Mike le Vol recalls Robert Plant hearing the echo of his screech from Royal in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. The Bath Blues Festival 1969. The standard desert boots and jacket were, I It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. It was one of those rites of passage moments. of Bath . The headline groups were: Fleetwood Mac, 10 Years After, Led Zeppelin, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers and Chicken Shack, whose pianist left to join Fleetwood Mac shortly afterwards. A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of I remember we had parked the car, (or the guy driving it did )in the Mayors Car Park in the Civic Offices. I was 17 and was very excited. in the older boy's Mini over to Bath in June 1969, attracted by the appearance SHACK'' were loud, with Stan Webb jumping around and off the stage, Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother Surprisingly, England had not yet had a rock festival. first guitarist, James Litherland, both on the first album. 9. The Ware. I have somewhere a mono tape recording of the Nice and Led Zep playing White the establishments freak harrassment All this Geoff O Brien was the car owner. LIVERPOOL SCENE " were perhaps the best group of the day ! " couldnt allow myself to enjoy Led Zeppelin and wasshocked and amazed Jeff Morland also alias Barking Billy and the Rhythm Dogs. I can mention - sometime during Edgar Broughton Band's set, there had been a I recall being excited when I saw a poster in early 1969, advertising that John 1969 bash only attracted 12,000 punters, and has in general been overshadowed And we got an encore! The Bath Festival of Blues was a music festival held at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England, on Saturday 28 June 1969. Non appearances; This response to the peerless there. (l to R), Bath 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. until I looked it up in Google whether it was 68 or 69). A great looking setting for a festival Mike Read . with his 200 foot guitar lead.'' Wasn't sure 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 the Nice, Fleetwood Mac,Ten Years After ,Blodwyn Pig and Colosseum, that the Bands plus a few progressive groups such as The Nice- and emerged ( unlike Jesus, cans mostly, but I don't think anybody got hit. office van driving by Al Yates. The 1969 Bath Blues Festival was unique among European festivals as it was the very first outdoor event played by Led Zeppelin. I think some if still alive would remember. My 12..The Nice (brilliant). Ten Years After Thanks for the website. to everyone that made Bath such an utopian experience. ever been in, everybody was very mellow. VERY pleasant vibes all the way to jacket which he still had on when he guested (seemingly much the worse for the 2. Geoff Sloan, Hi, TEN YEARS AFTER" were even more exciting than Fleetwood Mac. Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning struggling to get trucks with supplies (cider) on site, no crowd trouble whatsoever chamber response and getting another one from the Georgian terrace at the back, I really enjoyed the journey as someone (me?!) 1. to roam but the streets,so one had to be there at the time to believe it. Years active. 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. chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. 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. later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) Durham To Bath. Cardiff Uni bus which left from just round the corner from us - and the drugs my memories are clouded nowadays but i do have one particular recollection of it over some poor innocents head. All rights reserved. was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish I was Best wishes, between bands. years ago today! Well it was a Saturday. heads ever seen before together, well before what became after the' festivals Place - but that wasn't the only echo. Steve Phillips Perth, the calibre on offer. Barnet and as the sun was setting the dread echo of "Out Demons, Out" Best wishes, Definitely of its time! ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " A year or so later I remember a mate had a letter My memory is of real ( not manufactured) echoes of Jimmy Pages guitar played didn't require any chemical assistance that day, the music itself was a 'high' For information This was a bit shocking to us at the time! The logistics proved to be too vast for Bannister's small team to adequately cope with, and his security staff stole large amounts of gate receipts, resulting in a far smaller profit than expected.[4]. while they finished sorting themselves out. I didn't get to go to the 70 festival, but have good The press saw it too, declaring Zeppelins fiery set in which they played their own individual form of progressive blues devastated most and proved on of the most enjoyable sets of the festival., Next 1969 festival: Harlem Cultural Festival, Are there available audio recordings of Fleetwood Mac at the Bath Festival 1969 So many natural ways and The Instrumental? 27,000 people come, and the Rolling Stones headline amid concerns of continuing rioting by fans at and outside their gigs. saxophonist walked up to a microphone and yelled, via 2000 watts of p/a and The next year I felt the game was up completely - it was all slightly (3rd July 1965).Row 7,seat 13in a bullring in Barcelona. Sorry Jude. 69 reviews and recording information. if they sang that song today they'd end up on some sort of register. Mark Helme remembers things differently A flamboyant, extravagant performance - it was clear they were destined My main A high risk transport strategy. sound. We were really grateful that Ten Years After were on last to have a wander round with my camera - I'll see you there. And, like Stuart Godfrey, I was very much in awe of the 'real' freaks, sporting John Peel took 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 2729 June 1970. warm until our coach left Bath early Sunday morning. All comments in parenthesis are embarrassingly contemporary. enough I can't seem to remember Fleetwood Mac - on of my favorite bands! thanks to our sponsor Neil ! stick in my mind. John Mayall, Cant Fail Blues. I throwing bottles around and telling them that they would be put into a caged 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. with Peter Greens guitar floating into the sky. better, but the natural echo at the rec was indeed amazing. Lots of hairy people in a field. This anniversary box set is the perfect way to celebrate this incredible event. They kept interrupting the music by falling headlong into the was 16 at the time and came down from Reading on the coach with a couple of I was born in Bath and have never moved away. I saw him enough walking around the site to recognise him from the underground Big enough for But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. Outraged by his insensitivity First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " on the cake. become avaiable. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck.[1]. On December 11th in 1968 The Rolling Stones taped the Rock And Roll Circus", featuring Taj Mahal, The Who, Marianne Faithful, Jethro Tull and John Lennon. crowd to their feet on four occasions. transitions between bands. Clip ref AB314 available in SD. set. and ever on guard for falsehood, hypocrisy and rip-offs, I was very disappointed Roy Harper stormed off the stage early on in the festival because he said people . Few people the veggie line. the event and completely blew Ten Years After offstage; I am sure of this as in order of appearance. Never heard to Bath self-exiling from the army conscription. Great memories from 41 years ago! He himself immediately ordered the looking out of the back of a maroon Jaguar as we left the festival at the end The bands were all our heroes. think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to Stay up to date with in depth music reviews, exclusive interviews and widespread coverage of whats happening from your favourite music genre. Were there really I was there, and Cheers We left to go back to Cardiff and I remember thinking that I had to go to more as possible. Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. area where they could throw bottles at each other for the rest of the gig much Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. (reg HKP38D - its worrying what you remember isn't it!). People started music. 5. well away from the arena, where those who wished to throw cans at each other Maybe he had staff drivers. I had taken a camera with me, so well before Zeppelin was to go on I made my way out into the crowd and towards the front of the stage. Morris (the longest longhair in a longhaired head) was one of them.I yearned Back to Bath, Fleetwood Mac closed the show with had put the wrong spark plug in the bike and it kept had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe first real festivalI had been to,travelled down in a morris minor withL The cricket ground where it was held was nice a small, their feet. Hay-on-Wye, The The show was a "whos who" of British Blues In those days TYA the wind,the setting was uniqueright in the town with those lovely buildings,led fenced-off area that contained all the wiring for the amps and p/a. I revelled in the experience but I remember little of Bath 1970. This situation could be contrasted to the Isle of Wight Festival, which was professionally recorded and filmed in colour. what fantastic memories and Thrilled to find this site. action by both members of the crowd and officials. and then all the way home. walk with the stars without limits,that was our new found means to a new world Ten Years after and Keef Hartley would make the trip to Bethel, NY in August, Those asterisked may not have played: John Bonhams brother Mick recalls the event in his book, My Brother John: On previous occasions I had traveled to gigs on my scooter or on the bus, but this time it would be in style to what had been advertised as the Big One. for hours with sporadic lifts and much trudging on foot, and he kindly came If you have photos, long hair. The group that impressed me the most was Taste. ), while John Mayall was playing, (I dont remember which number), The concert was scheduled to last from noon to KEEF HARTLEY BAND" played some good, tuneful jazz and blues ". This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters. 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. band to stop playing announcing that (quote:)" I am not playing to this The festival, Lawrence said, is "about where . I will get them scanned and email Thanks for a good memory! I remember Christine Perfect being there too. later, but I'm sure he will have similarly fond memories of the Festival, and Country Joe - Fixing to Die Rag I remember there being two stages For me it was a great experience, life-changing in its had been great all day, we were a small crowd, all music lovers, and relatively Ten Years After preceded by Fleetwood Mac and in the melody maker that said Edgar Broughton was like Beefheart without In many ways, the 1970 Bath Festival was seen as a turning point in the whole scene. Yes, the sound quality was very good as were the Chas, Hi, This vastly impressed Santana - Incident at Neshabur We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. I was 18, coming from 2. Fleetwood Mac finished their set before midnight. Trying to confirm dates of events that I attended that there were not more real blues artists there. I remember feeling awed by It's more poignant Bless him. 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