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Redwood 70
Television (Full Length) – 1970
It was the summer of 1970, six months after Woodstock; local media hyped this Phil Warren-promoted two-day music festival as New Zealand’s version. Despite promises of revolution, it was more low-key with 1500 music fans bussing out to the Swanson holiday park for — as MC Peter Sinclair introduced it — “36 hours of non stop top pops of New Zealand’s top bands”, from psych-rock to gospel. The big star was sometime Bee Gee Robin Gibb, whose high pitch was infamously welcomed with a thrown tomato. This footage was captured for TV by the NZ Broadcasting Corporation.
Hi and welcome to Redwood 70 ... This is the first national happening of this happening decade. A love in, a live in, a be in: 36 hours of non stop top pops of New Zealand’s top bands.– MC Peter Sinclair
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