When music from the heart told a story, an opus, or an epic..
Example of a Epic: Day On The Green #3: Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, St.Paradise (July 21, 1979). Also called "The Monsters Of Rock" show. Ted Nugent, Aerosmith and AC/DC's set has been bootlegged in video form. This was reputedly the only footage from any of the 1970s Day On The Green concerts to be available, (other film footage has been found, but not widely released - Fleetwood Mac from 1976 for one). It was somehow taken from the famous Bill Graham vault c2006-2007. Footage of Lynyrd Skynyrd performing "Freebird" at the 7/4/1977 Day on the Green can be seen in the documentary film "Freebird - The Movie"
If you're in a mood for angles of the channel collection from a spinner a few miles from where i grew up, and still at...radio.com/kisw/listen
Cut to the chase to my playlist.. ru-vid.comvideos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid
Want to give a shout out for the UK based HejiraTribute Band currently on tour (July 2024) Check them out. Nothing they do detracts from the original and is a respectful almost reverential nod to the genius of Joni Mitchell
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 - May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead, was a member of the San Francisco All Stars and later played with numerous other bands. Cipollina had a unique guitar sound, mixing solid state and vacuum-tube (valve) amplifiers as early as 1965. He is considered one of the fathers of the San Francisco sound, a form of psychedelic rock. "I like the rapid punch of solid-state for the bottom, and the rodent-gnawing distortion of the tubes on top." To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns. - Cipollina died on May 29, 1989, at age 45. His cause of death was alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, which he suffered from most of his life and which is exacerbated by smoking. Quicksilver Messenger Service fans paid tribute to him the following month in San Francisco at an all-star concert at the Fillmore Auditorium which featured Nicky Hopkins, Pete Sears, David Freiberg, and John's brother Mario, an original member of Huey Lewis and the News. Cipollina's one of a kind massive amplifier stack was donated, along with one of his customized Gibson SG guitars, and effects pedals, for display in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 1995. - In 2003, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Cipollina 32nd on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The Bay Area psychedelic rock audience that heard him play steadily in ideal club conditions ranks him much higher.
The word Genius is thrown around all the time with no real concept of what it actually means here you have been witness to one of the very few that truly are the real deal ✌️
I remember he played a lot of the clubs in the East Village NYC in the early to mid 70's before the punk rock wave, you can see and hear how he influenced us.
He kept playing those bars even after the advent of 'Punk Rock' when he joined with Robert Gordon in the 'Tiny Tuff Darts' who played Max's Kansas City and CBGB's on the Bowery quite often. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FHQZuUCYN1o.htmlsi=aXdA6XUmnacrHb5N
These guys were talented, don't get me wrong but if not for Hendrix being a fan of theirs and putting them in Woodstock they might not have gotten off the ground career wise. WS was a big boost to them.
