Posted on 08/20/2016 7:01:46 PM PDT by Mariner
I was fortunate enough to see the original band in their prime.
In fact I was at this very show about 30 feet back from the stage.
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They don't make 'em like this anymore.
I’ve had The Breeze live at Knebworth Fair from 1976 on my fav YT list for years...*smiles*....impossible not to tap you’re toes
I saw them at the Music Hall in Boston in 1976. They kicked serious ass.
Great clip, but where’s the late great Billy Powell?? He must have been out that day.
A while back, someone posted a thread about best live bands and performances. I linked the Knebworth Fair recording of “Searching”. That was mid-way through the set list and they hadn’t even broken a sweat. A great moment in time, for a young and talented group of musicians at the height of their abilities.
The summer of 1977, I had just turned 19 and was a student at the Great Lakes Naval Training Command near Waukegan, Ill. My roommate and I went down to Soldiers Field to one of those multi-band concerts: REO, Ted Nugent, 38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
We were on the field, about three-quarter way back from the stage. Remember, in those days, there was little security. People came in with blankets, food, plastic milk jugs of water, cameras, etc. After baking in a long, hot, sunny Chicago day, the sun finally dipped below the rim of the field and Ted Nugent came on as the final act.
Suddenly someone threw some watermelon down from the stands behind us. The guy behind us threw it back up into the stands. This started a back-n-forth of stuff being thrown -- mostly the empty plastic milk jugs. Soon, more and more people got into the act of throwing jugs. This quickly evolved into the entire stadium throwing these jugs into the air and the entire Soldiers Field transformed into a giant air-popcorn machine. I was inside a popcorn machine listening to 10,000 watts of Ted Nugent! We were laughing so hard!!
So then Ted, seeing this, says something like, "Hey all you motherf*****s, throw those motherf*****g jugs up here!" Suddenly the popcorn turned into a rolling wave heading for the stage and in no time, the band was chest deep in plastic milk jugs. They stopped the show. The band left the stage. The roadies came out with push brooms which proved futile. But after several minutes, they pushed all the jugs off stage and into the pit between the stage and audience and the show resumed.
This is the only one of these Soldier Field concerts I went to that summer (or any other concert for that matter ever) where this happened. It's such a vivid memory I can see it to this day! Thanks for asking!
cast to my tv very nice thx
My lovely daughter and son-in-law saw them at Bethel Woods (Woodstock site) a few years ago. Because not as many kids take up smoking as our generation did, some genius developed a Zippo lighter app for i-Phones and Androids. So when they played Free Bird, 20,000 cell phones were waving in the air ;)
fixed the audio on my cast and now their doin the breeze thx
m,
this is a significant observation for what is is worth. In 1975 people at an event in San Francisco could actually identify and connect with a band from Alabama.
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Best live bands and performances?
Some of them are Dead.
m,
this is a significant observation for what is is worth. In 1975 people at an event in San Francisco could actually identify with a band from Alabama.
Just not the same.
I should restate that.
“Most of them are from the Dead”
bookmarking...never saw them. So sad.
They actually came from Jacksonville Florida. And for whats it worth department. I just watched them in concert in Reno NV tonight and they were fantastic. The sound ( equipment speaking )is so much better than it was back in the 70’s. The had the house rocking at the Peppermill.
In '76 there was a Day on the Green in Oakland with Skynard and Peter Frampton. Frampton and his bandmates all wore silk kimonos and scarves. Skynard wore jeans, t-shirts, boots and cowboy hats. There was a complete crowd split - Frampton played first, half the crowd slept, partied, mocked and even booed. When they were done though, the WHOLE crowd went crazy for Skynard, who truly kicked @ss. I also heard the two bands didn't like each other either.
Saw them with Frampton at day on the green in 77.
That was a crazy show.
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