num_pages: 272
description: Part Two of the Beaver State trilogySummer 1970 Portland OregonPresident Nixon was to speak at the American Legion Convention. The FBI told Governor McCall he should expect 25000 Legionnaires and 50000 anti-war freaks to clash in the Rose City and make Chicago '68 look like a tea party.A few hippies proposed a rock festival to give peace a chance. They asked McCall a Republican battling for re-election for a place to hold it. He gave them a state park and told the cops to lay off. Did they ever.I've just committed political suicide said McCall after approving the only state-sponsored rock festival in American history. It's name: Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life.What a short strange trip it was for the 100000 who attended... far out in a way that only Oregon used to be. Vortex I now a legend; now documented for the first time; now even more legendary.The book includes over 150 photographs and a bonus CD of McCall's historic Vortex I speech and circa 1970 music from the first band to play the festival Jacob's Ladder.
language: English
title: The Far Out Story of Vortex I
publisher: Nestucca Spit Press