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Pat Travers Band, 1979.

The shaker sweater and glasses say 80's as well! BTW, Bren...you look cute in that picture! So, how tall are you?!

I might as well mention what I wore to the Billy Idol concert...black shiny tight parachute pants! Talk about 80's fashion!

Rare Earth...circa 1973
Guy

Eric Clapton, New Haven Coliseum, June 29, 1975. And if I remember correctly, the Troglodytes (of "Bertha Butt" fame) opened. Pretty interesting concert.

Soon followed by Earth, Wind & Fire in the same venue. That was an amazing stage show. Waaaay too many after that!

Take care,
Rich

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The shaker sweater and glasses say 80's as well! BTW, Bren...you look cute in that picture! So, how tall are you?!

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I just stopped growing at 6' 3"... been this tall since junior high. The cigarettes and caffeine probably didn't help.

And... no, I've never been cute. Though I am fully prepared to laugh at myself as quickly as at others. This is also why I have no misremembered fondness for the 80s.

Bren R.

It's actually only an urban myth / old wive's tale that caffeine stunts your growth.

So it musta been the cigarrettes.

I had a feeling that this thread would bring out
the kid out in people. Rare Earth,Elvin bishop and
so many other good ones. I have to add that I saw
Cream shortly after Hendrix. Believe it or not, there
was hardly anyone there. We stood right at the stage
and watched Clapton drink beer all the way through 'Toad'.
These concert stories are great!
I wonder what everyones favorite concerts would be.
Ken

Ballroom Zombies / Forgotten Rebels
Winnipeg, MB
The Junkyard
April 15, 1994

Hung out with Mickey Desadest most of the night, laughed and joked, sometimes you meet someone with that purely disgustingly rancid sense of humour and wonder how much of it is real and how much is just stage presence? His sense of humour is all real. Surreal, actually - here's a guy that has been the face of Canadian punk over 3 decades sitting beside me at the VLTs, suddenly turns to me and tells one of my all time favorite dirty jokes and I finish the punchline for him. (PM me if you want to know the joke!)

I'm told later that night I was hitting on the BZs guitarist's girlfriend. I think I remember that. Funnier yet, 12 years later and I'm working with 3/4 of the band in their new permutation.

Bren R.