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Old 09-22-2009, 08:06 AM   #57 (permalink)
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List all the bands you've seen live

I couldn't possibly do that. I can't even remember that names of all the bands I've seen live. When I worked for the Boston Phoenix in the Eighties, I was in the clubs five nights a week and writting at least three reviews of concerts each week. Among the shows I do remember, the following were the best of the early ones:

Bob Dylan at Kiel Opera House, St. Louis
The Muddy Waters Band at the Castaway St. Louis
The Band at the River Festival- Edwardsville Illinois
Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Forest Park Pavillion in St. Louis
The Flying Burrito Brothers at the River Festival in Edwardsvillie Ill.
Professor Longhair at the St. Louis Blues Festival
Joni Mitchell at the River Festival, Edwardville Ill.
The Who, Led Zeppelin and Joe C*cker at Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis
The Rolling Stones at some place I don't remember in Champagne Illinois
Jethro Tull and Mountain at Red Rocks in Colorado
The Grateful Dead at Red Rocks in Colorado
The Hour Glass (an early version of the Allman Brothers Band) at the Castaway in St. Louis
Jefferson Airplane at some ballroom in Chicago I don't remember
Jimi Hendrix at Keil Auditorium (The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for the Monkees and all the teeny bopper girls in the audience were afraid of him!)

The gets you up to 1970 when I was age 10. My father was a rock and roll concert promoter in St. Louis and I went to most of the concerts with him.
My first concert was the Dylan concert in 1966 when I was six years old.
Damn, I'm jealous. Especially of Prof. Longhair. I would've loved to have seen him.
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