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While I like rock classics and have been lucky to attend a lot of concerts the once record I always love from way back when, that I like to listen to...Seals and Crofts Greatest Hits. It is my comfort food.
 
While I like rock classics and have been lucky to attend a lot of concerts the once record I always love from way back when, that I like to listen to...Seals and Crofts Greatest Hits. It is my comfort food.

" Hummingbird " has always been one of my favorite songs.
 
Have seen Cheap Trick live? They were the second loudest band I ever heard. Like I said earlier, I saw the Music Machine in the 60's in a very small club and they were the loudest band I ever heard including the ones I played in.

I saw Cheap Trick in College Station, Texas. Robin Zander strained his vocal cords coming out on the stage screaming like a damn fool! lol

I didn't care too much for the concert. :eek:
 
I saw Cheap Trick in College Station, Texas. Robin Zander strained his vocal cords coming out on the stage screaming like a damn fool! lol

I didn't care too much for the concert. :eek:
I saw Cheap Trick in the early 90's and they were very loud and very good. Roboj Zander was in fine form. I saw the Carpenters back in the 70's and they must have had a new lead guitar player because he made several noticeable mistakes. It got so bad that Richard Carpenter got up from the piano and spoke to him. I have always wondered what he said to him.
 
I saw Cheap Trick in the early 90's and they were very loud and very good. Roboj Zander was in fine form. I saw the Carpenters back in the 70's and they must have had a new lead guitar player because he made several noticeable mistakes. It got so bad that Richard Carpenter got up from the piano and spoke to him. I have always wondered what he said to him.

We're not on Top of the World right now dude......:D


Have any of you been to a concert of a top name artist and the performance was awful? Only one I can remember was Boston - it was the tour after their first release and they played with Sammy Hagar. 'Ol Sammy opened and just blew them away; Boston at the time couldn't duplicate the heavy electronic sounds live...very disappointing.
 
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Linda Ronstadt says she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and her singing career is over. That's too bad because she was a great singer with a big vocal range. I saw her in Memphis back in the 80's and it was a very good concert.

That's a huge loss to the music world. She had one of the purest voices I ever heard. "Blue Bayou" is still one of my favorites.
 
I always really liked You're No Good.
She was promoting the album that contained Your No Good at the concert I attended. She sang that and all the rest of her hits. She had a really good band backing her that night too. Danny Kortchmar was on guitar.
 
I went to a Rock and Roll Revival show in the 1980's. Bobby Curtola, Lou Christie, Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon, The Coasters, The Chiffons with Chuck Berry closing. Everyone was awesome except Chuck. n fact he was down right terrible I have heard that from a number of people hat he iss lousy live.
 
Sorry to hear about Linda. I played the Blue Bayou album over and over. My mom HATED. Thought it made an awful racket.
 
I went to a Rock and Roll Revival show in the 1980's. Bobby Curtola, Lou Christie, Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon, The Coasters, The Chiffons with Chuck Berry closing. Everyone was awesome except Chuck. n fact he was down right terrible I have heard that from a number of people hat he iss lousy live.
I sawa Chuck Berry tribute show with Keith Richards and Berry wasn't very good. His playing style was pretty good for the 50's but it doesn't hold up to modern guitar players.
 
Here's something you can add to the Beatlemania file. 1965, Two female Beatles fans hired a helicopter to fly over the house The Beatles were renting in Beverly Hills, California and jumped from the helicopter into the swimming pool.
 
A couple of song fats from the past.

1957, songwriter Paul Anka was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Diana' (written about his brother's baby-sitter). His only UK No.1 as an artist, Anka was the first teenage solo act to reach No.1. Anka is a Canadian by the the way, although I bet a lot of people think he is American.
 
How about this. 1962, Little Eva went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Loco-motion'. The Carole King and Gerry Goffin song was offered to Dee Dee Sharp (Mashed Potatoes), who turned it down. Turns out Eva was Carole King and Gerry Goffin's babysitter. I find that a little hard to believe but who knows.
 
did). Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released on this date in 1975. Damn, you're getting old if you you bought this album, and I did!
 
did). Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released on this date in 1975. Damn, you're getting old if you you bought this album, and I did!

Silver lining to getting old is look at all the amazing concerts we went to when tickets were still affordable!!!
 
Silver lining to getting old is look at all the amazing concerts we went to when tickets were still affordable!!!
That is so true. I was holding 6 tickets to Elvis' upcoming concert in Memphis in 1977 (he died 3 or 4 weeks before the concert) and I paid $15 a piece for them!
 
That is so true. I was holding 6 tickets to Elvis' upcoming concert in Memphis in 1977 (he died 3 or 4 weeks before the concert) and I paid $15 a piece for them!

No kidding!

Stones, chartered bus to Buffalo.. $25!
 
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