VA - Stamping Ground - Holland Pop Festival jun 26, 27, 28 - 1970 [2003]

In America the golden season for music festivals ended up in late '69 with the Altamont's accidents, a few months after Woodstock. In the early seventies in Europe there was still space for some "good vibrations", as proved by the Kralingen Pop festival, near Rotterdam, on June 1970. The event, documented by the movie Stamping Ground, is often remembered as the European Woodstock, because of the presence of many artists that had already played on that historical three-days concert, like Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Country Joe. But the Kralingen festival also showed how vital was the British scene on that period, offering great perfomances by bands like Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, East Of Eden, Caravan, Fairport Convention, Family, T. Rex…

The festival Stamping Ground was also called the "Dutch Woodstock". An event that had place in Roterdan in 1970, with the presence of 350 thousand persons. The alternative culture movement of Europe demonstrated to be strong and growing. In this documental-concert, some of the major names of rock of the 70's performs in the best way. An excelent mixture of progressive rock, folk, blues and psicodelia.

The video is a very tasteful registration of a festival with lots of great bands and a crowd that looked so happy: many hippies with water pipes, hasj and coloured cloths, people who jumped naked into the water, made love or went asleep because of the drugs and accohol, wonderful and legendary scenes. You also see images from The Netherlands: flat and green landscapes with windmills and Amsterdam with their typical houses, canals and bridges (young tourist Brian Aydair will show you his pictures from that!).

CONTENT: Al Stewart: Zero she Flies / Dr. John & Night Tripper: Mardi Gras Day / Family: Drowned in wine / Marc Bolan & T Rex: Pavillions of Sun / Canned Heat: Human Condition - Sa sad / Jefferson Airplane: White rabbit - Saturday afternoon - Ballad of you and me & Pooneil / Flock: Big bird / It's a beautiful day: Open up your hearts - Wasted union Blues / Country Joe: Freedom is a constant - Struggle / Byrds: Old blue / Santana: Savor - Jingo - Gumbo / Pink Floyd: Set the controls for the heart of the Sun - A saucerful of secrets.