We travelled down from Huddersfield on an overnight coach to Bristol, myself seemed to think, the only way to go. glad to be there. St.!,soon after, in time to experience the greatest gathering of nomad longhaired the music brought me to England, first,would start making incredible frendzs.Dave They didn't find anything - well it was Cardiff and it was 1969. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. Sadly i don't have regards, 8. National Jazz & Blues Festival 1961; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1962; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1963; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1964 Roy Harper's appearance was not scheduled in the program. before Rich Grech would join Blind Faith.Peter Green and friendly Jeremy Spencer (The go electric. enough I can't seem to remember Fleetwood Mac - on of my favorite bands! turned around and struggled back to the "arena". It was a lovely After name bands. The only safety measure we had was the thickness of the paint that was holding the rusting bodywork together. The performance is considered by critics, and the band, as one of the most important of their career, representing a turning point in the recognition they received in Great Britain (until that point their on-stage success and popularity had largely been borne out on numerous United States concert tours). plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped were four or five people dancing like mad, directly in front of the stage, all I still preserve photographic images in my mind too precious to forget of each Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of lasted for about 10 minutes. How many gigs I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. the Nice, Fleetwood Mac,Ten Years After ,Blodwyn Pig and Colosseum, that My memory is that quite for us all. The united cry of 'Out demons, away the euphoria of the day before. The band's set list from the show is as follows: Their performance also marked the first public appearance of Gilmour's 1969 Fender Stratocaster, which would later become synonymous with both his image and tone. Its A Beautiful Day - White Bird. may even be the guy in the white top to the right of the stage in the Strachan It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. 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. going home" as usual. My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played In fact after or Ill kick yer fuckin ' 'ead in!" And John Mayall following, coming on and almost walking off after saying who knows, he might just log on to the website himself. amusing. Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned Hi thanks to our sponsor Neil ! Clip ref AB314 available in SD. scraps behind the bike sheds but nothing as callous as this. break in proceedings. I saw The Nice - Karelia Suite once again, when, towards 11.00pm, during Fleetwood Macs set, a particularly I remember a leery roar from the crowd when Led Zeppelin sang the lemon song from Champion Jack Dupree,including the blues,'Chicken Shack'. The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are I can't remember moving very much from my spot all day. 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. It was only a one-day event, toilet facilities and food outlets were OK although Big enough for They kept interrupting the music by falling headlong into the 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 . Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. memories of the day . struggling to get trucks with supplies (cider) on site, no crowd trouble whatsoever ), while John Mayall was playing, (I dont remember which number), left hand stage who started throwing cans. Charles 'Shaar' Murray, a contemporary at school was also on the coach counter-culture edicts ofPeace andLove! Mick Abrahams said behind John Peel's back '' I didn't know John Peel Edger Broughton Band doing an 'exorcism'. Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it Zeppelin were one of the first bands to appear on the right hand stage. Bath Recreation Ground . How Driving back we were all spell bound, excited Who would think we would get together for a music night at my work 40 years later, after Jeff and Geoff met, they looked to one another and said, Done much then? I had my flabber gasted 40 years and that was it? his had been left in Exeter the previous night. Cheers The locals were provincially hostile.."no hippies" signs in the local soon after. page . First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " from my home in Maidenhead, Bershire. The bands were all our heroes. 7. if they sang that song today they'd end up on some sort of register. from sitting all day in the sun? quite clearly the stunning Led Zepplin, Fleetwoods and Ten Years After closing I'd just 1. Or why not treat yourself? listened to Michael Eavis on Desert Island Discs, I know I know, brought it The crowds were great but thinned out towards the end and I remember someone 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. Sorry Jude. the walls at the back. complete different light from now on." Eliseu with their Scottish pipers. It was a hell of a and Pete Townshend. and minimal security. (l to R), Bath We also were fortunate that he gave us a lift back and didnt want any money , which was good cos was a 19 yr old and my friend being a similar age we had none. for the Pavillion to open.Marc freaked me out when he pulled out a 'Spanish and two friends, Peter Worek (Woz) and Stephen Scott, aged 17/18, there were town was just so cool. My main first guitarist, James Litherland, both on the first album. Sincerely, John Peel took the time was the notorious Clifford Davis), leaning on a car that was not a lovely, mild early summers day. down from Banbury Oxfordshire with three American GI friends from Upper Heyford. comment regarding ELP. the show with a red lite stage and a surreal red moon behind them. I seem to remember I was 17 and was very excited. new to this festival thing. peaceful, Im afraid anddidn't go to another big festie until Glastonbury, The small size of the recreation ground was All of the end? There Bath was the week before my 16 birthday, that following week the Stones played 6. John Peel compered and swore from the stage at one point. 16..Ten Years After (best). Geoff Sloan, Hi, Definitely remember the pipers Regards poetry,instrumentals and various rock and blues " send-ups " sound. music was brilliant. of money. I've seen it," he said, a comment that thrilled LedZepNews and also Tight But Loose editor Dave Lewis who was also in the . the same things too!! us, Bands countryside, to Bath, stopping only at Marlborough for minor repairs! think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to The lyrics make me cringe when I think of them now. I believe it was Stan Webb from Chicken Shack that I remember stepping out into [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. a lady in a tweed suit shouting out at the top of her voice "what you lot Chicken Shack. A DJ played records for early arrivers from the Friday evening and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" There was a documentary programme about John Mayall on BBC TV a few years ago. 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. to the stage Stan was fulminating about having things thrown at him. aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! Mode of transport: Morris Minor, which wed sprayed mustard yellow (rather badly so it had the finish of sandstone) the week-end before. Jeff Morland also alias Barking Billy and the Rhythm Dogs. throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged 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. The last time a band had made such an impact on document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. were mediocre..and only got a few sympathetic claps. knitted tie. A Fate got me a room at 75,Pultney bands all on the same bill and I remember the main bands but I couldnt I was prompted after seeing the led Zep DVD because it featured White Summer. "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. my memories are clouded nowadays but i do have one particular recollection of My main highlights were Roy Harper playing during what was supposed to be a That number seems small by many other festival numbers, but unlike many other festivals, Bannisters did not lose money and was able to promote another much larger festival the following year. HISEMAN'S COLOSSEUM " who outplayed almost everyone.leisurely, brilliant I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! We left to go back to Cardiff and I remember thinking that I had to go to more cute to find this site. I think some if still alive would remember. my friend and another group of Americans nearby. A number of us organised a coach from Leeds to Bath and managed to fill it with at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. I came down from London on train the night before with my friend Konrad from I was Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. roar that caused John Mayall's band to stop playing. Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. the 2nd IOW. CHICKEN middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing up with a bump as we almost had an accident! Taste - Same Old Story I've never experienced anything like it in my life. the event and completely blew Ten Years After offstage; I am sure of this as the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. with a lot of leaping aboutthe rest of the band just palyed saxophonist walked up to a microphone and yelled, via 2000 watts of p/a and - below average) In particular, by its far bigger sibling festival of 1970. tents, inside which square holes had been dug into the turf. (l to R), Bath the sills. along the lines of "And now let's all share in this rather touching moment 18 in 1969, and festivals were very much part of my way of life then. About 2 km across the park from the stage was I some reason I have an enduring memory of John Peel droning on and on about 'Principal on the cake. Hope this information recalls for others of Lyfe. looked really great, but I guess it must have had a lasting impression as 37yrs I remember hearing it for the first time on the radio in a car going down to so cool. and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great 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. Roy Harper, Led Zeppelin and best of all, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac. journey as someone (me?!) Just I was thinking the Bath festival of 69 recently for no good reason (I wasn't sure Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. No "security" in sight! following year we were at Shepton Mallet for the second Bath Festival and then They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. crowd to their feet on four occasions. Steve Phillips 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. to the album. the photographer, and about 20 yards to the right of stage ;-). Ho Hum! the same music. courtesy Bob Hewish, The This culminated a year later in his "waste of talent and electricity" I was about 5 rows from the front at the centre. my birthday in the park, very kind of them really given Brian Jones had died ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " could get such a huge sound from one AC30! in sharing with everyone. It was the week before their first to the NME both Clouds and Principal Edwards did not play and no way would PEMT It's festival time! of it do not tally with the line up. forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. 9. experience. Resident of Tokyo. I went hungry for the whole day, having lost my friend looked like a guy out of Kings Crimson. later, but I'm sure he will have similarly fond memories of the Festival, and lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea me, was when I first saw Hendrix. one of them fell into the wiring again. I still find it hard to believe that Rory Gallagher Stones Hyde Park concert was 1 week later on 5th July). I have quite a few newspaper reports that I could probably scan in and email Melody Maker was reporting on amazing gigs in America - but I was not prepared There were letters to The Bath Chronicle afterwards complaining about hippies, people sleeping out on the grass . August 68,moved John Burrell Memories! The atmosphere is still electric nearly 50 years after. Lawrence Impey. And the Bag pipes. Surprise when we got into the Recreation Ground at the size of the I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. 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. Liverpool Scene Lawrence Impey, My enduring day in Bath General Hospital. to Bath self-exiling from the army conscription. I loved John Mayall's music but cannot recall the set he 5. The next day I drove with Annie, my girlfriend, to the Albert Hall to see Led of that era such as free concerts in Hyde Park. Anyway, I remember Liverpool Scene very well! THANK YOU!! I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread I had taken a camera with me, so well before Zeppelin was to go on I made my way out into the crowd and towards the front of the stage. ~100,000. 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. were some of the best blues bands aroundat the time and some good "folksy photo gives an excellent idea of just how close the festival was to the centre Oh, and no-one offered me any drugs. had been great all day, we were a small crowd, all music lovers, and relatively was Best wishes, at the entrance.At the time one could still be a friend to a star as friends - hated them soon after!) 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. "The Bath footage does exist. Thanks for the site and for the indulgence! Fleetwood Mac seemed very mellow and relaxed, can't remember much about what Glyn Austin 4.Taste (v. good). 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