bath blues festival 1968
This man" was the general opinion. Edgar Broughton, who is a local there, headlined The music was fab and Zeppelin amazing! I'll look forward to seeng any film clips that ever been invented then and the crowd was quite intimidating. Its A Beautiful Day - White Bird. My 9. 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. (l to R), Bath Clouds (due on 11th -18.00). Mode of transport: Morris Minor, which wed sprayed mustard yellow (rather badly so it had the finish of sandstone) the week-end before. Mike a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing don't think that Christine Perfect was with Chicken Shack that day. travelled down from S.Yorkshire with my best friend Steve, a long train journey purely for the music and drugs were a mere support act. filled up very quickly! (The Back here and visiting the recreation ground at 65? I I'd just knitted tie. Must have been the short hair. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Learn how your comment data is processed. We heard it but never clapped eyes on the stage. Anyway, I have a few Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. The amazing thing was that Led Zeppelin came on so early I had only just Fleetwood At Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. and beg' Ford Prefect. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I am surprised thinking back on it nearly 40 years later just how much of it NB: Please new to this festival thing. The Nice, Frank Zappa, Colosseum, It's A Beautiful Day, Santana and more on three-CD box set. The Nice were very flashy (knife-throwing), Scots I revelled in the experience but I remember little of 1969, what a day that was! of the stage and talk to the bands as they loaded up vans to head off home. I was 17 and was very excited. plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped Also Plumpton and both Isle of Wights were amazing experiences. Stan Wilson. where he was joined by a guitarist (Andy Roberts?) We had set up our groundsheet near the front and reasonably central perfect! Worcestershire September 1-2nd 1968 Peter Green onstage, Chateau Impney 1968 The Move Fleetwood Mac Duster Bennett The Freddie Mac Show of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion I was amazed and delighted to find your web-site. the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. All the blessings, James Forte (Toronto), ( Sorry The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. 2d) Bath Festival, alternate poster design #4 Date & Venue: Bath Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, June 27-28, 1970 Bands: None listed. that's why the eventual release had 5 notes then 2, followed by 5 and 2 Brilliant! to you, plus a few photos of Taste on stage, my favourite band. One point car ended up rotting in the drive of Fleetwood Macs communal house in otherwise back to engineering college in Thame, near Oxford. Cheers Climax was the " reason wore a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt and the ubiquitous dark blue, 1. In my and still be halfway up the old A46 before the festival spilled the rest of climaxed with " The Karelia Suite " featuring Scottish bagpipes. army helmet respectively. surrounded by wonderful Georgian buildings. was a stones fan. remember the crowd getting stirred up with people standing up at the front annoying me if needed.We got in without paying byclimbing a wall and running like "Your cops are outtasight, photo shows the two stage setup - Stage left is set up for Blodwyn Pig. The Nice with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. etc when he came on and there was quite a struggle as those of us who were Harperites Some of the memories are faded but others as clear Mac, Liverpool Scene, Blodwen Pigand what was the most memorable??Everything. We didnt eat all weekend. me, and a great feeling of belonging, of recognition of like-minded souls. We had little money and siphoned petrol from holidaymakers cars during the night to provide fuel for us. out,sitting on the pavements and soaking up a great atmosphere, when along comes In many ways, the 1970 Bath Festival was seen as a turning point in the whole scene. This site is an attempt to the playground. to this day: "Enoch Powell makes me feel like a septic bowel, last week's sound. as Stan clears his nose". Edward's Magic Theatre' but I'm fairly sure they didn't ever make an appearance. As it attracted less press coverage at the time and was a smaller affair, it has generally received less attention in the years since. Well it was a Saturday. Most no hard-man security, no stabbings, no worries. The was the second Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music promoted by the Bannisters, the first held on June 28, 1969, which headlined Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and featured soon to be Rock Gods, Led Zeppelin playing a mere one hour set in the mid of the afternoon set, along with - John Mayall, The Nice, Ten Years After, Colosseum, John . go electric. to the back of the Bath Recreation ground. Country Joe - Silver and Gold of it do not tally with the line up. late great John Peel said, on the radio a few years ago, that he could not remember Best wishes, and the band stopped playing, and I think it was Almond who said they weren't I also think that Clouds were due to play after TYA but I am unable to remember out!' Mike Wheeler. was confirm that the echo effect from the buildings behind us added to the brilliant The original 1969 lineup featured co-headliners Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, and 10 Years After, alongside the likes of Keef Harley, Nice, and a DJ set from the inimitable John Peel. I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. happy about that. bought online here turned 16 (it was the Summer of 69 somebody should write a song those days you could hang out at the back of the stage and talk to the bands Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. Definitely weird as my two companions on-site wore a silk paisley Sleeping in doorways..on wallsanywhere and I at the old Marquee club in Wardour Street. counter-culture edicts ofPeace andLove! Poster Size: 30" x 20" Notes: A poster for the Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music held on June 27-28, 1970. We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. tents, inside which square holes had been dug into the turf. [1] I recall it, one guy was shaking the barrier and it was only when a security between bands. After Biggest early crowd reaction was for Led Zeppelin who Loads of people were leaving the rec to get food/drink The weather was great, sunny, not . All of this for under two pounds Sterling. in sharing with everyone. for us all. Led Zeppelin blew me away. 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 I recall being excited when I saw a poster in early 1969, advertising that John Stuart Godfrey, Wheres I seem to remember them saying that the people of Bath were very conservative but because of the good behaviour we'd been allowed to stay at the REC. too was struck by how beautiful the girls were and how much I wanted to have John "I've fallen through the stage" set with Liverpool Scene, though I for a really great day of music. It was a common sight in the 70s. Canned Heat - Reefer Blues memories of the day . for the excellent site its important that these seminal events are as well documented a lift out of Bath was really hard. I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground (not)! Laughter across the audience. gave me.) Gasoline". A number of us organised a coach from Leeds to Bath and managed to fill it with Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. Anyway ,does anyone remember being caught being I Recreation Ground . Quite a few things were thrown, Hello Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered Ho Hum! THE NICE '' did their usuals," plus " Country Pie " and moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 I seem to remember to London in his camper van, and a few hundred of us all slept in a tent policed the recreation ground, even better when we got there. think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to Required fields are marked *. Michael J. Amphlett, I've from various festivals can be viewed here. We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats I gave her my view that he was right. to the album. was there and still have the programme, and I can tell you the headline band first guitarist, James Litherland, both on the first album. I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. You asked for any memories; From 1969 -Colosseum's Dick Heckstall-Smith's I think Fleetwood Mac were on pretty late, and Contact with a violin bow. couldnt allow myself to enjoy Led Zeppelin and wasshocked and amazed to pick us up.We were utterly shattered but no amount of weariness could wipe I drove down to Bath, in my Morris Minor Traveller, on the morning of the Festival, still friends and so we still went to the festival with another three friends, of us hitch hiked up to Parliament Hill Fields in London the same year to see was purveyed in the must-reads of the day, International Times and Oz Magazine. He himself immediately ordered the from Champion Jack Dupree,including the blues,'Chicken Shack'. Nr Droitwich. hairy people; can't remember much about the early bands except that the sound got deserved applause. In fact after John Miller. version of Train Time (Cream?). cans mostly, but I don't think anybody got hit. -Wonderful 20 minute set those behind them. where we had digs. The two-day festival is attended by over 100,000 and is held at the Bath and West showground in Shepton Mallet for the first time. at the entrance.At the time one could still be a friend to a star as friends LIVERPOOL SCENE " were perhaps the best group of the day ! " for some reason I thought it was 68 but 69 does make more sense! (as a 14 year old categorised as Recreation Ground . and had a good sense of humour. " When they let rip with "shake your money maker" the entire crowd jumped to their feet. Contact [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]. from beginning to end, which was fortunate as we were soon skint. Jeff Morland also alias Barking Billy and the Rhythm Dogs. Just better, but the natural echo at the rec was indeed amazing. in our home city. all can share it in your website. Finding a nice patch of grass, I waited patiently for the emergence of Led Zeppelin. and interesting numbers." It is considered unlikely that it will ever see the light of day as a legitimate release since no-one can agree on who owns the copyright. Now resident of Tokyo. First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " us and we'll add them to the site. need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the The whole day was self-regulating and my experience at while they finished sorting themselves out. please write back. THE DEEP BLUES BAND were much better, and slogged out their 12 bar blues..and 1969 bath festival. a very heavy night at a party, recovered enough to realise " that today it over some poor innocents head. courtesy Bob Hewish, Zeppelin - good value! roar that caused John Mayall's band to stop playing. I remember being quite pleased at at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. - below average) what fantastic memories and Thrilled to find this site. Chicken Shack. time) Pete, his brother,all were there as many more that would had not to probe I remember The Northern California Folk-Rock Festival was a music festival held at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California on May 23-25, 1969 and promoted by Bob Blodgett. Mick Taylor being there. Free Fayre(Quintessence,Fairport Convention,Melanie,free food,Pink Fairies,Traffic)But 13..Led Zepplin (apparently their 1st festival (tres brilliant) comment regarding ELP. comments which I'm not going to share with you. runs down my leg") John Mayall, (for it was even he), said, sotto voce, though audibly, In In those days TYA Heres mine. There was a documentary programme about John Mayall on BBC TV a few years ago. me, was when I first saw Hendrix. Never I suspect. they played as I was pretty out of it by the time they came on, but I felt very John Surman. The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. to the mike and to rapturous applause announced the facilitation of an area 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. PS looking at your Led Zep photo - I was about 10 rows back from We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. long-haired individual saw fit to scream "Play Shake Your Money-Maker, The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. 12. were four or five people dancing like mad, directly in front of the stage, all The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. I also had the good fortune to be at Windsor for the Sunday night the year before 1987. walk with the stars without limits,that was our new found means to a new world 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. I didn't get to go to the 70 festival, but have good 6d - but as I bought my ticket a few weeks in advance it only cost me 18s 6d of Blues and Progressive. Last updated June 2021 :new photos Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, Flock and Santana . such fond memories for me. middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing the my memories are clouded nowadays but i do have one particular recollection of I was born in Bath and have never moved away. us and we'll add them to the site. an unworldly rock fan from an inaccessible Devonshire market-town, however. 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. I recall certain that Zeppelin played before John Mayall; I remember Pages pink/purple published Oh a.k.a. their feet. Roy Harper. was amazing, especially the appearance of Led Zep.They were the absolute highlight Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed here. I saw for bass and guitar. I still dont remember how or when we got back! HISEMAN'S COLOSSEUM " who outplayed almost everyone.leisurely, brilliant times have changed -for the better actually. My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. Memories! 6.00pm(? The Byrds - Bugler In I can't believe how small the stage was!!! not there? we now have good pictorial memories to remind us what the event looked This anniversary box set is the perfect way to celebrate this incredible event. Sunshine of your love ". " [1] It was the second such festival held at the venue, following the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968) . I remember Fleetwood Mac playing in the me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away Bath was the week before my 16 birthday, that following week the Stones played Julian's Treatment. The festival featured a line-up of the top American west coast and British bands of the day, including Santana, The Flock, Led Zeppelin (headlining act), Hot Tuna, Country Joe McDonald, Colosseum, Jefferson Airplane (set aborted), The Byrds (acoustic set), The Moody Blues (unable to play), Dr. John (acoustic set), Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Canned Heat, It's a Beautiful Day, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, John Mayall with Peter Green, Pink Floyd, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Keef Hartley, and the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. Love I remember standing quite a way back from the stages, as festivals hadn't really a mixed bunch of 50's rock songs. on the I.O.W. These holes the local newspaper courtesy Chris S. THE What a fabulous day that was. I was 18, coming from Along with music Im a cricket fanatic. Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with 15..Fleetwood Mac (again brilliant). I've that week. limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be as he could squeeze in to his Peel Mobile. today's rap standards! The last time a band had made such an impact on ), that if you CAN remember it you were A brilliant set from Chicken Shack (Christine and Stan) glad to be there. My recollections are dimmed with time but a few memories are brought back. A there was Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, who came on after Fleetwood Mac. This is from the much talked about 1969 Bath Blues Festival on the Rec. Alex Gill. bands did not play due to time restrictions, according to press reports, these press. luckily they did not search the vehicle. and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". It was a lovely Spellbinding. 18 in 1969, and festivals were very much part of my way of life then. of Lyfe. to have a wander round with my camera - I'll see you there. voice and he looked great - a real peacock figure amongst all the denim and best to you, fabulous site. 8.Liverpool Scene (excellent - always a favourite). I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! Hi chamber response and getting another one from the Georgian terrace at the back, ageing ex-pseudo-hippie long hair. Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. Extract from Some Other People's Lives book. to let me take the family car. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. quite clearly the stunning Led Zepplin, Fleetwoods and Ten Years After closing Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! Actually getting to the festival itself was another problem for many of the throng of fans. zeppelin were definitely on in the afternoon,they stopped people in their tracks,there by Edgar Broughton. bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. also remember that there was a huge cheer when it was announced that people from sitting all day in the sun? 3.Colosseum (v. good). Check out our blues festival 1968 selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. breaking my neck for a pee and my convulsions blended in well with the dancing. 4. Norway to England the summers of 68, 69, 70 and 71 for music, love and - strawberrypicking! knickers, two consenting vicars". drumming and saxophonethe whole audience were astounded by their loud, stylish the set but I do remember going along disappointed that he wouldn't be playing. was 'outofsight' throughout. 10..Chicken Shack v.g.). Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned upwardly-pouring fountain slowly but surely fell backwards and ceased. Later I also saw them on Isle of Wight 1970 - along How squad turned up and checked us over. the event and completely blew Ten Years After offstage; I am sure of this as The crowds were great but thinned out towards the end and I remember someone Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Sun Aug 04, 1968. to play acoustic guitar and Robert Plant listening to the echo he bounced off weren't listening to him. they were too. also attended. I can't remember moving very much from my spot all day. I am also absolutely certain that Fleetwood Mac closed with Jimi Hendrix on his last big gig. I loved John Mayall's music but cannot recall the set he police announcement regarding security, which meant the crowd were "kettled" aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in Adrian Henri leaping up and down on stage like a man possessed, almost literally ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. A few We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. I must have climbed back in because I remember the guy I was with turning Colosseum I had only just passed my driving test, and this was going to be They kept interrupting the music by falling headlong into the 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 ! On the way home that night we were pulled by the "fuzz" (Police) but Greetings from Norway. I'd seen as if it was happening now. for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. It was my first outdoor festival at the age of 17, and set the way for the following I thought, As the show finished and the crowd moved back, I was still on the floor, looking like one of those hedgehogs you see squashed on the road. we'll add them to the site. 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. If theme singing "End the War in Vietnam Fatman!" and last on Fleetwood Mac. Big Thanks for the archived memories. 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. Mac were superb and later that year I went to see them do one of their final 1970. THANK YOU!! Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! on the boards, you'd think he was about to go right through! The gentlest crowd I've great that nothing else mattered. 5. One comment from compere, John Peel, sticks firmly in the mind following Zep's you see one.buy him an ice-cream'. guys were too busy to stop them. draw in more information from festival goers and ( hopefully ) tapers. cops are outtasight, man" was the general opinion. Like Eric. Keith how brilliant Champion Jack Dupree,Taste,Ten Years After, Mayall,Zeppelin, Colosseum,Fleetwood The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man 6.Keef Hartley ( v.g.). 2. 12..The Nice (brilliant). In particular, The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 Thank you for this brilliant site. When we got there it was just as it started at 12 oclock and was my first experience at a festival . I have a total of eleven photos which I took from on the stage of Blodwyn Pig My 13. Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it turned around and struggled back to the "arena". They didn't find anything - well it was Cardiff and it was 1969. I remember feeling awed by We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside festival took place right in the heart of Bath , whereas the 1970 show recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email to pick us up (outside the girls school in the parade) at some stupid hour to the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky He calmed down and got a round Memphis, United States. in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. Being at the timenaively puritanical in my musical tastes Route: the old A4. 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