@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! |
Jose Feliciano, Carnegie Hall, 1st Row Center He is totally blind, his brother walked him out to a stool near the front of the stage. We were 1st row center, not the best for good stereo listening, but the sound was excellent and there was no imaging, just him playing and singing. Visually it was amazing. The stage is high, you are looking up, the stage monitors, many small ones, but still they obstruct your view a bit when that close, especially for Donna who is 5’ tall, we couldn’t see his feet, but everything else was right in front of us. Watching his small hands fly around those strings, and, the real treat, was to see him purposely flash up to the string’s tuners, not to correct tuning, but to retune various strings several times during a long number, to get a slightly different sound. It was like watching lightning strike he was so fast (or so it seemed). Once I noticed what he was doing, I started to listen to those subtleties, it was something I’ll never forget. I’ve seen Bruce Cockburn and Tommy Emmanule (Carnegie Hall also), but Jose is the best guitarist I have ever seen. A long 9 minute version of Hey Jude, he gets going around 3:30 in a place similar, with a few supporting instrumentalists. Maybe others were with him when we saw him, we were mezmerized watching/listening to him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmZfm-TPi8 Maybe I should look for a book, perhaps he has written an Auto-Biography. "“His love affair with music began at the age of three, when he first accompanied his uncle on a tin cracker can.”" A version of Hey Jude is on this album 10 to 23 https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0077NEDVA?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=dm_ics_us_dps_ds_mu_t1
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