The Return of The Moving Sidewalks (Billy Gibbons returns to his first band)

New York Times ^ | January 1, 2013 | ALLAN KOZINN

[Lancey Howard]

Yes... it definitely was different as to where the big groups played in the 60’s

The '70s weren't much different. In 1971 I saw Humble Pie and Black Sabbath open for Mountain at the Spectrum in Philly. About nine months later, Humble Pie and Alice Cooper opened for Black Sabbath at the Spectrum. Those kinds of "dance concerts" (that's what they called them at the Spectrum back then, because the tickets were for admission only - - sit or stand wherever you could) were very common, basically every week.

In 1975 ('76?) we drove from Penn State over to Bucknell to see Rush and Kiss open for Blue Oyster Cult. Believe me, the tickets for all these concerts were cheap. (By the way, that Blue Oyster Cult concert left me with a headache for three days. It was ridiculously, uncomfortably loud.)

[stevie_d_64]

Major COOL, bump!!!

[RedWhiteBlue]

Mark Erlewine is also responsible for keeping “Trigger,” Willie Nelson’s guitar, alive.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature5.php&issue=2012-12-01

[Lancey Howard]

Wwo, that’s great! thanks for that story. I will send it to my daughter. The funny thing is, she just needed her guitar fixed when her crew got to Austin, and when she walked into Erlewine’s shop, she had never heard of him. Now she feels honored that he fixed her guitar.

[Huntress]

Thanks. I didn’t recognize him without the beard.

[Liberty Valance]

[cbkaty]

I was fortunate enough to attend the Catacombs event 08/31/1968......I shall never forget.......the Sidewalks were great.....and the Mothers were outrageous as usual........memories......