'Oly chit, I just found a set list from 1979!

rustynuts · #1 05-04-2009, 08:51 AM

I've been going through one of the spare rooms to try and make some space available for some of my bass gear and have been throwing out quite a bit of stuff I'll never need again.

In one box of binders (most of which were feeding charts for my snakes at the time) I found a little black binder from my senior year in high school. On the back page there are two set lists, one from a little show we'd done in school that afternoon and then a longer one from a field party that night. The band was called Salisbury, after the Uriah Heep album of the same name, and there's one song on here I can't even remember.

Anyway, here's what we played, it brings back some good memories.

Fifth period:

You Really Got Me (Van Halen/Kinks)
Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult)
Searchin (This is the one I don't remember. Anyone have a clue?)
Reaper (Which would be Don't Fear The Reaper by B.O.C.)
Love Gun (KISS)
God of Thunder (KISS)

That night:

Reaper
Love Gun
Subway Terror (Starz. Anyone remember them?)
2112 (Rush)
You Really Got Me
I Love The Night (Blue Oyster Cult)
Draw The Line (Aerosmith)
Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
Warrior (Thin Lizzy)
Wang Dang (Sweet Poontang - Ted Nugent)
Emerald (Thin Lizzy)
Violation (Starz)
Keep Yourself Alive (Queen)
Tower (Angel)
Carry On (My Wayward Son - Kansas)
Rock and Roll All Night (KISS)

I would love to be able to go back and be a fly on the wall that day.

two fingers · #2 05-04-2009, 08:55 AM

Very cool. I found an old set from '89 (my high school dayz) and it THREW me down memory lane.

steamthief · #3 05-04-2009, 09:02 AM

Searchin - Lynyrd Skynyrd, perhaps? I love that song on One More from the Road.

rustynuts · #4 05-04-2009, 09:04 AM

That's probably it. One of the guys in the band was a huge Skynyrd fan.

rustynuts · #5 05-04-2009, 09:10 AM

Just put that little binder in an archival ziplock. It's a keeper, and it was already starting to disintegrate from age.

Rattman · #6 05-04-2009, 09:10 AM

Hey thats very kool... I also had the same rush when I discovered our set list from even further back: 1975. Man... I see alot of Allman Brothers tunes on ours as well as Eagles and Skynyrd numbers... Nothing like the '70's eh??

rustynuts · #7 05-04-2009, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Rattman

Nothing like the '70's eh??

Isn't that the truth? And then we de-volved into the '80s.

Geddyfleaharris · #8 05-04-2009, 09:19 AM

That's cool. I guess you guys didn't play many dance clubs lol
That's the first time I have ever seen "Starz" on a cover band list. Classic.

Similiar note - A couple of months ago my mom found a loan note for $1500.00 signed by the 2 guys whose band I was in back in 1984. The motor in our tour bus blew up one X-mas and my mom fronted the cash for the fix. No....they never did repay her.

Finding stuff from days gone by is cool. But sort of makes you ask the question - how the heck did all those years get by me so fast?

rustynuts · #9 05-04-2009, 10:27 AM

Nope, didn't do too many dance clubs. Wouldn't have wanted to either.

(And yes, I did catch the sarcasm!

) Back then field parties were where it was at around here.

Did a little YouTube searching and found a couple of them. Here's Subway Terror:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUcL6FwXeVA

And here's The Tower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n07qiAo1lM

Where did the years go.....? You're right, they do go fast. I also found a picture of me and my then three year old son, him sitting on my lap while I held a bass in front of him and he was just going to town on it. Serious case of bass face on that kid!

D Rokk · #10 05-04-2009, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by rustynuts

Fifth period:

You Really Got Me (Van Halen/Kinks)
Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult)
Searchin (This is the one I don't remember. Anyone have a clue?)
Reaper (Which would be Don't Fear The Reaper by B.O.C.)
Love Gun (KISS)
God of Thunder (KISS)

That night:

Reaper
Love Gun
Subway Terror (Starz. Anyone remember them?)
2112 (Rush)
You Really Got Me
I Love The Night (Blue Oyster Cult)
Draw The Line (Aerosmith)
Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
Warrior (Thin Lizzy)
Wang Dang (Sweet Poontang - Ted Nugent)
Emerald (Thin Lizzy)
Violation (Starz)
Keep Yourself Alive (Queen)
Tower (Angel)
Carry On (My Wayward Son - Kansas)
Rock and Roll All Night (KISS)

I would love to be able to go back and be a fly on the wall that day.

i'd pay to see that setlist today

MonetBass · #11 05-04-2009, 10:34 AM

Cool set list!

"Searchin'" brought to mind this song by Santana first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGaJ7gEEp0E

**zenrad** · #12 05-04-2009, 10:41 AM

Here's a tip of the hat from another member of the class of '79

Whenever I hear the begining of Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" I'm instantly transported back to Fort DeSoto beach in St Pete FL (I grew up in FL)...and if I close my eyes it feels like it was just yesterday.

Where did the time go indeed.

rustynuts · #13 05-04-2009, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by rustynuts

Where did the years go.....? You're right, they do go fast. I also found a picture of me and my then three year old son, him sitting on my lap while I held a bass in front of him and he was just going to town on it. Serious case of bass face on that kid!

Just re-read this and it sounds like I had a three year old son when I was a senior. No, that picture was taken about five years later.

I remember that Santana song but I don't remember ever playing it though. Who knows, I just "realized" that this was thirty years ago this month!

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Originally Posted by zenrad

Here's a tip of the hat from another member of the class of '79

Whenever I hear the begining of Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" I'm instantly transported back to Fort DeSoto beach in St Pete FL (I grew up in FL)...and if I close my eyes it feels like it was just yesterday.

Where did the time go indeed.

I remember the first time I heard that song, I was sure that was Mark Farner singing it.

When I was in high school I was sure I'd never live to be thirty, and here we are thirty years later. What a long, strange trip it's been. My parents moved here (Kentucky) when my dad retired from the Air Force in '77, then I left to go back out west in '80. I finally came back here in '97.

machine gewehr · #14 05-04-2009, 11:43 AM

Godzilla? I always wanted to play that one on stage.
Blue Oyster Cult is way too cool man.

rustynuts · #15 05-04-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by machine gewehr

Blue Oyster Cult is way too cool man.

Back in the days before the Internet I "discovered" Blue Oyster Cult on a school bus. Someone had carved Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Mahogany Rush into the wooden back of one of the seats. I'd never heard of the other two bands before (this was about 1974), but Sabbath was my favorite band so I decided to check the others out.

mike phillips · #16 05-04-2009, 04:58 PM

starz and angel holy crap. then frank marino & mahogany rush. what about axe? no rock n roll party in the streets?

elgecko · #17 05-04-2009, 05:04 PM

Is a field party what a sounds like? A party in an empty field?

rustynuts · #18 05-04-2009, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mike phillips

starz and angel holy crap. then frank marino & mahogany rush. what about axe? no rock n roll party in the streets?

Wow....Almost forgot about Axe, but wasn't R'n'R Party from a few years later?

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Originally Posted by elgecko

Is a field party what a sounds like? A party in an empty field?

Sure is. Spotlights on pickup trucks and several generators running. Good times.

Ten years later I used to go see bands like Kyuss at generator parties in the deserts of SoCal.

mike phillips · #19 05-04-2009, 06:15 PM

kyuss-your killin me. how bout the godz? ah daze gone bye. i aint old enough to be rememberin 30 years ago but this is the year of my 30th h.s. reunion. damn.

Mike N · #20 05-04-2009, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by rustynuts

Subway Terror (Starz. Anyone remember them?)
Violation (Starz)

Iirc Subway Terror was the B side of the Violation single. I probably still have that single, as well as the Violation lp and the Attention Shoppers lp. Great band back in the day.

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I Love The Night (Blue Oyster Cult)

Off the Specters lp, possibly my favorite BOC album.

Rustynuts, thanks for the trip down memory lane.