One of the reasons I started this thread was because I am incredibly jealous of some of the concert that some people have attended. But then again, someone had to have seen The Police at CBGBs. I admire the efforts some have made to remember the shows they attended. My reliance on memory is faulty, but I know I smoked weed with George Clinton at the Apollo. Whether or not Buddy Guy came into the men's room while soloing as I peed at the urinal is less clear. But I do recall his roadie had the longest guitar cable I've ever seen. It was somewhere on the northside of Chicago.
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today!
Actually, it's more like fifty years ago. There have been any number of recent threads where people relate how they saw so and so back in 1972 at such and such a place. Examples would be the Allman Brothers opening for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East, the James Gang opening for Led Zep on their first American tour, the Airplane, QMS and Big Brother at the Aragon, etc etc.
My question is -- HOW DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER THIS STUFF?
Don't get me wrong, I remember any number of concerts from the late 60s onwards, but I suspect I've mis-remembered or outright forgotten probably just as many. I just couldn't tell you how many times or exactly where or when I've seen McCoy Tyner, Hall & Oates, The Blasters, The Feelies, Steel Pulse, Marshall Crenshaw, Parliament/Funkadelic, Buddy Guy/Jr. Wells, Roomful Of Blues, etc. Somethings are just a little blurry.
Did you write this stuff down in diary?