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Post by warrior21 on Sept 18, 2020 15:06:04 GMT
39 years ago tonight was my first concert ever, Blue Oyster Cult and Foghat at Madison Square Garden. On a Friday, no less.
My parents drove myself and three buddies in for the show, and went to grab a bite to eat as the show occurred. I've lost contact with all of my fellow attendees, though one of them, who lived across the street from me and who'd always be there playing wiffleball, football, soccer, whatever in my backyard as we were growing up, did come to pay his respects to my Mom when she passed away last year. We may have even mentioned this concert, I don't recall. That night was kind of a blur.
Anyway...fantastic show and as a 15 year old attending his first ever show, I was blown away. The Harley, the flashpots, the fireworks, the ZILLA! Happy memories. And I bought a bootleg tee in the parking lot. I didn't know any better...
Two nights later BOC played live over the radio from Connecticut, and I recall being peeled to the radio speakers that night. It was something to feel that kind of adrenaline of a band I was just really discovering.
I do recall vividly thinking during the show, though, that the drummer sure didn't look like Albert. With no Internet, I didn't know Albert had left the band a month earlier. I was like, "Wow, Albert really grew his hair out!"
Buck, do you have any specific memories of that Garden show? I'm not sure how many times BOC headlined MSG. I know of the show I saw, and the co-headline with Sabbath the year prior.
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Post by frog on Sept 18, 2020 15:36:49 GMT
if you want info about shows, ask Ralph !
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Post by zenman on Sept 18, 2020 18:37:38 GMT
You mean "three good buddies" Right?
And I hope you didn't pay more than $4 for the tee, you got to watch out for the guy in the afro.
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Post by sirrastus on Sept 19, 2020 0:18:24 GMT
39 years ago tonight was my first concert ever, Blue Oyster Cult and Foghat at Madison Square Garden. On a Friday, no less.
My parents drove myself and three buddies in for the show, and went to grab a bite to eat as the show occurred. I've lost contact with all of my fellow attendees, though one of them, who lived across the street from me and who'd always be there playing wiffleball, football, soccer, whatever in my backyard as we were growing up, did come to pay his respects to my Mom when she passed away last year. We may have even mentioned this concert, I don't recall. That night was kind of a blur.
Anyway...fantastic show and as a 15 year old attending his first ever show, I was blown away. The Harley, the flashpots, the fireworks, the ZILLA! Happy memories. And I bought a bootleg tee in the parking lot. I didn't know any better...
Two nights later BOC played live over the radio from Connecticut, and I recall being peeled to the radio speakers that night. It was something to feel that kind of adrenaline of a band I was just really discovering.
I do recall vividly thinking during the show, though, that the drummer sure didn't look like Albert. With no Internet, I didn't know Albert had left the band a month earlier. I was like, "Wow, Albert really grew his hair out!"
Buck, do you have any specific memories of that Garden show? I'm not sure how many times BOC headlined MSG. I know of the show I saw, and the co-headline with Sabbath the year prior.
I was there.My friend Scott Heller and I stopped into a local liquor store in Brooklyn and bought a bottle of Jack Daniels and we smoked a few J's too during the show.Yeah we had a great time but it was the music not the buzz.I remember the crowd all jumping up at the start of ETI.They did Maserati too and Foghat did a heckuva set too. |
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Post by duckbarman on Sept 19, 2020 1:15:59 GMT
I'm not sure how many times BOC headlined MSG. I know of the show I saw, and the co-headline with Sabbath the year prior. They played MSG on three occasions, but the Foghat one was the only one they closed - the one you missed out was with Rod and the Faces in 1975. You described the B&B show as "co-headline" but I bet amongst the bands themselves, the important thing was: who got to go on last...  |
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Post by sirrastus on Sept 19, 2020 1:27:56 GMT
The Faces show was my second BOC show.To this day I consider it the most exciting set I've ever seen and the crowd loved it-they all lit matches but there was no encore.Rod Stewart at some point said "Let's hear ya cheer for me like you did for your Blue Oyster Cult".As Sam Judd once told me "No one could match BOC's live show at that point.
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Post by zillagodreturns on Sept 21, 2020 7:00:56 GMT
The Faces show was my second BOC show.To this day I consider it the most exciting set I've ever seen and the crowd loved it-they all lit matches but there was no encore.Rod Stewart at some point said "Let's hear ya cheer for me like you did for your Blue Oyster Cult".As Sam Judd once told me "No one could match BOC's live show at that point. Sounds like something Rod would say. When you define a band as "your" to an audience of Americans, it shows your Britishness lmao. |
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Post by Buck on Sept 22, 2020 16:48:03 GMT
That was the night we met Andy Warhol at a post show party at the Garden. Probably our best MSG performance.
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Post by sirrastus on Sept 26, 2020 23:42:39 GMT
I believe there was a picture of BOC and Warhol in probably Rock Scene.What I want to know is more than Sam let on about Mitch Mitchell at the Florida show in '82(when BOC did IMO a perfect set)and according to Sam ,Mitchell was so ripped he basically did an unintelligible mumble.
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Post by duckbarman on Sept 26, 2020 23:59:38 GMT
I believe there was a picture of BOC and Warhol in probably Rock Scene.What I want to know is more than Sam let on about Mitch Mitchell at the Florida show in '82(when BOC did IMO a perfect set)and according to Sam ,Mitchell was so ripped he basically did an unintelligible mumble. I don't actually know of any Florida shows in 1982, so I'd love to find out a bit more about that... also, I'm drawing a blank on the actual anecdote you're referring to... any more info available on that...?   |
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Post by CAPTAIN on Sept 27, 2020 0:38:33 GMT
I believe there was a picture of BOC and Warhol in probably Rock Scene.What I want to know is more than Sam let on about Mitch Mitchell at the Florida show in '82(when BOC did IMO a perfect set)and according to Sam ,Mitchell was so ripped he basically did an unintelligible mumble. I don't actually know of any Florida shows in 1982, so I'd love to find out a bit more about that... also, I'm drawing a blank on the actual anecdote you're referring to... any more info available on that...? possibly the lakeland civic center,brassy's nightclub aka brassy's on the beach or possibly the power station aka the asylum or the brevard county fair.i would have to look back to see when i worked the gigs.may have been 1984.george was still mixing and original members. |
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Post by sirrastus on Sept 27, 2020 1:01:57 GMT
I believe there was a picture of BOC and Warhol in probably Rock Scene.What I want to know is more than Sam let on about Mitch Mitchell at the Florida show in '82(when BOC did IMO a perfect set)and according to Sam ,Mitchell was so ripped he basically did an unintelligible mumble. I don't actually know of any Florida shows in 1982, so I'd love to find out a bit more about that... also, I'm drawing a blank on the actual anecdote you're referring to... any more info available on that...? Ok was that '81? The one on YT for years that MTV showed? Anyways that was Sam's little anecdote about Mitchell showing up before the show.The show aired I thought in June '82 the night Gerry Cooney fought Larry Holmes. |
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Post by duckbarman on Sept 27, 2020 4:57:17 GMT
Oh, OK - I got you now - you meant broadcast in 82 (the Sportatorium show took place Oct 81)... I remember watching that broadcast in my room in the Tropicana motel (where SFG famously once stayed during recording) but it wasn't on MTV, it was on something called The Blue Jean Network, dunno why I remember that so distinctly, but anyway, and that was maybe sometime in Autumn '82... it felt really weird for me seeing a BOC gig on the telly...
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Post by robreich on Sept 27, 2020 12:53:50 GMT
Too bad that one hasn’t been commercially released.
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Post by sirrastus on Sept 27, 2020 15:26:55 GMT
Yeah it was a perfect show IMO-but it aired in June because I remember I wrote the date down on my cassette as I taped the audio off the BLue Jean Network(CH 5 ran it in N.Y.-I believe those BJN shows were from MTV)-I recall a Journey broadcast.They left out VOTPW because of running time allotted.
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