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The three-day long Second Atlanta Pop Festival begins at Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia, USA, featuring The Allman Brothers Band, Captain Beefheart, John Sebastian, Mountain, Procol Harum and Johnny Winter. The event will prompt Georgia Governor Lester Maddox to seek legislation banning rock festivals in the state.
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Leslie West (guitarist, Mountain) : I played at the Atlanta Pop Festival, as did Jimi. I think it actually had better acts than Woodstock. It must have been 120 degrees outside.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January 2015)
Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) : That was the first time I'd seen the Allman Brothers. They were playing a type of music that I wasn't really all that familiar with, not really. The psychedelics and people like Dr. John and people like that. Because of course you were still getting pop artists on those things as well, people that had been around for a while, like The Turtles.
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(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January 2015)
Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) : That was the first time I'd seen the Allman Brothers. They were playing a type of music that I wasn't really all that familiar with, not really. The psychedelics and people like Dr. John and people like that. Because of course you were still getting pop artists on those things as well, people that had been around for a while, like The Turtles.
(Source : not known)