Grace Slick Fine Art Print
To satiate the Southerners who couldn't make the trip to Woodstock the summer before, Atlanta promoter Alex Cooley hosted a festival on a raceway and adjoining pecan grove in the tiny central Georgia town of Byron. For this, the second annual event, up to 500,000 people swarmed in for the Atlanta International Pop Festival.
Like Woodstock, the holiday weekend was promoted as "three days of peace, love and music", and a parade of the best in rock and blues hit the stage. The Allman Brothers headlined the Friday show with a 'Mountain Jam' clocking in at almost 28 minutes. Jimi Hendrix would play his 'Star-Spangled Banner' right at midnight on the Fourth setting off explosions above the stage and Richie Havens played 'Here Comes the Sun' as the sun rose Sunday morning.
The event provided Southerners with their last - and perhaps only - glimpse of Hendrix before his drug overdose in London two months later and gave the town of Byron something they still talk about almost 40 years later.
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The majority of our photography is custom produced to ensure the finest quality. Please allow 4-7 days for processing before your photo will ship. Vintage images were produced using a wide range of cameras. The size listed is the size of the paper used to produce the print. In some cases, there will be a white border surrounding the image.
Joe Sia was a shooting star, a genuine, hands-down, everyone-agrees-on-this star at shooting [photographs], and his departure from this planet in 2003 at the tender age of 57 was too soon for a man of his talent. Born in the Bronx and a committed Yankees man, Joe loved music and gravitated around the Fillmore East and the flower-power youth-culture rock scene from whence he set out to capture some of the most incredible sounds of the last half-century. How could Joe capture sounds on camera film? He did it by focusing on the faces of the performers and the woozing-oozing crowd and by giving the background, whether simple or wild, the importance it deserved in defining the artist and event. Sia's entire archive consists more than a quarter of a million photographs that document almost 35 years of music genre and giants.