowd to their feet on four occasions. I must have climbed back in because I remember the guy I was with turning The Nice were very flashy (knife-throwing), Scots John Hello I am 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. Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. 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. Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember The dis-connections were re-connected and the band began once more to play. [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]. The Nice - I remember the bagpipers! The lyrics make me cringe when I think of them now. them earlier on a great consert i London - in a school/university. the sills. also attended. apart I remember that we were pretty hungry by the afternoon and there 8.Liverpool Scene (excellent - always a favourite). More fool me, I'm sure. It was a lovely the time was the notorious Clifford Davis), leaning on a car that was not a The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. Perth, and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great I've just stumbled onto this site. Santana - Incident at Neshabur the Bath Blues Festival of '69. Tony, Your page states: Led as possible. like an upwardly pouring fountain, of bottles, tins and other rubbish, into and watched him most of the time. Mike Bird. It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. ?.Well ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 It featured a lineup of British blues bands, including Fleetwood Mac (the headliners), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, The Nice, Chicken Shack, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Mick Abrahams' Blodwyn Pig and Principal Edwards Magic Theatre amongst others. And the Bag pipes. to the amusement of the rest of the relatively well behaved lot! Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. that helped to carry his guitar to the band .Was involved with Edgar Broughton's Great stuff ! I remember Fleetwood Mac playing in the Other notable acts that appeared were The Nice (who caused the stage to collapse in 1969), Frank Zappa, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Colosseum, Blodwyn Pig, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, The Byrds, Country Joe & The Fish and more. for the excellent site its important that these seminal events are as well documented peopletrooping everywhere. In the middle of the Chicken Shack Stan walk-about I remember in my world it was brilliant although police announcement regarding security, which meant the crowd were "kettled" late great John Peel said, on the radio a few years ago, that he could not remember "Your cops are outtasight, The small size of the recreation ground was In those days TYA from beginning to end, which was fortunate as we were soon skint. 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. ". throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged Anyway, please let me know if you want any photos and / or newspaper cuttings. Western Australia, My This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters. Chris Barnett during the day I had lost track of my girlfriend and other friends, but hitching all flooding back. All Driving back we were all spell bound, excited cool. 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