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OT concert tickets
On 7/11/2015 11:00 PM, Doris Night wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:32:50 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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>> On 2015-07-11 4:58 PM, wrote:
>>> The best concert I ever saw was the Outlaws when in college, I was
>>> about 3 rows from the stage, much too loud. Think green grass and
>>> high tides.
>>>
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>> The first major concert I attended was enough for me. I saw the Beatles
>> on Toronto in 1965. The only music I heard was the opener, King Curtis.
>> Once the Beatles cam on stage all I could hear was thousands of teen age
>> girls scream hysterically. I never heard a note of their music.
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> You were there too?
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> My father stood in line to get tickets for me and a couple of my
> friends. If I remember correctly, CHUM FM or another radio station was
> giving out roses to parents who got tickets for their kids.
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> And I was the teenage girl screaming the loudest. :-)
>
>> However..... I got to see Jimmy Hendrix.... and didn't realize it more
>> more than 30 years. I learned that the guitarist for King Curtis on
>> that tour was Hendrix. Unfortunately, at the age of 14 I was not into R&B.
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> My big music moment was in around 1968. My dad was in the military,
> and was posted to Germany. Us underage kids used to go out to the
> clubs drinking. One night, we went to a place where there was an
> unknown band called the Yardbirds playing. My girlfriend and I invited
> the guys in the band back to her house the next day. They actually
> showed up, and we served them egg salad sandwiches and lemonade for
> lunch.
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> It was only many years later that I realized we were hosting Jimmy
> Page. I don't know if he liked our egg salad sandwiches.
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> Doris
>
That's a fun memory! 
Jill
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