-In 1969 I was a student at Akron University and a frat brother offered me a ride in his VW van to a concert in some rural town in New York at some place called Woodstock. I turned him down.
-A year later I visited my vacationing parents in Florida and went to the Miami Pop Festival: Canned Heat, The Turtles, Sweetwater and others.
-The Concert at Watkins Glen (race track) with Allman Brothers, The Band, Greatful Dead. It was a one day concert but we got there a day early and the Allman Brothers did an equipment check...and played for 2 hours to the early bird crowd.
-Elton John at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
-Osibisa (African Roots Band) at Toronto's Colonial Tavern and many other blues bands that played there in the 70s that I can't remember---hey it was the 70s.
-Mariposa Folk Festival on the Toronto Islands numerous times. Taj Mahal, John Hammond, Roosevelt Sikes and others including Bob Dylan who showed up one year as a spectator. I didn't actually see him, just the crowd of 50 or so that followed him around wherever he went.
-Santana and his band on stage at the same time with John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra. Sanatana and McLaughlin, both dressed in white, both with double neck 12 string guitars, trading leads back and forth. Jan Hammer was on keyboard and a decade later (1980s) he went on to be the musical director for Miami Vice before there was stereo TV and they did a musical simulcast with local FM stereo radio stations.
-BB King x2
-Leo Sayer
-Frank Zappa
-Jethro Tull
-Little Feat at Toronto's Massey Hall (known as one of the top 3 acoustically correct venues in North America). the band was electrified and loud and my ears rang for several days after.
-Long John Baldry x2
-Colin James
-Maria Muldar
-Tina Turner
-Smokey Robinson
-The 5th Dimension
-Grand Funk Railway
-Burton Cummings, former lead singer with The Guess Who.
-John Prine
-Elvin Bishop
-Charlie Musselwhite
-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Bob Dylan
-Blue Man Group, a gf at the time wanted to go.
I am a long time attendee at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Naniamo Summertime Blues, and Vancouver Island Blues Bash featuring many bands most may not have heard of such as Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, Sue Foley, April Forrest, Samantha Fish, Cal Batchelor, Duke Robillard, Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s, Mr. Sipp, Powder Blues, Bill Kirchen (co founder of Commander Cody and His Lost Airmen). Rick Vito (former member of Fleetwood Mac.
-A year later I visited my vacationing parents in Florida and went to the Miami Pop Festival: Canned Heat, The Turtles, Sweetwater and others.
-The Concert at Watkins Glen (race track) with Allman Brothers, The Band, Greatful Dead. It was a one day concert but we got there a day early and the Allman Brothers did an equipment check...and played for 2 hours to the early bird crowd.
-Elton John at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
-Osibisa (African Roots Band) at Toronto's Colonial Tavern and many other blues bands that played there in the 70s that I can't remember---hey it was the 70s.
-Mariposa Folk Festival on the Toronto Islands numerous times. Taj Mahal, John Hammond, Roosevelt Sikes and others including Bob Dylan who showed up one year as a spectator. I didn't actually see him, just the crowd of 50 or so that followed him around wherever he went.
-Santana and his band on stage at the same time with John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra. Sanatana and McLaughlin, both dressed in white, both with double neck 12 string guitars, trading leads back and forth. Jan Hammer was on keyboard and a decade later (1980s) he went on to be the musical director for Miami Vice before there was stereo TV and they did a musical simulcast with local FM stereo radio stations.
-BB King x2
-Leo Sayer
-Frank Zappa
-Jethro Tull
-Little Feat at Toronto's Massey Hall (known as one of the top 3 acoustically correct venues in North America). the band was electrified and loud and my ears rang for several days after.
-Long John Baldry x2
-Colin James
-Maria Muldar
-Tina Turner
-Smokey Robinson
-The 5th Dimension
-Grand Funk Railway
-Burton Cummings, former lead singer with The Guess Who.
-John Prine
-Elvin Bishop
-Charlie Musselwhite
-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Bob Dylan
-Blue Man Group, a gf at the time wanted to go.
I am a long time attendee at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Naniamo Summertime Blues, and Vancouver Island Blues Bash featuring many bands most may not have heard of such as Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, Sue Foley, April Forrest, Samantha Fish, Cal Batchelor, Duke Robillard, Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s, Mr. Sipp, Powder Blues, Bill Kirchen (co founder of Commander Cody and His Lost Airmen). Rick Vito (former member of Fleetwood Mac.
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. These are some of the more memorable shows I've attended:
