| Terrastock
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Promotional flyer for the 2008 edition.
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| Background information
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| Genre(s) |
Psychedelic Rock, Experimental
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| Date(s) |
Various
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| Location |
Various
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| Venue(s) |
Various
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| Years active |
1997 - 2008
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| Promoter(s) |
Terrascope Online
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| Associated Events |
The Amazing ZigZag Concert
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| Website |
TerraScope
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Terrastock was a festival curated by Phil McMullen, a former editor of the Ptolemaic Terrascope and since 2005 the publisher of the Terrascope Online website. The event, set in different locations with each festival, typically features independent bands playing psychedelic rock.
Background[]
The first Terrastock event was initially conceived by Phil McMullen and Robert Jaz of the Providence, Rhode Island based band V. Majestic in the winter of 1996/1997. Robert Jaz had asked McMullen about holding a benefit concert in Providence, RI for the Ptolemaic Terrascope Zine. As the two formulated a plan for the benefit which quickly grew into more of a festival idea, McMullen suggested the name Terrastock and the two agreed. A wishlist lineup was conceived and sometime later th festival was then fully organized by McMullen and Jaz along with Mark Stone of the Providence-based band Medicine Ball. Alongside the organizers as well for the initial editon were the Newport, RI based record label Flydaddy, which was run by former Sub Pop employees, Kevin O'Leary and Adam Silverman. Flydaddy had previously released a Ptolemaic Terrascope benefit compilation called 'Succor.'
An arrangement was made with a friend of Robert Jaz's, the poster artist, James Draper, who was also the operator of an art gallery/speakeasy performance space called The Renegade Gallery/The Rogue Lounge which was located in Providence within an industrial space in the old Atlantic Mills.
Notably, Bardo Pond and the band Windy & Carl performed at all seven incarnations of the festival.
In November 2010 McMullen "unashamedly" admitted that the Terrastock festivals "were directly influenced and inspired by the now legendary Zig Zag Benefit Concert".[1]
Lineups[]
1997[]
Terrastock took place the weekend of April 25-27, 1997 at the Rogue Lounge in Providence, Rhode Island. This three day festival was conceived in the spirit of peace, love and understanding (so to speak), and as a fund raising measure for the long-running and consistently excellent PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Magazine. Witch Hazel were intended to play on the 25th but no-showed.
There was additional music throughout the weekend in a smaller room (the Rogue Lounge itself) performed by Tom Rapp, Windy & Carl, Barbara Manning, and others.[2]
| The Rogue Lounge
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| April 25
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April 26
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April 27
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| Cul De Sac
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Bevis Frond
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Magic Hour
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| Deviants
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Medicine Ball
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Richard Davies
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| Thee Hydrogen Terrors
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Flying Saucer Attack
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Hovercraft
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| Windy & Carl
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Tadpoles
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V. Majestic
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| Abunai!
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Mary Lou Lord
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Lhasa Cement Plant
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| Silver Apples
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Supreme Dicks
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Hlikka
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Neutral Milk Hotel
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Bardo Pond
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Orans
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Papa Fritas
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Primordial Undermind
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The Alchemysts
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The Lothars
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Major Stars
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The Azusa Plane
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The Olivia Tremor Control
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Science Kit
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Alva
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Barbara Manning
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Damon & Naomi
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1998[]
Terrastock II took place the weekend of April 17-19 of 1998, at the Custer Avenue Stages, 1598 Custer Ave., at Rankin. Custer Ave is in India Basin between Army and Evans, two blocks west of Third, in San Francisco USA. It was billed as "Terrastock West" and had association with Aquarius Records and Danno Booking.[3]
| April 17
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| Stage One
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Stage Two
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| Bevis Frond
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Medicine Ball
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| Alastair Galbraith
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Mick Farren & The Deviants
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| Mountain Goats
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Major Stars
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| Kendra Smith
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Grimble Grumble
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| Ray Montgoomery
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The Azusa Plane
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| 50 Foot Hose
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Brother JT (Solo Set)
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| April 18
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| Stage One
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Stage Two
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| The Olivia Tremor Control
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Stone Breath
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| Neutral Milk Hotel
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Tom Rapp
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| Masaki Batoh & Michiro Kurihara of Ghost
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Young Fresh Fellows
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| Damon & Naomi
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V Majestic
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| Windy & Carl
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| April 19
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| Stage One
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Stage Two
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| Brother Jt & Vibrolux
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Clockbrains
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| Mudhoney
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The Lothars
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| Bardo Pond
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SubArachnoid Stage
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| Cul De Sac
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Alchemysts
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| Pelt
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Spaceheads
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| Silver Apples
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Loren Connors
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| Green Pajamas
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Primordial Undermind
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| Alva
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| The Loud Family
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| Elf Power
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1999[]
Terrastock III (AKA TERRASTOCK UK, the London Ptolemaic Perambulation.) took place the weekend of August 27th, 28th and 29th 1999 at the ULU (the University of London) in London, England. It was the first (and only) Terrastock to be held in the UK, where the curators of the festival originated.
Notably, there was also a third stage area where performers could sign up for and do their own spontaneous sets or weird collaborations, purely on the concept on disorganization and spontaneity. Performers on this stage included Pat Orchard, Warser Gate w/ Steve Hanson (doing "Can of Stella Overdrive"), Staff Party (with members of Fuxa, Azusa Plane, Azalia Snail, Piano Magic, Warser Gate, and a guest spot from John the stage manager), Petrocat (Nick and Debbie Saloman), Autumn Leaves, Jamie Owen, Brendan (of Abunai) and Carl (of Windy), Lothars and Carl, Bevis Frond and Friends (Saloman, Shaw, various Alchemysts and ROD GOODWAY), and Tom Rapp with Prydwyn.[4]
| August 27th
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Bardo Pond
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Spaceheads
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| Man
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The Azusa Plane
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| Green Pajamas
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Pat Orchard
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| Lucky Bishops
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Air Traffic Controllers
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| Windy & Carl
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| Freed Unit
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| August 28
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| The Bevis Frond
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The Lothars
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| Alchemysts + Simeon
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Kirk Lake
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| Damon & Naomi
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Pop Off Tuesday
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| Tom Rapp
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Bablicon
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| Spacious Mind
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Mac Macleod
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| Warner Gate
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| August 29
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Abunai!
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Piano Magic
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| Hood
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Arco
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| Broken Dog
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Autumn Leaves
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| My Drug Hell
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Green Ray
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| White Hotel
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2000[]
The fourth Terrastock festival of arts and music took place over the weekend of November 3rd - 5th, 2000. The venue chosen was the historic Showbox, located in downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. Like all past Terrastocks, this event was open to ALL AGES. This was the last year the Terrastock festival would be held in consecutive years.[5]
| November 3rd
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Ghost
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Abunai!
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| Damon & Naomi
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Tarentel
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| Charalambides
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Windy & Carl
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| Wellwater Conspiracy
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The Lothars
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| The Monkeywrench
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Ethereal Counterbalance
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| Voyager One
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| November 4th
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Moe Tucker
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Doug Yule
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| The Green Pajamas
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Amber Asylum
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| The Linus Pauling Quartet
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Pat Orchard
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| SubArachnoid Space
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Martyn Bates
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| Crome Syrcus
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Major Stars
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| The Minus Five
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| November 5th
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| The Bevis Frond
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The Alchemysts
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| Country Joe McDonald & The Frond Fish
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Children of The Rainbow
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| Bardo Pond
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Kinski
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| Six Organs of Admittance
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Donovan's Brain
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| Delicate AWOL
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Stone Breath
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2002[]
The fifth Terrastock festival of arts and music takes place this year over the weekend of October 11-13, 2002. It was held at Axis in Boston, Massachusetts.[6]
Notably, Time-Lag Records released a very special five 7inch set in conjunction with TERRASTOCK 5. The set will feature one full 7" each by The Idiatrod, Stone Breath, Charalambides, Bardo Pond, and Sonic Youth. Each 7" will come in its own letterpressed uni-pak style gatefold sleeve. For those who bought the full set, there was a die-cut wrap-around box to hold them all. It was entirely exclusive tracks and limited to 500 copies.
| October 11
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Ghost
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Windy & Carl
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| Major Stars
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Charalambides
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| The Iditarod
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The Essex Green
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| Stone Breath
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The Hopewell
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| Pat Orchard
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ST37
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| nonloc
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| October 12
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Tom Rapp
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Surface of Eceon
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| Damon & Naomi
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Landing
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| Motorpsycho
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Six Organs of Admittance
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| Dipsomaniacs
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The Lucky Bishops
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| Paik
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Ethereal Counterbalance
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| Greg Weeks
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| October 13
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| Main Stage
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Second Stage
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| Acid Mothers Temple
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[ubArachnoid Space
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| The Spacious Mind
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Kinski
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| Bardo Pond
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Lockgroove
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| The Bevis Frond
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Delicate AWOL
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| Sonic Youth
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The Lothars
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| The Sunshine Fix
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Barbara Manning & the Go-Luckys!
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| Lilys
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The Alchemysts
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| The Hushdrops
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The Alchemysts
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2006[]
Terrastock 6 took place at The Pell Chafee Performance Center in Providence, Rhode Island on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 2006. It ended up being the first time Terrasrock returned to a city and the only time to do so.[7]
Notably, a pre-show party was held on April 20th, 2006 at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.
| April 20
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| Main Stage
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| Acid Mothers Temple
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| Abunai! (Reunion set)
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| Bright
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| Joe Turner + the Seven Levels
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| Area C
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| April 21
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| Stage One
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Stage Two
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| Bardo Pond
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Shannon Krauss
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| Major Stars
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PG Six
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| Kinski
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Urdog
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| The Green Pajamas
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St. Joan
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Tanakh
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| April 22
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| Stage One
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Stage Two
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| The Spacious Mind
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Kemialliset Ystävät
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| Damon & Naomi
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Windy & Carl
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| Fursaxa
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Glenn Jones
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| Avarus
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Brothers of The Occult Sisterhood
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| Tom Rapp
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The Magic Carpathians Project
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| Thought Forms
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Landing
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MV & EE with The Bummer Road
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| April 23
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| Stage One
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Stage Two
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| Ghost
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Jack Rose
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| Lightning Bolt
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Marissa Nadler
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| Bridget St. John
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Paik
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| Spires That in the Sunset Rise
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Larkin Grimm
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| Charalambides
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Black Forest/Black Sea
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| Salamander
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The Kitchen Cynics
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2008[]
Terrastock 7 ended up being the final edition of the festival. [8] Terrastock 7 took place at the Melwood Arts Center in Louisville, Kentucky on June 19th - 22nd, 2008.
Notably, the festival was spoofed by Louisville bands under the name "TerrorStock" in September of that year.[9]
| June 19th
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| Main Stage
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| Hush Arbors
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| Dead Maids
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| Elephant Micah
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| Parlour
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| The Photographic
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| June 20th
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| Indoor Stage
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Outdoor Stage
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| Helena Epsvall & Masaki Batoh
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Major Stars
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| Damon & Naomi
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Plastic Crimewave Sound
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| Linus Pauling Quartet
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Sleeping Pill
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| Tanakh
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Antietam
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| Black Forest/Black Sea Friday
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Sharon Krauss
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| Ignatz
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United Bible Studies
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| June 21
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| Indoor Stage
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Outdoor Stage
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| Kouhoutek
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Mono
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| Sapat
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Motorpsycho
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| Grails
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Bardo Pond
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| MV+EE with the Golden Road
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Kinski
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| Tara Jane O'Neil
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Wooden Shjips
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| Oneida
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| June 22
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| Indoor Stage
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Outdoor Stage
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| Makoto Kawabata
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Paik
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| Windy and Carl
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The Entrance Band
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| Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers
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Simply Saucer
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| Pelt
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Thee American Revolution
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| Insect Factory
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Rob Sharples
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Team Brick
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