Was Bull Island The Worst Music Festival of All Time?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Fyre Fest, Woodstock '99, Altamont... there have been many great festival disasters over the years. But none of these come even close to 1972's Erie Canal & Soda Pop Festival (Also known as "Bull Island.") The lack of preparedness, the lawlessness, the desperation of the crowd; it's like the bad-acid trip version of Woodstock where [spoiler] everything burns down. [/spoiler]
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Some of the music heard in this video:
0 : 00 - In the Hall of the Mountain King
2 : 48 - Zodiac Structures by NoMBe
6 : 53 - Washington Post by US Army Band
7 : 43 - Blues Power by Albert King
9 : 53 - Free Spirit by Birtha
14 : 41 - Firebrand by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com/)
17 : 48 - The Sticks by Engine Summer (enginesummer.b...)
I remember at Woodstock 99 some guy was running screaming "get out it's going to be a bull Island all over again" none of us really knew what he was talking about
HAHA 🤘🙂 I was there people buged out when everybody started getting robbed for water and crazy prices from vendors
A friend of mine went to that disaster..... people didn't want to pay $ 8.00 for bottle of water.....so they trashed the stand and bedlam unsued
I was at Woodstock '99. I saw the situation, made a quick trip to the local walmart and bought a large cooler, a radio flyer wagon and a lot of bottled water. I took that ice cold water right down to the areas in front of the stages and sold it for $4 a bottle. It sold like wildfire and people thanked me for providing the service. My freind and I made almost $10,000 that weekend.
@@IHateThisHandleSystem That's amazing you sold 2500 bottles of water from a simple kids wagon after a single trip to Walmart. Didn't know re-admittance was allowed with outside goods. Your story's almost unbelievable.
@@7n154 I think I remember in 99 that by Saturday and Sunday I was going into Rome to buy beer and water and getting back in with it... Not 10 grand worth in a wagon tho... That's a bit of a stretch... By Saturday afternoon most of the volunteers gave up... Hardly any showed up
I can see the headline now "90 year old man found alive on Bull Island, still thinks Rod Stewart is going to show up"
So true lol
LOL so important to keep that positive mindset ! :)
LMAO 🤣😂🤣
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In college in mid-80s , the grad assistant in the Film & TV school told us of his experience at Bull Island. He went with a Super 8 movie camera and 20+ hrs of film in order to create an amateur documentary about Where Young People Were At.
Alas, his camera and film were stolen.
Holy shit.
I WOULD HAVE BAILED on day one. I need basic stuff like water & toilets
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person who stole his shit: "wtf kinda footage is this?! its of people and not bands! we can't use this! what a waste"
God that sucks. What an amazing doc that would have been.
That would of been a sick documentary
I bet turd fields has the greenest grass on bull island.
Probably covered in the greatest flowers.
I could be wrong but isn't human manure like, not that good?
@@kleydavis2824 it's still pretty good for plant growth lol
@@kleydavis2824 try it. go take some laxative and shart in your back yard. you'll see the grass so green in that one spot.
@@kleydavis2824 so you don’t wanna eat anything grown from human manure but for show plants it can promote super nice growth that said unless you don’t have a toilet it’s a bit of a strange practice
For that tow-truck driver, who had always hated hippies, it was the best weekend of his life.
@@sirjellybeans1st19 Are you okay?
@@sirjellybeans1st19 is this a fart joke ?
@@k1dofficial He's going through a second childhood, I guess.
@@Anthony-hu3rj Hey man don’t knock it . Potty humor is still funny and I am in my 60s but it has to be original. The Belgian Farting Pig was cute , original, and funny . Jokes about Uranus are even beyond cliche now .
That weekend put his kids through college :P
I went for one day. I was 21. Road up on my motorcycle. Nobody bothered it. It was pretty much as described. Saw an old man I knew and he was walking down the dirt road drinking whiskey out of a big bottle. Staggering was more like it. When he saw me he screamed “look at this bunch of freaks”. I thought then that he was the freakiest thing I had ever seen.
so you're like 60 years old?!
You ever thought of using a comma?
you know, when I think about Bull Island I don't worry about punctuation that much. But I used a comma here. did I do it correctly?
@@southwestxnorthwest
I liked this.
Damn. Only two people dead? That's crazy considering all this chaos.
I went to a festival once with just 3,000 people and there were car fires, a dude who was found drowned down-river, and a completely washout on the 3rd day where a bunch of cars needed towing out of the mud. And it was also the most chill time ever. These things can happen at any level of bringing city people together in the middle of nature.
I was thinking exactly the same thing! They got extremely lucky. Only 2 deaths!! Especially with all those bad drugs - people were snorting bleach and shooting heroin. Hardly any water to stay hydrated, just booze. And just a medical team of 18 for 250,000 people! I bet a lot of stuff went unreported.
Yeah hearing the story and seeing the picture I would of thought at least close to 10 maybe more or less. Just seemed like with all that was going on drugs, lack of food water, etc. But young people are a hardy lot! LOL!
@@7n154 That is for sure and there were some medical emergencies so if those people had not been cared for well who knows. So I am sure there were some jacked up people in many ways they just managed to survive it all. LOL maybe some shortened their lifespans due to the stress put on their bodies, but young people are pretty tough at times. Heck I think I was young and crazy once!
@@slagit Ha, true that. I heard once that God watches out for the young, the stupid and the drunks. Which sounds like most of the attendees of this festival. One time at Coachella, a friend of mine had his head nearly run over by a car. A car! But he was all 3 of those things so he survived.
Took about 7 hours for Fyre festival to degenerate into a free for all. These guys held up quite well.
Not really : there was nothing happening whatsoever there, so there wasn't much to f*ck up.
@@jas_bataille I'm not talking about physical destruction of property but the free for all that many attendees reported that was the selfish, inconsiderate behaviours of many of the people that went to Fyre festival where they pretty much turned on each other.
Fyre festival attracted a very different crowd
Fyre couldn’t have fallen apart, because it was never together.
At least some of the bands actually hit the stage at Bull Island...
I was there with 5 high school buddies. None of us bought poison laced drugs and we hauled a cooler full of pop and sandwiches. We did leave early Monday morning after the night of fires where the food trailers were burned down. Many groupd we came to see of course never appeared, but we had a blast. I have very fond memories of the festival and the trip there and back with my friends.
Was pooping a big problem? I’m a hiker so comfortable going outside, but not in front of a quarter million people. lol
Woodstock organizers: whew, we really did that by the seat of our pants, that got messy
Bull Island organizers: hold our Boone's
right on
😂🤣 Good one!
Woodstock '99 Organizers: Autistic screeching.
There was so much Boones Farm Wine because it was hauled in and sold by Hell's Angels on a school bus and you could not pass without buying one, $2.00.
Is that true?
@@MrJohnnyDistortion yes,I saw it with my own tired eyes.
@@19dfr54
The Hell's Angels were selling Boonsfarm wine?
If you remember at the time you could probably buy a bottle of Boone's farm for a dollar so Angels selling for two bucks really was not an altruistic project.
@@19dfr54
Not altruistic? But that's their mantra.
People that went to Woodstock from Maryland said it was awful. Anything that could go wrong did. Only after the movie and album did it all of a sudden become amazing. Like a artist that gains fame posthumously.
People died at woodstock
On the other hand I know folks who went to Woodstock in '69, got home 2 days later and immediately were raving about all the great bands they saw -- some like Ten Years After, Mountain, Santana, and CSN&Y together for first time, that were relatively unknown at that point. Is all POV I guess.
@@suekennedy1595 One or two only, I believe. One was a guy who was sleeping in a farm field and got run over by farm equipment before dawn, I believe. That is hardly a tale of debauchery and savagery. On the other side I think there were some births!
@@suekennedy1595 There was 1 (one) guy killed in an accident. On the other hand in any given town with a population of 400k or more people, there are deaths every day.
Even though they were largely unknown at the time, imagine leaving early and missing The Doobie Brothers and The Eagles
@Bad Guacamole why?
I had at least one maybe two Eagles albums by 73.
@@kingjohnny4314 Its a quote from the Big Lebowski, the Dude says it.
@@skullsaintdead oh ok
@@kingjohnny4314 ... because someone said that in a movie once and it "went viral" people fearing they won't be cool..."hate The Eagles" fucking idiot probably couldn't name three songs.
Standing 46000th in queue to the toilet... “man I hope the dude in front of me doesn’t skid the bowl”.
Changing the subject slightly here's an interesting fact
Did you know that if something probed Uranus it would be a high possibility of being a failure due to the pungent noxious gases that puff and emit from it but I'm sure your close friends told you that already
The best camping festivals I went to had simple "drop toilets". Deep hole dug prior, rudimentary frame on top with back-to-back cubicles and actual toilet seats on top of wooden boxes. The drops could be used for food scraps too. And at the end of the festival they took away the frames, washed them, and tipped the dirt back into the holes. Done and dusted. This is an idea from the 60's, and probably would have been at Bull Island, but the frames were left back at the speedway. Shame!
@@sirjellybeans1st19 Your mom told me
British
🤣😝🤭😆 Skid the bowl😝
That would've been one hell of a lineup had all those bands not canceled.
The doom and gloom of it all would have been worth it had Black Sabbath played.
One toilet for an entire sold out crowd at Wrigley Field. Sounds about right
Yeah but did you hear the part about the poo field? So... all good.
@@GlennDavey the same thing happened in Pemberton in the mid 2000's. I met the honey pot driver doing the Squamish Hosp. reno in 2009 just before the Olympics, and he told me of "the horror, the horror". The venue people not only didn't secure enough toilets they didn't allow for a ROAD for the three axle truck to get in/out of the venue. by the time he got to the toilets they were huge piles , literally. Someone didn't learn.
@@thedwightguy Had they adequate accelerant, they could have burned it the way it's done at forward military bases.
@@GlennDavey Oh the stench must of been epic and imagine if it was in the 90s to 100s in temp vomit inducing times in this mess!
I have been there.. not that bad, but a handful of toilets for thousands of people. It did not smell good haha
I metal detected a little portion of the site and found a bunch of cool stuff. Belt buckles (I guess pants were up and down) stainless syringes, pocket knives, coke spoons, a machete, a few nice pipes. Its like a 70s time capsule. I would love to do that at woodstock.
That's the first thing I thought about when it said the owner buried it all. Would be awesome to metal detect!
@@ZenZone_Soundscapes I only spent a day there. Loads of space left to detect. Im not sure about permission but no one bugged me. As mentioned in the documentary its not entirely easy to get to.
Very cool. I'm a detectorist as well.
How’d u get back there
I live walking distance to it on Indiana side
What was up with the whole "I'm gonna leave my car in the middle of the road and walk" thing during the 60s and 70s. Were cars that cheap? Did the kids who did it think they would get their cars back? I could never imagine just leaving my car in the middle of the street
Used cars were extremely cheap and easy to find, and they probably didn't think the state could possibly tow that many cars and I mean how did they anyways? Where did they put them all tow lots aren't very big lol, plus if it weren't for cashforclunkers and car buy backs it would be much easier to find old 70-80s cars that are cheap and still run good.
I bought my car in 1967 for $100 ... it ran great, always got me where I needed to be ... I would NEVER leave it in the road, so I don't get that either ... but it happened for sure, crazy
They knew that when they went back, car would be there
Different time when we could do that
Cars in the 70s were much different. They used inexpensive steel instead of aluminum, carbon fibre, and other pricey materials, and they were welded together instead of having a single one-piece unibody. There were no computers, no electronics, and used manual transmission. It meant they were cheap to make and easy to maintain... and any collision over 20mph would probably leave you deader than Old Dad's hatband, although the car itself would survive just fine. The "crumple zone" was your legs and spine.
That was fascinating. I'd never heard of that shit-show until now.
Me too. And a shit show it was, wow.
This makes Woodstock 99 look like a great time
I love opossums
I just learned there was a female hard rock band in the early 70's called "Birtha" and they were really intensely good. How did they get so erased from history that I'm just finding this out?
Glad i missed it!
I was there. I remember Albert King singing Kansas City a few times to fill the gap due to the no-show performers. Bi-polar is the best way I could describe the overall atmosphere of Bulls Island. Also, you didn't have to sneak in, the swarm of concert goers pretty much walked unabated past the people selling tickets.
I remember when we got there the gates were just going down so we just jumped over them and walked right in. Easy... Actually, we had a good time. Towards the end of it, it did get creepy with the announcements not to take the blue acid. I remember that over and over. People started to pull some rather nasty crap with drug selling of garbage! Then the tone all changed.
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Overall, it was a good time. There was an O.D. close to our tent. He looked pretty lifeless when they carried him off. Hope he survived.
I was 14 and lived 150 miles from this festival. I remember news coverage of it, but do not recall hearing about its catastrophic results. The angle of the news was that due to lack access from Illinois, police would be absent, therefore it was a drug supermarket. This really fills in my understanding of the event. Thanks for a great vid.
I was at the Bull Island festival. I hitched there from Chicago with two buddies. The conditions were terrible, but I was eighteen and had a great time. None of the big names played, but the bands that did play became big shortly after. They had Nazareth, Foghat, the Eagles, the Doobie Brothers, Rory Gallagher, Black Oak Arkansas, Amboy Dukes with Ted Nugent, and a group called Ramtan or something like that. They had a female guitarist who was great and the drummer was Mitch Mitchell from Hendrix. I stayed until Tuesday because it was easier to leave then. I also snuck in.
Ramatam, April Lawton
Ted Nugent a pdf file
Do you remember who was supposed to be singing for the Doors. Jim has been gone for well over a year at this point.
@@streamofconsciousness5826If I remember correctly, Sammy Hagar.
Sammy frontman for the Doors? 🤔🤣
Sure the concert didn't go off as planned. And as stated, there were obstacles. Maybe I'm a glass half full guy because I got by okay and jammed to some really good tunes.
For me it was an adventure of sorts too.
And yeah, I drank a fair amount of Boones Farm.
All the bad acid was as big a draw back as anything IMO. What a shame.
Nazareth was flat out smoking hot.
At 18 my, experience may have been different than others.
When I finally got home, I don't think I would have gone again knowing the outcome, but there were several reasons for that.
I never had seen such drug availability and drug use as I did for three days on that island, and haven't since.
If 275,000 of us were on that island then, I wonder how many are left now.
I'm closing with one of my favorite memories.
I'm almost sure it was Sunday night shortly after dark, the guy that was continually walking on the stage and warning of bad dope, came out and said that there was a film crew there from CBS News. He asked everybody with a lighter to light it and hold it in the air. I was right in front of bandstand to the left and turned around to see how many people would have a lighter in the air.
From that vantage point looking back and sort of up hill at the whole crowd, it was then that I realized how many of us there really were. I wish I had a pic of that. The CBS story was just that, a story.
After 49 years, those of you left, I wish a good life.
Thanks for sharing your story man. You seem great. Stay safe, hope youre well
Awesome!
That’s nothing... you should have been to my 8th birthday 🥳
oh, I was there, man. Back in the day. What a wild trip that was...
;-)
funk daddys throwback 2
I still have the scars.
If you can remember it, you weren't really there.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks I needed that 😆💜😆
9:49 "the crowd enjoyed some more wild wha-?" ohh SETS... probably the other thing too though, right?
I heard that too😂🤣
Hmm probably not. Sex didn't really become popular until the mid 1980's.
@@mattscott9678 what?
@@JL-dance I can't actually disprove this. That's when I was born. I have no evidence of anyone being born prior. Also I've never personally felt an earthquake so they don't exist. I HAVE SPOKEN!!!!!!!!
There was a 'festival' one year in my home county put on by some rich kids and a group of bikers . Somehow these dudes got Lonnie Mack , Bootsy and Catfish Collins and their band , and lots of other local kids and pick up bands to play at this party in the sticks a few miles from Cincinnati. Secret , yet word of mouth advertised like any rural party. It was an epic , acid and black molly fueled bash for one long saturday in 1979 . It went down as the mother of all field parties.
My mom and dad went to this! They had a great time. Both sides of the freeway got gridlocked going the same way lol. One guy was bashing his head into a car windshield cuz he'd snorted bleach(only bad story). Cheech and Chong woke everyone up at 6:00 am saying "get up mfers! It's time to party!".
It’s all in the state of mind.
What the hell did you snort to believe that story!?
"Snorting bleach" is an urban legend from waaaaaaaay back
No. It really happened more than once. Do you think that all drug dealers only deal in products that meet FDA approval?
The narrator in this video literally says “bleach sold as cocaine” at one point. Someone must have skipped that part.
@@CNYKnifeNerd big time woosh, for you. Lmao
“Turd fields”may be the funniest shit ever!
Danm 🤣
Fun fact: my dad was conceived on this festival
That's a fun fact for parties.
Does anybody know by whom?
@@Mentyr dude... that's so dark.
@@Mentyr pmsl
So was my aunt! Crazy times
I graduated in 1972 from Shelbyville IN. The draft was still on and I wasn't sure where I was heading. A buddy and I heard about the festival and headed down in my car. We never made it. About 4 miles or so from the area you couldn't drive any further so we parked along the side of the road. We had brought some hotdogs, a couple cases of beer and an ounce of pot. So while we were deciding how to haul all our crap the remaining walk, we hooked up with some chicks. The rest, as they say, was history. I KNOW I had a good time.
It doesn't matter where in America, where in the world this happened - it could happen anywhere, but it's the mirror image of an ultra-libertarian society, where everything fails for lack of authority, hierarchy, structure, organization. I found this very educational, thank you.
"a defeated army" shows all happy smiling waving kids
Yeah, but that was on the front end of the festival.
@@frogbones1968 it was a contemporary news report from the start of the festival
I'm aware.
This was recommended to me out of nowhere this week. Probably because I was watching the Wacken 2023 Livestream last weekend which suffered heavy rain and mud, being an outdoor metal festival. Luckily I can report that, despite massive set backs and having to close admission on the first day, the festival this was nevertheless was a success. So much so that on the final fay Wacken had made a short montage video thanking fans, the crew, the organizers and the bands for their participation and hard work and dedication to metal. I have no idea what compelled me to write this comment. Maybe I just needed to balance out the bad with the good if for nobody else but myself. 🤘
Same. Was watching a lot of festival gigs by some artists I like, some that I guess are examples for good or bad crowd handling.
In the late 80s, I worked with a guy who went to this, the only other time I ever heard about it. Thanks for posting this video with the story about it. I remembered his stories and they all make more sense after all these years. In fact, his stories are THE reason I never went to a music festival
aww, most festivals are good fun :) you should try it.
This aged like fine wine.
Somehow this event had fewer deaths than Astroworld 2021.
One of the funniest things I remember was going to a rock concert featuring the Cult and Metallica at their height in the 90's. It was in Brno, Czech Republic and the whole city was suddenly invaded by stringy haired leather jacket guys carrying beer. The ones who couldn't afford to go inside the stadium climbed up into balconies of nearby apartment buildings, while housewives in curlers and hair nets swatted at them with brooms! Several bands including the previous mentioned and Faith No More for TWELVE bucks!.
Crazy how ive never even heard of this festival! Love this channel
There was a riot at Erie, PA with Head East and Atlanta Rhythm Section show that got rained out. The electronics used to mix sound and lights in the audience was burned.
That's a wild ride! Anyone with a shovel and backbone could dig a few outhouses, though.
it's a good idea but eventually that just becomes a hole surrounded by shit
Music festival kids are pretty useless most of the time. I always dig my own secret hole ;)
Yeah, I always bring a shovel along when I go to music festivals.
I bet you would have had a shovel.
Also you'd have generously spent the weekend digging shitholes for all the needy assholes there.
@@Momusinterra hahahhahah
Oh dang dang, thanks for using one of our tunes again!! Great video as always!! #bandsplaining
I don't even want to imagine the devastation and the smell.
A friend of mine once took part in organising a small festival on a race track near my town and his peers had, to say the least, idealistic visions about it. It wasn't a total disaster, but he swore never again.
I’m from Evansville, this is funny that this just came up in my recommend.
Also at 2:43 they showed “Russel Lloyd”. That man was murdered by a strange, mentally disabled woman, she killed the mayor at his house and after she went to my grandparents house and watched a movie with them before getting caught.
Cuurraazzzy
what a good alibi your grandparents have
@@SoCalChunkybutt my aunt was at the house at the time. Everyone knows about it and the lady that killed him was well known to be a friend of the family well before she killed him, Julie Van Orden was the woman’s name, the family is still friends with some of her relatives. I myself no longer associate with them for a number of reasons if that says anything about the family, they are all known to be criminals, my grandfathers brother (my great uncle) made fake currency, was part of the mafia, and later went to prison for murder.
It is 100% true without a doubt. And it’s not that crazy knowing them.
@@KingRiverVlogs I believe you...have known a few folks like that growing up in the mid west myself
a slaughtered cow! did NOT expect that, best/worst festival moment ever
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Poor cow🤐
@@LightFromADeadStar exactly.
Yeah I've seen the cars and trailers set on fire, and food and alcohol raided.. but slaughtering a cow is like some kids on biker meth trying to do something they saw in a Western and getting distracted by needing to shit in Poo Field and then there's music on stage and I just honestly forgot about the cow...
That moment you realize they aren't exactly "full of steaks". There's a few steps in-between.
Excellent doc. I was at Woodstock and this is an amazingly well-done encapsulation of the era. Ah! Memories! Here’s to us.
It’s weird being from the Evansville and Warrick County area and not knowing anything about this music festival until now
Same
Cheech & Chong's set was cut very short. They only performed about 15 minutes then a downpour ended it, it rained hard. The 15 minutes they were on they basically made fun of the festival calling it a total disaster and laughing about it.
Black Oak Arkansas thought it would be cool to release Doves at the beginning of their set. Only problem was Doves won't fly at night, they stayed on stage with the band. One took up residence on Jim Dandy's head and stayed a while. He'd brush it away, but it kept coming back. However, BOA's performance was one of the better one's at the infamous, "Bull Island Soda Pop Festival."
I was social director and VP at East LA College, and three months before Ch & Ch first album came out in 71 their Agent wanted to book them as unknowns. Are you kidding me? We'd already had TWO riots , YOu want to start ANOTHER one? Fifty percent of our student body was Latino and a host of Vietnam Veterans. I ended up living just down the street from Chong in Vancouver, BC . If the Agent had mentioned Chong was Canadian and they had teamed up in Canada first I might have been tempted to book them . But Cheech was a draft dodger; TODAY that would be known infor. I would NOT have gone well at ELAC in those days.
Just like The Nuge, who pooped his pants for 3 days to get out of serving in Viet Nam and admitted it to High Times magazine. Years later he tried to back track that shit, but I tend to go with his original story. He never had to fight in any rice paddy.
BOA was a great live band!
I wish this was a recorded and viewable performance thank you for sharing this
Great story!!!
Came for The Faces. Stayed for the open sewer and social collapse.
Everyone looks so smiley and sparkly at the beginning of any festival. By the third day of a dodgy one though everything becomes about bodily functions, basic survival and serotonin maintenance.
@@rockradstone the small feces turned into just the feces
Came for The Faces, stayed for the faeces
I've came on a few faces
_"The promoters had promised four hundred outdoor privies. One medical volunteer said there were no more than six."_
That anecdote alone would enough to convince me that Bull Island was unironically haunted. That amount of human suffering and defilement surely left an imprint... x3
i really like that you're doing topics that aren't already well documented.
I had never heard of this music festival until now. I'm surprised that things didn't turn out worse!
Me too
Damn even a festival as chaotic as this has less casualties than Astroworld
I went to this festival and actually had a decent time. I took some strange pills from some weird dude on day 1. I woke up Tuesday morning and went home.
😂😂😂
Thanks for posting! As someone that grew up in Evansville, I've heard so many stories about Bull Island, but this is the most comprehensive video I've ever seen on it.
Princeton here, wat up local
GREAT video...totally new to the story of this festival and loved it immensely. i almost wish i had been there!
Never heard of this. Great job w/ the archival reports/footage. Thanks for posting!
That festival shows very well what hippies were indeed. They used to talk about saving the environment but would litter the whole island and burn so many things (causing more air pollution) just because they realized that their fantasy world wasn’t true
Exactly, then pillaging & stealing as well!! Not much peace & love🙄
Never trust a hippie
Great work. Never heard of this one before, but you created a detailed account of what went on...glad there wasn't any footage of turd fields!
Boones Farm Strawberry Hill Wine, my drink of choice in the 8th grade 71-72. They also had a Green Apple wine.
Many a day i downed a bottle of Boones Apple before school, cant believe i never got caught
Mine too, but for me it was high school. I graduated from that to quart bottle of beer and numerous joints.
@@haroldburrows4770 it was absolutely the worst drink ever.
Tickle Pink ; p
Exactly. Wasn't an eighth-grade weekend without boon farm involved. I didn't know wine could actually taste good until I was in my late twenties, but we thirteen-year-olds weren't drinking it for the taste
Lol that's the first time I've ever seen Boones Farm in a glass
I know right!?!? 😂
As a teenager I actually had a glass mug with a Boones Farm Strawberry Hill logo on it. Never had a chance to try the stuff. Sounds like a good thing I didn't!
When the crowd and venue are so classless every big act decides to cancel you've got one real shitshow on your hands.
As a musician, Boones was a big part. MD, Boones, Thunderbird, none of that hoity-toity Jack Daniels. Great vid!
Old English
Night Train
And Ripple.
Excellent video, really interesting discovery. I'd love a bad trip horror movie about that very event.
I swear, this is the best music history channel here.
I would suggest delving into more of these documentaries and opening up a patreon for us to contribute to your good work.
Your content is solid Rhodium.
The footage to this story is priceless Also i was born that weekend thankfully not there
I would add "rightfully" not there. But some people have cool moms...
@@GlennDavey Everyone knows only the cool moms hang out at Turd Field
@@howies5265 The fellers hang out there, the chicks pop a squat. Well who am I to tell anyone how to do their business? Anything goes in Turd Field ;)
@@howies5265 😁😁
I’ve been to some brutal music festivals, this by far has those beat and I salute the survivors......
Thank you - just forwarded to my son and his friends who just attended a sh*t show of a 3 day music festival in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia. I hope it helps them put things into perspective and speeds up getting over what they went through 😥
Was this Splendour in The Grass? I have friends who went to that this year but I haven't seen them yet to ask how it went. I hope your son and his friends are alright!
@@maddison1735 yes it was Splendour (in the Mud 😂). It was a pretty rough few days. Fortunately they stayed off site but had to wait 5 hours in the cold until 4am for busses that were supposed to leave every 10 minutes - the poor campers went through hell with flooded campsites. They are getting partial refunds for certain components of their tickets. It hasn’t put them off completely but the organisers definitely need to find a different location if it’s to go ahead in future.
Damn he's back 👍🏼
Yeah tihs is one of my new favorite channels. No nonsense good narration and production value.
That's quite amazing. I'd have considered myself a fairly knowledgeable music fan.... I've been collecting bootleg concerts since the 70's and have over 4k shows, plus a very large library of books, documentaries etc and the entire Bull Island festival has slipped from my memory bank assuming it was ever there to begin with. I'll have to go back over some of my festival related docos/books and see if I can find a mention of it anywhere. Thanks for a very interesting video.
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Anything on the Piper Rock festival may 1970 Ohio
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Got there on Wednesday. When the gates opened, we drove to the stage. They started digging a trench 100 yards out from stage. Had to move our car. So glad we made it. Got a case of burgers from the trailer. Wrote full experience on Wiki's Soda Pop page under comments.
I’ll never understand what attracts humans to these outdoor music festivals. It’s the thrill of surviving a near death experience only to wake up and realize it was just a dream. Now your riding a unicycle naked through a crowd at Burning Man.
I’m from the Evansville area and only learned about this in college. One of my uncle’s friends actually went to Bull Island and boy does he have some stories!
I remember when WLS advertised this festival. Around the same time, there was a festival in Iola, WI. Steppenwolf was one of the main acts. Quite a few of the attendees remained in Central Wisc after that festival and live in the Amherst-Iola area to this day.
The eugh from tasting the boones farm really tied the whole video together
I was at Woodstock and Altamont I would say Woodstocck was heavenlike Altamont nightmarish and about Bull Island ? Hard to say some seemed to have fun others not all that much but like the narrator said lots of people had fond memories so..... ;-)
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You should write a book or blog about your experiences. Many would love to hear them
My parents had a blast a Altamont. 99% of the people there had no idea what happened with the 81 until the next day.
How bad Altamont must have been, hahaha. Omg, the footage of Woodstock was just slush and the survivors looking fried by the end, like "Hendrix bro... it's 6am... I don't need to hear Star Spangled on electric guitar right now..."
@@GlennDavey music was life blood back then, not like today, live bands were on a different level of Fame, ppl knew that they were there for non stop party, and if ppl whining about it, they got pushed to the back or buried by music lovers who were into the vibes
I'm positive that I threw up more strawberry Boones Farm than I ever drank.
Surprised that MD 2020 wasn't mentioned.
Lids. lmaoo Cannabis is waay better now.
Aj obryant, I had a terrible memory with MD2020!
12:04 that dude has one of the serving tray's on his head hahahahahaa
Slightly changing the subject but here's an interesting fact
Did you know that they were going to Probe Uranus? Yes that's right
They were thinking of Probing deep into Uranus but the problem of noxious gases that puff and emit from it set them back
But I'm sure your close friends told you that already
That was a great find! Burger and fries basket
I'm a little proud. That's the kind of colossal shitshow only southwestern Indiana can pull off!
This sounds more like Andersonville or Point Lookout with a soundtrack .
Point Lookout has never seen that much action. LOL
@@BackSeatJunkie I wouldnt acknowledge the fact there was a Union POW camp there either .
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I've never wanted to attend any music festival. Why anyone would put themselves through this crap is beyond me.
How tf have I never heard about Bull Island before?! Thanks for a great video!
I live in central illinois, and boones farm is everywhere here. The blue one ain’t bad
Lol I grew up on Boones Farm and Old English
I'm a current Evansville resident, lived in Indiana for 25 years and Evansville for 7 of them. Had no idea when I clicked on this video it would be about my current home, it was an awesome surprise. When I get a chance going to see if I can hunt the site down and if nothing else take some pictures if any of it is still there. Word of advice: don't fucking swim in the Wabash lol even most of the locals won't touch the water without a boat.
I've read so much about rock music, how could I have never heard of this nightmare? It's depressing as it was to watch this, it was a well put together rockumentary.
I didn't find it depressing at all! I thought it was great! It helps make up for that I was only 10 then & didn't get to go. But I made it to Cal Music festival in 79 & US festival #2 in 83.
I can’t believe I never heard of this. Thanks!
Between the ticket scalping and the general greed involved, concerts have become a suckers entertainment event. Go to a restaurant and spend $100 and they'll treat you like royalty but spend a thousand dollars at a concert and they'll treat you like a delinquent child. $10 bottles of water anyone?
Interesting video here I hadn't heard of this.
Sorry, but if Albert King played there, it was one of the best music festivals of all time.
Indeed! Albert King was a hero of Hendrix!
Saw Albert a few times and he was always incredible ! Any visitor to Memphis and to Beale Street in those days could not miss him.
I love music festivals. I started in early ‘70s..those were some good times, camping in wooded property in a tent with music going all night. Nobody had any money and were seriously lacking in survival skills. The last one I attended was to celebrate 70th bday lots of RVs and camper vans, ATM machine, we could finally afford good beer, cook steaks. etc. Just as magical as it was 50 years ago.
Festival life is a good life 🌈❤
This is literally the plot to Waynes World 2
That's insane, they have Cheech & Chong Joe Cocker and John Mayall in the headline section, and the Doors and the Eagles down in the fine print!
Jim was gone by this time so no one cared about the Doors' new music which was pretty mediocre by now.
*And the Eagles were a newer band (on their own) at that point.
"It wasn't really Bob and Tom's Fault" that there weren't toilets? No, it was definitely their fault...
Well, they did have 400 toilets for the location they planned. When the city sued they didn't have time to relocate them. It is their fault they didn't just cancel the whole event though.
Just an FYI, but the pic you showed of Fleetwood Mac wasn't who was in the group in 1972. Both Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer were out of the group, and Bob Welch and Christine McVie had joined.
What? Fleetwood Mac is not a person!
I won't forget that rock fest. There we three if us. Don a Vietnam vet my cousin Rocky and myself . I'll never forget just how naive I was. Probably like the majority of hippies we were expecting good music peace & love. After ingesting our own hallucinogenic's and the corn cob pipe with a bag of herbs. We were ready for one big "love in" in stead we were in for the schooling of a life time. This was unlike anything we had ever experienced . In retrospect Indiana would have followed through was the original locations. I suspect a totally different outcome. In the midst of the Mayhem we connected with like-minded folks.. the times were a changin I have no regrets of going in the words of Ram Dass it was Grist for the mill
Peace and love to all who attended the ice cream social at Bull Island.
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Hey bodiji, your reference to Baba Ram Dass cracked me up --- indeed it was a "Be Here Now" moment --- on the negative, learn-a-lesson side :)
The moment we’ve al been waiting for! Your channel is awesome thank you 👍
Was Bull Island The Worst Music Festival of All Time?
Fyre Festival: Hold my Boone's farm wine
Fyre doesnt count... they cancelled it before it happened. That is why Fyre doesn't make any of these lists. that is a cancel (prevented) disaster of a shitshow festival!
Fyre didnt even happen it just got canceled
@@punxlixx right? I feel like people put that dumpster fire in the same category as festivals that went on and were a shit show all weekend.
Had it happened though.... it would have been the worst festival of all time I assume. They had no acts hahah. No security. No food they promised. No villas they promised. None of the activities.
Lol it would have just been people sitting around for 3 days complaining and documenting how bad it was and how much they were ripped off and lied to
@@Lhansmeyer33 i mean as soon as i read the location was on a random island in the Bahamas i knew it was going to be bad
@@punxlixx are a festivaler??? Cause everyone I have ever talked to that has ever been to festivals was like "How did anyone ever think this was going to happen?"
What's more funny is all the people who spit the "Rich kids paid a bunch of money and got ripped off " line. Anyone who knows anything about festivals or even about traveling knows that $2,500 for a private jet to a music festival, with food (5 star catered food too lol) and lodging in glamping tent ($5k for a villa!) would be a steal!!! That's why they sold out so fast! Even with all the ticket sales, that is why they still didn't have money to do half the shit they promised! They would have had to quadruple the prices to make it work... maybe more! They then gave 10% of their tickets away for free to all the "influencers" and offered them FREE villas!!! Also they paid $2.5 million to advertisers.
Bringing stages and setting all that up on a damn island? Hahah. It is literally a logistics nightmare and to make it worse they gave themselves a few months to plan it.
I was like you.... the minute I looked into the prices, location and what they were promising....I said no way it happens. That is why I enjoyed watching it all unfold. I knew it was way too good to be true.
Likely the only time someone said “lord of the flies conditions” and it was actually an accurate description
The festivals you don't hear about were the countless regional festivals. As a teen, I attended countless of these, every one of which was a muddy, miserable mess. And yet, for some reason, I still went. Shudder.
The fyre festival is pretty high up on that list
No one died in it, though.
Didn't have anything but tents and sandwiches.
I’m from Posey County. A LOT of locals went. On paper, it's easy to judge and call it the worst but those that were there beg to differ. It did feel like woodstock to them.
>he's never had boones farm
did you fast forward though being a teenager?