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On these days, says Wikipedia,
The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival was [held] at the 4,000-seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre high on the south face of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. At least 36,000 people attended the two-day concert and fair that was the first of a series of San Francisco area cultural events known as the Summer of Love. The Fantasy Fair was influenced by the popular Renaissance Pleasure Faire and…is considered to have been America’s – if not the world’s – first rock festival.
Among those who performed:
- The Jefferson Airplane
- Canned Heat
- The Byrds with Hugh Masekela
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
- The Seeds
- The Grass Roots
- The Doors
- The Charlatans
- Tim Buckley
- Steve Miller Blues Band
- Country Joe and the Fish
- The 5th Dimension
- Dionne Warwick
- The Mystery Trend
[Note that some of the acts listed on the poster did not actually appear, due the festival’s having been delayed from the previous weekend due to bad weather.]
And how is this Beatles–related, you may ask? Well, only tangentially, I admit. For that reason and due to lack of time, I will let it go it that, but it seemed like it needed to be mentioned.
The Byrds with Hugh Maskela???? Woah … i mean … Whoa …
Masakela …
KFRC was Doctor Donald D Rose’s station, 610 on the dial, not too far from KNBR 680 with Frank Dill and Mike Cleary which in the mid 70’s seemed real cool to to me. Particular favorite and getting a lot of airtime was Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and anything BeeGees.