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Here's a prime show for the Wayback Machine
(yes, that Tony Sheridan)
(yes, that Tony Sheridan)
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Passinwind
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Satchel Paige had it right. "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you."
My Golden Ticket is my next jam. One time only!
While I'm definitely old enough, I didn't go to Woodstock, or ever claim I did. However, I did go to the Atlanta Pop Festival(or 'pot feast', as it was known)in '69. 3 days of big and little name acts: IIRC, both Winters, Janis, 10 Wheel Drive, many others whose names escape me and some band playing their first major gig-Grand Funk Railroad. They were late getting there 'cos their bread truck broke down on the way. I vaguely remember the 3 day ticket was $15(!). Lived on Pepsi and garlic pickles; a friend and I slept in my Volvo PV 544*. The 'sanitary facilities' consisted of what was known as the 'whiz' bush- a clump of some north central Georgia greenery.
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...Oh......Wait....... I've seen that double bill 5 times
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Nice. My stepbrother had the temerity to get married in VT the Saturday of Woodstock, so I didn't get to go. The next year we packed up my '59 VW porthole van with a bunch of friends and trekked to the Strawberry Fields festival at the Mosport race track in Canada. One of many highlights was seeing Duane Allman with Delaney and Bonny, turning a nominal 60 minute set into a Three Hour Tour. Gilligan!
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Rick was playing a fretless BG well before Jaco. Good times.
Saw The Band a couple of times. once at Watkins Glenn, Danko seemed drunk as heck and was stumbling around the stage! Nothing really happening music wise. We went back to our camp. On the way home, stopped in NJ for a Dead/Band concert, we were right up at the front, much much better!
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Ahh, the drive south after the Watkins Glen show was something else, according to my very foggy memory. Kids those days!
Today is the anniversary of that show. Just another day in the life for them. Would have been something to be a fly on the wall backstage.
My late brother Tom and I put on satin baseball jackets and got backstage at the Paramount in Seattle in '71 for Alice Cooper. There was all the beer and pizza you could drink. The band was totally crocked. After the show we hopped into a VW bus and someone yelled "hold on, I need a ride!" It was Vince, or the Alice Cooper We were on our way to a Broadway nightclub and on the way up, Vince moved to the back seat and threw up a bunch of pizza. When we got to the nightclub he hopped out saying, "sorry mate, thanks for the ride!" We followed him in. Wife Carey got Elvis' scarf around her neck for a couple seconds at one of his last shows. That's our claim to fame! Some fame! LOL!
I sometimes feel sick if I’m not behind the wheel. It becomes a problem when I'm flying or on a boat. 
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‘Actually’ saw The Band a couple of times, and then ‘saw’ them at Watkins Glen...from a mile away...there was Somebody up there playing, but I was in no place to critique.
I was ‘overwhelmed’...
Both times I Actually saw them, Rick was playing his fretless Ampeg!
Gawd, thy were great...for a while.
‘Actually’ saw The Band a couple of times, and then ‘saw’ them at Watkins Glen...from a mile away...there was Somebody up there playing, but I was in no place to critique.
I was ‘overwhelmed’...
Both times I Actually saw them, Rick was playing his fretless Ampeg!
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Gawd, thy were great...for a while.
When you watch him play, he had a unique picking nd fretting style. He explains his techniques in one of the homespun videos.
They were all amazing musicians that played with emotion. Robbie Robertson has a good memoir and companion CD, Testimony, that talks about his life from the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve where his family lived up to the Last Waltz. A followup book, post The Band, is in the works. Given his Mohawk and Cayuga heritage, interesting that the group was called The Band.
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If I remember correctly they could play 25 instruments between them!
I listened to the audiobook version of "Testimony" last year - very enlightening. The scariest parts were when they were playing with Bob Dylan when he 'went electric'...
Just ordered Testimony, looking forward to reading it! I remember from somewhere that when they were in Big Pink, there was a typewriter on a table, Richard would write a line and then Dylan would come by and write one and so on! Could you imagine? Richard had a awesome voice! So talented! Heart breaking he took his own life!!!I listened to the audiobook version of "Testimony" last year - very enlightening. The scariest parts were when they were playing with Bob Dylan when he 'went electric'...
Bob Dylan was in awe of Neil Young. One day he made a trip to Winnipeg to the house where Neil lived when he was a kid and wrote songs. He went into his old bedroom and stared out the window at the sky that so inspired Neil.
Dylan trying to understand the source of Neil’s inspiration. People often don’t comprehend where their songs come from. They feel that the creativity that flows from them comes from somewhere else. To them, their art seems bigger than anything that they could have created on their own.
Dylan trying to understand the source of Neil’s inspiration. People often don’t comprehend where their songs come from. They feel that the creativity that flows from them comes from somewhere else. To them, their art seems bigger than anything that they could have created on their own.
I was going through my archives today and found this one by a Canadian country/folk artist. Although it's not soul, it is one of my favorites. What do you GOF's think about it?
It may not be soul, but he got soul!
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