[WGH]

With all the Woodstock news lately I was wondering what 3 day rock festivals other folks have been to. I didn't make it to Woodstock but a year later on April 24-26, 1970 I was at Sound Storm Festival at York Farm in Poynette, WI with 50,000 crazed music lovers. The acts included The Grateful Dead, Crow, Illinois Speed Press, Rotary Connection, Baby Huey & the Babysitters, Minnie Ripperton, Luther Allison, US Pure, Wilderness Road, and Mason Proffit.

I was a senior at Stout University in Menomonie, Wisc. at the time and had my Mom's red Dodge Dart (students with cars were very rare in 1970). We drove to Madison on Thursday and stayed at an apartment with a bunch of young women. Early Friday morning we drove to the festival, jumped a fence and sneaked in. We all sat on a hill side and watched the place fill up. I didn't sleep for 2 more days and I think I had a good time.

Photos of the festival by Robert Pulling can be seen here .

The Grateful Dead website also has an archive of photos and newspaper articles here.

Jerry Garcia at Sound Storm in 1970


Wayne

[rockadanny]

Met my (now) wife at the 3 day Frog Island Music Festival in Ypsilanti, MI, back in the early 90's. We were each there alone and met by chance. Since then we've been back there, and then Music Midtown in Atlanta for several years.

[s_cervin]

'97-spring 2002 Hookahville
2008 Rothbury
Grass Roots
Nelson Ledges
Many multiple night WSP, ABB, Phish, Phil & Friends runs.

[rpf]

Woodstock. It was great but one was enough. 

[Scott F.]

Eric Clapton's Crossroads guitar Festival at Fair Park in Dallas back in 2004. They had quite a lineup of performers.

    * Eric Clapton
    * Johnny A.
    * Jeff Beck
    * Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
    * Ron Block
    * Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    * Doyle Bramhall II
    * J. J. Cale
    * Larry Carlton
    * Robert Cray
    * Sheryl Crow
    * Bo Diddley
    * Jerry Douglas
    * Nathan East
    * David Honeyboy Edwards
    * Vince Gill
    * Buddy Guy
    * David Hidalgo
    * Zakir Hussain
    * David James
    * Eric Johnson
    * B. B. King
    * Sonny Landreth
    * Jonny Lang
    * Robert Lockwood, Jr.
    * John Mayer
    * John McLaughlin
    * Pat Metheny
    * Robert Randolph
    * Duke Robillard
    * Carlos Santana
    * Neal Schon
    * Hubert Sumlin
    * James Taylor
    * Dan Tyminski
    * Steve Vai
    * Jimmie Vaughan
    * Joe Walsh
    * ZZ Top
    * David Johansen

On top of that they held guitar workshops and shredder clinics by pretty big named axemen.

Paul Reed Smith
Luther Tatum
Doyle Dykes
Pete Huttlinger and Laurence Juber (of Paul McCartney & Wings)
Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society)
George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch Mob)
Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme)
Tony Franklin (The Firm),
Yngwie Malmsteen
Del Castillo
Buck Page (Rider?s of the Purple Sage)
Ramblin? Jack Elliot
Norm Stephens (Merle Haggerd)
Sonny Curtis (Buddy Holly?s Crickets)
Roscoe Beck, Greg Koch and John Calarco featuring Mike Cross
Jeff ?Skunk? Baxter
Marty Stuart, James Burton (of Elvis Presley)



Here's a few pics from the shoot I did that weekend.

[kgturner]

new orleans voodoo music fest 2007 & voodoo music fest 2008. skipping 2009 due to plans to go with the wife and kiddies to disneyworld in november.

kevin t

[ted_b]

Bonnaroo 2006 (Radiohead, Beck, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Bright Eyes, Phil Lesh & Friends, Death Cab For Cutie, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Neville Brothers, Bela Fleck, etc,)

Great time.   

[sts9fan]

lets see.  Some of these were 4 day events while all the Phish fests were two day affairs. 

7 Phish camping fests
3 gathering of the Vibes
3 Beirkshire Mountain Music Fests
2 moe.down
2 Bonnaroo 07 and 09
1 Adarondak Mtn music fest

Plus another 10 or so smaller events with mostly local acts (Camp Creek etc)