A Blast From The Past

Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hi all
Being a music head from way back I enjoy watching the old rock festivals such as Woodstock etc. Saw a new one on SBS the other night dated about this time thirty years ago and in Canada. The Festival Express. Group of musos such as the Grateful Dead, the late, great Janis Joplin, Sha Na Na etc. travelling around Canada on a train for a week and holding rock concerts. Interesting part was the riots it caused with patrons wanting free entry to the concerts. Who can remember this and what was your part.
Bob

I can remember Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, Portsmouth sea-front was a good listening point owing to the wall of Marshall stacks on "11".

Some say this 1970 Hendrix concert gave rise to the Disaster Area sound system design. Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.

Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

R.