Whtcha all listening too?

[EuroFungy]

Mindless self indulgence-Stupid MF

[laughingwillow]

GD 4-24-72 in hd.....

lw

[JRL]

I been digging shows from 72, it's no secret that I am not a Mickey Hart fan. And there is much better stuff around then what ended up on Europe 72. Seems to me they were playing it safe for Warner Brothers. I also heard that there was a lot of overdubbing on the record.

[laughingwillow]

David Lindley and Hani Naser live in japan playing real good....

lw

[laughingwillow]

Btw, I never listen to Europe 72, as it is a compilation of more than one show if'n I remember correctly.

lw

[senorsalvia]

Blue Cheer :shock: ---  Owsleys other huh??  Hmmm, who would thunk it eh??  I mean, the Dead were just a bunch of dirty hippies, foisting off chaotic sound on stage as if'n it was coherent music.... :wink:    That said,  Blue Cheer was the first indoor concert, big auditorium show I ever saw....The whole gig was such a super time for me...  The crowds energy, the beautiful hippy babes floating by...  At the time,  I was way into Cheers' version of Summertime Blues, and when the time came for them to get to putting it down live, the bass player broke a string...  After making a few frantic gestures, signalling the other members, he tossed his axe about thirty feet into the air and let it land on the stage with a hellish twanging....  Then he picked the thing back up and continued for what had to have been a 12-15 min version of 'Summertime"...  Great energy / great memories;  but then, who doesn't remember with fondness their first few concerts.....  Ahhh, those were 'da daze.........

[laughingwillow]

Bob Dylan - Slow train Coming -

lw

[JRL]

Blue Cheer your first concert?? So thats the orgin the superhero Senor Salvia. They were a great band if a bit raw. Dickie Petersen (the bassplayer/singer who IS Blue Cheer) was about 30 years ahead of his time with his punk metal attitude. And they were loud! I mean LOUD did I say LOUD???

Listening to them today, I realize what great band they were, ballsy, weird, innovative. But Dickie still has the band, I think Paul Whaley, the original drummer who was one of the first double bass hit the drums hard guys, is back. They played at this loca club a couple months ago, and ten jumped in their van on their way to new England somewhere. Dickie must be tough old bastard to be out there on the road like a kid.

[senorsalvia]

1st  big auditorium show....  I'd seen maybe 100 small acts in lounges, as well as played some gigs myself in our lil shitty band....  Even saw MC-5 in a local private womans college 2500 seat auditorium a month or so before I saw Cheer....   "course what really got senor set on his lifelong road to perdition was seeing Quicksilver at two free outdoor jams a few months before I saw either MC-5 or Cheer............ That, and just a "smidgeon" of sugarcubes and sunshine 'circa '67  :roll:

[JRL]

Never saw Quicksilver, but I tripped with the first album many times. I remember being down at Hoffman Park(perfect name for the hippie hang out) coming on to some potent tab that I had crushed and snorted and hearing Who Do You Love blasting on someones early 8 track and it being so perfect.

[senorsalvia]

Never saw Quick :shock:  :shock: ......  Snortin 'cid eh?   Ha, even senor never tried that.....  (never liked anything nasally).....  "course, I must confess to mainlining some purple barrel one time....  It was crummy though...  Musta been the reduction in potency from the heat as well as chlorine from the water......   Ah well,,,, live and learn........

[JRL]

It was quite a rush, but some of the binders and stuff were nasty. One guy had acid in a powder form, I'm sure it wasn't pure or anything, but a tiny line was a dose. Once I was boasting of my acidic prowess and he layed me out a massive dose ( he muttered "Veteran you say? We will see about that") I stumbled down to Hoffman Park, got my self lost in the nature area, though for a while I was sure I was on the moon.

[laughingwillow]

Off track, here we come!

I'm pretty sure my first "big" show was a traveling group of duet singers made up of Tammy Wynette and George Jones, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, as well as Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner.

I remember standing in line after the show with my mom and sister to get autographs on 8"x10" glossies of the performers in all their rhinestone glory.

Unfortunately, my parents didn't let me dose back then, but I'm sure I had a nicotine contact high going. It was the early 70's. Even respectable mothers used it as a gateway to mommies little helper....

Oh yeah... GD 10-19-73 in glorious HD on a new battery powered amp...

lw

[jfurry]

mY first show was merl and the strangers whit some of the above mentioned gang at the seattle ophra house.

loved it mom and dad didnt let me dose either :cry:

bto at the local skating rink :lol:

it gets a little blurrrry from there.


jfurry

[JRL]

My first big rock show was The Rolling Stones at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium cap. 3300. Must have been 65 or 66, Tickets were $3.50. There were several opening acts including the Standells and the Stones played way less than an hour.