PeachTree Festival 1972
Posted by admin on April 21, 2008Update 11/01/2009
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Welcome, to what I hope will soon be an informative site about the Peach Tree Festival that took place in Rockingham, NC at the North Carolina Motor Speedway in 1972.
Not much on the internet about it so maybe by having this site dedicated to it, people will come out of hiding and start sending stuff related to it.
I’m also trying out a music player on the site to feature songs you may have heard from the bands that played at PeachTree. So visit the music page to listen.
If you have any info you would like to share or pictures, then please contact us.
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I remember Peach Tree Festival well. I was 16. A friend of mine and myself were dropped off that morning. We were from Southern Pines. After a great day and evening of music and celebration, we had to hitchhike bake to Southern Pines(about 19 miles). I was a little concerned about getting a ride so late, but it was only minutes before we were picked up and carried back to Southern Pines. What a great memory. I have cherished it for 38 years. I remember it well in spite of all the mind altering substances that day!
Should have read “back to Southern Pines”. not bake! Caught it to late to correct.
I was 16 also. It took us weeks to get our parents to let us go. Little did they or we, for that matter, what was going to be like. We loaded up my parents Plymoth station wagon and off we went. I had to puke stop along the way because the guys in the back seat were drinking Orange Driver(good Lord)!!! We arrived to find the most people we had ever seen in one place. We made our way to a good spot..fairly close to the stage and settled in. It was hot as Hades!!! I remember a chopper flying over spraying the crowd with water. Late in the afternoon we made a run to Hamlet and picked up a watermelon thinking that would cool us off. I remember the announcements warning people about the “bad” drugs. We saw things that day and night that we had never seen and, in my case, have not seen since. If I remember correctly our curfew was 11:00, but we were there long enough to see all the great acts that performed. It was an experience that I will always remember!
I have NEVER forgotten Peachtree. It was my 18th birthday! We had several carloads of people following along. I was driving my 1969 Thunderbird Convertible! Geez, I wish I still had that car. We managed to perch up in the stands so we could see the bands better. Of course we got totally wasted. Not sure what it was I took but I remember it being so hot and someone offered me a beer. I drank some of the hot beer and thought that someone was trying to poison me. Paranoid. I also remember people walking around with signs advertising LSD, Pot, purple microdot, etc. There were OD tents filled with people. For some reason I thought we were all going to die of thirst. It was just SO hot. Nevertheless the music was fabulous. Wish I could have a do over.
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