01-01-2011, 03:46 PM
I love all the reminiscing. Nice story, birdmove. [
] Please stop saying you're a geezer. I graduated from HS in '68, and you were in 7th grade. I was born in '52.
My earliest big concerts were the Beatles at Hollywood Bowl '65, Stones at the Bowl '66, Beatles Dodger Stadium '66 (their next to last concert), Dylan & the Band in Pasadena in Dec. '66, Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl '67 ... and then summer of '67 I saw the whole Monterey Pop Festival, 5 concerts -- never again saw anything in scope to match the number of great artists at one event. Later that summer I saw Hendrix again at the L.A. Shrine, and went to the Newport Pop Festival. Also the Devonshire Downs show headed by the Jefferson Airplane, where L.A. County Sheriffs kind of busted things up.
Another great one was Frank Zappa and the Mothers at the Shrine in '68, and the Cream Farewell concert at the LA Forum on 10/29/68 -- their final USA appearance.
Those were the good old days!
In spite of all those big concerts, I really love the small venues.
One of my faves was seeing Van Morrison at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma. What a strange world. I googled it just now to check when that was, and got a hit on someone selling the used ticket on eBay for 5 Euros. Shoots, I still have my ticket stub. Are these things worth money now?
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Van-Morrison-TICKET-M...0580604833
Seeing Arlo Guthrie at the old biker bar in Fort Bragg (CA) with just a guitar and a small portable amp in front of a couple dozen folding chairs was a truly small venue show of which I'll cherish the memory too.
I would have liked to see Mayall play again. He must be getting up there, but John Lee Hooker was still playing live at age 85 ...
I also went to Altamont. I walked ten miles from where we parked in the dead of night in December ... then spent the day in a sleeping bag until the show started.
] Please stop saying you're a geezer. I graduated from HS in '68, and you were in 7th grade. I was born in '52.My earliest big concerts were the Beatles at Hollywood Bowl '65, Stones at the Bowl '66, Beatles Dodger Stadium '66 (their next to last concert), Dylan & the Band in Pasadena in Dec. '66, Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl '67 ... and then summer of '67 I saw the whole Monterey Pop Festival, 5 concerts -- never again saw anything in scope to match the number of great artists at one event. Later that summer I saw Hendrix again at the L.A. Shrine, and went to the Newport Pop Festival. Also the Devonshire Downs show headed by the Jefferson Airplane, where L.A. County Sheriffs kind of busted things up.
Another great one was Frank Zappa and the Mothers at the Shrine in '68, and the Cream Farewell concert at the LA Forum on 10/29/68 -- their final USA appearance.
Those were the good old days!
In spite of all those big concerts, I really love the small venues.
One of my faves was seeing Van Morrison at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma. What a strange world. I googled it just now to check when that was, and got a hit on someone selling the used ticket on eBay for 5 Euros. Shoots, I still have my ticket stub. Are these things worth money now?
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Van-Morrison-TICKET-M...0580604833
Seeing Arlo Guthrie at the old biker bar in Fort Bragg (CA) with just a guitar and a small portable amp in front of a couple dozen folding chairs was a truly small venue show of which I'll cherish the memory too.
I would have liked to see Mayall play again. He must be getting up there, but John Lee Hooker was still playing live at age 85 ...
I also went to Altamont. I walked ten miles from where we parked in the dead of night in December ... then spent the day in a sleeping bag until the show started.