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Essener Pop & Blues retrospective on Rockpalast

Essener Pop & Blues '69 flyer

German TV show Rockpalast will be showing on March 28 a 4 hour retrospective on the Essener Pop & Blues Festivals held in 1969 and 1970. The broadcast is touted to include excerpts from the shows, contemporary TV reports, and concert specials. Footage of Deep Purple performing in 1969 is known to exist, so fingers crossed.

It’s curious to see that in 1969 the band was yet to be considered a top of the bill performer and its profile is not even featured in the festival programme (unlike Muddy Waters, Nice, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd), ony an EMI advert for (then most recent) Book of Taliesyn. This would change shortly.

What: Essener Pop- und Blues-Festival 1969 & 1970
When: March 28, 00:45 – 04:45
Where: WDR Fernsehen

Thanks to Joerg for the info.

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Posted by Nick on Saturday, February 27th, 2016, filed under News. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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10 Comments to “Essener Pop & Blues retrospective on Rockpalast”:

  1. 1
    henrik says:

    Isn’t the footage already circulating? Horrible camerawork, zooming in and out very rapidly in tune w/ a psychedelic vibe, I guess.

    February 27th, 2016 at 18:11
  2. 2
    purpledaniel says:

    But extended footage of Deep Purple from this show appeared a while ago on Youtube…do you expect more?

    February 27th, 2016 at 18:20
  3. 3
    Felix Gauloises says:

    Deep purple and Pink floyd

    February 27th, 2016 at 18:21
  4. 4
    Sven Montana says:

    https://youtu.be/F1hzccOG9Ng

    February 28th, 2016 at 01:01
  5. 5
    Sven Montana says:

    https://youtu.be/Dy7OgeVmJnY

    February 28th, 2016 at 01:01
  6. 6
    Sterling says:

    Can’t complain about being billed under Floyd and The Nice in 1969. And you get Tangerine Dream. Quite the bill.

    March 1st, 2016 at 23:57
  7. 7
    Elprupdeep says:

    You right Felix…
    DP and Pink. What a dream…

    Le rêve….

    March 3rd, 2016 at 09:24
  8. 8
    Tommy H. says:

    I really love the early Mark II shows – they never improvised to such an inspirational degree ever again.

    March 3rd, 2016 at 13:20
  9. 9
    Loonie22 says:

    Last year we had the release of a boot DVD called “Pop and Blues Festival 1969” (no label) containing performances from Deep Purple plus Taste, The Nice, Keef Hartley Blues Band, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and Pink Floyd. It is a silver pressed prot-shot B&W DVD and its duration is 86 minutes. From Deep Purple we have “Wring That Neck” and “Mandrake Root” (parts 1&2); I don’t think there’s more to appear…

    March 4th, 2016 at 11:56
  10. 10
    Joerg Treftz says:

    Wring the neck, cameraman was in love into the drummer(((

    March 8th, 2016 at 10:08

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