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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 26/05/2011 : 01:40:28
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Did anyone attend this what is considered the pre-seminal Summer Of Love music festival....if it had only been filmed, as the next one WAS-- in Monterey!!! The Merry Go Round closed BOTH nights....love Emitt's band. The posters must be rather RARE!
Live by Merry-Go-Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXFEuKKhQJ0
The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival was an event held June 10 and 11th, 1967 at the 4,000 seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre high on the south face of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. At least 20,000, and possibly as many as 40,000, people attended the two-day concert and fair that was the first of a series of San Francisco area cultural events known as the Summer of Love.[1] The Fantasy Fair was influenced by the popular Renaissance Pleasure Faire and became a prototype for large scale multi-act outdoor rock music events now known as rock festivals.[2][3]Admission to the festival was $2.00 and all proceeds were donated to the nearby Hunters Point Child Care Center in San Francisco. The Fantasy Fair was originally scheduled for June 3 and 4 as a benefit for the center, but was delayed by inclement weather. Several acts booked for the original dates were unable to perform.[4]
KFRC 610, the RKO Bill Drake "Boss Radio" Top 40 AM station in San Francisco, had enough influence in the music industry to book a wide array of counter-culture and commercial bands. This enabled the festival to present a colorful and eclectic line-up of popular acts most of which were simultaneously receiving air-time on open format AM and FM radio stations in major American cities. Canned Heat, Every Mother's Son, The Merry-Go-Round, The Mojo Men, The Seeds, Blues Magoos, Country Joe and the Fish, Captain Beefheart, The Byrds with Hugh Masakela on trumpet, Tim Hardin, The Sparrow, The Grass Roots, The Loading Zone, The 5th Dimension and Jefferson Airplane were among the performers who appeared.[4] The Fantasy Fair was also The Doors' first large show and happened during the rise of the group's first major hit, "Light My Fire", to the top of the charts.[5]
Among posters created for the event was one designed by artist Stanley Mouse, then gaining acclaim for poster-art created for Bill Graham, the Fillmore Auditorium and the Grateful Dead.
After enjoying a scenic ride up the mountain from embarkation points at the Marin County Civic Center, Mill Valley and other locations, a giant Buddha balloon greeted attendees when they arrived at the amphitheater. Transportation was provided by the tongue-in-cheek-named "Trans-Love Bus Lines", a variation of the line "Fly Trans Love Airways, get you there on time" from the lyrics to Donovan's song "The Fat Angel". Performances were on a main stage and a smaller second stage. Various art-fair type vendors sold posters, crafts and refreshments from booths scattered in the woods around the amphitheater. The festival included a large geodesic dome of pipes and fittings covered with white plastic that contained a light and sound show.
The Magic Mountain Music Festival was remarkably mellow. There were no fights or disturbances, and at the end of the day, all trash was placed in or next to the garbage cans provided, and the crowd left the Mount Tamalpais as they found it.[6] In a foreshadowing of dark events to come at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert, this festival was rumored to be the first to employ Hells Angels motorcycle club members as security guards. Although Jefferson Airplane asked Hells Angels members to escort them from San Francisco to the venue, which they did without incident, the Hells Angels did not actually provide security for the event.
[edit] Significance
To some commentators, the festival represented a sea change in musical preferences among young Bay Area radio listeners as the hippie culture fully arose in mid-1967. Alec Palao and Jud Cost chronicled the San Francisco mid-sixties era music scene in 1991 in their magazine Cream Puff War #1. Writing about the weeks surrounding the Fantasy Fair, Cost noted that "the dichotomy in Bay Area music was never so evident, as the self-proclaimed "adult" scene separated itself from the "teen/pop" scenes."[7] Scram Magazine juxtaposed that view with pioneer rock magazine editor Greg Shaw's recollection that the rift between the tastes of teens and adults didn't form until later, after the freeform radio style then being established by Tom Donahue fully emerged in the fall of 1967. A review of the bands that played indicates that most were groups that played the Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms and were part of the psychedelic rock scene at the time.
While the highly documented Monterey International Pop Festival continues to be remembered as the seminal event of the 1967 Summer of Love, the KFRC Festival took place one week before and was, by many accounts, the first rock festival in history,[2][6] although not the first electronic music festival (see List of electronic music festivals).
[edit] Performances
[edit] Saturday, June 10
* The 5th Dimension
* Dionne Warwick
* The Doors
* The Lamp of Childhood
* Canned Heat
* Jim Kweskin Jug Band
* Spanky and Our Gang
* Rodger Collins
* Blackburn & Snow
* The Sparrow
* Every Mother's Son
* Kaleidoscope
* The Chocolate Watch Band
* The Mojo Men
* The Merry-Go-Round
[edit] Sunday, June 11
* Sons of Champlin
* Jefferson Airplane
* The Byrds with Hugh Masekela
* P. F. Sloan
* Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
* The Seeds
* The Grass Roots
* The Loading Zone
* Tim Buckley
* Every Mother's Son
* Steve Miller Blues Band
* Country Joe and the Fish
* The 5th Dimension
* The Lamp of Childhood
* The Mystery Trend
* Penny Nichols
* New Salvation Army Band
* The Merry-Go-Round
-wiki
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So forget this cruel world
and whatever’s going on
I'll accept my fate
while I sing this song.
But if one day you should see me from your cloud
lend a hand and lift me
Away from the crowd. |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 26/05/2011 17:22:27 |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 26/05/2011 : 17:26:18
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There seems to be a number of 16mm films around but NOT for the public!
The DOORS were seemingly filmed...unfortunately no one is forthcoming.....collectors can be very possessive. 
Understandably with what they likely paid for them....
But we are the poorer....as a long time forum mate here is fond of saying....FREE THE TAPES! Free the LoVE!!
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So forget this cruel world
and whatever’s going on
I'll accept my fate
while I sing this song.
But if one day you should see me from your cloud
lend a hand and lift me
Away from the crowd. |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 26/05/2011 17:27:09 |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 26/05/2011 : 18:33:33
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Beefheart was there.....
Some great pix of the festival too--great great song!!
"ELECTRICITY"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kl6cCp_eWc
Time for some more "Safe As Milk"!
John French's (Drumbo) book "Through the Eyes of Magic" is an essential read, very strongly recommended.
His account of this gig explains very clearly why Ry Cooder decided that this band was definitely not
one he was going to continue to work with. As I recall, early on in their second song, Don looked out
into the crowd and saw certain audience members morphing into fish (Yikes!), which in turn caused him
to back up, and back up, and back up, until he had backed right off the stage, to which he evidently
never did manage to return. At the conclusion of the truncated, Beefheartless set, Ry just got in his
car and drove away, for keeps....
-RW
PIX from "retro"
DOORS
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So forget this cruel world
and whatever’s going on
I'll accept my fate
while I sing this song.
But if one day you should see me from your cloud
lend a hand and lift me
Away from the crowd. |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 26/05/2011 18:38:51 |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 26/05/2011 : 18:45:40
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So forget this cruel world
and whatever’s going on
I'll accept my fate
while I sing this song.
But if one day you should see me from your cloud
lend a hand and lift me
Away from the crowd. |
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