Rock Festivals of the Sixties and Seventies Quiz

Answer: Donovan

"The Fat Angel" first appeared on Donovan's 1966 "Sunshine Superman" album and later on his 1968 live album, "Donovan in Concert". The Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival was the first major festival of the Summer of Love and has been considered the prototype for the subsequent festivals.
For a $2.00 admission you could have heard Canned Heat, The Mojo Men, Blues Magoos, Country Joe and the Fish, The Byrds and Jefferson Airplane to name a few of the 33 acts that performed over the course of the two-day event.
KFRC radio had a profound effect on the music scene in the Bay Area which helped program director Tom Rounds to promote and organize the event.

Tim Buckley was an Avant-Gard performer on the festival's bill. P.F. Sloan was known primarily as a songwriter but performed a set at the festival. Penny Nichols was a frequent opening act at Bay Area shows who went on to become a vocalist for Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band.

Answer: Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar was paid $3,000 for his four hour afternoon set during the concert. It was his introduction to an American Audience. Some artists such as Country Joe and the Fish later received compensation from proceeds derived from filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker's documentary film of the concert. Unlike The Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival The Monterey International Pop Festival featured international acts such as The Who and Ravi Shankar. Jimi Hendrix ended his Monterey set with his version of "Wild Thing".

The audience appeared astounded when Peter Townshend smashed his guitar at the conclusion of "My Generation". John Phillips was one of the founders of the festival and The Mamas and the Papas performed the closing set. The Beach Boys were scheduled to close the show but ultimately declined the invitation to appear.

Answer: The Human Be-In

While no official statistics were recorded, the Human Be-In attracted between 20,000 to 30,000 attendees. In addition to the musical acts several Beat poets were featured and Timothy Leary made his first appearance promoting his "turn on, tune in, drop out" philosophy.
Despite the banning of acid, Owsley Stanley offered generous quantities of LSD to those arriving at the event. The term "psychedelic" was introduced on a national scale as a result of the event.

The Love Pageant Rally was a precursor to the Human Be-in that took place in October, 1966. The Aquarius Festival was held in 1973. The Red Dog Experience was held in Nevada.

Answer: Isle of Wight Festival

The first Isle of Wight Festival was held in 1968 and it was held again for the following two years. In 1969 Bob Dylan and the Band appeared at the event. Over 150,000 people attended the festival in 1969 that was held 11 days after Woodstock concluded. Dylan was among 28 acts who performed during the festival. He performed a 17 song set culminating with "Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35".
Some in attendance who did not perform included John Lennon with Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rolling Stones members Keith Richards and Bill Wyman took in the concert. Syd Barrett, Eric Clapton and Elton John were also in the audience.

The Midlands Music Festival began in 2009. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was held in 1970. Bob Dylan did not perform at Woodstock even though he crashed his Triumph Tiger 100 on a road near his Woodstock area home.

Answer: Gulfstream Park

Approximately 100,000 people attended the first Miami Pop Festival at Gulfstream Park, a horse racing track located in what is now known as Hallandale Beach, north of Miami. The first festival took place between May 18th and 19th and featured such diverse acts as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Mothers of Invention, Blue Cheer, Chuck Berry and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
The event was such a success that another was held at the same location from December 28th to the 30th. The lineup was even more diverse. Chuck Berry performed at the second festival that also included acts such as Jose Feliciano, The Blues Image, Junior Walker and The Allstars, Buffy St. Marie, Flatt and Scruggs and The Box Tops.
A comic book illustrating many of the performers as superheroes was disseminated as a commemorative souvenir of the second event.

Graynolds Park was a popular hippie hangout during the sixties featuring jam sessions and poetry readings. The Miami Jai Alai Fronton and The Miami Beach Convention Center hosted several shows in the seventies but none with the attendance of the Miami Pop Festivals.

Answer: Wallkill

A 300 acre venue called Mills Industrial Park in Wallkill, New York, was the original scheduled site of the event. Local officials were advised by organizers that the event would draw about 50,000 people. The Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals banned the concert in July stipulating that the portable toilets would not meet standards and the town passed a law banning events with more than 5,000 people in attendance.
When Max Yasgur agreed to allow the event on his Bethel dairy farm area residents protested with signs reading "Buy No Milk. Stop Max's Hippy Music Festival".
The Times Herald-Record in Middletown was Wallkill's local daily paper. It editorialized against the law banning the festival from being held at Wallkill. Bethel voters failed to re-elect their supervisor because of his role in bringing the festival to the town.
Despite being 43 miles southwest of Bethel the town of Woodstock made efforts after the concert to cash in on the event.

Answer: Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane

Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane was struck by a member of Hell's Angels during the band's scheduled performance. The event was chronicled in the documentary, "Gimme Shelter". Controversy has always surrounded the exact circumstances of the Hell's Angels' duties at the event. They had provided informal security for some previous Grateful Dead performances in the Bay Area. One of the logistical security problems was that the stage was close to ground level because the site had been changed from Sears Point Raceway just two days before the event.

The Grateful Dead left the show without performing after Michael Shrieve of Santana informed them about the violence. Denise Jewkes of The Ace of Cups was struck by a stray flying beer bottle and suffered a fractured skull.

Answer: The Allman Brothers Band

Estimates of 125,000 people attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival held July Fourth weekend at The Atlanta International Raceway. Because the promoter who booked The Allman Brothers Band did not have the authority to engage the band they were refused permission to perform. Chuck Berry had also been advertised as being part of the lineup but never appeared.
Other acts that performed over the weekend included Johnny Winter, Janis Joplin, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Johnny Rivers, Canned Heat, Spirit, Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Chicago Transit Authority before they changed their name to Chicago.

Ten Wheel Drive was a New Jersey based Jazz Fusion band that performed at the festival. Los Angeles-based bands Sweetwater and Pacific Gas and Electric also performed.

Answer: True

The Big Sur Folk Festival took place a month after Woodstock. Baird Bryant and Johanna Demetrakas directed the concert footage of performers including Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joan Baez, John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell and others. While Joni Mitchell was not part of the roster at Woodstock she performed her song, "Woodstock", during The Big Sur Folk Festival. Ruthann Friedman, The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Incredible String Band performed but were omitted from the documentary film. Joni and her boyfriend at the time, Graham Nash, were also featured at various times during the documentary in candid shots.

The concert was one of many programs staged at Esalen Institute in the sixties. Joan Baez's 1965 Folk Music workshop at the Institute had introduced many of the performers to the Institute.

Answer: The Merry Pranksters

The Merry Pranksters began following author Ken Kesey in 1964, the year they made a cross-country trip in a psychedelic painted bus. Despite requests from the Smithsonian the original Prankster bus remained at Kesey's farm in Oregon.
The various escapades of The Merry Pranksters were chronicled in a book by Tom Wolfe titled "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
Angus G. Wynne III, son of the founder of Six Flags over Texas had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival earlier the same year and worked with organizer Alex Cooley to present a similar event near Lewisville, Texas. Estimates of close to 125,000 concert goers heard several bands over the three-day weekend. Canned Heat was the opening act on the first day and the final performer was Tony Joe White.

The Hog Farm provided security and free food. Wavy Gravy founded The Hog Farm in the sixties at an actual hog farm in Tujunga, California. Rotary Connection and Shiva's Headband were bands that performed at the event.