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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 06/06/2011 : 20:35:48
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This 1970 Festival is almost better for me than Woodstock in some ways with a few personal favorites. It also seems to have passed by the blackness covering the American rock scene by then.
There is an innocence that that multinational crowd here retains! A beautiful festival that beat the Woodstock crowd by 100,000!! 350,000 beautiful people!! It had Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd..a bunch of UK bands that Woodstock was missing!
In America the golden season for music festivals ended up in late '69 with the Altamont's accidents, a few months after Woodstock. In the early seventies in Europe there was still space for some "good vibrations", as proved by the Kralingen Pop festival, near Rotterdam, on June 1970. The event, documented by the movie Stamping Ground, is often remembered as the European Woodstock, because of the presence of many artists that had already played on that historical three-days concert, like Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Country Joe. But the Kralingen festival also showed how vital was the British scene on that period, offering great performances by bands like Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, East Of Eden, Caravan, Fairport Convention, Family, T. Rex... -avaxnome
Some music!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZjbY45PqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UVz58JOW5s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnArj3n5wVk&feature=related
Storm's a comin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHd6EfFjy0&feature=related
Well....you can pretty much watch it all at youtube if you like!!
A great time looks to be had by all!!!
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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 06/06/2011 20:41:55 |
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Dukie
Fifth Love
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Posted - 06/06/2011 : 21:27:05
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| Some of the bands at this festival also played at the Bath Festival (which I attended) on the same weekend. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 06/06/2011 : 21:36:34
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quote:
Originally posted by Dukie
Some of the bands at this festival also played at the Bath Festival (which I attended) on the same weekend.
So they did some pond jumping!
And let us not forget Isle Of Wight Festival 1970--grandaddy of them all with between 600,000 and 700,000 attending!...! Those Isle Fests are still happening...ever make any Dukie? anyone!
As the smaller of the three, BATH gets little attention but was a superior lineup of acts in many respects to Isle of Wight.
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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 06/06/2011 21:39:44 |
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Dukie
Fifth Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/06/2011 : 23:12:25
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| I went to the Bath and Isle of Wight festivals in 1969.Happy days for a 17 year old music fan! |
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The Stamping Ground-Holland's Woodstock 1970
