2. BRITISH ROCK MEETING GERMANY 1972 TICKET EXCEPTIONAL RARE VINTAGE + IMAGES for Sale

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2. BRITISH ROCK MEETING GERMANY 1972 TICKET EXCEPTIONAL RARE VINTAGE + IMAGES For Sale

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2. BRITISH ROCK MEETING GERMANY 1972 TICKET EXCEPTIONAL RARE VINTAGE + IMAGES:
$119.11

2.BRITISH ROCKMEETING TICKET 1972 GERMANY VIRTUALLY MINT NOW 54 YEARS VINTAGE MY OWN FROMBACK IN THE DAY + ALSO INCLUDED4 ACCOMPANYING IMAGES TO FRAME WITH THIS EXCEPTIONALLY SOUGHT AFTER & VERY RARE VINTAGE TICKET, NAMELY ONE “PINK FLOYD” PROMO IMAGE SHOT PROMOTING THEIREXPECTED APPEARANCE AT THAT GIG, + TWO RORY GALLAGHER IMAGES, ONE ACTUALLY ONSTAGE AT THAT EVENT AND ONE THEM SHOTBACK STAGE AT THAT EVENT, & ALSO INCLUDED A 70S IMAGE OF “WISHBONE ASH” ONEOF THE MANY ROCK BANDS I PROMOTED IN THE SOUTH OF THE UK BACK IN THE 60`S AND70`S +;

THE 1972 SECONDBRITISH ROCK MEETING WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE ON FRIESENHEIMER ISLAND IN MANNHEIM,GERMANY, HOWEVER, THE MANNHEIM CITY COUNCIL OPPOSED IT AND MAMA CONCERTS HAD TOCHANGE THE VENUE. MAMA CONCERTS FIRST TRIED TO RELOCATE THE FESTIVAL TO KORSIKAAND THEN TO THE RACETRACK IN HOCKENHEIM BUT STRONG REACTION FROM THE CITYCOUNCILS MADE THESE SITES UNACCEPTABLE. SO, IT WASN’T JUST UPTIGHT SMALL-TOWNCOUNCILS IN THE USA THAT DIDN’T LIKE THE IDEA OF FESTIVALS. THE MAN WAS ALIVEAND WELL IN GERMANY TOO. AFTER MUCH SEARCHING, THE CONCERT PROMOTERS WERE FINALLY ABLE TORELOCATE THE FESTIVAL TO INSEL GRÜN (GREEN ISLAND) IN GERMERSHEIM. EVEN THEN, ITLOOKED LIKE THE FESTIVAL WOULD NOT HAPPEN AS GERMERSHEIM CITY OFFICIALS BEGANHAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT ALLOWING A LARGE FESTIVAL TO BE HELD THERE ANDISSUED A POLICE ORDER AGAINST THE FESTIVAL THE DAY PRIOR TO ITS START. BUT ASOFTEN HAPPENED CITY OFFICIALS RELENTED HOWEVER AFTER ELEVENTH HOUR TALKS WITHTHE FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS, THE MAYOR OF GERMERSHEIM, AND A TOP RHEINLAND PFALZSTATE OFFICIAL.AS A RESULT, OVER 70,000 PEOPLE ATTENDED THIS 4-DAY FESTIVAL AND 35BANDS PERFORMED. AND AN AMAZING LINE-UP IT WAS TOO. THE CREAM OF UK ROCK ANDSOME INTERESTING AMERICAN BANDS TOO.

IT DID TURN INTO A BIT OF A HEAVY SCENETHOUGH. FOR THE PERFORMERS THE FACILITIES WERE LIMITED. NO DRESSING ROOMS ORNOR A TOILETS, CARAVANS ONLY FOR PROMINENT GROUPS LIKE PINK FLOYD AND THE THENPOPULAR UNDERGROUND BAND, BEGGAR'S OPERA.
THE TWO-PART STAGE WAS SET UP BY ENGLISH STAGE MANAGERS AND SOUND ENGINEERS.STEWARDS WERE ARMED WITH IRON CHAINS, FIXED KNIVES, STEEL PIPES AND KNUCKLEDUSTERS, AND THEY CAUSED SEVERAL BLOODY INCIDENTS. THE MEADOW AREA ON WHICHSOME OF THE VISITORS CAMPED - ALSO DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE STAGE (WEIRD IDEA)- WAS BOGGY. THE TENTS NEAR THE STAGE HINDERED VISITORS AND HAD A NEGATIVEEFFECT ON THE ACOUSTICS. EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AREA, THE MUSIC WASDIFFICULT TO HEAR. THE TOILET TRUCKS WERE OPPOSITE THE STAGE AT THE OTHER ENDOF THE SQUARE, WHERE THE WATER POINTS WERE ALSO LOCATED.
MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE HAD TO BE HOSPITALIZED FOR DRUG PROBLEMS, ANDANOTHER 1200 RECEIVED OUTPATIENT TREATMENT, OFTEN FOR FOOT INJURIES FROM BROKENGLASS.
THESE GERMANGIGS WERE A HUGE PART OF THE SCENE FOR BRITISH BANDS OF THE EARLY 70S BECAUSETHEY OFFERED THEM EXPOSURE TO A HUGE AUDIENCE AND GERMANY WAS TO BE ANIMPORTANT MARKET FOR SO MANY BANDS. IF YOU LOOK AT TOUR SHEETS, MANY BANDSPLAYED A LOT OF SHOWS THERE THROUGHOUT THE DECADEAND IT WAS FESTIVALSLIKE THIS THAT WERE THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THEIR SUPPORT.

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2. BRITISH ROCK MEETING GERMANY 1972 TICKET EXCEPTIONAL RARE VINTAGE + IMAGES For Sale

2. BRITISH ROCK MEETING GERMANY 1972 TICKET EXCEPTIONAL RARE VINTAGE + IMAGES: $119.11

2. BRITISH ROCK MEETING GERMANY 1972 TICKET EXCEPTIONAL RARE VINTAGE + IMAGES:
$119.11