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,”...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal • Monday, July 28, 1969 Deputy Dist. Atty. Allen L. Samson decided not to bring charges against six young people believed to have taken hallucinogenic drugs, but he sternly lectured four of them. The six were treated at...