We were all from the Youngstown Ohio area and was very lucky to attended the Atlanta Pop Festival,if not for our friend Gary Markasky we wouldnt have went. So the story goes our friend Gary was a roadie for a local band in Youngstown Ohio. He said lets take the bands van and we can all go(The Band Didnt Know Gary was taking the van...:)
Jac Riblet,Ed Hoffman,Joe Blumetti,Gary Markasky and Gary F
rank. Made it to the festival,long ride and the battery was smoking ,we couldnt wait to get out of the van. Had no tickets,but everyone rushed the whole damn place. YEAH! Turned around only to see a naked chick reading a book sitting against a tree,Holy S**t she's naked,turned out with temps. over 100 dgrees and many were naked! Five Youngstown boys staring,I (Jac)said Hi to her and she never responded to anything we said??? Well coundnt watch forever...:)
Well, we moved on towards the stage and parked ourselves right in front,someone always stayed in the spot to hold it,so seeing Hendix and all the bands that played from 50 ft. was unreal! What a BLAST!! So many people,said to have been between 300,000 up to as many as 600,000 people. It was a mass of people eveerywhere...It was really Cool!!! Three days of Music ,Love and Heat,Heat,Heat..I got so hot I didnt sweat anymore! More to add! Jac YRRH
From Wiki:
The second Atlanta International Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. July 2nd 3rd 4th 1970. Like the Famous Woodstock Festival the previous summer(1969), the event was promoted as "three days of peace, love and music." Tickets for the festival were priced at $14. Also like Woodstock, it became an "open event" when the promoter threw open the gates after crowds outside began to tear down the plywood fence that had been erected around the site. An estimated 350,000 to 500,000 and possibly 600,000 people attended. Performers included The Allman Brothers Band, Jethro Tull (scheduled but did not perform, citing laryngitis), Terry Reid, B.B. King, Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix, Chambers Brothers, Poco, Grand Funk Railroad, Captain Beefheart, Ravi Shankar, Ten Years After, Lee Michaels,Johnny Winter, John Sebastian, Mountain, and Spirit. Jimi Hendrix played his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner for the fireworks around midnight on the Fourth of July. WOW!
