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Post by frog on Sept 27, 2020 15:27:53 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...
tell us more about it ! what were you doing in the motel ?
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Post by duckbarman on Sept 27, 2020 16:49:22 GMT
> what were you doing in the motel ?
Watching telly and drinking Gallo wine, as I recall... We only went to the US a couple of times, but each time was for a few months - if you showed your passport, you got access to great travel deals - we used to get Amtrak, Trailways and Greyhound passes to go up and down the coasts and cross the country, stopping off for a day here and there in various towns/cities of interest when the fancy took us... my only regret was not going on a pilgrimage to Stony Brook...
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Post by frog on Sept 27, 2020 17:23:30 GMT
> what were you doing in the motel ?
Watching telly and drinking Gallo wine, as I recall... We only went to the US a couple of times, but each time was for a few months - if you showed your passport, you got access to great travel deals - we used to get Amtrak, Trailways and Greyhound passes to go up and down the coasts and cross the country, stopping off for a day here and there in various towns/cities of interest when the fancy took us... my only regret was not going on a pilgrimage to Stony Brook... How old were you ?
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Post by duckbarman on Sept 27, 2020 18:02:49 GMT
> How old were you ?
Around 19/20 the first time, 22 the second time because that was 1982 for sure... but we didn't go during "peak Summer time" (too expensive for outward travel) so if Eric is right about seeing the broadcast in June, then what I saw must have been a re-run because I wasn't there that early...
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Post by robreich on Sept 27, 2020 18:32:20 GMT
I was thrilled in 1989 when I acquired a vhs copy of the MTV broadcast of the show, via an ad I placed in Goldmine looking for BÖC stuff.
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Post by duckbarman on Sept 27, 2020 18:37:31 GMT
I was thrilled in 1989 when I acquired a vhs copy of the MTV broadcast of the show, via an ad I placed in Goldmine looking for BÖC stuff. Rob, did your VHS feature Veteran...?
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Post by sirrastus on Sept 27, 2020 18:37:42 GMT
Yup that how I got my copy from Goldmine.
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Post by robreich on Sept 27, 2020 19:47:40 GMT
I was thrilled in 1989 when I acquired a vhs copy of the MTV broadcast of the show, via an ad I placed in Goldmine looking for BÖC stuff. Rob, did your VHS feature Veteran...? Yes it did.
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Post by marty on Sept 27, 2020 20:03:58 GMT
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. My brother lives in Brevard Co., and was at all of these shows, in the late 80’s.
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Post by CAPTAIN on Sept 27, 2020 20:43:01 GMT
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. My brother lives in Brevard Co., and was at all of these shows, in the late 80’s. 82 to 84 i believe.
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