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A Blast From The Past
Hi all
Being a music head from way back I enjoy watching the old rock festivals such as Woodstock etc. Saw a new one on SBS the other night dated about this time thirty years ago and in Canada. The Festival Express. Group of musos such as the Grateful Dead, the late, great Janis Joplin, Sha Na Na etc. travelling around Canada on a train for a week and holding rock concerts. Interesting part was the riots it caused with patrons wanting free entry to the concerts. Who can remember this and what was your part. Bob |
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Some say this 1970 Hendrix concert gave rise to the Disaster Area sound system design. Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties. Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet. R. |
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Disaster area
Ah - Hitchiker's guide, eh?
Found this tidbit of info: "The lead singer with the rock band Disaster Area (whose stunt ship Arthur etc steal at the end of the first book) is called Hotblack Desiato. This is the name of a firm of North London estate agents (realtors)"
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Sorry Keefy Dear, I just could NOT resist some cheek here Regards gimmie summa that ole time rock-n-roll ... don't know why not, but I never developed anything but a "can only take a short dose at a time of rock music, especially the "crazy" stuff" Much too frantic and loud for me. Guess I was always too busy trying to RELAX even then! Ma Yappy |
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Compulsive addicts in their teens often wind up as sad old middle-aged compulsive addicts... AND PROUD OF IT!
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Yes ... it's way past my bedtime. I keep trying ... headaches when I lay down, getting up eases them ... as does being cheeky with you Rock-n-roll dudes Maybe if I'd got to play the drums in a rock band I'd love them! Ma |
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Couldn't hear a damned thing over the racket from the piston engines of the Yukon... BUt the dope smoke from 27,000 ft. was alarming.... Ahhhhhh...the good old days....
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...... they make stools that high????..........otherwise you'd look pretty silly sitting atop a step-ladder playing them....... ... come to think of it, if you stood a drum stick on end, it would be taller than you...........
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you guys are way too old for me to play with
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I was only 15 in 1969 when Alex was flying over the love-ins smoke-signals. Too young to hang out with potheads and I didn't start hitchhiking until I was 17. I had to hitchhike ... didn't have a Love Bug ... but I did always have my guitar with me. Does that make me a hippy chick even though I never was part of the hippy movement and never was a pothead? |
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And Keefy, you should get out more and enjoy some music. Look at Oddball in Kellys Heroes playing the Ride of the Valkyries through his tank PA system. Just imagine Mustang Sally blaring out of a FORD Blitz. Music and petrol fumes are as good as the 27000 feet dope cloud above Woodstock. Hey hey hey Bob |
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Now, as to Mustang Sally ... I gotta take back some of what I said about hating loud music ... MUSTANG SALLY has gotta be loud and danced to while singing along! AWESOME!!!! What a GREAT tune to dance to. |
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1812 overture
How about a batch of FGTs and CGTs delivering the 25 pounders for that segment of the Tchaikowsky piece
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... and in which year do you refer....... and was that year A.D. ...... or B.C. ..........
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What a great thought by Keefie - if you have to listen to classical music what better to accompany the 1812 but a full battery of 25pdrs - my kinda music. I used to go to loads of concerts when I was younger - Deep Purple, Uriah Heap, Led Zep, Status Quo (about 6 times!), The Wild Angels (good fast bikers rock'n'roll) Still listen to some of that stuff, even bettter my daughters into heavy metal as well! At the other extreme I like folk music - mostly traditional songs - these were once the newspaper of the common man!
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AC/DC For those about to rock. . . . . . . . FIRE! Quote:
Quo's drummer, John Coghlan, uses a SUMB as a daily driver and has a touring band; very good they are too. http://www.johncoghlan.com/main/index.asp R. |
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Get Back On Track
Right O!! you mob, how about getting back on track. Who can remember the Festival Express and the demonstrations.
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The music
Yes I remember alot of the music but I was on the other
side of the pond.If I remember there was one concert but it turned nasty..... Patrick |
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music
I could not afford concerts as i was on aprentice wages at the end of 69,i remember though ,a great aussy band called Daddy who,daddy cool,i was outside the townhall when they were playing there very early 1970s very very good!
I make up for it now with dvds,cds and videos there is a lot you can get on dvd these days,acdc and led zepelin are some of my favorites
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Bob:
I was in attendance at the Festival Express event in Toronto. The exact year esapes me ( go figure!) There were numerous semi-small demonstrations/attempts to jump the walls and fences on the west side of CNE stadium where it all took place. After a brief spell of negotiations betweeen the organizers and the protesters, a free concert was eventually held in Confederation Park ( where the Lancaster used to be on the pole- on the waterfront) featuring the Greatful Dead and some others. The concert inside the stadium was tremendous. Janice Joplins new band (Full Tilt Boogie Band) made one of their first appearances and they made " Big Brother and the Holding Co" lookl like a high school garage band. The new band actually played on key. Numerous other notable performances. Hope this answers your questions. Need anymore assistance, let me know. Al Davis
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Re. Festival Express
Thanks Al for the response. Those were exciting times that just can't be replicated these days. When you look at the gigs in those days there were so many artists on the one show whereas these days you only get one. If you want to relive the memory of the Festival Express I believe it was a 2003 production by CBS based on the original footage taken on the train trip. The year was 1970 and covered the week including 1 July.
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