Who can remember the day when Jimi Hendrix came to Spalding to play in what was said to be the the worlds first ever rock festival ? Amazing as this might sound, this actually happened on Monday 29th May 1967 as the crowds gathered at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall. Other bands playing on the day were Cream, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Pink Floyd, Move, Zoot Money and his Big Roll Band as well as local band Sound Force Five.
The whole idea for the Spalding Rock Festival came in 1966 when local promoter Brian Thompson decided to book The Move and Geno Washington, both of whom were pretty big names at the time, for a gig the following year. When he was talking to the management company in London to secure the bookings he was persuaded to take on three other acts who, whilst they were not well known at the time, were expected to go on to big things. They were Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Cream.
The festival was held in the now demolished local Bulb Auction Hall, presumably the only local venue large enough to host a sizeable concert of this nature and the tickets were priced at a fairly reasonable one pound each. In addition to the stellar line-up he had already secured Brian Thompson also booked the Sounds Force Five, a fairly popular local band, just to make sure there was a reasonable turn-out. Little did he know.
Estimates vary but the general consensus is that tens of thousands of mainly ticketless people descended on the town that Bank Holiday Monday and the concert has gone down in legend, not only for the acts that performed, but also for the poor organisation and the fact that absolutely nobody expected anywhere near the kind of numbers that arrived.
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