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The Grateful Dead in '67 - less than 2000 people in a National Guard Armory

B.B. King in '68; also saw the Amboy Dukes, the MC-5, and Bob Seeger with Fleetwood Mac (long time before the girls started playing with them).

The Band in July of '69 - Mr. Zimmerman showed up (also in 69 was the Who, Jefferson Airplane, BTO, and Frank Zappa). Also went to see Merle Haggard in 1969 - it was the first thing I thought of when I heard the David Allen Coe song with the line about the bikers "starin' at the cowboys who are starin' at the hippies who are prayin' they get outta here alive")

I saw a lot of concerts in 1970, 1971, and 1972, but .... uh ... well ... I do remember seeing CSNY somewhere in there, as well as Zappa (again), the Dead (again), Airplane (again).

While I was stationed in Maine I saw Boston when they were still playing the bar circuit, and Springsteen & The E Street Band in a club about 9 months before Born To Run was released, and then again about a year later.

Johnny Paycheck in the enlisted men's club in Rota, Spain in 77, while "Take This Job And Shove It" was starting to hit the charts (he cancelled the rest of the tour). Actually, due far more to several blonde babes from Texas that I was working with at the Comm Center, I went out and got drunk with him and his band. He does a piss-poor version of "Ring of Fire" in Spanish, if you ask me.

You got'cher Beatles fer your head, and yer Stones fer your feet. Actually, the peak of the Beatles was Rubber Soul. Don't get me wrong - in their time I loved Sgt. Pepper, Mystery Tour, and the White Album, but unlike most of the Stones stuff, it didn't age nearly as well.

McCartny wrote cute lyrics, but they were pop, not rock. He was the most effectively marketed of the four after they broke up.