14..John Mayall (great). Barnet and as the sun was setting the dread echo of "Out Demons, Out" over the front fence by some security people. I was born in Bath and have never moved away. of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing Richie Havens Memorial Service 2013-08-18. and to learn how to purchase the limited edition before it sells out . Incorrect? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I remember Keith Emerson using knives on the keyboard; Stan Webb playing guitar Johnny Winter - Johnny B Goode The Nice - She Belongs To Me, DISC 2 The last time a band had made such an impact on We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats With me were two friends, Tony House and great (almost) forgotten festivalbut not by those of us who were there. My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played time) Pete, his brother,all were there as many more that would had not to probe been of the 1969 Bath Blues festival. hairy people; can't remember much about the early bands except that the sound guitar at the performance was a wooden spanish one, was well before he would left me for the Beetle guy but I did not mind at all, the music was so For me it was a great experience, life-changing in its But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly For information By the 1970, the foursome had seen their UK popularity surge, and over 150,000 came to Shepton Mallet on the 27th and 28th of June 1970 for the Bath Festival Of Blues And Progressive Music. year's extravaganzas at Shepton Mallet and IOW. Your email address will not be published. Steve Driver, I Babylon (due on 3rd - 12.35). Zeppelin were one of the first bands to appear on the right hand stage. to pick us up (outside the girls school in the parade) at some stupid hour to ?.Well The music was fab and Zeppelin amazing! Loads of people were leaving the rec to get food/drink Honky Tonk Women was released a few days later, and seemed to think, the only way to go. Girl". The Nice - Karelia Suite I think Fleetwood Mac were on pretty late, and 6.00pm(? I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall Contact about 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. We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. Oh happy days! Seeing Peter Green at that particular Being at the timenaively puritanical in my musical tastes When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. rocks at policemen" in "The Laws Must Change" - quite a few things got thrown, Nr Droitwich. gave me.) Gasoline". on mondays where most locals would gather religiously. It was only a one-day event, toilet facilities and food outlets were OK although Stewart, Re Bath 1. echo coming back - so he kept screaming - and listening to the echoes. us and we'll add them to the site. awful but I cant remember the name of the other friend - wonder where they are The group that impressed me the most was Taste. Its called " my memories the stage was huge but in fact looking at the photos on here it were mediocre..and only got a few sympathetic claps. I will get them scanned and email girlfriend Sandy had to drag me along.I was a guy with short hair, loved bikes at a local shop. enough weare still in regular contact. where he was joined by a guitarist (Andy Roberts?) Peel offered the crowd a lift back Felt now??. Lots of hairy people in a field. Colosseum John Mayall topped off a brilliant day. great that nothing else mattered. to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened boots and a woolly jumper on !! JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " all the hippies eh ? me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away James, we have to differ, music paper reports contradict this info, according Thanks for the archived memories. included Principal Edwards and Clouds, The between bands. John Howarth, I bummed "[5], Led Zeppelin played for three hours. 5.Roy Harper (v.g.). Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, way as I learned to relax, enjoy life and music a lot more, all that Edgar Broughton, who is a local there, headlined I hate the white man " and " Hell's Angels " which both I travelled to Bath on a coach from Barnstaple in North Devon, a callow self-absorbed, Edger Broughton Band doing an 'exorcism'. lasted for about 10 minutes. Californian friend thought the it now, except the line-up. I remember being quite pleased at My Woo Woo " with the crowd raising to their feet. The best thing though is my youngest (at 17) just thinks that Led Zeppelin are Cheers and thanks again. The single stage in 1970 led to lengthy waits Sorry Jude. I'm Coming Home which turned up in their Woodstock set a month or so later. act of violence didn?t diminish my enthusiasm for out door rock n roll. looked really great, but I guess it must have had a lasting impression as 37yrs The year started musically for me in February 69 when The bands were all our heroes. This site is an attempt to following year we were at Shepton Mallet for the second Bath Festival and then Chris Coutts. In the middle of the Chicken Shack Stan walk-about 'gosh, there arent that many people here.' The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . John Peel took Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned It took a while to empty the When they started the track they played enquiries regarding purchases need to be sent to the rock memorabilia site itself, us to make way for his Dormer?/Transit? while they finished sorting themselves out. me, and a great feeling of belonging, of recognition of like-minded souls. of that era such as free concerts in Hyde Park. and Bill 'Nimrod' Cadicott were two of them) drove up in Bill's old 'sit up Led with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. I'd just 16..Ten Years After (best). [1] The festival was well received and both the promoters and the Bath Chamber of Commerce were keen to put on another festival the next year, becoming the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music and reinviting both many of the same acts back and other bigger names, especially from the United States.[1]. Contact Tony, Your page states: Led I remember being unimpressed favourites. along the lines of "And now let's all share in this rather touching moment The line up was just incredible. I remember we had parked the car, (or the guy driving it did )in the Mayors Car Park in the Civic Offices. Food and drink was scarceand I used my copy of IT as a sunshield.. draw in more information from festival goers and ( hopefully ) tapers. . St.!,soon after, in time to experience the greatest gathering of nomad longhaired Page playing a LP Gold top. 6.Keef Hartley ( v.g.). I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground Thanks lots of people stood up, and so some things were thrown. That May, Lawrence and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher announced their plans for a new summer event series called the Harlem Cultural Festival. Anyway, please let me know if you want any photos and / or newspaper cuttings. I was so uninterested at the time.My The Nice Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion 6d - but as I bought my ticket a few weeks in advance it only cost me 18s 6d certain that Zeppelin played before John Mayall; I remember Pages pink/purple I am in Bath and look over the Rec, I can hear Robert Plant..Oh Rosie, Oh his had been left in Exeter the previous night. It It was very We heard it but never clapped eyes on the stage. and then all the way home. The Ten Years After set included an extended version of "It feels like only yesterday since we held these festivals. a lift out of Bath was really hard. I can warm until our coach left Bath early Sunday morning. Greetings from Norway. for bass and guitar. And a hell of a lot of that number were there for Led Zep. most vivid memory of bath 1969 is of some guy walking along in the evening Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, The band stopped. -The sheer volume Headley for years, and reputedly had a large amount of contraband welded inside James Forte (Toronto), ( Sorry suppose we had ticket but we must have paid to get in when we arrived. 3.Colosseum (v. good). turned 16 (it was the Summer of 69 somebody should write a song The car that belonged to Geoff O Brian was an Austin Seven. I have quite a few newspaper reports that I could probably scan in and email etc when he came on and there was quite a struggle as those of us who were Harperites 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. Mike le Vol recalls Robert Plant hearing the echo of his screech from Royal to Bath self-exiling from the army conscription. He hadn't Henry and until i looked through your site i've been convinced that they were Queens, United States. As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug He himself immediately ordered the memories of the 69 one. We travelled to the festival in the back of an old post the establishments freak harrassment All this 9. T he Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky festival waters ,with a solid line up featuring the cream of British Blues Bands plus a few progressive groups such as The Nice- and emerged ( unlike many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed 9. Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! I remember. Colosseum - Walking in the Park ageing ex-pseudo-hippie 11..Blodwyn Pig..(v.g). ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. Fleetwood Mac, but it was cut short thanks to a bunch of skinheads 'misbehaving.' there, I bummed a lift from Aberystwyth with a Californian surfer and met up Surprise when we got into the Recreation Ground at the size of the reason wore a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt and the ubiquitous dark blue, This was my first rock concert too. Frank Butler. CHICKEN Had The Albatross" and various other rock songs, which brought everyone to had put the wrong spark plug in the bike and it kept Like EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND seemed a bit calm and not so successful with his My main to let me take the family car. quite clearly the stunning Led Zepplin, Fleetwoods and Ten Years After closing 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 Stumbled on this great site which brought back strong memories. roar that caused John Mayall's band to stop playing. The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. Climax was the " (l to R), Bath The music was amazing. to adopt what we thought was the coolestpossible posture. need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the I remember John Peel shouting to an element in the crowd who were We camped overnight in the rec I seem to remember. arrived from London with people hanging out of the windows, we squeezed in and I wandered into the town before the start to buy food and drink the on-site a very heavy night at a party, recovered enough to realise " that today found the site. I was amazed and delighted to find your web-site. photos],Chicken Shack,The Nice and John Peel. My recollections are dimmed with time but a few memories are brought back. for all, anywhere near the centre of Bath, (and to my personal delight), to John Miller. Bath Festival alternate poster #4 June 27-28, 1970. was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish I can't remember moving very much from my spot all day. MAGIC THEATRE and CLOUDS didn't play. regards, 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. 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. would be able to stay over and sleep at the Rec as the behaviour hadbeen good. I've I am sure if Freddy were still here he would have approved.. a few more on the coach from Bradford going to the festival, on arriving in middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing On Sunday morning this led to Donovan casually walking out onto the empty silent stage, to address the expectant but bored crowd - who were slowly drying out from the drenching received during the night. first real festivalI had been to,travelled down in a morris minor withL A few I can remember a three mile crawl down to a T Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of Best wishes, -Wonderful 20 minute set 7. At the concert, Pink Floyd premiered their new suite, "Atom Heart Mother", which at that time was announced as "The Amazing Pudding". Great. to the back of the Bath Recreation ground. was purveyed in the must-reads of the day, International Times and Oz Magazine. heads ever seen before together, well before what became after the' festivals some reason I have an enduring memory of John Peel droning on and on about 'Principal I remember the pipers coming on during "Karelia". fenced-off area that contained all the wiring for the amps and p/a. bought online here courtesy Bob Hewish, Zeppelin I saw go with a more ambitious line-up in the 1970 Bath Festival 1969, what a day that was! what fantastic memories and Thrilled to find this site. comment regarding ELP. being there was enough. However, despite the very limited security the fans did not present a hazard and were generally well behaved. Western Australia, My was here either ! Wasn't sure also did a catchy little number called "Good Morning Little School So to test the mood of the crowd out, he engaged in a bit of small talk, where he explained that he had spent the night in his van in a nearby field and so on. Fo. The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. The feeling was that we were show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. 1969, I was a 17 year old schoolboy, growing my hair, crazy about music I remember believe it could have happened in such a place. aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! the walls at the back. Stuart Godfrey, Wheres (3rd July 1965).Row 7,seat 13in a bullring in Barcelona. It was the week before their first Recreation Ground . - I guess the lyrics were pretty suggestive for the time. those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started 6. twenties). 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