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 Jeff Kaplan |
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February 29, 2012 03:17:57pm |
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Re: Last Train to Clarksville? |
ok, this was a seminal moment for me. the first rock concert i went to was the Monkees in 1967 at Forest Hills, New York. That was where Hendrix finally walked offstage and bailed on the tour. Everyone was in the stadium seats, no one on the field like when the Beatles played Shea Stadium. There were screaming girls running across the grass to try to get to the stage when they came on and police were dragging them off by their hair. My recollection is that the Monkees played like 6 songs and left. I could be making this part up but I think they arrived and left in a helicopter. I was 12 and a huge Monkees fan.
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duckpond74 |
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March 01, 2012 10:15:58am |
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Re: Last Train to Clarksville? |
Jeff, you are so lucky. We are the same age, and my cousins knew what a huge Monkees fan I was, so they bought a ticket for me to see that same strange seminal surreal pairing in Chicago. I kinda remember it being at the Medinah Temple. I, too, was 12, and parents put the kabosh on my going. They were concerned about what TV and papers were portraying as a disorderly and out-of-control environment at 'these young people's rock concerts'. That was the last time my folks prevented me from seeing any kind of concert. Oy.
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Jeff Kaplan |
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March 01, 2012 10:50:12am |
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Re: Last Train to Clarksville? |
my mom actually took me and a friend for my birthday. quite a haul from new jersey. yay mom!
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duckpond74 |
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March 01, 2012 11:00:21am |
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Re: Last Train to Clarksville? |
That's funny. My mom was actually OK with me going - she was into live music concerts, having seen Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Bing, Duke (she recently told me she saw a young Frank Sinatra as an opening act for one of the saturday matinee movies, where they gave away plates and some such) - but she stood with my dad who was dead set against it.
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William Tell |
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February 29, 2012 06:54:14pm |
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Re: Last Train to Clarksville? |
V cool, Jeff; is this the concert he--Jimi--supposedly played a bit, gave the finger and left? Or didn't play at all?
I can't recall how it went down, but that's the story that was always told (how cool is that--to have seen the most unlikely pairing in rock history, at least given their subsequent pathways).
Oh, and those two girls? Probably our own Rose and RingLeeO, though they were only 6 or so at the time...they just never admit to it hereabouts.
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ringolevio |
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February 29, 2012 07:08:01pm |
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Re: Last Train to Clarksville? |
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