Comments on: BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:48:09 +0000

I definately remember Frontier City, It was Me, you, Jek, and Booker. I seem to remember at the time that we said that the FC show was better than the 1st Zoo show? Didn’t we go to 2 Zoo shows? I seem to remember we saw them 3 years in a row. I was looking and cannot find my stubs you must have them.The 1st year at the Zoo didn’t it rain just before the show? I will contact you on the side about (Shhhh.)

By: MRambler

MRambler — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:50:32 +0000

Randalf, we musta went to all the same concerts, but somehow managed not to run into (or over) each other...... I was at that James Brown concert with my older brother.... Wow, that's weird..... Small world (Well, small Oklahoma!)..... I saw Ray Baby in the '70's, and also caught Elvis, Little Richard, B.B. King with Bobby Blue Bland, and Chuck Berry in the 70's.....

By: anon

anon — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:40:09 +0000

R.G.,

Talk about fish belly white, up here in the greater N.W. we look like lutefisk. I tried to blend in at the Ray concert. Didn’t work. Same experience you had at Brown concert. A few of us lutefisks but made to feel welcome. Its all about the music. That was at some auditorium in Tacoma WA. What, never heard of it? Ray used to play the clubs in Seattle and next door in Tacoma. Tacoma also had a big heroin scene. May have had something to do with it.

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:36:33 +0000

anon,
What was the location of that Ray Charles concert ?

In 1965, my friend Roger talked me into catching James Brown & The Famous Flames at the
Civic Center Music Hall in OKC. I never felt so fish-belly white in my life. There may
have been a few other whites in attendance, but I didn’t see any. But our brothers and
sisters of color made us feel quite welcome, and the Godfather of Soul put on a monumental
performance, including the classic Please, Please, Please bit where he breaks down and
falls to his knees exhausted, then as his roadies or valets or whatever are helping him
off the stage, he gets a second (and third and fourth) wind and turns to run and dance
back to the mic. Also, the sight of Soul Brother # 1 spinning and sliding across that
stage under a strobe light is indelibly etched into this old brain–I saw a lot of bands
use a strobe light back in the day, but none as effectively as he did. Now, if you’ll
excuse me, I’m going to go watch Eddie Murphy’s parody of James–HOT TUB !

By: anon

anon — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:15:22 +0000

I may beat you guys for oldest. I havent been to many concerts over the years. The one that I remember the most was Ray Charles in the 50′s. Just Ray and his big band. No lights, nothing, just Ray. The crowd was black and white which was something then. And the music was great.

By: MRambler

MRambler — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:11:41 +0000

On the CSN Zoo concert, they did do “Band Intros”, unfortunately Nicky Hopkins wasn’t on piano, but there were two keyboardists….. Here’s the line-up for that night:

DAVID CROSBY – Vocals, Guitar
STEPHEN STILLS – Vocals, Lead Guitar
GRAHAM NASH – Vocals, Guitar
Tim Ballard – Keyboards
Machito Sanchez – Percussion
Michael Finnigan – Hammond B-3 Organ
Orbey Talman – Bass
Joe Barbetella – Drums

The concert was part of their “Live It Up” Live World Tour 1990….. This concert certainly blew away the Frontier City concert (Sorry J.J.), where Crosby was definitely not sober….. I’ve located those cassettes and will listen to them today to check the quality….. Randalf, e-mail me your current address and let me know if your e-mail address has changed and we’ll see what we can do….. Keep this under wraps though, ya know, “Loose Lips Cause Bad Trips” (is that how that goes?)…. Oh, well….

By: Randalf the Grey

Randalf the Grey — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:26:56 +0000

Randalf certainly WOULD be interested in hearing that CSN concert again. I hadn’t been
overly impressed with any of their live recordings, beginning with Woodstock, so I went
to that show with fairly low expectations. Then, I was just blown away. If I’m remembering
correctly, they had an excellent band with two keyboard players, but I don’t remember the
names of any of those musicians. Maybe MR could enlighten me. That wasn’t Nicky Hopkins on
piano, was it ? Anyway, the vocal harmony was so crisp and on-the-money that those boys
must have been reasonably sober.

By: Jek

Jek — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:06:45 +0000

What a chubby Oklahoma in that CSN Zoo ticket.

By: Sunn

Sunn — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:45:45 +0000

$12.75, $15, $19. Yea, those were the days, huh?

By: MRambler

MRambler — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:11:08 +0000

Speaking of Randalf and his comment #3, does this look familiar?: I wonder if Randalf would be interested in hearing that concert again?..... Just to see if he is still in awe of the performance of CSN that night...... I might know of an excellent recording of this concert which includes the song he mentions (Wind on the Water), an unreleased David Crosby song called A Thousand Roads up the Mountain, a version of The Beatles Drive My Car, A version of Midnight Rider, and the best of CSN and CSN&Y songs..... Almost 3 hours in all.... It was a great concert.... I was there.....