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- Atlanta Pop Festival 1970. (Wiki, Ed). ✨

The 1st Atlanta International Pop Festival was a rock festival held at the Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Ga., 20 miles south of Atlanta, on the July 4th (Friday) weekend, 1969, more than a month before Woodstock. Crowd estimates ranged from the high tens of thousands to as high as 150,000.

With temperatures nearing a hundred degrees, local fire departments used fire hoses to create "sprinklers" for the crowd to play in and cool off. It was a peaceful, energetic, hot and loud festival with few (if any) problems other than heat related. Concession stands were woefully inadequate. Attendees frequently stood in line for an hour to get a soft drink.
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In 1970, the 2nd Atlanta International Pop Festival was held in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Ga., from July 3–5, 1970, although it did not finish until after dawn on the 6th. It was the only successor to the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival, which had been held the previous summer near Hampton, Ga.

Among the artists billed in various promotional materials and programs but WHO DID NOT PERFORM were: Captain Beefheart, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Taos, Jethro Tull, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe and the Fish, Judy Collins, Rotary Connection, and Sly ` the Family Stone.

- Performers: Over 30 acts performed on the main stage during the course of the event:
The Allman Brothers Band, Ballin' Jack, Bloodrock, Bloomsbury People, Cactus
Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Chakra, The Chambers Brothers, Goose Creek, Symphony, Grand Funk Railroad, Gypsy,
Memphis State University cast of "Hair," Hampton Grease Band, Handle, Richie Havens,
Hedge & Donna,The Jimi Hendrix Experience
It's a Beautiful Day, Johnny Jenkins, B.B. King...

🎈Jimi Hendrix performed at around midnight on the 4th of July to the largest American audience of his career, presenting his unique rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" to accompany the celebratory fireworks display...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_International_Pop_Festival#1970_festival

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1. One of a kind!

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3. Super talent, lost too soon. Who knows the direction he would have taken his music.

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2. JIMI behind Buddy & Stacy doing 'Shotgun' (Jr. Walker), Night Train TV Show, 1965