The 1967 Summer of Love gets my vote for the greatest entry! How many of you youngsters even know what that was? Google it! lol. I grew up in Sacramento, Ca, some 80 miles from Haight Ashbury. I was 12 in ‘67 and had I’d been just a few years older I’d have been there. Talk about history!
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Tuscaloosa ‘72 Stones Exile tour is my forever reference point for concerts. Martha Reeves & Vandellas got things revved and then “Little” Stevie Wonder stepped up/ took over…about 4 months prior to release of Talking Book. His greatness was apparent & unexpected, hard to describe (as always) when time stops and you’re taken out of your head by a musical tour-de-force…distinctly remember thinking that if the Stones had suddenly canceled, no worries, I got my $7.50 worth. if there has ever been a greater front man than Mr. Jagger I’d like to see ‘em, as he and the original recording musicians tapped into the electricity of the audience and put on a galvanizing concert. Bianca we standing off-stage in front of me, a dude 20 seats down was head-to-toe in full clown suit makeup/regalia, And Exile on Main Street came alive. Chip Monck had the rear mounted, light reflecting mirror array behind the stage so everyone could see unobstructed. Keith and Mick Taylor burned, Bobby Keys honked, Charlie pounded and Nicky Hopkins added his understated greatness to everything. Walking to the car I felt like I was floating above the grass, on a natural high…like a great show should be. |
@coltrane1 I grew up in San Francisco. I was 16 years old at the time of The Summer of Love. I was a very straight kid. Iʻve never done any kind of drugs. But I couldnʻt help but be influenced by the whole counter-culture scene.
Keystone Korner was such a treasure. But it got shut down by the Feds because Todd Barken wasnʻt paying his taxes. The rumor is that too much of his money went up his nose... |
First concert- *Great HS bands. most notable Los Lobos before they became the Lobos Blind Faith/ Delaney Bonnie and Friends (later The Dominoes) Jerhro Tull/ It’s a Beautiful Day CSN&Y (4wayStreet concert) *3 Dog Night/Elton John Mark Almond Steppen Wolf Ten Years After Doobies/ Cold Blood missed the Doors because of my girlfriend Gil Scott-Herron Gingers Air Force *1977 went to a honky tonk in Eugene to see a wierd band called The Talking Heads **Bruce 4 times *Curtis Salgado War Eric Burdin *Toots and The Maytels Jimmy Cliff BB King *Billy Preston Segundo (oldest performer on the planet at the time Buena Vista Social Club) *Chet Atkins Santana Michael Shrieve Chico Hamilton Beethoven¥ Mozart¥ ¥= I wish
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@oregon - I saw that Blind Faith tour at Baltimore Civic Center. I think the opener was Taste, with Rory Gallagher. Blind Faith were late coming on because they were backstage watching on TV the first moon walk (not Michael Jackson's) that was going on right then. None of us at the show got to see it! |
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