Goose Lake music festival 1970

[markinmichigan]

My campground was the site of the post Woodstock (1969) music festival featuring some amazing bands. The lineup included top international bands, including The Faces with Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, the James Gang with Joe Walsh, Chicago, Mountain, and Ten Years After, as well as Detroit-area groups such as Savage Grace, the Up, Mitch Ryder & Detroit, Brownsville Station, and the Stooges.


I've detected the 8 acres on several occasion without much luck, its just so loaded with caps and pull tabs I quit after bags of junk. I switched it up today and went 45+ cherry picking on my legend.

I'm figuring those long haired pot smoking hippies weren't wearing much gold back then, maybe silver though. And reaching for their roach clips they might have dropped some change.

I got 6 silvers total and a silver ring.

Mark in Michigan

 

[stetam]

Nice silver. Way to hang in there! Wish I would’ve been at that music festival but probably too much for a 12year old

 

[markinmichigan]

Nice silver. Way to hang in there! Wish I would’ve been at that music festival but probably too much for a 12year old

We're the same age then, 12 01 1957

Mark in Michigan

 

[stetam]

We're the same age then, 12 01 1957

Mark in Michigan

I’m 5/5/58, you’re an old man. Oh wait, my 8 year old grandson call me old man

 

[bottlecap4u]

Whoa! Way to cash in on the hippie fest Mark! I was too young to recall, but locals around here still talk about it.

 

[Xxray]

Wow never heard of it, Bob Seger too. Surprised Ted wasn't there.

 

[Leave-No-Coins-Behind]

Congrats on the half dozen silvers plus the .925!

 

[markinmichigan]

Wow never heard of it, Bob Seger too. Surprised Ted wasn't there.

We have a complete blow out blast every first week of August, this year was the 55th anniversary and the campground was amazing, bands with music that matches the 70's. SO much fun.



Mark in Michigan

 

[markinmichigan]

Congrats on the half dozen silvers plus the .925!

Thanks, most were late 50's nothing older than 1953

 

[LovestheShiny!]

Whoah... look at that crowd! Nice finds and way to focus on the high tones / numbers.

 

[markinmichigan]

Whoah... look at that crowd! Nice finds and way to focus on the high tones / numbers.

If I didn't notch out the aluminum the speaker would have blown out. Think about the the 70's, drugs, sex, rock and roll. And there was nothing wrong with that. You were either a jock, a nerd or a long hair. I kind of fit in and things were, well, drugs, sex, rock and roll. I never touched the strong stuff. Well maybe I did. My parents bought me Samsonite luggage as my graduation gift at 17 and I never looked back. And here we are. Long live metal detecting!

Mark in Michigan

 

[Longhair]

I missed my ride, or I'd have been there. And my sister-in-law was attacked there when she went to pick up her brother, but her dog foiled the attack and took the guy down.
It was expensive as far as concerts went back then. The token to get in cost a whole $20!
Yeah, those were the days!

 

[diggin4clad]

Good hunt.....six silvers is a very good day in my book.

 

[markinswpa]

Nice score Mark, congrats on all the shiny. Great hunt for sure. My last outing netted me one wheat and .77 in clad. So yeah ya dun good. Good luck.

 

[Xxray]

Top on my list would have been Alvin Lee, Bob Seger & Mountain. Faces would have been a kick in that era. Jethro would have been cool, though he didn't have out much of what turned out to be be his biggest hits yet. I saw Jethro later that decade about 79 when I was 12, saw Seger at Cobo a few times in those years. Never saw Alvin Lee, major regret.

 

[markinmichigan]

Top on my list would have been Alvin Lee, Bob Seger & Mountain. Faces would have been a kick in that era. Jethro would have been cool, though he didn't have out much of what turned out to be be his biggest hits yet. I saw Jethro later that decade about 79 when I was 12, saw Seger at Cobo a few times in those years. Never saw Alvin Lee, major regret.

Bob Seger is my second cousin, my grandfathers brothers grandson. Not that it ever got me anywhere. He'd show up for family reunions back in the 60's, played local venues around Ann Arbor, Brighton, Dexter.

Mark in Michigan

 

[stetam]

Bob Seger is my second cousin, my grandfathers brothers grandson. Not that it ever got me anywhere. He'd show up for family reunions back in the 60's, played local venues around Ann Arbor, Brighton, Dexter.

Mark in Michigan

Well that's still pretty cool. Better than my great grandfathers brother who was a kidnapper in the1800s

 

[markinmichigan]

Well that's still pretty cool. Better than my great grandfathers brother who was a kidnapper in the1800s

Hey everyone's got to make a living one way or another. Wonder how the pay was?

Mark in Michigan

 

[Longhair]

Bob Seger is my second cousin, my grandfathers brothers grandson. Not that it ever got me anywhere. He'd show up for family reunions back in the 60's, played local venues around Ann Arbor, Brighton, Dexter.

Mark in Michigan

Do you remember the LYI concerts @ Ford Rink in Livonia? Yeah, I've seen Seger play there, too.

And back in the early 70s, Plymouth Township bought an old farm that they've since turned most of into a park. Well, it was park property back then too, and they used to set-up a band shell there and do outdoor concerts over the summer. I saw a lot of good local talent play there, and you never knew who might turn up (including in the crowd).
True story: One evening while I was sitting on the side of the hill watching/listening to the show, a friend of mine who had just gotten out of prison (drug charges) came walking up with another guy in tow. They sat down and he introduced his companion........John Sinclair. They'd met in the joint and were released about the same time.

 

[markinmichigan]

The Detroit area has a lot of musicians that just "Show up". I was at a local Coney island in Royal Oak and Iggy Pop walks in. Another time I was at Bakers Keyboard Lounge and Suzy Quantro popped in and sang. Eminem at Tigers baseball games. Detroit is loaded with top musicians.

Mark in Michigan