Oral history interview with Johnny Cox, 2004 February 14.

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Oral history interview with Johnny Cox, 2004 February 14.

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Interview with Johnny Cox, painter, concerning his experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Generational conflicts with his parents; guitar lessons as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas; appeal of the Beatles and their music; high school friends and activities; changing clothing styles in the Sixties; enrollment at Texas Tech University, 1969; playing in bands while at Texas Tech; meeting his first wife; his opposition to the Vietnam War; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; drug use at the festival; comments about Janis Joplin's performance; comments about Canned Heat and B.B. King; his first personal use of LSD; comments about the performance of Led Zeppelin; comments about the performance of Spirit; how LSD put the music in a different perspective for him; comments about crowd behavior at the festival; the "free stage"; B.B. King and Johnny Winter playing on stage together; the Texas International Pop Festival as a turning point in his life.

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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