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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 31, 2012 18:52:30 GMT
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Post by futureshock on Jan 31, 2012 19:15:51 GMT
Wow, man, did you see Marmalade, man? Cool, man!
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Post by tullist on Jan 31, 2012 20:29:52 GMT
I forget Graham, I am pretty sure you were at this show, though I might be confusing you with this other guy over on Talk Awhile who was. In any case I am relatively sure you saw them in the calendar year of 68, or definitely by 69. Can you actually remember it? I know most of my memories from back then are so filmy I am more repeating what I know occured than an actual memory. There are things I wish I could remember more clearly, sometimes smells help, I know they will for real if I ever quit smoking!
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 31, 2012 21:39:11 GMT
C'mon Ray...you don't remember being sent home from school when kennedy got shot, gemini launches in the school auditorium, monkess monday nites, 7:30 MST ( same or later in Chicago ?) gas hitting 30.9 a gallon to everyone's horror and McDonalds burgers at 19cents a pop?
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Post by tullist on Feb 1, 2012 2:53:37 GMT
C'mon Ray...you don't remember being sent home from school when kennedy got shot, gemini launches in the school auditorium, monkess monday nites, 7:30 MST ( same or later in Chicago ?) gas hitting 30.9 a gallon to everyone's horror and McDonalds burgers at 19cents a pop? You know Bernie, I really don't, or its so opaque. Now I can tell the tale oftentimes, I have a talent for remembering dates at least in a general time frame down to maybe the month and year. I guess I am just disapointed with the advent of You Tube bringing me so many things I thought I would never see again, that there is not a like contraption in my own brain. I can recall it was raining in Chicago, and I think a Tuesday when JFK was murdered, and I remember my Dad weeping during the funeral and the Naval Hymn being played which I believe I found a potent piece of music at 7 and I still kinda do, "curious foreign chaps" like De Gaulle with his odd hat and salute, but its not at all like its right there and I can see it. Monkees for chrissakes. Can't say I never watched but in large part even at 10 I felt them unworthy imitators, and Phil and I had minor skirmishes with Martha and Mary who had changed teams to the Monkees. I think I pinched both of their FACE cheeks until lightly bruised. Pretty sure we watched those early liftoff's on a TV in the classroom. I never really noticed things like gas prices, to this day cars are sort of a maybe necessary evil. McDonalds I do remember, that guy went to my high school, or dropped out I guess, Ray Kroc, and the first one was a few miles away. I swear McDonald's and fast food in general were better quality in the early and mid sixties, though my mouth was not fouled by 40 years of smoking either. Plus burgers and malts are like high cuisine when u are 9.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 1, 2012 9:09:57 GMT
I forget Graham, I am pretty sure you were at this show, though I might be confusing you with this other guy over on Talk Awhile who was. In any case I am relatively sure you saw them in the calendar year of 68, or definitely by 69. Can you actually remember it? I know most of my memories from back then are so filmy I am more repeating what I know occured than an actual memory. There are things I wish I could remember more clearly, sometimes smells help, I know they will for real if I ever quit smoking! Wasn't at the Sunbury festival although we went to the one the year before in 1967 when it was at Richmond, I think. Quite a memorable few days here in Blighty in 1967 - the bastard Labour Government closed the pirate radio stations the day after the Richmond festival. August 14. I posted this when I first joined here: I emailed Glen Cornick last year re. the Star Club set list for 22nd April 1968 and it's now on the electrocutas web site but for the benefit of all on this forum the probable set list from his recollections was: Serenade to a Cuckoo Cat's Squirrel Rock Me Baby So Much Trouble Beggar's Farm Dharma For One My Sunday Feeling It's Breaking Me Up Song For Jeffrey Fat Man Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You Sunshine Day Must admit though I can't remember much about it. Alcohol ? We saw a lot of great bands at that time. The original Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix and Simon & Garfunkel at the Royal Albert Hall amongst others and at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon the likes of Delaney & Bonny, Derek and the Dominoes, Free, etc. For what it's worth I also saw the the Beatles at the Fairfield Halls in 1963 - my first ever concert at the tender age of 15 and I've still got the concert programme. Oh well, must sign off before I begin to wallow in nostalgia. Have a good one. Read more: jethrotull.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=who&action=display&thread=44&page=1#ixzz1l7S9bgdr
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 1, 2012 18:11:28 GMT
My first concert ever...just cause it was the next high-school perr approved gig at exactly the time my parents allowed me to go to the sketchy neighborhood of the Denver Coliseum that hosted big gigs, was an Island tour: Traffic , Free and John Martin....my second ever was Allmans at the same place, a day after rain cancelled the planned outdoor gig...and my third was Tull-APP...it would have been my fourth but Deep Purple cancelled for soem internal civil war reason...and never re-scheduled....after Tull the fllodgates opened and i swa the dead, leon Russel , Clapton, Dylan ( before the flood) and countless minor gigs like Iron Butterfly, Wishbone Ash etc etc. ah nostalgia
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