Here in Sedalia Mo July 19-21 1974 there was the Ozark Music Festival estimated to have been the second largest musical festival in America behind Woodstock with an estimated 350,000 people attending. I don't doubt that estimate at all. Same issues as to food and water. Didn't have the mud and rain but the temp was well over 100 each day. Some attendees never left and made their lives here. They should have made it an annual event...
I would have like to have seen them work on 80 meters. Being from NY, I really wanted to get that contact but it wasn't happening on 20/40. Shame.
There was just too much noise on 75/80 to hear anything. The thunderstorms brewing over the east coast were putting static on every band in the Catskill Mountains so anything was a gift!
I guess you're right on that one. Even 40 was noisy this weekend. I wish they could extend the operation for one more weekend.
I got to the state fairgrounds on Wed. morning, 2 days before the concert, and got one of the few parking spaces left in the fairground parking lot. By the time Sun. morning came around, the National Guard was providing gasoline and water to people leaving. By Sat. night, there was no gas.ice, or beer for 100 miles around. Probably saw every Southern Rock band in existence at the time. Wolfman Jack was driven off-stage by a barrage of beer bottles, and Lynerd Skynerd was the headliner. 300 to 400 thousand southern "freaks" in a town barely over 20,000 population made for quite a "scene".
A bit late Mike, the SES operated last weekend in conjunction with the actual 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Sorry you missed it.