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1969 Seattle Pop Fest Ticket MINT The Doors Santana Zeppelin Byrds Guess Who
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1969 Seattle Pop Fest Ticket MINT The Doors Santana Zeppelin Byrds Guess Who________________________________
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MINT Condition Ticket -NEVER USED- Always kept in a hard plastic sleeve, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!
About the Seattle Pop Fest:
The Seattle Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Gold Creek Park, 16020 148th Ave NE, Woodinville, Washington from July 25 to July 27, 1969. The event was organized by Boyd Grafmyre.
The plan for Seattle Pop was to have 25 acts play over the course of three days. Promoter Boyd Grafmyre went to great lengths to make sure performers arrived. He chartered a helicopter to fly The Doors from Seattle’s airport, and rented a Cadillac convertible for Chuck Berry.
Tickets for the event cost for a day or for all three days. An estimated 50,000-70,000 people attended the festival. Seattle Pop was one of the festivals to forgo hiring police or off-duty officers as security; instead, Grafmyre hired The Black Panthers to keep watch.
Because attendance was larger than expected, extra food and water needed to be brought into the venue. According to one source: "Sanitary facilities were inadequate, but every attempt was made to meet county requirements ..." Nearby neighbors complained of traffic and the hippie atmosphere, but Chick Dawsey, owner of Gold Creek, noted that spectators were orderly with very few exceptions."
Performers
The Seattle Pop's line-up was a mix of established acts, native groups from the Pacific Northwest. Twenty-six musicians and groups performed at the festival. The Doors, Chuck Berry, The Byrds and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue were among the most highly-anticipated acts, but newcomers Led Zeppelin emerged as the highlight. "Sunday night was supposed to belong to The Doors but it was stolen right out from under them by the great English blues group, Led Zeppelin," wrote the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
List of performers:
Crome Syrcus
Bo Diddley
Flying Burrito Brothers
Ten Years After
Guess Who
Murray Roman
Albert Collins
Santana
Youngbloods
Tim Buckley
It's a Beautiful Day
Byrds
Floating Bridge
Charles Lloyd
The Flock
Ike & Tina Turner Revue
Lonnie Mack
Chicago Transit Authority
Chuck Berry
Blacksnake
Spirit
Vanilla Fudge
Rockin' Fu
Led Zeppelin
Lee Michaels
The Doors
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