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History

A rather thorough history of the Cincinnati Pop Music Festival that spawned the Midsummer Rock TV show is available on the Cincinnati City Beat website. The festival took place and was filmed on June 13, 1970 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, the home of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team since 1912. The Reds only had a couple more games to play there before moving to Riverfront Stadium downtown that summer. It was broadcast nationally in August of that year but edited down to 90 minutes, including commercials with 5 five acts being The Stooges, Alice Cooper, Traffic, Mountain, and Grand Funk Railroad. It was never rebroadcast. The video features now legendary performances by the Stooges, including stage diving and the peanut butter incident by Iggy, and a psychedelic-era Alice Cooper, where Alice received a cream pie in the face while he was attempting to hypnotize the audience. Poor quality videos of a couple of the acts have been available for years on youtube.com, specifically the Stooges, Alice Cooper and Mountain. It was produced through the facilities of WLWT-TV, which was owned by Avco-Embassy group. In most cities broadcasting it, including Cincinnati, the audio was simulcast in stereo by FM stations.

Festival line-up

*Mighty Quick *

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References

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* 1970 television films 1970 documentary films 1970 films American musical documentary films Films shot in Ohio Rockumentaries Concert films Music of Cincinnati Films set in Cincinnati 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language documentary films {{music-documentary-film-stub