It has digital clippin' i couldn't do so much original tape uploaded to internet in the 90s was badly uploaded, but it isn't bad at all, its enjoyable at least
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 27–29 June 1970. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck
Michael Eavis was attendant at the festival and was inspired to hold later that year the first event of what would become the Glastonbury festival of contemporary performing arts
The festival started at midday on the 27th (a Saturday) and finished at about 6:30 am on Monday morning. A DJ played records for early arrivers from the Friday evening and continued to do so between many of the sets until the end. The festival featured a line-up of the top American west coast and British bands of the day, including Santana, The Flock, Led Zeppelin (headlining act), Hot Tuna, Country Joe McDonald, Colosseum, Jefferson Airplane (set aborted), The Byrds (acoustic set), The Moody Blues (unable to play), Dr. John (acoustic set), Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Canned Heat, It's a Beautiful Day, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, John Mayall with Peter Green, Pink Floyd, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Keef Hartley, and the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. This line-up was approaching the level of the more famous Isle of Wight festival held in August of the same year. As it attracted less press coverage at the time and was a smaller affair, it has generally received less attention in the years since. Bath was the brainchild of promoter Freddy Bannister and his wife Wendy Bannister, who had held the smaller Bath Festival of Blues within Bath itself in 1969. The 1970 show attracted a significantly larger crowd of 150,000, but, like the Isle of Wight festival, an audience of such magnitude created some serious on-ground difficulties. 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
The stage – Donovan has just begun his set
Actually getting to the festival itself was another problem for many of the throng of fans. The country lanes leading to the site were swiftly blocked by cars, also meaning that many of the bands' equipment trucks could not get to the site. On Sunday morning this led to Donovan casually walking out onto the empty silent stage, to address the expectant but bored crowd - who were slowly drying out from the drenching received during the night. Being a folk singer, his genre was not what the crowd had gone there to hear. So to test the mood of the crowd out, he engaged in a bit of small talk, where he explained that he had spent the night in his van in a nearby field and so on. Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. Then he played some of his classics. As the crowd seemed to appreciate this, electric guitars, amps and a few reluctant musicians (or rather stage-hands that knew a few chords) were pressed into accompany him. Still no bands came, so Donovan continued. His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2½ hours of what otherwise would have been silence
As a consequence of these delays, the festival ran behind schedule and many bands had to play to diminished crowds in the small hours of Monday morning. The last act, Dr John, hit the stage at dawn on Monday. The festival featured many innovations, including projections of the bands on screens on the side of the stage, a good quality PA system, on-site tents for the patrons to sleep in and larger tents which projected films such as King Kong throughout the night. The expenditure on these items ate into the profits, and many people decamped with the tents, which were hired. This was another expense that had to be borne by the promoters
The festival was captured on both film and on video, in varying quality, but a lack of post-festival organisation led to the footage being lost for many years. Much of it has now been recovered, but the black-and-white footage is of poor quality and is in many different hands. It is considered unlikely that it will ever see the light of day as a legitimate release since no-one can agree on who owns the copyright. This situation could be contrasted to the Isle of Wight Festival, which was professionally recorded and filmed in colour. The festival was widely bootlegged, and several audience tapes are now in circulation. It is rumoured that excellent soundboard tapes also exist, though to this point they have not publicly surfaced. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed truck. This was a precursor to the many free festivals of the 1970s
RECORDED ONLY 5 HOURS
1970-06-27:
1º Colosseum (FEATURING LOUIS CENNAMO)
01 - Johnny B. Goode
02 - Unknown song title / titles
Band:
John Hiseman – Drums
Dick Heckstall Smith – Sax
Lousi Cennamo – Bass
Dave Greenslade – Keyboard
Dave Clemson – Guitar/Vocals
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2º - It's a Beautiful Day
01 - Don & Dewey
02 - White Bird
03 - Hoedown
04 - It Comes Right Down To You
05 - Soapstone Mountain
06 - ?
07 - Time Is
08 - Open Up Your Mind
09 - Bulgaria
Band:
David LaFlamme – Violin/Vocals
Fred Webb – Keyboard
Hal Wagenet – Guitar
Mitchell Holman – Bass
Val Fuentes – Drums
Pattie Santos – Vocals
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3º Steppenwolf
01 - Sookie Sookie
02 - Hoochie Koochie Man
03 - The Pusher
04 - Born To Be Wild
05 - Magic Carpet Ride
Band:
Goldy McJohn - Keyboard, Vocal
Larry Byrom - Guitar, Vocal
John Kay - Guitar, Vocal
Jerry Edmonton - Drum, Vocal
George Biondo - Bass, Vocal
4º Johnny Winter
1. intro
2. guess I'll go away
3. rock'n'roll hoochie koo
4. talk to your daughter
5. prodigal son
6. rollin' & tumblin'
7. black cat bone
8. five long years
9. good morning little school girl
10. johnny b. goode
11. mean town blues [with slide guitar and "walking blues"]
12. eyesight to the blind [encore, rare]
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5º Pink Floyd
1. Green is the Colour 3:31
2. Careful With That Axe Eugene 9:59
3. A Saucerful of Secrets 18:43
4. Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:46
5. The Amazing Pudding 25:23
6º John Mayall
01 - It Might As Well Be Raining
02 - I Might Catch Up With You
03 - No Place to Go
04 - Crazy Women (Left channel drops out)
05 - My Pretty Girl
06 - What’s Wrong Now
Band:
John Mayall – Mouth Harp/Guitar/Vocals
Peter Green – Guitar
Ric Grech – Bass
Aynsley Dunbar – Drums
Rod Mayall – Keys
7º Canned Heat
01 - Roll Me Over Baby
02 - Reefer Blues
03 - Somethings Gotta Go
04 - Pulling Hair Blues
05 - Human Condition
06 - Future Blues
07 - Dollar Blues
08 - So Sad ( World in a tangle )
09 - Lets Work Together
10 - We Like to Boogie
11 - Shake Rattle and Roll
12 - You Never Miss Your Water
Band:
Bob "The Bear" Hite - Vocals
Al "Blind Owl" Wilson - Guitar/Vocals/Harmonica
Adolpho "Fito" De la Parra - Drums
Henry Vestine - Lead Guitar
Tony de la Barreda - Bass
Announcer: John Peel
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