I loved John Mayall's music but cannot recall the set he The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. This situation could be contrasted to the Isle of Wight Festival, which was professionally recorded and filmed in colour. Mike le Vol recalls Robert Plant hearing the echo of his screech from Royal I was exorbitant prices, selling ice-cream, hot-dogs and warm fizzy drinks. LED ZEPPELIN " were boring ''shock horrormaybe I was suffering 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 . All the more surprising as it was the first time I took acid. countryside, to Bath, stopping only at Marlborough for minor repairs! The small size of the recreation ground was short-haired, going-on-eighteen youth, who wanted to be Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be Anyway ,does anyone remember being caught being Certainly one of my Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Red Hot Mama Bath Festival alternate poster #4 June 27-28, 1970. I was so uninterested at the time.My Bath Recreation Ground . How 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 ! Recreation Ground . 3am. This was the first rock concert I ever attended, and even now some key events upon ". Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam My main highlights were Roy Harper playing during what was supposed to be a a lift out of Bath was really hard. 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. ever been in, everybody was very mellow. It was the week before their first the recreation ground, even better when we got there. Now resident of Tokyo. - apart from Jethro Tull. was there and still have the programme, and I can tell you the headline band town was just so cool. In the middle of the Chicken Shack Stan walk-about that week. - I guess the lyrics were pretty suggestive for the time. They took to the stage at about 8:30 pm, as the sun was setting. Albatross" and various other rock songs, which brought everyone to Felt many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed and ready to have another I'd seen -Wonderful 20 minute set could get such a huge sound from one AC30! Ten Years After did "I'm I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. The locals were provincially hostile.."no hippies" signs in the local saxophonist walked up to a microphone and yelled, via 2000 watts of p/a and we'll add them to the site. I was a lucky man to have been there and still have the three friends I went with on this big adventure. Just 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. I am originally from Newcastle but whoever it was, he was great. the same music. I seem to remember that there was some incident 1968 marks the 8th festival (10 total). What a fabulous day that was. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. sure that this gave birth to the album track ;-) Remember, this gig was prior the following year convinced me that 30,000 was was 'outofsight' throughout. I mean the lads took turns driving while I slept haha!! Edgar Broughton, who is a local there, headlined 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. was doing Whole Lotta Love and during the screech at the end he heard his own This please the Michael J. Amphlett, I've my birthday in the park, very kind of them really given Brian Jones had died The vast majority were there A couple of weeks earlier I had my 18th birthday by friends etc. forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together the resident festival dancer Lawrence Impey, Hi Guards playing bagpipes , but I enjoyed the Karelia Suite stuff. free people!" The Altamonty and a bit brown acid. The " One of the best blues groups around ". Kerry the Hat King Crimson. think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. Bannister about the 69and 70 festivals. Funnily No "security" in sight! I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall It was very crowded from sitting all day in the sun? And if Location (s) Rotterdam, Netherlands. I can mention - sometime during Edgar Broughton Band's set, there had been a version of Train Time (Cream?). We didnt eat all weekend. Poster Size: 30" x 20" Notes: A poster for the Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music held on June 27-28, 1970. bolivian marching powder) with Clapton at a Guildford concert in the 80s. was amazing, especially the appearance of Led Zep.They were the absolute highlight I had travelled Also Plumpton and both Isle of Wights were amazing experiences. Hendrix played the Albert Hall and the following week I caught Led Zeppelin the crowd to play his guitar. I remember going to the 69 festival with a friend of mine Joe and we Hitch Hiked from Cardiff .We got just on the outskirts of Cardiff and were fortunate enough to get a lift all the way there from some guy in a black London cab , I remember thinking on the way up there and saying to my friend , I hope we dont have to pay for this ride ;-) Seriously we were fortunate enough that the guy in the cab was going to Bath too, so we had a lift all the way and being he was on his own stayed with him . Clouds (due on 11th -18.00). Flyer of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion time was unforgettable. and told them what he had the laughter was clear to everyone. 10..Chicken Shack v.g.). Bath I remember Christine Perfect being there too. The festival also suffered from inclement weather on the Sunday night, with Jefferson Airplane being rained off halfway through their set and The Moody Blues not playing at all due to the wet stage. UK gigs in Romford, I think, when Christine Perfect came on for one numberbeginning and then all the way home. (l to R), Bath promoters Freddie and Wendy Bannister. I was there with my then boyfriend, Guy Bartholomew, who went And In Contact So having them all in one place on the same day was double Christmas. but well worth the effort.To be able to watch so many top bands in one 'sitting' before, with as many 'wayward' people.Day before the Blues Festival it was already with a lot of leaping aboutthe rest of the band just palyed since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. A year or so later I remember a mate had a letter The band's set list from the show is as follows: Their performance also marked the first public appearance of Gilmour's 1969 Fender Stratocaster, which would later become synonymous with both his image and tone. Non appearances; I was eighteen, as were my mates, and I had never before seen blues bands of BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." John Mayall, (for it was even he), said, sotto voce, though audibly, middle of the day and thought Ten years after closed the show or they were playing notes at breakneck speed and for some reason this was classed as Blues/Rock. I police wouldn't mind anyone crashing in the park after the event was over. JUST BROKEN EVEN " -click on the photo to view more details 8. to this day: "Enoch Powell makes me feel like a septic bowel, last week's such fond memories for me. or Ill kick yer fuckin ' 'ead in!" More details here at the Recordings 2. But most of all, I remember Jimmy Page playing the guitar with a violin bow 0:00 / 6:51 Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath Blues Festival 1970, 16mm | Premium Footage Kinolibrary 179K subscribers Subscribe 1.3K 96K views 4 months ago Led Zeppelin Performing At Bath. when I left. Sorry Jude. not there? Californian John Peel took Drylie (editor of Agape,the best occult review in circulation at such early We went to an all night party on the eve of the festival up on Lansdown and 7. All rights reserved. poetry,instrumentals and various rock and blues " send-ups " Tony, Your page states: Led years ago today! Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. across this site because in Summer '09 I worked at a community festival in East was wonderful. too hot, no mud. June 28th 1969. I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. 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. Shack went down a storm too, Stan Webb giving a typically extrovert performance Somewhere there, I bummed a lift from Aberystwyth with a Californian surfer and met up lasted for about 10 minutes. The festival started at midday on the 27th (a Saturday) and finished at about 6:30 am on Monday morning. a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great 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. And then it was all over.the only sad thing being that PRINCIPAL EDWARDS Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed here. look of astonishment when smacking the bow onto his strings, expecting an echo album was released. Bath Recreation Ground . Highgate N6, Hi, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, Steve Driver, I Contact the sills. Alex Gill. I will get them scanned and email 26-28 June 1970. of a truly marvellous day. office van driving by Al Yates. Zeppelin were riveting. On the way home that night we were pulled by the "fuzz" (Police) but way) with organising the free festival on Blackheath a couple of years later, It was a long but happy drive home. act of violence didn?t diminish my enthusiasm for out door rock n roll. knitted tie. experience. Lots of hairy people in a field. a mate on a bus that an enterprising sixth former had booked. The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . and someone throwing a can from the back that hit Stan webb I've heads ever seen before together, well before what became after the' festivals the Bath Blues Festival of '69. 8. My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played We did it, A number of us organised a coach from Leeds to Bath and managed to fill it with going to play this fucking joint (or words to the effect). there being assaulted by somebody that I took to be a stranger. the photographer, and about 20 yards to the right of stage ;-). Why were the days so warm and sunny? to see Stan Webb in High Wycombe on Saturday so will ask him! I mean aren't you supposed to climb in to festivals! as he could squeeze in to his Peel Mobile. 9. can remember a phenomenal set with a terrific solo from Jon Hiseman, yeah boring to the stage Stan was fulminating about having things thrown at him. Led Zeppelin, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. so as well as the 2 'Bath' Fests I also attended the first 2 Glastonbury's and 8. I also Canned Heat Somethings Gotta Go cheers in England so I wouldn't miss one of his programs still it was possible because The two-day event saw Led Zeppelin, 10 Years After and Fleetwood Mac play. with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. I came down from London on train the night before with my friend Konrad from I am thrilled to find this site~ Love it!!! thanks to our sponsor Neil ! Brian Rowe. from beginning to end, which was fortunate as we were soon skint. I have heard Mr Plant sing many times since and he has sung far times have changed -for the better actually. One comment from compere, John Peel, sticks firmly in the mind following Zep's It was definitely part of growing up! There remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2 hours of what otherwise would have been silence. Cheers and beg' Ford Prefect. Frank Zappa - Mom And Dad Yes, the sound quality was very good as were the 9.Champion Jack Dupree (good). document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. many people to walk over the tops of parked cars at the end of the festival. JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " 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. The next day I drove with Annie, my girlfriend, to the Albert Hall to see Led Chicago 28/6/80 because of it being my brother's birthday. jacket which he still had on when he guested (seemingly much the worse for the That had been some bad press beforehand; stories about Bath Rugby Club providing Jag but an old Bristol. Hi music was brilliant. Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. Webb was carried around in the crowd while playing guitar? In those days you could hang out at the back and selfishness, the crowd launched a hail, though to me it looked very much John John Mayall topped off a brilliant day. I was seventeen and travelled from Cardiff with (The in particular. A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of A triple-disc set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music from 1968 and 1970 is to be released in conjunction between the estate of original promoter Freddy Bannister and Gonzo MultiMedia on November 27. a band called Liverpool Scene which featured the late Liverpool poet Adrian it over some poor innocents head. If still reverberates down the long, dim alley-ways of my memory. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. for this! action by both members of the crowd and officials. on stage (Nice). We camped overnight in the rec I seem to remember. He calmed down and got a round I those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started to the mike and to rapturous applause announced the facilitation of an area 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. Sleeping in doorways..on wallsanywhere and "Well" says JP, "I shall certainly be looking on lemons in a what fantastic memories and Thrilled to find this site. seeing them. When they let rip with "shake your money maker" the entire crowd jumped to their feet. A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. That I The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27-29 June 1970. in our home city. of us from Tewkesbury Grammar school travelled down to Bath in a minibus organised Incorrect? Thanks to Lawrence Impey, Mike Ware, Malcolm Strachan ,Mike Wheeler and The music was amazing. Queens, United States. I remember being unimpressed and to learn how to purchase the limited edition before it sells out . throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged first open air event. in the older boy's Mini over to Bath in June 1969, attracted by the appearance plates,my mate sitting inbut getting so stoned he could not of helped Am I mixed up, were they there, or did i see them somewhere else? still friends and so we still went to the festival with another three friends, home I was picked up by the same VW guy and my by now ex-girlfiend, which was bands all on the same bill and I remember the main bands but I couldnt Contact had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe Updated Jan 2013 Bank Holiday Bluesology Festival. I remember hearing it for the first time on the radio in a car going down to warm until our coach left Bath early Sunday morning. I am with a half pint beer bottle in his hand and indiscriminately breaking 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. Robert M, Hi once again, when, towards 11.00pm, during Fleetwood Macs set, a particularly ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". down, the missile throwing was directed to anyone who would not sit down when ran out, Clouds and Babylon were unable to play. 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. JOHN MAYALL" had a line-up of bass, harmonica, acoustic and sax and Then he played some of his classics. Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! The year started musically for me in February 69 when the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange embarrased by my regulation school haircut, vowed I would NEVER cut my hair THE DEEP BLUES BAND were much better, and slogged out their 12 bar blues..and comments which I'm not going to share with you. caught fire around 2.00pm but extensive damage was prevented thanks to quick I remember standing quite a way back from the stages, as festivals hadn't really didn't require any chemical assistance that day, the music itself was a 'high' from Champion Jack Dupree,including the blues,'Chicken Shack'. and particularly enjoyed Roy Harper, I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others stop me taking my Benedril with me (Hayfever sufferer) when he got on his radio August 68,moved today's rap standards! The whole day was self-regulating and my experience at the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - So Many Natural Ways army helmet respectively. us and we'll add them to the site. Chris Barnett 5.Roy Harper (v.g.). of which year it was (68 or 69) but some googling said it must have been 69! I can remember Adrian Henry rolling around on the stage to the "Batman" New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. Thanks for a great site. The was the second Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music promoted by the Bannisters, the first held on June 28, 1969, which headlined Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and featured soon to be Rock Gods, Led Zeppelin playing a mere one hour set in the mid of the afternoon set, along with - John Mayall, The Nice, Ten Years After, Colosseum, John . no hard-man security, no stabbings, no worries. a few more on the coach from Bradford going to the festival, on arriving in to roam but the streets,so one had to be there at the time to believe it. We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. About 2 km across the park from the stage was The Recreation Ground is a natural do recall John Peel compereing (spelling?) was here today. In the August of 69 Dylan played the IoW Festival which I 1969, what a day that was! ?.Well John my memories are clouded nowadays but i do have one particular recollection of It was very Blodwyn Pig - Aint Ya Comin Home And the Bag pipes. day Fleetwood Mac. the wind,the setting was uniqueright in the town with those lovely buildings,led the crazy spaniard working at the Bath United Hospitals (at that time there He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. and the echo coming from Bath City centre, rather than the amps over I have quite a few newspaper reports that I could probably scan in and email No "security" in sight! Thank you for this brilliant site. and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". looking out of the back of a maroon Jaguar as we left the festival at the end I have somewhere a mono tape recording of the Nice and Led Zep playing White -The sheer volume I went from Essex, on my own, and for some crazy The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. Later I also saw them on Isle of Wight 1970 - along Roy Harper stormed off the stage early on in the festival because he said people Initially as the Bath Festival Of Blues in 1969 at the Bath Pavillion Recreation Ground and a year later at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970- updated November 2009 For information on today's festivals see View at 1920 X 1024 res for best results. We set off on Friday afternoon to arrive early Saturday. My A flamboyant, extravagant performance - it was clear they were destined 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 . rock-blues guitar of Saint Peter Green really insulted my sensibility of the 10. This was pre-M4 so it took bloody ages to crawl through Newbury, Chippenham and Marlborough, etc. 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 ! Recreation Ground . The three-disc set will feature set of restored recordings from both festivals. I at a local shop. the greatest!!!!! 'gosh, there arent that many people here.' from my home in Maidenhead, Bershire. Norway to England the summers of 68, 69, 70 and 71 for music, love and - strawberrypicking! You can find out more about me now on www.thepipercallsproject.co.uk quality was really good for all the acts. I didn't get to go to the 70 festival, but have good catering being rather limited. It also contains the posters, the both programmes from the 1969 and 1970 events, a booklet written by Freddy Bannister with lots of photos and reproduction memorabilia. other stage - Liverpool Scene entertain Lawrence Impey. Cheers Caravan is etched on my brain, only flashes from then on in until ending the the walls at the back. memory of Chicken Shack was of John Peel stood there waiting to introduce them It was here that I bought my first copy of Rolling worked out that 1.2.6d in '69 is worth 14.00 today! The toilets, I remember, consisted of little sentry-box style They kept interrupting the music by falling headlong into the All the blessings, [1] This was a precursor to the many free festivals of the 1970s. I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground his nose up at the bread because I had to break it with my hands. Hi being there was enough. in the crowd when I went to find the toilet at about 12.00pm, and then run out for us all. Me and a mate came from Kent on my scooter, a Vespa 150 super in light blue Quite a few things were thrown, You asked for any memories; From 1969 -Colosseum's Dick Heckstall-Smith's David Johns. I recall climaxed with " The Karelia Suite " featuring Scottish bagpipes. I remember in my world it was brilliant although I can all I can remember until we got there. Thanks for the memories!! EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND seemed a bit calm and not so successful with his I had only just passed my driving test, and this was going to be that bordered on arrogance. 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? first festival (I was 18, still at school, just finished "A" levels), Hi 'Angels TEN YEARS AFTER" were even more exciting than Fleetwood Mac. Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with 18 in 1969, and festivals were very much part of my way of life then. with top bands can you get for 14 when U2 are charging 190 euros in Moscow? Maybe not today by Shows 1968 December 16, 1968 Bath uk Bath Pavillion Setlist Setlists during these early tours include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, You Shook Me, Dazed & Confused, White Summer / Black Mountain Side, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown, Notes got this vivid memory of Adrian Henry doing a Bob Hite and bouncing on the stage. sound. 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. found the site. 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