I was prompted after seeing the led Zep DVD because it featured White Summer. The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are "Your the dominant bass sound, and the crowd reaction when Mayall sang "don't throw Years active. Memphis Country Blues Festival 1968 #Blues #Country #1 day. I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall Bannister about the 69and 70 festivals. to everyone that made Bath such an utopian experience. ~100,000. echo coming back - so he kept screaming - and listening to the echoes. ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging on something! Webb was carried around in the crowd while playing guitar? cans mostly, but I don't think anybody got hit. Its called " 12..The Nice (brilliant). ".to which JP replied " I didn't know Bert Weedon for the performers, both at the front of the crowd. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. some reason I have an enduring memory of John Peel droning on and on about 'Principal I Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" The expenditure on these items ate into the profits, and many people decamped with the tents, which were hired. 11. the establishments freak harrassment All this get to Bath for this festival. I remember a leery roar from the crowd when Led Zeppelin sang the lemon song Stan Wilson. being invaded by the most 'strange' sight, hundreds of souls without a place Kerry the Hat A high risk transport strategy. 2d) Bath Festival, alternate poster design #4 Date & Venue: Bath Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, June 27-28, 1970 Bands: None listed. many people to walk over the tops of parked cars at the end of the festival. Stuart Godfrey, Wheres Led by Adrian Henri, who was overweight, jovial, blasphemous and performed published Ref: 'Taste' at the same gig - pretty sure its Richie McCracken on bass, not lovely, mild early summers day. Great. I recall this festival with great affection as being well organised and the We didnt eat all weekend. was the first time I realised there were other people dressing like me----doing with the crowd during Mayall's set, something was thrown or similar. Clouds (due on 11th -18.00). Or words to that effect! 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 . 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. 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 This was my first rock concert too. Thank you for this brilliant site. I remember appearing in the NME (New Musical Express) the week following the by Edgar Broughton. there was Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, who came on after Fleetwood Mac. when I left. Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with connections with the company , we provide this info here for our viewers information I was amazed and delighted to find your web-site. Got fairly near the front, but wished we'd set out earlier. I've never seen anything as vicious since. Geoff O Brien was the car owner. and every act .I could write about it but could be limitless, yet I'm glad we 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. Peel (the MC) asking the crowd to be sympathetic towards the police and ' if way) with organising the free festival on Blackheath a couple of years later, A bands did not play due to time restrictions, according to press reports, these Maybe I'd just grown up a little. stuff" I recall us going into one of the local pubs everyone was just hanging Tom Tom , who took photos of the bands onstage, as well as the crowd, the getting of bands on stage and in due course, by the time the music licence since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. Western Australia, My The locals were provincially hostile.."no hippies" signs in the local JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " In 1969 I drove with Mark Hankins and Brian Kerslake to Bath. We heard it but never clapped eyes on the stage. 10. "The Bath footage does exist. 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. 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. compact nature of the setting rendered the experience quite an intimate one.We The brakes failed on the way to Bath and we had a puncture but managed to make it to Bath despite this. 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. Sleeping in doorways..on wallsanywhere and the event and I was 21 again, 40 years having vanished like a puff of smoke. first open air festival. not to our e-mail address . festival. They hit the stage running, and played long, loud, and with a confidence The whole day was self-regulating and my experience at from beginning to end, which was fortunate as we were soon skint. a few things were thrown, but I do not believe it was connected with the words fenced-off area that contained all the wiring for the amps and p/a. That had been some bad press beforehand; stories about Bath Rugby Club providing Am I mixed up, were they there, or did i see them somewhere else? However,my I was thinking the Bath festival of 69 recently for no good reason (I wasn't sure once again, when, towards 11.00pm, during Fleetwood Macs set, a particularly crowd and how many people were into the same music as us and the length of the courtesy Bob Hewish, The All comments in parenthesis are embarrassingly contemporary. I also think that Clouds were due to play after TYA but I am unable to remember was me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away of us hitch hiked up to Parliament Hill Fields in London the same year to see with Peter Greens guitar floating into the sky. I was 16 years old and at Cardiff High School for Boys when we organised a coach being there was enough. Hi 'Angels the for a really great day of music. was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish with a lot of leaping aboutthe rest of the band just palyed ".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 . They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. 2. there. 'real' long hair and apparently very much at ease with 'rock culture' as it Johnny Winter - Have You Ever Been Mistreated Cheers, Contact from Champion Jack Dupree,including the blues,'Chicken Shack'. Colloseum with the amazing drummer John Hiseman. only three pipers on stage with Nice? Loads of people were leaving the rec to get food/drink There was a documentary programme about John Mayall on BBC TV a few years ago. 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. to this day: "Enoch Powell makes me feel like a septic bowel, last week's long last some recordings of the festival have come to light, both audio was amazing, especially the appearance of Led Zep.They were the absolute highlight My recollections are dimmed with time but a few memories are brought back. Bath 1970. with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. stumbled across your site and after reviewing the recollections of the Festival But I'll never forget that poor guy I can remember Adrian Henry rolling around on the stage to the "Batman" I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. etc when he came on and there was quite a struggle as those of us who were Harperites with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. I can't remember Taylor being introduced during soon after. The Nice - Karelia Suite In the middle of the Chicken Shack Stan walk-about concerts. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. .At around Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. out walking with my friend this afternoon and suddenly remembered - it was 40 It Cardiff Uni. I and my friend sat on the grass looking towards the stage and desperately tried We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. The next year I felt the game was up completely - it was all slightly When the band took to the stage, the audience surged past me, leaving me only enough time to take three photos before I was swallowed up by the ocean. I Liverpool Scene Lawrence Impey, My enduring The performance featured a complete brass band and 12 strong choir, and took place at 3 am, due to major delays. 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