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Funny you should say that--I

jollyroger — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:17:54 +0000

Funny you should say that--I did usta manage the Fillmore Lights (ex. light show from SF) and we did early gigs at a southampton bowling alley that Ron Delsener had converted to Rock n Roll as his start in the concert business). Jethro Tull, in particular, presented problems (like being 1-1/2 hours late).

but with reference to the steel wheelchairs tour, I had a spot at the front of one of the Madison Sq. Garden mezannines, and when the mushrooms kicked in, naturally I was on my feet through the concert. Guy behind had the bad taste to suggest I sit down. "Why don't you get up and dance" was my suggestion. So I guess, for him, I was part of the gig...

I kinda more imagine you

artappraiser — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:36:28 +0000

In reply to Gonna be down the block at

I kinda more imagine you being part of the gig somehow

I did it once, got an offer

artappraiser — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:34:52 +0000

In reply to I never really understood the

I did it once, got an offer from a friend to see the Monkees give a concert at the baseball stadium. My parents were severely over-protective, I still can't believe they let me go, I don't remember a chaperone but it must have been with an adult chaperone, or I can't imagine them agreeing. It's infectious, it's just that simple. You are with your grade-school peers and you see the guys you've all been talking at recess about "which is the cutest?" appear all of a sudden in real form and you just all start screaming. Very cathartic, too.

I don't remember it as anything near as bad as the "riot" I saw a year or two later when I and a friend took our little brothers to a boys' movie theater matinee of some western movies. That was truly amazing, remains vivid in my brain to this day....

My beau when I was age 19-28

artappraiser — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:23:52 +0000

In reply to Okay, I just gotta ask. How

My beau when I was age 19-28 was 11 years older than me. He was an encyclopedic expert on the rock n' roll of his misspent youth, often a guest on the oldies hour at the local main alternative radio station. He was the sort that when they had an oldies contest of "name that band," he was not allowed to compete because he knew every single band of the 50's and all their tunes

Prior to that, all I knew about was The Twist craze. I remember that distinctly, because when I slept over at my best friends house, we would ask her father to do The Twist because he chubby and it made us roll on the floor with laughter when he did it He loved to oblige in order to see two little girls cackling with glee. (We had not idea about Chubby Checker.)

I was the oldest, and we didn't have any working radio and only a few old records and record player, until I got a transistor for Christmas like at age 11/12, so even what I got about the later "Beatles" invasion was mostly by TV and osmosis, not listening. As a pre-schooler, I remember my Mom would watch American Bandstand sometimes to see "what the kids are wearing," and I had no interest, it seemed boring.

But my later beau taught me all I had missed.

Gonna be down the block at

jollyroger — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:34:50 +0000

In reply to Geezers rock!

Gonna be down the block at the barclay (The Dialysis Tour). I caught the steel wheelchairs tour at the garden and will scrape up my tiny dollars for this gig.

Yep, pretty hip & trancy. Try

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:12:54 +0000

In reply to It was 1969. Didn't you like

Yep, pretty hip & trancy. Try this one to keep your buzz going.

And if you like mascara....

And here's Bobby Keys & Steve Cropper I think doing horns, 1971 - Sticky Fingers tour - but in the Marqee club, good 40 minute clip

Okay, I just gotta ask. How

EmmaZahn — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:50:47 +0000

In reply to Geezers rock!

Okay, I just gotta ask. How do you know Danny and the Juniors? They were late 50s. I barely remember them and only because my then teenage aunt introduced me to Band Stand and the Stomp, Stroll and Bop.

I never really understood the

EmmaZahn — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:45:13 +0000

In reply to Never were baby-faced like

I never really understood the squeeing. Never. For anyone.

It was 1969. Didn't you like

EmmaZahn — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:42:24 +0000

In reply to You do realize the song's

It was 1969. Didn't you like the scarves though?

You do realize the song's

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:23:31 +0000

In reply to Gimme shelter 1969. They

You do realize the song's completely lip-synced, right?