A tragedy that it wasnt filmed or recorded. Thanks for this article. Also, there actually was an area to camp. Unfortunately, he died of a drug overdose years later and the footage is probably lost. Going back we walked some, hitched a ride to the Bethel Greyhound office, slept on the sidewalk until the bus camesound like fun to you? [9] The festival took place at the time of the 25th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and peace groups publicized an anti-nuclear weapons message during the event. Attendance. I have told many people about AC FESTIVAL not a single person ever heard of it. I remember the 2:00 a.m. freak express conga line that snake throught to campers outside the gates at night. I couldnt convince anyone else to go but I really had to do it. I also was told that Little Richard was the replacement for Crosby Stills and Nash by my friend that was a musician in NJ (never made it but knew a great deal about music and bands). Flying Burrito Brothers (replacement for above), Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA. Still have their record, but admittedly they were better live. It had been many years since I paid any attention to the music scene but it brought back memories. [9] He was acquitted in December 1971. It was just as hot out as it was at Woodstock that weekend. Bruce Gowers, Director of 100s of Music Videos Including Queens Bohemian Rhapsody, Dies, Joni Mitchells Court and Spark: A Significant Pivot, Muhammad Ali: Greatest Showman of a Generation, Kenny Loggins Announces Final Tour, This Is It, Reggie Young: The Prolific Guitar Great Youve Probably Never Heard Of, Bangles Susanna Hoffs Upcoming First Novel, This Bird Has Flown, Coming to Screen, Bob Weirs Ace Revisited: It Sounds Like a Dead Album Because It Is One, Watch Keith Richards Sing Happy From the Rolling Stones GRRR Live! 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I remember Joni walking off because no one was listening Hey I realized she sang the verse twice what should I have done yelled Hey Joni you screwed up Such a diva huh? I had come down from our seats to the stage area at night for Janis Joplin and stayed for Little Richard who closed out Saturday night (80% sure about the night). It was a great weekend. Miles definitely did not play Atlantic City. December 6, 1969: Altamont Free Concert: (at the Altamont Speedway in northern California, between Tracy and Livermore) headlined and organized by The Rolling Stones, it also featured, in order of appearance: Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Jefferson Airplane, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final act. I also wonder whatever became of them. If the fence had been up on Saturday there may have been injuries with the crush of people that would have likely occurred with people trying to get out of the stands onto the field to get away from the tear gas. Performers: White Fox, Snowrabbit, Deacon John and the Electric Soul Train, Whizbang, Axis, Sweetwater, Lee Michaels, Oliver, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys, Spiral Staircase, Its A Beautiful Day, Country Joe and the Fish, Byrds, Youngbloods, Canned Heat, Pot Liquor, Chicago (Transit Authority), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Santana, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin. In August 1969, a groundbreaking rock festival took place, one of the best ever, witnessed by many thousands of people and featuring an amazing cast of diverse bands. Rented a room in AC but never used it. WHAT IS TRAFFIC JAM'IN? I remember Janet. I was still in high school coming from Virginia, so this was a long time ago. I remember it raining while Janis was performing and she stepped into a puddle and got shocked. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. It also pinpoints a time frame relative to Woodstock. Grass Lake, a once sleepy farming community has grown to be a thriving area with over 6,000 residents, many new businesses, a revitalized downtown and village, a state-of-the-art high school, enlarged elementary and middle school facilities, a new sports and trails park in Grass Lake Township, several new housing developments, a dental center and two medical centers. My girlfriend/future wife and our best friends went and they told me all about the festival. No, she was mildly booed after leaving the stage. Also, I take exception to the authors comment that there was No Camping Allowed. It actually took place in Hamilton Township at the Atlantic City Race Course. GRASS LAKE Heritage Festival. All my friends who shared it with me are now mostly just memories of a distant past and a time when we were Young and free. The sun beat down on the dedicated masses, who remained planted in front of the stage from 11 a.m. on Aug. 30, 1969, until 2 or 3 the morning after. [8] Rod Stewart enjoyed his Friday night performance so much that he stayed to watch Alvin Lee perform with Ten Years After the following night.[8]. Anybody with memories of the Miami Pop Festival? I dont remember a whole lot of details about that weekend, except not getting a lot of sleep and having the climb the chainlink fence to get ineven though Id bought tickets, theyd been stolen. (Related: 'Michigan's Woodstock' transformed Goose Lake . The festival took place nearly one year after Woodstock, and the Goose Lake promoters set out to create a better planned event with better facilities for rock fans than Woodstock. Good times. Before I left somebody gave me a pill, said it was synthetic mescaline, the only street pill Ive ever taken. Some of the same bands CCR and Procol Harum stood out for me but there were so many great performances. She seemed very uninterested in performing. lol. I was at the Saturday show-lot of B groupsBB King, Biff Rose, Tim Buckley, Butterfield Blues Band, also, American Dream, Jefferson Airplane. Among the bands playing were:BB King, The Band, Santana, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Winter, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Sweetwater, Vanilla Fudge, Hugh Masakela, Amboy Dukes, The Turtles, Biff Rose, Tony Joe White, and Celebration. There was pot; there was liquor; there was some nudity; and there was some sleeping bag love-ins. Thanks for writing about this festival. Had a ball. I remember when Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were performing the man in the yellow raincost. accessed January 18, 2023, I came expecting to see the Chambers Brothers and Time was tremendous and well done. [10] The district attorney obtained an injunction barring any other public shows at the park. If anyone was arrested, it never made the news. The Goose Lake International Music Festival was the creation of Richard Songer, who in his mid-30s in 1970 bought about 350 acres of farmland to create Goose Lake Park, a "place for the young . He made his way int othe infield next to the stage and exposed himself. The festival will take place March 31-April 2nd, 2023, at Palisades Tahoe. My little brother and his friends stole most of it. We then walked the last 10 or so miles, all of which took about 12 hours. [6], National and international acts performing at the festival included Faces featuring Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Ten Years After, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Mountain, John Sebastian, the James Gang featuring Joe Walsh, The Flock and The Litter.[1][2][5][7][8]. Also other data will not be shared with third person. The cops and security had a hard time getting to the infield, then he ran around in circles as they chased him, much to the amusement of the crowd. Im Penny, and I was with Bruce back then. Michael Lang has passed away. Not fair putting Joni on after Tracy Nelson blew us away singing Down So Long. Joe Cocker, Mothers, and some others. About 15 years ago, through an intermediary I got an email through to Larry Magid, the chief promoter who had gone on to become the king of concert promoters in Philly. An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music, was a three-day concert (which managed to roll into a fourth day) that took place on August 15 through 18, 1969, at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel just outside White Lake, New York. Savoy Brown, Joe Cocker[3] and Alice Cooper[5] were announced acts that did not perform due to contractual problems. We camped very close by. Santana Jefferson Airplane Janis Little Richard loved every minute Beg to disagree about one thing we had a contact high all weekend. Remember walking in bare feet over lfields of broken glass and watching Airplane on the b&w video monitors in the racetrack clubhouse. Why cant we play?. Go figure. Have fun! Also remember Chambers Bros. must be video if that was running. They also tried to breach the gates and security fences. Billy Mack & The Juke Joint Johnnies. I saw them one other time, opening for Creedence at Fillmore East. Thats when people started booing. LSD festivals! Attended by an estimated 200,000 fans, the festival was the largest pop concert up to that time and is considered the more famous of the two Newport Pop Festivals, possibly because of the appearance of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who got top billing. Richard Songer, Russ Gibb, Tom Wright. Dont worry if youve never heard of it. The Moody Blues were scheduled but werent there. [8], There were 160 arrests of those leaving after the event, mostly on drug charges. The Aug. 7-9, 1970, festival brought some 200,000 members of the 1960s youth counterculture to Jackson County from all across the country. The festival there had wooden fences that didnt hold up well when masses of people pushed their way in. The performers that stand out to me now, after all these years, were Dr. John and the Nite Trippers, Frank Zappa, the Airplane, and Iron Butterfly. I got back to Philly by bus because I didnt want to get stuck there overnight by missing the last bus. Atlantic City, emceed by singer-songwriter Biff Rose, also hosted several quirky acts that never journeyed north two weekends later: a still somewhat unknown Dr. John in his guise as the Night Tripper; the avant-garde Lothar and the Hand People. Chip Monck was also the announcer at Woodstock you can hear him in the movie Woodstock. I mistakenly thought since there were video monitors everewhere, that it was being videotaped!(Wrong!) Nov 20, 2019 Steve Palace. NJ Transit ran buses from AC to the track and back. The gal who said Jimi H was there probably saw him at the Atlanta Pop Fest the next year, July 1970..played a killer Star Spangled Banner at midnight with fireworks resembling our flag. The reason is that they actually were once called Santana Blues Band. Too many highlights. I dont remember much except I have a clear memory of the Chamber Brothers singing Time Has Come Today. The Doors were billed as the headliner for the third day. As I heard it, we had some 250,000 people at A.C. Racetrack, & the going question by Day 3 was, Are you going to Woodstock? Everyone who did likely brought someone & almost doubled the crowd! And all I can find is an AP article in The Daily Chronicle from Monday 2 June 1969 whose headline reads: Hippies Take To the Hills. Bought some acid from a dude and it hit when creedence walked onto the stage. Cool. Is it a 5K run & 5K walk? I camped there as well as hundreds of others. But Johnny Winters would have played (AGAIN) that year! It was one of those strange festivals which seem to have slipped into obscurity despite drawing a huge number of people, estimated a 200,000. I know, because I was there. He came out wearing white and played the Star Spangled Banner. Forty nine years eleven months ago I was asked to be Security Chief at Palm Beach Pop Fest. It didnt close the Interstate due to people trying to get to the fest. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Kept running into people from the neighborhood in Brooklyn. On the other hand, I got to see Frank Zappa and The Mothers, and the band who replaced CSN and Y turned out to be a great discovery for me the Chambers Brothers! [3] I told my Mum I wanted to go to Woodstock 2 weeks later, and she saidNo more LSD festivals for you!! Decent weather ( unlike Woodstock). Learn how your comment data is processed. Its lineup included, besides jazz, Friday evening appearances by rock groups Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull. The crowd was transfixed never having heard such a shocking take on the national anthem. Just an amazingly great time. I had been monitoring the news reports about Woodstock being on again off again so my buddies and I opted for AC Pop. July 8 - 9, 2023 . Summer of Soul (.Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Directed by Questlove. Bullfrog Lake Music Festival 1969 Jefferson Airplane Event Flyer . Some Virginia musicians I knew played there. Narodil jsem se 6.12.1969 v Praze a vystudoval gymnzium Ohradn a pot VE, obor Zahranin obchod. We stayed only one night because we were completely unprepared and because of the misery factor of everything being water logged. The musical acts were not paid much to perform; Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin were paid the most$10,000 each. The promoters stupidly put her in between high-energy rock bands. Check out our music festival 1969 selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. Michigan governor William Milliken denounced the "deplorable and open sale and use of drugs" at the festival, and called for investigation and prosecution of the "drug pushers" who were present. Original 1st printing 81/2 x 11 concert/event flyer for the first Bullfrog Lake Music Festival, held near Estacada (Clackamas County), OR from 7/4-6/1969. It was mostly the McGuinn/Clarence White show at that point (A great show at that!). . But this article is about ATLANTIC CITY, not Atlanta. Ive done a separate blog entries for each one and festival title is a link you can find out more them. If youre a newBest Classic Bandsreader, wed be grateful if you would Like ourFacebookpage and/or bookmark ourHome page. Like many historic events, claims are often exaggerated. Green Lake Township, MI. Apparently she was annoyed that she didnt have a captive audience and tested us by singing one verse over again. The poster etc. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News. Woodstock, the iconic festival that rocked New York, took place the weekend of August 15-18, 1969. Santana was great even though they opened during the noon day heat! July 25, 26, & 27, 1969 State Fair Park, Milwaukee, WI. The Electric Factory people had much experience putting on music & did a great job. 200,000. Thanks. Dates have been announced for the annual Grass Lake Traffic Jam'in Festival - Mark your calendars for July 8-9th, 2022!. Sold $ 170.00 FD 81 Youngbloods Mad River Victor Moscoso 1967 Avalon Ballroom Concert Poster . King, Chuck Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Mongo Santamaria, and David Ruffin. Byron Ga 1970 Atlanta 2nd Pop Festival was the best .. Jimi Hendrix was at peak. I still have the scar and fine memories of the music and lightshow from that weekend. I went to Woodstock, too, and for me, except for the giant horseflies where we camped, I enjoyed AC so much more. I was there and she walked off the stage for sure. Isnt it weird how so many of us who were there remember so little detail about it? One motorcycle cop was ferrying lightly dressed girls around, sometimes three of them embracing him from the back of his Harley, laughing his head off. We were stuck in that awful traffic jam on Friday night and never got within ten miles of the concert site before leaving Saturday afternoon. I was interested in electronic musical instruments and they showed up with a theramin and a synthesizer. The crowd felt bad and cheered her back to the stage. The kind Cop obliged! Joe Cocker was even more animated than at Woodstock The Byrds played without Crosby. It was a great weekend and all of these people whod made all of these friends over the weekend could be heard calling out See you at Woodstock as they parted. And that was it for the Atlantic City Pop Festival of 1969, to be nearly forgotten almost immediately except by those who were there. [1] There was heavy security at the festival, [2] and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. I remember Carlos Santana coming onstage with the band and said This is our second gigthe program says Santana Rock Blues Band.just call us Santanayoull hear from us.but I cant remember the songs CTA(Chicago) played..also Iron Butterfly played In Gadda Da Vida for 35 minutes.it was 19 minutes on the album..fantastic piece,,,,great writing. While the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is the most famous of music festivals, few realize that it was just one of dozens in 1969 and that many of the same Woodstock artists performed at those others.. An estimated 200,000 rock music fans attended the festival. Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Young Rascals, Vanilla Fudge, Brooklyn Bridge, Neil Diamond, and many others were to attend. Performers: Grateful Dead, Joe South, NRBQ, The Nervous System, Jane and the Electric Jive Wire, Rhinoceros, Muddy Waters, Sun Country, Sweetwater, Johnny Winter, Youngbloods, The Echo, and Aum. Great memories that summer! It was an amazing weekend of music. Billed as "3 Days of Peace and Music," the epic event become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Yes, thats exactly how I remember her set. Zappa did, however. We were all choking on some kind of powder that was in the air! Varsity Stadium, at the University of Toronto, John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band wEric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White, Dorothy Morrison & the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Livingston Gym, Denison University (Granville, OH), Altamont Speedway in northern CA between Tracy and Livermore. The festival was extensively advertised through radio and newspapers and was promoted at Woodstock. The articles first sentence states that hippies and some of the not-so-hip took to the hills during the Memorial Day weekend to follow the Sunrise to Sunset Rock Festival as it moved from Marysville to this tiny King County community, scene of a piano drop last April. Designer unknown, poster lists appearances by Jefferson Airplane, Jugerknot, Jimy Holden Trio, Portland Zoo and more (also appeared- (not listed) Sons of Champlin, Ace of Cups and more). Had no idea what was going on until the back door opened and there stood two NJ State Troopers. CSN did show up at the last minute. We sat in the AC Racetrack stands, and it was pretty orderly. Unsurprisingly, it remains the most famous music festival in rock 'n' roll history. This entry belongs to the following Handbook Special Projects: We are a community-supported, non-profit organization and we humbly ask for your support because the careful and accurate recording of our history has never been more important. To purchase photos from the Atlantic City Pop Festival, go here. But she wasnt being booed, just ignored, so she left the stage in tears after about 3 or 4 songs. My girlfriend Sara & I left when it was announced Johnny Winter a no-show. The crowd was very noisy, so she walked off the stage during her first song, which was slow. The line-up was likely Spirit, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Taj Mahal, interspersed with anti-war speeches. Best Classic Bands Editor Jeff Tamarkin has been a prolific music journalist for more than four decades. Hitched a ride to Castor & Cottman in Philly as bud was nowhere to be found. You missed the Sunrise Sunset Rock Festival 5/31-6/1/1969 originally slated for the Tulalip Indian Reservation, Marysville WA which was moved to the Stanley Carlson farm in Duvall WA. Weird how everyone remembers Woodstock instead: must be the much-shown film. King got like 5 encores. They were great. No lose for me. Two weeks later I and some of the same friends went up to Woodstock with even less success. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Lovegrass Music Festival is a completely FREE event! Crosby, Stills & Nash were originally on the lineup but ended up as a no-show, Nash supposedly had polyps on tonsils (but sang at Woodstock two weeks later). After she didnt come back is when I remember the crowd booing. CC BY-SA 4.0. And were among those who camped outside of the fence. 2022 5K Title Sponsor. The security guy tried to explain that if they didnt have tickets they couldnt get in and the guy interrupted him to say No, you dont understand, We here he pointed to the many many people who had gathered dont havent any tickets and were coming in or were wrecking your fucking turnstiles. The security guy could be seen getting on a phone and I was never certain whether this was a direct response to this challenge or an unrelated act, but the very tall vehicle gate to the right side of the turnstiles opened up and the whole crowd ran in behind this guy with the flags. The participation of the White Panther Party and the affiliated Serve the People (STP) Coalition added some "street credibility" to the event. The appearance of John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band was not publicly known in advance. Questlove. I went with girlfriend from Cape Cod on a 175 Bridgestone motorcycle and we arrived and camped on the grounds for two nights. It was (paraphrasing) that people were crawling around under the stage and that there were many wires under there. The Festival is held at Cooper's Lake Campground, located at 205 Currie Rd in Slippery Rock, PA, right off of I-79 Exit 99 (New Castle Rd / US Route 422), and is . Though it was free, it, like the famous Woodstock festival, organizers did not intend it to be so. Its a shame no one talks about this festival. I was there. The Market is located within the new Pavilion at Grass Lake Community Events Park, 120 Brown Street, (next to the Car Wash) in downtown Grass Lake. Its kind of like The Festival of Hope a great music festival but almost unknown except to the lucky ones like myself who were there. I believe 3 Dog Night was on Sunday. The festival lost money, but was generally considered a success by those who attended. There were restrooms and showers every 500 feet, medical staff, motorcycle and dune buggy trails, a lake with a beach,[2] and also the "longest slide in the world". Songer teamed up with experienced Detroit disc jockey and promoter, Russ Gibb,[3] and his associate, Tom Wright, to help plan the festival. Best account ever of this nearly forgotten music fest. Capacity. Actually, Joni was improperly put in mid-afternoon after some rock bands. That concert was fantastic! Back then it wasnt a cliche song and I think they were the only group there that had a current Top Ten hit on AM radio, which was the standard then. Yes! The northeastern basin is deep and harbors nice smallmouth bass and occasional walleye. . [NYT article]. Keep on writing this stuff! Saw two people I went to school with . Spent two or three nights, cant remember exactly, sleeping on the grass but nobody bothered me. I was there for all 3 days. Does anybody remember the fire company arriving one afternoon with tanker trucks that sprayed water in the infield so us hippies could get showers? I stood for 3 days! Go on a Cookie Tour all around the Village or visit the lighted Fairy Forest. Funny thing is, the story goes that she was on her way to Woodstock but couldnt get there. News articles at the time often referred to the festival as Louisiana's version of the Woodstock Music and . It was History. TICKETS & INFO. Of course it WAS 48 years ago! Thats exactly what happened my husband and I were there too. (I dont recall seeing him.). The Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival, Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England. Remember Janis, Cocker & Little Richard. Panfish tend to be numerous and stunted but are . And some of them, boys and girls getting nekkid? Missed this one!My first was a 2 day,Toronto,June of69. [3] To keep gate crashers out, the site was surrounded by a high chain-link fence topped by barbed wire. This epic festival is looked on fondly by an entire generation and became a legend of US counter-culture. Your email address will not be published. The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.' Johnny Winter, Canned Heat, Backwards Sam Firk,Bukka White,Carla and Rufus Thomas, Insect Trust, Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods, Nathan Beauregard Sun Smith and the Beale Street Five, Elder Lonnie McIntorsch, Sleepy John Estes Blues Band, Lum Guffin, The World Greatest Jazz Band, Albert King, The Bar-Kays with Toni Mason, Jo-Ann Kelley, Furry Lewis, Slim Harpo, Rev. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. Lang was . . Outside of Michigan maybe no-one has ever heard of Goose Lake, but it was A Big Deal. May 4, 2022. King, and Led Zeppelin. Crystal Grand Music Theatre: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States: Aug 25, 2022 . a couple of weeks later but his parents were away. Crosby, Stills & Nash were booked but canceled, supposedly because Nash had a polyp on his tonsils. Based on your name.T.O. I was there, too. While the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is the most famous of music festivals, few realize that it was just one of dozens in 1969 and that many of the same Woodstock artists performed at those others. The mic shorted out and she yelled motherfucker. Not only are there no official recordings, there are very few photos! It . I stayed mostly by the stage. And yes, I still have my tickets stubs from Days 2 & 3 a little wrinkled, & Priceless! I actually have met one person later in life that was also at AC 69 and stories flew and were remolded by both of our memories. The Doors arrived only minutes before taking the stage and played an extended set (70 minutes instead of 45 minutes) to make up for the missing bands. We called it Tranquility Base as the festival was 12 days after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The festivals 1969 program was an experiment in fusing jazz, soul and rock music and audiences. I was there for the Saturday show. Activities, Vendors, and More! One night a group of people who called themselves Ripple City organized a big smoke-in had everyone sharing their stash and all lighting up at once. No, Im not talking about Woodstock, although that one wasnt bad either. Awesome show!! According to the NYT, on July 6 The Newport Jazz Festival was invadedby several hundred young people who broke down a section of the 10-foot wooden fence surrounding Festival Field and engaged in a rock throwing battle with security guards. NYT Newport Jazz report. The grassy area was called the greens, and as tailored as they were, the ACR people let us camp there two nights in a row, Bless them. Auction inside Grass Lake Depot; Craft show; Food trucks; Live Music; Petting zoo; Car show * Experience Jackson is not responsible for errors or omissions in the event information. I was disappointed that she left the stage though. What a time that was! He had lived in Woodstock since the 1960s. To get to AC we took a subway to the Port Authority Terminal, got a bus to Atlantic City where there were shuttle buses to the track/festival. So, kind of like the Laura Nyro scenario at Monterey, right?? I miss those times, I do. It was marketed as "three days of peace and music" from 32 of the most influential artists in American music. The Denver Police were forced to employ riot tactics to protect the gates. [5], Those who attended were provided free campsites, free parking and free firewood. And Janis said she would sing to stop the rain, and it did stop. It might have given us at least a taste of what Woodstock was like for the thousands who showed up at Max Yasgurs farm two weeks later. RM2EHXXY5 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair Presents An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, N.Y. 3 Days of Peace & Music August 15, 16, 17 1969 poster for the legendary music festival designed by Arnold Skolnick featuring a white dove resting on a guitar neck. The New York City Parks Department and Maxwell House co-sponsored the series. Santana was unknown at the time and just blew me away. The people from outside the stadium were let in and took seats in the South Stands of the old Mile High Stadium. People climbed up the very tall stadium flagpoles and stuck there heads in the very, very large stadium speakers. Great story! It was the embodiment of the free spirit of the 1960s. I was there with a friend! https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-international-pop-festival-1969. Stood a few feet from Janis Joplin before she went on stage. 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