My Daily Banana: 07/15/14

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Gretje feeling good in Opa's arms

Event of the Day:

15th July 1948

The Alcoholics Anonymus

founded in United Kingdom

Birthday of today:

15th July 1946

Linda Ronstadt

Country singer, who won ten Grammies. Everyone will know her song "Blue Bajou", but I love the duet she sings with Aaron Neville "Don't Know Much"; they sing the song so well it brings tears to my eyes.

Died on this Day:

15th July 1958

Julia Lennon

the mother of John Lennon dies in an auto crash at 44 years old.

Thoughts:

Today while surfing on the web, I looked up Hollywood Festival 1970 and what did I find; a web site devoted to the rock festival that happened 23rd and 24th of May 1970 in Hollywood, Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Great! That was the first festival that I visited. I hitch-hiked to the festival with my best friend (shit I can't remember his name). We were dressed to kill; we wore our scruffiest clothes (we just had to look like hippies) except for my shoes or boots I had bright green "bovver"-boots with black steel toe caps. Don't as why, I don't know! I must have thought they were "tre chic". They didn't go down well with the Hell's Angels, who played controllers at the festival. I looked too much like a skin head with the high fluoresent green boots and rolled up levis; my luck they only gave me the bad eye.

The festival was simply great, the groups that played:

Mungo Jerry: I can remember them, they played twice; Saturday and then because they came on so well Sunday afternoon also.

Free: I will never forget their gig, it was incredible; they played heavy rock that also had a catchy tune to it; and Paul Rogers was the born entertainer, the way he moved to the music was so cool it burned a video loop into my memory.

Family: I remember the vibrating voice of Roger Chapman

Ginger Baker's Airforce: The stage was full of his instruments (the drum set), the music I can't remember

Most of the other groups are lost in my mind, although there were many great artists of the decade and longer such as: Traffic, Black Sabbath, Grateful Dead, Jose Feliciano (I do remember hearing him, but for the life of me I don't know what he was doing at a festival with mainly hard rock acts)

It was nice reading about the festival and reminiscing times lived long ago; that's fourty-four years ago, wow I was just seventeen!