Posted on 03/08/2025 2:36:11 PM PST by Fuzz
Was compiling a list.
U2
Peter Gabriel
Tom Petty
The alarm
Squeeze
Miles Davis
Aretha Franklin
Hothouse flowers
The Ramones
Rush
Carlos Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Roberta Flack
Primus
Georgia Satellites
Tito Puente
Screaming Blue messiahs
Rem
The Mighty Lemon Drops
Smashing Pumpkins Jeff Healey
10,000 maniacs
Primus
Little Richard
Ray Charles
Echo and the Bunny men
Miracle Legion
Bruce Cockburn
New Order
Sting
Public Image Limited
Joe Jackson
The Replacements
Paul Westerberg
The Cult
The Divynals
Spyro Gyra
Bella Fleck
Bo Diddley
Buddy Guy
Pat Metheny
Hiroshima
David Brubeck
Grover Washington Jr
BB King
Pat Metheny
Tower of Power
The Sundays
Lionel Hampton
Herbie Hancock
Mel Torme
David Sanborn
Natalie Cole
Hooters
Wilson Pickett
Branford Marsalis
The Temptations
Dizzy Gillespie
Kenny G
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Bonnie Raitt
Winton Marsalis
The Smitherines
James Taylor
If anyone here have seen Bubblepuppy or Lagnafs I’d like to talk to you.
Stevie Wonder
Ike and Tina Turner
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Yard Birds
Beatles
Billy Joe Royale
Jerry Reed
It was a multi-artist show mainly featuring new talent. Love brought the house down with their rendition of "Little Red Book" which inspired me to buy their album which I still have, also Procol Harum was there with their new song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" first time hearing it for me. The concert was quite a revelation for me, I was 17 and saw Hippy's for the first time. I remember one girl was wearing only a bed sheet and one guy was wearing a Batman costume because of the show currently on TV at that time.
Yeah. They put on a good show. Any time they went through Eugene in the late ‘80s, some of the guys I lived with opened for them at Max’s or Taylors. Probably could have filled those places with word-of-mouth, but the guys always seemed to get posters made up. People were packed in.
Most of my concerts were from '81 - '86, so no $3 tickets, but $10 was not uncommon. I think the profit model has changed a lot because people don't pay for music like they used to.
The concerts used to be a promotional tool for the album, and album sales were where the money was. Now the album (if there is one) is a promotional tool for the concert, and the concert has to be the money-maker (because most people don't pay for the music now).
“Strawberry Alarm Clock!”
They played in my high school gymnasium in Willimantic , CT in 1967 . I was 15 . After the show my buddies went up on stage to talk with the band , I lifted a set list off one of the amps and a cigarette butt that the bassist used to burn out one of the songs from that list . I still have both would you believe it ? Lovin’ Spoonful played in our gym , too .
What can I say, but, “Far out!” You were at the epicenter of the Summer of Love! Thanks for sharing. Arthur Lee and Love influenced so much of the music since their time.
In those days, cig butts in gym were probably the norm.
“Strawberry Alarm Clock!”
They played in my high school gymnasium in Willimantic , CT in 1967 . I was 15 . After the show my buddies went up on stage to talk with the band , I lifted a set list off one of the amps and a cigarette butt that the bassist used to burn out one of the songs from that list . I still have both would you believe it ? Lovin’ Spoonful played in our gym , too .
Was Ed King (later of Lynyrd Skynyrd) there?
You must remember E O Smith HS up the road
Grad there 1973
There was a concert venue at Conantville Road named ?
I had to confirm which member was Ed King . The setlist I snagged and the cigarette butt were on his amp and not the bassist’s !
Yes, that’s Bread
Of course I remember E.O. Smith . Peter Tork of The Monkees went to Windham High for 3 years but was in the first class to graduate from E. O. Smith . He lived in Mansfield and did up until his death . My uncle graduated from E. O. Smith , too . The venue on Conantville Road was called The Shaboo Inn . I knew the guys who owned it . I moved from Willimantic in 1971 but often returned to visit friends and family .
When “Do It Again” came out, it was so different than anything else on the radio. I would have guessed at the time that Steely Dan would wind up as a one-hit wonder.
But then once you heard the whole “Can’t Buy A Thrill” album, you knew they were going to be big, and have a long run. And they did.
If memory serves The Smiths were quite good the night we saw them . Marr was in top form as was Morrissey .
JJ Cale is perhaps my favorite artist was so happy I got to see him perform. It was in Charlotte NC after Travel-Log was released
Thanks, as a long time music fan I was ecstatic when the opportunity fell in my lap. It was both exhilarating and at times intimidating but very rewarding
Simon and Garfunkel
Kansas-comp tickets and backstage passes. Band was friends of friends.
Chicago
Earth Wind and Fire
Leonid and friends. 4X
Petra
2nd Chapter of Acts
Amy Grant
Charlie Daniels
That’s so cool!
One of my favorite songs of his is “Call Me The Breeze”. I recently learned that Eric Clapton did a tribute album with other artists entitled “The Breeze”. So I asked for that on vinyl for Christmas. It wasn’t easy to find, but hubby managed.
It’s a terrific album, but of course, hearing JJ’s version live would’ve been a dream come true.
Lucky you!
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