braveheart Wow… great memory on the years!
The Concert Thread
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Saw David Crosby and Graham Nash playing together at the Cape Cod Colosseum in 1972. Not as good as with Stills and Young.
Beach Boys at the CC Colosseum in 1974 and at the Boston Garden in 1976. Both great concerts. No Brian Wilson though.
Peter Frampton at the CC Colosseum in 1976.
Dan Fogelberg at Great Woods in 1987. Loved Fogelberg, but he was doing a lot of electric guitar at that time.
Saw The Shirelles at Your Fathers Moustache in 1974. YFM was a bar in Dennis on the Cape. Sat up front just a few feet away. They were great.
Saw Roger McGuinn (The Birds) at a small bar on the Cape as well in 1988. He played his 12 string acoustic guitar. Fantastic.
Sneakylong Your Fathers Moustache
Wow ... talk about dredging up memories!
Worst concert: I saw Meatloaf at Pufferbellies in late 80's early 90's? Horrible sound setup, drunk audience, and impaired singer? Not a good combo.
Favorite concert: I saw Smokey Robinson at the CC Melody Tent in Falmouth mid 1980's. I was only about 20 feet away, dead center, and he genuinely seemed to be having a blast. What put it over-the-top, was a couple between myself and Smokey who could both really sing and harmonize, who knew all the backup vocals. Even some choreographed moves. Everyone around me were looking at each other to see if we all heard them too.
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Stu1961 CC Melody Tent in Falmouth mid 1980's.
Saw the musical HAIR at the Melody Tent in Hyannis in 1972. Meatloaf was in the cast of HAIR back then. He wasn’t famous then so no idea if he was in the cast we saw.
Your Fathers Mustache had some good acts back then. Saw Gary U.S. Bonds there as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_U.S._Bonds
The most unique act we saw there wasn’t famous. The first band on was a 50’s greaser band all slicked back etc.. After a break the next band was a current 70’s band with long hair etc.. It took a little while to realize that they were the same band.
My last concert was Jimmy Buffett at Wrigley Field in 2018. I've seen him 19 or 20 times. As a lifelong Cubs fan, I was thrilled to be on the field for my first time.
One of the best concerts I attended was one with Dr. Hook, Sugarloaf and Rare Earth. It was fun from start to finish.
Dr. Hook led off and then came out and sat with the crowd for the rest of the concert. Another good one was Black Oak Arkansas and Mountain. Black Oak Arkansas just blew everyone away and Mountain had to really work to get the crowd
with them after Black Oak was done. It took a couple songs but they finally did it. My favorite oldies concert was Dion and then the Beach Boys. I love Dion's stuff. The last concert I attended was a country concert. Marin Morris led it off. She was just getting started and didn't even have a record yet. The headliner was Little Big Town. It was a fun time.
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mulegolf Mountain
Leslie West, the legendary 300 pound guitar player. Mississippi Queen. Great song.
Being from Cape Cod my favorite song by Mountain was Nantucket Sleighride (based on a true story).
https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-nantucket-sleighride-by-mountain
“Leslie West always an unlikely guitar hero. His massive physical presence – he weighed 300 pounds at the dawn of the '70s – defied the longstanding vogue for undernourished-looking, rail-thin rock guitar slingers.”
First concert back in the early 70's was Bread, Reo Speedwagon and Steely Dan...
Steely Dan stole the show.
Saw and met Stevie Wonder backstage at a benefit concert in LA..super cool guy.
J.Geils Band many times
Leon Russell
Foghat
Humble Pie
Loggins and Messina
Bryan Adams
At Tuacahn,one of a kind place to see concerts we saw:
Peter Frampton, even in his 60's he put on one hell of a show
Eddie Money, seemed pretty drunk on stage
Los Lobo's
Pat Benatar,she ROCKS
3 Dog Night
Kenny Loggins like watching Top Gun live
Willie Nelson played at least 2 hrs. straight without a break
I'm sure there were many more, mind got a little cloudy back in the 70's...
Sneakylong “Leslie West always an unlikely guitar hero. His massive physical presence
In sharp contrast was the bassist, Felix Pappalardi, a skinny guy that could really play that bass guitar.
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mulegolf In sharp contrast was the bassist, Felix Pappalardi, a skinny guy that could really play that bass guitar
Yeah, Felix Pappalardi was very talented as well. Tragically he was shot and killed in 1983 by his wife who was also in the music business.
While stationed at Ft. Gordon, GA in 1985, I was visiting relatives in Florida during holiday leave. We were hanging out in Orlanda where there was a party for the Citrus Bowl and Ricky Nelson was playing. Not my genre of music, but I remember being super impressed by his band. The sound was great and that band was effing TIGHT. It was his next to last performance, his plane crashed on New Year's Eve.