I've been playing with the new digital cable box (note to the rest of you: I'm late to the party. This is Mayberry, so we're ROCKETING into the '90's about now), and listening to the Classic Rock channel (as well as the Reggae, Smooth Jazz, and World Music channels).
It's bringing up all manner of memories for me...
The '78 Boston Concert at the (now defunct) Capital Center in Largo (warm-up band: pre-VH Sammy Hagar during his solo period-- I think the album was 3 Lock Box.) Me and Cindy Beasley, high on life, taking the long way home after the concert...
Which brings up the Supertramp concert (Breakfast in America) and their (then) cutting-edge light/video show.
The Allman Bros. Concert at the Merriwether-Post Pavillion
Charlie Daniels Band at the same place, later that summer.
James Taylor (right between Dad Loves His Work & Flag) at Wolftrap (hey, Cindy wanted to go, and believe me, Cindy GOT what she wanted)
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Jethro Tull (Songs From the Wood) at Balt. Civic Center
Aerosmith (right between Toys in the Attic & Rocks) at RFK, where I almost had my right index finger cut completely off by a ('nuther) drunk 17 year old with a broken vodka bottle. Alcohol and testosterone...
Rush (2112) at Capital Center.
Marshall Tucker, Jimmy Buffet, Molly Hatchet, Little River Band, and Kenny Loggins (all separately) at JMU.
...and probably 3 dozen or more shows I don't remember attending, for one reason or another. Let's leave it at that. It WAS the '70's, after all.
Oh yeah, the Dixie Dregs at a little student center gig (about 250 in the audience) at JMU
Note re: Jethro Tull shows-- I saw four in all, from mid '70's to late '80's.
I've been to a concert or two. There were alot of illicit substances at some of those shows.
No audience...and I mean NONE (not the Dead, not Robin Trower, not Kansas)
...No audience was EVER as consistently zone-stoned brain-dead bolloxed soaring Deep Space 9 as the Tull show audiences were. Not sure why.
Anywho, that's 'How I Spent MY Summer Vacation' for a few years during H.S. and early University days.
Glad to have survived.
G-d is merciful to the young and stupid.
Confession, they say, is good for the soul.
P.S. I know mtnbkr and Mike Irwin will know most of these venues, since I grew up where they now live.