As part of the deal, Mr. T. is selling his
interest in the copyright to approximately 350 tunes, including "Baba O'Riley," "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled
Again."
Why am I telling you this? So I have an excuse to post this vintage clip from The Who's appearance at Shea Stadium. Hard to believe this gig was 30 years ago. I can remember hearing this show from my childhood bedroom in Jamaica Queens, which is about 15 miles away from Shea.
The Kingman family and Ron Hunt were out at Citi Field last night to bear witness to the Mets 3-2 defeat at the hands of the lowly Nationals.
RA Dickey pitched great but our boys only managed three hits. Along the way, Wright managed to look like a guy who had never before played third base. And three hitting streaks (Reyes 14 games; Turner 10 games; Bay 10 games) came to a quiet end last night.
Citi Field was near empty. But outside, the place was rocking! That's because it was Taiwan Night out at the old ball yard and these guys were set up to rock the parking lot. I only posted 30 seconds of their rocking awesomeness or else these tunes will be stuck in your head forever:
These guys were the highlight of the night. If they could only hit.
Nashville's Barry Tashian remembers playing second base at New York's
Shea Stadium.
Well, playing a guitar on a stage erected near second base. Tashian
wasn't good enough at baseball to become one of the 127 second basemen
in New York Mets history.
Not that it was ever an ambition. He was a Dodgers fan.
Also, he preferred music over hardball, and he stood on that infield
stage at Shea in 1966 because he and his band, The Remains -- a
collective launched when the members were students at Boston University --
were in the midst of a rock 'n' roll tour.
They were opening for a Liverpool combo called The Beatles.
So, what was that like? Funny, but a lot of people seem to ask Tashian
that very question. Turns out it was pretty cool.
It was cool to be 21 years old and be part of the biggest rock tour
in the world. It was cool to hang out with George Harrison in hotel
rooms, playing guitar and listening to sitar player Ravi Shankar's music
on Harrison's futuristic portable music device, a "cassette player."
"He had headphones for it," Tashian says. "He'd let me put the
headphones on and listen, and he'd say, 'This is North Indian classical
music.' "
George was a nice guy, as were John, Paul and Ringo. Tashian says
they were just like their characters in the comedy film A Hard Day's
Night.
Tashian says he'll never forget the shrieking, crying and roaring
from the stadium crowds on that tour.
And Tashian says he really, really should have asked for autographs.
But why would he collect autographs? After all, he was going to spend
the rest of his life around rock stars and adolescent shrieks and
cassette players. He and The Remains weren't at fantasy camp, they were
joining the club.
"Oh, I thought we were going to be world famous as soon as the tour
was over," he says. "But...we weren't. And we broke up. Now, I think,
'Why did we ever break up the band after we did that tour?'
Because we were kids, and I guess that's what was going on."
The Remains became part of Boston rock lore: Beantown's no-hit
wonders. They were way-pavers for Aerosmith, the J. Geils Band and
others. In 2009, the America's Lost Band documentary explored
the group's legacy, and last year Barry & The Remains were inducted
into the Boston Music Awards' Hall of Fame.
As for Tashian, he found other doors through which to walk. He found
himself drawn to country music, went west, joined up with country-rock
innovator Gram
Parsons and contributed vocals and guitar work to Parsons'
now-legendary 1973 solo debut, G.P. He moved to Nashville in
1980 and spent nine years as a member of Emmylou
Harris' Hot Band. And he and wife Holly Tashian have released seven
studio albums and toured the world as a heralded country and folk duo.
Every now and again, at a concert hall or a folk club, a festival or a
house concert, a fan would appear holding a Remains album, hoping for a
signature and a conversation. Sometimes the autograph-seeker had seen
Barry & The Remains play sweaty, energetic shows in 1964 at Boston
club The Rathskeller. Other fans had seen stadium shows with The Beatles
and remembered the hard-charging little rock quartet that opened the
evening and then backed The Ronettes and Nashville-born Bobby Hebb
(of "Sunny" fame) before ceding the stage to the Fab Four.
Those fan interactions were reminders to Tashian that The Remains had
been a fun thing for people, that the lack of popular success hadn't
negated the good feelings folks had for the music. And Tashian missed
playing rock 'n' roll.
He and original members Vern Miller, Bill Briggs and Chip Damaini
re-formed, releasing Movin' On in 2002. It was their first
album in 36 years. They began playing live shows, too, and they noticed
that much of their audience wasn't even alive when The Beatles were
around.
As he prepared to turn 60, Tashian heard his first adolescent shrieks
since August 29, 1966, when he walked offstage at San Francisco's
Candlestick Park, just before The Beatles last-ever concert tour
appearance.
"We have a young fan base," he says. "For the most part, it's not
people our age."
Where do young people in Nashville go to hear music? One place is The Basement, a venue on
Eighth Avenue South that holds approximately 55,500 fewer people than
showed up for the Beatles/Remains Shea Stadium gig. (That one drew
55,600, by the way.) On Wednesday, Barry & The Remains will play a 9
p.m. show at The Basement. They'll play old favorites (including "Why
Do I Cry," featured in the recent movie Superbad) for a roomful
of mostly new fans, and in the days to follow they'll begin work on
another new album.
From The Beatles to The Basement in 45 short years, and Tashian is
pleased as punch with the whole thing.
Loge13 is not your typical met blog. We don't comment on every Met game, every Met moment. There's plenty of other places for that. Originally, I was just writing Loge13.com to commemorate the demise of Shea Stadium. The blog was to go when Shea went. But people liked it (well, some people did) so I've kept it up.
I'm not exactly sure what the mission of Loge13 is now. But I can guarantee you this: we are, without a doubt, THE ONLINE COMMUNITY AND RESOURCE for the Shea Stadium Concert of Peace.
That show, which occurred 41 years ago today on August 6th, 1970, featured some of the greatest acts of the time, from CCR to Paul Simon to Johnny Winter. The show was also the last U.S. performance of Janis Joplin.
People continue to find Loge13 and post their memories of the gig. Each year, I harvest the most recent recollections and republish them. The best part: to this day, concert goers still can't agree if Jimi Hendrix played or didn't play that day. What caused everyone to have such faulty memories?
Anyway, here are some Festival for Peace comments, collected from various Loge13 posts on the subject since last year. Peace y'all:
Glad to see
this, I was just telling a family member about this concert with Janis.
I had just said that my biggest disaappointment was that for some
reason Jimi Hendrix was not going to be there.Still a great night as I
got to see Janis and Creedenc e and Johnny winter and many It was billed
as a 12 hour concert.
Hi. I was 13 and my friend Mike was still 12. I
think we took a bus to the concert. We sat way up in the seats, but it
did not matter. It was my first concert and one of the bes line ups
ever. Sat all day, with one great act folowing the next. Remember Janus,
Poco, Tina Turner, and CCR the best. Also remember needing to pee
really badly by the end of the day! Why are there no films or pictures? I
too, still have my ticket stub and a clpping from the newspaper
advertising the concert.I think I have seen a copy of the clipping
online somewhere once. Great day and I will never forget it!
I went with my 2 best friends from H.S. We went by
subway from the Bronx. It was an awesome show, but have minimal
recollection of it, so glad that other people have better memories than I
do. I later moved to L.A., & my 2 friends wrote to me about
"Concert for Bangladesh". Not quite the same! But at least I got to
see Janis before she died.& Loved Paul Simon, &CCR, so the
slight sunburn was worth the small price of admission.
This concert was the last performance of THE RASCALS
with Eddie Brigati--they DID perform. I have about 20 minutes of film
footage and an audio recording of The Rascals portion of the show made
by one of their employees as he knew it was their final concert--Eddie
Brigati actually made an announcement regarding the unstable shaking of
the bleachers. Peter Yarrow came onstage and asked Eddie to make the
announcement (this is actually in the film footage I have) he says:"cool
it in the stands...don't get too crazy..because they're worried about
security meausures" Also, Janis Joplin can be seen milling in the
background behind members of The Rascals while they were hanging in the
dugout waiting to go on--
I was there with my friend Linda D., and Aggie P.
who was pregnant at the time. It was an amazing show, and it was more
amazing when Janis showed up unexpectedly. Hendrix was not there. We
packed a lunch and had a great time. Too bad it wasn't filmed. Maybe
someone out there has something on film and they should put it on
youtube.
My first concert, Johnny Winter rocked the house,
Janis Joplin was surprise guest and made them turn off the house lights .
Richie Havens had the upper deck swaying to Freedom.
Robin Briguglio
said
This was a summer fest for peace concert that was
rocking full tilt all day. The stands and railings, seats and everyone
attending, was rocking...and it was a little scary. I was 15 and went
to school in Manhasset, and about a dozen friends and I took the train
into the flushing station, for a day of amazing music! Long, crazy hair,
bell bottoms, peasant tops, buffalo sandals...fringed bags and
belts...it is such a shame no major videos or photos have
emerged......that seems really peculiar. Janis was the highlight for
me, and every band there was or became a headliner. It was a very hot
day, it was peaceful concert. The concession lines were very long, and I
remember people buying juice in those little cans (Mott's?) and
sodas......drinking all day to beat the heat. Our seats were
perfect..back a few rows from the very front, and the place was packed
right up to the nose bleed seats waaaaay up top! it was a the
anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima which put a stamp on a huge
reason for being there.....peace.
Such an exciting day.
Jack
said
I went to this concert with my cousin Chris who left
early. I stayed for the whole thing. One group that played that no one
has mentioned is the Paul Butterfield's Blues Band. Jimi Hendrix was not
dead as stated by tvgas, he died 9/18/1970 concert was
8/6/1970. Janis was gone on October 4. I remember that day well, we
heard about it during school and couldn't believe they were both gone so
quickly.
It is really amazing to me that so little is online about this great
show.
was at shea for festival....woodstock the year
before....amazing show. joplin stunned us all. wasn't arlo there..?
must look at the old newspaper ad in the old scrapbook. thanks for
having this forum...really one of the great shows of all time. peace
It was nice to find a blog about perhaps the most obscure "Festival" event of the era. I was 19 and was there from start to finish, and was it ever hot that day ! We were in the Field Box area and were somewhat concerned when the upper deck starting bouncing up and down. I recall that the stadium was not at all packed, in fact, I would be surprised if it was more than 60-70% filled. My memory is usually pretty good about concerts, but either the heat or other more sinister elements have clouded the Shea event a bit. I can say, with certainty, that Jimi Hendrix did not play there. I have a pretty good recollection of Poco, Paul Simon,The James Gang, Johnny Winter And, Paul Butterfield, Creedence, Ten Wheel Drive with Genya Ravan, Sha Na Na, The (no longer Young)Rascals, Janis Joplin (I didn't realize until many years later that I'd seen her final live performance), and then a very out of place Dionne Warwick. I also remember Tom Paxton performing at one point. I also recall Steppenwolf playing, although I saw them so many times it's hard to say with certainty they were at Shea (how about the shows at the World's Fair Pavillion for obscurity). For some reason, I remember an announcement that one of the bigger acts had just flown in from France, but I don't remember which. I don't remember Miles Davis playing there. I know Grand Funk played Shea by themselves, which I didn't see, but I have a vague recollection of them being at the Shea Festival, although I have been told I imagined this, but if I were going to imagine a performance by a band, it sure as heck wouldn't be Grand Funk. Anyway, thanks for the blog. It was a pretty good day of music and introduced me to the concept of severe dehydration since I had a splitting headache for a day or two after, and that had nothing to do with the decibels.
His continuing interest in music, never widely noted, has led to the
release of a music video in which he has a starring role, a second song
getting play on radio stations, a third song on the way and the creation
of a record label called EL7 Music, in a nod to his uniform number.
Jose says music is is hobby, like fishing for some other baseball players. Of course, the music industry is a better choice for hobby as it attracts a much more attractive base of clean living citizens than other past times. Still, Jose looks to be having fun and is singing a positive message in his tune No hay amigo." Have a look and a listen:
This is SO much better than other Met musical moments. Longtime Loge13 readers may remember Lastings Milledge ill-advised attempts at rap Mogul-dom. Unlike Jose, Lastings chose to sing about more traditional Rap topics, like ho's and guns. Here's a trip down memory lane for ya, with a clip of one of Milledge's acts:
Loge13 wishes Jose Reyes the best of luck in his music career!
Loge13 is not your typical met blog. We don't comment on every Met game, every Met moment. There's plenty of other places for that. Originally, I was just writing Loge13.com to commemorate the demise of Shea Stadium. The blog was to go when Shea went. But people liked it (well, some people did) so I've kept it up.
Can you tell me the name of the band that played the Chinese instruments? I really enjoyed that! Thanks!