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“That was just a whole new thing,” he says of Axis: Bold as Love. “Not just simply in terms of the #guitar playing, but #Jimi had evolved as a #songwriter. He was creating this whole fantastic universe of dragonflies, castles …” www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/t... #JimiHendrix #ToddRundgren #music
Todd Rundgren on the Jimi Hend... -
“That was just a whole new thing,” he says of Axis: Bold as Love. “Not just simply in terms of the #guitar playing, but #Jimi had evolved as a #songwriter. He was creating this whole fantastic universe of dragonflies, castles …” www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/t... #JimiHendrix #ToddRundgren #music
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Yes - 1971-1979 Bootlegs Collection - 16 Shows
t.me/media_yura15cbx/475
Genesis - Bootlegs Collection 1970-2009 (36 альбомов + 5CD Box Set)
#Genesis - #Bootlegs Collectiont.me/media_yura15cbx/467
Pink Floyd bootlegs
#Pink Floyd #bootlegs #Pink Floyd bootlegst.me/media_yura15cbx/464
Подборка варганной музыки .mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/463
Led Zeppelin bootlegs, 900Gb
#Led Zeppelin #bootlegs, #900Gbt.me/media_yura15cbx/452
90-e mp3 60-e mp3 50-e mp3 40-e mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/456
_Eurodance mp3
#Eurodance #mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/457
Urban Jazz mp3
#Urban Jazz #mp3VA - Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 1-216 + EPs (254 релиза) - 1999-2020
t.me/media_yura15cbx/543
Фильмы кинематографически странных государств. Не таких странных как кндр, но всё равно не обычных.
#кино #фильмы странных стран видео #cinema #movies #video #кіно #фільми #відео #cine #películas #vídeo di #film #cinematograficit.me/media_yura15cbx/542
North korea movies
#North korea movies
фильмы производства #КНДР.t.me/media_yura15cbx/534
Crosby, Stills Nash & Young Discography (1969-2008)t.me/media_yura15cbx/514
post-grunget.me/media_yura15cbx/507
Jimi Hendrix Live
#Jimi Hendrixt.me/media_yura15cbx/500
Ozzy Osbournet.me/media_yura15cbx/489
Poland metal, Польща метал, польский металл, Polska metal, Польшаt.me/media_yura15cbx/491
Black Sabbath #Bootlegs & #Demost.me/media_yura15cbx/485
ACDC - #Bootleg Collection (145 albums), 1974-2011CHICAGO BLUES SESSION - Wolf Records
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/577
Humphrey Bogart
#old movies #старые фильмыt.me/media_yura15cbx/568
_Canterbury Scene
#Canterbury Scene
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/570
Camel
#Camel
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/564
Electric Light Orchestra - Studio Discography - 1971-2015
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/562
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Discography
#Emerson, #Lake & #Palmer (#ELP) #Discography
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/553
AUTECHRE
#AUTECHRE
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/555
Brian Eno
#Brian Eno
lossless ape flac_Urban Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/600
_Detroit Blues
#Detroit Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/596
_Louisiana Blues
#Louisiana Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/594
_Acoustic Blues
#Acoustic Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/592
_Texas Blues
#Texas Blues
#lossless #ape #flack #blues #music #блюз #музыкаt.me/media_yura15cbx/589
VA – Good Whiskey Blues (Blues Paradise series, Volumes 1-18) (2002)
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/586
_Chicago Blues
#Chicago Blues
lossless ape flac -
Yes - 1971-1979 Bootlegs Collection - 16 Shows
t.me/media_yura15cbx/475
Genesis - Bootlegs Collection 1970-2009 (36 альбомов + 5CD Box Set)
#Genesis - #Bootlegs Collectiont.me/media_yura15cbx/467
Pink Floyd bootlegs
#Pink Floyd #bootlegs #Pink Floyd bootlegst.me/media_yura15cbx/464
Подборка варганной музыки .mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/463
Led Zeppelin bootlegs, 900Gb
#Led Zeppelin #bootlegs, #900Gbt.me/media_yura15cbx/452
90-e mp3 60-e mp3 50-e mp3 40-e mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/456
_Eurodance mp3
#Eurodance #mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/457
Urban Jazz mp3
#Urban Jazz #mp3VA - Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 1-216 + EPs (254 релиза) - 1999-2020
t.me/media_yura15cbx/543
Фильмы кинематографически странных государств. Не таких странных как кндр, но всё равно не обычных.
#кино #фильмы странных стран видео #cinema #movies #video #кіно #фільми #відео #cine #películas #vídeo di #film #cinematograficit.me/media_yura15cbx/542
North korea movies
#North korea movies
фильмы производства #КНДР.t.me/media_yura15cbx/534
Crosby, Stills Nash & Young Discography (1969-2008)t.me/media_yura15cbx/514
post-grunget.me/media_yura15cbx/507
Jimi Hendrix Live
#Jimi Hendrixt.me/media_yura15cbx/500
Ozzy Osbournet.me/media_yura15cbx/489
Poland metal, Польща метал, польский металл, Polska metal, Польшаt.me/media_yura15cbx/491
Black Sabbath #Bootlegs & #Demost.me/media_yura15cbx/485
ACDC - #Bootleg Collection (145 albums), 1974-2011CHICAGO BLUES SESSION - Wolf Records
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/577
Humphrey Bogart
#old movies #старые фильмыt.me/media_yura15cbx/568
_Canterbury Scene
#Canterbury Scene
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/570
Camel
#Camel
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/564
Electric Light Orchestra - Studio Discography - 1971-2015
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/562
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Discography
#Emerson, #Lake & #Palmer (#ELP) #Discography
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/553
AUTECHRE
#AUTECHRE
lossless ape flact.me/media_yura15cbx/555
Brian Eno
#Brian Eno
lossless ape flac_Urban Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/600
_Detroit Blues
#Detroit Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/596
_Louisiana Blues
#Louisiana Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/594
_Acoustic Blues
#Acoustic Blues
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/592
_Texas Blues
#Texas Blues
#lossless #ape #flack #blues #music #блюз #музыкаt.me/media_yura15cbx/589
VA – Good Whiskey Blues (Blues Paradise series, Volumes 1-18) (2002)
lossless ape flackt.me/media_yura15cbx/586
_Chicago Blues
#Chicago Blues
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#Wissen spricht, aber #Weisheit hört zu.(Jimi Hendrix)
Mehr Zitate: jangoeritz.de/zitate/ https://bit.ly/3I7DS5C #Hendrix #JimiHendrix #psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate
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#Wissen spricht, aber #Weisheit hört zu.(Jimi Hendrix)
Mehr Zitate: jangoeritz.de/zitate/ https://bit.ly/3I7DS5C #Hendrix #JimiHendrix #psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate
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Aside from the most famous of the misheard lyrics, ('scuse me while I kiss this guy), I'm at a loss on this #TuneTuesday...
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Aside from the most famous of the misheard lyrics, ('scuse me while I kiss this guy), I'm at a loss on this #TuneTuesday...
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‘Sade wasn’t particularly friendly’: the stories behind music’s most iconic portraits – in pictures
By Interview by Owen MyersIn a career spanning six decades, photographer Gered Mankowitz has nurtured trusting relationships with many of the twentieth century’s defining artists. As he celebrates his 80th birthday, Mankowitz opens up about the stories behind iconic images of Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Annie Lennox and others that have have become indelible parts of pop culture history. These images are taken from Gered Mankowitz: Photographs, out now via ACC Art Books; much of Greg’s work is also displayed at Iconic Images Gallery, London
#Photography #Books #Artanddesign #Culture #GeorgeMichael #JimiHendrix #AnnieLennox #DaveStewart #Sade #TheRollingStones #MickJagger #KeithRichards #DuranDuran #MarianneFaithfull #EltonJohn #Music #Popandrock #RB #TheGuardian #InterviewbyOwenMyers
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‘Sade wasn’t particularly friendly’: the stories behind music’s most iconic portraits – in pictures
By Interview by Owen MyersIn a career spanning six decades, photographer Gered Mankowitz has nurtured trusting relationships with many of the twentieth century’s defining artists. As he celebrates his 80th birthday, Mankowitz opens up about the stories behind iconic images of Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Annie Lennox and others that have have become indelible parts of pop culture history. These images are taken from Gered Mankowitz: Photographs, out now via ACC Art Books; much of Greg’s work is also displayed at Iconic Images Gallery, London
#Photography #Books #Artanddesign #Culture #GeorgeMichael #JimiHendrix #AnnieLennox #DaveStewart #Sade #TheRollingStones #MickJagger #KeithRichards #DuranDuran #MarianneFaithfull #EltonJohn #Music #Popandrock #RB #TheGuardian #InterviewbyOwenMyers
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There was a sound in his head that he was never able to get out. He told Rolling Stone, "I just lay around daydreaming and hearing all this music." And he said, "I just can't play guitar that well to get all this music together."
#LewisShiner#JimiHendrix muss echt ein Herzchen gewesen sein. 🖤
FIRST RAYS [OF THE NEW SUN; Jimis verschollenes Album] was to be the ultimate fusion music: rock, jazz, blues, R&B. Healing music, unifying music.
(page 212)
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There was a sound in his head that he was never able to get out. He told Rolling Stone, "I just lay around daydreaming and hearing all this music." And he said, "I just can't play guitar that well to get all this music together."
#LewisShiner#JimiHendrix muss echt ein Herzchen gewesen sein. 🖤
FIRST RAYS [OF THE NEW SUN; Jimis verschollenes Album] was to be the ultimate fusion music: rock, jazz, blues, R&B. Healing music, unifying music.
(page 212)
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Ted Tocks Covers
Wild Thing
Originally posted on February 17, 2018
Back to the second month of Ted Rocks Covers. On this day 60 years ago The Troggs were at #1 with ‘Wild Thing.
“Wild thing, you make my heart sing
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#Gemini #AI: “ #JimiHendrix initially dismissed #PinkFloyd in early 1967 by stating they "don't sound like nothing" and relied too much on light shows, but later warmed up to their #music, describing it in a later interview as a good ‘space type of thing" that you can lay back and appreciate’.”
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#Gemini #AI: “ #JimiHendrix initially dismissed #PinkFloyd in early 1967 by stating they "don't sound like nothing" and relied too much on light shows, but later warmed up to their #music, describing it in a later interview as a good ‘space type of thing" that you can lay back and appreciate’.”
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“Around 4am, Jimi decided we should do some playing – fortunately, I had my Guild with me. He broke out a #blues tune that we ran through three or four times and then recorded; it ended up on the album as the long version of #VoodooChild.” www.guitarworld.com/artists/bass... #JackCasady #JimiHendrix
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Live at the Atlanta Pop Festival)
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Live at the Atlanta Pop Festival)
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075 Jimi Hendrix & Michael Jackson Art mix 11-2018
Canvas print 20 x 20
©Drakre52 morphingart
Eigen digitaal werk met gebruik makend van Morphing.
#drakre52 #morphing #art #jimihendrix
https://www.facebook.com/Drakre52.art/
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074 Jimi Hendrix Art mix 11-2018
Canvas print 20 x 20
©Drakre52 morphingart
Eigen digitaal werk met gebruik makend van Morphing.
#drakre52 #morphing #art #jimihendrix
https://www.facebook.com/Drakre52.art/
drakre52-art.jimdosite.com
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LP-Radiowerbung (1. Fassung - Anfang 1980) trifft Plattenschrank:
Rock Fire (Polystar)#compilation #sampler #polystar #rockfire #fire #arthurbrown #davedee #beatles #littlerichard #searchers #jimihendrix #procolharum #rodstewart #hollies #walkerbrothers #troggs #wildthing #woolybully #hangonsloopy #radio #rock #rockmusic #radiowerbung #ads #radioads #vinyl #record #80er #80s #60s #60er #retro #nostalgie #throwback #flashback
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LP-Radiowerbung (1. Fassung - Anfang 1980) trifft Plattenschrank:
Rock Fire (Polystar)#compilation #sampler #polystar #rockfire #fire #arthurbrown #davedee #beatles #littlerichard #searchers #jimihendrix #procolharum #rodstewart #hollies #walkerbrothers #troggs #wildthing #woolybully #hangonsloopy #radio #rock #rockmusic #radiowerbung #ads #radioads #vinyl #record #80er #80s #60s #60er #retro #nostalgie #throwback #flashback
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jimi Hendrix:
🎵 All Along the Watchtowerhttps://bauhouse.bandcamp.com/track/jimi-hendrix-all-along-the-watchtower-bauhouse-remix
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jimi Hendrix:
🎵 All Along the Watchtowerhttps://bauhouse.bandcamp.com/track/jimi-hendrix-all-along-the-watchtower-bauhouse-remix
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ihr dürft jetzt nach hause gehen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDaYPV7lrkY -
ihr dürft jetzt nach hause gehen.
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Not to brag, but...Jimi Hendrix's album "Are You Experienced" was released exactly one day before I was born.
Epic fail, Jimi. Epic fail.
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“It is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended”*…
An aerial view of the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in PhiladelphiaScheduling note: as tomorrow is July 4, (Roughly) Daily will be off. Regular service will resume on July 5… and should continue uninterrupted for awhile. Meantime…
The “Great American State Fair,” ostensibly celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S., is having a rocky run. After the talent for what was presented to them as a bi-partisan event largely withdrew, the Fair’s champion, President Trump, converted the opening into an unabashed “Trump Rally.” Thereafter, sparse attendance, equipment issues, high prices, and other embarassments.
As it happens, President Trump has some historical company. 100 years ago, in Philadelphia, dicey politicians hoped to replicate the success of the 1876 Centennial Exposition with a celebration of America’s 150th birthday. Instead, the 1926 “world’s fair” lost millions of dollars, hobbling the city’s finances on the eve of the Great Depression. Meilan Solly reports…
A century ago, the first visitors to Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial International Exposition—held to mark the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding—waded through mud and wandered along unpaved sidewalks to reach the heart of the fairgrounds, only to find carpenters still at work on half-finished exhibition halls and gaping holes marking the spots where attractions had yet to be built.
Dining and shopping options were limited, and some of the few exhibits on view stretched the very definition of “entertainment.” One was a model Post Office where “you could go send yourself a letter and watch it get canceled,” says historian Thomas H. Keels, author of Sesqui! Greed, Graft and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926. “That was it.”
The 200,000-plus Shriners in town for their fraternal organization’s national convention realized that their parades and rallies were the main events planned for these early days of the fair. Many went home disappointed, telling family and friends that the exposition wasn’t worth visiting…
Held in Philadelphia between May 31 and December 31, 1926, the fair—referred to as the Sesqui—celebrated the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding. Little remembered today, the event was a financial failure that Varietydeemed “America’s greatest flop.” Exact figures are hard to come by, but Keels suggests that the fair lost the equivalent of more than $410 million in today’s dollars, effectively bankrupting the city of Philadelphia.
The exposition was America’s main celebration of the sesquicentennial. Congress authorized the fair and provided limited funding for it, in addition to issuing commemorative coins and encouraging local celebrations, but the scale of federal participation paled in comparison with that of the 1976 bicentennial and this year’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Attendance at the Sesquicentennial Exposition also failed to match the numbers of Philadelphia’s 1876 centennial celebration, which attracted roughly 20 percent of the country’s population in an era when planes, cars and luxury liners had yet to make long-distance travel more accessible. Organizers predicted that 30 million people would visit the 1926 fair; ultimately, fewer than five million paid to attend. [For comparison, more than 44 million people visited the “World of Tomorrow” at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. Two and a half decades later, 51 million visitors flocked to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair.]
What doomed the sesquicentennial? Poor planning and lukewarm reviews by the fair’s early visitors contributed to the disastrous outcome. So, too, did the streak of bad weather that plagued Philadelphia during the exposition’s run, with rain falling on more than half of the days the fair was open to the public.
Although some observers considered the lackluster public response a sign that the golden age of world’s fairs had come to an end, Chicago’s 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition proved this prediction wrong, drawing more visitors than any of its predecessors. Overall, Keels attributes the 1926 fair’s failure to its “association with what was being viewed as an increasingly corrupt political machine,” headed by Pennsylvania Republican William Scott Vare.
After the fair incurred “nationwide ridicule,” Keels tells Smithsonian magazine, Vare and other local politicians were eager to move on from the endeavor, selling off leftover structures piecemeal “for pennies on the hundreds of dollars.” This push to forget the sesquicentennial has reverberated into the present: Just one building constructed for the 1926 fair stands in Philadelphia today…
More of the macabre story: “America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?” from @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
Apposite: “America Is Trapped in the Grossest Pool Party of All Time.”
* John Steinbeck
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As we rethink recreation, we might celebrate one of the great “public parties” of all time, recalling that it was on this date in 1970 that the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival opened in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. Running officially through the 5th (but actually ending around dawn on the 6th), 500-600,000 folks attended a festival designed to foster a sense of community that transcended race, region, and social class. And while the weather was boiling (local farmers brought watermelons and cantaloupes to help attendees), and there were reports of occasional nudity and recreational drug use, the three days were essentially trouble free… and a blast.
Performers included The Allman Brothers Band, the Chambers Brothers, Richie Havens, Grand Funk Railroad, It’s a Beautiful Day, B.B. King, Lee Michaels, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, Poco, Procol Harum, Rare Earth, John Sebastian, the Bob Seger System, Spirit, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter– and the Jimi Hendrix Experience who, at midnight on this date in 1970, played his rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” for nearly 500,000 people—the largest crowd of Hendrix’s career.
Georgia’s “colorful” governor at the time, 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. 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.
Georgia’s loss. As “Abraham Lincoln” said (in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), “Be excellent to each other. And… PARTY ON, DUDES!”
#AllmanBrothers #AtlantaInternationalPopFestival #AtlantaPopFestival #culture #Georgia #GreatAmericanStateFair #history #JimiHendrix #LesterMaddox #music #Philadelphia #politics #pop #rock #SesquicentennialInternationalExposition -
“It is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended”*…
An aerial view of the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in PhiladelphiaScheduling note: as tomorrow is July 4, (Roughly) Daily will be off. Regular service will resume on July 5… and should continue uninterrupted for awhile. Meantime…
The “Great American State Fair,” ostensibly celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S., is having a rocky run. After the talent for what was presented to them as a bi-partisan event largely withdrew, the Fair’s champion, President Trump, converted the opening into an unabashed “Trump Rally.” Thereafter, sparse attendance, equipment issues, high prices, and other embarassments.
As it happens, President Trump has some historical company. 100 years ago, in Philadelphia, dicey politicians hoped to replicate the success of the 1876 Centennial Exposition with a celebration of America’s 150th birthday. Instead, the 1926 “world’s fair” lost millions of dollars, hobbling the city’s finances on the eve of the Great Depression. Meilan Solly reports…
A century ago, the first visitors to Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial International Exposition—held to mark the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding—waded through mud and wandered along unpaved sidewalks to reach the heart of the fairgrounds, only to find carpenters still at work on half-finished exhibition halls and gaping holes marking the spots where attractions had yet to be built.
Dining and shopping options were limited, and some of the few exhibits on view stretched the very definition of “entertainment.” One was a model Post Office where “you could go send yourself a letter and watch it get canceled,” says historian Thomas H. Keels, author of Sesqui! Greed, Graft and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926. “That was it.”
The 200,000-plus Shriners in town for their fraternal organization’s national convention realized that their parades and rallies were the main events planned for these early days of the fair. Many went home disappointed, telling family and friends that the exposition wasn’t worth visiting…
Held in Philadelphia between May 31 and December 31, 1926, the fair—referred to as the Sesqui—celebrated the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding. Little remembered today, the event was a financial failure that Varietydeemed “America’s greatest flop.” Exact figures are hard to come by, but Keels suggests that the fair lost the equivalent of more than $410 million in today’s dollars, effectively bankrupting the city of Philadelphia.
The exposition was America’s main celebration of the sesquicentennial. Congress authorized the fair and provided limited funding for it, in addition to issuing commemorative coins and encouraging local celebrations, but the scale of federal participation paled in comparison with that of the 1976 bicentennial and this year’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Attendance at the Sesquicentennial Exposition also failed to match the numbers of Philadelphia’s 1876 centennial celebration, which attracted roughly 20 percent of the country’s population in an era when planes, cars and luxury liners had yet to make long-distance travel more accessible. Organizers predicted that 30 million people would visit the 1926 fair; ultimately, fewer than five million paid to attend. [For comparison, more than 44 million people visited the “World of Tomorrow” at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. Two and a half decades later, 51 million visitors flocked to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair.]
What doomed the sesquicentennial? Poor planning and lukewarm reviews by the fair’s early visitors contributed to the disastrous outcome. So, too, did the streak of bad weather that plagued Philadelphia during the exposition’s run, with rain falling on more than half of the days the fair was open to the public.
Although some observers considered the lackluster public response a sign that the golden age of world’s fairs had come to an end, Chicago’s 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition proved this prediction wrong, drawing more visitors than any of its predecessors. Overall, Keels attributes the 1926 fair’s failure to its “association with what was being viewed as an increasingly corrupt political machine,” headed by Pennsylvania Republican William Scott Vare.
After the fair incurred “nationwide ridicule,” Keels tells Smithsonian magazine, Vare and other local politicians were eager to move on from the endeavor, selling off leftover structures piecemeal “for pennies on the hundreds of dollars.” This push to forget the sesquicentennial has reverberated into the present: Just one building constructed for the 1926 fair stands in Philadelphia today…
More of the macabre story: “America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?” from @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
Apposite: “America Is Trapped in the Grossest Pool Party of All Time.”
* John Steinbeck
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As we rethink recreation, we might celebrate one of the great “public parties” of all time, recalling that it was on this date in 1970 that the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival opened in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. Running officially through the 5th (but actually ending around dawn on the 6th), 500-600,000 folks attended a festival designed to foster a sense of community that transcended race, region, and social class. And while the weather was boiling (local farmers brought watermelons and cantaloupes to help attendees), and there were reports of occasional nudity and recreational drug use, the three days were essentially trouble free… and a blast.
Performers included The Allman Brothers Band, the Chambers Brothers, Richie Havens, Grand Funk Railroad, It’s a Beautiful Day, B.B. King, Lee Michaels, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, Poco, Procol Harum, Rare Earth, John Sebastian, the Bob Seger System, Spirit, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter– and the Jimi Hendrix Experience who, at midnight on this date in 1970, played his rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” for nearly 500,000 people—the largest crowd of Hendrix’s career.
Georgia’s “colorful” governor at the time, 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. 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.
Georgia’s loss. As “Abraham Lincoln” said (in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), “Be excellent to each other. And… PARTY ON, DUDES!”
#AllmanBrothers #AtlantaInternationalPopFestival #AtlantaPopFestival #culture #Georgia #GreatAmericanStateFair #history #JimiHendrix #LesterMaddox #music #Philadelphia #politics #pop #rock #SesquicentennialInternationalExposition -
The only rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” that matters: the one by Afro-Cherokee guitar legend Jimi Hendrix (https://youtu.be/sjzZh6-h9fM?is=1uLUBsbQ6RrLKKRG)
#MusComEnt #4thOfJuly #JimiHendrix -
The only rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” that matters: the one by Afro-Cherokee guitar legend Jimi Hendrix (https://youtu.be/sjzZh6-h9fM?is=1uLUBsbQ6RrLKKRG)
#MusComEnt #4thOfJuly #JimiHendrix -
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Hendrix
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Hendrix
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"The black banner appeared to reference a Jimi Hendrix quote and said in white letters, "When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace."
https://abcnews.com/US/2-people-climb-top-empire-state-building-spire/story?id=134379995
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"The black banner appeared to reference a Jimi Hendrix quote and said in white letters, "When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace."
https://abcnews.com/US/2-people-climb-top-empire-state-building-spire/story?id=134379995
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Now Playing: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #Vinyl #Music #JimiHendrix #TheJimiHendrixExperience #Rock
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Now Playing: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #Vinyl #Music #JimiHendrix #TheJimiHendrixExperience #Rock
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On June 27th, 1969: Denver Pop Festival opens; 50,000 attend; #FrankZappa, #CreedenceClearwaterRevival, and #JimiHendrix headline; other performers include Three Dog Night, Tim Buckley, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Winter, #JoeCocker, and Poco.
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On June 27th, 1969: Denver Pop Festival opens; 50,000 attend; #FrankZappa, #CreedenceClearwaterRevival, and #JimiHendrix headline; other performers include Three Dog Night, Tim Buckley, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Winter, #JoeCocker, and Poco.
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Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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On Jun 20, 1969: 200,000 attend Newport '69, then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. #JimiHendrix paid $120,000 to perform.
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On June 18, 1967: Closing day of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Southern California, featuring first major US appearances of #JimiHendrix, #JanisJoplin, The Who, and #OtisRedding.
