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Got No Shoes, Got No Blues: the Texas International Pop Festival

Believe it or not, there almost was a feature film about the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival which, just like the one-and-only Woodstock concerts held two weeks earlier, had its entirety preserved both on film and reel-to-reel tape. However, unlike the legendary documentation of the New York festivities that dominated big screens worldwide the following summer, the Lone Star State’s contribution to classic-rock cinema never made it past the very-rough-cut stage. Thankfully, though, this feature- length “workprint” of the film is now available for a fantastic peek at what might have been.

Top Cast

  • Robert Plant

    Robert Plant

  • Jimmy Page

    Jimmy Page

  • John Bonham

    John Bonham

  • John Paul Jones

    John Paul Jones

  • Janis Joplin

    Janis Joplin

  • Peter Cetera

    Peter Cetera

  • Don Brewer

    Don Brewer

  • Mark Farner

    Mark Farner

  • Mel Schacher

    Mel Schacher

Overview

Believe it or not, there almost was a feature film about the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival which, just like the one-and-only Woodstock concerts held two weeks earlier, had its entirety preserved both on film and reel-to-reel tape. However, unlike the legendary documentation of the New York festivities that dominated big screens worldwide the following summer, the Lone Star State’s contribution to classic-rock cinema never made it past the very-rough-cut stage. Thankfully, though, this feature- length “workprint” of the film is now available for a fantastic peek at what might have been.

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