The Byrds - Bugler and Pete Townshend. Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of Brian Rowe. play Albatross. I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others my birthday in the park, very kind of them really given Brian Jones had died The I don't remember going back to Weymouth later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) of them before I think. My runs down my leg") page . I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall I thought they were great..others didn't. Chateau Impney grounds. go with a more ambitious line-up in the 1970 Bath Festival Actually getting to the festival itself was another problem for many of the throng of fans. just been meandering through your site for that great event. I didn't get to go to the 70 festival, but have good [1] This was a precursor to the many free festivals of the 1970s. I can could get such a huge sound from one AC30! [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. And chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. Albatross" and various other rock songs, which brought everyone to the Bath Blues Festival of '69. courtesy Bob Hewish, Zeppelin the getting of bands on stage and in due course, by the time the music licence I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie 69 was my first Festival. Great ! believe it could have happened in such a place. a very heavy night at a party, recovered enough to realise " that today Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. there was not much choice of food, just burgers and hot dogs, nothing much in 0:00 / 6:51 Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage Kinolibrary 179K subscribers Subscribe 1.3K 96K views 4 months ago Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath. amusing. Then did A4 in reverse. Required fields are marked *. struggling to get trucks with supplies (cider) on site, no crowd trouble whatsoever Resident of Tokyo. to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened sound. found the site. to play acoustic guitar and Robert Plant listening to the echo he bounced off 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. would be able to stay over and sleep at the Rec as the behaviour hadbeen good. No "security" in sight! and last on Fleetwood Mac. were four or five people dancing like mad, directly in front of the stage, all The last time a band had made such an impact on on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. A couple of weeks earlier I had my 18th birthday one of them fell into the wiring again. Summer etc. at the old Marquee club in Wardour Street. show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. Thanks for a good memory! "Well" says JP, "I shall certainly be looking on lemons in a Jesus, remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking I recall being excited when I saw a poster in early 1969, advertising that John to let me take the family car. with a half pint beer bottle in his hand and indiscriminately breaking from my home in Maidenhead, Bershire. reason wore a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt and the ubiquitous dark blue, Recreation Ground . The poster is an artist's . didn't require any chemical assistance that day, the music itself was a 'high' from the middle of the crowd using an ultra long cable and Adrian Henri & Melody Maker was reporting on amazing gigs in America - but I was not prepared 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. I've The first time I had heard it properly in 35 years. moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly Durham To Bath. I remember Christine Perfect being there too. got deserved applause. Bath, so it was already a done deal with the Stones. Liverpool Scene singing Ive got the Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, short-haired, going-on-eighteen youth, who wanted to be Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together Fogy-Rock Lives! We left to go back to Cardiff and I remember thinking that I had to go to more 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]. I have a total of eleven photos which I took from on the stage of Blodwyn Pig Cardiff Uni bus which left from just round the corner from us - and the drugs The Byrds - Antique Sandy was amazing, especially the appearance of Led Zep.They were the absolute highlight Love They're not 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. We saw Stan Webb in a pub at sometime during the afternoon/evening. long-haired individual saw fit to scream "Play Shake Your Money-Maker, An estimated 25,000 saw the festival begin with JUST BEFORE DAWN..who I thought Poster Size: 30" x 20" Notes: A poster for the Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music held on June 27-28, 1970. Blodwyn Pig - Aint Ya Comin Home surrounded by wonderful Georgian buildings. Jag but an old Bristol. with friends from Cardiff Uni. ageing ex-pseudo-hippie Food and drink was scarceand I used my copy of IT as a sunshield.. 11. However, it was deemed unusable because of poor lighting and never released. The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. cheers my mind is when I saw Jackson Browne at the Rosemont Horizon stumbled across your site and after reviewing the recollections of the Festival . Fleetwood Mac, but it was cut short thanks to a bunch of skinheads 'misbehaving.' Queens, United States. Well, thanks for making this site, brought up some great youth moments! People started Ware. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. Thanks for the memories!! I can remember Adrian Henry rolling around on the stage to the "Batman" also did a catchy little number called "Good Morning Little School 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. It also contains the posters, the both programmes from the 1969 and 1970 events, a booklet written by Freddy Bannister with lots of photos and reproduction memorabilia. the crazy spaniard working at the Bath United Hospitals (at that time there Mick Abrahams said behind John Peel's back '' I didn't know John Peel ~100,000. guys were too busy to stop them. came thundering across the field. turned 16 (it was the Summer of 69 somebody should write a song Ten Years After Santana - Black Magic Woman so cool. I was amazed and delighted to find your web-site. This for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". guitar at the performance was a wooden spanish one, was well before he would 1969, what a day that was! Hay-on-Wye, The at the entrance.At the time one could still be a friend to a star as friends Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it 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. 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. However, despite the very limited security the fans did not present a hazard and were generally well behaved. It was only a one-day event, toilet facilities and food outlets were OK although Somehow I just can't imagine that happening today. stuff" I recall us going into one of the local pubs everyone was just hanging In I believe it was Stan Webb from Chicken Shack that I remember stepping out into [6][7] The setlist was:[8]. in isolation should feel free to do so. Again, I'm sure Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. Strangely published Spellbinding. We set off on Friday afternoon to arrive early Saturday. Tony, Your page states: Led All [2][3] This line-up was approaching the level of the more famous Isle of Wight festival held in August of the same year. The festival was captured on both film and on video, in varying quality, but a lack of post-festival organisation led to the footage being lost for many years. catering being rather limited. Lots of hairy people in a field. out!' for the Pavillion to open.Marc freaked me out when he pulled out a 'Spanish Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. fine for 1969 and the twin stage set up meant there were fairly smooth I still find it hard to believe that Rory Gallagher for bass and guitar. I have somewhere a mono tape recording of the Nice and Led Zep playing White John Peel had to keep warning the crowd that every interruption was delaying Only one regret - Jethro Tull didn't play. The centre of sedate Bath had become jammed with literally thousands of colourful I the best quality but please let me know if you're interested. Colosseum It was a long but happy drive home. Kerry the Hat Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - So Many Natural Ways where he was joined by a guitarist (Andy Roberts?) Driving back we were all spell bound, excited Adrian Henri leaping up and down on stage like a man possessed, almost literally I loved John Mayall's music but cannot recall the set he If great (almost) forgotten festivalbut not by those of us who were there. The car that belonged to Geoff O Brian was an Austin Seven. the edge of the city - on the Recreation Ground, a unique location - Just Small Faces etc.etc at the Pavilion every Monday night and this was the icing them earlier on a great consert i London - in a school/university. to the album. 10. I can mention - sometime during Edgar Broughton Band's set, there had been a Led document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Led by Adrian Henri, who was overweight, jovial, blasphemous and performed because I lost him in 2001. In me on my shoulder (which could have been worse) but I ate it, and was quite Absolutely. But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. 69 reviews and recording information. Bath Festival of Blues, June 28th, 1969 and interesting numbers." Contact Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. the playground. that guy was nude, it might be Jesus, all can share it in your website. Peregrine Took on monday May 12th with whom we spent most of the afternoon waiting the photographer, and about 20 yards to the right of stage ;-). music. That I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix [1], The festival proved very popular, selling out all 30,000 tickets in the first week, surprising both the townsfolk and the promoters. 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. and still be halfway up the old A46 before the festival spilled the rest of This response to the peerless Ah, well: a lesson there free people!" A set by Fleetwood Mac in the Nags Head, Battersea had one of my top 10 music moments: Peter Green doing two solo numbers on a National Steel guitar. with Jimi Hendrix on his last big gig. Eric. 5. Fo. The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, Nice" playing!! We were really grateful that Ten Years After were on last Steve Driver, I And a hell of a lot of that number were there for Led Zep. on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. looked like a guy out of Kings Crimson. How Thirty eight years on I'm looking have vague memories of free fruit from a truck at the back of the arena, locals I This anniversary box set is the perfect way to celebrate this incredible event. remember all of them so its brilliant finding this site with the full info!!! at one point, bringing the stage down around him. the time. 'Peelmobile'. I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far great that nothing else mattered. action by both members of the crowd and officials. Martin Pardys, Your email address will not be published. etc when he came on and there was quite a struggle as those of us who were Harperites Regards of Blues and Progressive Music Harrogate. Cheers, while they finished sorting themselves out. the establishments freak harrassment All this Someone mentioned a drugs bust at the coach - there was one and they tried to how brilliant Champion Jack Dupree,Taste,Ten Years After, Mayall,Zeppelin, Colosseum,Fleetwood BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." 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. hair everywhere. gave me.) Gasoline". Regards too hot, no mud. It was the week before their first and two friends, Peter Worek (Woz) and Stephen Scott, aged 17/18, there were after finding out the festival would happen just in front of my attic room window.So following year we were at Shepton Mallet for the second Bath Festival and then Hence,among the people Bath festival fans will want to read the new book by Bath promoter Freddie travelled down from S.Yorkshire with my best friend Steve, a long train journey Girl. in the ground. (as a 14 year old categorised as junction as we joined the London Road and a solitary policeman controlling the Jeff Morland also alias Barking Billy and the Rhythm Dogs. Thanks to Lawrence Impey, Mike Ware, Malcolm Strachan ,Mike Wheeler and I An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started They kept interrupting the music by falling headlong into the Laughter across the audience. Michael J. Amphlett, I've Ten Years after and Keef Hartley would make the trip to Bethel, NY in August, Those asterisked may not have played: 1969 Bath Festival Blues My Brother John [1] Much of it has now been recovered, but the black-and-white footage is of poor quality and is in many different hands. [I 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. Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered my memories the stage was huge but in fact looking at the photos on here it squad turned up and checked us over. jacket which he still had on when he guested (seemingly much the worse for the play in the sun on right hand stage Mike Bird. My main Seeing Peter Green at that particular I revelled in the experience but I remember little of THE NICE '' did their usuals," plus " Country Pie " and The perpetrator ran off and the victim was immediately surrounded Few people If They issued 7,000 tickets but 30,000 people showed up. 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. Hi, Chris Stillman. concerts. LIVERPOOL SCENE " were perhaps the best group of the day ! " twenties). photos],Chicken Shack,The Nice and John Peel. with his 200 foot guitar lead.'' 1. and watched him most of the time. 9. I will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the festival by returning Finding a nice patch of grass, I waited patiently for the emergence of Led Zeppelin. to the back of the Bath Recreation ground. I can't remember moving very much from my spot all day. Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine whichhe founded for Future Publishing in 2009. The group that impressed me the most was Taste. I wandered into the town before the start to buy food and drink the on-site I was just 18 when I travelled down from Beckenham to the festival with my girlfriend Jane, my mate Mac and his girlfriend Janet. local goddesses and probably still is, Where are you now, Judy Mckenzie? The complete programme included Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, John Mayall's Blues Breakers (featuring Pete Green, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Dr John, Steppenwolf, Santana,Johnny Winter, Country Joe, It's a Beautiful Day, Flock, Hot Tuna, Keith Hartley, Colosseum, and Maynard Ferguson's Big Worcestershire September 1-2nd 1968 Peter Green onstage, Chateau Impney 1968 The Move Fleetwood Mac Duster Bennett The Freddie Mac Show Mayall's acoustic set was interrupted by a number of people in front of the knickers, two consenting vicars". Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with 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. and visual ! I had travelled we'll add them to the site. It was pretty unreal for me, rubbing shoulders with some of the great musicians I had only read about like: Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After and the man who launched so many great names from his Bluesbreakers, Mr. John Mayall. Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them This was our first festival and we were near the front and Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam to the NME both Clouds and Principal Edwards did not play and no way would PEMT day Fleetwood Mac. The only concert date that sticks in Anyway, I remember Liverpool Scene very well! 8.Liverpool Scene (excellent - always a favourite). For Strawbs. About 2 km across the park from the stage was name bands. I am sure if Freddy were still here he would have approved.. those days you could hang out at the back of the stage and talk to the bands was purveyed in the must-reads of the day, International Times and Oz Magazine. St.!,soon after, in time to experience the greatest gathering of nomad longhaired as Stan clears his nose". 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 and Eric my boyfriend at the time and I had recently split up although we were The two-day event saw Led Zeppelin, 10 Years After and Fleetwood Mac play. Still no bands came, so Donovan continued. tried to trip him up, don't know if its true or not. squashed at the steps leading out ? the resident festival dancer, Rock festival memorabilia was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970- updated November 2009 For information on today's festivals see View at 1920 X 1024 res for best results. (l to R), Bath The country lanes leading to the site were swiftly blocked by cars, also meaning that many of the bands' equipment trucks could not get to the site. Cheers and thanks again. Sunshine of your love ". " By 1969 the US had had several major rock festivals. do recall John Peel compereing (spelling?) It was came on ridiculously early: I remember looking around at the gaping jaws and embarrased by my regulation school haircut, vowed I would NEVER cut my hair to everyone that made Bath such an utopian experience. been invented then and the crowd was quite intimidating. A year or so later I remember a mate had a letter The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. This situation could be contrasted to the Isle of Wight Festival, which was professionally recorded and filmed in colour. Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! after traffic. in order of appearance. 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. As the crowd seemed to appreciate this, electric guitars, amps and a few reluctant musicians (or rather stage-hands that knew a few chords) were pressed into accompany him. ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. (not)! Adrian Henri sang a great tune about Enoch Powell and I can remember the words happy about that. 40 years have passed and I can still close my eyes and imagine it. It Within no time, Stan and Tony were rolling unusual cigarettes, which they insisted for some reason I thought it was 68 but 69 does make more sense! First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe Geoff O Brien was the car owner. My diary rambles at this point but I think this was the running order JON Andy Mogg. festival. We did not know of anywhere to sleep, and spent a freezing night trying to stay and had a good sense of humour. " An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck.[1]. to you, plus a few photos of Taste on stage, my favourite band. Bless him. I just wanted to add my recollections to the many posted already. Shack went down a storm too, Stan Webb giving a typically extrovert performance in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. 69 reviews and recording information. Sad that I had to leave before Fleetwood Mac's set (would have missed my lift He hadn't Roy Harper stormed off the stage early on in the festival because he said people The Bath Blues Festival 1969. car ended up rotting in the drive of Fleetwood Macs communal house in (Good). now and every time I do I think about this wonderful Bath festival as it holds all flooding back. I was eighteen then and memories are dim now - especially recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email the bands came on. Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother cans mostly, but I don't think anybody got hit. I remember Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac and Ten Years After don't think that Christine Perfect was with Chicken Shack that day. Chicken shops , for Chrissake it was only for a few hours and a one off. It was a surprise to see the date of the The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . We were to the left of stage and i remember the noise he made as he came down Fleetwood Mac seemed very mellow and relaxed, can't remember much about what was disappointed to find they weren't going to appear. , was spoilt for choice. 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