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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 24/01/2014 : 20:47:02
We all have our favorite artist's shows that will remain as our favorite musical performance experiences in our lives. I never saw Arthur, and wish I had, but there are still hundreds of other memorable acts that will live forever in our memories...
Share some please, if you'd be so kind.
Jefferson Airplane-1970...Volunteers tour
Venue-U of I Field House, University of Iowa
1970
I shared this ages ago but it's worth a repeat...I'll never forget the Airplane at their musical and live performance peak, just months after Woodstock.
I attended a Jefferson Airplane show in early 1970 at a midwestern college (a very liberal University- mass arrests -- anti-war protests, myself included--our little town was buried in the very conservative bible belt)). The audiences then were very appreciative and grooved (seated) to the music in large auditoriums with full seating balconies & floor seating - folding chairs right up to the stage. The idea to have been jumping around, cheering & dancing the way they do now would have been disrespectful & rude to concert goers AND performers - as if we were at some sock hop listening to records. You were grooving, respecting the music, in awe and likely stoned a bit  , and LISTENING with every fiber of your being... to the amazing music being performed. Watch Monterey Pop footage 1967...everyone sat, totally grooving (and mostly stoned) to the music.
In that Airplane concert that I experienced, when Grace first took the stage... she grabbed the mic and exclaimed, "The f@#king pigs just trashed our dressing room (looking for dope)"...we cheered Grace, and booed the pigs. So you need to understand the real tension and harassment the cops gave us long haired hippie freaks--it was really intense. But we let our freak flag fly...
The Airplane then exploded into "We Can Be Together" with those iconic lyrics....
"Up against the wall, up against the wall motherf@#kers"!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxA3Q96a8XE
Grace and Marty were sublime...with Jorma & Jack at their blistering best...and Spencer Dryden (RIP)...the best drummer of his generation (Joey Covington never came close to Drydens' hypnotic and amazing licks).
Yep, those were the days...and believe me, I know how very lucky I am to have been a part of the 60's generation!
(pix from concerts but not Iowa unfortunately)
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
-lk |
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| underture |
Posted - 30/01/2014 : 15:18:05
Not from the heyday of music, but still a very emotional concert for me. November 2002 at the University of Florida bandshell The Robby Krieger Band. Have been a huge Doors fan my whole life, and by accident I found out they were playing in my hometown. The bandshell is an outdoor venue, small. Still can't forget when he came out to set up, five feet away from me. It wasn't the Doors proper, but was something I thought I'd never see.
FYI Scott-my Dad (now deceased) is a U of Iowa alumni, but from the late 1940's. My parents were from Iowa-Dysart and Cedar Falls.
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| stewart |
Posted - 29/01/2014 : 21:35:41
[quote]Originally posted by DaveyTee
I can't remember whether it was '67 or '68. The only reason I said 1967 because that was the year suggested in this site, http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle -a really interesting site. [quote]
that v interesting site confirms it was 27/5/68 http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/68/ |
| stewart |
Posted - 29/01/2014 : 21:26:14
I've just remembered another classic 60s gig at Kirklevington Country Club 17/12/67- Eric Burdon & the Animals ( Winds of Change era), the first light show i'd ever seen |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 29/01/2014 : 18:48:50
anyone see the Pink Floyd with Barrett
been listening to their Stockholm gig from 67 a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91Q8ZjXDu0
Seems a good set: Mathilda Mother, Pow R Toc H, Scream Thy Last Scream: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, See Emily Play, Interstellar Overdrive
Nowadays theres noone I'd actually go to see unless it was the Left Banke reformed! Or Robyn Hitchcock. Who occasionally does the odd Love cover
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| DaveyTee |
Posted - 29/01/2014 : 10:19:56
I have to confess that looking back to those halcyon days of the 60s any gig involving Julie Driscoll was a favourite concert moment. 
DT
But I Can't Understand
Why We Let Someone Else
Rule Our Land
Cap in Hand.
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| DaveyTee |
Posted - 29/01/2014 : 01:27:14
I can't remember whether it was '67 or '68. The only reason I said 1967 because that was the year suggested in this site, http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle -a really interesting site. They quote Ferry as remembering that he was DJ at that gig. Beefheart drummer John French remembered that it was a "rough looking place". I also remember going to Middle Earth once, but can't for the life of me remember who I saw there although strangely I do remember that prior up to the act, whatever that was, several tracks from The United States of America's only album were played.
DT
But I Can't Understand
Why We Let Someone Else
Rule Our Land
Cap in Hand. |
| stewart |
Posted - 28/01/2014 : 20:27:10
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Assuming that was in 1967, I was at that gig! I was a student at Durham University at the time and travelled up to Newcastle
I'm sure he only played there the once so if you saw him there it was late May 1968, In Michael Bracewell’s book – ‘Roxy – the band that invented an era’, Bryan Ferry says he was the dj at that gig. Beefheart's first ever UK gig (at Middle Earth) was on 20 January 1968 |
| DaveyTee |
Posted - 28/01/2014 : 12:57:01
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Originally posted by stewart
The Club a Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne was the unlikely setting for the Captain and his Magic Band.
Assuming that was in 1967, I was at that gig! I was a student at Durham University at the time and travelled up to Newcastle quite often for the nightlife. I saw quite a lot of acts at the Go-Go, but it's difficult to remember any individual acts as many of the the same ones used to appear at the university Saturday night gigs. One of the ones I do remember was The Animals in late '67 - great band, great gig especially on their home ground.
DT
But I Can't Understand
Why We Let Someone Else
Rule Our Land
Cap in Hand. |
| stewart |
Posted - 28/01/2014 : 01:38:29
Excluding Love gigs, the Doors/Jefferson Airplane gig at the Roundhouse, London takes some beating, as does a Mazzy Star/Sparklehorse gig, a Liz Phair/Oasis gig, and a Morphine gig at Manchester University,and Ed Kuepper playing at my retirement celebration at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, and all the Low gigs I've been to in in the last 20 years, but tops would have to be my 2nd Captain Beefheart gig (the first was at Middle Earth, London). The Club a Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne was the unlikely setting for the Captain and his Magic Band. The gig was in 2 halves, one set was in an under 18 no alcohol room, the second in the over 18 room, and after being mesmerised by a 30 minute version of Rollin n Tumblin me and my mates had the privelege of helping the band carry the amps and gear from one room to the other and have a chat and smoke with the Captain himself. A perfect night. |
| markk |
Posted - 28/01/2014 : 01:31:58
I too was there at the Warsaw in Brooklyn. Pretty cool place with the strong smell of Bratwurst in the air. This was like a Polish town hall. Chatted with Mike at the bar.
Saw Albert King, Procul Harum and the Allman Bros for free in Boston at the River Charles summer of 1970. So good.
Saw The Blues Project 1965 Greenwich Village. Never saw anything like it. |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 27/01/2014 : 23:25:01
Seeing Love in Brooklyn at the Warsaw was miraculous, certainly, even with all those opening bands! |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 27/01/2014 : 17:08:27
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Originally posted by John9
I envy you having seen the Airplane live, LK - they were hardly ever over here. One of my most memorable concert moments was Al Stewart performing Roads To Moscow at an intimate student bar in Leicester on 28 February 1974 - just a few days after Alexander Solzhenitsyn (on whom the song had been loosely based) had been expelled by the Soviet authorities and put on a plane bound for Frankfurt:
They came over the border an hour before dawn
Just looking again at the two pictures of Grace Slick, the second one I think is of her at Monterey in mid '67. She really was very pretty then. By 1970 it seems as though that the effects of drugs and booze had kicked in - and of course that was one of several things that would, a few months later, cause Marty to walk out on the band he had founded back in 1965. If I could take just one concert moment with me to the other side, it would be this one......it is truly sublime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e7_htDTYJU
What was it about 1965-68? We had it all then ..and in the main, we didn't even know it. Build me a time machine someone! 
You're right, in looking back we didn't know quite how much we had (we were kids and lovin' it all), though I think we all somehow knew that we were a part of something really special, from Dylan to the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield to Moby Grape, Beatles to Stones, there really was something in the air...yeah we knew that it was the greatest time to be alive. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure kids today don't feel quite the same way. The music isn't so special, with the times so jaded today, the social network so sadly impersonal & sucking the life out of life- when we wanted to connect we went to coffee house or teen concert hall, we didn't boot up.
It was all so new, as if we had breathed the newly made crisp, clean air of creativity for the first time, unpolluted, exhilarating! ...that we were hearing music no one had ever conceived of before...the crown of creation!
That Al Stewart live set sounds fantastic--his Past Present Future LP was played often on our local FM station but I never got tired of Roads to Moscow. Not his biggest album in sales, but my favorite for sure!
IF YOU FEEL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ldpwHlyZuQ
If you feel like china breaking,
If you feel like laughing;
Break china laughing.
Break china laughing, laughing, laughing.
If you feel like leaves are falling
If you feel like smiling;
Fall leaves are smiling.
Fall leaves are smiling, smiling, smiling, yeah.
If you feel like love making,
If you feel like flying;
Make love flying, baby.
Make love flying, flying, flying, yeah.
Got down...
Not the first time, you know...
Got down, got up to go.
Got up to go.
If you feel like china breaking,
If you feel like laughing;
Break china laughing.
Break china laughing, laughing,
Laughing, laughing, laughing,
Laughing, laughing, laughing,
Laughing, laughing.
Crown Of Creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-dz3cxhQy4
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
-lk |
| John9 |
Posted - 26/01/2014 : 21:35:55
I envy you having seen the Airplane live, LK - they were hardly ever over here. One of my most memorable concert moments was Al Stewart performing Roads To Moscow at an intimate student bar in Leicester on 28 February 1974 - just a few days after Alexander Solzhenitsyn (on whom the song had been loosely based) had been expelled by the Soviet authorities and put on a plane bound for Frankfurt:
They came over the border an hour before dawn
Just looking again at the two pictures of Grace Slick, the second one I think is of her at Monterey in mid '67. She really was very pretty then. By 1970 it seems as though that the effects of drugs and booze had kicked in - and of course that was one of several things that would, a few months later, cause Marty to walk out on the band he had founded back in 1965. If I could take just one concert moment with me to the other side, it would be this one......it is truly sublime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e7_htDTYJU
What was it about 1965-68? We had it all then ..and in the main, we didn't even know it. Build me a time machine someone! |
| BobbyFischer |
Posted - 24/01/2014 : 23:50:45
1993 Deep Purple Oslo, second last performance with mark 2 line up ( their last show was Helsinki a day or two later). The tension beetween the members were so visible, I remember Blackmore glanzing away and even at one occasin pushing other groupmembers away when they entered to near his circle!
Although this hatred they performed a fantastic show, like they knew it was one of the last they would do.
Many years later,I found out via internet that this wasnt just subjective, its considered the best concert the Group did on the last tour, their next and final "endgame" in Helsinki were horrible.
Here is a clip from the legendary concert, unfortunally crap sound and picture but still.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DU3t_EOgKo |
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