grass lake music festival 1969

I loved Dr. John (the Night Tripper) singing Mannish Boy and being in awe of Janis Joplin in her hot pink outfit! Handy concert will be on advance sale at many Memphis locations ($2.50 to $5.00). Songer teamed up with experienced Detroit disc jockey and promoter, Russ Gibb,[3] and his associate, Tom Wright, to help plan the festival. Great article, & good to see something on this AMAZING weekend! Los Altos Arts & Wine Festival. Dallas Morning News, August 7, 29, 30, 31, 1969. The poster etc. Johnny Winter was advertised to play, but never made it. It was the last thrill before Uncle Sam had my next 3 years, Joni Mitchell definitely walked off stage no one was listening to her. Laycock mentioned the performances of Frost, Savage Grace, Chicago, The Flock, Jethro Tull, John Sebastian, Faces, Ten Years After, Mountain and The Flying Burrito Brothers as particularly memorable. In August 1969, a groundbreaking rock festival took place, one of the best ever, witnessed by many thousands of people and featuring an amazing cast of diverse bands.No, I'm not talking about Woodstock, although that one wasn't bad either. In August 1969, a groundbreaking rock festival took place, one of the best ever, witnessed by many thousands of people and featuring an amazing cast of diverse bands. The festival was extensively advertised through radio and newspapers and was promoted at Woodstock. If anyone was arrested, it never made the news. [2] The lead promoter was Richard Songer, a wealthy 35-year-old man who had been successful in the construction business. At least though I had seen a few songs at AC. Price range $. Is that what they were? Sloan and Steve Barri, yet soon an actual group came into being that was one of the biggest touring bands of the late 60s. Questlove. We crossed the border and headed east towards Toronto. Of course, linguistically anyway, Atlantic City does not conjure the same mystical /surreal qualities of Woodstock. The weekend of the AC Pop Festival, I was in Basic Training at Ft. Bragg. As in the booing business exaggerated. Yeah but that was some instrumental. The promoters stupidly put her in between high-energy rock bands. Related: Woodstock performers: Where are they now? Billy Mack & The Juke Joint Johnnies. Aside from its two popular US events in Vegas and Orlando, this fairytale carnival experience has also visited Puerto Rico, Mexico and the UK. Remember it all like yesterday! I have told many people about AC FESTIVAL not a single person ever heard of it. My girlfriend, Arlene and I went and slept at her Bubbies house in Atlantic City. Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. That said, we had a fabulous weekend, one of many fabulous weekends (and weekdays) of one memorable year, thanks to one memorable relationship that ended for all those reasons that first loves end. Forty nine years eleven months ago I was asked to be Security Chief at Palm Beach Pop Fest. Tickets for the Shell concerts will be available at time of performance only. I proudly display it with other memorabilia I have from that era. After The Doors played, Led Zeppelincame on. We camped very close by. The organizers would not let them play. I stood for 3 days! My girlfriend and I were in Atlantic City that weekend, along with another couple, Bruce and Penny. Learn how your comment data is processed. Still some missing from Spotify though! A New Home at the Grass Lake Farmers Market & Community Events Park The Grass Lake Farmers Market sets up on Wednesdays of each week May through October from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Capacity. I have a home at the Jersey shore so Ive been back to the track a couple times over the years just to stand there and reminisce. It had been many years since I paid any attention to the music scene but it brought back memories. We were all choking on some kind of powder that was in the air! Im Penny, and I was with Bruce back then. In the August heat! It was much more sanitary than Woodstock because they had real rest rooms, not port-o-sans! If youre a newBest Classic Bandsreader, wed be grateful if you would Like ourFacebookpage and/or bookmark ourHome page. No that would be illegal! Of course, a cloud of smoke had whooshed out the door when the troopers had opened it. a couple of weeks later but his parents were away. I mean the Atlantic City Pop Festival. Appropriately enough this event was at a stock car track. We hitched a ride with a chicken farmer to the race track. I played in an area band called Colorless Rainbow and had to be the best summer of my life! DJ John Peel. She was booed off stage. Angry enough to want to show everyone what he could do with a guitar. www.grasslaketrafficjamin.com. In November 69, I got a free trip to Vietnam. The first band was still fading out when the other band came on! Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. He relented and we saw JA in their prime. The celebration of Gwich'in food, culture and music runs July 29 to Aug. 1 at Midway Lake in the Richardson Mountains about 30 kilometres outside of Fort McPherson. Music Highlights from Traffic Jam'In . As it was held at a horse racing track, AC Pop undeniably put out a very different vibe than that of Woodstock. Josephits been a while since you posted, but I can fill in some blanks about AUM. Varsity Stadium, at the University of Toronto, John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band wEric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White, Dorothy Morrison & the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Livingston Gym, Denison University (Granville, OH), Altamont Speedway in northern CA between Tracy and Livermore. That was it other than many hours of amazing classic music. No one mentioned Miles Davis. At some point l wound up going over one of the chain link fences which I recall being about 8 high and caught my hand on one of the barbs on top. Isnt it weird how so many of us who were there remember so little detail about it? Woodstock performers: Where are they now? Fishing: Grass Lake has an abundance of angling opportunities. Lang was . Earthwork Harvest Gathering - September 16-18. : . What a time that was! The gal who said Jimi H was there probably saw him at the Atlanta Pop Fest the next year, July 1970..played a killer Star Spangled Banner at midnight with fireworks resembling our flag. (very tall) and also stuck my head in the speakers ! Joni didnt feel loved and walked off the stage. [3] Then came Joni Mitchell (who I wanted to hear) but the crowd was still buzzing and wasnt ready for soft sound. Took us there on Sunday. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. I only can remember seeing CCR and Jefferson Airplane! I was broken hearted when she walked off. A memorable weekend. God I wish there was visual documentation of this monumental musical event! Held August 30 through September 1, 1969, at the Dallas International Motor Speedway in Lewisville, the event was produced in part by Angus Wynne III of Wynne Entertainment. King), as well as one legendary founding father of rock n roll (an electrifying Little Richard). Best account ever of this nearly forgotten music fest. At night, many of the performers joined the campers and played without charge. 51 1969 Festivals +1. It was mostly the McGuinn/Clarence White show at that point (A great show at that!). This year the number of attendees over the two day festival is expected to exceed 10,000. [NYT article]. Thanks for your comment. Just the right sized crowd, and needless to say the music was over the top !!!! October 11, 1969: Tullivers Brain, Taste, Cubys Blues Band, Keef Hartley Blues Band, Livin Blues, Deep Purple, Amon Duul II, The Nice, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Ekseption, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Xhol Caravan, Hardin & York. As billed, the Carlos Santana Blues Band (2 wks later, the short name was carved in stone, & history!) On Friday night Iron Butterfly encouraged the crowd to bring down the fence which they did. 8/22/1969 Nashville, TN, Centennial Park, WMAK Nashville Music Festival 8/23/1969 Los Angeles, CA, Century Plaza, Capitol Convention Chicago 8/28/1969 . I was 14 years old and I went there by bus from Philly by myself. It was fabulous music! Section 107 related to Copyright and Fair Use for Non-Profit educational institutions, which permits the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), to utilize copyrighted materials to further scholarship, education, and inform the public. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) 1969 near White Lake a hamlet of Bethel, New York. About Grass Lake. The Aug. 7-9, 1970, festival brought some 200,000 members of the 1960s youth counterculture to Jackson County from all across the country. Was there on Saturday. Based on your name.T.O. They had a lot of rock and blues acts that year and they had a lot of people like me who arrived with no money and no tickets. Procol Harem played Thus Sprach Zarathustra w a live Moog synth unheard of at the time! Of course it WAS 48 years ago! https://www.tshaonline.org, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-international-pop-festival-1969. It didnt close the Interstate due to people trying to get to the fest. Absolutely one of the best weekends of my life! If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. It was just as hot out as it was at Woodstock that weekend. Joe Cocker was even more animated than at Woodstock The Byrds played without Crosby. As a matter of fact, the festival is so obscured in history that there remains some doubt as to who actually did and didnt perform. Is your name Mark? There wasnt organized camping but we set up camp along with our car right outside the race track. Your e-mail address will not be published. We camped just outside the racetrack gate on the lawn next to the Garden State Parkway. And of course he played it at Woodstock two weeks later. I had never heard of them. Sold $ 170.00 FD 81 Youngbloods Mad River Victor Moscoso 1967 Avalon Ballroom Concert Poster . I was 16 years old in 1969. Was 21 and there with 4 others. But I went to this with a friend from the Associated Press and got a birds eye view. I can find very little about the festival other than it did actually happen. And he knew of no bootlegs, which certainly would have emerged by now. Lothar and the Hand People did a great version of Danny and the Juniors hit At the Hop. I also was told that Little Richard was the replacement for Crosby Stills and Nash by my friend that was a musician in NJ (never made it but knew a great deal about music and bands). Needles to say our reserved tickets were useless; I recall reading about it later and the authorities didnt know what to make of it. Thats exactly how I remember it too, Alby. The Festival will officially begin Friday June 6 and Saturday June 7, 1969 with three daytime concerts and two evening concerts all in the Overton Park Shell, culminating with the W.C. The Alfred Hitchcock movie Marnie had a brief scene with Sean Connery filmed at Atlantic City race track! No, I wish the poster was mine. Nov 20, 2019 Steve Palace. The Grass Lake Festival of Lights Celebration is an annual activity-filled all day event that draws in a large crowd right here in the Village of Grass Lake. Well, over the 4th of July weekend, 1969 There was the Newport Jazz Festival. BB King came out to a bit of a lukewarm reception and even some boos because in his 3 piece suit some probably considered him the man (in the negative sense). Jefferson Airplane played far into Saturday night and Sunday morning. As I was having a fag outside on the sidewalk he came through the door and I mentioned that I had heard him in AC. But lucky me, I did get to see the other decade defining event. Talk of law suits against Valley State College seeking liability for property damage was bandied about, and, eventually, an ordinance was presented to the City Council that sought greater authority to control such events as the Devonshire Downs Newport 69 Pop Music Festival.. I believe 3 Dog Night was on Sunday. Every penny counts! Actually, Joni was improperly put in mid-afternoon after some rock bands. Some memories are Procul Harums Salty Dog complimented by the local seagulls was so cool! I was 14 and my dad took me and my younger brother, on the condition that I promise not to go to Woodstock. The Chambers Brothers and Janis Joplin were amazing beyond words. Atlantic City Pop Festival Aug 1,2,3 1969.m4v. Jeff was three years old in 1969. I was there all day Sunday. Grass Lake 119 North Lake Street Grass Lake, MI 49240. Wherever life has taken you remember those days of our youth. I remember that. Notts County Football Ground, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. He is still performing today (somewhat mellowed since then) and lives in Austin, TX. It . I have to say I always wondered who the girl with the multi colored face was on the poster and why the hell they ruined a beautiful face with such an bad design. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "The Forgotten Goose Lake Festival: August 7, 1970", "Goose Lake Ready for Festival: 60,000 Expected for Rock Concert", "Goose Lake memories: Why Michigan's most important rock fest remains an obscure footnote in rock history", "Forty years ago this weekend, more than 200,000 young people gathered for the Goose Lake International Music Festival (With video)", Detroit Metro Times article on Goose Lake Festival, JTV "True Story" documentary on Goose Lake Festival, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goose_Lake_International_Music_Festival&oldid=1118232222, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 20:56. Stayed 36 hours but ran out of brain cells. I went on Saturday and saw Butterfield, BB, the Byrds and get thisBooker T. & the MGs. A bunch of my friends and I rented a Ryder box truck and headed down to Atlantic City from Connecticut. B.B. I particularly remember Joe Cockers performance what a trip. Then after the concert was over there was a massive traffic jam. More than 25,000 young people from all over Canada and the Pacific Northwest rocked their way through the holiday weekend here peacefully. Not fair putting Joni on after Tracy Nelson blew us away singing Down So Long. But for years I wondered, where was the music? Was it possible that the promoters had let millions of dollars worth of sound waves just escape? The TSHA makes every effort to conform to the principles of fair use and to comply with copyright law. Joni wasnt booed off, but stopped on her own and left the stage. Booker T. and Little Richard (with Janis dancing on stage) were my favorite acts. I remember it raining while Janis was performing and she stepped into a puddle and got shocked. 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I drove to Woodstock from Vt in my 61 Beetle which I had painted up with poster paint, done by the kids in the local rec program I was running that summer. Crosby was kicked out of the Byrds not long after Monterey pop festival for his habit of making political statements when Introducing certain songs and for joining another group on stage at Monterey after being asked or told not to by Byrds leader Roger McGuinn . People came to rock, over 100,000 of them by most estimates. On Saturday afternoon in the blazing heat we stood in line for food and drink. "The Happy Together Tour" / The Turtles / Gary Puckett & The Union Gap / the association / The Grass Roots / the vogues / The Cowsills Riverpark Center: . Santana was new to me. I was there as I lived in S. Jersey. The kind Cop obliged! The Goose Lake International Music Festival held August 79, 1970 in Leoni Township, Michigan, "was one of the largest music events of its era",[1] and featured many of the top rock music bands of the period. Remember walking in bare feet over lfields of broken glass and watching Airplane on the b&w video monitors in the racetrack clubhouse. The Goose Lake International Music Festival was the creation of Richard Songer, who in his mid-30s in 1970 bought about 350 acres of farmland to create Goose Lake Park, a "place for the young . "It was the festival of no sleep," Baton Rouge native Paul Waguespack says. 1969 Atlanta Pop Festival poster Philip Rauls 40th anniversary essay. It was an amazing weekend of music. She was still pretty unknown and was upset that the audience wasnt really listening to her. I too was at AC Pop and it was a seminal event in my musical history I had seen AUM about 3 months earlier at the original Electric Factory in Philly, opening for Iron Butterfly I believe, so I knew of them and had purchased their Resurrection album. Hiawatha Music Festival - July 22-24. Had a great time. Something happened, I dont know what but I remember him getting angry. Seeing Zappa and The Mothers for the first time. Three days of little sleep, bad/no food, too much partying, in-fighting among the group of friends over paying for the van and the rest did me inwhen I got back home, I was sick for days. Attendance. I could not imagine Joni Mitchell dreaming about Bomber Jet Planes Turning into Butterflies over the Jersey Shore , but regardless, it must have been a real blast for everyone lucky enough to go. Aug. 9, 2019. Awesome show!! Harvey (The Snake) Mandel - guitar. Is it a music festival? Joni leaving the stage, I dont remember who she followed but I do remember it was not a good slot for her that day. Your father is not quite correct. I didnt know about a lot of these that summer. He was just hanging out with the crowd. Select from premium Woodstock Music & Art Festival 1969 of the highest quality. Better lineup than the Lewisville International Pop Festival? I know, because I was there. Panfish tend to be numerous and stunted but are . I was there with a friend! Both Joe Cocker and Santana (mistakenly introduced as the Santa Ana Blues Band) played AC before their big Woodstock breakthroughs, and other giants of rock who would make it to Woodstock Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band warmed up there first. Before they pulled away, one said over the loud speaker, You look groovy and gave us the peace sign. DISCLAIMER (Im 75, so my memory could certainly be faulty. Crosby, Stills & Nash were originally on the lineup but ended up as a no-show, Nash supposedly had polyps on tonsils (but sang at Woodstock two weeks later). Okay! Little Richard captured the crowd. I was there all 3 days and as a drummer I was in heaven. To see the Airplane and CCR alone made it worthwhile. (& Day 2, Aug 2, was my birthday! Page created - June 21, 2012. Well not really because it didnt happen. Why cant we play?. And he promised to dig out fire ant colonies and relocate them at the venue. LOL Good time, good people GREAT MUSIC!! add topic- . Most who attended the festival camped on the adjacent 10,000-acre lakefront. Crosby, Stills & Nash were booked but canceled, supposedly because Nash had a polyp on his tonsils. His Sunday performance with Buddy Miles, Eric Burdon, and several others lasted more than two hours. I was hardly able to breathe and in awe of his earth shattering guitar version It was as if he turned music upside down by opening a new door. I remember Joni Mitchell walking off the stage. All copyrighted materials included within the Handbook of Texas Online are in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Its been a long time but what I recall was that Joni Mitchell followed Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth and they rocked out. The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before Woodstock Festival. You can listen to the old AUM material online. I definitely remember Jimi Hendrix playing Star Spangled Banner with Janis Joplin onstage.Wild day! Yea it was the best no rip off at Woodstock we paid 9 dollars for water.Mud AND SHIT MIX WAS TOUGH. Tangerine Dream performed at this festival, but is not listed on the poster. Had a ball. He opened the bag which had about 2 bushels of grass wrapped in smaller bags and nothing else. She seemed very uninterested in performing. I remember her saying she had just sang the same verse twice and nobody noticed. Great story! And a buton. He left behind a legion of friends across . Click here for the Car Show Car Show Gallery! I remember Lothar and the Hand People. I was there, too and remember Joni very well. Hitched a ride to Castor & Cottman in Philly as bud was nowhere to be found. Well not really because it didnt happen. Ishmon Bracey, and Wild Child Butler. Still have their record, but admittedly they were better live. My girlfriend/future wife and our best friends went and they told me all about the festival. Im English was working at Shelburne Hotel on the Boardwalk and one of the guys had a car. Documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity. TICKETS . The grassy area was called the greens, and as tailored as they were, the ACR people let us camp there two nights in a row, Bless them. Though it was free, it, like the famous Woodstock festival, organizers did not intend it to be so. . Frank Zappa was upset and played a 50 instrumental. By the way, they were quite good. I found it amazing that she wrote Woodstock when she wasnt there. Some bad voodoo there. Then walked off stage. Is it a free family friendly two-day event you will not want to miss? Consequently, music enthusiasts from all over the United States, and from numerous foreign countries, poured into Lewisville to pay the admission fee of $6.50 a day. The next night after Mike Bloomfield and Harvey Mandel jammed with Canned Heat, both were offered Vestine's spot in the band's line-up, which Mandel accepted) Line-up: (July 29, 1969 - May 1970) Bob (The Bear) Hite - vocals, harp. Having Little Richard close was perfect, bringing rock back to its roots. The paying ticketholders were in the stands but these new invaders were able to go right up to the stage the party had moved on to the infield and the ticketholders came down to party too.