Rounds: KFRC presented numerous shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City south of San Francisco. So was like transporting that to an outdoor setting. Taylor: You also had venues like the Fillmore and Avalon, which had three different bands every night, all with different styles. This was KFRC trying to catch up on the game and be cool by promoting this event. There were still vestiges of the Fifties.īrown: KFRC was getting spooked that Donahue was really starting to make a new scene out of radio in San Francisco. The “alternative lifestyle” - the hipsters, the jazz aficionados - were already drawn to Newport, but things were a little more buttoned-down and straight. This felt like a continuation of the vibe and energy that was created with the Newport Folk Festival. Maria Muldaur (Jim Kweskin Jug Band): The portent of things turning into rock festivals was when Dylan first played electric at Newport. All of a sudden it just became this…thing. I got into American Indian beads and pants with hand-painted psychedelic stuff on it. I played music in the Fifties and I remember wearing cummerbunds, plaid jackets and uniforms. Larry Taylor ( Canned Heat):People would get together in a big park and listen to music and hang out. Everyone just showed up to these things and played for free. We’d show up to a park and there’d be bands playing all day long. This was an extension of the Love-In in Los Angeles and the Be-In. It’s just what we did.Ĭhris Darrow (Kaleidoscope): KFRC were very understanding of what was happening and they went out of their way to play new and cool music. There’s never any thought of making money off of it. We were all spiritually on the same plane.
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Jorma Kaukonen ( Jefferson Airplane): The concept of doing free shows for people really made a lot of sense to a lot of San Francisco bands like the Dead, us and Big Brother. Rolling Stone spoke to more than 40 artists, organizers and attendees to piece together the secret history of this landmark festival. But to many of the artists and fans who were in attendance, it remains a pivotal moment of the counterculture takeover. Since it was overshadowed by Monterey Pop, Fantasy Fair has been largely forgotten ( only snippets of film exist from the fest, and virtually no audio has survived ). Arguably, the festival was the true start of the Summer of Love, and this is its previously untold story.ĥ0 Moments That Changed Rock: Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding Burn it Up at Monterey Conceived as a promotion for the KFRC 610 AM radio station, the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival featured more than 30 acts, including the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds and Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, as well as a group of Hells Angels and an “acid doctor” to mitigate bad trips. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California, for the first U.S.
On June 10th and 11th, 1967 - one week before the Monterey Pop Festival and two years before Woodstock - tens of thousands of Bay Area music fans converged on the Sydney B.
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