Sir Napsalot
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I saw them at the LA Forum during their "Fragile" tour in '72
Black Sabbath played before them
@doublejj was there too
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Black Sabbath played before them
@doublejj was there too
Jimdamick
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Wow, cool opening band.
That must have been fun
I hadn't been too many shows back then, just the Allman Bros & Crosby, Stills & Nash.
That Yes show is definitely one of my favorite shows/bands that I ever saw.
You saw them so you know what I'm talking about.
Some light show, huh?
People had never seen anything like it, previously the bands would just play, but Yes made their shows a visual & well as a musical masterpiece.
Envision seeing them on a summer night in pretty much a downpour the whole show, standing in front of the right speaker tower tripping on Mr. Natural.
1st Album, this is the song that hooked me, that & Steve Howe's guitar & Chris Squire's bass.
Ever see these guy's, Emerson, Lake & Palmer?
They also changed my musical tastes (I bought a Moog, I couldn't play it but when your high, it all sounded good (sorta
)I saw them the next year at Madison Square Garden
I had never seen a gong like the one Palmer used.
The fucker was like 10' wide.
Good music back then, right?
You've known doublejj that long?
Holy fuck, that's cool
I have 1 friend of mine that I know of still alive from that time, all the rest of the group are gone on their next journey around the Wheel
I don't know how the fuck I survived, but I did it seems
Oh well
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Hi, yes I saw yes. 1998 San Diego. I have seen ELP and King Crimson as well. Best light show Tool. You ever seen Tool? You are a bit older than me . I wish I was your age and could have seen the shows you did. I only saw Black Sabbath with Dio not ozzy and seen Ozzy without Randy. I had tickets to see ozzy with Randy at the spectrum in Philly but Randy got killed the wek before the show. As a young girl at the time I was devastated. I knew all the words to blizzard of ozz and diary of a madman.I saw them the the 1st time in 1971 in an outdoor stadium in New Jersey in the pouring rain tripping my ass off.
Have you ever seen Yes?
They invented the light show, no band had ever did before what they did with lasers & props.
Coupled with Wakeman's' synthesizers, you didn't need hallucinogenics to trip
Awesome band that turned me onto synthesizers & electronic music (besides R&B/Jazz/Classical my favorite style possibly
Remember this show & musician?
Jeffrey + Jan =
Sir Napsalot
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Actually, Black Sabbath was not the opening band- the opening band was an up-and-coming band from L.A. called The Eagles
We've never met, but we both attended 2 concerts at the L.A. Forum. The first was Grand Funk Railroad at which I smoked pot for the first time. Pretty wild coincidence
injinji
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Yesterday I called Sister to ask if Cousin Bob had boarded up his bar and grill in the French Quarter. I found out he sold his bar last year. (so much for me keeping up with family news) All he had to worry about was his house. And it was built in the 1880's, so. . . .
This morning she checked in with him, and other than some damage to gutters and outside lights, he got off pretty easy.
This morning she checked in with him, and other than some damage to gutters and outside lights, he got off pretty easy.
DIY-HP-LED
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Rotary phone on the wall. Tube B/W TV, three channels if you exclude CBC (french). Eating a bag of pork rinds (I hear it still is around). I did buy a Lloyds stereo with an 8 track recorder when I was 15. Actually found a picture of it.
Had an Acoustic Research turntable.
Brings back memories.
hanimmal
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I loved the dials on those, the quality of how they felt puts everything today to shame.Rotary phone on the wall. Tube B/W TV, three channels if you exclude CBC (french). Eating a bag of pork rinds (I hear it still is around). I did buy a Lloyds stereo with an 8 track recorder when I was 15. Actually found a picture of it.
Had an Acoustic Research turntable.
Brings back memories.
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captainmorgan
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topcat
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I want one!
printer
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Boy, the bad guys are Real Scared.
Jimdamick
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And they sucked right?
Man, talk about an eclectic concert.
I would kill for a boot of that
Someday I'll tell you about how I saw U2 on St. Pats Day in this old theater next to the Bowery in NYC. in 1980.
Ah, fuck it
I'll tell it now
The opening act was the New York City Police Ancient Order of the Hibernian's Bagpipe Band.
Really, it was
Envision 30 or so stereotypical NYC Irish American cops, 60 years old average age, around 300 lb's, with beer bellies and red faces/noses and wearing kilts, of course, & all Sargents that probably lived in Queens and attended Mass every Sunday morning (hungover
) at St. Johns the Baptist Roman Catholic church.They sorta looked like this fellow
Then imagine that all these drunk cops that had just come back from marching up 5th Ave playing the pipes & sneaking drinks all day were going to play for a bunch of stoned/fucked up whatevers (too hard to describe)
Now for the funny part.
Now, this is 1980 way downtown in what was basically a bar & this was U2's 1st tour & nobody or very few had heard of them.
They got very airplay because they were New Wave (sorta) & no one was playing that in 1980 in NYC. (WLIR from Long Island was the only station where you could hear them along with the Talking Heads/Blondie/Clash/Patti Smith, Ramones, Pretenders, etc.
So the audience which was around 200 or so, was composed of high/drunk freaks/punks/Wavers/preppies/a couple of long hairs but it was really a weird mixture.
I looked at the crowd & at the cops & thought to myself this could be bad
The opposite occured.
The crowd loved the cops & the cops loved the crowd ( If mosh pits existed then I'm sure one of those cops would have jumped in. kilt and all
)People were jumping on the stage doing jigs.
It was fucking awesome madness.
They crowd wouldn't let them get off the stage & the cops didn't want to leave
Brilliant
Finally the coppers staggered off the stage & U2 came on (it was their 4th show in the US, they did 3 in Boston before coming down to NY.& opened with this song,, "I will follow" which was the 1st song that I had heard by them & still my favorite.
TURN IT UP AND DANCE!!!!
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That would be a weird damn crowd. Irish folk music is the rowdiest of folk music.And they sucked right?
Man, talk about an eclectic concert.
I would kill for a boot of that
Someday I'll tell you about how I saw U2 on St. Pats Day in this old theater next to the Bowery in NYC. in 1980.
Ah, fuck it
I'll tell it now
The opening act was the New York City Police Ancient Order of the Hibernian's Bagpipe Band.
Really, it was
Envision 30 or so stereotypical NYC Irish American cops, 60 years old average age, around 300 lb's, with beer bellies and red faces/noses and wearing kilts, of course, & all Sargents that probably lived in Queens and attended Mass every Sunday morning (hungover
They sorta looked like this fellow
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Then imagine that all these drunk cops that had just come back from marching up 5th Ave playing the pipes & sneaking drinks all day were going to play for a bunch of stoned/fucked up whatevers (too hard to describe)
Now for the funny part.
Now, this is 1980 way downtown in what was basically a bar & this was U2's 1st tour & nobody or very few had heard of them.
They got very airplay because they were New Wave (sorta) & no one was playing that in 1980 in NYC. (WLIR from Long Island was the only station where you could hear them along with the Talking Heads/Blondie/Clash/Patti Smith, Ramones, Pretenders, etc.
So the audience which was around 200 or so, was composed of high/drunk freaks/punks/Wavers/preppies/a couple of long hairs but it was really a weird mixture.
I looked at the crowd & at the cops & thought to myself this could be bad
The opposite occured.
The crowd loved the cops & the cops loved the crowd ( If mosh pits existed then I'm sure one of those cops would have jumped in. kilt and all
People were jumping on the stage doing jigs.
It was fucking awesome madness.
They crowd wouldn't let them get off the stage & the cops didn't want to leave
Brilliant
Finally the coppers staggered off the stage & U2 came on (it was their 4th show in the US, they did 3 in Boston before coming down to NY.& opened with this song,, "I will follow" which was the 1st song that I had heard by them & still my favorite.
TURN IT UP AND DANCE!!!!
Jimdamick
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I'm so old that I remember when Tang was cool/Miracle Whip was new and sitting in the living room eating our Modern American Haute Cuisine, the Swanson TV dinner on those folding trays (Remember those? ) watching Ed Sullivan on our B&W Zenith TV with a wopping 6 channels.
Oh yea, and McDonald's cheese burgers were 35 cents
Yea, I'm fucking old but my dick still works, so all is good
Jimdamick
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Like this?
Best Traditional music in Ireland is in that town, Doolin, Co. Clare.
I drank a few in that pub. (only 3 in the town when I was there, all excellent.
That's your average Friday night, it really is, Saturday, not so much.
Fucking church Sunday morning fucks everything up.
The locals just come in and pull their instruments out from underneath their coats & play
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Don't Bogart
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I love the wurm.
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