1969 ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL__Original CONCERT TICKET STUB__ Led Zeppelin J. Joplin

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Here is an original
very 1st
ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL
ticket stub
from July 4th and 5th, 1969
.
This is a super rare find.. a genuine vintage concert stub that came from one of the
earliest
and most successful rock music festivals.  Although this event was about 1/3 the size, it was held 6 weeks
before
Woodstock.  It turned out 1969 would be the peak year for pop festivals, and the success of this one led the promoter to hold the 1970 Atlanta Pop festival the following year.  That one would be even more successful and almost on par with Woodstock with an attendance reaching as high as 300,000+.
This is why the Atlanta Pop Festival has become one of the most coveted concert festival events and probably stands only 2nd to Woodstock in popularity.  Atlanta had the similar cool vibes and peaceful colorful crowd from that special era.  All the news articles about the Atlanta event were very favorable.  The young hip crowd was very orderly and there to have a good time.  They even showed a very peaceful tolerance as they braved the harsh 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.
The stub is the one seen in the photos.  It is in really nice condition and was well stored as it has a deep unfaded color.  Just one main crease, a smudge on the back and light handling wear.
Purchase with confidence, I deal
only
in original vintage items guaranteed authentic.
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.
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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,
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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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