40 YEARS AGO JULY 4TH WEEKEND

40 YEARS AGO I WAS AT THE 2ND ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL...500,000PEOPLE..WOODSTOCK OF THE SOUTH IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED BYRON NOT FAR FROM MACON.ACTS...ALLMAN BROS. STARTED THE MUSIC OFF,JOHNNY WINTER,GRANDFUNK RAILROAD,BB KING,RARE EARTH,JOHN SABASTIAN,POCO,CHAMBERS BROS.,TEN YEARS AFTER,SPIRIT AND TOO MANY MORE TO NAME...BUT THE HIGHLIGHT TO ME WAS...JIMI HENDRIX...ALMOST TWO MONTHS BEFORE HE DIED...THOUGH FLIPPED OUT ON ACID,ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER" AND HIM PLAYING IT IS STILL CRYSTAL CLEAR! FIRE WORKS WERE GOING OFF AS HE PLAYED THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" I HAVE BEEN TOLD AS I FLIPPED BACK OUT AFTER "ALL ALONG THE WATCH TOWER" THERE WERE GUYS THERE JUST BACK FROM NAM...HOW I WISH THEY ALL COULD HAVE BEEN THERE WITH US!! GOD BLESS THE VIETNAM VETS. AND ALL THE VETS...BUT ESPECIALLY MY DAD THAT WAS A SARGENT IN WW2 FROM 1940-45.FOUGHT ALL THE WAY FROM AFRICA TO GERMANY SO 500,000YOUNG PEOPLE COULD HAVE THE WONDERFUL FREEDOM WE DID 40 YEARS AGO!! GOD BLESS ALL! JAMIE

Amen!

Rocky

MY dad was at this show too. Great picture man!

Brad

Glassman (Jamie) where are you at in this picture? Is this your photo and you took the picture or are you amongst the masses.
Oh Wait I think I see you and Nina yep yep there you are right there on the left do you see it do you see it, that's you I know it is!!![][][][][][][][][][][]Kinda like Jamie in the Wizard Of Oz When it goes into color!!!That had to be a heckava concert.

I know paint stinks but its the only picture I have of the guy.Jamie is also in the Sgt Peppers album shot along with Nina.You can clearly make them out top middle left giving us the peace sign...............And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.....Im sorry Jamie I couldnt resisit Listen if you want me to stop posting that picture from time to time just send me cash in an envelope and well call it even.All kiddin aside I hope everything is great with the two of you take care and I will wait for the next oppertunistic time to unleash the picture again.[][][][]

Hello Jamie,

Our musical tastes and concert experience seem to jibe on occasion. I was at the Cry of Love Tour stop at Randall's Island, (New York Pop Festival) on July 17, 1970. Not as big a deal as Atlanta, and far fewer groups...

Jimi closed the show and played til dawn. Far freaking out, them were the College of Musical Knowledge daze...

FIRST STEVE I LOVE WHAT YOU DID! MAN I WISH I HADA BEEN ON THE PEPPER ALBUM WITH NINA.THE PIC.I GOT OF THE 2ND ATL. POP FESTIVAL I GOT OF THE LINK TO IT THAT HAS A LOT OF PICS. I MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE FIELD,BUT MORE LIKELY HUNKERED DOWN IN THE SCRUB PINE TREES SMOKING HASH WITH OPIUM IN IT. IT WAS JUST SO HOT IN THE DAY [102 MORE OR LESS...PLUS ALL THE BODIES WHEW!] I WENT AT ABOUT SUNDOWN TO CATCH THE ACTS.

SURF MAN I WENT TO A MIDNIGHT MOVIE IN 79 OR 80 AND WATCHED THE CONCERT OF RANDELL ISLAND! DIG THAT!THE BIG RUMOR IS THE 2ND ATL.POP FEST IS ON FILM AND IN A VAULT IN PHILIDEPIA.[WHY??? CAN YOU PA. GUYS GO FREE IT AND SEND IT TO ME? I WANT TO SEE IF I CAN HEAR ME SCREAMING AS I RUN THROUGH THE CROWD CAUSE I TOOK ACID AND FLIPPED OUT RIGHT WHEN JOHN SABASTIAN STARTED SINGING "WHAT A DAY FOR A DAY DREAM" MY FRIEND SAID HE STOPPED JUST FOR A MOMENT WHEN I WAS SCREAMING,DID NOT KNOW IF IT WAS CAUSE OF ME,BUT I CAN SCREAM LOUD!!!] I KNOW HENDRIX AND THE ALLMAN BROTHER SETS FROM THERE ARE OUT THERE SO I KNOW SOME OF IT EXISTS...IT IS JUST WOODSTOCK WAS BEFORE THIS AND I GUES THEY THOUGHT WHAT WAS THE POINT? ATL. HAD A POP FEST.IN JUNE OF 69 BEFORE WOODSTOCK BUT NO ONE THOUGHT OF MAKING A MOVIE OUT OF IT.I WAS PISSED I DID NOT GET TO GO TO IT CAUSE MY FRIEND DID NOT INVITE ME...HE DID THE NEXT YEAR AND I BET HE REGRETED IT!!!![] THESE WERE THE "WE WANT EVERY THING FREE DAYS" I STOOD OUT OF MY HEAD AS FREAKS CLIMED UP ON THE HIGH LINK FENCE AND ROCKED BACK AND FORTH TILL IT FELL OVER.THEN FREAKS STARTED STREMING IN..BOUT TEN MINUTES LATER IT WAS ANNOUNCED"THIS IS NOW A FREE CONCERT" NO CRAP! HOW YOU GONNA KEEP 500'000 CRAZED PEOPLE OUT? ALSO THERE WAS PRICE GOUGING AMONG THE GROOVEY 2 BUCKS FOR A BURGER AND A BUCK FOR A COKE THAT WAS HIGH THEN! ONE KID WAS SELLING GLASSES OF WATER RIGHT FROM THE WATER SPIGOT IN HIS YARD FOR A NICKLE A PIECE AND HE HAD A LONG LINE...BET THAT KID MADE OUT LIKE A BANDIT!!! JAMIE