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Flyer/Handbill: 1970 JANIS JOPLIN RARE POWDER RIDGE FESTIVAL CONCERT HANDBILL
12 Apr 2020
05 Apr 2020
3 bids
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United States
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Rock & Pop
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THE CONCERT THAT NEVER HAPPENED ! ! !
ALLMAN BROTHERS 1970 JANIS JOPLIN RARE POWDER RIDGE FESTIVAL CONCERT HANDBILL ! ORIGIANL AND RARE - NOT A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING - THIS IS THE REAL DEAL - An original HANDBILL !
AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL NOT A REPRINT
ASIDE FROM THE WONDERFUL PICTURE OF JOPLIN - LOOK AT THE LINEUP !!!
AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL NOT A REPRINT
ASIDE FROM THE WONDERFUL PICTURE OF JOPLIN - LOOK AT THE LINEUP !!!
The Powder Ridge Rock Festival was scheduled to be held July 31, August 1 and August 2, 1970 at Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield, Connecticut. A legal injunction forced the event to be canceled, keeping the musicians away; but a crowd of 30,000 attendees arrived anyway, to find no food, no entertainment, no adequate plumbing, and at least seventy drug dealers. William Manchester wrote: "Powder Ridge was an accident waiting to happen, and it happened. Volunteer doctor William Abruzzi declared a drug "crisis" on 1 August and said "Woodstock was a pale pot scene. This is a heavy hallucinogens scene."
Tickets were sold by mail at a price of $20 for the whole weekend. The announced line-up of musicians included:
Day 1: Eric Burdon & War, Sly and the Family Stone, Delaney & Bonnie, Fleetwood Mac, Melanie, Mountain, J.F. Murphy and Free Flowing Salt, Allan Nichols, James Taylor
Day 2: Joe Cocker, Allman Brothers, Cactus, Little Richard, Van Morrison, Rhinoceros, Ten Wheel Drive, Jethro Tull, Tony Williams Lifetime, Zephyr
Day 3: Janis Joplin, Chuck Berry, Bloodrock, Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, Grand Funk Railroad, Richie Havens, John B. Sebastian, Spirit, Ten Years After