Meeting Jimmy Page in West Allis

Originally published on OnMilwaukee.com by Bobby Tanzilo • Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 This morning I spent some time with Bruce Cole, who created and maintains and grows the Jean Cuje Milwaukee Music Collection at Marquette University. Bruce has been in loads of bands...

We Don’t Want You

Originally published in Kaleidoscope, Volume 2, Number 18 (43), 1969 by Dennis Gall • Friday, August 8, 1969 You’ve probably all heard the joke about the Polish version of Paul Revere who rides down Mitchell Street on a garbage truck yelling, “the niggers are coming,”...

The Major “Underground” Social Event of the Season

Originally published in Kaleidoscope, Volume 2, Number 18 (43), 1969 by John Kois • Friday, August 8, 1969 The major “underground” social event of the season, the Midwest Rock Festival, is now nothing more than a hotly-debated memory. For those who might have missed...

Midwest Rock Festival

Originally published in The Minneapolis Flag • Wednesday, August 6, 1969 • Featured on LedZeppelin.com. Milwaukee hosted 10,000 heads early Friday, July 25. State Fair Park was the temporary home for the many blues-rock seekers with the whole scene aptly titled The...

Rock Fans Feel Beat of History

Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal by Pierre-Rene Noth • Monday, July 28, 1969 The grandstand at state fair park was strangely quiet Monday. The first Midwest Rock festival — three days of the loudest and perhaps best sound Milwaukee has heard — was over....

Rock Party a ‘Pigsty,’ Legislator Charges

Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal • Monday, July 28, 1969 Declaring that they three day Midwest Rock festival “would have made Haight-Ashbury blush,” Assemblyman Robert T. Huber (D-West Allis) said Monday he would present complaints from his constituents...