Over the years I have come to regard attending concerts as
highlights of my life; chances to witness first hand the wonder
created by what I consider to be some of the greatest contemporary
musical talents at full power on stage. I am sure that most
everyone who has attended a great concert has a least a few
memories of it; their own Concert Footage. This book is my account
of over 200 of these events beginning in 1970 and spanning forty
years. Luminaries in the world of rock and jazz that it has been my
extreme good fortune to see perform live are Yes, Pink Floyd, The
Who, The Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pat Metheny
Group, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve
Winwood, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Crosby, Still & Nash, Neil
Young, Rush, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Return To Forever, King Crimson,
Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Weather Report, Chick Corea,
Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, and Bill Bruford among many others.
Included in this chronological history is background material on
the performers and their ongoing history. Also detailed are the
varied and storied concert venues involving intimate gatherings to
stadium crowds for solo acoustic performances to gargantuan rock
spectacle. Also detailed are the good and bad travel related
experiences, the requisite intoxication and indulgence, and great
friends and family sharing in the events. All related, at times
with a fair dose of humor, through the eyes of the author; your
typical middle class guy from a typical Midwestern background who
just happened to fall in love with music during the mid sixties.
Much credit must be given to the Beatles for so heavily influencing
the direction this love of music would take. But it was the initial
concert experiences of the early seventies that forever changed me.
In particular, Hendrix in the summer of 1970 was the springboard to
all that would follow. Although still too young and inexperienced
at the time to fully appreciate the late great megatalent, Hendrix
opened my eyes to the amazing possibilities and power of music in a
live setting. Subsequent monster shows by Jethro Tull, Emerson,
Lake & Palmer, and Yes a few years later set the benchmark and
put me on a course to pursue music and concerts that lived up to
the set precedent. Touched on are the amazing relationships and
lasting bonds formed with great bands like these, forged by the
music and such stunning performances. But of course along the way
there were numerous new musical paths to explore that rarely, if
ever, resulted in anything but a different yet wonderful concert
experience. There were drugs and alcohol as well; also contributing
to the formation of those bonds and an indisputable part of what
the great music of this generation is about. Perhaps excerpts from
a sort of top ten list might include shows like Yes' 1976 and 1991
shows in Dallas, The Who's Cotton Bowl concert during their 1982
"farewell" North American tour, Jethro Tull's 1973 Passion Play
concert, The Moody Blues' 1982 Long Distance Voyager concert in
Dallas, Pink Floyd's 1980 The Wall concert in Los Angeles and their
great Texas Stadium shows of 1988 and 1994, and Return To Forever's
2008 Reunion concert in Dallas. I wrote this book for myself, while
keeping in mind the thousands of people that were in those
audiences with me. Indeed, I have to hope that a number of them
will find this book and relive their experiences. Another goal
would be to rekindle interest that may have waned in the music of
these great artists. Quite obviously, without them, there would be
no book. And lastly, should a reader come across an artist new to
them (perhaps Camel or Marillion), investigate them, and discover
something that enriches their life, then I would deem Concert
Footage a worthwhile endeavor indeed.
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