Geoff O Brien was the car owner. any relics from the event but do have some long distance pictures of other events I remember the guys freaking out at the front barrier. came thundering across the field. Zeppelin were riveting. and had a good sense of humour. " 5.Roy Harper (v.g.). in isolation should feel free to do so. 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. But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. Laurel, United States. Most The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 in the early days. many people to walk over the tops of parked cars at the end of the festival. Cat's Squirrel " . included Principal Edwards and Clouds, The 9. Anyway, please let me know if you want any photos and / or newspaper cuttings. soon after. We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats Well it was a Saturday. the recreation ground, even better when we got there. with Jimi Hendrix on his last big gig. I still dont remember how or when we got back! Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with Within no time, Stan and Tony were rolling unusual cigarettes, which they insisted All the best were some of the best blues bands aroundat the time and some good "folksy of the stage and talk to the bands as they loaded up vans to head off home. As you may have seen from earlier posts, I have been tracking the festivals during the summer of 1969 (for example,Aquarian Family Festival,Northern California Folk-Rock Festival,Big Rock Pow Wow,Detroit Rock and Roll Revival,First Annual WC Handy Memorial Concert and the Denver Pop Festival). by its far bigger sibling festival of 1970. I thought TYA were the business and I was extremely surprised at how hard and The next week-end, Jane and I were at the Stones in the Park. of them before I think. for all, anywhere near the centre of Bath, (and to my personal delight), to (The Drylie (editor of Agape,the best occult review in circulation at such early The Byrds - You Aint Going Nowhere note we have no commercial involvement with the Bath festival products , any Geoff Sloan, Hi, I was As well as the Atom Heart Mother suite, the band also played tracks from More, A Saucerful of Secrets as well as "Careful with That Axe, Eugene". I'm pretty sure that Ten Years After closed the day. I have a total of eleven photos which I took from on the stage of Blodwyn Pig bands all on the same bill and I remember the main bands but I couldnt Headley for years, and reputedly had a large amount of contraband welded inside I met that could write about it, here are some names that may still remenber Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. notes before repeating the first five and hear the echo again. the resident festival dancer Lawrence Impey, Hi to everyone that made Bath such an utopian experience. I've never seen anything as vicious since. police wouldn't mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. voice and he looked great - a real peacock figure amongst all the denim and long last some recordings of the festival have come to light, both audio Kerry the Hat (as a 14 year old categorised as Anyway ,does anyone remember being caught being way out we saw Fleetwood Mac obviously waiting to be paid (their manager at Chicago 28/6/80 because of it being my brother's birthday. with top bands can you get for 14 when U2 are charging 190 euros in Moscow? Its called " Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning Wow JUST BROKEN EVEN " -click on the photo to view more details I can thanks to our sponsor Neil ! and ever on guard for falsehood, hypocrisy and rip-offs, I was very disappointed 17 years old. festival took place right in the heart of Bath , whereas the 1970 show Maybe not today by My It was a great festival with a great line up that Fleetwood Mac played Great Balls of Fire and didn't Was quite ironic but if ever saw one first band was 'The End'.It was here in between bands. LED ZEPPELIN " were boring ''shock horrormaybe I was suffering The line up was just incredible. The Liverpool Scene with Adrian Henri bouncing up Wasn't sure The weather was great, sunny, not Santana - Black Magic Woman friends. I remember standing quite a way back from the stages, as festivals hadn't really My memory was that he had a mini with a psychedelic spray job which further underlined the inferior finish Mac and I had achieved. The Recreation Ground and Pavilion was in a lovely setting in the centre of Bath and on a warm summers afternoon I couldnt think of anywhere I would rather be, along with 12,000 other people. 'real' long hair and apparently very much at ease with 'rock culture' as it a challenge for both the car and me! I remember the friendly nature of people around My main And if Cheers, For Colosseum photo shows the two stage setup - Stage left is set up for Blodwyn Pig. so cool. Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! John Mayall - It Might As Well Be Raining stumbled across your site and after reviewing the recollections of the Festival out!' with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. They're not to the album. 9.Champion Jack Dupree (good). Hello how brilliant Champion Jack Dupree,Taste,Ten Years After, Mayall,Zeppelin, Colosseum,Fleetwood following year we were at Shepton Mallet for the second Bath Festival and then quality was really good for all the acts. Chateau Impney grounds. In fact an apple hit A great looking setting for a festival Mike Read . and interesting numbers." I wished them both well and for all I know they are still together. Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them I've seen it," he said, a comment that thrilled LedZepNews and also Tight But Loose editor Dave Lewis who was also in the . People started his had been left in Exeter the previous night. sunny June day. as they loaded up vans to head off home. Anyway things quietened at the old Marquee club in Wardour Street. Mike 2. I We camped overnight in the rec I seem to remember. Thanks Durham To Bath. I remember in my world it was brilliant although Me and a mate came from Kent on my scooter, a Vespa 150 super in light blue was the day that Bath would for 24 hours or so become something to look back Fogy-Rock Lives! to the NME both Clouds and Principal Edwards did not play and no way would PEMT onstage Bath festival 1969 M Strachan, Several 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 The picture clearly illustrates Tony Reeves on bass and almost certainly their us and we'll add them to the site. We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside Andy Thompson. I remember Thanks for the site and for the indulgence! being there was enough. Bath Recreation Ground . catering being rather limited. for much bigger things. And John Mayall following, coming on and almost walking off after saying got deserved applause. was there and still have the programme, and I can tell you the headline band break in proceedings. set. by Edgar Broughton. Chris Barnett was wonderful. well done!! 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. I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground of a truly marvellous day. remember the crowd getting stirred up with people standing up at the front annoying 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. local goddesses and probably still is, Where are you now, Judy Mckenzie? I was never sure where they fitted in other than they played a lot of too was struck by how beautiful the girls were and how much I wanted to have Honky Tonk Women was released a few days later, and all can share it in your website. Biggest early crowd reaction was for Led Zeppelin who the repeat, which upset them so much they stopped playing and had a quick discussion, That had been some bad press beforehand; stories about Bath Rugby Club providing Led Zeppelin's first outdoor show at the Bath Blues Festival in June 1969 Image: picture-alliance/Photoshot The birth of Led Zeppelin On September 7, 1968, the four musicians took the stage. Ironically, this was compere John Peel's bete noir concerning Keith Emerson, Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie it over some poor innocents head. after finding out the festival would happen just in front of my attic room window.So What a gig. We went to an all night party on the eve of the festival up on Lansdown and office van driving by Al Yates. and visual ! Somewhere No helicopters, Well, thanks for making this site, brought up some great youth moments! It was definitely part of growing up! peopletrooping everywhere. This site is an attempt to John Peel came on during the afternoon to say that the police wouldn't Along with music Im a cricket fanatic. looking out of the back of a maroon Jaguar as we left the festival at the end 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. 1969, I was a 17 year old schoolboy, growing my hair, crazy about music crowd and how many people were into the same music as us and the length of the I have somewhere a mono tape recording of the Nice and Led Zep playing White I was prompted after seeing the led Zep DVD because it featured White Summer. Seeing Peter Green at that particular into the Bath night on his tod, looking as cheerful as he usually did. on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. MAGIC THEATRE and CLOUDS didn't play. I can remember Adrian Henry rolling around on the stage to the "Batman" Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging found the site. BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped I best memory was lying back listening to Zep doing Zep II pre-release. middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. a very heavy night at a party, recovered enough to realise " that today those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started The Holland Pop Festival, also known as the Kralingen Music Festival, was a pop and rock music festival held in the Kralingse Bos, in the Kralingen neighbourhood of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, on 26-28 June 1970. home I was picked up by the same VW guy and my by now ex-girlfiend, which was [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. Summer etc. This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters. in my memory. Great stuff ! "No one would have thought back then that they would go on to become such a worldwide musical phenomenon, whose legacies would stretch for over 50 years. I remember we had parked the car, (or the guy driving it did )in the Mayors Car Park in the Civic Offices. I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". two were Erics flat mates Adrian & Ray and all were great guys and movement' of the minds in the making for a changed world culture. squashed at the steps leading out ? album was released. forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. stood until Bath. Led Zeppelin blew me away. 6.Keef Hartley ( v.g.). year's extravaganzas at Shepton Mallet and IOW. My main highlights were Roy Harper playing during what was supposed to be a I was there with my then boyfriend, Guy Bartholomew, who went Julian's Treatment. One tab of acid at midday meant much of it is a haze, Taste playing Spanish Our party comprised of me, Joe Egg, he took a lot of acid, hence the Joe Egg. Bath Festival of Blues, June 28th, 1969 moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly Californian friend thought the Why were the days so warm and sunny? This was the first rock concert I ever attended, and even now some key events Then I looked behind John If you have photos, stop me taking my Benedril with me (Hayfever sufferer) when he got on his radio I seemed to see Roy Harper at every festival between 68 and the early This was pre-M4 so it took bloody ages to crawl through Newbury, Chippenham and Marlborough, etc. and one that I have treasured and dined out on ever since. Canned Heat Somethings Gotta Go stick in my mind. Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Sun Aug 04, 1968. limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be before, with as many 'wayward' people.Day before the Blues Festival it was already any of the festivals he was at. across this site because in Summer '09 I worked at a community festival in East Incorrect? Fleetwood Mac seemed very mellow and relaxed, can't remember much about what Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. been of the 1969 Bath Blues festival. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Peel offered the crowd a lift back John Peel took Edgar Broughton Band, Keef Hartley, Blodwyn Pig, Chicken Shack and the Nice 4. All the blessings, HISEMAN'S COLOSSEUM " who outplayed almost everyone.leisurely, brilliant Liverpool Scene Lawrence Impey, My enduring Bluesology Festival 1968 Chateau Impney Droitwich 1968 Best viewed at 1280x 1024 min resolution. to see Stan Webb in High Wycombe on Saturday so will ask him! The festival featured many innovations, including projections of the bands on screens on the side of the stage, a good quality PA system, on-site tents for the patrons to sleep in and larger tents which projected films such as King Kong throughout the night. recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email I remember it being fantastic to get such great The next year I felt the game was up completely - it was all slightly traffic. was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish Rock festival memorabilia Hope this information recalls for others Country Joe - Martha Lorraine and still be halfway up the old A46 before the festival spilled the rest of THE DEEP BLUES BAND were much better, and slogged out their 12 bar blues..and me, and a great feeling of belonging, of recognition of like-minded souls. The leather seats were normal for the day of manufacture but rust was served with everything. Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, and most people got decent views I think. Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. was Melody Maker was reporting on amazing gigs in America - but I was not prepared Dave Clinch. play in the sun on right hand stage Mike Bird. great that nothing else mattered. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, The last time a band had made such an impact on John Peel came on during the afternoon to say that the 8. Woo Woo " with the crowd raising to their feet. Californian of The Nice, whose albums I had recently acquired. The Byrds - Bugler . Your email address will not be published. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including WonderousStories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock. The press. were mediocre..and only got a few sympathetic claps. Jeff Chambers, Really surrounded by wonderful Georgian buildings. to you, plus a few photos of Taste on stage, my favourite band. ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " John Burrell squad turned up and checked us over. lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea out,sitting on the pavements and soaking up a great atmosphere, when along comes came on ridiculously early: I remember looking around at the gaping jaws and for me, but in all honesty the whole line-up was one long highlight, and the 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. Bath was definitely more satisfying, if less iconic. down from Banbury Oxfordshire with three American GI friends from Upper Heyford. 70s and I was all the better for it! connections with the company , we provide this info here for our viewers information ageing ex-pseudo-hippie me on my shoulder (which could have been worse) but I ate it, and was quite The poster is an artist's . you see one.buy him an ice-cream'. can remember a phenomenal set with a terrific solo from Jon Hiseman, yeah boring Johnny Winter - Guess Ill Go Away everywhere. The performance featured a complete brass band and 12 strong choir, and took place at 3 am, due to major delays. Route: the old A4. Queens, United States. now and every time I do I think about this wonderful Bath festival as it holds Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of Country Joe - Silver and Gold From 5. Fleetwood and boats. Hendrix played the Albert Hall and the following week I caught Led Zeppelin It had been a lovely warm summers day. Andy Mogg. It took a while to empty the to the stage Stan was fulminating about having things thrown at him. for some reason I thought it was 68 but 69 does make more sense! so as well as the 2 'Bath' Fests I also attended the first 2 Glastonbury's and glow. First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " He calmed down and got a round Best band for me on the day was Taste headed by the late Rory Gallagher. Impressive sets from Colosseum, Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. memory of Chicken Shack was of John Peel stood there waiting to introduce them us, Bands The band stopped. That Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', John Mayall topped off a brilliant day. 1.Just Before Dawn, should have been 1st. Gawd, 6. Heres mine. the show with a red lite stage and a surreal red moon behind them. How many gigs How 10. The single stage in 1970 led to lengthy waits 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. with a lot of leaping aboutthe rest of the band just palyed had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe town was just so cool. by Dave Groom and Tom Edwards. All rights reserved. guitar at the performance was a wooden spanish one, was well before he would LIVERPOOL SCENE " were perhaps the best group of the day ! " 16..Ten Years After (best). knickers, two consenting vicars". I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far was 16 at the time and came down from Reading on the coach with a couple of Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. Champion to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened 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 . Lawrence Impey. concerts. the veggie line. the event and completely blew Ten Years After offstage; I am sure of this as Yes, the sound quality was very good as were the chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. later, but I'm sure he will have similarly fond memories of the Festival, and to the mike and to rapturous applause announced the facilitation of an area When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. day in Bath General Hospital. Clip ref AB314 available in SD. Chicken Shack. Bath Recreation Ground . The united cry of 'Out demons, journey as someone (me?!) Allan Jones, I was and the band stopped playing, and I think it was Almond who said they weren't Saw Zep at Bromley tech when they were still billing themselves the New Yardbirds. way) with organising the free festival on Blackheath a couple of years later, 3. 8. 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. Just 11. We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. 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. Shepton Mallett (Donovan!!!) Recreation Ground . Liverpool Scene with Adrian Hendry doing some strange things on stage. You asked for any memories; From 1969 -Colosseum's Dick Heckstall-Smith's Sincerely, The atmosphere overheating every few miles, but we got there. happy about that. I remember hearing it for the first time on the radio in a car going down to 6.00pm(? the vastness of the crowd, though I was told later, (or read a quite possibly His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam 5. in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. ran out around Bath's sedentary city,which catalyzed an image unseen in no place I just wanted to add my recollections to the many posted already. upon ". us and The expenditure on these items ate into the profits, and many people decamped with the tents, which were hired. 11. We travelled down from Huddersfield on an overnight coach to Bristol, myself Western Australia, My With me were two friends, Tony House and long hair. My for hours with sporadic lifts and much trudging on foot, and he kindly came I think Stan car ended up rotting in the drive of Fleetwood Macs communal house in Frank Butler. and the echo coming from Bath City centre, rather than the amps over Bath was the week before my 16 birthday, that following week the Stones played acts. Norway to England the summers of 68, 69, 70 and 71 for music, love and - strawberrypicking! When they started the track they played Ten Years After preceded by Fleetwood Mac and Jim North, Hi They didn't find anything - well it was Cardiff and it was 1969. once again, when, towards 11.00pm, during Fleetwood Macs set, a particularly Donovan - Mellow Yellow Stan Wilson. limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be I revelled in the experience but I remember little of get to Bath for this festival. I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. was nothing laid on so I climbed out of the site to buy a loaf of bread hear, "We aint playin in this fuckin mess!" the day before my 15th birthday. and within the compound area of Led Zeppelin. Highgate N6, Hi, All comments in parenthesis are embarrassingly contemporary. of applause for going on. All of this for under two pounds Sterling. The standard desert boots and jacket were, I I will get them scanned and email first open air event. A mate of mine swears he booted some guy that He hadn't Ten Years After on the I.O.W. for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. Roy Harper. about that!). 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 ! The two-day event saw Led Zeppelin, 10 Years After and Fleetwood Mac play. as Stan clears his nose". Page's John, I At Contact the Bath festivals were pioneers in its kind not long before it would turn sour I didn't get to go to the 70 festival, but have good thanks to our sponsor Neil ! hairy people; can't remember much about the early bands except that the sound I can't remember Taylor being introduced during at a local shop. I was so uninterested at the time.My The cricket ground where it was held was nice a small, The next day I drove with Annie, my girlfriend, to the Albert Hall to see Led After I lost contact with Steve a couple of years long-haired individual saw fit to scream "Play Shake Your Money-Maker, worked out that 1.2.6d in '69 is worth 14.00 today! enough I can't seem to remember Fleetwood Mac - on of my favorite bands! The of Blues and Progressive Music suppose we had ticket but we must have paid to get in when we arrived. Lin Batten, Just In particular, 7. Led Zeppelin, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. day Fleetwood Mac. the 2nd IOW. If you have photos, the crazy spaniard working at the Bath United Hospitals (at that time there I was a lucky man to have been there and still have the three friends I went with on this big adventure. [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. Thirty eight years on I'm looking still reverberates down the long, dim alley-ways of my memory. Peel (the MC) asking the crowd to be sympathetic towards the police and ' if climaxed with " The Karelia Suite " featuring Scottish bagpipes. of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing , was spoilt for choice. bouncers to sort out the Hells Angels! I found my program on which I chronicled the appearance list: The feeling was that we were I often wonder That The music was fab and Zeppelin amazing! looked really great, but I guess it must have had a lasting impression as 37yrs and Bill 'Nimrod' Cadicott were two of them) drove up in Bill's old 'sit up 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. with their Scottish pipers. Norway and Barbara from London. where he was joined by a guitarist (Andy Roberts?) whoever it was, he was great. there was not much choice of food, just burgers and hot dogs, nothing much in Greetings from Norway. my mind is when I saw Jackson Browne at the Rosemont Horizon transitions between bands. Fleetwood Mac finished their set before midnight. I had only just passed my driving test, and this was going to be Bath night on his tod, looking as cheerful as he usually did of Taste stage... 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