Z-Elder posted:
Afio posted:
Bonzoboy1 posted:
Janis Joplin?
Saw her once at a Pop Festival near Baton Rouge. Along with Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane and a bunch of bands I can't recall
Another who left us too soon.
Afio is a Hippie!!
Was back in the late 60's.
http://alexvcook.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-orleans-pop-festival-at-baton-rouge.html
Where are the photos from the New Orleans Pop Festival at the Baton Rouge International Speedway in Prairieville, Louisiana, Aug 29 - Sept 1, 1969, two weeks after Woodstock?
"It was an overnight outdoor event that featured a lineup you wouldn't believe: White Fox, Snowrabbit, Deacon John and the Electric Soul Train, Whizbang, Axis, Sweetwater, Lee Michaels, Oliver, Jam Session, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys, Spiral Staircase, It's a Beautiful Day, Country Joe and the Fish, the Byrds, the Youngbloods, Canned Heat, Pot Liquor, Chicago Transit Authority, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Santana, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin.
The poster that advertised the event and listed all of the performers and the times they would play also came with a caution: 'Narcotics are prohibited by federal and state law. At least one person died at WOODSTOCK this month from bad ACID. Do not buy DRUGS at the festival. We are told that plain clothes detectives will be in the crowd. If you are smart you will AVOID OBVIOUS CONSUMPTION OF DRUGS." As a further precaution, the poster added, 'Police will remain outside the speedway unless our private guards are unable to keep order. IT'S UP TO YOU."
The locals in the little grocery store we went into were so funny.
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I'm not old, I'm crunchy.
IMHO: "
ou know your poop,Lyndrek"
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn
I stole the above from Bonk's facebook, thanks.
