Rhino Historic Tours: Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin & Ten Years After at the Bath Festival of Blues

48 years ago today, the Bath Festival of Blues took place in – wait for it – Bath, England, and the lineup was one that would make any music fan’s mouth water even in 2017.

The brainchild of concert promoter Freddy Bannister and his wife Wendy, the Bath Festival of Blues took place at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground on a Saturday, and the buzz was big for the concert, with all 30,000 of its tickets selling out in the first week they were made available.

Dig, if you will, the line-up:

• John Mayall
• Fleetwood Mac
• Led Zeppelin
• Ten Years After
• The Nice
• Chicken Shack
• John Hiseman’s Colosseum (and, yes, that’s spelled correctly)
• Mick Abraham’s Blodwyn Pig
• Keef Hartley
• Group Therapy
• Liverpool Scene
• Taste
• Savoy Brown’s Blues Band
• Champion Jack Dupre
• Clouds
• Babylon
• Principal Edward’s Magic Theater
• Deep Blues Band
• Just Before Dawn

Oh, yes, and the resident DJ was none other than the legendary John Peel.

When one considers the number of acts and the number of attendees, it was a remarkably well-organized and – more importantly – successful event