One of the few festivals Led Zeppelin agreed to play opened on this day in 1969 near Dallas. The Texas International Pop Festival featured a lineup that also included Santana, Janis Joplin, Canned Heat, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone, Chicago, Grand Funk Railroad, B.B. King, Freddie King, Delaney & Bonnie, Spirit and more.  Other festivals Zeppelin played were the 1969 Atlanta International Pop Festival, the Bath Blues Festival in 1969 and '70, Days on the Green in Oakland in 1977 and the 1979 Knebworth Festival.  

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on August 30 include...

1965 Bob Dylan releases Highway 61 Revisited.

1969 The Who, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, the Band, Moody Blues, Nice, Free, Richie Havens, Family, Pentangle and Tom Paxton play the second Isle of Wight festival. The Hendrix set would be the last by Jimi and the Experience in Britain.
1969 The band Earth changes its name to Black Sabbath.

1970 Rolling Stones open a European tour in Malmo, Sweden.

1972 John Lennon & Yoko Ono stage One To One benefit at Madison Square Garden. 

1973 Doors announce break-up two years after Jim Morrison's death.   

1978 Joe Jackson does first concert.   

1988 John Hiatt releases Slow Turning. 

1988 Julianne Phillips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen. 

1989 Billy Joel fires manager and later sues him for $90 million in a dispute over mismanagement of funds.

1989 Izzy Stradlin of Guns N Roses arrested for smoking and disrupting airline flight. 
1995 Coroner's report says Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia died of heart failure.

2018 John Mellencamp is awarded the Woody Guthrie Prize.