07/22/08 - More tickets from the man who was at a show when I started this sentence, and was busy buying tickets for another by the time I finished it. All shows are from from 2008. His latest concerts include
07/19/08 - Added a vintage Pink Floyd handbill to the ROCKstuff flyers section.
They were touring "Obscured by Clouds" and one year away from "Dark Side Of The Moon." The show was at McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas, TX in 1972.
Added 11 photographs to the ROCKstuff photo section of The Ramones playing at One Block West in Kansas City, KS in 1977.
Added an old Quad Fest handbill to ROCKstuff. The show was at the
Daniel Meyer Coliseum in Fort Worth, TX. I'm guessing 1972 for the date. The concert featured Leon Russell, Poco, Badfinger & Lee Michaels.
The Steve Miller Band ("Fly Like An Eagle" tour) at McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas, TX - June 7th & 8th, 1976 Joe Cocker with REO Speedwagon (touring their first album "R.E.O. Speedwagon") at Dallas Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, TX - April 4th, 1971 Jo Jo Gunne, The Marshall Tucker Band & Robin Trower at Texas Hall in Arlington, TX - Sunday the 19th Jefferson Airplane (supporting 1969's "Volunteers") at Daniel Meyer Coliseum in Fort Worth, TX) - November 1st, 1970 The James Gang (Joe Walsh, Dale Peters & Jimmy Fox touring 1970's "James Gang Rides Again") at Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, TX - April 15th, 1971 Todd Rundgren And Utopia (supporting his first album "Runt") at Texas Hall in Arlington, TX - November 22nd, 1970
Just one ticket stub going up today -
Elvis Costello And The Attractions (Touring "Trust" - one of my favorite Elvis albums. "Almost Blue" also out this year.) with
Squeeze (Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook, Paul Carrack/or Don Snow by this time, Gilson Lavis & John Bentley supporting their 4th album "East Side Story") at
Tower Theatre in
Upper Darby, PA in
1981.
07/18/08 - I've got about 50 rock flyers from shows in the 1970s to add this weekend. Will post a note here when they've been listed.
07/18/08 - Busy uploading some very sexy tickets from
1970s concerts in
Texas. How sexy? The albums supported on these
tours include "Exile on Main St.," "Led Zeppelin III," "Frampton Comes Alive!," "Close to the Edge," "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," & "Magic Christian Music." The scans are very nice. Here are the shows:
07/17/08 - Listing more tickets from rock and roll concerts from
TX
in the mid-1980s. Most took place at
Reunion Arena.
These are recent acquisitions and not from the large lot. Shows include
07/16/08 - Posted ticket stubs from rock concerts in
TX. These are from the large lot that I received earlier in the year. The scans are lower resolution and smaller size than the bulk of the stubs in the gallery. Shows include
Now serving 7,801 ticket stubs with a few hundred from the Texas lot still to post and more coming from purchases and contributors. Ought to hit 8,000 easily before the end of the summer.
07/15/08 - Listing some rock ticket stubs from shows in
Chicago, IL, including -
"Ok, where were you on August 8, 1974 when Nixon announced his resignation? About 10 of us revved up for this one even before we knew it was going to be an historic event."
"We had all sorts of stuff that would keep us wasted all day and into the evening. There were other musicians on the bill, most likely Seals and Croft and Jessie Collin Young (hey people now come together, try to love one another right now). It went something like that (best song Dino Valenti of Quicksilver wrote, although he sold the right for a pittance to help him with legal fees and living expenses). But I digress."
"I filled up a watermelon with Vodka and walked right past John Scher with it lying on my shoulder. The whole scene was chaotic. It you stood up, we threw ice at you. It you talked too loud, Crosby would have a hissy fit and threaten to shut down the show."
"In the end they played about 2 1/2 hours, but they didn't enjoy it. Roosevelt Stadium was a pit. And the crowd wouldn't shut up. But Neil had the sense to tell Crosby to shut up and go electric. The acoustic set just wasn't going to work that day. The unruly crowd forced them into it"
"It was probably the last time they played there. But you can be sure they partied afterwards and toasted the dreaded Nixon, who they helped push out of office. Ahhhh, the good old days when musicians and young people had some control over politicians and the government."
"Ok, I think I've reminisced enough for one day. Please don't hold me to all the so-called facts. We had a lot of hootch that day."
"This stub is historic, but not in a good way. It's from a Traffic show at Howard Stein's Academy of Music on September 19, 1974 (I think)."
"Soon after the tour, which ended early, the group broke up. This tour was meant to promote their last album, When the Eagle Flies. While the album was a financial success, it didn't represent the kind of music that I wanted to hear, but I went to the concert anyway hoping that they would do a bunch of their older tunes."
"I loved listening to the John Barleycorn Must Die, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and Shoot Out At the Fantasy Factory, which incorporated a lot of extended jams, jazz, blues, and world music."
"In 1974, Stevie dropped the Muscle Shoals guys (David Hood and Roger Hawkins) along with Ric Grech (bass), Reebop Kwaku Baah (African percussionist), and Dave "Freakin'" Mason. THESE ARE THE GUYS THAT CREATED ALL THE TRAFFIC MUSIC I LOVED."
"So in 1974 Stevie goes out with just Capaldi (who was solid on drums) and Chris Wood (flute, sax, piano, beer guzzler, drug addict). And it's a mess."
"I had tickets for two nights, and the first night Wood couldn't stand up. He knocked over the drum kit, fell down with the sax in his hands, and then fell off the piano bench. And all this happened before they finished their second song."
"The roadies came out and smacked him around a bit, put him back on the piano bench, took each one of his hands and put them on the piano keys, and then headed backstage. Within a minute or two he hit the floor again. They eventually dragged him off the stage and he was done for the night."
"On the other side of the stage a fragile looking Winwood sat behind the organ with a guitar strapped on and handled the vocals, bass (he used his feet to control the pedals of the organ), guitar, and piano parts. ALL AT THE SAME TIME!."
"After 45 minutes, the guy gave into the stress and he took Traffic off the stage. After a few more shows, Winwood canceled the tour due to an ulcer. I WASN'T SURPRISED."
"Now for the story on my cohorts. Well, if you were at the Academy in the 70s, you know it was the ultimate drug den. Cohort number 1 fell asleep next to me, so I knew where he was. And cohort number 2 went upstairs to the bathroom and never came back. When I woke up number 1 at the end of the show, he says, "Did it start yet?" Well, I could have honestly said "No" because it never really got going, but I told him the truth. The next task was to find Ronnie (cohort number 2). For some reason we had a sixth sense as to where he was. And we were right. He was snoozing upstairs on the marble bench in the disgusting men's room. We did to Ronnie what the roadies did to Chis Wood and I took both of them back to NJ to sleep this one off."
"Seems like every show I went to in New York, I got back the smallest stub. At the Capitol in Passaic, you always got the larger portion of the stub with the date and the name of the band. Good thing I was smart enough to mark this one up with the word "Traffic" when I got home that night."
"Stevie Winwood was only 26 years old at the time and soon after decided to go solo and make total pop music. What a shame."
"In 1974 Van was the Man for a bunch of us living in NJ. But the trick was to catch him on good night. Mr. Stage Fright was getting all kinds of reviews back then, good and bad."
"Sometimes he would refuse to play. Sometimes he'd play 1/2 a show. And at other times he'd wow the crowd with an amazing set singing, playing piano, honking on the saxaphone, and generally going into one of his spaced out, I-might-never-stop-playing moods."
"What i saw was the later. At one point he decided to sing from the back of the stage without a microphone - in a 3,000 plus seat theatre. And it was GREAT! He did another number lying on the piano with a microphone. He felt comfortable in the Capital and it was like having a really, really talented friend come over your house and entertain for you all night long. It's hard to forget this one."
"We paid a whopping $6.30, with 30 cents going to Ticketron. The date on this ticket is November 02, 1974. It is in very good condition."
"The Allmans made southern rock-jazz-blues cool. But after they lost Duane and Berry, they weren't the same, although we kept buying tickets to their shows. But if you were looking for something that was fresh, vibrant, and not drunk all the time, it was Marshall Tucker."
"And two of them were brothers, although Caldwell was their last name. I believe we saw the original lineup: Doug Gray (lead vocals), Toy Caldwell (vocals, guitar), Tommy Caldwell (bass), George McCorkle (guitar), Jerry Eubanks (flute) and Paul Riddle (drums)."
"I'm not sure what they are like today because they kind of had the same fate as the Allmans: Toy, Tommy and George (the heart and soul of the group, the driving force) all passed away way too young."
"But back in 1974 on a cold New Jersey night in November at the good old Capitol in Passaic, they could have held their own with the 1971 Allmans. With Roger McGuinn and the Charlie Daniels Band on the bill, it was a night to remember. The next day we renewed our memberships to the Flannel Shirt Club and fired our barbers. We were converted into southern rockers."
"Tull played three shows at Madison Square Garden in 1975: March 7th, March 10th, and August 3rd. I marked up the ticket with the word "Tull" when I got home that night after the show, as the mean old ticket takers at the Garden probably kept the other half for themselves."
"Here is the guy's website that keeps track of things like tour schedules for Tull: http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/75.htm"
"The March 7th set list shows the following:"
* Minstrel/Wind-Up
* Passion Play
* Thick As A Brick
* Wond'ring Aloud/Again, My God (incl. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
* Bourée
* Living In The Past (inst.)
* Thick As A Brick (reprise)
* Pop Goes The Weasel
* SeaLion
* Skating Away
* WarChild
* WarChild Suite
* Queen And Country
* Reasons For Waiting
* Cross-Eyed Mary
* Bungle In The Jungle
* Aqualung
* Back-Door Angels
* Locomotive Breath / Hard-Headed English General / Back-Door Angels
"This seems like the show I saw, but my memory of it is not 100 percent on this (hey it was 34 years ago)."
"I DO remember that it ranks up there as one of the top 5 concerts that I have ever seen in my life, as Ian Anderson was only 27 years old and could leap off 10 foot risers and land back on stage in perfect time while playing the flute (I don't think he does that trick anymore)."
"All I knew about this stub was that I was at Madison Square Garden on December 17, 1976. And the name of the band ended in "th". It was driving me nuts because all I did in the 70s was go to rock concerts and night clubs."
"After about two hours of racking my brain and searching for an MSG archive of concerts I came across a website that an Aerosmith nut put together: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/JonFox/aerosmiths_70s_tour_dates"
"And there it was - 12/17/1976... New York, NY - Madison Square Garden (you have to scroll down a bit to see it)."
"All I remember about this one was that my pal Beav brought a ton of weed and thought it would be funny to get the 13 year kids sitting next to us behind the stage so messed that they would either end up in the bathroom all night or go home early and call their parents to pick them up."
"I think it turned out to be the later. It was kinda hard to feel the band and the show from behind the stage, so we split before the last encore and decided to mess around in NYC. Glad I saw Steven Tyler and friends, however. It was a solid show, as always, from the Band from Boston."
07/03/08 - It's One Stub Thursday. Today's ticket is from a show by
Andy Gibb, supporting his second album "Shadow Dancing" at the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center in
Saratoga, NY in
1978. This was Andy's year, with four hits on the charts -
"(Love Is) Thicker Than Water", "Shadow Dancing", "An Everlasting Love" and "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away."
Program and fan club insert from this show going up on ROCKstuff this aftenoon.
07/01/08 - These tickets stubs and more coming in July:
Aerosmith in 1976
Kitchens of Distinction with Darling Buds in 1992
Jethro Tull in 1975
Indigo Girls in 1993 and 1994
10,000 Maniacs in 1993
Van Morrison in 1974
Sky Cries Mary in 1994
Rod Stewart in 2001
Fleetwood Mac in 1977
Elton John in 1980
Combustable Edison in 1994
Richard Thompson in 1994
Lush in 1994
Violent Femmes in 1989
Deep Purple in 1985
Grand Funk Railroad in 1971
Stereolab in 1993, 1994 and 2006
Paul Westerberg in 1993 & 1994
Jewel in 2002
Swing Out Sister in 1994
T-Rex in 1972
Black Sabbath in 1986
Badfinger in 1970
Cocteau Twins in 1994
Verve in 1993
The Rolling Stones in 1982
Elvis Costello with Squeeze in 1980
Andy Gibb in 1978
Tears For Fears with JellyFish in 1993
Maria McKee in 1993
Jimi Hendrix in 1969
Traffic in 1974
The Firm in 1986
Crowded House with Sheryl Crow in 1994
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1974
Tiffany in 1998
Judas Priest in 1986
Anne Arbor Folk Festival in 1994
Milli Vanilli in 1990
EBTG in 1994
The Rolling Stones in 1972
Ratt in 1986
Led Zeppelin in 1970
Britney Spears in 2001
Violent Femmes in 1989
Jesus and Mary Chain with Mazzy Star in 1994
Catherine Wheel with Slowdive in 1993
Bill Idol in 1987
Traffic in 1971
Marshall Tucker Band in 1974 &
Depeche Mode with The The in 1993.
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