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Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)
The second Atlanta International Pop Festival was a rock festival held in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia, from July 3–5, 1970, although it did not finish until near dawn on the 6th.〔West, Kirk (11 September 2002),Liner notes, ''Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970''〕 It was the only successor to the first Atlanta Pop Festival, which had been held the previous summer near Hampton, Georgia. The event was promoted by Alex Cooley, who had helped organize the '69 Atlanta festival as well as the '69 Texas International Pop Festival, and two years later would promote the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico from April 1-3, 1972.
==History==
Like 1969's Woodstock festival, the event was promoted as "three days of peace, love and music." Tickets for the festival were priced at $14. Also like Woodstock, it became a free event when the promoters threw open the gates after large crowds outside chanting "Free, free, free. Music belongs to the people" threatened to overwhelm even the biker security crew the promoters had hired.〔〔Abram, Malcolm X. (Summer 2000). “Byron Pop, 1970 – Woodstock, Middle Georgia Style”. ''Hittin’ the Note'' – Issue #29.〕〔Alvarez, Eugene. (Summer 1992). “Byron, Ga., Became ‘The Woodstock Of The South’”. ''Georgia Journal''.〕〔Beeman, Paul. (1970-07-05). “Byron Festival Free To Most Of 200,000”. ''Atlanta Journal and Constitution''.〕〔Santelli, Robert. ''Aquarius Rising - The Rock Festival Years''. 1980. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Pp. 216-218.〕〔Marvin, Carolyn. (1970-07-05). “Bikers Twirl Chains, Halt Festival Gate Rush”. ''Atlanta Journal and Constitution''.〕 Crowd estimates for the festival varied widely at the time, and still do, ranging from 200,000 to 600,000.〔〔〔〔Santelli, Robert. ''Aquarius Rising - The Rock Festival Years''. 1980. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Pg. 270.〕〔Collins, Howard. (1970-07-06). “Drums Hit Final Beats As Pop Festival Ends On Sour Finance Note”. ''The Macon Telegraph''.〕〔Beeman, Paul. (1970-07-05). “Byron Festival Free to Most of 200,000”. ''The Atlanta Journal and Constitution'', pp. 1A & 10A.〕〔Richard L. Eldredge FOR THE JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, Arts & Entertainment: ("What a splash: Recalling Georgia's 'Woodstock'" )., ''The Atlanta Journal and Constitution'', 07-04-1995, pp E/07.〕
Construction crews worked at the festival site for over a month prior to the event’s opening day building the main stage, two spotlight towers atop soaring tree-trunk tripods, an eight-foot tall plywood fence surrounding the entire 24-acre audience seating area, and other facilities.〔〔Whittaker, Dave. (1970-06-20). “Pop Festival Ticket Sales Running Ahead”. ''The Macon News''.〕〔Beeman, Paul. (1970-06-28). “Hippies Working? And They Don’t Bite! – Mid-Georgia Prepares For Festival”. ''The Atlanta Journal and Constitution''.〕 A separate, much smaller stage – the “Free Stage” - was also built some distance away in a wooded camping area to accommodate impromptu performances by mostly local Georgia musicians who wanted to play during the festival, and many did - including The Allman Brothers Band.〔〔〔〔Alvarez, Eugene. (Summer 1992). “Byron, Ga., Became ‘The Woodstock Of The South’”. ''Georgia Journal''.〕 During the construction phase, the band Wet Willie performed for the construction crew but did not perform during the festival itself. The festival sound system was supplied by Hanley Sound of Medford, Massachusetts, and a rear-projection light show was provided by The Electric Collage of Atlanta, both of which had provided similar services at the first Atlanta Pop Festival the previous summer.
Temperatures at the festival were sweltering, surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit every day.〔 Nudity and drug use were widespread, but local law enforcement officials, who knew they were vastly outnumbered, stayed outside the festival gates and employed a general ‘hands-off’ policy towards most festival-goers during the event’s duration.〔 However, Georgia’s colorful governor, Lester Maddox, who had tried repeatedly to prevent the festival from taking place, vowed that he would do whatever it took to block any similar event in the future.〔〔〔Marvin, Carolyn. (1970-07-04). “200,000 Swelter At Pop Festival”. ''Atlanta Journal and Constitution''.〕〔Merrill, Hugh. (1970-07-07). “Maddox Asks Ban On Music Festivals”. ''Atlanta Journal''.〕〔Santelli, Robert. ''Aquarius Rising - The Rock Festival Years''. 1980. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Pg. 222.〕 The state legislature willingly complied and enacted sufficient restrictions to make it much more difficult for anyone to organize another rock festival in the state. A third Atlanta Pop Festival never took place.
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