Posted on 03/11/2005 8:00:21 PM PST by 11th_VA
I was at that show at Soldier Field, that would have been the one with Skynyrd. correct? Great show.
Wow -- 4,500 LPs -- I have some pretty large stacks of wax, but you have me beat!! Just for the record -- no pun intended -- 98.6 came out in late 1966 -- other songs out then were "Kind Of A Drag" by The Buckinghams; "Nashville Cats" by The Lovin Spoonful; "I'm Losing You" by The Temptations; "Tell It Like It Is" by Aaron Neville; "Good Thing" by Paul Revere and the Raiders; and, a bit more obscure, "It's Now Winter's Day" by Tommy Roe. Don't ask why I remember that particular period so vividly -- I couldn't tell you what I had for lunch today!! But you're right, summers in the 60s seem pretty glorious from here, don't they?
And thanks all for the birthday wishes.
As for Nuge, I agree..."Journey To The Center Of The Mind"/Amboy Dukes belongs in the R&R Hall of Fame...
Agree that "Journey To The Center Of The Mind" was a great one -- summer of 68 -- when else? Same time as "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" by Status Quo. Wonderful, melting, psychedelic guitar riffs. Yet another example of those glorious 60s summers!! And so much insanity was taking place politically.
Works for me.
OTOH sadam has lost weight since he's been a guest of the US military, and Michael "Three Cheeseburger" Moore should get his own zip code.
Best concert I ever saw in my life was Terrible Ted. Legend Valley, 25 years ago.
Happy Birthday!!
Well. There it is. I think the Nuge makes a heck of a lot of sense and that really drives the Church ladies batty. Long live rock!
I had the pleasure of seeing Ted several times during his solo heyday in the 1970's but truly the loudest concert I ever went to, and still feel the after effects to this day, was at the 1979 California World Music Festival, which lasted two days and featured the best 70's rock bands playing over what was, for the then, the largest sound system ever assembled (at the LA Coliseum). When Ted peaked it was so loud the system actually distorted.
The original "Kiss My Ass" was about x42 and reno. I had a tape of it from a Rockline special that was run on Memorial Day back around 1993/94 but it was stolen in the tape player.
Crawford ping.
Yes, that was the one. When Ted got on stage it was late in the afternoon. Everyone had brought plastic milk bottles for water, since it was so hot. An when Ted started to play, Thousands of the bottles went up in the air - for the next 20 minutes it looked like millions of ping pong balls in the stadium were popping up and down. Craziest thing I've ever seen.
Is Mojo Nixon a conservative?
I love the Reverend! Not too many people around here have heard of him, but he comes once in a while.
Didn't see that one, but I used to see Ted & the Dukes at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in the late 60s. Biggest treat was hearing him plug in behind closed curtains -- he'd crank the Byrd through that big stack of Fenders and deliver some of the greatest Godzilla roars you ever heard. And that hummingbird vibrato with those long-sustained, sweetly-distorted notes turning into feeback on-demand. My favorite sounds on earth at the time...
A good show I remember was the Agora, Columbus, Ohio, about 1970. The Amboy Dukes with Glass Harp, featuring a young Phil Keaggy, as the opening act. Good stuff!
PS -- yeah, my hearing's just fine. Why do you ask? ;^)
I've been a Nuge fan since I was a little kid. But my admiration for him went up still further after reading that comment.
WHAT!? No "Stormtrooper" {;^)
Mojo Nixon is more of a libertarian than a conservative. But he's no liberal. He can be heard on the "Outlaw Country" station on Sirius. He DJ's the afternoon shift.
I got you both beat. I was thinking "Keith" from the Partridge Family when I first saw this thread. Started humming "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted." I'm sick, sick, sick.
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