It was astounding. If you want to know what it was like in ’68, if you want to steep yourself in the concert experience from way back when, go to this show. First and foremost it was in a theatre. Hard to believe, but the acts lamented the move to arenas at first, because of […]

But most of all, I wanna have some FUN! We self-satisfied baby boomers think we know it all, lived through the best era, that nothing can compete, so we might as well just stay home and marinate in our glorious feelings. I was literally the oldest guy there. I saw one dude who was in […]

It was like the Fillmore. Only it happened at a hellhole in the middle of nowhere. Actually, not a hellhole, that’s the amphitheatre in Glen Helen, which I last went to when it sported the moniker “Blockbuster,” it would be best if they both disappeared. The shed began with Tanglewood, but a few decades back […]

There wasn’t one song everybody didn’t know. That’s the difference between yesterday and today, the ubiquity of the hits. If you were alive, you heard them, they penetrated not only the airwaves, but society, and these acts had a bunch of them. The surprise was the Cowsills. They were so tight, the harmonies so perfect, […]