that time Ritchie was caught playing rhythm guitar
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Performing at Otis Spann Memorial Field in 1972, at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival is Muddy Waters
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concept by Mouse/Kelly Studios for the Rolling Stones' Fiftieth Anniversary
The Allman Brothers Band played a free concert at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY on May 15, 1971 with Thom Doucette sitting in on harp, 2mos before their live Fillmore East album release.
photos-Lee Edgcomb + others
photos-Lee Edgcomb + others
Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson and Chris Squire backstage on their Tales From Topographic Oceans tour 1973
Brian James and Stiv Bators when they led Lords of the New Church.
John Mayall (89 years old), Mike Fleetwood (76 years old) And Bill Wyman (86 years old).
Emmylou Harris in Oct. 1975 at Dodger Stadium, she was the first opener for Elton John's 2 concerts, Joe Walsh had the middle slot. this reflected Barnstorm's '73 show at LA's Shrine Aud. where Emmylou opened and Elton with Dan Fogelberg jammed the nite's encore of Get Back.
if it's my day I'm sitting in the shade right over her head.
if it's my day I'm sitting in the shade right over her head.
Grant Hart of Husker Du and D Boon of Minutemen. Both gone too soon.
Ned Flanders and Milhouse Van Houten. All you need now is Lou Reed as Moe Szyslak.
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April 6 1974, SoCal's Ontario Motor Speedway transformed into something near mythical - The California Jam. it drew over 200,000 fans and became the center of the Rock n Roll universe, headlined by Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Black Sabbath, Black Oak Arkansas plus top opening bands of lighter fare setting records for being the highest-grossing festival, with the loudest amplification, and most efficiently orchestrated spectacle of that time. ABC televised the event, turning a countercultural gathering into a national broadcast bonanza. the previous month of building a pioneering infrastructure signaled something new: Rock as an industry, capable of filling and exiting speedways within 24hrs.
then there was the moment everyone will always talk about; Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore detonating the performance after a blistering run through Smoke on the Water, he smashed his guitar into a camera lens, triggered overly-explosive charges behind a fake amp, setting half the stage ablaze as he scampered from police onto an awaiting helicopter. it was rock theater written in fire. Arthur Brown was no doubt proud. then ELP had to follow that, and pulled it off admirably with Keith's pyrotechnics and spinning Grand Piano as Greg Lake chewed gum while singing like a God while fireworks sent us off. we made it home by midnite.
in hindsight, like Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and sadly Altamont, California Jam I was definitive of its own time. for better or worse, we'd turned a significant corner as a music-loving society, and soon the decline from this peak ensued. they pulled off CJ II in fine style a few years later and that was the end of an era.
then there was the moment everyone will always talk about; Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore detonating the performance after a blistering run through Smoke on the Water, he smashed his guitar into a camera lens, triggered overly-explosive charges behind a fake amp, setting half the stage ablaze as he scampered from police onto an awaiting helicopter. it was rock theater written in fire. Arthur Brown was no doubt proud. then ELP had to follow that, and pulled it off admirably with Keith's pyrotechnics and spinning Grand Piano as Greg Lake chewed gum while singing like a God while fireworks sent us off. we made it home by midnite.
in hindsight, like Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and sadly Altamont, California Jam I was definitive of its own time. for better or worse, we'd turned a significant corner as a music-loving society, and soon the decline from this peak ensued. they pulled off CJ II in fine style a few years later and that was the end of an era.
ZZ Top at the Saenger Theatre, N'Oleans 4-6-2026
photos-Brian Guggenheimer
photos-Brian Guggenheimer
