A place to get lost in nostalgia via my friend, Hyde. I was a regular at The Warehouse from about 1975 through about 1979 but I saw quite a few shows before 1975. The contributors who compiled that website are probably a few years older than me. Looks like they were regulars a bit earlier than me and tapered off later but I saw a lot of the same shows they did. There was a show there almost every week. Unfortunately, I didn't save anything. Didn't collect ticket stubs and the first merchandising I ever saw at a concert was at Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston in 1976. I only have two t-shirts from concerts. That Deep Purple w/Nazareth t-shirt and the one I got for Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour. Some of those links have reviews. I think that's the real fun at the site. Seeing ticket stubs for $3.50 is kind of nostalgic, too.
Caught the last minute of the men's gold medal basketball game this morning. Afraid that was the only minute of these Olympics I saw live. Fun to see Chris Paul make a great play at the end. Love what the Hornets are doing now but I'm still a big fan of former Hornet, CP3.
About today's QOTD: It's from Fred Astaire to Adolphe Menjou and it's about Menjou's daughter in the film, Rita Hayworth. He had a point. There's pretty like Ginger Rogers and then there's 12 car pileup gorgeous like Rita Hayworth. You Were Never Lovelier is a lot of fun.
I offer one from the CrabAppleLane backyard. August is pretty dreary around here. Hot, hot, hot.
CrabAppleLane - August 12, 2012
5 song iTunes shuffle:
- Stranger - Katie Costello - Lamplight
- One Way - Rose Cousins - We Have Made a Spark
- Let Your Love Go - Bread - The Best of Bread
- Working Man - Rush - Rush
- Mistreated - Deep Purple - Burn
Quote of the Day
Have you gotten a good look at her lately?
Robert Davis, You Were Never Lovelier
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "There are about 60 over there, all these pretty-colored buses, and this is their last day today. It’s quite the sight to see all these buses there, and tomorrow morning, they’ll all be gone. We were just saying, just seeing all those buses there, we should have taken some pictures of them."
Interesting concert venue. Lots of big names. I read on one of the links that there was a bleacher setup inside. What was capacity?
Anything I tell you is a guess, Dave, but I would say the bleachers held a couple of hundred, at best. I never once sat in them. Total capacity of the venue was a couple of thousand and that's an unqualified guess also. I really have no idea but it wasn't all that big. Calling it a "venue" is very generous. It was a warehouse. There was a relatively small stage. Separating the performers from the audience was a short fence that surrounded the stage with just enough room for a person to walk the perimeter. Security wasn't that big a deal then. I stood an arm's length from Ted Nugent and his stack at one concert and about the same distance from Alex Lifeson (Rush) and Michael Shencker (UFO) and their stacks at another. The collectors at that website were at that concert, too. :) At a Nazareth concert, Dan McCafferty, the lead singer, was totally stoned on the joints that kept getting passed up to him from the audience. They were still a blast. :)
One other thing about that site: You'll notice most of the tickets are "General Admission". That was before that 1979 Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati. General admission venues fell out of favor after that. A lot of promoters and bands wouldn't play them any more. I have very fond memories of The Warehouse but I prefer assigned seating now. For one thing, I doubt I could stand and rock for a full show now.