My best memories include listening to Joe Cocker sing "With a Little
Help from My Friends" in 1968 while sitting on the floor at the Aragon
Ballroom in Chicago. Pass that joint! Then the Paul Butterfield Blues
Band singing "Love March" at the Arie Crown Theater in 1969. And I
can't forget senior day at my high school in 1966. Some of my
classmates were in a band called the Tradewinds, and they sang "We
Gotta Get Out of This Place. In later years they changed their name to
Styx and sold some records.
Paul
On May 21, 2009, at 7:08 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Joseph McAllister
On May 18, 2009, at 12:30 , John Francis wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:42:45PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
>> John Francis wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:06:53AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
>>>> From: Charles Robinson
>>>>
>>>> Ahhhh - but my FIRST concert was October 11, 1965;
Reynolds >>>> Coliseum,
>>>> Raleigh, NC - The Rolling Stones.
>>>
>>> Beat me by four years - my first (and only) Stones concert was
>>> the 1969 "Concert for Brian" in Hyde Park.
Being older than most of you by a few years, I can state that I
attended many concerts in San Francisco at many venues between
1967 and 1972. Don't remember many of them. Golden Gate Park was
the closest to my apartment in the Haight. There I saw Baez,
Dylan, Janis, Santana, Slick, Hendrix and Havens. My first wife's
sister lived across the street from Kezar Stadium, and we listened
to a few concerts there from their living room windows. At some
point, I probably saw Lindsey and Stevie Nicks open for Hendrix or
Janis as "Fritz". Some of the aforementioned were also at Altamont
in 69. I left there before the Stones were finished with their
set. Too freaky.
But the most memorable indoor event was Zappa's "The Mothers of
Invention" concert. Loud, tight, marvelously cacophonous music.
That was topped in 1972 or 73 by Pink Floyd in Boston at the
Garden. Dark Side of the Moon. 6th row center and properly
medicated. At least a week before I could hear well again. Never
been able to think well again though. Been a Floyd addict ever
since.
Most of my "memorable" concert moments are oddities
... a Jethro Tull show for the Aqualung tour that probably didn't
draw 200 people - Ian Anderson sitting down on the front edge of the
stage between songs to talk to people in the audience
... and "For What It's Worth", Buffalo Springfield opening for the
Beach Boys in 1966 or 1967
... a "back to school" dance in 1968 - $2 cover for some band from
Georgia ... The Allman Brothers BEFORE they could afford
motorcycles. Three 40 minute sets
... another dance that year put on by the student union in the old
Graham Memorial building at UNC; $3 cover for some band from
California called the Grateful Dead.
... Moody Blues at Memorial Auditorium with the NC Symphony
orchestra where I took the Pentax Auto-110 kit since the back of the
ticket didn't have the usual "no cameras allowed" restrictions.
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