The Beatles or The Rolling Stones or who ? ( or even the Who ? )

I remember Ringo Starr played a concert town once. Couldn't even give those tickets away.

I mean literally. I tried.

I worked at a restaurant. I set a giant stack next to the cash register with a sign "Free tickets. Help yourself!" Nobody touched them.

Well, that's interesting. I know in Chicago he had no problem selling tickets for his all star band tours. I never saw any of them, but what piqued my curiosity was that there were always different members for each tour, which guaranteed a different show every time.

yes, he did.

Show just wasn't promoted as much as it shoulda been, is all.

 I mean I'm sure we managed to give away some tickets. But most the seats remained empty, I read later.

Pink Floyd

See my post #1059 bottom of page 53 for funny pink floyd story

Aha! 

LOL yes, Meddle

One of these days I'll cut you up, into little pieces!

Most of my hearing problems today, stem from jamming that song in my youth.

Hearing definitely does decay with age. Is quite annoying.

Thanks for all of the new posts.

Varelse: People singing on a bus, sounds like fun.

Netzach: Yup things go downhill with age ( & the good news is ? ). Well I guess that we do calm down a bit over time. Over 40 years ago I rolled my 3/4 ton pickup truck and had no injuries, beside to my pride of course. These days my younger relatives tell me that I now drive like some 90 year old fellow. Oh well, such is life  lol.

I was just going thru a list of people that we lost in 2014 and came across someone that we may have missed here. The lead singer of " Paul Revere and the Raiders " passed away earlier at age 76. 

I was sitting in a library once, and a woman next to me was helping her eleven-year old son do his report on Jerry Garcia.

And I couldn't say anything, because it was none of my business. But everything she was telling him about Garcia was dead wrong.

And it was driving me crazy, not to butt in.

She told him Garcia was a member of Phish. And told him Garcia was a co-founder of the Ben&Jerry ice cream company.

After about a half hour of listening to this, I was ready to beat my head against the wall. Bemoaning the state of American education. And hearing this young mind be led astray, on such a vital topic as Rock History.

Slowly, the kid figured out his mom full of crap. And corrected her mistakes. But still.

Heard this story years ago and wondering if anyone knows if it's true.

Years ago, some members that were about to be Led Zeppelin were with some members of The Who. Zep guys explained their new band was going to be blues/rock. Keith Moon supposedly said, "That'll go over like a lead zeppelin!"

And there was the name.

Yes.

Supposedly Moon and Entwhistle were growing sick of Datry's and Townsend's attitudes. So they were having lunch with Jimmy Page, and Rod Stewart, discussing forming a new band.

.

If true, that band never happened. But Page kept the name, and used it several years later.

I know everyone keeps saying Nirvana was the greattest of the Seattle bands. But for my money, it's Alice-in-Chains.

do you know Mudhoney?

oh, didn't know about Led Zep 's name

Everyone?

Growing up in Chicago we heard most of it, and if Nirvana was your fave, fine. Alice in Chains? Fine.

There seemed to be a deluge of great music then, and most of them played near me. We just took it all in.