I was at that show, but I only remember Goddard sitting in on "Mask Of The Great Deceiver".
Yeah, the acoustics at the Sportatorium were pretty atrocious, but the concert-going experience
was still so new to me that I have only fond memories (aside from getting tear-gassed at Rush).
Is that the concert where a rip roaring drunk Grace insulted the German crowd and called them nazis or something?
It was a couple of days after The Lorelei show in Hamburg. Grace was still ill, but there was no way they wouldn't play the show. From what I read she was high on medication ( and other stuff) and was sitting most of the show, insulted the audience and at one point went into the audience and put two fingers in the nose of a teenage girls un the front row. Speaking about audience participation. After this show the band decided to play on the Knebworth festival without Grace. I think David Freiberg shared the vocals with Paul Kanther and the reviews were quite good.
Paul passed away recently. I went to the estate sale at his house recently. It was sad to see how he lived out the last years of his life in a wheelchair.
Devin Townsend and Animals As Leaders in Palladium, Worcester in November 2014.
After watching Devin's London gig's DVD I expected something similar. Alas...
Palladium is such a shithole, and on top of it this time the sound was absolutely horrible: noise, noise, and nothing but noise. And so loud that I had to leave early: my were ears physically suffering.
This post has nothing to do with "worst concert experience", but I just realized that all 3 groups I saw at my first concert ever, 40 years ago this year, are still touring and making new music today.
Wishbone Ash, KISS and Camel at the Long Beach Arena in 1975. Great time! NOT a worst experience. I just saw Wishbone Ash perform last night in Arcadia, California at a small blues club. 1.jpg
I've heard several accounts of that show. The first I remember reading of it was back in the early 90's, when Guitar Player magazine ran an article on "the greatest guitar amps of all time", which turned out mostly to be vintage Fender, Marshalls, Voxes, etc from the 60's and early 70's. I forget which model amp it was, it was one of the pre-CBS tweed Fender models, but at one time, Craig Chaquico had a whole wall of them that he took on the road with Jefferson Starship. The photo caption noted that the amps were destroyed during the Loreley riot. I read another article where Craig said he stopped touring with vintage gear after that. I think that's when he switched over to using Carvin amps and started playing BC Rich and Carvin guitars.
As for them doing Knebworth a week later without Grace, might have had something to do with the next show that occurred the night after the Loreley debacle. I forget where they were playing, but it was still in Germany someplace. Apparently, Grace had too much to drink, and as she put it, she "Decided I was going to tell the Germans I was still unhappy about W". The concert was being filmed for German TV, but the band suppressed the footage, for obvious reasons. I've seen very short and heavily censored clips on VH-1 a couple times, when they've done those tabloid shows of theirs, but I've also been curious to know exactly what Grace said to the audience. Anyway, Grace said she was so upset about the whole thing she fired herself from the band, and went into rehab.
Funny you should mention this. I saw RATM when they were the opening band on the Philadelphia stop of Lollapalooza back in the 90s. They came out on stage naked, with tape over their mouths, and the letters PMRC written on their chests. They proceeded to let their guitar/bass feed back at top volume for 15 minutes, then left the stage. I actually shared a recording of it on DIME a while back.
Tool followed them and made up for it, as did Fishbone.
I was at one of these Pink Floyd concerts on 25 April:
40 Years Ago: More Than 500 Pink Floyd Fans Arrested at L.A. Concerts
This was both a best and worst concert experience. Best: It was Pink Floyd! I was finally going to see them perform live. In quadrophonic sound, with all the flying pig props and whatnot on cables flying over the audience. Worst: unbelievably heavy police presence, in a city that in previous years had been pretty lax about weed at concerts. The constant threat of arrest while doing nothing more evil than watching your favorite band on stage. The bastard LAPD frequently turned up the house lights while the band was playing, trying to catch anyone daring to light up. It did not seem at all like '70s America. We had been forewarned, so my friends and I partook of whatever refreshments we desired before we got to the concert, and carried nothing on our persons. Still, an uncomfortable and paranoid evening. Some friends of a friend were among those carted off.
"Reefer madness, has stolen all their souls
Reefer madness, is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll" - Hawkwind
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
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