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In reply to the discussion: I'm Not Saying This Was The Best Musical Era Ever... [View all]Jim G.
(14,811 posts)10. Stevie Wonder Opened For The Stones In '72 In St. Louis
It sold out so fast they added a matinee. A friend of mine traded a pound of weed to a guy at the big local FM radio station for the entire middle section of row 12, so I got to see them twice that day.
Mick Jagger came out with a jean jacket over a purple jump suit with a long red scarf around his waist (that he used to great effect during 'Midnight Rambler' ) with a derby on, twirling a cane & playing with a yoyo. By the end of the show he was practically naked.
Stevie Wonder had at least 15 people in his band & he played practically every instrument.
And that was back when you could smoke at a concert.
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In '74 saw that group, most of that group of bands, at a 3 day outdoor concert in Charlotte, NC.
fwvinson
Sep 2021
#34
Some of those acts I saw at the time, some I saw within the last five years on Cape Cod
DFW
Sep 2021
#2
RE: Drummers. I've played in rock bands for the past 50 years, if you include the "garage days".
Progressive Jones
Sep 2021
#58
I was going to guess early 70's, then I saw the note at the top. I was lucky enough to
CCExile
Sep 2021
#25
I often call it "60s Music", but it really went from around 1964 to 1974, or thereabout.
Martin68
Sep 2021
#36
ShaNaNa would be better suited for those 50's rock revival shows around that same time.
Crowman2009
Sep 2021
#76
No, but later on Jeff Lynne worked extensively with the solo albums of three ex-Beatles.
Crowman2009
Sep 2021
#78
I Saw Sha Na Na With Richie Havens At Wash. U In St. Louis A Few Months After Woodstock
Jim G.
Sep 2021
#79
Sorry, but the best era for music was the decades before and after 1800
Fortinbras Armstrong
Sep 2021
#70