In high school I was not a rock fan and only played it for the money.
My choice was jazz concerts and saw Dave Brubeck in 1962 in Seattle and
later that summer Errol Garner at the World's Fair (a record was
released of that concert). In my senior year saw Brubeck once again and
helped Joe Morello pack up his drums. Then the local liberal arts
college had Duke Ellington in for a concert. Afterwards the band played
for a dance and the drummer, Sam Woodyard, tried to get me to sit in.
I've always kicked myself that I didn't.
My first "rock concert" was with some of my fellow music students in my
freshman year at the University of Washington. It was mainly a concert
of regional bubble gum bands with Paul Revere and the Raiders
headlining. Then that fall I went to a concert where the headliner was
the Beach Boys but that was to scope out the scene since I was playing
in a rock group.
From then on I got paid to attend rock concerts as the band played in
them. Of course met a lot of famous rock folks of the day. One of the
weirder rock concerts was a pop concert at the Seattle Aqua Theater
where the preceding act was Glenn Campbell (just him and his guitar) and
the emcees were Sonny and Cher.
On 03/18/2015 06:09 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The first rock concert I went to was to see Free when their hit All
Right Now topped the charts. So it is a sign of how long ago that was
that I learn that bassist Andy Fraser, who co-wrote Free's hit, has
died in California aged 62. The musician died on Monday and he had
been fighting cancer and Aids, according to an official statement
regarding his death. The song itself still stands the test of time . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydItRbb0b1E
