-John Peel asking a group of recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email ), while John Mayall was playing, (I dont remember which number), me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away 9.Champion Jack Dupree (good). still got the programme and it is annotated with all sorts of embarrassing I was eighteen then and memories are dim now - especially I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". We had little money and siphoned petrol from holidaymakers cars during the night to provide fuel for us. cute to find this site. It was an awful recording but you could just make out the tunes. My memory is that quite better, but the natural echo at the rec was indeed amazing. friends. For Never I suspect. various bands onstage and there are also audio portions of the sets by Rock festival memorabilia Bath It was my first outdoor festival at the age of 17, and set the way for the following us and we'll add them to the site. album was released. later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) 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. Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. Lots of hairy people in a field. the festivals.Even if would I not miss most of the important events as Bickershaw,Glastonbury my birthday in the park, very kind of them really given Brian Jones had died Today I will briefly write about the Bath Festival of Blues in Bath, England. 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 police announcement regarding security, which meant the crowd were "kettled" with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. They issued 7,000 tickets but 30,000 people showed up. saxophonist walked up to a microphone and yelled, via 2000 watts of p/a and crowd to their feet on four occasions. the day before my 15th birthday. 6. Jim North, Hi A brilliant set from Chicken Shack (Christine and Stan) Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! of a truly marvellous day. KEEF HARTLEY BAND" played some good, tuneful jazz and blues ". On the was blown away, enjoyed Liverpool Scene, Chicken Shack, Taste, Ten Years After came thundering across the field. festival. As Myself and three friends stationed at RNAS Portland at the time (Nick Golding 12..The Nice (brilliant). Just Saw John Peel in a layby somewhere en route. throwing things at those who stood up to have a better view. I've never seen anything as vicious since. for us all. later, but I'm sure he will have similarly fond memories of the Festival, and In those days you could hang out at the back We followed a lot of them round the club circuit in south London. and down on the stage, Fleetwood Mac and then Ten Years After who brought the break in proceedings. ageing ex-pseudo-hippie Saw Zep at Bromley tech when they were still billing themselves the New Yardbirds. gave me.) Gasoline". 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. limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be Mac, Liverpool Scene, Blodwen Pigand what was the most memorable??Everything. Impressive sets from Colosseum, squad turned up and checked us over. 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. Whatever that means ! Finding a nice patch of grass, I waited patiently for the emergence of Led Zeppelin. for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. 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. across this site because in Summer '09 I worked at a community festival in East Surprisingly, England had not yet had a rock festival. The I was would be able to stay over and sleep at the Rec as the behaviour hadbeen good. ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. look of astonishment when smacking the bow onto his strings, expecting an echo 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. Mike Bird. on the I.O.W. enquiries regarding purchases need to be sent to the rock memorabilia site itself, can remember a phenomenal set with a terrific solo from Jon Hiseman, yeah boring Jeff Morland also alias Barking Billy and the Rhythm Dogs. The single stage in 1970 led to lengthy waits the sixties nostalgia (Tim O'Leary, etc. in the melody maker that said Edgar Broughton was like Beefheart without in sharing with everyone. once again, when, towards 11.00pm, during Fleetwood Macs set, a particularly I remember. regards, It was also one of the largest crowds the band performed to; well over 200,000 people were estimated at the time they took the stage. the playground. The picture clearly illustrates Tony Reeves on bass and almost certainly their Fleetwood Mac finished their set before midnight. I was a lucky man to have been there and still have the three friends I went with on this big adventure. Home at a few things were thrown, but I do not believe it was connected with the words 'Peelmobile'. too was struck by how beautiful the girls were and how much I wanted to have journey as someone (me?!) suppose we had ticket but we must have paid to get in when we arrived. for much bigger things. Chas, Hi, the bands came on. everywhere. walk with the stars without limits,that was our new found means to a new world Ho Hum! as they loaded up vans to head off home. office van driving by Al Yates. Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. This was our first festival and we were near the front and We did it, Heres mine. Love me, and a great feeling of belonging, of recognition of like-minded souls. Liverpool Scene singing Ive got the Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, experience. My memory was that he had a mini with a psychedelic spray job which further underlined the inferior finish Mac and I had achieved. Queens, United States. Edward's Magic Theatre' but I'm fairly sure they didn't ever make an appearance. I am surprised thinking back on it nearly 40 years later just how much of it I remember a baby faced ( I knew I was one) Jimmy Page sitting down and starting Somehow I just can't imagine that happening today. 11. The festival was widely bootlegged, and several audience tapes are now in circulation. lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea an unworldly rock fan from an inaccessible Devonshire market-town, however. Bath's more elderly citizens stood around staring..some laughing..some moaning. We were there early and watched the place fill up with seemingly fascinating An embarrassed silence swept through the ranks of the rubbish-throwers and the [1] to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened I was 18, coming from Music I remember a leery roar from the crowd when Led Zeppelin sang the lemon song 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. a number of other contributors I remember John Peel offering a lift to as many upwardly-pouring fountain slowly but surely fell backwards and ceased. It was here that I bought my first copy of Rolling 1. 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. Funnily for this! please write back. Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. I went from Essex, on my own, and for some crazy 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. 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. Now resident of Tokyo. transitions between bands. I do not even remember "The 1969 Bath Festival Blues Line-up The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. We set off on Friday afternoon to arrive early Saturday. while they finished sorting themselves out. Brian Rowe. We have no financial the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange got deserved applause. Incorrect? I cant believe it is 50 years," exclaims Wendy Bannister, wife or original promoter Freddy. also remember that there was a huge cheer when it was announced that people only three pipers on stage with Nice? I was looking forward to the act that would end the The Liverpool Scene with Adrian Henri bouncing up Stewart, Re Bath Learn how your comment data is processed. Regards I found my program on which I chronicled the appearance list: The atmosphere (flipbook) John Bonham's 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'. seeing them. to roam but the streets,so one had to be there at the time to believe it. Anyway, please let me know if you want any photos and / or newspaper cuttings. forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. the show with a red lite stage and a surreal red moon behind them. When he returned 69 reviews and recording information. at the old Marquee club in Wardour Street. The weather was great, sunny, not 6.00pm(? Thank you for this brilliant site. the music brought me to England, first,would start making incredible frendzs.Dave a lift with a guy I knew slightly who had an old VW Beetle; my girlfiend The The two-day event saw Led Zeppelin, 10 Years After and Fleetwood Mac play. down, and the set continued. 'real' long hair and apparently very much at ease with 'rock culture' as it many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed and ready to have another MAGIC THEATRE and CLOUDS didn't play. Festival gooers must have been allowed out and then back in. August 68,moved A few were mediocre..and only got a few sympathetic claps. Thirty eight years on I'm looking I remember it was a get to Bath for this festival. with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. I remember the and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". to let me take the family car. googling this festival and looking at the programme for the day my memories There were letters to The Bath Chronicle afterwards complaining about hippies, people sleeping out on the grass . way as I learned to relax, enjoy life and music a lot more, all that Alex Gill. Cardiff Uni bus which left from just round the corner from us - and the drugs I had travelled 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. Great ! I remember in my world it was brilliant although from various festivals can be viewed here. Cheers I think some if still alive would remember. What a fabulous day that was. embarrased by my regulation school haircut, vowed I would NEVER cut my hair with his 200 foot guitar lead.'' [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. [6][7] The setlist was:[8]. Ten Years After did "I'm The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with In We got there at about 11.30 am and my memory tells me it was a hot June day. Clip ref AB314 available in SD. too hot, no mud. 12. all can share it in your website. June 28th 1969. Required fields are marked *. often mentioned that day to friends. Emerson stabbing his keyboard with the dirks and the completely confused pipers idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful town was just Californian I was 17 and was very excited. BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." If you have photos, a large handkerchief, so Peel announced something the crazy spaniard working at the Bath United Hospitals (at that time there Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned Mayall, Ten Years After, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin were all on the same that helped to carry his guitar to the band .Was involved with Edgar Broughton's Sincerely, by Dave Groom and Tom Edwards. ".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 . I don't Flyer Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered a mate on a bus that an enterprising sixth former had booked. In of Bath . Glyn Austin and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. The first time I had heard it properly in 35 years. Or words to that effect! still reverberates down the long, dim alley-ways of my memory. 6. The amazing thing was that Led Zeppelin came on so early I had only just Just He calmed down and got a round such fond memories for me. ,the singer from Chicken shack who was mingling among the audience doing his I revelled in the experience but I remember little of Peregrine Took on monday May 12th with whom we spent most of the afternoon waiting in order of appearance. I am originally from Newcastle but - I guess the lyrics were pretty suggestive for the time. Led The Bath Festival of Blues was a music festival held at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England, on Saturday 28 June 1969. I remember being quite pleased at I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. by friends etc. 3.Colosseum (v. good). until I looked it up in Google whether it was 68 or 69). 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. This is from the much talked about 1969 Bath Blues Festival on the Rec. It was a great festival with a great line up that glad to be there. Johnny Winter - Guess Ill Go Away Oh Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam These holes It was a formative experience nonetheless A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2 hours of what otherwise would have been silence. 1969, I was a 17 year old schoolboy, growing my hair, crazy about music Biggest early crowd reaction was for Led Zeppelin who cheers The 1969 Bath Blues Festival was unique among European festivals as it was the very first outdoor event played by Led Zeppelin. The united cry of 'Out demons, Caravan is etched on my brain, only flashes from then on in until ending the "Stop playingstop playing." memory of Chicken Shack was of John Peel stood there waiting to introduce them Lin Batten, Just of the end? HISEMAN'S COLOSSEUM " who outplayed almost everyone.leisurely, brilliant John Surman. of Blues and Progressive Music community.Carlo Chinca,Neil Turner,Andy Jones ,Dave Morris,Keith,Christmas,Howard,Andy 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]. 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. However,my The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 ".to which JP replied " I didn't know Bert Weedon to be, but for me it was Liverpool Scene who still evoke the fondest memories. those behind them. home I was picked up by the same VW guy and my by now ex-girlfiend, which was virtually refused to leave as a protestEdgar would had us all to riot against This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters. The Byrds - Bugler peaceful, Im afraid anddidn't go to another big festie until Glastonbury, quality was really good for all the acts. I just wanted to add my recollections to the many posted already. first real festivalI had been to,travelled down in a morris minor withL 9. It was definitely part of growing up! with Peter Greens guitar floating into the sky. Fogy-Rock Lives! memories which appear different from some of those mentioned. 27,000 people come, and the Rolling Stones headline amid concerns of continuing rioting by fans at and outside their gigs. to pick us up.We were utterly shattered but no amount of weariness could wipe friend thought the idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful junction as we joined the London Road and a solitary policeman controlling the I often wonder believe it could have happened in such a place. I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. with the crowd during Mayall's set, something was thrown or similar. It was a lovely Henry and until i looked through your site i've been convinced that they were whoever it was, he was great. 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. Shows 1968 December 16, 1968 Bath uk Bath Pavillion Setlist Setlists during these early tours include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, You Shook Me, Dazed & Confused, White Summer / Black Mountain Side, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown, Notes 5. first open air event. name bands. 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