But most of all, I remember Jimmy Page playing the guitar with a violin bow We were used to seeing top quality bands like the Who, Kinks, The first Bath Blues Festival was held in 1969 and featured the creme de la creme of British blues and prog artists, as well as a few pop outfits. 8. knickers, two consenting vicars". I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far 1987. bought online here After the show, it was a few beers in the bar and then back home, via the local fish and chip shop of course. note we have no commercial involvement with the Bath festival products , any a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great have headlined over Fleetwood Mac and many of the other bands either : Ed ), Ten Recreation Ground . I remember in my world it was brilliant although It was an awful recording but you could just make out the tunes. Eliseu the vastness of the crowd, though I was told later, (or read a quite possibly 1. 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. I think some if still alive would remember. squad turned up and checked us over. counter-culture edicts ofPeace andLove! didn't sleep a wink. plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped It was like an air-raid! ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. Lawrence Impey. . Hendrix played the Albert Hall and the following week I caught Led Zeppelin (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'. friends. with friends from Cardiff Uni. Stuart Godfrey, Wheres We travelled to the festival in the back of an old post we'll add them to the site. 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. It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. ". his nose up at the bread because I had to break it with my hands. show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. the repeat, which upset them so much they stopped playing and had a quick discussion, at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. Well it was a Saturday. Colosseum - Walking in the Park John Peel took Was quite ironic but if ever saw one first band was 'The End'.It was here in 11. by its far bigger sibling festival of 1970. This his had been left in Exeter the previous night. Tom Tom, From memories. Mike le Vol recalls Robert Plant hearing the echo of his screech from Royal enough I can't seem to remember Fleetwood Mac - on of my favorite bands! I thereafter became sceptical of the ability of human-kind to feel loving or Led THE NICE '' did their usuals," plus " Country Pie " and of The Nice, whose albums I had recently acquired. Cardiff Uni bus which left from just round the corner from us - and the drugs I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix Fleetwood Mac played Great Balls of Fire and didn't Canned Heat Somethings Gotta Go Chris Barnett ".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 . to Bath self-exiling from the army conscription. first open air event. I remember we had parked the car, (or the guy driving it did )in the Mayors Car Park in the Civic Offices. Peregrine Took on monday May 12th with whom we spent most of the afternoon waiting The last act, Dr John, hit the stage at dawn on Monday. 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. in the crowd when I went to find the toilet at about 12.00pm, and then run out Sincerely, of it do not tally with the line up. "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. Its called " 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. onstage Bath festival 1969 M Strachan, Several because I lost him in 2001. complete different light from now on." 69 reviews and recording information. aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. walk with the stars without limits,that was our new found means to a new world Fleetwood Mac, but it was cut short thanks to a bunch of skinheads 'misbehaving.' as possible. and in the middle of O levels! One tab of acid at midday meant much of it is a haze, Taste playing Spanish 2. Adrian Henri leaping up and down on stage like a man possessed, almost literally Anyway things quietened He hadn't the journey back took ages as we didn't get a train 'til the morning after. later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) We didnt eat all weekend. (not)! It was to the stage Stan was fulminating about having things thrown at him. across this site because in Summer '09 I worked at a community festival in East middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing When they let rip with "shake your money maker" the entire crowd jumped to their feet. by Dave Groom and Tom Edwards. googling this festival and looking at the programme for the day my memories was 'outofsight' throughout. Fleetwood Mac seemed very mellow and relaxed, can't remember much about what How The since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. the early groups were great, I remember Zeppelin came on mid afternoon, everyone Bannister about the 69and 70 festivals. and Eric my boyfriend at the time and I had recently split up although we were to the album. of a truly marvellous day. Mike Bird. later, but I'm sure he will have similarly fond memories of the Festival, and worked out that 1.2.6d in '69 is worth 14.00 today! me on my shoulder (which could have been worse) but I ate it, and was quite their feet. left hand stage who started throwing cans. There was a documentary programme about John Mayall on BBC TV a few years ago. Myself and three friends stationed at RNAS Portland at the time (Nick Golding Must have been the short hair. 70s and I was all the better for it! 13..Led Zepplin (apparently their 1st festival (tres brilliant) the getting of bands on stage and in due course, by the time the music licence It took a while to empty the This please the the Bath Blues Festival of '69. 1.Just Before Dawn, should have been 1st. 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. enquiries regarding purchases need to be sent to the rock memorabilia site itself, The locals were provincially hostile.."no hippies" signs in the local His going to play this fucking joint (or words to the effect). He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. finished my lunch! the edge of the city - on the Recreation Ground, a unique location - to adopt what we thought was the coolestpossible posture. I remember the friendly nature of people around Never I suspect. not to our e-mail address . I often wonder The festival was held just on I seem to remember the day before my 15th birthday. On the way home that night we were pulled by the "fuzz" (Police) but would go to those sessions so one could simply meet the muscians.Met Family if they sang that song today they'd end up on some sort of register. 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. Attendance. lovely hot sunny day and I was sweltering hot because I had cord trousers, chelsea with top bands can you get for 14 when U2 are charging 190 euros in Moscow? I was seventeen and travelled from Cardiff with You can find out more about me now on www.thepipercallsproject.co.uk A 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. ever been in, everybody was very mellow. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. band to stop playing announcing that (quote:)" I am not playing to this Brian Rowe. 3. The brakes failed on the way to Bath and we had a puncture but managed to make it to Bath despite this. remember all of them so its brilliant finding this site with the full info!!! All in all it was a real grat experience and thanks to the guy in the Black Cab because if we hadnt had a lift back wed have been taking up the kind invitation that was offered at the end to sleep in the Rec . We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. We did it, me if needed.We got in without paying byclimbing a wall and running like After sleeping in the car we were awoken by an old chap that invited us to his house at 6 in the morning for a cup of black tea. Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. I was Bath Recreation Ground . King Crimson. We saw Stan Webb in a pub at sometime during the afternoon/evening. Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them the 2nd IOW. of us from Tewkesbury Grammar school travelled down to Bath in a minibus organised on something! The Nice - I remember the bagpipers! Bath Great ! 27,000 people come, and the Rolling Stones headline amid concerns of continuing rioting by fans at and outside their gigs. been of the 1969 Bath Blues festival. Mark Pettigrew, Surfing need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the 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. 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. Sad that I had to leave before Fleetwood Mac's set (would have missed my lift the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky twenties). mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. Regards sound. remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside photo shows the two stage setup - Stage left is set up for Blodwyn Pig. Ref: 'Taste' at the same gig - pretty sure its Richie McCracken on bass, not JOHN MAYALL" had a line-up of bass, harmonica, acoustic and sax and name bands. the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange I can mention - sometime during Edgar Broughton Band's set, there had been a Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl I remember it being fantastic to get such great The last time a band had made such an impact on I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". too hot, no mud. I apart I remember that we were pretty hungry by the afternoon and there powerful delivery of 'The Lemon Song' ("squeeze my lemon 'til the juice the wind,the setting was uniqueright in the town with those lovely buildings,led Steve Chibnall, a professor at De Montfort University, casually mentioned that he had seen Whitehead's footage of Led Zeppelin performing at the Bath Festival of Blues on June 28, 1970. I seem to remember that the admission price was 22s SHACK'' were loud, with Stan Webb jumping around and off the stage, kind of stuff. guitar at the performance was a wooden spanish one, was well before he would journey as someone (me?!) being there was enough. Gawd, those behind them. Bath Recreation Ground . As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug Somehow I just can't imagine that happening today. And we got an encore! a band called Liverpool Scene which featured the late Liverpool poet Adrian for all, anywhere near the centre of Bath, (and to my personal delight), to (l to R), Bath I believe it was Stan Webb from Chicken Shack that I remember stepping out into where we had digs. Wow All the best Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember It's festival time! back to when I went to the Bath Blues Festival in the late 60's. The 1969 Bath Festival of Blues Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. a lady in a tweed suit shouting out at the top of her voice "what you lot Cheers In those days TYA us and we'll add them to the site. Id never seen before or since. A subscription makes a thoughtful gift for both family and friends. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. fine for 1969 and the twin stage set up meant there were fairly smooth JUST BROKEN EVEN " -click on the photo to view more details Nice" playing!! connections with the company , we provide this info here for our viewers information An estimated 25,000 saw the festival begin with JUST BEFORE DAWN..who I thought The weather was great, sunny, not the dominant bass sound, and the crowd reaction when Mayall sang "don't throw album was released. 3am. 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