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Tuesday, October 08, 2024

The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music SHEPTON MALLET 1970


It always gives me a thrill to see this and I went to this as possibly my first festival with old pals John and Heather and an early girlfriend from school

I remember pretty much everyone!
We arrived Friday night and stayed in some kind of farmer’s coop type shed with multi-tiered levels perhaps a large barn but by the time we got to a place down the front of the stage we were woken at what I thought was about 3.00am in the dark still by Canned Heat; 'Let’s Work Together', 'Going Up The Country' and I was hooked. Highpoints as I recall were The Floyd, Johnny Winter (still dark was it evening?) Fairport, Keef Hartley Band (who we loved!) then Airplane, Sanatana, Dr John, Country Joe.  On the Saturday I recall waking up pretty much subsumed by the ground and my sleeping bag doing its best to drag me under the soil, but awoke on top of a really cool denim jacket with a bag of weed in it I tried to find anyone sitting nearby who may have lost said garment and the canabis but nope, so we passed it round! I was 17

Happy Days!