First record you remember hearing?

[grahamw48]

Here's where I saw Floyd...plus one or two other not too bad bands. Great weekend for £2.50, and red hot too. I was 18.

[gWaPito]

Goodness me Graham, could you imagine going to see the likes of pink floyd and Santana 3 years down the line from when you saw them ?. I wonder if you can remember how Born to be wild played out live ? I see you kept your ticket. I never did to do that, i wish i did now !

[grahamw48]

Santana and Pink Floyd were the bands I enjoyed most at the festival.

The whole thing was a kind of Woodstock follow-on tour, hence several of the same bands as appeared at Woodstock.

'Donovan' turned up too, and played free of charge for about an hour.

That is actually a small poster that came with the ticket, and I still have the ticket.

Steppenwolf were great, and of course topical too, as their music was on the 'Easy Rider' movie, a cult film that year, and which I also went to see.

1970 was a good time to be 18. That year I left home and moved down to London for about a year....tail end of Carnaby St and King's Rd scene. I had a flat just off Kings Rd. Think...Austin Powers.

I'm a big fan of 'Free', and their single 'Alright Now' was out that year, and I also went to Deep Purple and Black Sabbath concerts around that time.

I agree about the early Floyd (Syd Barrett era) being better...to my ears anyway, and also that Status Quo went downhill (in a commercial sense) too.

Still love and play the music of all those bands, not to mention Hendrix, the Stones, Kinks and Who from my earlier youth.

My son plays lead guitar in a rock band now, and he has great respect for people like Hendrix , Clapton, and Carlos Santana, so we always have some good (loud!) sounds on.

[gWaPito]

What is it about turning 17 or 18 for us guys. 77 was my year for a number of reasons I wont go into on this public forum but, apart from the travelling and being able to see my rock hero's it was the year I got my first proper bike, a Suzuki GT 750. You mentioned that cult film with Dennis Hooper, a proper mans man, lived it just like on the film. It was that film that started me on bikes. I got a car as well the year after That was a Citroen DS You didnt need a venue for a party owning a car like that It was massive ! Only car I have owned where the headlights moved when you turned the steering wheel. One more thing, the summer was never ending and of course it never rained.

[Terpe]

Here's where I saw Floyd...plus one or two other not too bad bands. Great weekend for £2.50, and red hot too. I was 18.

WOW Graham. That must have been a really awesome weekend
Looking back it just seems such a historical gig. And to think I missed that.

I am also a big fan of Pink Floyd. Got every single and every album (including all the booklets)

[Arthur Little]

Here's where I saw Floyd...plus one or two other not too bad bands. Great weekend for £2.50, and red hot too. I was 18.

Y'know, Graham ... that ticket would be "worth a packet" nowadays ... although I suspect there's no way you'd ever want to part with it for ... sentimental reasons alone!

[gWaPito]

Im just the same Graham I bought all those too. Music lovers never grow tired of it. Jane my wife have so much in common Music being one of them. Yes Elvis died August 16th I remember what and where I was when the news was being read. very sad Only 42 yo. But hey That is what rock and roll stars do Right. I remember that I feel love song as if it where yesterday Another awesome record. The start of my disco days. Sex pistols too never mind the b's I bought that album. My Dad was not pleased with it! That wld come a close 2nd to Floyd's master works. Im not going to say those days were the best and the music today is rubbish that wld be wrong. I still love music all music as longs as its good, of course.