30++ years of concerts. the 60s and 70s / 30 ans et plus de concerts. Les années 60 et 70

30++ years of concerts. The 60s & 70s

1961	Bobino, Paris	Les Compagnons de la Chansons. They were a French nine-piece novelty "chanson" act. Edith Piaf launched them in the late forties (probably fucked the good-looking lead-singer, if not all of them!!) I was 8 years old, and one of the Compagnon's son was my grade school chum (Marc Sabbat, son of Gérard). He comped me!! Can you believe that I was on the guest list for my very first concert!!!??? Shape of things to come!!!!!!!
1965	Maison de la Radio/ORTF, Paris (Télé-Dimanche)	Dionne Warwick
Summer 1966	Salle des fêtes, St Palais/mer, France	Devotion
June 1967	Parking Foch, Paris	Soft Machine (Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayres, Daevid Allen (?), Robert Wyatt), Les Variations,... A big "60s happening", Paris style, in a brand-new, not-yet-in-business, underground parking garage on the Avenue Foch, near the Arc de Triomphe. I was 14 years old, and this was an eye-opener and mind-blower for me!!!
October 28 (or 26), 1968	Olympia, Paris	The Mothers of Invention
Fall 1968 or Spring 1969	Lycée Claude Bernard, Paris	Patrick Vian's Red Noise
May 25, 1969	The Roundhouse, Chalk farm, London	Fairport Convention Benefit with Pink Floyd, The Deviants, Humblebums (?), ... Returning from a gig in Birmingham, Fairport Convention's drummer Martin Lamble was killed when the band's van crashed on the M1 motorway. This concert was set-up as a benefit for the band.
1969	Olympia, Paris	Vanilla Fudge
fall 1969	Olympia, Paris	Jethro Tull, Free, Spooky Tooth, Clouds.
December 9, 1969	Theatre de l'Est Parisien (TEP), Paris	Soft Machine (Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper w/ 4-piece horn section)
Fall 1969	La Mutualité, Paris	Brian Auger
October 26, 1969	Amougies festival, Amougies, Belgium	The Nice, Caravan, Blossom Toes, Anthony Braxton (?) , Archie Shepp, G.E.R.M,... French radio DJ/record producer Pierre Lattes and Frank Zappa were the MCs. Frank didn't MC much, but played with everybody!!! The festival lasted 5 days, but I was there only 1 night.
1969 ??	Salle Pleyel, Paris	Ravi Shankar and Allah Rakah
1969	Olympia, Paris	666 Festival (!) I remember The Keef Hartley Band, Taste,...
June 7, 1969	Olympia, Paris	The Mothers Of Invention, Mycroft Partner (on the tour, didn't play that night!)
October/November (??) 1969	Olympia, Paris	Steppenwolf (with Louise Harrison who reminded we went, decades later!!)
November 3, 1969	Salle Pleyel, Paris	Miles Davis Quintet, Cecil Taylor Unit (also with Louise Harrison)
Fall 1969	le Lucernaire, Paris	Art Ensemble of Chicago
December 1969	The Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, London	Juicy Lucy, My Cake
December 31, 1969	Euston Hall, St. Pancras, London	Quintessence
January 1970	Lyceum, the Strand, London	The Bonzo Dog Band
Spring 1970 (?)	University, Nanterre, near Paris.	Sun Ra and The Arkestra
February or March 1970	Palais des Sports, Paris.	Soft Machine, Iron Butterfly (did not play),... shortened by riot police, tear gas, etc...
Spring 1970 (?)	Somewhere near Port Royal (Faculté de Pharmacie ??), Paris	Archie Shepp
Spring 1970	American Center, Blvd. Raspail, Paris.	Bachdenkel
June 27-28, 1970	Bath Festival, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England	Pink Floyd ("Atom Heart Mother" premiere), Led Zeppelin, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, The Mothers, Santana, Donovan, Ten Years After, Free, The Flock, Johnny Winter, Steppenwolf, Maynard Ferguson Big Band, ...
August 1970	100 Club, Oxford Street, London	Clark-Hutchinson
August 6-9, 1970	Plumpton Festival, England.	Deep Purple, Incredible String Band, Fat Mattress, Cat Stevens, Fotheringay, Groundhogs, Colosseum, Yes, ... I forget the others??? (...and Françoise Hurlin)
August 15, 1970	Halifax festival, England	Fotheringay... I went there as well with the succulent Françoise Hurlin as well (we were 17!!). Only made it to the festival for one evening and in this case ONE band. Shortened by rain, it's all I remember!
August 1970	Isle of Wight festival, Isle of Wight, England.	Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Miles Davis, Moody Blues, Voices of East Harlem, Taste, Cactus, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson,....
December 15, 1970	Gaumont Palace, Paris	Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention
Spring 1971	Theatre du Vieux Colombier, Paris	Dr. Strangely Strange
1970 or 1971 ??	Le Golf Drouot, Paris	Pierre Clémenti/Jean Pierre Kalfon et les Crouilles Marteaux
Spring 1971	Rock & Roll Circus, Paris.	Gary Wright, with guitarist Mick Jones (future Foreigner), then in the Johnny Halliday band!
August, 1971	?, Revere Beach, Mass.	Velvet Underground, w/ Dougie Yule, without Lou Reed!! :-((
August or September 1971	Boston Common, Boston	Aretha Franklyn, the Main Ingredient
November 11, 1971	Music Hall, Boston	Pink Floyd (Meddle Tour)
Fall 1971	Music Hall, Boston	The Byrds
Throughout 1971	Jack's, Cambridge, Massachussetts	Spider John Koerner
Fall 1971	Harvard U., Cambridge, Mass.	Randy Newman
Fall 1971	Harvard U., Cambridge, Mass.	Bonnie Raitt, James Montgomery Blues Band
Fall 1971	Joe's Place, Inman Square, Cambridge, Mass.	Koko Taylor
Fall 1971	Joe's Place, Inman Square, Cambridge, Mass.	Lowell Fulson
Fall 1971 (?)	Music Hall, Boston	J. Geils Band, Fleetwood Mac,...
Spring 1972	Orpheum/Aquarius Theatre, Boston	J. Geils Band
1972	Music Hall, Boston	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Spring 1972	Cricket Club , Ashland, Mass.	Aerosmith
April 11, 1972	Music Hall , Boston	Hot Tuna, Commander Cody. I did the light show with Bob Lewis and Charles Phillips!! NuClear View Light Show!!
July 19, 1972	Boston Garden, Boston	The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder (second night)
October 1, 1972	Music Hall, Boston	David Bowie (Ziggie Stardust Tour) Thanks to Andy Barding for the actual date
March 14 1973	Music Hall, Boston	Pink Floyd (Dark Side Tour)
October 17, 1973	Forrest National, Brussels, Belgium The Rolling Stones in 1973 from 30 feet out, stage center, for 27 Francs ( about $5 in those days !!).	The Rolling Stones, Billy Preston (afternoon show). There were two shows that day: a sheduled evening performance, and a matinée meant as a replacement for a cancelled Paris concert. Earlier in this european 'Goat's Head Soup' tour, French police had raided Keith Richards' house, Nellcote, in Villefranche (French Riviera!) and had found a lot of dope. In view of the quantities involved, and the presence of known Marseilles mobsters, French autorities put out an arrest warrant for Keith, regardless of his absence at the time of the police raid and his being out of the country. Had they played the Paris show (at the Palais des Sports), Keith would have been arrested upon entering France. So an afternoon performance was scheduled in Brussels for the Paris fans. I traded in my Paris ticket and went up to Brussels! A tremendous affair indeed, with Mick Taylor all over the place, out on an "archive" CD called "Brussels Affair 1973".
1973 ?	Opéra de Paris (Palais Garnier)	Don Carlo (G. Verdi), Nicolaï Ghiaurov,....
February 4-5 1974	Olympia, Paris	Doobie Brothers, Graham Central Station, Little Feat,... Warner Bros. "showcase"
March or April 1974	Apollo Theatre, 125th Street, NYC, NY	Aretha Franklyn
May 24, 1974	H.E.C., near Paris.	Captain Beefheart and Buckwheat (The Tragic Band!)
September 1974	Olympia, Paris.	The Grateful Dead At least two shows!!!???
1974	Olympia, Paris	Montrose
1975	Spectrum, Philadelphia.	Rory Gallagher, Fleetwood Mac,...
1976	Scottish Rites Cathedral, Philadelphia.	Gino Vanelli
1976	Scottish Rites Cathedral, Philadelphia.	Bob Weir, Cold Blood (w/ Lydia Pense !!)
1976	Tower Theatre, Philadelphia.	The Grateful Dead
Summer 1976	Some outdoor Dell-type place, Temple University campus, Ambler, PA	Aretha Franklyn
September 1976	Chalet du Lac, bois de Vincennes, Paris	The Sex Pistols
Fall 1977	Artemis, Philadelphia.	The Cramps
June 17, 1978	JFK Stadium, Philadelphia.	The Rolling Stones, Foreigner, Peter Tosh
August 19, 1978	The Spectrum, Philadelphia.	Bruce Springsteen
November 11, 1978	Irvine Auditorium, U. of Penn., Philadelphia.	Jorma Kaukonen, solo acoustic
Fall 1978	Star's, Philadelphia.	The Dictators, the Axidentals
November 17, 1978	Star's, Philadelphia	Rory Gallagher
1978 or 1979	Calvary Church at 48th and Baltimore, Philadelphia	Sun Ra & the Arkestra. I did the psychedelic light show with Matt Berg. The promoter, Dave Gold, thought to save himself the expense of real lights. Ra was none too pleased NOT to have even a spotlight on him!! :-))
February 23, 1979	The Hot Club, Philadelphia.	Ultravox, Bloodless Pharaohs (with Brian Setzer and his brother Gary on drums), Neighbors and Allies
February 24 (or 22), 1979	The Hot Club, Philadelphia.	Magazine, Bloodless Pharaohs (with Brian Setzer and his brother Gary on drums), Neighbors and Allies
1979	Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia.	The Clash, The Undertones
1979	The Hot Club, Philadelphia	Daevid Allen and Gong, with Gilli Smyth. Yoschko Seffer. The NU band/Material with Bill Laswell, Cliff Cultrery, Michael Beinhorn, Fred Maher... I did the psychedelic light show. The Laswell crew wasn't pleased because they didn't have enough lights and couldn't see their instruments as they played!!!
Fall 1979	Tower Theatre, Philadelphia.	Gary Numan, Nash the Slash
December 20, 1979	Scala Cinema, London	This Heat, The People in Control
December 23 (??), 1979	Butler's Wharf, Thames south bank, London	Throbbing Gristle Butler's Wharf & Tower Bridge (photo 1999)
1978 ??	Hurrahs, W.60th Street (?), New York.	The Student Teachers

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