Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival (Marin County, 1967)

Never knew about this festival! One week before Monterrey and an incredible lineup:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Fair_and_Magic_Mountain_Music_Festival

Some footage of the Doors playing on youtube and seeing the stage reminded me of some Seeds footage I'd seen (with no sound) that I think was from this.

Saturday, June 10

Mount Rushmore
Rodger Collins
Dionne Warwick
The Doors
The Lamp of Childhood
Canned Heat
Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Spanky and Our Gang
Blackburn & Snow
The Sparrow
Every Mother's Son
Kaleidoscope
The Chocolate Watch Band
The Mojo Men
The Merry-Go-Round

Sunday, June 11

Sons of Champlin
Jefferson Airplane
The Byrds with Hugh Masekela
P. F. Sloan
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
The Seeds
The Grass Roots
The Loading Zone
Tim Buckley
Every Mother's Son
Steve Miller Blues Band
Country Joe and the Fish
The 5th Dimension
The Lamp of Childhood
The Mystery Trend
Penny Nichols
The Merry-Go-Round
New Salvation Army Band

Sunday pwns Saturday but lots of unfamiliar names (for me) on both days

sounds groovy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/FantasyFairMagicMountainMusicFestival.jpg

i remember hearing cooder tell this story in some doc on the captain
At a vital 'warm-up' performance at the Mt. Tamalpais Festival (June 10/11) shortly before the scheduled Monterey Festival (June 16/18), the band began to play "Electricity" and Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the ten–foot stage and landed on manager Bob Krasnow. He later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.[46] This aborted any opportunity of breakthrough success at Monterey, as Cooder immediately decided he could no longer work with Van Vliet,[27] effectively quitting both the event and the band on the spot.

Exciting times:

June '67 was when the Byrds apparently started work on Notorious Byrd Brothers after having released Younger Than Yesterday that February.

Beefheart had only put out two singles so far, but the band in the middle of recording Safe As Milk.

Jefferson Airplane were between Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's.

Tim Buckley was just about to record Goodbye and Hello, which then came out in August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kl6cCp_eWc

http://blogs.marinij.com/marinhistory/Images/42TheByrdsMtTam1967Picassa.jpg

The Byrds with Hugh Masekela

Cool pics in that youtube video. Is that Cooder at .59?
This event looks like some good clean fun.

What were the Steve Miller Band like in 1967?

Oh wait, they were the Steve Miller BLUES Band duh

I had never heard Blackburn & Snow before, but wow Stranger In A Strange Land is v groovy in a v Jefferson Airplane way. Is it a well-known song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecer64rlLec

Penny Nichols clips here:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/pennys-arcade-mw0000735340

I guess the really striking thing for me is that this was obviously much less an *international* festival than Monterrey, but what a lineup you could cobble together just from mostly California groups at the time.

And $2/day seems incredibly cheap even for 1967.

The amphitheater is still there. Mountain Play puts on theater productions every spring. It's a cool place to visit if your in the Bay Area

http://new.mountainplay.org/mtplay_images/8951/n667533388_460685_5866_1_.jpg

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posts that haunt your thoughts:

At a vital 'warm-up' performance at the Mt. Tamalpais Festival (June 10/11) shortly before the scheduled Monterey Festival (June 16/18), the band began to play "Electricity" and Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the ten–foot stage and landed on manager Bob Krasnow. He later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.[46] This aborted any opportunity of breakthrough success at Monterey, as Cooder immediately decided he could no longer work with Van Vliet,[27] effectively quitting both the event and the band on the spot.