THE ERIE CANAL AND SODA POP MUSIC FESTIVAL 1972 50th ANNIVERSARY

Grab your sleeping bag, canteen full of water, backpack full of snacks, a blanket and join Rod Eclectic Rod is bringing the Boone's Farm, tent, toilet paper and the tunes. Don't worry about tickets this is 1972 and capitalism and music are just dating and haven't gotten serious yet.

The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival was a rock festival held on the Labor Day weekend of 1972 near Griffin, Indiana on Bull Island. A crowd estimated at 200,000 to 300,000 attended the concert, four times what the promoters estimated. Food and water were in short supply, and the gathering descended into relative chaos. After the show was finished, remnants of the crowd burned the main stage.  

It was a glorious disaster.  

Virtual DJ Rod Eclectic the host of the Late Late Freak-Out! Radio Show with a playlist dedicated to bands that were scheduled to appear at the festival (some actually did) to celebrate the 50th anniversary featuring music from the records the bands were likely out promoting in 1972.

 

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More music from the festival