Ohhh I hated it. Because those festivals would drag on and on and on. There's just no way to describe to kids today just how drunk adults would get in the 70s
The Music Thread
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The first I went to on my own at 14 was Sabbath, with ... Journey opening. I think ACDC was next opening for Tad Nugget. They blew the hack off stage....Mine was one of three possible shows I saw around 9th or 10th grade, but the order has grown fuzzy over the years. It was either Alice Cooper outdoors at the old Victory Field/Bush Stadium on 16th Street (Indy), Mountain (Felix Cavallari and Leslie Winter) at Sherwood Country Club, which I think was near Beech Grove on Indy's SE side, or Black Sabbath at the Indiana Theatre in downtown Indy...
Actually I attended the Sabbath show, but they decided not to. The Indiana was a cinema where they showed epic movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Caesar and Cleopatra, Sound of Music etc... The theatre sold orange juice in plastic orange shaped containers, which I later saw in Broadway theatres as well. So people were likely mixing booze in with their orange juice and these suckers were hard plastic...
Anyway after an hour or so when it became obvious Sabbath was a no-show it was a rowdy crowd. I remember the theatre either brought in a local band, or maybe it was the opening act on the bill, but eventually they announced that Sabbath wasn't going to perform. It turned into a near riot, and I'll never forget the sight of all those plastic orange juice containers being hurled at the poor guys who were trying to perform...
Just did a google and it turns out the show in 1971 was cancelled due to sound system issues. Never knew that, or the fact that the show was rescheduled or that Irving Azov was the promoter. It was the Paranoid tour, and all I really remember are all those plastic oranges raining down on the stage...
Black Sabbath Indianapolis cancellation
Clipping found in The Indianapolis Star published in Indianapolis, Indiana on 8/19/1971. Black Sabbath Indianapolis cancellationwww.newspapers.com
I had friends who were disc jockeys, and another who was a promoter. Through most of the 80's I had back stage passes to almost every show. I saw a lot of crappy bands ...... and even more 14/15/16 year old groupies.
I still think the best show in quality was a sober SRV in an acoustically sound auditorium with a great soundman. Neil Young with Crazy Horse would be next, then various (too many) deadshows. Dead had some of the best sound engineers on the planet in their time. I also saw SRV when he was still binging, which was one of the worst shows I'd ever seen.
People underestimate and undervalue the sound engineer.. he is the filter that the band goes through before the music reaches your ears. Having a good soundman is the difference in a quality concert and a horrible sounding one.
fwiw - 90% of live rock acts sound like pure shit, only went for the party.. I don't blame them, I blame the sound engineer.
I unabashedly love America. Mostly nostalgic from my parents records. I have a couple myself today. Ventura Highway and Sister Golden Hair are great tunes. Muskrat Love is one of the worst songs ever.
Muskrat was a cover, why they chose it is a mystery. But I think most people who like America like them for their songwriting. So we can forgive that one. I do think View From the Ground was the only post-Peek album of theirs I bought/paid attention to. So there will be a lot of music tonight that's new to me.
Man so many iconic groups had their beginnings in my youth... IMHO, this song is criminally underrated...
And in case you were wondering what all those sons and daughters of Acadia have been doing over the years...
Here's a post-Woodstock appearance on a night when old Ed actually did have a "really big shew"...
I love the first tune and the band in general. Robbie really screwed Levon over. Sad ending to a great group.
I saw America back in the day. Good show. They were a lot more electric live than in their recordings.
I've always been a CCR fan but some of their songs don't make much sense.
I like their version of Heard Through the Grapevine.
After one song he said, "we almost jammed there". Yes, they were more electric. They discussed growing up on a US air base near London, how in 68 in high school they saw Zep, Who, Stones, Jimi, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, others. He said 2 years later they were opening for many of them. They opened for Pink Floyd sitting on stools playing acoustic guitars. They drove the crowd mild. Then Floyd came out with a 90 piece orchestra and a choir. It was hard to tell a difference between the two acts.
One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Simple, lonely, haunting, sweet.
Like the music you post and you’re posts about music.
I am going to have to restrain myself when you hammer me on political posts.
Kind of like @TheOriginalHappyGoat. When I first lingered over here from the premium BB board I read some of his essays/posts on religion and really enjoyed the reads. The politics raises my ire and my instinct to fight back. Lol.
So my intro to Al Stewart was his 1973 album Past, Present and Future. It's a semi-concept album, with the common thread being the past revealing the future...
One of the songs was Nostradamus, and was loosely based on the revelations Nostradamus revealed based on his dream... The first revelation details the English Civil War and the rise of Napoleon...
"A king shall fall and put to death by the English parliament shall be
Fire and plague to London come in the year of six and twenties three"
But hidden among the lyrics to Nostradamus, is the link to what (for me, at least) is the showpiece of the album...
"One named Hister shall become a captain of Greater Germanie
No law does this man observe and bloody his rise and fall shall be"
Stewart encapsulates the bloody rise and fall of Hister in a single epic song... Roads to Moscow...
(Pretty sure the age restriction is due to the graphic nature of the photos the video creator has used to illustrate the original audio. The song of course tells the story of Hitler's rise and fall on the Eastern Front from the viewpoint of a Russian soldier who goes from surviving Operation Barbarossa to participating in the fall of Berlin)
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One of my favorite movies of all time.
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My son was introduced to Louis Cole through School of Rock. He's not really my cup of tea but this video always makes me smile. If you're a band geek, I think you'll appreciate it:
Gonna break goat's rule about no politics. Apologies in advance..
There's more to life than politics and most of it is far more enjoyable and interesting.
Outside entities, malignant opportunists, and foreign enemies, are pushing the divide between us for their own gain and purpose and to the detriment of our society. No matter which side we are on, we are both losing, mostly due to our own actions.
We should probably stop letting them and realize the real enemy is greed.
The core of the problem is economic. The real enemy is the greed of the corporate sector. As CEO and exec compensation continues rising the unskilled uneducated grunt lost value and can barely make a living.
I worked in manufacturing as a supervisor, process and material engineer, and finally as a sales engineer. I watched all of it unfold. As a process engineer I helped remove people from their jobs in the name of efficiency. Makes me sick. The layoffs, the drop in pay, the loss of benefits followed. I watched the blue shirts sell their boats, and their trucks, and their houses, followed by too many divorces and then watched as they got new jobs at half the pay. Year after year.
When the Bobs were finished with them they hit the white shirts next. Reduced staff, reduced benefits, more work.... all under the guise of "efficiency and cost savings that will be passed on the the employees and customers"... it was all bullshit.
Our side blames yours, your sides blames ours. It's f**king stupid. Pay people enough to afford a living, and have some money for enjoyment and much of the disgruntlement goes away. Happy people are much harder to radicalize.
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Old time Appalachian traditional, most likely based on an Irish melody.
