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original promotional handbill for the Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival, which took place on June 13, 1970, at Crosley Field.Event Highlights Historic Lineup: The flyer details an exceptional lineup of pioneering rock, proto-punk, and psych acts, including Traffic (with Steve Winwood), Grand Funk Railroad, Mountain (featuring Felix Pappalardi), The Stooges (Iggy Pop), Alice Cooper, and Bob Seger.Cultural Moment: The festival is famously remembered for Iggy Pop's wild crowd-surfing and peanut-butter-smearing antics. The 14-hour marathon event was captured by television station WLWT and broadcast nationally later that summer as a 90-minute special titled Midsummer Rock.Venue Significance: This was one of the last major events held at Crosley Field, the historic home of the Cincinnati Reds, before it closed later that same month on June 24, 1970. |
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