Owning Up To It

DEVO playing at Beginnings In Schaumburg IL on nickel beer night. Played one song and we through our cups at them, booed  off the stage.

First off this is not even close to my favorite band, in fact very forgettable.  But an incredible deal none the less.

This is early 70's...a casual friend of mine got tickets to see Rick Wakeman at Madison Square Garden and offered me one for free.  Ok I'll go.  Wakeman was promoting "Journey To The Center of The Earth".  

They played the whole album note for note perfectly, I mean perfect.  And it was actually good.

After that Wakeman says to the audience (this is very nearly exact).  "That is all the music we know and have practiced."  The audience goes nuts!  Wakeman gets back on the mike and says "alright alright, we'll play the first side of the album again."

They started to play as the Garden emptied out.  I was confused and embarrassed at the same time.

Regards,

barts 

David Crosby has been one of my favorite musicians. It was sad and frustrating to hear of his absurd trashing of Daryl Hannah (Neil Young's future wife). Then the other stuff about Crosby started coming out and I'm sorry to say that this artist that I sort of worshipped is a total asshole.

1978, Led Zepplin concert in Tampa Stadium. About 5 minutes after they started playing a Florida thunderstorm with lightning started. The band left the stage for safety, and never came back. Concert over……

So far Devo is my favorite but there's a lot of good stuff here. Reminds me of the time I paid a ticket to see Greg Lake on a solo tour. Band came out and started jamming. Greg came out, opened his mouth, turned and looked at his sound guy and drew a slash across his throat as if to say "cut it, I'm done." Apparently suffering from a throat issue. End of concert.