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Best Of The Bath Festivals / V

Best Of The Bath Festivals / V

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Format: CD

Cat No: HST552CD

Release Date:  09 April 2021

Label:  Gonzo

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5056083206896

Genres:  Rock  Rock  

  • Description

    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.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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ten Years After – Woke Up This Morning
      • 2. Ten Years After – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
      • 3. Blodwyn Pig – Ain’t Ya Comin’ Home
      • 4. Blodwyn Pig – Cat’s Squirrel
      • 5. Taste – Same Old Story
      • 6. Colosseum – Walking in the Park
      • 7. Fleetwood Mac – Blues Jam
      • 8. Fleetwood Mac – So Many Natural Ways
      • 9. Fleetwood Mac – Red Hot Mama
      • 10. The Nice – Karelia Suite
      • 11. The Nice – She Belongs to Me

      Disc 2

      • 1. Donovan – Mellow Yellow
      • 2. Steppenwolf – Sookie Sookie
      • 3. Steppenwolf – Born to Be Wild
      • 4. Johnny Winter – Guess I’ll Go Away
      • 5. Johnny Winter – Johnny B. Goode
      • 6. Johnny Winter – Have You Ever Been Mistreated?
      • 7. Byrds – Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
      • 8. Byrds – Bugler
      • 9. Byrds – Black Mountain Rag
      • 10. Byrds – Mr Tambourine Man
      • 11. Byrds – Pretty Boy Floyd
      • 12. Byrds – Antique Sandy
      • 13. Byrds – You Ain’t Goin Nowhere
      • 14. Byrds – Baby Do You Want Me To Do

      Disc 3

      • 1. John Mayall – It Might As Well Be Raining
      • 2. John Mayall – Crazy Woman
      • 3. Canned Heat – Reefer Blues
      • 4. Canned Heat – Something’s Gotta Go
      • 5. Frank Zappa – Mom and Dad
      • 6. Country Joe – Silver and Gold
      • 7. Country Joe – Martha Lorraine
      • 8. Country Joe – Fixing to Die Rag
      • 9. Santana – Black Magic Woman
      • 10. Santana – Incident at Neshabar
      • 11. It’s a Beautiful Day – White Bird