What was your very first concert? [Archive]

motony

08-26-2011, 01:47 PM

tried Motortown Revue in '62 but show was at Miamis' Harlem Square, so I was too young & too white. tried Dee Dee Sharp at Ft. Lauderdale War Memorial Auditorium in '63 my Dad was even gonna take us but you had to be 13, finally 1966 Orlando Auditorium The Joe Tex Show co-starring MARY WELLS, featuring Lee Dorsey, Howard Tate, Mabel John, The Blues Busters, Barbara Lewis,Pig Meat Markham, all backed by the Clyde Williams Orchestra.

blueskies

08-26-2011, 02:05 PM

The Supremes.....Civic Arena, Pittsburgh...1966
My Mom took a bunch of us kids, dropped us off and she went to see Carol Channing in Hello Dolly. Apparently, lots going on that night in Pittsburgh.

soulster

08-26-2011, 02:16 PM

Mine was CHIC, Sister Sledge, SOS Band & GQ and it was the spring of 1980. I was in 8th grade.

I would have rather seen that one than the one I did go to, but the one I did go to was great. It was Foreigner and the Doobie Brothers. I had a hell of a good time.

BobC

08-26-2011, 04:18 PM

Rufus Chaka Khan in 1979. Unfortunately, Chaka was so messed up on drugs she was singing the wrong words and then she fell off the stage and the show was cancelled. So that concert doesn't really count. Heart was the next concert, and after that, maybe Bad Company? God I hated that music--I only went because of peer pressure. I've seen Rush, Bad Company, Cheap Trick and many other heavy metal bands and hated them all.

carlo

08-26-2011, 04:36 PM

Diana Ross, Scherrie Payne & Lynda Laurence - Return To Love Tour 2000, Air Canada Center, Toronto, Ontario.

carlo

08-26-2011, 04:37 PM

Rufus Chaka Khan in 1979. Unfortunately, Chaka was so messed up on drugs she was singing the wrong words and then she fell off the stage and the show was cancelled.

Wow!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

BobC

08-26-2011, 05:00 PM

uptight

08-26-2011, 05:29 PM

It may have been Prince with Rick James if we're talking about major acts. Each of them were in the early stages of their career, with Rick having a bit more seniority. I was a kid, but my family knew I loved music and took me along.

reese

08-26-2011, 05:40 PM

An Evening With Diana Ross, 2/12/77.

john_c

08-26-2011, 05:58 PM

Grass Roots opening for Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969, Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon.

I also remember seeing the Supremes at the Portland Auto Show in 1965 or 1966.

robb_k

08-26-2011, 06:18 PM

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I saw The Miracles, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark, The Shirelles, LaVern Baker, Clyde McPhatter, Little Anthony & Imperials, and Ben E. King at The Regal Theater in Chicago, in Summer of 1961. It would be tough to top that. I don't think I ever saw one with more top stars.
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dianesfan_1965

08-26-2011, 06:43 PM

The Dino Ross and the Pterodactyls, my ass is OLD!

144man

08-26-2011, 06:49 PM

The Crystals at the Finsbury Park Astoria, London, in 1963 or 64.

tsull1

08-26-2011, 07:31 PM

The Edgar Winter Group when I was in 7th or 8th grade. Hey, they were pretty good, Rick Derringer and Dan Hartman were in the lineup.

Doug-Morgan

08-26-2011, 09:34 PM

Amboy Dukes, 1968 at the Blue Light in Midland, MI

motony

08-26-2011, 09:49 PM

BobC I know what you sayin about Chaka Khan I saw Rufus when Bootsys Rubber Band & Parliment/Funkadelic were the opening bands. Chaka just sat down in the middle of the stage while the band was playin the hits the crowd started leavin but after the Funk Mob Chaka/Rufus were a BIG letdown anyway. JoBETEROB, what a show that was!Do you remember the Miracles set? "Way Over There"?144MAN I bet the Crystals were great, wasn't Manfred Mann their band over there for that tour?

smark21

08-26-2011, 09:59 PM

Diana Ross in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Summer of 1983, just a few weeks after her Concert in Central Park.

Are you from Kalamazoo RossHolloway? I'm from there though I didn't go to her show in 83. Didn't even know about it.

soulster

08-26-2011, 11:05 PM

True story. If you read Chaka's memoirs, she goes into great detail about her life before Rufus, and about her life after she quit drugs--but there is almost no information about her big years. I'm pretty sure she just doesn't remember.

Maybe that's part of the reason we will never see a comprehensive Rufus and Chaka comp/box. Maybe she's trying to wipe out that entire part of her life from hers, and everyone else's memory. That's OK, i'm compiling my own, as soon as I find good sounding copies of three of their pre-1974 hits.

daddyacey

08-27-2011, 02:42 AM

Isaac Hayes at the Apollo Theater in Harlem ,1971 , touring during the Isaac Hayes Movement album period. John Blair was the violinist , who turned the show out with his solo on The Beatles "Something". I was 14 . Never forget that shi... to this day!!!!

dave_clegg

08-27-2011, 03:32 AM

The Beatles with Mary Wells at Bradford Gaumont 1964

davidr

08-27-2011, 04:29 AM

Four Tops at the Fairfield Halls Croydon England 1970,up on the stage with Levi.

Fantastic memories.

whitesoxx

08-27-2011, 05:06 AM

Diana Ross, Rotterdam June 12, 1982. Simply amazing!

144man

08-27-2011, 06:24 AM

144MAN I bet the Crystals were great, wasn't Manfred Mann their band over there for that tour?

The Crystals were very good. I think "I Wonder" had just been released as their latest UK single. I don't remember if Manfred Mann were on the bill, but I do remember seeing Joe Brown and Heinz on the show. I'll have to check the program.

My memories aren't very clear. Perhaps they were blown away by the next show I saw: The Motown Revue.

paladin

08-27-2011, 10:55 AM

As a young adult The Temptations 1968 at The Capital Theatre in Chicago. We were late getting to the show and The Temptations were tearing the place up, they had on green suits with darker green vests and silk shirts......Paul Williams sang the extened version of Dont Look Back and the crowd went wild.......it was pure pandemonium. I'll never forget it.........

this was not my first live show, that occurred at the Regal and Tivoli Theatre, my mom would take me whenever she could, but this one I was with my boys from around the way.....blocks and blocks from our neighborhood and we almost didn't make it back........."Warriors, come out and play"!!!!!!!!

cdiii

08-27-2011, 01:18 PM

Apollo Theater, February 1966: The Marvelettes [[headliners), Jackie Lee [["The Duck"), Deon Jackson [["Love Makes The World Go Around"), Dee Dee Sharp [["I Really Love You"), and Wayne Cochran.

moe

08-27-2011, 01:39 PM

I can't remember which venue came first, but the group is the same: The Temptations. I saw them at the Syria Mosque and the Twin Coaches, both in Pittsburgh, and both in the later 60's.

rovereab

08-27-2011, 02:29 PM

The Four Tops at the East Ham Odeon, East London. My Mum took me to this concert probably sometime around 1967.

brother_love

08-27-2011, 02:45 PM

Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Jackson Five, Edwin Starr & The Edwin Hawkins Singers [[The Forum, L.A. - 1969)

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tamla617

08-27-2011, 03:45 PM

the o'jays,billy paul and the intruders at the hammersmith odeon [[now the apollo) london,1973 and 2 days later the same groups at the california ballrooms,dunstable,bedfordshire for a combined ticket cost of about 4 quid,dont mention the journey costs!130 miles for the 1st,100 miles for the 2nd

motony

08-27-2011, 08:32 PM

Apollo Theater, February 1966: The Marvelettes [[headliners), Jackie Lee [["The Duck"), Deon Jackson [["Love Makes The World Go Around"), Dee Dee Sharp [["I Really Love You"), and Wayne Cochran.
What a show that was!What was the Marvelettes set?

cdiii

08-27-2011, 08:43 PM

Dear Motony:

Now I'm going to recall as much as I possibly can from 45 years ago--LOL!!! "Don't Mess With Bill" was their hit at the time, and was the next to last song they did; they closed with "Danger, Heartbreak Dead Ahead." The rest of the set also included: "Too Many Fish In The Sea," "Please Mr. Postman," "Playboy," and probably "Strange I Know" and "Locking Up My Heart."

Though I loved The Marvelettes, the performance I'll NEVER forget that day is Jackie Lee doing "The Duck," which was a HUGE favorite of the audience that day and a song that was currently on the charts. You've just inspired me to fire that up on the iPod!--LOL!!!

motony

08-27-2011, 09:48 PM

Yea, that record "The Duck" is baad, love the backgrounds.

nysister

08-27-2011, 10:23 PM

The original Miracles at the Apollo Theatre. My older sister took me and I remember the women trying to pull smokey off the stage, and I had never seen anything like that in my life. It was frightening but Smokey kept on singing...lol!

caliluv

08-28-2011, 12:10 AM

Solomon Burke. I was 13 yrs. I got a chance to tell him too a couple of years before he passed. Surprising to me he remembered the show.

cdiii

08-28-2011, 03:33 PM

Motony:

Yes, the background singers to "The Duck"! And, that's what made that performance so memorable to me. Jackie didn't have background singers on or offstage with him; but he "had" a group of young ladies in the audience up in the balcony, singing that "Come on, ba-by" line, ON TIME AND TO PERFECTION!!! I will NEVER forget it as long as I live!!!

sunshineonacloudyday

08-28-2011, 04:07 PM

JAMES BROWN showed up at my high school in, I think, early '67 while on his "Don't Be A Dropout" tour of schools. We were called to the auditorium for an "assembly", expecting some boring school thing, and THE GODFATHER OF SOUL walks out on the stage!! Life was never the same after that day.

tallone

08-28-2011, 04:56 PM

James Brown at the Apollo....I think it was 1960 or 1961.

tamla617

08-29-2011, 03:59 PM

the duck...........what a track.still got the london 7"loved jackie lee in all his guises,bob and earl,jay dee

timmyfunk

08-29-2011, 06:08 PM

timmyfunk

08-29-2011, 06:09 PM

timmyfunk

08-29-2011, 06:14 PM

Believe it or not, it was Ben E. King in a park in Queens in 1980. Free show. Pretty damn tight.
The second was Rufus featuring Chaka Khan at Belmont Park in Queens, also in 1980. Unlike the experience related by BobC, they turned that place out. They only charged $2.00 for a ticket, but since there was a hole in the fence surrounding the park, a lot of people including myself got in for free.

motony

08-29-2011, 08:55 PM

cdiii, I bet that was baad...my most fun concerts were those in the 60's and it was jus innocent fun, no smokin & drinkin, too young but jus real fun with the music.Sunshineonacloudyday, that is Outta site" I would have jus died if JB had come to a school assembley.

chidrummer

08-30-2011, 11:50 AM

1st concert - Friday, July 23, 1971

The International Amphitheater in Chicago. A group entering it's heyday called, The Jackson 5. Opening for them, an unknown group that Motown hadn't even put a record out on yet called, The Commodores.

MIKEW-UK

08-30-2011, 11:58 AM

The Beatles at the ABC Cinema, Plymouth 1963 http://www.chrisrobinson.co.uk/pages/beatles2.shtml

glencro

08-30-2011, 12:32 PM

Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Jackson Five, Edwin Starr & The Edwin Hawkins Singers [[The Forum, L.A. - 1969)

3486

I was only 3 then but WOW would have loved to have been there

1382hitsville

08-30-2011, 01:50 PM

Diana Ross in Rotterdam, 1997. I was starstruck when she came out....

tamla617

08-30-2011, 02:04 PM

chidrummer
i was in hawaii just after that and i saw the massive poster at the 50th state fair.with that lot on it,j5 and commodores and someone else.they were appearing there that week and it was sold out and if it wasnt i wouldnt have had enough folding to pay for it.i can remember being so p*********d off because that was the 1st time i'd been even "close" to seeing a motown act.

RossHolloway

08-30-2011, 03:13 PM

Are you from Kalamazoo RossHolloway? I'm from there though I didn't go to her show in 83. Didn't even know about it.

Yea, I grew up in the Kalamazoo/Plainwell area. Still have family there.

BobC

08-30-2011, 04:17 PM

Timmy--that Rufus show was decades ago. I saw Chaka a few years ago here in Austin and she was fine--in great voice, and obviously not messed up.

I should relate the story of the time I was cussed out by Donnie Osmond.

davidr

08-31-2011, 03:07 AM

I was not there but it was supposed to be the best,also their first performance at the Royal Albert Hall to coincide with the release of 'Reach Out - a great description of this in Sharon Davis' Motown book.

tamla617

08-31-2011, 04:21 PM

i saw chaka in 79, i think chaka lp[[i'm every woman) was her current album, at the hammersmith odeon and she was outstanding.

BobC

08-31-2011, 06:14 PM

jillfoster

09-01-2011, 01:12 AM

I should relate the story of the time I was cussed out by Donnie Osmond.

I wanna hear this NOW! LOL I loved your story of Ross and Boy George, and how she shoved you aside. First concert? Heart... 1984. I was 15 years old, and was offered a hit off a joint by a third year med student. I still wonder to this day if he's out there somewhere tokin between patients.

glencro

09-01-2011, 10:40 AM

Diana Ross in Rotterdam, 1997. I was starstruck when she came out....

I saw her for the first tiem last summer and the concert was INCREDIBLE!!!

Penny

09-01-2011, 10:57 AM

You know I don't remember who I saw in my first concert. That is kind of embarrassing. My boyfriend and I used to smoke weed when we'd go to concerts consequently I don't remember everything too well. I hope that doesn't offend anyone here. I was a different person then. Don't smoke pot!

BobC

09-01-2011, 11:42 AM

Jill--that was partially what got me interested in the Supremes story. I was working in a night club in Buffalo as a waiter, and Mary Wilson played there about a month after I "met" Diana Ross. I ended up meeting Mary after the show, and she was really nice to me, so it started me thinking hmmmmm. One Supreme shoved me out of the way, and another was really nice, so I'll bet their story is really interesting--and it was!

nosey

09-01-2011, 01:25 PM

Don't remember my first show but it had to have been the Uptown @ 1966. I have to admit, my girls and I went to those shows to meet guys and there are only a few shows that I pretty much remember as we stayed downstairs in the lounge area most of the time getting our mackette on. LOL! But I was there!

CliveR

09-01-2011, 03:51 PM

Little Eva and Brian Hyland [[!!), Woolwich, London, 1964, followed soon after by Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins + the Animals [[first live performance of House of the Rising Sun), then Bo Diddley, Everly Brothers and Rolling Stones [[yes, 3rd on the bill!) at Lewisham, London.......all recounted in my book- "Really Sayin' Something- memoirs of a Soul Survivor", if you don't have it yet, still available from Amazon and Bank House Books [[has anyone heard from Bankhouse Dave recently?)
Clive R

jaybs

09-02-2011, 04:51 AM

THE FOUR TOPS! I was just 14, told school I had a dentist appointment and Mum I had an away football game and would be home late. Left school at 3pm and went to the railway station and got changed out of my school uniform [[ordinary clothes were hid in my sports bag) and travelled for the first time on my own to the Big City of Liverpool!

Even sat in what is still an amazing theatre The Empire I was so afraid but then soon went when The Tops came on stage and when LEVI first sang I was relaxed, never then did I think 6 years later I would be interviewing them on the radio for the first time, always playing their new releases [[even when not on the play list) that I would get the radio station to promote their concerts regularly and to know Levi personally. What a GIFT!

texassoul

09-02-2011, 07:20 AM

Tam--to this day, "Love Has Fallen On Me," "Some Love," and "Roll Me Through the Rushes" are three of my favorite songs. I consider them some of the most memorable songs and performances of the 70's. I also love "Papillion" and "Clouds" from the following album, but after that there seemed to be more and more filler on each record.

Totally agree! If you have the chance to see Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, don,t you dare miss it! BTW BobC, hello from Houston. P.S. Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes were the 2 best concerts I've ever seen.

nosey

09-02-2011, 08:07 AM

After some thought, I remember my first show. It was 1965 @ the Uptown seeing the 5 Stairsteps. My boyfriend at the time was from Chi Town so we were snuggled up in our chairs thinking we were so in love while the Steps were singing World of Fantasy.

motony

09-02-2011, 09:35 AM

jaybs & nosey, great stories...Clive how was Little Eva in '64?I saw her late 80's & she was great...sang & sounded just like the records.

nosey

09-02-2011, 10:36 AM

I met/saw Little Eva in 1964 while she was appearing on Bandstand. We met up in the bathroom and she had on a short prom dress wearing a tiara and I'll never forget, she was complaining that her feet hurt! She was cute as a button and was very down to earth. She came across as just a regular girl; no airs.

ollie

09-02-2011, 11:41 AM

Can't really remember exactly the first gig i went to, but i do remember 1979 a Kiss concert in Philipshalle. Not my taste today anymore but i was young and foolish. 12 years old to be precise.:rolleyes:
The first time i was really impressed and happy to be at the gig was when in 1985 Curtis Mayfield came to town, with the 'We Come In Peace' song in his bag. He also performed, 'Don' Worry If ...' 'Move On Up', and some of the Superfly songs. I was amazed by so much funky creativity, beauty and soul. He could sang all the high notes pretty easy.
Then James Brown, Parliament/Funcadelic, P-Funk All Stars, Bootsy, and Prince where among the baddest gigs i was present at.

BobC

09-02-2011, 12:03 PM

Jill--I used to be a waiter at a nightclub in Buffalo in the late 80's called the Tralfamadore Cafe. I worked in the restaurant on the first floor, and the actual nightclub was upstairs where the acts and bands would perform. One night, Donny and Marie were playing the upstairs nightclub. We had a tiny little gay guy named Gene that we called "Waiter to the Stars" because it was his job to bring whatever food the celebrities wanted upstairs before they performed. Well, little did we know that Gene was in love with Donny Osmond--Donny was his life-long idol. Anyway--Donny and Marie ordered chicken wings, and Gene walked up the back stairwell to deliver the food to his idol. About a minute later, Gene comes flying back down the stairs, crying hysterically. To this day I am not sure exactly what happened, but Gene got so nervous meeting Donny that somehow he managed to dump the whole tray of RED chicken wings all over Donny's bright white costume!! What made this a very bad situation was that Donny had to do one show at 8, and another at 11, and he only brought two costumes with him--and now one was ruined! Donny was henceforth forced to do two shows in the same sweaty, stinky costume! I was sent up on a peace mission, bringing Donny a new tray of wings--and I was so young and dumb I actually agree to do it! Donny was livid, and quite nasty! He was so furious that he didn't even notice that I wasn't Gene [[Gene was about 5'4" tops I'd guess, and I am 6'2", 220 lbs) and bellowed "DON'T SPILL THIS ONE ON ME, YOU IDIOT!!!!!" or something to that effect.

Hee hee! Do NOT make me tell you about waiting on Rick James!

Howdy, TexasSoul!

jive_turkey

09-02-2011, 01:45 PM

The Commodors in Tuskegee, Alabama 1985

jive_turkey

09-02-2011, 01:51 PM

Hee hee! Do NOT make me tell you about waiting on Rick James!

Howdy, TexasSoul![/QUOTE]

Please do tell!

BobC

09-02-2011, 02:34 PM

Oh alright. Since you're forcing me...

I was working dinner shift at the Tralf the night Rick James was filming a video in the nightclub upstairs [[I think this was shortly before he was arrested and went to jail, and I never knew what song the video was for). My friends told me that earlier they had sneaked into the nightclub to watch the filming, but there was so much weed smoke you'd think their was a smoke machine running! You could get a contact high just walking in!

Anyway, my girlfriend at the time, Kathy, was really beautiful and was working as a hostess at the Tralf and I was up front talking to her. Suddenly the doors fly open and it's frikkin RICK JAMES, shucking off attitude, Jherri curl juice dripping, and he's followed by an entourage that absolutely reeked of weed! All the women looked trashy but in a very show-bizzy way! Rick just swaggered over to me and my girlfriend and demanded a table for [[something like) 30 or forty people, without a reservation, on a Saturday night! When he noticed how beautiful Kathy was, he asked her "Yo--does your boyfriend drive a LIMO?" not realizing I was her boyfriend. "No I don't" I replied, staring at him, and he just started laughing!

Somehow we managed to scrape together enough tables for Rick's trashy entourage, and he ordered ten bottles of $45 champagne--and proceeded to tear up the place! They were laughing, carrying on, obviously very high, swapping spit right in front of horrified patrons! As I was waiting on Rick and company, Rick suddenly grabbed me by the arm, gesturing towards the champagne, and said "YO!! This champagne! Is that the best chit you got?" I responded no, we had Dom Perignon, but that was $100 a bottle. "TAKE THIS CHIT AWAY!!" he commanded "And bring me ten bottles of THAT chit!" As if we had ten bottles on Dom just sitting around in the kitchen! But somehow, someway, by begging the other restaurants in the area, we managed to scrape together ten bottles of Dom, and Rick never even said thank you! He ordered me around like Kunta Kinte for about two hours, until I was about ready to rearrange his greasy curl with a tire iron! Amazingly, though, he ended up giving me a huge tip and complimented the owner on my service!

Ramone Verona

09-02-2011, 05:17 PM

I not only believe you, but it's obvious rick was here to remind us of how not to be "mr. bad example".

BobC

09-02-2011, 05:46 PM

It was an astonishing experience. Unlike most celebs I've met, Rick was EXACTLY the way you'd think he'd be.

splanky

09-04-2011, 07:36 AM

I'm not exactly sure but I think my first concert was Jr Walker and the All Stars at the Apollo Theater in Harlem opening
for the brand new hotness of The Jackson Five. Michael was a friggin beast on that date! All of the girls in the audience were pissing in their panties and I was as impressed as I was jealous...:) I have met more celebs than I can remember
and have known a few personally but reading through this thread I have to say one thing:

NOSEY! You met Little Eva?!!!! Now how dang cool is that?.....

bankhousedave

09-04-2011, 05:31 PM

I went to my first live gigs in 1967. My mother used to wait outside with the buggy, obviously. First shows were at the Princess Theatre in Torquay and featured The Moody Blues, John Maus [[Walker) and Sue and Sunny. Then, the following week, Procul Harem - the week they went to number one. In October/November time, I went to the Hammersmith Odeon for the Blues Festival and saw Son House, Little Walter, Odie Payne, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Buddy Guy, Sarah Vaughan and many others - and met most o them afterwards. Litttle wonder I have never been the same since.

BobC

09-04-2011, 06:14 PM

Who's little Eva? Is that a code word for Little Richard?

splanky

09-06-2011, 05:18 AM

BobC...I thought you were kidding for a second and then it occured to me you may be
either too young to know or from somewhere other than the US or UK...Anyway,
Little Eva was Carole King's babysitter and a friend of The Cookies who backed her
on most of her recordings after she graduated from singing occassional demos to having
a big hit with The Locomotion. On this Shindig performance she's backed [[not nearly as
well IMO) by the Blossoms...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xufxKCC1NJ8&feature=related

dvdmike

09-06-2011, 08:09 AM

The Motortown Revue of 1963 at the Regal in Chicago, I was 8, so my cousins took me. The second concert was The Beatles at Comiskey Park in 1964. A school friend's dad could get tickets to stuff like that. We had decent seats, but we couldn't hear the music too well over the screaming girls.

The first concert I went to at a rock venue, I was 14. I saw Vanilla Fudge, Muddy Waters and The Rotary Connection at a place called the Kinetic Playground on Lawrence Avenue on the North Side. This was in early 1969. Later, that year I went back to see B.B. King, Albert King and Santana. I was supposed to go back again later in the year, but there was a fire and concerts for the rest of the year were cancelled.

BobC

09-06-2011, 09:46 AM

I seriously never heard of her. I thought you were kidding. Oh well--now I know

nosey

09-06-2011, 10:04 AM

Splanky, it was a brief encounter in the ladies room! Her pointy toed shoes were giving her a fit ala Pearl Bailey. LOL!

KevLo

09-06-2011, 03:52 PM

Hi this is Kev-Lo

Sly And The Family Stone along with others At the Harlem Cultrual Festival Harlem N.Y. in 1969

JimBagley

09-06-2011, 05:55 PM

I saw Tony Orlando and Dawn at the Valley Forge Music Fair when I was 11. It was May 1974 and they mentioned that they had a summer variety show that was going to air on CBS in a couple of weeks.

dvdmike

09-07-2011, 08:08 AM

One of the worst concerts I ever went to was Blood, Sweat & Tears at the University of Illinois at Chicago around 1976. I was looking forward to seeing this show and the day of the concert, I was walking on the campus and these guys were walking behind me. One of them said, "What a great day it is to be David Clayton-Thomas." I turned around and that's who it was. Then in the opening number, he told the guy handling the lights to turn them down some. "If you was as high as I was last night, you'd know what I mean." I was immediately turned off by this, not to mention that they didn't perform any of their popular songs except "And When I Die." I was very disappointed.