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58kites said:
I've seen Gentle Giant in concert twice and they were fantastic.
Can't understand how concert promoters pair bands together so poorly so often.
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Often, it was due to label and/or booking agency politics/deals. But earlier, especially at the Fillmore, there were very eclectic bills. Bill Graham was on a crusade of sorts to offer and give exposure to the widest variety of musical styles, considering the music explosion of Monterey and after. He'd put folk, jazz, blues, nacent 'world' music, and more together with the psychelia and hard rock acts that were the usual fare, just to enlighten the audiences and expand their tastes. FM radio was like that too, but around '71, '72, definitely '73 it all changed, the younger crowd wasn't quite as forgiving, music fans broke down into little tribes, and radio programming became more restricted and repetitive.

It's funny, in early '73 Crimson, making their Lark's Tongue comeback, toured with Gentle Giant opening. Both bands, while considered "prog", were just different enough for it to be a diverse experience. I will forever kick myself for blowing off that show…i was under the mistaken impression it was still the Islands band, and was not impressed with what I had heard on Earthbound.

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Michedelic said:
Often, it was due to label and/or booking agency politics/deals. But earlier, especially at the Fillmore, there were very eclectic bills. Bill Graham was on a crusade of sorts to offer and give exposure to the widest variety of musical styles, considering the music explosion of Monterey and after. He'd put folk, jazz, blues, nacent 'world' music, and more together with the psychelia and hard rock acts that were the usual fare, just to enlighten the audiences and expand their tastes. FM radio was like that too, but around '71, '72, definitely '73 it all changed, the younger crowd wasn't quite as forgiving, music fans broke down into little tribes, and radio programming became more restricted and repetitive.

It's funny, in early '73 Crimson, making their Lark's Tongue comeback, toured with Gentle Giant opening. Both bands, while considered "prog", were just different enough for it to be a diverse experience. I will forever kick myself for blowing off that show…i was under the mistaken impression it was still the Islands band, and was not impressed with what I had heard on Earthbound.
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I started going to rock concerts when I was 13 which would have been 1971. I was lucky to have seen Genesis, Gentle Giant, King Crimson and PFM in the early and mid 70's at a very good concert hall so they sounded great and the Auditorium Theatre only seated about 2400 people. Don't remember what the various pairings were. The Auditorium tended to book the progressive rock bands.
Saw lots of three act concerts at the Rochester War Memorial (hockey arena).
 
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