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Atlanta International Pop Festival

Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 30 June 1969

"If you want to come up with a singular, most important trend in this new music, I think it has to be something like: it is original, composed by the people who perform it, created by them — even if they have to fight the record companies to do it — so that it is really a creative action and not a commercial pile of shit thrown together by business people who think they know what John Doe and Mr. Jones really want." 
— 
Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention

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