First record you remember hearing?

[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.