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[Warrior]

Getting stoned on mary jane was the norm, sort of liking smoking a cigarette.

Tom Petty would agree; "

Last dance with Mary Jane One more ​

time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of

this town again" ……………….​

 

[Warrior]

Yes, thanks George. Now on top of the pandemic I have that "Stayin Alive" song in my head. Perhaps Trump and Cuomo should start using that at their press conferences to liven things up.

Could be worse, you could have "It's the end of the world" by REM stuck in your head...………….^&grin

 

[tdubel]

Could be worse, you could have "It's the end of the world" by REM stuck in your head...………….^&grin

Man, there are a lot of songs like that. My favorite in that vein of never leaving your head is Enter Sandman from Metallica. I actually use that in my real job as motivation, what I really do is negotiation, so it fits!
TD

 

[mikemiller1955]

Man, there are a lot of songs like that. My favorite in that vein of never leaving your head is Enter Sandman from Metallica. I actually use that in my real job as motivation, what I really do is negotiation, so it fits!
TD

I love that song...
the lyrics are freaky creepy too...

I remember my parents used to make us say the "now I lay me down to sleep" prayer...
while kneeling by our beds every night...

that is a pretty creepy prayer in itself to make a child say...

"and if I die before I wake"...

whaaaaat Dad...I might die in my sleep?

yea.....that could cause some severe nightmares for a child...
or at least make you scared as heck to actually fall asleep...

reminds me of Carlos Santana's and Everlast's song...

Put Your Lights On...

 

[hotel3alpha]

All,

The Cult-Sonic Temple Tour 1989 (saw them again last summer...horrible)

U2 Tour two years ago in NOLA (they sounded the same...unbelievable)

Neil Diamond Tour back in 2002, I think

ELO Tour last summer in Dallas

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble 1988 in SATX with The Fabulous Thunderbirds (skipped school for that one)

Joe "King" Carasco in 1988 too (a lost Texas Legend, Mike Miller knows who Im talking about)

Earth Wind and Fire and Chicago Tour 2005

Eddie Money USO Tour when I was overseas 1994

Darius Rucker from Hootie last Spring at the Rodeo (he sang both his country and Hootie songs)

My wife on the other hand has a list dating all the way back to the early eighties and Motley Crue when she was in LA. She loves going to concerts to this day.

I want to see Gladys Knight and the Pips, but uh...

Wish I could have seen Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley and Lynard back in the day, but uh...

John from Texas

 

[OzDigger]

You guys were so lucky with live bands back then. Not many famous bands visited country New South Wakes when I was single. Not many discos either, and actual disco music wasn't all that popular except for the more famous tunes, pub rock band music like Cold Chisel, ACDC was way more popular

The only famous bands I managed to see were The Angels in Tamworth (an hours drive) with a female flat mate and Billy Joel with a girlfriend in Newcastle (3 hours in a bus), we soon realised music was the only thing we had in common. The upside was when I met her flatmate, she looked like Agnetha from ABBA, complete with long blonde hair, blue eye shadow and knee high boots. She loved to dance but was more interested in me than music, which is why I married her. Good memories.

 

[tdubel]

You guys were so lucky with live bands back then. Not many famous bands visited country New South Wakes when I was single. Not many discos either, and actual disco music wasn't all that popular except for the more famous tunes, pub rock band music like Cold Chisel, ACDC was way more popular

The only famous bands I managed to see were The Angels in Tamworth (an hours drive) with a female flat mate and Billy Joel with a girlfriend in Newcastle (3 hours in a bus), we soon realised music was the only thing we had in common. The upside was when I met her flatmate, she looked like Agnetha from ABBA, complete with long blonde hair, blue eye shadow and knee high boots. She loved to dance but was more interested in me than music, which is why I married her. Good memories.

I actually forgot to mention AC/DC - may have actually been second (or first) album I ever bought - For Those About To Rock - just awesome and I finally saw them in 1990 on the Razor's Edge Tour. A non stop show, amazing, it is my top 10!

Funny, thinking back on it (i actually have most of my ticket stubs to this day, looking over them), I am not sure I ever saw a "bad" concert.

Most economical concert I saw was the $5 per ticket General Admission Lynyrd Skynyrd Marlboro Military tour on military bases. I still crack up when they unveiled the Confederate Battle Flag during Freebird right on the base! No one said a word in 1995, but my goodness if they did it today, they would be banned! They retired last year and in order to avoid the hypocritical media, they started wearing Earphones with Confederate Flags on them and using the American Flag as a backdrop. Funny, Hank Williams Jr. still uses it today, as he says, the publicity is great and he continues to sell them out at ever show (in every State) (he sells one with his face in the middle of it).

TD

 

[GICOP]

Here are a few of my favorites from the shows I managed to get to

BEATLES CHRISTMAS SHOW 1963 - FINSBURY PARK ASTORIA LONDON. Still got my original programme, unsigned unfortunately

STEVIE WONDER - STREATHAM LOCARNO around Summer 1966

MOTOWN REVIEW - HAMMERSMITH ODEON LONDON 1967

STAX-VOLT TOUR - FINSBURY PARK ASTORIA 1967

AL GREEN - THE RAINBOW (name changed from Finsbury Park Astoria 1971)

JAMES BROWN - LONDON 1977

ROCKN'BLUES REUNION TOUR 1985 - Fantastic lineup BO DIDDLEY, RICK NELSON, DEL SHANNON, FRANKIE FORD, BOBBY VEE and THE MARVELLETES. My wife and I had front row seats after I won a competition on Capital Radio. This was Rick Nelsons last UK tour before he tragically died in a plane crash on December 31st 1985 Nelson died in a plane crash on December 31, 1985, The plane was his own Douglas DC-3

Cheers

Martyn

 

[hotel3alpha]

I actually forgot to mention AC/DC - may have actually been second (or first) album I ever bought - For Those About To Rock - just awesome and I finally saw them in 1990 on the Razor's Edge Tour. A non stop show, amazing, it is my top 10!

Funny, thinking back on it (i actually have most of my ticket stubs to this day, looking over them), I am not sure I ever saw a "bad" concert.

Most economical concert I saw was the $5 per ticket General Admission Lynyrd Skynyrd Marlboro Military tour on military bases. I still crack up when they unveiled the Confederate Battle Flag during Freebird right on the base! No one said a word in 1995, but my goodness if they did it today, they would be banned! They retired last year and in order to avoid the hypocritical media, they started wearing Earphones with Confederate Flags on them and using the American Flag as a backdrop. Funny, Hank Williams Jr. still uses it today, as he says, the publicity is great and he continues to sell them out at ever show (in every State) (he sells one with his face in the middle of it).

TD

TD,

There is GREAT documentary on Lynryd Skynyrd on HBO and commentary on the Conferderate Flag amongst other things.

Martyn,

James Brown must have been a hellofva show!!! Likewise, the Beatles!!! Wow, what a story.

Oz Digger,

Theres a South Wales cover band on you tube called "The Hindly Street Country Club" and man can they sing and play. The "Aint nobody" singer melts me. So, I take it you don't live in Sydney and out in the "bush"?

John from Texas

 

[nysoldiers]

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez 1963 at the Bitter Lemon in Greenwich Village
Herbie Mann at the Village Gate
James Brown in Freeport NY
Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas at Leo's Casino in Cleveland 1967
The Doors at the Fillmore East 1969
Janis Joplin at the University of Maryland1969
Woodstock 1969
Jackson Brown, Neal Young, Steve Winwood at the Cellar Door Washington DC

The first concert I took my teenage son and daughter to see was Dave Matthews at the Jones Beach Theatre on Long Island

 

[jazzeum]

Allman Brothers
Eric Clapton a bunch of times
Clapton with Winwood
Clapton with Jeff Beck
B.B. King
Livingston Taylor
Grand Funk Railroad
Metallica

There was a Hall of Fame concert at MSG a few years ago: Jagger, Bruce, Beck and a bunch of other heavyweights. Amazing.

 

[Warrior]

Man, there are a lot of songs like that. My favorite in that vein of never leaving your head is Enter Sandman from Metallica. I actually use that in my real job as motivation, what I really do is negotiation, so it fits!
TD

Watching Lars Ulrich murder his drum kit during "Whiskey in the Jar" is a life changing experience.

Seriously underrated drummer.

Him and Stewart Copeland.

If I could have a do over on life, I'd have asked for a drum kit vs a Marx Battleground set when I was seven...……………...

 

[OzDigger]

TD,

There is GREAT documentary on Lynryd Skynyrd on HBO and commentary on the Conferderate Flag amongst other things.

Martyn,

James Brown must have been a hellofva show!!! Likewise, the Beatles!!! Wow, what a story.

Oz Digger,

Theres a South Wales cover band on you tube called "The Hindly Street Country Club" and man can they sing and play. The "Aint nobody" singer melts me. So, I take it you don't live in Sydney and out in the "bush"?

John from Texas

Hi John I was raised in the central West region of New South Wales, about 5 hours inland from Sydney. That area is similar to Texas as the land is mostly flat and Summers are Hot. Lots of Wheat, Sheep, Cattle, Dust and Flies.

I left my home town to join a banking company shortly after I turned 18 and spent most of my banking career in the New England Region of NSW, which borders Queensland. That region is on the great dividing range, not as cold as the New England Region in US but cold enough for Aussies, even snows there sometimes. In 2000 I moved to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland about one hour North of Brisbane.

I checked out that group, great song but that group is from Adelaide in South Australia, not South Wales which would be in Great Britain. South Australia does share a border with New South Wales, but Adelaide is a longggg way from where I lived in central NSW. Australia and its states are larger than most people realise. For example New South Wales is larger than Texas and South Australia is even bigger. You could fit Alaska and Texas into our largest state Western Australia. The Northern hemisphere continents look larger on maps due to the Mercator Projection used and they look larger closer to the poles. Here's a pic of US against Australia if you moved downunder, pretty similar sizes, except we're taller and you guys are broader.

 

[tdubel]

TD,

There is GREAT documentary on Lynryd Skynyrd on HBO and commentary on the Conferderate Flag amongst other things.

Martyn,

James Brown must have been a hellofva show!!! Likewise, the Beatles!!! Wow, what a story.

Oz Digger,

Theres a South Wales cover band on you tube called "The Hindly Street Country Club" and man can they sing and play. The "Aint nobody" singer melts me. So, I take it you don't live in Sydney and out in the "bush"?

John from Texas

Yup, have seen just about every Skynyrd media ever made. They used the flag for promotion, the term Southern Rock and the fact that it was not deemed offensive for the majority of their careers - it had the connotation of "Rebel Rock". Unfortunately as has been discussed forever, certain idiotic Hate Groups misappropriated the generic Battle Flag and fast forward to the 2010s and you have the ultimate PC attitude that came into favor which is offended by everything regardless of context it is in. So there you have it.

TD

 

[jazzeum]

I had to go into downtown Summit to pickup some replacement wires for my turntable and I’m amazed at the number of people not wearing masks.

 

[Warrior]

I had to go into downtown Summit to pickup some replacement wires for my turntable and I’m amazed at the number of people not wearing masks.

Our governor made it a requirement to wear one if you are out in public as of last Wednesday, I assumed that was the case in other states.

If it's not required and people don't choose to wear one, that's up to them, to each his own.

Fools courage...………………..

 

[jazzeum]

I think it’s required only if you go into a store, etc. Not sure about the street.

 

[Warrior]

We are required to wear one if there are people aroound us, store or no store.

I'm wearing one whereever I go, I'm not taking any chances of running into some moron not wearing one.

 

[lancer]

Our governor made it a requirement to wear one if you are out in public as of last Wednesday, I assumed that was the case in other states.

If it's not required and people don't choose to wear one, that's up to them, to each his own.

Fools courage...………………..

Fools courage...I swear I heard Johnny Frost on his fox horn just as I read this.:wink2: -- Al

 

[marco55]

I'm not surprised about people not wearing mask.They are fed up with "Big Brother" trying to control every movement they do.They are worthless, it is suggested that you change them every 20 minutes. Fachi himself said they aren't that effective at first,now he said they are.He must have bought stock in the companies that are making them.I knew when I saw Trump in Arizona at that company that's going to make 20 million a month what the deal was, BIG BUSINESS! I understand medical personnal using the good ones but the rest are trash.I bought 10 last week and the first day the ear straps broke on 3 of them.I can't breathe right with the **** things on.I actually feel like freak walking around with them on.I only use them to go in store.We are required to wear them at work but most of us pull them down as it's a pain in the *** trying to work.We aren't in a climate controlled area.Walking around and looking at people I feel like I"m in a low budget sci-fi movie .
Mark