The Story of the 1970 Eatonville Rock Festival
The Rock Festival
During the July 4, 1970, weekend over 10,000 hippies descended on the small town of Eatonville Wash., (pop. 852) to attend the Buffalo Party Convention and Pig Roast at Buffalo Don Murphy’s Flying M Ranch. It was supposedly a political party gathering, but everyone knew what it really was—a rock festival.
The documentary
The documentary Buffalo Rock aims to capture how the small town of Eatonville weathered the mini Woodstock—from police officers, to attendees, and from the political party that was created to the notorious Buffalo Don Murphy. The surreal rock festival captured the social tension of that era and had a lingering effect on generations to follow.
The Music
People came from across the country to see the little Woodstock of the West and hear the bands. Not all the bands from on the playbill showed up, but there were a few:
Local Bands
AB Sky Band
Wailers
Don and the Goodtimes
the Sonics
Live Color
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