| Subject: Re: WISCONSIN ROCK FESTIVAL - Sound Storm 1970 April 24 |
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Bill
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Date Posted: 08:58:14 11/20/06 Mon
In reply to:
Scott Thomson
's message, "Re: WISCONSIN ROCK FESTIVAL - Sound Storm 1970 April 24" on 23:32:22 01/28/06 Sat
Interesting. I was there (Iola) in the audience, but subsequently got around the rock scene quite a lot. Hung with a bunch of sound guys and such from Madison.
Contact me, we'll share some stories.
>Don't know if anyone's paying attention, two years
>after these posts. But I was there, at Sound Storm —
>was part of the crew that put it on, in fact. I don't
>think the attendance was anything like that — Iola, a
>couple months later, perhaps came close.
>The lineup also included Rotary Connection (sounding
>quite different, but every bit as good, as their
>studio stuff), Segal-Schwal (sic?), billing themselves
>as the Happy Year Band or some such, and a bunch of
>the Madison-area bands from that era — perhaps Captain
>Billy's Whiz Bang, Spectre, etc. I don't remember
>them all — I don't sometimes remember yesterday, much
>less 36 years ago.
>I do remember wiring the stage, doing security (hah!)
>and running the stage lights, the last of those while
>the organizers passed the hat to keep the generators
>running. And some other stuff that I won't go into
>here ...
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