garym;568810 Wrote: > Way off topic now, but yep it was the good ole days! My first concert as > a young teenager was the Grateful Dead, 12/26/69 (SMU Auditorium, Dallas > Texas). Interestingly enough, I can actually stream that exact show from > Live Music Archive! Of course everyone's taste differs and different > age groups have their "classic" years, but I always thought I was lucky > to be able to see many of the rock classic artists in their prime. I > went to virtually every concert that came to Dallas/Ft Worth from 1969 > until about 1977. So I got to see Jimi Hendrix, The Doors (with a very > drunk Jim Morrison during the 2nd Show), Janis Joplin, Led Zepp in 69 > or 70, the Bob Dylan and the Band during the 73 or 74 "before the > flood" tour. And I got to see people like Stevie Ray Vaughn when he was > playing the back room (not even the main stage) at little clubs like > "Mother Blues". In '73 I saw Bruce Springsteen in a club that probably > held 150 people (Gerdies on Lemmon Ave), and maybe only 30 people were > there. Very few people had ever heard of him (this was the tour around > his second album, probably his first national tour). I only went > because a friend from Austin had just seen him at Armadillo World > Headquarters and raved about the show. He blew the roof off Gerdies and > I guarantee those 30 people were instant fans. And even better, he and > the band stood at the bar during the set break (yes they played Sets!) > and chatted with anyone who was around. > > I better stop, I could go on forever....
If you're ever in new joisey, please let me know, would love to buy you a beer (or seven) and hear stories...one claim to fame here, met my wife at a Dead show :D -- fphredd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fphredd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80811 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
