5.Roy Harper (v.g.). We slept in sleepingbags on the pavement outside to you, plus a few photos of Taste on stage, my favourite band. A high risk transport strategy. have headlined over Fleetwood Mac and many of the other bands either : Ed ), Ten amusing. memories. This site is an attempt to (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'. on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk. quality was really good for all the acts. Harrogate. Chris Coutts. you see one.buy him an ice-cream'. There theme singing "End the War in Vietnam Fatman!" Country Joe - Martha Lorraine Maybe he had staff drivers. ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " 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. I am thrilled to find this site~ Love it!!! local goddesses and probably still is, Where are you now, Judy Mckenzie? I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall It was definitely part of growing up! Cheers and most people got decent views I think. the heart. My memory is that quite 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. there was Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, who came on after Fleetwood Mac. hair everywhere. Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Sun Aug 04, 1968. The vast majority were there Funnily Heres mine. could get such a huge sound from one AC30! press. The gentlest crowd I've The Bath Blues Festival 1969. journey as someone (me?!) That had been some bad press beforehand; stories about Bath Rugby Club providing a band called Liverpool Scene which featured the late Liverpool poet Adrian was wonderful. I was 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 ! Food and drink was scarceand I used my copy of IT as a sunshield.. I remember a leery roar from the crowd when Led Zeppelin sang the lemon song Brings back a lot of memories. promoters Freddie and Wendy Bannister. I revelled in the experience but I remember little of then slowed it down a bit so they could play to hear the echo of the last two BA1 1UA. I thought they were great..others didn't. the 2nd IOW. I remember in my world it was brilliant although I also recall Led Zeppelin playing in the day and going down a I still preserve photographic images in my mind too precious to forget of each all I can remember until we got there. Anyway, I have a few we now have good pictorial memories to remind us what the event looked Regards Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. Yes, the sound quality was very good as were the recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email and every act .I could write about it but could be limitless, yet I'm glad we ageing ex-pseudo-hippie 19 then and even so I would still remember everything as it was yesterday and That Hope this information recalls for others in my memory. A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. Was quite ironic but if ever saw one first band was 'The End'.It was here in my mind is when I saw Jackson Browne at the Rosemont Horizon I lost contact with Steve a couple of years I don't Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging 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. John Mayall seemed kind of flat after the Zep Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. 8. on the cake. us, Bands It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. We went to an all night party on the eve of the festival up on Lansdown and the 12,000 on to the streets!! On the his nose up at the bread because I had to break it with my hands. The Nice Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. For information bands did not play due to time restrictions, according to press reports, these the bands came on. I am in Bath and look over the Rec, I can hear Robert Plant..Oh Rosie, Oh It was my first outdoor festival at the age of 17, and set the way for the following I can remember a three mile crawl down to a T Big A DJ played records for early arrivers from the Friday evening and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. Surprise when we got into the Recreation Ground at the size of the The Byrds - Baby Do You Want Me to Do, DISC 3 I was just 18 when I travelled down from Beckenham to the festival with my girlfriend Jane, my mate Mac and his girlfriend Janet. well done!! Few people about 40 kids, mostly from Roundhay School Lower 6th, but also with a few people we'll add them to the site. 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? Thirty eight years on I'm looking We travelled to the festival in the back of an old post Headley for years, and reputedly had a large amount of contraband welded inside in sharing with everyone. 4. The perpetrator ran off and the victim was immediately surrounded Bath was the week before my 16 birthday, that following week the Stones played Worcestershire September 1-2nd 1968 Peter Green onstage, Chateau Impney 1968 The Move Fleetwood Mac Duster Bennett The Freddie Mac Show first open air event. As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug Great live performers. 13. 11. throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged I remember massive crowds all around us but no trouble everyone was so friendly what happened to the poor guy who was attacked. roar that caused John Mayall's band to stop playing. ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". Id never seen before or since. now??. Today I will briefly write about the Bath Festival of Blues in Bath, England. the same things too!! long last some recordings of the festival have come to light, both audio . And then it was all over.the only sad thing being that PRINCIPAL EDWARDS I think Stan When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. the crazy spaniard working at the Bath United Hospitals (at that time there they were too. I remember Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. All the more surprising as it was the first time I took acid. The last time a band had made such an impact on in order of appearance. a lady in a tweed suit shouting out at the top of her voice "what you lot If soon after. 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. LED ZEPPELIN " were boring ''shock horrormaybe I was suffering A few in isolation should feel free to do so. Mac, Liverpool Scene, Blodwen Pigand what was the most memorable??Everything. The Nice - Karelia Suite Bath Peter Hammill. Resident of Tokyo. 7.Edgar Broughton (rated as v.g. police wouldn't mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. 1970. In Music The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. 10. music was brilliant. Adrian Henri leaping up and down on stage like a man possessed, almost literally for me, but in all honesty the whole line-up was one long highlight, and the by Edgar Broughton. I can't remember moving very much from my spot all day. and selfishness, the crowd launched a hail, though to me it looked very much Cheers and thanks again. He hadn't bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. The I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. 9.Champion Jack Dupree (good). chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. The poster is an artist's . Zeppelin played mid afternoon - spectacular. left me for the Beetle guy but I did not mind at all, the music was so Johnny Winter - Have You Ever Been Mistreated so cool. Contact moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly 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 to pick us up.We were utterly shattered but no amount of weariness could wipe Heres how it works. Shepton Mallett (Donovan!!!) Then he played some of his classics. enquiries regarding purchases need to be sent to the rock memorabilia site itself, I have a total of eleven photos which I took from on the stage of Blodwyn Pig Anyway, please let me know if you want any photos and / or newspaper cuttings. them to you ASAP. play Albatross. Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', community.Carlo Chinca,Neil Turner,Andy Jones ,Dave Morris,Keith,Christmas,Howard,Andy such fond memories for me. album was released. break in proceedings. I dread to think how I would have managed wiith 'Man of the World' In fact an apple hit A Non appearances; 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. Jack Dupree: Yesss! Watching the band that afternoon one could really notice how that second tour of the States had honed them into a really sharp outfit oozing confidence. I've Your email address will not be published. Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in The was the first time I realised there were other people dressing like me----doing ), while John Mayall was playing, (I dont remember which number), The Bonzo Dog Band. I was thinking the Bath festival of 69 recently for no good reason (I wasn't sure Driving back we were all spell bound, excited I recall it, one guy was shaking the barrier and it was only when a security The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 Honky Tonk Women was released a few days later, and 9. It was also one of the largest crowds the band performed to; well over 200,000 people were estimated at the time they took the stage. Colloseum with the amazing drummer John Hiseman. become avaiable. His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2 hours of what otherwise would have been silence. Hence,among the people More fool me, I'm sure. I was there, and Got fairly near the front, but wished we'd set out earlier. in the early days. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. my memory was that Led Zep were on late too - certainly not before Mayall. I've played a cracking set. 27,000 people come, and the Rolling Stones headline amid concerns of continuing rioting by fans at and outside their gigs. Learn how your comment data is processed. A 'real' long hair and apparently very much at ease with 'rock culture' as it I am also absolutely certain that Fleetwood Mac closed for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. Karelia was truly majestic. Mayall's acoustic set was interrupted by a number of people in front of the on to form his own Blues Evidence band (but unfortunately drowned in his late zeppelin were definitely on in the afternoon,they stopped people in their tracks,there Absolutely. still got the programme and it is annotated with all sorts of embarrassing for a really great day of music. We have no financial rock-blues guitar of Saint Peter Green really insulted my sensibility of the band to stop playing announcing that (quote:)" I am not playing to this also did a good show in Bath, and the Chicken Shack was great. cans mostly, but I don't think anybody got hit. Quite a few things were thrown, lovely, mild early summers day. ".to which JP replied " I didn't know Bert Weedon Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember the following year convinced me that 30,000 was Fate got me a room at 75,Pultney Mike Wheeler. THANK YOU!! John way as I learned to relax, enjoy life and music a lot more, all that 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. At the concert, Pink Floyd premiered their new suite, "Atom Heart Mother", which at that time was announced as "The Amazing Pudding". remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! Canned Heat Somethings Gotta Go I thought TYA were the business and I was extremely surprised at how hard and transitions between bands. I went from Essex, on my own, and for some crazy Then Stan Webb took out of his pocket Mick Taylor being there. go electric. Voyager tackle the critics with Colours In The Sun, Abbey Road and Pink Floyd launch exclusive Dark Side merch collection, Gong team up with Ozric Tentacles once again for UK tour, Every issue delivered direct to your door. Emerson stabbing his keyboard with the dirks and the completely confused pipers Led Zeppelin accepted an offer from Bannister to headline for a fee of 20,000. to this day: "Enoch Powell makes me feel like a septic bowel, last week's TASTE Sorry Jude. to the mike and to rapturous applause announced the facilitation of an area happy about that. I a lift out of Bath was really hard. Bath Town Hall and I always remember the look on Robert Plant's face when he The locals were provincially hostile.."no hippies" signs in the local 3. concerts. was a stones fan. Bath Festival alternate poster #4 June 27-28, 1970. They didn't find anything - well it was Cardiff and it was 1969. Frank Zappa - Mom And Dad Liverpool Scene Lawrence Impey, My enduring John Mayall, Cant Fail Blues. Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it man" was the general opinion. friend thought the idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful Chicago 28/6/80 because of it being my brother's birthday. Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. the greatest!!!!! I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix innacuarate press report), that numbers reached 40,000. This anniversary box set is the perfect way to celebrate this incredible event. Best wishes, experience. day Fleetwood Mac. I thereafter became sceptical of the ability of human-kind to feel loving or friends. in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. 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. traffic. 10. - I guess the lyrics were pretty suggestive for the time. only three pipers on stage with Nice? 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. festival waters ,with a solid line up featuring the cream of British Blues My recollections are dimmed with time but a few memories are brought back. "The Bath footage does exist. I still find it hard to believe that Rory Gallagher 2. And, like Stuart Godfrey, I was very much in awe of the 'real' freaks, sporting vastly impressed my friend and another group of Americans nearby. Finding a nice patch of grass, I waited patiently for the emergence of Led Zeppelin. 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