Featuring Jerry Goodman ( later of Mahavishnu Orchestra ) on violin, The Flock were one of the highlights of the Sunday show. The brass section really powered the band along and they were a fantastic live band featuring  lengthy jams where Goodman was the focal point. 

   Unfortunately rather short lived, I don't believe they ever toured the UK again after this show, they deserved more success than they achieved. 

   I have no complete setlist, but I do remember they played most of the tracks from their second album Dinosaur Swamps and possibly some tracks from the first album-the Flock .I have heard 10 minutes of their set , which is all that appears to be in circulation, yet to identify the song , its possibly Mechanical Man.

   A highlight was the track -Uranian Sircus, which has a really catchy theme and then develops into a huge jam .

   Flock preceded Led Zeppelin on-stage at Bath .According to a recent article, because the sun was setting and Led Zeppelin could make use of the sun as a backdrop to their show, infamous Zep manager/svengali the late Peter Grant , pulled the plugs on Goodman in mid song .

   I have no recollection of this event happening and none of the reviews of the festival mention it either - I find this peculiar, as it would have been a major incident worthy of reportage, I mean how often do the plugs get pulled on an act mid way through their act at a major festival and no one actually reports it ? . What might of happened was that the set was cut short , but in the midst of a song , I doubt it , the tape we have cuts off right at the end of the song, but that could have just been bad editing or the tape running out.

   An apocryphal story ? Probably, although given the history of the former Led Zeppelin manager, it is possibly the sort of thing that Grant would have done to anyone who got in his bands way .

8 mm Film Archive

• Stills:Colosseum, stage, bikers, crowd & camp

Ross Mortimore's streaming Quicktime movie of the crowd features clear images of the stage PA , Colosseum onstage and bikers with Canned Heat at Bath as a soundtrack provided courtesy of Bob C .

Bandwidth and copyright restrictions mean we cant host audio/video so you will have to do with stills at the moment until we can do an alternative stream elsewhere. Please don't bug us to add it , we will do it when we have the time.

External Links to Bath related merchandise ( with which we have NO commerical links whatsoever )

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1970 Bath Festival we have brought out a special commemorative set. Anyone interested can view it on http://www.rockmusic-offer.co.uk/

A limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters and Freddie Bannisters books on the Bath ,Lincoln 71 and Knebworth festivals can be bought online from the link below :
Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed at the main Rock memorabilia page ,

Led Zeppelin at Bath photogallery

Visit the 1969 Bath Festival pages.