OTV: Can You Recall ‘71 Rock Event?

OrangeTV: I’m slowly piecing together an article about a big Rock Music Festival that brought 15,000 naked, stoned hippies and innocent bystanders together in Farragut Park on July 2-5, 1971. It was billed as the “Universal Life Church Picnic” but was, by all reports, incredibly wild and resulted in drug busts and much heavy-duty moralizing by the governor and others at the time. Seems to have really shaken up sleepy old North Idaho at the time. Anyway, more importantly I’m gathering memories from anyone willing to share them if you can recall this festival at all. I’m especially curious to know what bands played - in the Press, they speculated Grand Funk Railroad and Iron Butterfly, but that seems a bit lofty. I have a hunch it was mainly local “talent.” More here .

DFO: OrangeTV needs your help, if you remember anything about the 1971 Rock Music Festival at Farragut State Park. (BTW, OTV, the Gary Ingram you mention later in your comment is the same one who hangs out at HBO. He’s a former state legislator.