More interesting music research (GD and Bay area)
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August 2-3, 1968, The Hippodrome, San Diego, CA; Grateful Dead (Next Phase)
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/
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ROCK ARCHAEOLOGY 101
PHOTOS AND ARTIFACTS FROM MOSTLY FORGOTTEN AND MOSTLY BAY AREA ROCK VENUES OF THE 1960S AND EARLY 70S
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Where Does The Time Go?
Nice article. i grew up in
Nice article. i grew up in san diego county and am always interested in stuff like this.
A girl I dated's uncles were in the opening band Maya from those Hippodrome shows.
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Yeah, many of the Balto / DC
Yeah, many of the Balto / DC music venues of my youth are long gone.
anyone remember Painters Mill Music Fair Owings Mills (revolving stage) 1960-1980?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: doctor
Saw Bobby and the Midnites at
Saw Bobby and the Midnites at Painters Mill. The original 9:30 club in DC when it was a punk place. The Ontario Theatre in DC.Hitchhiked there once to see Johnny Winter.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
Rock trivia fact - Duane
Rock trivia fact - Duane Allman's last show with Allman Bros was at Painters Mill, Ownings Mills, MD. He died 12 days later.
Doo - (I saw Johnny Winter there, Painters Mill, earlier that same year -- March 71 -- one of my first rock concerts.) Speaking of DC, how about the Wax Museum in DC? The stage was below all the seating in a sort of an indoor "bowl."
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The Bayou in DC.
The Bayou in DC (Georgetown). Saw some shows there. Saw shows at the original Wolf Trap before it burned down. 2nd row seat that was empty so me and my friends took it for BB King, Bobby Blue Bland and Big Momma Thorton in 1981. They sold Dom Perignon at the concession for $100 a bottle.
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Interesting Allmans fact Alan
Interesting Allmans fact Alan.
Didn't the JGB play Painters Mill?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: doctor
^ https://www.youtube.com
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn96Nfg0s3U
Didn't see that show but saw the Georgetown show maybe a week later.
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...and my aunt attended at
...and my aunt attended at least one of the Hippodrome Velvet Underground shows.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
^^ cool thing about WolfTrap,
^^ cool thing about WolfTrap, an outdoor venue out side DC, (at least the version that I remember), is that the seats had headphone jacks as an accessibility feature -- plug your hearing aid in, I guess. Anyway it made it easy to tape discreetly. Plus you could bring in picnic baskets. While you could drink there openly, I remember it was dangerous to get caught smoking weed there, as it was Federal property.
Wikapedia explains: [In 1966, Catherine Filene Shouse decided to donate 100 acres of her farm to the U.S. government, as well as funds to build a large outdoor amphitheater—now fondly known as the Filene Center. Mrs. Shouse’s goal was to protect the land from encroaching roads and development, as well as to create a place where the arts could be enjoyed in harmony with nature. That same year, Congress accepted Mrs. Shouse's gift and designated it as Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts.Construction on the amphitheater subsequently began and the Filene Center was finally completed in 1971.]
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
Local - one song from Duane's
Local - one song from Duane's last show at Painters Mill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfwoRkN1Zc
from a comments section: "Set was running long and facilities cut the stage power (and lights) intending to end the show. Jaimie and Butch continued to jam in the dark - what felt like 20 minutes - but after all these years who knows. They finally relented and turned power back on and others immediately returned and jumped right in where they left off. No idea which song or if that was then start of the encore by this set list. Years later meeting Jaimie when he was touring w Sea Level (!) he fondly remembered the night as the highest the band ever got together! No one knew it would be Skydog’s last gig."
I was at that Garcia show there, but honestly don't remember one thing about it.
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Remember d.c. space?
Remember d.c. space?
I don't remember the Wax Museum?
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True Alan. You could bring in
True Alan. You could bring in picnic baskets to Wolf Trap 40 years ago. Snuck into many a show as it was just a 2 posted fence to keep people out as it was a highbrow place. Just stepped over the fence and was in. No security what so ever. With a menu of $100 bottles of Dom and Caviar on the concession menu I guess they never imagined people would not pay to get in.
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By the time I got to Wolftrap
By the time I got to Wolftrap the lawn had declined into chat fest. Scofield in the WT Barns was great.
Back in the early eighties a country band I was in played at No Fish Today. I think that burned and was in the area taken by Camden Yards?
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Any one remember Valley Forge
Any one remember Valley Forge Music Fair?
Seating for 3,000 it was in the round with a rotating stage.
Had lots of fun there Little Feat, Rodney Dangerfield, Miles.......whew!, and sorry, Gallagher. It was fun at the time!
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AIG - got one word for ya:
AIG - got one word for ya: Sless with Cowboy Jazz at No Fish Today. Good times. Saw a bunch of music there.
The story goes arson by the owners. It was on Eutaw St (not near the new stadiums).
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Thanks, Alan, your response
Thanks, Alan, your response got me motivated to go look in the scrapbook. The ad is from Sept. 19, 1980 in the City Paper. I was in the Jerry Harrell Band listed for the first weekend.
These days as an elderly gentleman these things seem as though they are about someone else. A different time and place before the sweet bird of youth flew away.