Sunday, February 28, 2010

Long Time Ago

I was at this show at the Oakland Colosseum Arena. My goodness how time has flown.



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April 27, 1969.

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:02 PM

    I bet those were fun shows!

    I found an interesting music video for you. Not my usual cup of tea music-wise, but I thought the video was pretty clever--never knew you could do so much with a treadmill!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPmhTCaDkGA&feature=player_embedded

    Votus (I haven't figured out exactly how to do the profile thingy yet.)

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  2. ohmystars votus that is funny -- the music isn't my thing either but that video is a hoot

    thanks

    i think ya can fill in your name where it says name and url.... the google signs me in since its my blog and i have a gmail account -- not sure how it works for everyone else

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  3. Votus6:50 PM

    Haha--yes, I now have my usual nom de plume.

    Thanks!

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  4. Hope you didn't have to beat some sense into too many longhairs when they got lippy getting into the wagon. Those filthy hippies and their dope-fueled sass!

    ;)

    Kidding, Suz, I know this was before you 'straightened up and flew right'.

    Hendrix was always a bit hit-and-miss live - incendiary one night and abysmal the next, due to his lifestyle and the brutal tour routing of his greedy management - but this concert sounds like one of the good nights when he was in a space to be and not just exist.
    Like Jack Bruce said (regarding a night when Hendrix was jamming with Cream onstage), "That was the night that Jimi almost got in tune."

    ;>)

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  5. hey db -- he was in the groove for this show. here it is -- 40 years later -- and i still remember how great of a show it was. chicago was on the bill (in their chicago transit authority days before they were forced to change their name). and i remember how the j's would start at one end of the row and work their way down and on to the next row -- twas a memorable evening.

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  6. I don't want to hear about this sketchy concertgoing behavior of yours, young lady! (fingers in ears) LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!

    ;)

    Terry Kath, the guitar player from CTA/Chicago was one of the few peers who pinned Jimi's eyelids back - Shame he didn't respect firearms as much as he should have.

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  7. db -- there is a reason (well actually more than one) i had my juvenile record sealed (laughing)

    chicago blew the audience away and set the expectation bar pretty high when jimi took the stage. horns and rock and roll!

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