Posted on 03/09/2021 9:25:04 AM PST by bigdaddy45
I have the rock-and-roll tastes of a 75 year old I guess and I owe it to my dad. Bob Seger. Moody Blues. Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Steve Winwood. And a whole lot of others.
The opening act was so bad that the crowd was still booing during the Spinal Tap show. Great line from the movie.
She used to rent the house behind my friends cabin near Bolton Landing Lake George for summers. Must have been the early 70's.
Schools out for summer!!!
I think Winwood is touring with Steely Dan this summer.
My wife saw Sinatra late though. Still said it was great.
Saw Croce, Chapin and Denver and they were all great. A woman really wanted to see Denver in Phoenix in the 1970s and it was totally sold out. I took her and talked our way inside by saying we left our tickets at home. We had to move around the whole night but we got to see a great show. She was a commercial pilot before joining AF. Too early to be a pilot in the AF. They sent her to AF Academy to help with first class of females. After retirement became a commercial pilot flying cargo. Got a strain of extremely fast and deadly cancer and was gone in just a few months.
I just remembered a few more:
The Fabulous Thunderbirds opened for Eric Clapton at the Buffalo Aud.
Santana at Darien Lake Amusement Park(Now Six Flags)
Bonnie Raitt at Holman Stadium in Nashua, NH
Steve Winwood @ Holman Stadium in Nashua, NH
Bob Dylan @ Holman Stadium in Nashua, NH
Jorma Kaukonen at a bar in Buffalo
I'm not complaining, I loved it there. I rented a small apartment from a German family. Across the alley was a vineyard, and a couple of miles away was a clear view of at 14th century castle.
My daily commute took me through the town of Urzig, along the Mosel River.
I haven’t listened to that song in a long time.
Would have loved to see Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was alive. Videos posted on youtube indicate his concerts were incredible.
Saw Seger at Wolftrap in Northern Virginia. Had just lost a fellow USAF officer who could have been Chief of Staff of AF (he had the support) but wanted to go back to cockpit. While in upgrade training flew through the jet wash of another fighter and destroyed the aircraft while in the air. The Seger concert always reminds me of that night and his loss. Crazy, I know.
When I saw him he had trouble on slower ballads, but could still do the up-tempo numbers very well.
Maybe David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars in 72/73. Saw Bowie in 1990 in a big outdoor area, was OK, but we were so far back.
Maybe the best concert I ever attended was Prince/The Time/Vanity 6 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit in 1982. I think they were maybe a dozen other white people there besides me and my girlfriend at the time.
Saw Fleetwood Mac in Phoenix in the early 1970’s. Buckingham and Nicks had just joined and they really cooking.
(*sigh*) If he could only pull Traffic and Blind Faith back together as well.
I originally posted this, am shocked at the response, and this far down it will probably get ignored, but the reason I posted this in the first place was that I was listening to some live J. Geils Band from about 1972. Incredible stuff. Ahh to be able to go back in time.
A friend bought 6 tickets, 4 and 2 for FM at SPAC around 1978. He was going to have me sit in the 4 group but he and a friend got dates so me and the other fella sat in the 2, front row on stage right. Could reach out and touch Nicks flowing dress. Joe Walsh warmed them up, he was so drunk/high he could barely stand up, but he got thru it.
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