1970 wight festival

Time zone: “To me they were a revelation,” he enthuses. Look at We used to drink a sip of wine backstage, and you didn’t know – sometimes it would have mescaline in it or something weird.Saturday, August 29, had the most acts during a single day, with 12 very varied performers. Still plugging their “The Who’s performance was really fantastic,” Lerner enthused. He had that kind of attraction, I think – the suffering poet [laughs].” “I don’t consider [Havens] the last, because he played at dawn. I thought that was it.” Luckily the fire was soon under control. He went on, played, waved his hand at that audience and walked off. The latter were by now one of the world’s top acts, mixing social commentary in songs that appealed to both rock and dance fans. It was really frightening when Joni was on.

Woodstock did the most for us, but it was way up there.” Sunday, August 30 was the final full day of performances, featuring the man who many considered to be the absolute headliner of the whole festival: Jimi Hendrix. And they thought the radicals were French, so the announcer said: ‘Does anyone speak French?’ This girl came, and spoke French very crudely, so the whole crowd was sniggering.

I don’t know what happened afterwards [laughs].”If the promoters were indeed attempting to model the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival after Woodstock, this was the night that it became quite evident, as three Woodstock veterans closed the evening’s entertainment: The Who, hippy-dippy folk songstress Melanie and US funksters Sly And The Family Stone.

I’d been given a Mandrax – a sleeping tablet to calm me down.

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It was impossible. Lerner: “The attempt to empty the arena was really funny. The ending of “And of course, Keith Moon was fantastic – playing around and having fun. The first Isle of Wight Festival was held in 1968, and THE WHO appeared for two years in 1969 and 1970. She called the crowd ‘the beast’ and she decided to face them down. That was the drag of being a headliner of those kind of festivals – by the time you go on it’s like the wee hours of the morning and your audience is going away.

The 150-acre Hayles Field (dubbed Hell’s Field) was secured, and over two days 10,000 people saw performances by The Move, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Even though the second show had been massively bigger than the first, no one could have predicted the number of people who would turn up in 1970, when the festival took place over five days and featured some of the biggest names in rock, including Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and The Who.

A clearly ‘out of it’ guy who had got up on stage uninvited was forcibly removed. 12 June 1946 ), the an English song writer /…1) Black Widow was a progressive rock / hard rock band formed in Leicester, England, UK in September…There are several musical projects under the name Cactus:Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. I liked the singing – it was more melodic than most of the other groups. “I don’t think it was as good as Woodstock for us. “I would say it was always on tenterhooks,” Lerner continued. “Jimi Hendrix came in to see what was going on. Additionally, Hendrix was constantly consulting with roadies instead of concentrating on his band’s and his own performance.

It was obvious that thousands would congregate and camp out on the hill rather than pay to get in, but the site was chosen regardless. But by the time he got there the tent was deflating and people were all standing with their hands up trying to support it – it was about eight foot high.” Brock also recalls drugs being passed around freely: “We all took loads of LSD. 1970 Isle of Wight Festival [ The Isle of Wight festival is one steeped in music history, as is duly noted by the psychedelic art graphics adorning it’s website and the iconic musical history referenced in the naming of it’s camping areas ­ Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. ] And you talk about people being really young – eyes as big as silver dollars, and taking everything in. It would have been the beginning and the end for us – as it was for Ten Years After.

In a way, it was all meant to be relaxed and ‘peace, love and have a nice day’, but there was kind of a tension about the whole thing.” Despite the lack of good vibes, ELP went down well with the crowd, perhaps because with their keyboards-heavy sound and classical leanings they delivered something a bit different. He played for approximately 38 minutes straight, without stopping.” “The enduring memory is the actual physical sight of that many people,” ELP singer/bassist Lake also remembers that the festival didn’t exactly reflect the peace and love vibe that had characterised Woodstock. I think it was damp and foggy.

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Watched on the DVD, Hendrix appears dazed, distant; almost every song includes meandering guitar improvisation; vocal lines are fluffed.

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