1969 ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL Original *** RED T SHIRT *** Zeppelin Joplin Berry CCR

Description

Here's an authentic
1969
ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL
T SHIRT
from July 4th and 5th, 1969
.
Here is a treasured and an extremely rare find.. one of the most coveted rock t-shirts!   A genuine vintage concert t-shirt from one of the
earliest
and most successful rock music festivals,
ever!
Not only that but it's one of the orange red ones, which turned out to be the favorite color.
It is EXTREMELY hard to find these shirts, most got worn out and tossed.  It is the same exact shirt as seen in the photos.  It shows very light wear (mostly on front stomach area) and a few very small stains, but overall it is still in excellent shape.
You would be very hard pressed to find a better one!
1969 ATLANTA POP
This festival represents a bygone era of the peaceful counter culture period of the late 60's.  This event was actually 6 weeks before Woodstock, but even though it drew a large crowd of 150,000, it would only be about 1/3 the size.  It turned out 1969 would be the peak year by far for rock festivals, and the success of this one led the promoter Alex Cooley to hold the 1970 Atlanta Pop festival the following year.  That one would be considerably more successful and more closely resemble Woodstock with numerous top acts over 3 days and had a total attendance somewhere around 300,000+.
Yet by 1970 things died down and there would be only be a few major rock festivals that whole year with Atlanta being the most popular by far.  Atlanta did something nowhere else did, not even in California, stage an even bigger and more successful reincarnation.  All the 1969 festivals were pretty much one off.  These concerts also put Atlanta on the rock musical map, as apparently at that time the south was avoided by the national touring acts.
It's success is why the Atlanta Pop Festival has become one of the most coveted rock concert festival events and stands only 2nd to Woodstock in popularity.  Atlanta had the same cool vibes and peaceful colorful hippie crowd from that special era.  All the news articles about the Atlanta event were very favorable.  The young hip audience was very orderly and there to have a good time.  They even showed very peaceful tolerance as they braved the harsh heat and sun conditions with limited facilities over that weekend.
It also turned out to be the largest audience that Led Zeppelin would ever play in front of, until only possibly at Knebworth which wasn't until a full decade later.
Purchase with confidence, this is guaranteed to be an original vintage shirt.  I deal
only
in authentic items.
For photos and info:
flickr.com/photos/ejmc/sets/72157619401595334/
alexcooley.com/fest-atlpop2.html
Photos, recollections and memories' blogs from 1970 attendees:
messyoptics.com/bird/gbookPAGE.html
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