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  1. 08-27-2015 #1
    progman1975
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    Steve Hillage - MSG '77????

    http://cleorecs.com/store/shop/steve...arden-1977-cd/
    Any Hillage-heads know anything about this...Ive heard a lot of boots and Live stuff but NEVER MSG....
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    I dont recall seeing this one before - nothing official - maybe only as a bootleg a few years back? Looks nice though.
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    Sample it here on amazon...

    http://www.amazon.com/Madison-Square...+1977+%28CD%29
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phlakaton View Post
    Sample it here on amazon...

    http://www.amazon.com/Madison-Square...+1977+%28CD%29
    I'm amazed that Hillage played MSG. I assume he was an opening act... Anyone know for whom?
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    Quote Originally Posted by arturs View Post
    I'm amazed that Hillage played MSG. I assume he was an opening act... Anyone know for whom?
    Rundgren???
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    ELO. I was there.
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    I was there as well. ELO was the headliner. I was high as a kite. Hillage blew me away....
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    Great opening set, the "L" tour. Like Ken, I was (as always) but still have some great hazy memories of that show. Great thing about growing up in Newark NJ...a $1.25 bought me a 45 minute ride on the 107 bus to Port Authority, so I rarely missed a prog show in the city, beginning with Yes' Tales tour in '74 as a fifteen year old. Never, however , could find a way to the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, where I missed many a fine show in those glory daze of prog...
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    Great double bill! I could see an ELO crowd really enjoying Hillage. I'm surprised he didn't become more well known in the USA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by arturs View Post
    Great double bill! I could see an ELO crowd really enjoying Hillage. I'm surprised he didn't become more well known in the USA.
    1977 was not the best year to try and 'break' a progressive rock with a very hippie looking front man.

    A few years too late to catch the zeitgeist of the times, imo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    1977 was not the best year to try and 'break' a progressive rock with a very hippie looking front man.

    A few years too late to catch the zeitgeist of the times, imo.
    Maybe they should have tried having Hillage opening for the Dead??
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    Quote Originally Posted by arturs View Post
    I'm amazed that Hillage played MSG. I assume he was an opening act... Anyone know for whom?
    I was going to ask this same thing too... but figured it must have been an opening set... but damn. MSG for someone like Hillage in '77... ya. Kinda crazy eh!
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    I thought it was going to be Hillage sitting in with The Michael Schenker Group.
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