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

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.