Stan, I was there. 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival July 4, 1970, the first big rock concert after Woodstock, and I heard Jimmie Hendrix play "Star Spangled Banner" at midnight, with the grass smoke from 500,000 people so thick you'd get a contact high just coming within 5 miles of the place. You can see me sitting about 50 rows back on the ground with a very hot girl (unfortunately with her brother). I remember Hendrix talking about the girl "with the purple panties" in the front row before he started playing... Alabama had a bad team that year.
--(Edit: Listening to the tape...he mentions the "girl with the purple underwear on" about 20 mins into the tape....not bad for a memory!!).
-- (Edit2: They did NOT include the Star Spangled Banner - a travesty and a sin that shaill be cast upon their heads and upon their progeny for generations!!!!!!!)
https://vimeo.com/155141123We drove over from Tuscaloosa (In a VW Bus - without flowers on the door - I was known as the "fascist hippy" at the time) where I was studying after returning from Vietnam. The Allman Brothers (OMG my all time favorite band even if from Jaw Jah) were a warm-up band that night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxoXn-0Ezshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDivUb5EeAabout 98 degrees 80 percent humidity during the day...we got our seats (our staked out ground) while the heat was still up.
