June 28th1969 - What a gig!

I was taken there by my father Richard. It was my first festival and the weather was good too. It was one of the reasons for the taste in music I have to this day today. 

Steve,

Incredible as I nearly made it with some friends of mine from school but for loads of reasons we never did!

I guess you can remember some of the bands including Peter Green?

Richard

Steve.  Were Peter Green's  Fleetwood Mac headlining?

Graham.

I remember PG and Fleetwood Mac and it was the very start of my love affair with their music, subsequently the collecting of the Blue Horizon LP catalogue. I don't recall the order of play, it's so long ago. I hadn't heard of most of the groups who played there at the time but I would love to relive that day with the knowledge I now have of them. It was British Blues at it's best. 

Yeah, wish i had made it all those years ago and I remember reading some reviews in The NME ( I think it was).

Richard

I was there - it was my 18th birthday!

That was the gig that inspired Michael Eavis to start the Glastonbury Festivals. I remember The Nice had bagpipers on stage with them at one point.

Would loved to have been there but a bit before my time.A week before my first birthday 

I went to the Bath Festival @ Shepton Mallet in 1970 and the line up was also impressive...

The artists  

•Byrd •Its A Beautiful Day •Johnny Winter

•Colosseum •Jefferson Airplane •Frank Zappa

•Country Joe • JoeJammer •Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies

•Canned Heat •Led Zeppelin •John Peel

•Donovan •John Mayall •Moody Blues

•Dr John •Pink Floyd •Fairport Convention

•Flock •Santana •Keef Hartley

•Hot Tuna •Steppenwolf •Maynard Ferguson •Formerly Fat Harry

Interesting details for ageing hippies

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/bannisters-bath.html 

Denis

You were there, so I shouldn't question this, but I always thought that the festival which 'inspired' Eavis (as in 'those dim hippies are paying to see a load of pop groups in a field, I want a piece of that' was the Shepton Mallet one at the Royal Bath and West Showground. I have the posters for the 1969 and 1970 SM fests - was this the same venue as the above? The RB&W ground was (is) next door to Eavis's acres at Pilton.

His first Pilton festival in 1970 was a shambles in September 1970. A couple of years ago, Eavis was asked to pick his favourite photos from each year at Glasto - the 1970 one was of 4 local pals of mine from Bristol, a horse and a local farm girl...

Must have been memorable in '69 as Robert Plant referred to it in his set at Glastonbury yesterday.

Richard

Hi Denis, that's an interesting memory. I was at a boarding school about 5 miles away from Shepton Mallet at the time of the 1970 festival. The wind must have been in the right direction one afternoon / evening as I remember the glorious sounds from the festival being carried on the wind for us to enjoy all those miles away! Thanks for the link and the memory.

Steve