1969 ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL__Original CONCERT PROGRAM__Led Zeppelin J. Joplin

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Here is an original
very 1st
ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL
concert program
from July 4th and 5th, 1969
.
These don't come around very often.  This is an awesome find,
it's actually hard to even find a stub from this festival (even the 1970 stubs are a true rarity!). I happened to have come across an extremely rare opportunity that is unlikely to come about again.  Hence why I have a lot of items from this festival.
Atlanta Pop is one of the earliest festivals during the festive times of 1969 when the rock movement and these concert events were budding.  This festival was actually about 6 weeks before Woodstock.  However, as for any concert event back then, camera, film & sound media were very limited in capability and portability.  So there is not a lot of info or photos to be found about the 1969 festival.  Woodstock had hired a filming crew, and had a much larger audience to allow for more photos to be kept and found.  Although, it is special in many ways.  For one, it turned out to be the largest audience Led Zeppelin ever played to in the USA and probably the world.  The only exception might be Knebworth and that was a full 10 years later.  It's also one of the few festivals that Led Zeppelin ever needed or decided to play at.  They had enough clout that after 1969, they always headlined their own single act shows and even breaking records doing that.
The program has 20 pages plus the cover.  It measures 8.5x11" and is the one seen in the listing photos.
Overall it is in really nice condition, even with the rusting of the staples (mostly the top one that ran) and just slightly stained the tops of the pages.  Otherwise it is in great condition as it has barely any wear and no discoloration.  It is obvious this program was only put in storage and never really handled.  The spine is solid and albeit the staples are a bit rusted but they are still tight and hold the program properly.
Still, this is really nice specimen.
These are rare!!!
No creasing, rips, tape, writing, pin or staple holes etc.
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As per Wikipedia:
The first Atlanta International Pop Festival was a rock festival held at the Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, twenty miles south of Atlanta, on the July Fourth (Friday) weekend, 1969, more than a month before Woodstock. Crowd estimates ranged from the high tens of thousands to as high as 150,000.[5] 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.
Over twenty musical acts performed at the event:
* Blood, Sweat & Tears
* Booker T. & the M.G.'s
* The Butterfield Blues Band
* Canned Heat
* Chicago Transit Authority
* Joe Cocker
* Creedence Clearwater Revival
* The Dave Brubeck Trio w/ Gerry Mulligan
* Delaney and Bonnie and Friends
* Grand Funk Railroad
* Ian & Sylvia
* Tommy James and the Shondells
* Janis Joplin
* Al Kooper
* Led Zeppelin
* Pacific Gas & Electric
* Johnny Rivers
* Spirit
* The Staple Singers
* Sweetwater
* Ten Wheel Drive
* Johnny Winter
The festival was organized by a promotional team that included Chris Cowing, Robin Conant and Alex Cooley. Cooley was also one of the organizers of the Texas International Pop Festival a few weeks later on Labor Day weekend, as well as the second, and last, Atlanta International Pop Festival the following summer, and the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico from April 1-3, 1972. The sound system for the 1969 Atlanta festival was supplied by Hanley Sound of Medford, Massachusetts, and the light show was provided by The Electric Collage of Atlanta,[6] both of which would return for the second Atlanta Pop Festival.
On the Monday following the festival, July 7, the festival promoters gave Atlanta’s music fans a gift: a free concert in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park featuring Chicago Transit Authority, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and Spirit, all of whom had played at the festival, and Grateful Dead, who had not. According to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the free event was the promoters’ way of showing “their appreciation for the overwhelming success of the festival”, although Alex Cooley has also described their motivation as simple hippie guilt at making a few-thousand-dollar profit. Piedmont Park had by then become the location of regular, free, and often impromptu rock concerts by mostly local Atlanta bands, and, beginning in mid-May of 1969, by Macon’s new Allman Brothers Band.
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