Does anyone remember the Sunset Series Concerts, Boston Common early 70s Options

[sputnik]

they were on the Baseball Field and cost about 2 bucks, concerts I recall,Deep Purple,Machine Head Tour,Curtis Mayfield,doing Superfly,Dr John The Night Tripper,The Doors,just after Jim died...

[terrydactyl]

yes sir
i was at almost all of them
locally, it was james montgomery, road apples, johanna wild, johnny barnes, duke + the drivers
as well as the shows you mentioned, i saw fleetwood mac (christine came on to sing the last song) and savoy brown together
unbelievably to me, the best of all these great rock shows from bands who were about to become super famous, was Merry Clayton's kick ass hard blues rock show - ill never forget how great she and her band was

[sputnik]

yes sir
i was at almost all of them
locally, it was james montgomery, road apples, johanna wild, johnny barnes, duke + the drivers
as well as the shows you mentioned, i saw fleetwood mac (christine came on to sing the last song) and savoy brown together
unbelievably to me, the best of all these great rock shows from bands who were about to become super famous, was Merry Clayton's kick ass hard blues rock show - ill never forget how great she and her band was

Rhinestone Mudflaps....yes sir!

[terrydactyl]

oh, and i kept all my concert tickets from 70 - 77 from everywhere i went and its a gas to see the prices
2 bux at the sunset series and 4-6 bux for tull, traffic, who, floyd, ten years after, deep purple, etc. at music hall, orpheum, gardens, cept for the stones who were 9 bux in 75
my top 3 fave concerts of all time?
1. tull
2. humble pie
3. tubes (first boston concert)

[sputnik]

You know what sucks..? I had all my concert stubs (most of em)and one New Years day about 20 years ago I did a purging of all these bags of STUFF was hauling around with me for years,,tickets ,old NME,Melody Makers ,3 garbage bags fuul and I chucked it out and never looked inside ..I regret that..I forget more shows than I remember...which Tull show?/ Aqua Lung at the Garden?,I saw Humble Pie also,used to love the Music Hall,how bout ELP on THC?????

[terrydactyl]

You know what sucks..? I had all my concert stubs (most of em)and one New Years day about 20 years ago I did a purging of all these bags of STUFF was hauling around with me for years,,tickets ,old NME,Melody Makers ,3 garbage bags fuul and I chucked it out and never looked inside ..I regret that..I forget more shows than I remember...which Tull show?/ Aqua Lung at the Garden?,I saw Humble Pie also,used to love the Music Hall,how bout ELP on THC?????

yes
lets not forget the crossroads/black beauties/sunshine/seconal part of all this
sorry bout ypour losses
never saw elp but saw tull 6 times starting with aqualung
passion play not a good record (to me) but the concerts?
unbelievable

[sputnik]

Did see the Passion Play show with the whole performance aspect,saw ELP twice,dont know which was better ,Brain Salad Surgery,during which I got jumped up in niggas heaven ,a crew of kids elbowed me and I gave em lip,thanks be to THC,didnt feel a ting!The other ELP show had the flying ,oscillating organ which was truly a sight to see..15 to 20 roads and yer good to go

[terrydactyl]

Did see the Passion Play show with the whole performance aspect,saw ELP twice,dont know which was better ,Brain Salad Surgery,during which I got jumped up in niggas heaven ,a crew of kids elbowed me and I gave em lip,thanks be to THC,didnt feel a ting!The other ELP show had the flying ,oscillating organ which was truly a sight to see..15 to 20 roads and yer good to go

it was good to be us

strangely, aerosmith was never good when i went to colleges to see them
and yet, their first album was and is pure gold to me
im totally proud of them for that record

oh, i went to lowell tech and they had the rolling thunder review with dylan and friends joani mitchell and others like rory gallagher, roy buchanan , thin lizzy, nils lofgren (a fave of mine) and the kinks played there too

good times and practically free by today's standards

This post has been edited by terrydactyl: Nov 16 2008, 01:39 PM

[SLIMEDOG]

I saw my first concert there. It was The Doors minus Jim with Dr John opening.

[sputnik]

it was good to be us

strangely, aerosmith was never good when i went to colleges to see them
and yet, their first album was and is pure gold to me
im totally proud of them for that record

oh, i went to lowell tech and they had the rolling thunder review with dylan and friends joani mitchell and others like rory gallagher, roy buchanan , thin lizzy, nils lofgren (a fave of mine) and the kinks played there too

good times and practically free by today's standards

yes it was,saw Aerosmith at Suffolk Downs with Sha Na na,and Rolling Thunder at Plymouth Town Hall,heard about it on WCAS Cambridge AM,and we bolted down and got tix...

[plinko chip]

At the Sunset Series I saw the Faces, Beach Boys, Flo & Eddie, Kinks and some of the ones sputnik already mentioned. I also recall Alice Cooper doing an opening set for a baseball game (BCN jocks vs. somebody else) one afternoon. That show cost $1.04.
Other early 70’s dollar (COZ$ .94, BCN $1.04) promotional shows over at the Orpheum included Angel, Supertramp, Piper (Billy Squier) and the Babys.
There were some wicked killer free shows held at the Hatch Shell in the early 70’s.
ELP played there around ‘71 or ‘72. I remember Keith Emerson scrambling up over his Hammond B3s and Moog and swinging out onto the roof of the shell. Security ordered him down, but Keith continued to climb, Supertrooper spotlight beams following him all the way, until he stood perched at the very top of the structure drenched in light. Emerson then produced a mini-synth and proceeded to machine gun his intense riffs into the screaming crowd.
Another great free for all at the Hatch was ZZ Top in 1974. I think the Edgar Winter Band opened for them. There was like a million kids there and ZZ ruled.
terrydactyl mentions the Merry Clayton Band but the great forgotten band I recall most from those days was called Zephyr. They played here all the time (always opening) at the Sunset Series and Boston Tea Party. Zephyr were from Boulder CO. They had a superlung female vocalist plus the late great Tommy Bolin on guitar. Tommy always carried a baby’s high chair onstage with him that had an Echoplex strapped into the seat. He really got the crowd stomping with that little rig.

My top 3 concerts:

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - ‘68 Carousel, Framingham
2. Jeff Beck Group (Boston debut) - ‘68 Tea Party
3. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - ‘69 Boston Arena

Honorable mentions: Led Zep - ‘69 Carousel, Marc Bolan/ T Rex - '71 Orpheum, The Faces (Boston debut) - Tea Party ‘70, Mike Nesmith - '69 Pauls Mall, The Tubes - '75 Harvard Sq.

I am too young!! I missed so much really great stuff like the Rolling Stones at Lynn’s Manning Bowl, The Beatles at Suffolk Downs, The Yardbirds at The Surf Nantasket , Van Morrison at the Scituate Yacht Club and the Young Rascals at Mendon’s Lakeview Ballroom - for starters.

[idjit]

I was at this one, but also at the Savoy Brown/Fleetwood Mac/Rory Gallagher triple bill the following summer. Kim Simmonds, Danny Kirwan and Rory all on the same stage for a couple of bucks.

[terrydactyl]

At the Sunset Series I saw the Faces, Beach Boys, Flo & Eddie, Kinks and some of the ones sputnik already mentioned. I also recall Alice Cooper doing an opening set for a baseball game (BCN jocks vs. somebody else) one afternoon. That show cost $1.04.
Other early 70’s dollar (COZ$ .94, BCN $1.04) promotional shows over at the Orpheum included Angel, Supertramp, Piper (Billy Squier) and the Babys.
There were some wicked killer free shows held at the Hatch Shell in the early 70’s.
ELP played there around ‘71 or ‘72. I remember Keith Emerson scrambling up over his Hammond B3s and Moog and swinging out onto the roof of the shell. Security ordered him down, but Keith continued to climb, Supertrooper spotlight beams following him all the way, until he stood perched at the very top of the structure drenched in light. Emerson then produced a mini-synth and proceeded to machine gun his intense riffs into the screaming crowd.
Another great free for all at the Hatch was ZZ Top in 1974. I think the Edgar Winter Band opened for them. There was like a million kids there and ZZ ruled.
terrydactyl mentions the Merry Clayton Band but the great forgotten band I recall most from those days was called Zephyr. They played here all the time (always opening) at the Sunset Series and Boston Tea Party. Zephyr were from Boulder CO. They had a superlung female vocalist plus the late great Tommy Bolin on guitar. Tommy always carried a baby’s high chair onstage with him that had an Echoplex strapped into the seat. He really got the crowd stomping with that little rig.

My top 3 concerts:

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - ‘68 Carousel, Framingham
2. Jeff Beck Group (Boston debut) - ‘68 Tea Party
3. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - ‘69 Boston Arena

Honorable mentions: Led Zep - ‘69 Carousel, Marc Bolan/ T Rex - '71 Orpheum, The Faces (Boston debut) - Tea Party ‘70, Mike Nesmith - '69 Pauls Mall, The Tubes - '75 Harvard Sq.

I am too young!! I missed so much really great stuff like the Rolling Stones at Lynn’s Manning Bowl, The Beatles at Suffolk Downs, The Yardbirds at The Surf Nantasket , Van Morrison at the Scituate Yacht Club and the Young Rascals at Mendon’s Lakeview Ballroom - for starters.

i am jealous of you as i must be younger and never got to the tea party while i was marveling at carl yastrzemski and bobby orr
good call on zz top - i was there and they were great
i forgot to mention our own local girl, Bonnie Raitt was all around and may have backed up zz top, especially when she was the darling of all the olde jazz and blues greats that migrated to Newport every year