| Subject: Re: Stevens Point, Wisconsin (?) Rock festival 1970 |
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CJ Fandel
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Date Posted: 23:45:58 05/22/09 Fri
In reply to:
Toby
's message, "Re: Stevens Point, Wisconsin (?) Rock festival 1970" on 10:47:12 04/08/07 Sun
>>In addition to the bands that have been listed I know
>>The Fuse (evolved into Cheap Trick) from Rockford, IL.
>>played on Saturday afternoon. They played around the
>>time that Crow played. I also think they were playing
>>around the same time that the war started. Does
>>anybody remember..
>>
>>a. The biker vs hippie war.
>>b. The bloodsuckers in the ponds.
>>c. The real name of the festival. For some reason The
>>Black River Falls Rock Festival rings a bell.
>>d. The location. Someone on the Poynette, WI. site
>>(April 70) has that one at Iola, WI. He possibly could
>>be referring to this festival as Iola is near there.
>>They have a great car show there every year now.
>
>I was there and I do remember the biker vs hippie war.
>I was looking for info on the incident and came across
>your post. As I remember it the bikers were in a barn
>and were raping women. A guy who's girl friend had
>been abducted by the bikers (outlaws I believe)tried
>to rescue her and was murdered with an axe. Some of
>the drug dealers had guns and there was a kind of a
>gun battle. I remember waking up to the rumbling of
>people running away from the gun fire and hearing what
>I thought were fireworks going off. I also herd one or
>two of the bikers were killed. Does anyone else
>remember the incident.
Yes. My name is CJ, and I was from Mason City, iOWA. iN FACT, I was camped next to some people, one being a really, really nice girl. Very cute. As I remember, I had left for the night, into the crowd for the concert, and upon returning to camp, our neighbors were distraught that the girl had been abducted by bikers. They were looking frantcly for her. I draw a blank here, but remember that the following morning there was a great commotion. We were leaving, the girl we were told had been raped by "bikers", maybe "Outlaws", and as we left, I saw people chasing several bikers out of the gounds. A friend of mine, also there, told me later that a guy had been axed, and bikers also had been injured by someone with a pitch-fork.
Aside from that, this is the first time in maybe 25 years that I have thought of that concert. Aside from the really sweet girl having been attacked, I had a ball there. I had forgotten all about Crow, and now remember that I just loved them. I think the Amboy Dukes werethere, too? Thanks for the memories.
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