Quatermass
Clouds
Curved Air
Hampton Grease Band
Zephyr
Sea Train
The Flock
If
Blodwyn Pig
Quatermass
Clouds
Curved Air
Hampton Grease Band
Zephyr
Sea Train
The Flock
If
Blodwyn Pig
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
70's Triple Bills that I attended:
Wishbone Ash
Camel
Kiss
Blue Oyster Cult
Ted Nugent
Kansas
Lindisfarne sounds like the odd one out (sonically), but they were probably the band that attracted 2/3 of the crowds.
75, I think
Too young to participate (I was 12), but I knew many older schoolmates who were there
Quadruple bills are out of topic
I'd have left after the second band (even as a kid, I couldn't have cared less for Kiss)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
1970s triple bills that were memorable for me (headliner listed first, opener last):
Humble Pie/J. Geils/King Crimson. Philly Spectrum 12/71
West, Bruce & Lang/Spirit/Fleetwood Mac. Spectrum 4/72
The Byrds/Paul Butterfield Blues Band/Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen. Philly Tower Theater 12/72
J. Geils/Frampton's Camel/PFM. Providence Civic Center summer 1974
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Fairport Convention / Steeleye Span / Renaissance Tower Theater - Philly
The Ice Cream Lady Wet her drawers........To see you in the Passion Playyyy eeee - I. Anderson
"It's kind of like deciding not to date a beautiful blonde anymore because she farted." - Top Cat
I was expecting to be kinda meh, but it made my nips stiffen - Jerjo
(Zamran) "that fucking thing man . . . it sits there on my wall like a broken clock " - Helix
Social Media is the "Toilet" of the Internet - Lady Gaga
I think I saw one in the 70's
Bootcamp
Urban Verb
Split Enz
Maybe one in the early 2000's
Royal Crown Revue
Chrissie Hynde with Pretenders?
B 52's
Neither shows I would have gone without someone asking but they were pretty good.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
City Boy - Lake - Nektar (Dave Nelson version)
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
NYC, '71:
Procol Harum (headliner)
KC
Yes
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
The last twenty years :
Deep Purple, Dream Theater,E & P
Deep Purple, Joe Satriani, Dio, Thin Lizzy
Deep Purple, Scorpions
, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Edgar Winter
I was backstage for all of those at Jones Beach Theater NY
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no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
I saw them in the middle of a triple bill with Ian Gillan opening and Nazareth as the headliner. Slade did their best to steal the show. The other two acts delivered but damn, the boys in Slade did more stage moves in one song than the guys in Naz did all night.
When I was in college our campus attractions booked Elvin Bishop (who had scored recently with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"), Peter Frampton (the explosion was about to happen), and J. Geils (whose last album didn't chart). The management for the first two refused to play after Geils so they headlined. And burned the place to the ground.
I saw a bunch of shows like this in sheds across ND/MN. I swear REO Speedwagon and Black Oak would show up for a fucking barn raising.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Perhaps, I should clarify: Kiss was the FIRST band (it was their first major US Tour), Camel was second-bill and Wishbone Ash was the headliner!
AND believe it or not there were people there to see ONLY Kiss, as they vacated their 3rd row seats after Kiss and we moved up and had awesome seats for the two bands that we REALLY wanted to see (Camel & Wishbone Ash)
Cheers!
Another I happened to remember:
Aerosmith (Rocks tour)/Rick Derringer/Starz summer '76
Apparently, when King Crimson played across the street from the Watergate building in '74, there were people just for the purposes of seeing Steeleye Span, who were opening. Steve Feigenbaum said a lot of the audience left after Steeleye Span's set.
Kiss opened for a lot of bands for their first couple years. They kept getting fired for upstaging the headliners.
1973 - Wishbone Ash / Gentle Giant / Vinnegar Joe
1974 - ELP / James Gang / Lynyrd Skynyrd ( stadium show)
- CSNY / The Band / Jesse Colin Young
1975 - Wishbone Ash / Dr Hook / Camel
- Gentle Giant / Pollen / Raul Duguay
- Gentle Giant / Brian Auger's Oblivion Express / Gary Wright
1984 - Willie Nelson / Waylon Jennings / Jessee Colter
1987 - U2 / Los Lobos / Bodeans (stadium)
1991 - Neil Young w Crazy Horse / Sonic Youth / Drivin' n Cyin'
1993 - Neil Young w Booker T & Mg's / Pearl Jam / Blind Melon
2015 - Neil Young w Promise of the Real / City and Color / Reverend Billy and His Stop Shopping Choir
2016 - Our Lady Peace / I Mother Earth / Standstills
2017 - Billy Talent / Monster Truck / Dirty Nils
many regional band triple bills
I remember tomorrow
I know for one night only there was a Black Sabbath - Van Halen - Ramones bill.
The thought of, for me at least, three of the greatest rock singers/ frontmen and three of the most iconic and influential guitarists...not to mention three of my all time favourite bands on one bill seems incredible.
This was in 1978 I think, I saw a poster for this online a year or so ago.
Apparently Van Halen and the Ramones got on pretty well, Joey was a big VH fan, but Sabbath weren't really socialising much. Ramones went down somewhat badly. On leaving the stage to boos and jeering, the stage manager said to Joey something along the lines of 'Great gig, the last time I saw a band get that kind of response was the Rolling Stones in 1966'*
*it might not have been 1966...it was early on though.
Hello Folks...
I grew up a 70's teen just North of Cincinnati, Ohio. I recall that many of the bands, typically the headliners, that I went to see ~ had many awesome openers and middle bands. I seemed to be quite a sponge back then, and little by little my focus became 'progressive rock' (I don't think it was called THAT back then). Anyway.... my contribution to this thread is Gentle Giant opening the concert, Steve Hillage in the middle role, and the Electric Light Orchestra - the band I couldn't wait to see, as headliner. Memory suggests that this was ELO on their 'New World Record tour' (76, 77?) I do believe this particular concert was so overall good in whole that GG and Hillage shortly found way into my growing vinyl collection.
Wonderful Times Indeed!
Carry On
Chris Buckley
Late 70's in Detroit at Cobo Arena -- Boston/Journey/Sammy Hagar.
Joey seemed to have been into a lot of stuff that was most definitely not approved by the punk cognoscenti. I know I've read he was a big fan of the early 60's girl groups (and as such, was over the moon, at least initially when Phil Spector agreed to produce End Of The Century), and Herman's Hermits (that's why he's singing with a faux English accent on some of those early songs, because he's imitating Peter Noon!) It's also been said the chants on songs like Teenage Lobotomy and Blitzkrieg Bop were inspired by Saturday Night by The Bay City Rollers!
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I was also at the first concert at Riverfront Stadium in 1978 in Cincinnati. That was...
The Eagles
Steve Miller Band
Eddie Money
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