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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFilm looks back at 1974 Sedalia rock festival, a party of hot music that was a hot mess
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article27672037.htmlThe Ozark Music Festival of 1974 was three days of drugs, sex and rock n roll in a land of jam judging, tractor pulls and 4-H lambs. The Woodstock generation throwing a final blowout in a small Missouri town.
It was the last of the uncontrolled rock festivals and something Sedalia didnt want to talk about for years, Lujin said....
Instead, a crowd estimated at 150,000 to a quarter million people from all over the country flooded into a town of 23,000. Most of them stormed the gates. The main craft turned out to be joint rolling. Hundreds overdosed on harder drugs, and one person died. Business owners boarded up stores. The governor mobilized the National Guard.
Aerosmith, Bob Seger, the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon stirred up a storm that Sedalia and the state of Missouri could hardly ride out.
It was the last of the uncontrolled rock festivals and something Sedalia didnt want to talk about for years, Lujin said....
Instead, a crowd estimated at 150,000 to a quarter million people from all over the country flooded into a town of 23,000. Most of them stormed the gates. The main craft turned out to be joint rolling. Hundreds overdosed on harder drugs, and one person died. Business owners boarded up stores. The governor mobilized the National Guard.
Aerosmith, Bob Seger, the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon stirred up a storm that Sedalia and the state of Missouri could hardly ride out.
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Film looks back at 1974 Sedalia rock festival, a party of hot music that was a hot mess (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jul 2015
OP
"“I never saw so many naked people,” Bell said through teeth still clenched after 41 years."
cyberswede
Jul 2015
#3
Gee Aeorosmith alone probably doubled the amount of heroin in Missouri at the time
CBGLuthier
Jul 2015
#4
evlbstrd
(11,205 posts)1. I almost forgot about that.
I was there. Wasn't I? Yeah...
malthaussen
(17,219 posts)2. Ted Nugent, eh?
I dunno, that lineup is kind of underwhelming to me even without the pedophile.
-- Mal
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)3. "“I never saw so many naked people,” Bell said through teeth still clenched after 41 years."
Naked people!!!11
(but seriously, there's something to be said for proper planning and knowing your audience)
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)4. Gee Aeorosmith alone probably doubled the amount of heroin in Missouri at the time
just as surely as Ted Nugent tripled the asshole quotient and REO quadrupled the ego trip.
Sounds like a documentary worth watching.