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Eugene Pop Festival (1969)

Categories: 1960s, Eugene, Festival

FAME Expo 69′ presents Eugene Pop Festival

Eugene Pop Festival 1969 at Hayward Field, UO

F.A.M.E. stood for Film, Art, & Music in Eugene.

Location: University of Oregon Hayward Field, 1585 East 13th Ave.

Date: July 26,  1969

Cost: $5

Attendance: 5,000

Unfortunately, the event does not go as planned and several scheduled acts,  including The Byrds and The Youngbloods, do not perform.

Bands that did perform: The Doors, Them, Alice Eugene Pop FestivalCooper, Rockin’ Foo, J Geils Band, Peter, River, Truth, The Bumps, and Zu

The Doors arrived only minutes before taking the stage and played an extended set (70 minutes instead of 45 minutes) to make up for the missing bands.

Eugene Register-Guard article: Rock Concert ends FAME (7/26/1969)

Great link that includes the line-up, Eugene Register Guard article, poster, etc. 

Tagged With: UO

Comments

  1. chip duyck says

    April 24, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    I was at this gig and Alice Cooper blew the door off the stage

  2. Steven A. Turner says

    April 30, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    The promoters lost money on this one. They were expecting 20,000 people and had guaranteed their headline act, The Doors a minimum of $12,500/50%
    Alice Copper only got $350, the other two main headliners the Youngbloods and The Byrds, were no shows which saved the promoters a total of $4,000.
    The other performers either got scale, or $350 apiece.

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