Anyone checkout Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit shows over the years? I went to a few when I lived in NorCal. Some of the best shows I’ve seen with great collaborations. I remember Neil and Bruce doing Down by the River. Great stuff.
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?
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I rely on memory, which is increasingly unreliable. I find that I now bore people with long rambling and increasingly inaccurate histories of my early concert going experiences. At least back in the day I would have bored them with accurate recall. I’m always amazed when someone likeBrett Kavanaugh or Pete Hegseth can produce a piece of evidence from their teen aged years to refute an accusation. If I had saved my day planner from that era my mother would have undoubtedly tossed it at some point. |
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 really pisses me off that I can't get paper stubs to most concerts these days. I love to look at them now & then, mainly to recall where that concert was. We rarely bet big names in our small town but I swore one night, with company visiting from out of town, that we saw Jackson Browne here. Nobody believed me, a trip to the stubs drawer and I proved I have not yet lost my mind. |
Hello @larsman @onhwy61 ! So this 1975 Pink Floyd Concert kept rattling around in my head. I keep remembering the plane crashing at the end of Dark Side of the Moon behind the stage. It came from all the way across the arena up high! Check out this set list: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pink-floyd/1975/capital-centre-landover-md-4bd7031a.html Jun101975 Pink Floyd Setlistat Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USAEdit setlist Show all edit options Tour: Wish You Were Here Tour statistics Add setlist Setlist
Some Animals and Some Wish You Were Here for sure! And the entire Dark Side of the Moon Album! :) Ken |
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