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The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30 to September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock . The site for the event was an open field just south and west of the newly opened Dallas International Motor Speedway , located on the east side of Interstate Highway ...
12 July – Summer Pop Festival; 21 July – Schaefer Music Festival – headliners at New York City's Wollman Rink, along with B.B. King; 25 July – Midwest Rock Festival; 27 July – Seattle Pop Festival – the infamous shark episode is alleged to have taken place at this time; 30 August – Singer Bowl Music Festival; 31 August – Texas ...
Led Zeppelin also performed at several music festivals over the years, including the Atlanta International and the Texas International Pop Festivals in 1969, the Bath Festival of Blues in 1969 and the next one in 1970, the "Days on the Green" in Oakland, California in 1977, and the Knebworth Music Festival in 1979.
Don't Mess With Texas: Texas International Pop Festival, Dallas, August 31, 1969 Soundboard recording. We're Gonna Groove/Feel All Right: Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, March 7, 1970 The Feel All Right version was released in 1984 by Audio Recording Corporation under the incorrect title of Live in Montreux 1971. Mudslide
Led Zeppelin's 1968/1969 tour of North America was the first concert tour of the United States and Canada by the English rock band. The tour commenced on 26 December 1968 and concluded on 16 February 1969.
The Seattle Pop's line-up was a mix of established acts, native groups from the Pacific Northwest. Twenty-six musicians and groups performed at the festival. The Doors, Chuck Berry, The Byrds and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue were among the most highly-anticipated acts, but newcomers Led Zeppelin emerged as the highlight.
The Texas ax-slinger is one of the great what-ifs in guitar hero history. He died far too soon at the age of 35 in a plane crash but his impact even before that is an honor roll of accomplishments.
Their 1969 debut, Led Zeppelin, was a top-ten album in several countries and features such tracks as "Good Times Bad Times", "Dazed and Confused" and "Communication Breakdown". Led Zeppelin II (1969), their first number-one album, includes "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ramble On". In 1970, they released Led Zeppelin III which opens with "Immigrant Song".