I want to thank the person who posted all of the Allman Brothers concert performance dates for 1969. The Allman Brothers came into full bloom in 1971, and their performances from 1971 to present are well documented. The earliest ones are much less known and talked about, so posting them in their entirety has made the rest of the process easy. (It's like you ate the vegetables first and left the steak for the rest of us). Thanks again.
I had the good fortune of seeing Duane Allman playing with the band on 6 seperate occasions. Each was memorable for their own reasons. But perhaps the most memorable was the Thanksgiving day concert at Carnegie hall, the band's first New York appearance without Duane who was killed a mere 3 weeks earlier. It made this grown man cry. I'll tell the story some day soon.
...so there we were two youngsters from Jersey, I was 13 years old,and Mark 15,we had a band.Anyway even the seating woman asked what are two young boys like you doing here.Well being young and small we worked our way out of our seats and behind the closed off section and sat RIGHT behind John Bonham for most all of the show.Man was it amazing.watching and feeling that power.Bonham had smoked a bunch of cigarettes and they were all laying around the drum set.When the show was over and the lights up the roadie had started taking down the set,man we were so close you could smell Bonham,anyway Mark begged the roadie for a cigarette butt,man what a trophy. He has since gone many years later to work for George Benson as stage manager etc. What a fate.By the way he was my drummer and do you know he still has that butt in a glass vile.Anyone know the whereabouts of Mark Cretella just ask him.
ps. I still have my ticket stub
Good grief it’s a long time ago - I was only a teenager !
Just getting to and from this venue was a major logistical exercise as I remember it
But any way this concert promised my two favourite bands on the same bill – Floyd & Zeppelin (how much for that these days?!) Unfortunately for some reason between the 1st day and 2nd day I moved further away from the stage so my distant view of Zeppelin was Pageys ‘Farmer Giles’ outfit (quite fetching I thought) and the standout track for me was “Thats the way” it seemed particularly poignant at the time (bearing in mind Zeppelin III hadn’t been released yet)
Looking down the barrel of 36 years ago it's funny the things that stick in your memory.
The first is that at one point during this show I actually became aware that the balcony I was on was moving up and down alarmingly with the combination of volume and audience participation ! and I remember thinking 'oh well If I go we all go and in any case its been a great concert !'
The second thing (and its always been a source of frustration since) is that Bonzo in between numbers at one point ACTUALLY PLAYED THE INTRO TO WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS !
Wonderful sound except thats all it was - the intro to one of my all-time favourites.
Never mind I'll settle for that I'm grateful for having been there - only wish that I had kept some memorabilia but at the time you think its not important and there will always be another opportunity.In all honesty '73 wasn't my favourite Zep period (don't get me started on Houses Of The Holy/The Song Remains The Same) but nevertheless in my opinion (and I was there after all) it was a great concert albeit not a classic.
I didn't realize that I'd been to the last concert on the tour, and the last show for John Bonham, period... until I was discussing Led Zeppelin with one of the young guys at work a few months ago. I told him that I'd seen Led Zeppelin in Berlin the year after I got stationed there (in the Air Force.) That's when we put 2 and 2 together. What do you know? I've got bragging rights :-) Now I've got to go through my boxes to find my ticket stub, and scan in those B&W negatives (if I can locate those again.)
I'm not a fan. I was in a New Wave band in L.A. called Womanizer and we New Wavers were a bit at odds with the Punk Rockers. However, my brother was hired as the personal bodyguard for Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten for that tour so I was invited to the Pistol's last show in San Francisco.
It was raining hard on the flight up and was the worse plane ride I've ever experienced. Since I was in a "Punk" frame of mind and drinking heavily, I rather enjoyed the roller coaster feel of the flight. I'm sure I was the only one who did.
I was told the band would be at sound check when I arrived but I could use their motel room. It was a mess so like a good guest I spent an hour cleaning it up. When my brother Dwayne, road manager Noel Monk, Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious (Paul Cook and Steve Jones traveled separately), arrived the first thing Sid did was spit on the wall. Johnny then took a leather jacket he had just bought and thought looked "too new", and scraped it against the wall where Sid had spit leaving a huge black stain. My brother and I sat catching up and ignoring the other two who were going out of their way to trash the room. The room I had just spent an hour cleaning. At one point Sid spat across the room at a news reporter on the television reporting on the homeless people found frozen to death under the freeway onramps in San Francisco. My brother very calmly asked if Sid's spit had hit his leather jacket which was laying on top of the TV set. Sid suddenly leapt up, ran to the jacket and carefully inspected saying "No Dwayne. It didn't hit it. It's okay, see?" At first I thought he was being sarcastic as he seemed to worried that he had fouled by brother's jacket when just a second earlier he had been so cocky. If fact, the first thing Sid said to me when entering the room was, "I did this yesterday", as he showed me a six inch cut running down the inside of his left arm from the elbow to almost his wrist. He then showed me many pink keloid scars that criss crossed his pale, thin body. These were all self inflicted.
Dwayne's job was as much to keep the Pistols from killing themselves and each other as it was to protect them from their fans and the growing legion of people reacting violently against this new "Punk Rock" fad.
When we got to the show it was a sellout and I fully expected to sit in the audience but Noel Monk told me I was to help out onstage. I didn't want to do that as being a musician I wanted to enjoy the show (I had never heard the Pistols and was shocked when I did), and I new that all the girls were in the audience. But Noel insisted so I spent the concert crouched by the side with Noel Monk and Dwayne and with Bill Graham standing behind me. Ever so often Graham would tap my shoulder and say, "Guy in black has a cherry bomb", and as I looked into the sea of guys wearing black, Noel and Dwayne would be running forward and grabbing some kid out of the audience and up onto the stage. They'd had him off to another roadie, Dwayne burned his fingers on the smoke bomb the kid had lit as he dropped it into a soft drink cup and he and Noel returned to their spot on the side of the stage. I turned to Graham and said "We've got it", as if I was the supervisor.
At one point I asked Bill Graham; "Did you ever think you'd ever see anything like this?"
"No. Never." was his response.
That surprised me as I assumed he'd seen it all.
Before the show had begun the band was in a small room backstage, this was after they spit on all the food the press were now eating, and Dwayne and I were standing in the small hallway when a photographer approached us.
"Oh, you guys look so cool. I have to take your picture", she said and started clicking off several shots. Dwayne did look cool with the lighting in the hallway and the smoke floating through. "Thanks guys", she said and walked away.
I recognized the photographer as Annie Leibowitz who was well known at the time for having shot many Rolling Stone covers. I thought I could have my picture in Rolling Stone which was very exciting. My excitement turned to extreme annoyance when she returned backstage after the concert and told me she had lost her camera. Not only her camera but all her equipment along with the PHOTOS OF ME! In a panic I started to comb the backstage area.
"Where did you have it last?", I asked.
"On my seat", she answered.
"What seat?"
"Out there."
"In the audience?" I asked incredulously.
"Yes."
" Who was sitting with you?"
" No one."
" Are you telling me you left your camera and all your equipment out there with five thousand punk rocker heroin addicts?! There probably either hawking it for a fix or smashing it against a wall for kicks!" I walked away disgusted.
Dwayne went on to work with Van Halen through the David Roth years and after twenty years of hearing my brother's stories about the Pistol’s tour I finally convinced him to write a book. He refused at first because as a professional bodyguard and as a biker, he had a problem with being a "rat". So I wrote his book for him as a novel. We got a big Hollywood agent and then Dwayne died unexpectedly from a stroke at the age of fifty.
A stage was setup in front of the movie screen for this noon to midnight show. Bands advertised were: Dr. John, Liverpool, Skyhook, Rush, Cosmic Beam Experience, Max Bone, The British Are Here, and I See The Light Show. I'm assuming Dr. John was the headliner. They expected 6,000 concert goers, less than half of that number turned out according to the newspaper. The event was hampered by rain, numerous od's, bikers trying to sneak in the back, and over-anxious cops.
Are You Experienced? had trinkled down to a small town in Texas. Hot damn, Jimi Hendrix was coming to Houston. Now this is back in the stone ages, I'm not sure he was getting any airtime on the radio. Anyway, concert tickets back then were printed and passed out at the ticket outlets....a clothing store chain, a piano store chain and the box office. I drove the fifty miles to Houston and went to one of the piano stores, a really stiff place with grand pianos and a salesman that talked down to you, especially if you were a fifteen year old hick. I asked for four Jimi Hendrix tickets and he said "let me check in the back and see if we received any". And to our good fortune he returned with four seats....Second Row Floor Dead Center. Of all the places for the distributor to send the good seats, this stuck up prim and proper place, I have no doubt we were the only ones to purchase from them. You have all seen the videos of JH, with the playing behind the back and the guitar fire, it was all there. We were dazed and awed by the talent running his foot long fingers all over that guitar. People were passing around hand rolled cigarettes, I had seen one on the cover of LIfe magazine but never for real. Hell, I didn't even know what "high" meant, and I know I had never said "marijuana, pot or grass' in my life or ever heard anyone else speak of it. We were from a small town in Texas, Lone Star Beer, Jax Beer and Schlitz Beer was our entertainment. But hell, we smoked the hell out of that stuff...sorry to disappoint, but I have no recollection of being high or stoned....does that mean......oh.
The summer of 1983 is a bittersweet memory. My five year relationship was coming to an end, and not exactly by my chosing. We had made many many concerts in that five years;I had great ticket connections in the early 80s. Bowie was a favorite of her family, and pretty high on her list. I had discovered Bowie while living with her and had really come to like his sound. The concert tickets went for sale about two months ahead of time and we were on the way "out". I hired a couple of teenage girls to camp out in front of the ticket office to score some decent seats (my ticket connection wasn't available). After an all night vigile the girls returned with damn good seats, five rows above the floor very near the stage. So for the next two months I was losing my grip...bingeing and such, hoping that my life would change. But it didn't. So on the night of the concert, I drove the fifty miles to the Summit...parked and walked up to the crowd standing outside. I saw an excited couple standing around watching the crowd, I asked "Do you have seats?" They said no, but continued to smile, I said "You do now, have a great time". Handed them the tickets and walked away. One of those moments, I was very happy and very sad at the same moment.
The very first rock concert at the Salt Palace was early in the summer of 1969, shortly after it opened. The bill was:
Can Heat
The Turtles
Lee Michaels
The sound was OK for a big venue of the era, and you had to stand in line at the box office to get tickets. Sadly arena rock had come to Salt Lake City. Other artists that appeared there (sorry I don’t have the Dates) were Deep Purple, Rod Stewart and Small Faces, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Poco, Brewer and Shipley, Eric Clapton and his Band, Blind Faith with Delaney, Bonnie and Friends, Grand Funk Rail Road with Blood Rock, Iron Butterfly, The Guess Who, Country Joe and the Fish and lots more I can’t remember.
Salt Lake City Loved Spirit and had supported them in the early day when they play unknown venues in Salt Lake like “The Old Mill” and some old church down on Main Street. This was their first time playing a major venue and it was the quintessential Spirit concert. The early show was very good but only about an hour and a half long. Apparently they were saving it for the second show which lasted about 2 ½ hours. Working through extended version of all of their songs on the first album plus a lot of new material; they delivered what may have been their perfect show.
Spirit was a Salt Lake favorite; they played there many times even before they broke into the Big Leagues. But there were many disappointed hard core fans because they had change their sound and become a little more accessible. I thought it was a great show, Mason Profit could really cook and they did. Sugarloaf was also very good just before they had their first big hit “Green eyed Lady).
What a great show, Buddy played his heart out, his last number went on and on about “I’m so tired, I just can’t go on, but I can’t stop” you know almost like a James Brown routine. Until finally he took his sweatshirt off and as he twisted it the sweat poured out like he was pouring it from a bucket. After the show he was leaving in an old 56 Cadillac Convertible and he stopped the car and started thanking people saying it “was the greatest time of his life”.
There was no opening act. The lights went down, and we were in pitch black for about 5 minutes. At the second the lights went up, the band started "Immigrant Song" It was really loud, to the point that the bass was rattling the bolts holding the seats under us.
They went right in"Heartbreaker" and Page did a prolonged guitar solo which was more amazing than Ive ever heard him do, on record or stage. After a great "Dazed and Confused" chairs were brought out, and they all sat at the edge of the stage and did some accoustic stuff off the 3d Lp. I remember "Goin to Ca" and "Tangerine" vividly, will have to try and remember the others, they did about 5.
They did "Stairway to Heaven" at this show, and we had never heard it. We thought the way they did it that night was better than the record. There was a hush after the song was finished, I have heard in interviews that Led Zep thought that it didnt go over well. I am here to say that it was because everyone there knew they had witnessed the greatest thing they had ever seen and heard, and that it was the greatest rock and roll moment in their lives, and we didnt know how to react for a minute.
They did the rock and roll medley, "Misty Mountian" and "Rock and Roll" I will try and remember more. It was the best concert I ever saw.
I dont remember hearing of the 1st Rochester concert listed on this site.
It was a blast! You shoulda been there!!!
The Allman Brothers Performance/Venue List of 1969
on The Allman Brothers Band
I want to thank the person who posted all of the Allman Brothers concert performance dates for 1969. The Allman Brothers came into full bloom in 1971, and their performances from 1971 to present are well documented. The earliest ones are much less known and talked about, so posting them in their entirety has made the rest of the process easy. (It's like you ate the vegetables first and left the steak for the rest of us). Thanks again.
I had the good fortune of seeing Duane Allman playing with the band on 6 seperate occasions. Each was memorable for their own reasons. But perhaps the most memorable was the Thanksgiving day concert at Carnegie hall, the band's first New York appearance without Duane who was killed a mere 3 weeks earlier. It made this grown man cry. I'll tell the story some day soon.
I could have sworn this was at Heinz Hall
on David Bowie, 1974 Jun 27
It WAS a long time ago and the 70's. It was the best I have seen of DB either way.
facing out w/Bonham
on Led Zeppelin, 1970 Mar 31
...so there we were two youngsters from Jersey, I was 13 years old,and Mark 15,we had a band.Anyway even the seating woman asked what are two young boys like you doing here.Well being young and small we worked our way out of our seats and behind the closed off section and sat RIGHT behind John Bonham for most all of the show.Man was it amazing.watching and feeling that power.Bonham had smoked a bunch of cigarettes and they were all laying around the drum set.When the show was over and the lights up the roadie had started taking down the set,man we were so close you could smell Bonham,anyway Mark begged the roadie for a cigarette butt,man what a trophy. He has since gone many years later to work for George Benson as stage manager etc. What a fate.By the way he was my drummer and do you know he still has that butt in a glass vile.Anyone know the whereabouts of Mark Cretella just ask him.
ps. I still have my ticket stub
Happy daze !
on Led Zeppelin, 1970 Jun 28
Good grief it’s a long time ago - I was only a teenager !
Just getting to and from this venue was a major logistical exercise as I remember it
But any way this concert promised my two favourite bands on the same bill – Floyd & Zeppelin (how much for that these days?!) Unfortunately for some reason between the 1st day and 2nd day I moved further away from the stage so my distant view of Zeppelin was Pageys ‘Farmer Giles’ outfit (quite fetching I thought) and the standout track for me was “Thats the way” it seemed particularly poignant at the time (bearing in mind Zeppelin III hadn’t been released yet)
Looking down the barrel of 36 years
on Led Zeppelin, 1973 Jan 21
Looking down the barrel of 36 years ago it's funny the things that stick in your memory.
The first is that at one point during this show I actually became aware that the balcony I was on was moving up and down alarmingly with the combination of volume and audience participation ! and I remember thinking 'oh well If I go we all go and in any case its been a great concert !'
The second thing (and its always been a source of frustration since) is that Bonzo in between numbers at one point ACTUALLY PLAYED THE INTRO TO WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS !
Wonderful sound except thats all it was - the intro to one of my all-time favourites.
Never mind I'll settle for that I'm grateful for having been there - only wish that I had kept some memorabilia but at the time you think its not important and there will always be another opportunity.In all honesty '73 wasn't my favourite Zep period (don't get me started on Houses Of The Holy/The Song Remains The Same) but nevertheless in my opinion (and I was there after all) it was a great concert albeit not a classic.
Duh!
on Led Zeppelin, 1980 Jul 7
I didn't realize that I'd been to the last concert on the tour, and the last show for John Bonham, period... until I was discussing Led Zeppelin with one of the young guys at work a few months ago. I told him that I'd seen Led Zeppelin in Berlin the year after I got stationed there (in the Air Force.) That's when we put 2 and 2 together. What do you know? I've got bragging rights :-) Now I've got to go through my boxes to find my ticket stub, and scan in those B&W negatives (if I can locate those again.)
The Pistols At Winterland
on The Sex Pistols, 1978 Jan 28
I'm not a fan. I was in a New Wave band in L.A. called Womanizer and we New Wavers were a bit at odds with the Punk Rockers. However, my brother was hired as the personal bodyguard for Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten for that tour so I was invited to the Pistol's last show in San Francisco.
It was raining hard on the flight up and was the worse plane ride I've ever experienced. Since I was in a "Punk" frame of mind and drinking heavily, I rather enjoyed the roller coaster feel of the flight. I'm sure I was the only one who did.
I was told the band would be at sound check when I arrived but I could use their motel room. It was a mess so like a good guest I spent an hour cleaning it up. When my brother Dwayne, road manager Noel Monk, Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious (Paul Cook and Steve Jones traveled separately), arrived the first thing Sid did was spit on the wall. Johnny then took a leather jacket he had just bought and thought looked "too new", and scraped it against the wall where Sid had spit leaving a huge black stain. My brother and I sat catching up and ignoring the other two who were going out of their way to trash the room. The room I had just spent an hour cleaning. At one point Sid spat across the room at a news reporter on the television reporting on the homeless people found frozen to death under the freeway onramps in San Francisco. My brother very calmly asked if Sid's spit had hit his leather jacket which was laying on top of the TV set. Sid suddenly leapt up, ran to the jacket and carefully inspected saying "No Dwayne. It didn't hit it. It's okay, see?" At first I thought he was being sarcastic as he seemed to worried that he had fouled by brother's jacket when just a second earlier he had been so cocky. If fact, the first thing Sid said to me when entering the room was, "I did this yesterday", as he showed me a six inch cut running down the inside of his left arm from the elbow to almost his wrist. He then showed me many pink keloid scars that criss crossed his pale, thin body. These were all self inflicted.
Dwayne's job was as much to keep the Pistols from killing themselves and each other as it was to protect them from their fans and the growing legion of people reacting violently against this new "Punk Rock" fad.
When we got to the show it was a sellout and I fully expected to sit in the audience but Noel Monk told me I was to help out onstage. I didn't want to do that as being a musician I wanted to enjoy the show (I had never heard the Pistols and was shocked when I did), and I new that all the girls were in the audience. But Noel insisted so I spent the concert crouched by the side with Noel Monk and Dwayne and with Bill Graham standing behind me. Ever so often Graham would tap my shoulder and say, "Guy in black has a cherry bomb", and as I looked into the sea of guys wearing black, Noel and Dwayne would be running forward and grabbing some kid out of the audience and up onto the stage. They'd had him off to another roadie, Dwayne burned his fingers on the smoke bomb the kid had lit as he dropped it into a soft drink cup and he and Noel returned to their spot on the side of the stage. I turned to Graham and said "We've got it", as if I was the supervisor.
At one point I asked Bill Graham; "Did you ever think you'd ever see anything like this?"
"No. Never." was his response.
That surprised me as I assumed he'd seen it all.
Before the show had begun the band was in a small room backstage, this was after they spit on all the food the press were now eating, and Dwayne and I were standing in the small hallway when a photographer approached us.
"Oh, you guys look so cool. I have to take your picture", she said and started clicking off several shots. Dwayne did look cool with the lighting in the hallway and the smoke floating through. "Thanks guys", she said and walked away.
I recognized the photographer as Annie Leibowitz who was well known at the time for having shot many Rolling Stone covers. I thought I could have my picture in Rolling Stone which was very exciting. My excitement turned to extreme annoyance when she returned backstage after the concert and told me she had lost her camera. Not only her camera but all her equipment along with the PHOTOS OF ME! In a panic I started to comb the backstage area.
"Where did you have it last?", I asked.
"On my seat", she answered.
"What seat?"
"Out there."
"In the audience?" I asked incredulously.
"Yes."
" Who was sitting with you?"
" No one."
" Are you telling me you left your camera and all your equipment out there with five thousand punk rocker heroin addicts?! There probably either hawking it for a fix or smashing it against a wall for kicks!" I walked away disgusted.
Dwayne went on to work with Van Halen through the David Roth years and after twenty years of hearing my brother's stories about the Pistol’s tour I finally convinced him to write a book. He refused at first because as a professional bodyguard and as a biker, he had a problem with being a "rat". So I wrote his book for him as a novel. We got a big Hollywood agent and then Dwayne died unexpectedly from a stroke at the age of fifty.
Neal Warner
www.rocknrollrehab.com
on Whitesnake, 2005 Jul 13
Blue Öyster Cult warmed up, Whitesnake kicked ass!
on Rush, 1974 May 18
A stage was setup in front of the movie screen for this noon to midnight show. Bands advertised were: Dr. John, Liverpool, Skyhook, Rush, Cosmic Beam Experience, Max Bone, The British Are Here, and I See The Light Show. I'm assuming Dr. John was the headliner. They expected 6,000 concert goers, less than half of that number turned out according to the newspaper. The event was hampered by rain, numerous od's, bikers trying to sneak in the back, and over-anxious cops.
Didn't We See Hendrix Last Night?
on The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968 Aug 4
Are You Experienced? had trinkled down to a small town in Texas. Hot damn, Jimi Hendrix was coming to Houston. Now this is back in the stone ages, I'm not sure he was getting any airtime on the radio. Anyway, concert tickets back then were printed and passed out at the ticket outlets....a clothing store chain, a piano store chain and the box office. I drove the fifty miles to Houston and went to one of the piano stores, a really stiff place with grand pianos and a salesman that talked down to you, especially if you were a fifteen year old hick. I asked for four Jimi Hendrix tickets and he said "let me check in the back and see if we received any". And to our good fortune he returned with four seats....Second Row Floor Dead Center. Of all the places for the distributor to send the good seats, this stuck up prim and proper place, I have no doubt we were the only ones to purchase from them. You have all seen the videos of JH, with the playing behind the back and the guitar fire, it was all there. We were dazed and awed by the talent running his foot long fingers all over that guitar. People were passing around hand rolled cigarettes, I had seen one on the cover of LIfe magazine but never for real. Hell, I didn't even know what "high" meant, and I know I had never said "marijuana, pot or grass' in my life or ever heard anyone else speak of it. We were from a small town in Texas, Lone Star Beer, Jax Beer and Schlitz Beer was our entertainment. But hell, we smoked the hell out of that stuff...sorry to disappoint, but I have no recollection of being high or stoned....does that mean......oh.
Wasn't Meant To Be
on David Bowie, 1983 Aug 21
The summer of 1983 is a bittersweet memory. My five year relationship was coming to an end, and not exactly by my chosing. We had made many many concerts in that five years;I had great ticket connections in the early 80s. Bowie was a favorite of her family, and pretty high on her list. I had discovered Bowie while living with her and had really come to like his sound. The concert tickets went for sale about two months ahead of time and we were on the way "out". I hired a couple of teenage girls to camp out in front of the ticket office to score some decent seats (my ticket connection wasn't available). After an all night vigile the girls returned with damn good seats, five rows above the floor very near the stage. So for the next two months I was losing my grip...bingeing and such, hoping that my life would change. But it didn't. So on the night of the concert, I drove the fifty miles to the Summit...parked and walked up to the crowd standing outside. I saw an excited couple standing around watching the crowd, I asked "Do you have seats?" They said no, but continued to smile, I said "You do now, have a great time". Handed them the tickets and walked away. One of those moments, I was very happy and very sad at the same moment.
The Salt Palace
on Salt Palace
The very first rock concert at the Salt Palace was early in the summer of 1969, shortly after it opened. The bill was:
Can Heat
The Turtles
Lee Michaels
The sound was OK for a big venue of the era, and you had to stand in line at the box office to get tickets. Sadly arena rock had come to Salt Lake City. Other artists that appeared there (sorry I don’t have the Dates) were Deep Purple, Rod Stewart and Small Faces, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Poco, Brewer and Shipley, Eric Clapton and his Band, Blind Faith with Delaney, Bonnie and Friends, Grand Funk Rail Road with Blood Rock, Iron Butterfly, The Guess Who, Country Joe and the Fish and lots more I can’t remember.
Gladsaxe Teen Club was a magic place
on Gladsaxe Teen Club
Check out the site for Gladsaxe Teen Club:
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The first performance
on The Yardbirds, 1968 Sep 7
Check out the site for Gladsaxe Teen Club:
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Jethro Tull at the Salt Palace 1975
on Jethro Tull, 1975 Jul 30
So many Jethro Tull concerts that it is hard to keep them straight!
Buddy Miles at the Terrace Ballroom
on Buddy Miles, 1972 Mar 31
Another great show.
Spirit at the Terrace Ballroom (No opening Act)
on Spirit, 1968 Nov 8
Salt Lake City Loved Spirit and had supported them in the early day when they play unknown venues in Salt Lake like “The Old Mill” and some old church down on Main Street. This was their first time playing a major venue and it was the quintessential Spirit concert. The early show was very good but only about an hour and a half long. Apparently they were saving it for the second show which lasted about 2 ½ hours. Working through extended version of all of their songs on the first album plus a lot of new material; they delivered what may have been their perfect show.
Spirit Mason Profit and Sugarloaf at the Fairgrounds Coliseum
on Spirit, 1971 Mar 3
Spirit was a Salt Lake favorite; they played there many times even before they broke into the Big Leagues. But there were many disappointed hard core fans because they had change their sound and become a little more accessible. I thought it was a great show, Mason Profit could really cook and they did. Sugarloaf was also very good just before they had their first big hit “Green eyed Lady).
Buddy Miles at the Fairgrounds Coliseum
on Buddy Miles, 1974 Jun 24
What a great show, Buddy played his heart out, his last number went on and on about “I’m so tired, I just can’t go on, but I can’t stop” you know almost like a James Brown routine. Until finally he took his sweatshirt off and as he twisted it the sweat poured out like he was pouring it from a bucket. After the show he was leaving in an old 56 Cadillac Convertible and he stopped the car and started thanking people saying it “was the greatest time of his life”.
Best show I ever saw
on Led Zeppelin, 1971 Sep 11
There was no opening act. The lights went down, and we were in pitch black for about 5 minutes. At the second the lights went up, the band started "Immigrant Song" It was really loud, to the point that the bass was rattling the bolts holding the seats under us.
They went right in"Heartbreaker" and Page did a prolonged guitar solo which was more amazing than Ive ever heard him do, on record or stage. After a great "Dazed and Confused" chairs were brought out, and they all sat at the edge of the stage and did some accoustic stuff off the 3d Lp. I remember "Goin to Ca" and "Tangerine" vividly, will have to try and remember the others, they did about 5.
They did "Stairway to Heaven" at this show, and we had never heard it. We thought the way they did it that night was better than the record. There was a hush after the song was finished, I have heard in interviews that Led Zep thought that it didnt go over well. I am here to say that it was because everyone there knew they had witnessed the greatest thing they had ever seen and heard, and that it was the greatest rock and roll moment in their lives, and we didnt know how to react for a minute.
They did the rock and roll medley, "Misty Mountian" and "Rock and Roll" I will try and remember more. It was the best concert I ever saw.
I dont remember hearing of the 1st Rochester concert listed on this site.
It was a blast! You shoulda been there!!!