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Location: Cicero, NY | I've seen quite a few at SPAC as well, Rob. Rockers as well as numerous jazz fests.
Love that place. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | In 1971, Port Chester NY had the Capital Theater. I went there to see the late show of a Black Sabbath concert (I was in high school back then). This is what happened when they announced the opening band:
"Let's hear it for a new band from England, YES."
Many in the audience promptly yelled out "NO."
Yes went on, blew the place away with songs from the Yes Album and got called back for an encore-Starship Trooper. The second act was Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, who also did an encore song.
When Black Sabbath hit the stage at about 2:00 am, they got booed and played for only about 45 minutes.
I've been a Yes fan ever since. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Rob, weren't they Jefferson Airplane when you saw them? I always thought the name change was dumb. |
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| I thought the name change came from when they split with Jorma and Jack because J&J refused to come back from Holland where they were speed skating the winter away. They also claimed at least part ownership of the name, so Kantner, slick and co just upgraded themselves to Starship and hired replacements.
On the nights that the original Airplane actually got it together they were one of the absolute finest. It just didn't happen very often (just like The Dead, Quicksilver, etc., etc.,) |
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Location: NJ | kantner's first solo LP was called jefferson starship. it included a bunch of folks as guests CSN the dead etc.
after jorma and jack split to do hot tuna full time (origianally called hot sh*t until bill graham made them change) they decided to use starship to indicate they moved on. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Back when I saw them, they were the Jefferson Starship. About the time of Red Octopus in 1975, when Marty Balin was back with them. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | The 70's were a great time to see lots of bands on one bill for $4 to $7.
Here in Orlando we had an 1930's converted movie theater called the Great Southern Music Hall (there was one in Gainsville too, I think). I saw some great acts there. Roy Buchanan, John McLaughlin and Shakti, Sea Level, Arlo Guthrie, the Dixie Dregs, Elvin Bishop with Micky Thomas singing (pre-Starship), Todd Rungren, even Martin Mull and his fabulous furniture. And those are just the ones I remember. Great cheap entertainment! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I spent the second half of the 60s and the first part of the 70s in North Dakota and wester Kansas, so I didn't see a lot of concerts. After the Beatles played in Milwaukee in the early 60s (I didn't go), I remember thinking that this was a ridiculous fad that would pass soon.
$10 a ticket was a lot of money for me when I went to Kansas State in 73. I missed the Byrds when they played there. I didn't go to a $3 Kansas concert and remember telling my roommate that a band with a violin would never make it. |
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Location: Braman, OK | I've been to more concerts than I can remember, but I's have to say the most jaw-dropping, open-mouthed drool-in-your-lap show I've seen was Pink Floyd's "Pulse" tour in '94 at Oakland colliseum. Maybe the 'shrooms had something to do with it... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | College days in western NY in the 70s made for quite a bit of concert going. Springsteen, Leon Russell, Edgar Winter and White Trash, Buddy Guy, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel... And, for the most part, I somehow remember most of those events. |
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OT: The Who-Tommy/Quadrophena DVD
