AZjeff
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I was 17 and lived in Pa so this was out of reach but we heard of Cal Jam. Any of you old Cali dudes go to this concert? @JeffKeryk ? @slo town ?
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That was in So Cal... Those were the days. I was not a big Slack Babbath fan, but they were all over the airways.
I saw Ruthie Foster do a pretty good cover once. Here's her video.
She definitely has the voice to pull it off well.
My feelings exactly.
Here is just one of the memorable and famous San Francisco Bay Area concerts. "Day On The Green" in Oakland, 1975. This was my era and style. And look at the pretty girls in the audience. Surely one of the most adventurous and fun female generations of all time.
Some good looking grandmothers in that audience, eh?!
Scott
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My crowd wasn't into LS and the southern rock genre, this concert is a young Ozzy when they weren't the headliners and before the whole Prince of Darkness persona. You were at that Skynyrd concert?
Yea, and no cell phones everywhere!!
Not to take this too far off track, but my favorite female artist version of the tune:
Those were the days! (I wasnt there but I was 17 years old)
This was music, organic with real physical/anolog instruments that took effort up on the stage. Today's pop tart singers and bands would melt on stage. The music today is manufactured, scripted blah.
Said what has happened to the industry.
Woodstock was my corner of the country but I was still too young. We would play the album over and over though.
Tony Iommi looks completely different without his trademark mustache!
Although I attended literally dozens of SF Bay Area concerts from the late '60s to mid '70s (mostly Winterland and Fillmore West - and man-o-man do I have some stories!!!), but sadly I didn't go to the Day On The Green.
Start at 6:24 in the Skynyrd video. Check out all the Boomer Chicks, who are now grandmothers. Let me just say that they were white hot, fun loving girls back in their day! I'm so glad this was my era.
Scott
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Ronnie and Co blew us away that day. Such energy! Bill Graham came on the stage and said something like, "they're like one of our own, aren't they?"
So you were there? Awesome!
Perhaps my most "famous" concert was the Santa Clara County Folk Rock Festival in '69. To name just two of the bands, I saw Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane that night. Jimi played God Bless America with his teeth and later lit his guitar on fire with Ronson lighter fluid during another song. The Airplane was in its militant days. They were the last band to play that night. Concert was supposed to end at midnight or something but The Airplane played on, purposely defying the rules, until the power was turned off. Grace Slick incited a riot, literally screaming at the crowd to wreck the place, which many of the concert goers did. Me? I got the heck out of there. It was a dangerous situation. Chairs and bottles were flying everywhere!
On a lighter note, earlier that evening the good looking boomer chick sitting next to me passed out and went face down on my lap, completely unconscious, laying there a few minutes until I pushed her off me and put her face down on the guy sitting on her other side! Just one of my many rock concert experiences... and this is one of the PG-rated ones!
Scott
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