Atlantic City Pop Festival
The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place August 1-3, 1969, two weeks before the Woodstock Festival . Over 100,000 visitors came. The list of performed bands and musicians reads like a who's who of the rock and pop scene of the time . The festival organizers were Herb, Allen and Jerry Spivak, Shelley Kaplan and Larry Magid. Entry was $ 6 per day, $ 15 for the whole weekend.
Artist
The following groups and performers performed at the three-day festival at the Atlantic City Race Court near Atlantic City , New Jersey :
- American Dream
- Aum
- Booker T. & the MG's
- Tim Buckley
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- The Byrds
- Canned heat
- The Chambers Brothers
- Chicago (as "Chicago Transit Authority")
- Joe Cocker
- The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Dr. John
- Cass Elliot
- Iron Butterfly
- Jefferson Airplane
- Janis Joplin
- BB King
- Lighthouse
- Little Richard
- Lothar and the Hand People
- Hugh Masekela
- Buddy Miles
- Joni Mitchell
- The Mothers of Invention
- Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
- Procol Harum
- Buddy Rich
- Biff Rose
- Santana
- Sir Douglas Quintet
- Three Dog Night
- Johnny Winter
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
Notes about the festival
Crosby, Stills & Nash were originally on the program, but canceled due to an illness of Graham Nash ; two weeks later, however, they performed in Woodstock. In Atlantic City, they were replaced at the last minute by the Chambers Brothers .
Moody blues were also announced and then did not appear.
Johnny Winter was present but was unable to play due to technical problems. Little Richard performed instead and invited the audience to dance on stage.
Joni Mitchell left the stage angrily because she was supposedly not being listened to.
The revolving stage of the festival, which allowed a quick succession of performances, was designed by Buckminster Fuller .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Tom Wilk: Look Back: 1969's Atlantic City Pop Festival ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Atlantic City Weekly, August 17, 2011 (English)
