A Minimum Security Bash
Part I: The Pureshit Revolution Goose Lake, the 380 acre site of a three day pop festival, in Jackson, Michigan. It is a green countryside about 40 miles from Ann Arbor where the Blues Festival (scheduled the same weekend) draws a crowd of about 10,000.
Summer s just about gone and so, with a sigh of relief, we bid adieu to the phenomenon of die Pop Festival, a scourge which (you may remember) nearly dominated rock and roll to death in the year 1970. We’ve got five representative festivals lined up to show die state of the Nation, as it
were:
Liza Williams, L.A. Free Press columnist, went to Gooselake and had concentration camp visions which she elucidates on page 14.
Lisa Robinson, of die Pop Wire Service and Hit Parader (and wife of disc jockey, record company whiz, ace record producer and social lion Richard Robinson) went to Powder Ridge where she asks the musical question “Why do they want to do this to their children?” (Page 15)
Toby Mamis, the 17% year old boy wonder of the New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the Randall’s Island Collective, begins on page 18 his saga of how that disnal disaster became an educational experience for New York radicals.
Ben Edmonds, our man in Boston, discusses Eagle Rock (page 20) and the pop festivat-that-never-was (a growing syndrome).