Bob Coia on Diamond Head Crater Festivals
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Bob Coia posted the following to the HawaiiThreads.com message board on November 15, 2004:
I attended the 1970, 1971 concerts, was a stage hand/electrician on the 1972 and was the original site manager for the 1973 event but resigned prior to returning to New York. Bob Peyton and Bruce "Buddha" Bickley were the main organizers for stage/site security and later the whole event.
I don't remember too many details, such as what musical groups played, but Peyton and Bickley, if you can find them, might prove to be very knowledgable. They hung out with a guy from the Honolulu newspaper who also had a role in organizing the events, sorry can't remember his name.
By the way, they organized security for a number of other concerts of the time, such as the Rolling Stones at the HIC in 1973, Loggin and Messina at the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus amphitheater, and I think they were involved in some Joni Mitchell, Jackson Brown and Jose Feliciano concerts at the Waikiki Shell.
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